The Thirteenth International Conference on Substorms (ICS13); Portsmouth, New Hampshire; September 24-29, 2017

这是对来自欠发达国家的学生和一些高级研究人员的旅行支持，以及对为期五天的地磁亚暴研究国际会议的供应和出版费用的一小部分捐款。本次会议题为“亚暴国际会议（ICS13）”，将于2017年9月24日至29日在新罕布什尔州朴茨茅斯举行。ICS13将是一系列精心设计的次暴会议的第13次会议，这些会议建立在过去的进展基础上，同时纳入了最新的发展。会议的目的是创建一个论坛，汇集世界范围内的亚暴研究人员（和学生），集中他们的综合才能以及理论和观测资产，加速对亚暴物理学的基本理解。这样的环境混合了各种各样的观点和不同的参与者，为具有实现突破潜力的新创新方法提供了一个已知的孵化器。这种环境也为学生提供了宝贵的教育经验和国际交流的机会。选择讲习班的日期是为了使几个正在进行有关测量的科学任务的科学小组会议可以与会议重叠。预计将有多达150名参与者，其中估计有35名参与者需要旅行支持——这些参与者的支持一半来自NSF，另一半来自NASA。会议结束后，同行评议的会议记录将在一份开放获取的纯电子期刊上发表，以便广泛传播结果。地磁亚暴是会议的主题焦点，是地球空间中爆炸性的能量释放，对近地空间区域造成破坏性后果，近地空间是气象、通信和国家安全卫星运行的轨道；到底层的上层大气和电离层，在那里，相关的兆安培电流会危及近地轨道和地面上的脆弱资产。甚至有证据表明，这种破坏的影响可能通过化学动力学过程渗透到中层大气中，对臭氧和气候变化产生潜在的、但迄今为止难以捉摸的影响。这些爆炸性能量释放的触发因素仍然没有完全解决，关于潜在机制的争论是地球空间研究中最长期的争议之一。这一现象的复杂性质和相关的难以理解的进展阻碍了建模和预测能力的发展，这种情况突出了国际研讨会对集中全球知识解决问题的重要性。

This is a travel support for students, and some senior researchers from less developed countries, along with a small contribution to supplies and publication costs for a five-day international conference on geomagnetic substorm research. This meeting entitled, "International Conference on Substorms (ICS13)" will be held in Portsmouth, New Hampshire during 24-29 September 2017. The ICS13 will be the 13th in a series of carefully-designed substorm conferences that build on past advances while incorporating the latest new development. The venue is aimed at creating a forum to bring together a worldwide cadre of substorm researchers (and students) to focus their combined talents as well as theoretical and observational assets on accelerating progress towards a fundamental understanding of substorm physics. Such an environment, which intermixes a wide variety of viewpoints and diverse participants, provides a known incubator for new and innovative approaches that have the potential for enabling breakthroughs. This environment is also a valuable educational experience for students and an opportunity for international networking. The dates for the workshop were selected so that scientific team meetings for several operating scientific missions making relevant measurements might be organized to overlap with the conference. As many as 150 participants are anticipated with an estimated 35 participants requiring travel support - half of this participant support is requested from NSF, the other half from NASA. Following the event, a peer-reviewed conference proceedings will be published in an open-access, electronic-only periodical to enable broad dissemination of the results.Geomagnetic substorms, the topical focus of the conference, are explosive energy releases in geospace that have disruptive consequences in regions from near-Earth space, where weather, communications and national security satellites orbit; to the underlying upper atmosphere and ionosphere, where associated mega-ampere currents flow endangering vulnerable assets both in low-earth orbit and on the ground. There is even evidence to suggest that effects of this disruption may penetrate into the middle atmosphere through chemical-dynamical processes with potential, but so-far elusive, effects on ozone and climate variability. The triggers of these explosive energy releases are still not fully resolved and debates over the underlying mechanisms fuel one of the most long-lived controversies in geospace research. The complicated nature of the phenomenon and the associated difficult progress toward understanding are creating impediments to developing modeling and predictive capabilities, a situation that highlights the importance of international workshops for focusing global knowledge towards a resolution.