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2013 SARA Western Conference - New Mexico - 9~10 February 2013

If you plan to attend the conference, please register as soon as possible to ensure we will have space for you. Registration info and other details are here: http://www.radio-astronomy.org/?q=node/396

The tentative schedule and some abstracts are here:

• Schedule: http://www.radio-astronomy.org/?q=node/401
• Abstracts: http://www.radio-astronomy.org/?q=node/402

We will have presentations all day on 9 February. We still have open times for presentations. If you would like to make a presentation, please contact the conference coordinator at:
westernconference[at]radio-astronomy.org

On 10 February, we will have all-day tours at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Very Large Array and Long Wavelength Array (VLA/LWA) site about 1 hour drive west of Socorro. In the morning we will tour the VLA, actually the EVLA or Expanded VLA. You can find information on the VLA/EVLA here: http://www.vla.nrao.edu. In the afternoon we will tour Station 1 of the Long Wavelength Array. Info on LWA1 is here: http://www.phys.unm.edu/~lwa/index.html

If you plan to go on the tour, be sure to bring a wind breaker and as a contingency bring warm outer clothing. The open desert in February could be cool and windy.

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(Item 2) And attached is this paper: "The Geomagnetic Field and Solar Activity: Neglected Sources of Biological Variability?" whose first author is: Dr. Christian Bartsch
Center for Research in Medical and Natural Sciences
University of Tubingen
Ob dem Himmelreich 7
D-72074 Tubingen, Germany