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Ground Effects Topical Group. Introduction Scope and purpose of the TGs and GETG in particular ‘Ground effects’ session on directional drilling on Wednesday morning Nominations for Next Chair of GETG Larisa Trichtchenko (NRCan) with co-chair Magnus Wik (IRF Sweden)
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Ground Effects Topical Group • Introduction • Scope and purpose of the TGs and GETG in particular • ‘Ground effects’ session on directional drilling on Wednesday morning • Nominations for Next Chair of GETG • Larisa Trichtchenko (NRCan) with co-chair Magnus Wik (IRF Sweden) • GIC & Future Energy Supply in Europe • Mike Hapgood: Solar and renewable energy sources connected by HVDC links from the periphery of Europe • Europe GIC risk assessment needed, new FP7 opportunity (Security)? • Science Outlook for GETG in Cycle 24 • Can we forecast GIC and in what way (based on Canadian experience)? • Can we also better estimate ground effects climatology (e.g. dB/dt)? • ‘Science data centre’ for GIC (centralised resource of data and reference materials for industry and outreach)? • Open Contributions & Updates • FMI (Manitoba GIC study; China GIC research) • NRCan (Extreme values climatology; work on GIC indices) • BGS (UK grid development; planned UK - South Africa workshop) • Russia (St Petersburg EM conference next year) ESWW5 19th November 2008