On July 14, during the COSPAR Assembly in Nagoya, we had a meeting for the Inter-Agency Consultative Group's (IACG) Campaign #2 on boundary layers. It was the first opportunity for those interested in this campaign to get together. About 15 people attended the meeting. The coordinators are grateful for this participation. The campaign coordinators first presented the overview of the campaign, with the major stress placed on the official webpages for the campaign, one of which you are visiting now. The statistics of the visitors to the webpages was presented. It was confirmed that this campaign will mainly proceed on a web basis, and it was discussed how we could invite more people to participate. One suggestion was to continue to advertise, and that the ISTP meeting in England would be one such opportunity. Another suggestion was that we should try to collect more information on currently operating satellites which are not direct constituents in the ISTP project (e.g., GPS satellites; Akebono; DMSP) and put the information to our webpage, to enhance the chances of finding and studying good multipoint-observation events.

Campaign events under study were then briefly introduced by the coordinators and participants.



* Feb. 18-19, 1997 (presented by S. Savin)
* Jan. 21-22, 1997 (presented by S. Savin)
* Jan. 12, 1997 (presented by N. Maynard and S. Savin)
* Apr. 17, 1996 (presented by H. Kawano)
* Sep. 11, 1996 (presented by J. Pickett)

Events on

* Feb. 11, 1998 and
* May 4, 1998

were also suggested as new campaign events. (The first event was chosen because of the closeness of EQUATOR-S and GEOTAIL and their encounters with the low-latitude boundary layer. The second event was chosen because POLAR encountered the magnetosheath and even the bow shock during the event.) The participants, including PIs of the ISTP satellites, agreed. In regard to the former event, we had also obtained an agreement from Dr. Haerendel, the project scientist of Equator-S. Each campaign event is to have its (voluntary) event coordinator(s). Finally, we note that the latest information on possible future campaign events, including satellite positions for them, can be found at http://www.iki.rssi.ru/vprokhor/camp2.htm.