From July 7 to 12, 2008 in Zelenogradsk, a cosy resort on the bank of
the Baltic Sea near Kaliningrad in Russia, the 1st International
Conference "Atmosphere, Ionosphere, Safety (AIS-2008)" has been carried
out. The State Russian University of I. Kant, Semenov Institute of
chemical physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushkov Institute
of terrestrial magnetism and radio-waves propagation of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, and Russian Committee on Ball Lightning (BL) have
acted as organizers of the conference. Financial support was made by
Russian Fund of Fundamental Research Project N. 08-03-06041 and European
Of?ce of Aerospace Research and Development Grant award
FA8655-08-1-5052. The International conference "Atmosphere, Ionosphere,
Safety" (AIS-2008) was devoted to (i) the analysis of the
atmosphere-ionosphere response on natural and man-made processes, the
reasons of occurrence of the various accompanying geophysical phenomena,
and an estimation of possible consequences of their in?uence on the
person and technological systems; (ii) the study of the monitoring
possibility and search of the ways for the risk level decrease.
Discussion of the physical and chemical processes accompanying the
observable geophysical p- nomena was undertaken. One can see from a list
of the Conference sections that questions of safety took only rather
modest place, so main topics of the Conference became discussion of
processes taking place in the atmosphere, ionosphere and methods of
monitoring these processes.
