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2. GIC Projects and relevant publications: EURISGIC Papers and other publications: Viljanen A., Koistinen A., Pajunpää K., Pirjola R., Posio P., Pulkkinen A. Recordings of Geomagnetically Induced Currents in the Finnish Natural Gas Pipeline - Summary of an 11- year Period, Geophysica, 46, 59-67 2010 Pirjola R. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the transfer matrix involved in the calculation of geomagnetically induced currents in an electric power transmission network Earth, Planets and Space, accepted, 24 pp. (manuscript) 2011 Conference Proceedings Pirjola R. J. Flow of Geomagnetically Induced Currents in an Electric Power Transmission Network CD ROM Proceedings of "the 2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference (ANTEM/AMEREM)", Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 5-9, 2010, AMEREM Abstracts, Paper no 087, 1 p. 2010. Viljanen A., Pirjola R., Pulkkinen A., Sakharov YA., Thomson A., Wesztergom V., Wik M., Wintoft P. Avaruussää ja Euroopan korkeajänniteverkot (=EURISGIC: Space weather and European high-voltage networks), Proceedings of XXV Geofysiikan päivät (= Geophysics Days), Oulu, Finland, May 11-12, 2011, edited by P. Kaikkonen, K. Kaila, T. Korja, E. Kozlovskaya, K. Moisio and M. Pirttijärvi, Geofysiikan Seura, Geophysical Society of Finland, Uniprint Oy, Oulu, Finland, pp. 125-128. 2011.

3. Canada: New Projects Manitoba Hydro (Risto Pirjola+David Boteler) Hydro Quebec (David Boteler,+Larisa Trichtchenko +student) Yukon Power (David Boteler,+Larisa Trichtchenko+ student) Hydro One continuation (David Boteler+student) GETG-related conference presentations: Viljanen, A. Presentation about GIC research and EURISGIC at a GIC Workshop in Lancaster, England, at the end of March 2011. A. Pulkkinen, Presentation on GIC at Space Weather Workshop in Boulder, April 2011. A. Viljanen, Presentation about EURISGIC at the "Geophysics Days" in Finland, May 2011. L.Trichtchenko, H.-L.Lam and D.Boteler, Reducing the space weather impact on vulnerable infrastructure through long-term climatological studies and forecast, American Meteorological Society Symposium, January 2011 L.Trichtchenko, D.H.Boteler, Extreme Space Weather Threads to Canadas Critical Infrastructure, Public Security S&T Summer Symposium, June 2011. Recent events: Geomagnetic Task Force meetings in Boulder (April) and Toronto (June) Upcoming Events: EM Compatibility and EM Ecology Conference, St. Petersburg, September 2011. GIC session. VERY BUSY AND SUCCESSFUL YEAR!