to analyse magnetic observation data for the purposes of understanding the various sources of the magnetic field. Three working groups are active in this respect.
* Pieter Kotze and Renata Lukianova, who had been elected as chair and co-chair at the Division V business meeting at the IUGG Assembly on June 25, 2015 have both been elected as new Executive Committee members by the Conference of Delegates on June 27, 2015. The IAGA Executive Committee consequently had to appoint a new Division V Chair and Co-Chair according to By-Law 3-1 at the Executive Committee meeting on June 28, 2015. See also more details in letter of the IAGA president to Division V.