Figure 8. Chairman Shannon Brown closes the Pasadena meeting with an announcement of the 2016 MicroRad to be held in Helsinki. During the closing ceremonies Thursday afternoon, General Chair Shannon Brown, announced that the next MicroRad will be held in Helsinki, Finland and organized by Martti Hallikanien of Aalto University and bid the meeting adieu to warm and sunny Pasadena. As an added attraction this year for those who were able to stay until the end of the week, a JPL tour hosted by Sidharth Misra was provided. The tour participants were able to view integration of the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) antenna boom in process with narration by the SMAP Project Scientist, Simon Yueh. And finally, we would like to make sure everyone is aware that a special issue of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observation and Remote Sensing (JSTARS) on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications will be published in August 2015. More details can be found on the Microrad 2014 website at: http://www.microrad2014.org/JSTARS_CFP.pdf If you attended MicroRad this year, we hope you had an enjoyable and productive trip and we look forward to seeing you in Helsinki! grs IEEE Open Access Unrestricted access to today's groundbreaking research via the IEEE Xplore® digital library IEEE offers a variety of open access (OA) publications: * Hybrid journals known for their established impact factors * New fully open access journals in many technical areas * A multidisciplinary open access mega journal spanning all IEEE fields of interest Discover top-quality articles, chosen by the IEEE peer-review standard of excellence. Learn more about IEEE Open Access www.ieee.org/open-access 96 ieee Geoscience and remote sensing magazine December 2014http://www.microrad2014.org/JSTARS_CFP.pdf http://www.ieee.org/open-access