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Pictures from VarSITI Closing Symposium

From this page you can access some of the photos taken during the VarSITI Closing Symposium June 10÷14, 2019, Sofia, Bulgaria
Goup Photos (six files are on OneDrive),
June 10, 2019 Opening (19 files are on OneDrive),
June 10, 2019 Awards (11 files are on OneDrive),
June 10, 2019 (12 files are on OneDrive),
June 10, 2019 Welcome (37 files are on OneDrive),
June 10, 2019 Welcome Movies (6 files are on OneDrive),
June 11, 2019 (6 files are on OneDrive),
June 12, 2019 (21 files are on OneDrive),
June 13, 2019 (2 files are on OneDrive),
June 14, 2019 Thanks (25 files are on OneDrive),
June 14, 2019 Party (19 files are on OneDrive),

Please be patient while the files are opened.


Received on Nov 22, 2019
by Kazuo Shiokawa
SCOSTEP President

International Space Weather and Space Climate Medals

Dear Colleagues,

Every year during the European Space Weather Week, three international medals are given in the field of space weather, i.e., The Kristian Birkeland Medal, the Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal and the Alexander Chizhevsky Medal.

The International Kristian Birkeland medal 2019 is attributed to Doctor Bruce Tadashi Tsurutani principal scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

The International Marcel Nicolet medal 2019 is attributed to Professor Delores J. Knipp
an outstanding ambassador for space weather, and has been a leader in the science, teaching, and dissemination of space weather research for decades

The International Alexander Chizhevsky medal 2019 is attributed to Doctor Jiajia Liu
has published an impressive 31 peer-reviewed papers in top journals, including Nature Communications and Nature Physics

All the details on the medals and on the winners may be found at
http://www.stce.be/esww2019/medals.php and in this

With best wishes,
Kazuo Shiokawa

Previous Winners
2018 - Prof. Tamas Bombosi, Prof. Hermann J Opgenoorth and Dr. Christina Kay
2017 - Dr. Bojan Vrsnak, Prof. Ji Wu and Dr. Elena Popova
2016 - Dr. Antti Pulkkinen, Prof. Mike Hapgood and Dr. Julia Thalmann

2015 - Dr. Werner Schmutz, Dr. Christine Amory-Mazaudier, Dr. David Berghmans and
Dr. Tatiana Podladchikova

2014 - Prof. Bodo W. Reinisch, Dr. Joseph Davila and Dr. Christina Plainaki
2013 - Dr. Dieter Bilitza, Dr. Hans Haubold and Dr. Gael Cessateur.
Received on July 03, 2019
by Kazuo Shiokawa
VarSITI co-chair

Description of the next SCOSTEP's program "PRESTO"

has now been published in TAIKONG No.13


Dear VarSITI collegues,

The description of the next SCOSTEP's program "PRESTO: Predictability of the Variable Solar-Terrestrial Coupling" has now been published in TAIKONG No.13. You can find the electronic version here: http://www.issibj.ac.cn/Publications/Forum_Reports/

With best regards,
Kazuo Shiokawa and Katya Georgieva,
VarSITI co-chair

Received on March 02, 2019
by Endawoke Yizengaw

Call for Nominations

2019 Africa Awards for Research Excellence in Space Science


This is to inform you that the due date for submitting nomination for the 2019 AGU African Awards for Research Excellence in Space Science is coming soon (15 March 2019). The Africa Awards for Research Excellence in Space Science, which was established in 2015, is annual AGU union award to be given to one early career scientists from the African continent in recognition for “completing significant work that shows the focus and promise of making outstanding contributions to research in space sciences.”

   

Thus, I write this email to invite you all to consider submitting nomination if you know anyone, who is making outstanding contribution to the development of space science research in Africa, and can satisfy the nomination criteria shown here
http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/africa-awards-for-research-excellence-in-earth-and-space-science/

Although detail nominee's eligibility criteria are mentioned at AGU's website mentioned above, the two most important cut off eligibility criteria that you need to consider before picking the right nominee include: Nominee must be (1) a citizen or permanent resident of countries on the African continent and (2) must be within 10 years of receiving PhD from an African institution.

Submit a Nomination

Again please consider submitting a nomination!

Thanks, Endawoke Yizengaw

Received on Jan 16, 2019
by Marianna G. Shepherd
SCOSTEP Scientific Secretary

Call for Nominations

2019 SCOSTEP Awards Announcement


This is a call for nominations for the 2019 SCOSTEP Distinguished Service Award. The award recognizes a unique contribution to SCOSTEP activities, to realization of its programs and events. The SCOSTEP awards are given biennially. The first Distinguished Service Award was given in 2013.

The Award Statute and Procedure are placed on the SCOSTEP web site section “Awards” (http://www.yorku.ca/scostep/?page_id=1356).

Award nomination packages (nomination letter and nominee’s curriculum vitae) for the Distinguished Service Award should be submitted to the SCOSTEP secretariat (mshepher[at]yorku.ca) by no later than February 28, 2019, as a single pdf file. The currently serving SCOSTEP Executive Officers and Bureau Members are not eligible for nomination. The award decision will be made by the SCOSTEP Awards Committee (SAC) and communicated to the Bureau after considering submissions.

   

SCOSTEP Distinguished Scientist Award:
Prof. Gordon G. Shepherd (2014), Prof. Sami K. Solanki (2016), Prof. Jeffrey M. Forbes (2018)

SCOSTEP Distinguished Young Scientist Award:
Dr. Neel Savani, Dr. Jia Yue (2014), Dr. Brett A. Carter, Dr. Nicholas M. Pedatella (2016),
Dr. Kok Leng Yeo (2018)

received on Sep 17, 2018
from Jie Zhang
ISEST Co-leader

Hvar Observatory - ISEST 2018 Workshop

Dear all,

ISEST 2018 workshop is just one week away. It will be held in Sep. 24 - 28, 2018 in Hvar, Croatia. The meeting information can be found at http://oh.geof.unizg.hr/index.php/en/isest-2018

For those of you who could not participate on-site, please feel free to make your contribution in the following two ways.

1. The WG leaders will make a report on the first day of the workshop. If you want your relevant contribution to be included in the report, please contact the corresponding working group leaders: WG1 - Data (Jie Zhang, jzhang7[at]gmu.edu); WG2 - Theory (Bojan Vrsnak, bvrsnak[at]gmail.com); WG3–Simulation (Fang Shen, fshen[at]swl.ac.cn); WG4 - Campaign (Dave Webb, david.webb[at]bc.edu); WG5 - Bs challenge (Spiro Pastourakos, spatsourakos[at]gmail.com); WG6–SEP (Olga Malandraki, omaland[at]astro.noa.gr);
WG7 - MiniMax24 (Manuela Temmer, manuela.temmer[at]uni-graz.at).

2. Directly input your contribution to the interactive ISEST Wiki website at
http://solar.gmu.edu/heliophysics/index.php/ISEST.

This wiki is specifically for data sharing and discussion forum of the ISEST program. We encourage everyone to upload any data pertaining to program to this wiki and to discuss events freely in the discussion section of each page.

Best,
Jie Zhang
Professor of Solar Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy
George Mason University


received on July 26, 2018
from Kazuo Shiokawa
VarSITI co-chair
Dear VarSITI colleagues,

Below and attached are the awardees of the COSPAR Awards during the COSPAR2018 last week at Pasadena. Many VarSITI-related scientists received the COSPAR Awards. Congratulations!

With best wishes, Kazuo Shiokawa and Katya Georgieva,
VarSITI co-chairs

42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly July 14÷22, 2018 Pasadena, CA, USA

COSPAR SPACE SCIENCE AWARD
For outstanding contributions to space science in the fields covered by the Committee on Space Research: Jean-Pierre Bibring (France) Bruce T. Tsurutani (USA)

COSPAR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION MEDAL
For significant contributions to the promotion of international scientific cooperation in the field of space research: Stas Barabash (Sweden)

COSPAR WILLIAM NORDBERG MEDAL
For distinguished contributions to the application of space science in a field covered by COSPAR: Christoph Reigber (Germany)

COSPAR MASSEY AWARD
For outstanding contributions to the development of space research, in which a leadership role is of particular importance: John Zarnecki (United Kingdom)

COSPAR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL
Recognizing extraordinary services rendered to COSPAR over many years:
Mariano Mendez (Netherlands)

VIKRAM SARABHAI MEDAL
For outstanding contributions to space research in developing countries (awarded jointly with the Indian Space Research Organization): Qiugang Zong (China)

JEOUJANG JAW AWARD
For distinguished pioneering contributions to promoting space research, establishing new space science research branches and founding new exploration programs (awarded jointly with the Chinese Academy of Sciences): Sergey Krikalev (Russia)

ZELDOVICH MEDALS
For excellence and achievement by young scientists (awarded jointly with the Russian Academy of Sciences):

COSPAR Scientific Commission A Benjamin Hamlington (USA)
COSPAR Scientific Commission B Shunichi Kamata (Japan)
COSPAR Scientific Commission C Loren C. Chang (USA/Taiwan, China)
COSPAR Scientific Commission D Remya Bhanu (India)
COSPAR Scientific Commission E Volodymyr Savchenko (Switzerland/Ukraine)
COSPAR Scientific Commission F Amir Alexander Bahadori (USA)
COSPAR Scientific Commission G Taishi Yano (Japan)
COSPAR Scientific Commission H Frederico Francisco (Portugal)

Outstanding Papers Award for Young Scientists 2018   look at

received on Aug 04, 2018
from Yoshizumi Miyoshi
SPeCIMEN Co-leader

Level-2 data CDF files of Arase (ERG) satellite

Dear VarSITI colleagues,

We are pleased to announce Level-2 CDF files of Arase (ERG) data.

Arase (ERG) is a mission to elucidate acceleration and loss mechanisms of relativistic electrons in the radiation belts during geospace storms. The particles, plasma, plasma waves, and electromagnetic fields in the inner magnetosphere are measured by the onboard 8 instruments.

The Level-2 CDF files of all the 8 instruments are now available at the ERG Science Center. The SPEDAS Plug-in modules to handle these CDF files are also available at the ERG Science Center.

Please visit the following links at the ERG science center.

CDF files of Arase and related ground-based observation data
https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/data_info/index.shtml.en

SPEDAS Plug-in for ERG
https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/analysis/spedas/index.shtml.en

Rules of the road
https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/data_info/rules_of_the_road.shtml.en

About Arase (ERG)
https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/project/index.shtml.en

Published papers for more detailed Information (in the ERG Special Issue of Earth, Planets and Space) https://www.springeropen.com/collections/erg

Quick Look
https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/cef/erg_1day.cgi
https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/cef/erg.cgi

We are very happy if you are interested in using the Arase data for your analysis and collaborations with your observations. If you have any questions on data files and procedures, please contact us at ergsc-help[at]isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp.

And if you have any plans for conjugate observations with Arase, please let us know

Contact:
Yoshi Miyoshi: ERG Project Scientist (miyoshi[at]isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
Iku Shinohara: ERG Project Manager (iku[at]stp.isas.jaxa.jp)

The ERG project team
Y. Miyoshi & I. Shinohara


received on May 29, 2018
from Seth Claudepierre
The Aerospace Corporation

New Release of Van Allen Probes ECT/MagEIS Data
(Data Release 4; "rel04")

Dear VarSITI colleagues,

We are pleased to announce release 4 (rel04) of the Van Allen Probes ECT/MagEIS data. This new release includes a number of minor bug fixes and changes to the data files and their contents, along with a few major changes. Of particular note is that the electron and proton energy channels are no longer time varying in a given daily CDF file; this important improvement and simplification to the data product means that you may have to modify your existing data analysis and processing routines.

Please see the MagEIS-related documentation at the ECT Science Operations and Data Center for more details: https://rbsp-ect.newmexicoconsortium.org/science/DataQualityCaveats.php

Contact:
Seth Claudepierre: (seth[at]aero.org)
The Aerospace Corporation 

Sincerely, Seth Claudepierre
Van Allen Probes-project team


received on Sep 01, 2017
from Yoshizumi Miyoshi
Arase(ERG)-project team

Japanese geospace exploration satellite Arase (ERG)
The next campaign observations for Arase
and ground-based observations

Dear VarSITI colleagues,

Japanese geospace exploration satellite Arase (ERG) has observed inner magnetosphere continuously.

The satellite orbit can be found in conjunction event finder at ERG-Science Center.

Conjunction Event Finder: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/analysis/cef/index.shtml.ja

The apogee MLT of the satellite has shifted to duskside from the midnight, so that it is good period to observe EMIC wave-particle interactions and resultant precipitation of energetic ions and electrons.

We have a plan for a campaign observations between Arase and ground-based observations in this spring (Sep 9 to Oct 6), especially focusing on EMIC-wave particle interactions and related phenomena and dynamics of the inner magnetosphere. This is one of SPeCIMEN campaign observations.

The campaign observation includes various ground-based observations; optical imagers at Canada/US/Scandinavia, EISCAT, and SuperDARN radars. The summary of campaign observations has been prepared in the following wiki site, and the list for conjugate observations between Arase and related ground-based site is also shown.

Campaign observations:
https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/mw/index.php/CampaignObs/Campaign2017#Campaign_in_September_-_October_2017

EISCAT experiments:
https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/mw/index.php/ErgGround/ErgEiscat

SuperDARN exepriments:
https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/mw/index.php/ErgGround/ErgSd

Conjunction Interval Finder
http://gwave.cei.uec.ac.jp/cgi-bin/hosokawa/erg/erg.cgi?year=2017&month=09&day=15&jump=Plot

We are happy to share this information and if you participate this observations in the coordinated investigations using your observations. We will welcome all your suggestions, questions, and proposed activities, and these can be sent to the e-mail of the contact.

We are looking forward to fruitful results from this campaign.

Contact:
Yoshi Miyoshi: ERG Project Scientist (miyoshi[at]isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
Iku Shinohara: ERG Project Manager (iku[at]stp.isas.jaxa.jp)

Kazuo Shiokawa: ERG ground-based observations PI
(shiokawa[at]isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)

ERG-Science Center: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Sincerely,
Arase(ERG)-project team


NOTE: Below you can read more about Arase/ERG

Thank you very much


received on July 05, 2017
from Kazuo Shiokawa,
VarSITI Co-chair

CDF data of the PWING project
are available from the ERG Science Center

Dear VarSITI colleagues,

The PWING project started in 2016 operates airglow imagers, induction coils, riometers, VLF receivers, and EMCCD cameras at subauroral latitudes in Canada, Alaska, Russia, Finland, and Iceland, as part of the Arase (ERG) - ground coordinated observations. The quick-look plots of the data have been opened from the PWING website at http://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/dimr/PWING/en/ (click each observation equipment). This time we have also opened real digital data of the PWING project in the CDF format from the website of the ERG Science Center with support by the IUGONET project, as below.

Note that the related load procedures for IDL/SPEDAS have been developed and will be released as erg plug-in procedures from the ERG Science Center. The information on these load procedures will be announced when they are available. Without these load procedures, one can also download the data from the site and make plots as you like using some appropriate IDL/Matlab/Python codes.

The basic rules of the road is to contact the PI when users use the data at any publications/presentations, and scientists who have contributed to the measurements at these ground stations can have opportinuty to join the research, if the data is significant for that research. Details on the Rules of the Road, PI etc are included in the CDF files.

ERG Science Center (CDF-formatted data) https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/index.shtml.en

IUGONET (meta data) http://search.iugonet.org/list.jsp

All-sky camera: ATH, GAK, HUS, KAP, NYR and other 15 OMTI stations
https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/data/ergsc/ground/camera/omti/asi/

Induction magnetometers: ATH, GAK, KAP, ZGN, MGD, PTK, STA, MSR
https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/data/ergsc/ground/geomag/stel/induction/

Riometers: ATH, GAK, HUS, KAP https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/data/ergsc/ground/riometer/

VLF/ELF receivers: ATH and KAP https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/data/ergsc/ground/vlf/

EMCCD camera keograms: GAK, KEV (full 100Hz data are available on request)
https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/data/ergsc/ground/camera/emccd/pwing/ask/

Shiokawa, Kazuo
Center for International Collaborative Research (CICR)
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE)
Nagoya University
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601, Japan
tel: +81-52-747-6419 fax: +81-52-747-6323

e-mail: shiokawa[at]nagoya-u.jp    HOME PAGE

PWING stands for "study of dynamical variation of Particles and Waves in the INner magnetosphere using Ground-based network observations."


received on May 15, 2017
from Yoshizumi Miyoshi
Arase(ERG)-project team
Updated on May 18,2017

Japanese geospace exploration satellite Arase (ERG)
The first campaign observations for Arase
and ground-based observations

Dear VarSITI colleagues,

We had the first campaign observations for Arase and ground-based observations in March and Aplil. There were several magnetic storms in these months, and we had good chances for conjugate observations between the satellite and ground-based observations. We appreciate very much your great efforts for collaborations with the Arase satellite and ERG ground-network observations.

Quick look plots on some ERG ground-network observation data are found in the following webpage, and data processing of Arase and other data are going and these data will be found at the ERG-Science Center after the necessary calibration and data process.

PWING project page: http://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/dimr/PWING/en/

Keogram of EMCCD camera for the pulsating aurora project and PWING project https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/psa-gnd/bin/psa.cgi

ERG Science Center: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/index.shtml.en

The second campaign observations for Arase and ground-based observations will be planned around the summer soltice for the observations with Antarctica as well as sub-aurola latitudes. We look forward to further collaborative observations for the inner magnetosphere and radiation belts.

Contact:
Yoshi Miyoshi: ERG Project Scientist (miyoshi[at]isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
Iku Shinohara: ERG Project Manager (iku[at]stp.isas.jaxa.jp)

Kazuo Shiokawa: ERG ground-based observations PI
(shiokawa[at]isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)

Sincerely,
Arase(ERG)-project team


NOTE: Below you can read more about Arase/ERG

The May 18th addition: Dr. Kozelov at Polar Geophysical Institute, Russia has kindly prepared quick looks page for the spring 2017 Arase campaign as follows (http://aurora.pgia.ru/erg-pgi/).
The page is very sophisticated to look at quick look data.

Thank you very much
Yoshizumi Miyoshi

received on April 04, 2017
from Yoshizumi Miyoshi,
Arase Project Scientist

Arase(ERG)
Space Weather Data at JAXA/SEES

Dear VarSITI colleagues,

The Arase (ERG) satellite (look below) has provided not only science data but also space weather (SWx) data. SWx data is a real-time data during the satellite tracking. Note that the SWx data is not well calibrated. It is not expected that the SWx data can be used for the scientific purpose, while the SWx data is useful for monitoring current space environment.

Details of Arase SWx Data:
(a) Real time quick look plots at JAXA/SEES http://sees.tksc.jaxa.jp/fw/dfw/SEES/index.html
(b) Digital File of Space Weather Data (Registration is necessary)
-HEP: Omni flux of 8 energy channels from 100 keV to 2 MeV 100-153, 153-230, 230-340, 340-499, 499-730, 730-990, 990-1400, 1400-2000 keV
-XEP: Omni flux of 8 energy channel from 400 keV to 20 MeV
-MGF: Total filed and direction cosine at the satellite coordinate

Please visit at the following website for the application form.
http://sees.tksc.jaxa.jp/fw_e/dfw/SEES/English/Application_Form/Application_Form_e.shtml

Your questions and comments are welcome through the following website.
https://sees.tksc.jaxa.jp/fw_e/dfw/SEES/English/YourMessage/your_message_e.shtml

Sincerely, N. Higashio (Arase-XEP PI),
T. Mitani (Arase-HEP PI),
A. Matsuoka (Arase-MGF PI)
I. Shinohara (ARASE Project Manager),
Y. Miyoshi (Arase Project Scientist)

SEES (Space Environment & Effects System)
is the database system for provide data and model concerned with space environments.   …    Look at

received on March 11, 2017
from Yoshizumi Miyoshi
Arase(ERG)-project team

Japanese geospace exploration satellite Arase (ERG)
was successfully launched in December 2016

Dear VarSITI colleagues,

As you may have known that, Japanese geospace exploration satellite Arase (ERG) was successfully launched in December 2016.

The critical phase operation after the launch has successfully been done and shortly we will move on to the initial phase operation. In this initial phase, we are going to conduct a campaign observation from the end of March.

Plots of both the definitive and predicted orbit of Arase are available from the conjunction event finder at ERG-Science Center.

Conjunction Event Finder: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/analysis/cef/index.shtml.en

The apogee MLT of the satellite has been the morning side until June, so that it is good period to observe chorus wave-particle interactions and resultant precipitation of energetic electrons.

We have a plan for a campaign observations between Arase and groundbased observations in this spring (end of March ~ middle April), especially focusing on chorus-wave particle interactions and related phenomena and dynamics of the inner magnetosphere.

The campaign observation includes various ground-based observations; optical image rs at Canada/US/Scandinavia, EISCAT, and SuperDARN radars. The summary of campaign observations has been prepared in the following wiki site, and the list for conjugate observations between Arase and related ground-based site is also shown.

Campaign observations: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/mw/index.php/CampaignObs/Campaign2017

EISCAT experiments: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/mw/index.php/ErgGround/ErgEiscat

SuperDARN exepriments: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/mw/index.php/ErgGround/ErgSd

Conjunction Interval Finder
http://gwave.cei.uec.ac.jp/cgi-bin/hosokawa/erg/erg.cgi?year=2017&month=03&day=20&jump=Plot

We are happy to share this information and if you participate this observations in the coordinated investigations using your observations, and we think that this campaign is suitable for SPeCIMEN and ROSMIC of VarSITI.

We will welcome all your suggestions, questions, and proposed activities, and these can be sent to the e-mail of the contact. We are looking forward to fruitful results from this campaign.

Contact:
Yoshi Miyoshi: ERG Project Scientist (miyoshi[at]isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
Iku Shinohara: ERG Project Manager (iku[at]stp.isas.jaxa.jp)

Kazuo Shiokawa: ERG ground-based observations PI
(shiokawa[at]isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)

Sincerely,
Arase(ERG)-project team


received on Dec 01, 2017
from Kazuo Shiokawa
VarSITI co-chair

ISEE Joint Research Program and ISEE/CICR International Workshop

Dear VarSITI colleagues,

The ISEE, Nagoya University, Japan, has announced an opportunity of
(1) International Joint Research Program and
(2) ISEE/CICR International Workshop, for the fiscal year 2018.

For (1), the ISEE supports foreign researchers to visit ISEE to make joint researches with ISEE researchers.

For (2), ISEE supports organizing small international workshops on focused topics related to the Space-Earth environmental research. The deadline of application is January 15, 2018.

For details, please see the following website. http://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/co-re-application.html

Best regards,
Kazuo Shiokawa


received on September 15, 2017
from Dmytro Kotov,
coordinator of the campaign

Campaign
Coordinated investigations of topside H+ ions:
new results for inner magnetosphere

Dear VarSITI colleagues,

I am glad to invite you to participate in VarSITI Meeting to be held in Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Prague from October 6 to 10, 2017. The Meeting is organized to discuss the results of the VarSITI sponsored observational campaign titled ‘Coordinated investigations of topside H+ ions: new results for inner magnetosphere’.

The campaign revealed a number of unexpected features in the topside ionosphere during the years of 2016÷2017. We hope the results will be useful for all researchers who study the space weather impact on the coupled atmosphere-ionosphere-magnetosphere system.

Kind Regards,
Dmytro Kotov,
coordinator of the campaign,
Institute of Ionosphere,
Kharkiv, Ukraine

P.S. Please see the detailed information on the aim and activities of the campaign here: Campaign supported by VarSITI


received on June 16, 2017
from Dmytro Kotov,
coordinator of the campaign

Campaign
Coordinated investigations of topside H+ ions:
new results for inner magnetosphere

Dear VarSITI colleagues,

We are ready to conduct the second observations in the frame of the campaign titled 'Coordinated investigations of topside H+ ions: new results for inner magnetosphere' sponsored by VarSITI. We will use Kharkiv incoherent scatter radar from June 20, 19:00 UT to June 23, 00:00 UT to study the variations in the topside with the focus on H+ ion density.

The first observations (March 21÷24, 2017) brought us quite interesting results. We were lucky to conduct the measurements during the moderate storm and registered strong variation in the topside ionosphere. After the end of the storm, during the night of March 24, a factor of ~2.5 increase of H+ and electron densities was observed in the topside.

We invite all interested researchers to join the work on the effects of March 2017 storm and participate in the coordinated investigations next week with their research results and tools. We are welcome all your suggestions and proposed activities. These can be sent to the e-mail of the coordinator: dmitrykotoff[at]gmail.com.

Dmytro Kotov,
coordinator of the campaign,
Institute of Ionosphere,
Kharkiv, Ukraine

We are looking forward to fruitful results from the collaboration, 

P.S. Please see the detailed information on the aim and activities of the campaign here:    Campaign supported by VarSITI

received on March 15, 2017
from Dmytro Kotov,
coordinator of the campaign

Campaign
Coordinated investigations of topside H+ ions:
new results for inner magnetosphere

Dear VarSITI colleagues,

It is my pleasure to inform you of a first observations planned to be conducted in the frame of new campaign titled 'Coordinated investigations of topside H+ ions: new results for inner magnetosphere' sponsored by VarSITI.

Please see the detailed information on the aim and activities of the campaign on this site (click here)

We will use Kharkiv incoherent scatter radar from March 21, 20:00 UT to March 24, 00:00 UT to study the variations in H+, He+, O+, and electron densities, electron and ion temperatures within the altitude range from 180 km to 800 km. The data will be used for observational-based physical simulation of ionosphere-plasmasphere system (FLIP model). Further, the results will be compared with the ones for the previous solar minimum of 2006÷2009.

All interested researcher are invited to participate in the coordinated investigations using their research tools. We are welcome all your suggestions and proposed activities. These can be sent to the e-mail of the coordinator: dmitrykotoff[at]gmail.com (Dmytro Kotov).

Dmytro Kotov,
coordinator of the campaign,
Institute of Ionosphere,
Kharkiv, Ukraine

We are looking forward to fruitful results from the collaboration, 


received on August 28, 2017
from Kazuo shiokawa,
VarSITI co-chair

2017 S. Chandrasekhar Prize
of plasma physics

I am pleased to announce 2017 S. Chandrasekhar Prize of plasma physics will be given jointly to Prof. Chio Zong Cheng (National Cheng Kung University) and Prof. Lou-Chuang Lee (Academia Sinica) based on recommendation from following 2017 S. Chandrasekhar Prize selection committee:

Chair:
Professor Abhijit Sen
  (Institute for Plasma Research)
Members:
Professor Yasushi Ono (The University of Tokyo),
Professor Hideo Sugama (National Institute of Fusion Science),
Professor Liu Chen (Zhejiang University),
Professor Yutong Li (Institute of Physics, CAS),
Professor Chan-He Nam (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology),
Professor Dong-Hun Lee (Kyung Hee University),
Professor Robert Dewar (Australian National University),
Professor Don Melrose (University of Sydney),
Professor Ravindra Kumar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research),
Professor Lin I (National Central University),
Professor Kwo Ray Chu (National Taiwan University)

Sponsorship:
The 2017 prize is co-sponsored by HEFEI KEJUGAO Technology CO. LTD


Prof. Chio Zong Cheng
worked at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in USA (1975-2005) and made theoretical discovery of the plasma instability driven by energetic particles called the TAE mode (Cheng, Chen, Chance 1985; Cheng, Chance 1986) that will be an important for the mission achievement in ITER. Then, he developed a numerical code NOVA-K (Cheng 1992; Cheng, Chance 1987) which has been widely used to study TAEs in tokamaks such as TFTR (USA) and JT-60U (Japan). He also made original contribution to simulation scheme of the Vlasov simulations (Cheng, Knorr, 1976). He developed the kinetic ballooning instability theory as substorm onset mechanism (Cheng, Lui 1998). His publications received over 10, 300 citations in Google Scholar (H-index 54) and over 6900 citations in Web of Science (WoS) (H-index 45), with 10 articles having more than 100 WoS citations.

Prof. Lou-Chuang Lee
is one of the pioneers in space plasma physics. He developed a strong scintillation theory for the scattering of radio waves by turbulent plasma observed in radio astronomy (Lee, Jokipii I, II 1975) and also predicted Kolmogorov spectrum for the interstellar medium. He developed a landmark theory of auroral kilometric radiation (AKR) known as the cyclotron maser theory of AKR (Wu, Lee 1979; Lee, Wu 1980). He also identified key energy transfer process from the solar wind to the magnetosphere through magnetopause (Lee, Kan 1979; Kan, Lee 1979) and explained the intermittent magnetic reconnection called the flux transfer event (FTE) by a multiple X line reconnection (MXR) process (Lee, Fu, 1985). His publications have received over 10, 600 citations in Google Scholar (H-index 56) and over 7700 citations in WoS (H-index 45), with 14 articles having more than 100 WoS citations.


They will give Chandrasekhar Lectures after Prof. X.T. He (Host first plenary) at "Kaw memorial (plenary) session” after the opening ceremony in forthcoming 1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics.

Sincerely yours,
M. Kikuchi,
AAPPS-DPP chair

received on April 10, 2017
from Prof. Marianna G. Shepherd,
SCOSTEP Bureau

SCOSTEP 2017 Awards
SCOSTEP Distinguished Service Award 2017

Recognizing the societal importance of studies in the field of solar-terrestrial physics and in order to give credit to scientists who contribute significantly to these studies and to SCOSTEP activities, the SCOSTEP Bureau has recently instituted three awards: SCOSTEP Distinguished Science Award, SCOSTEP Distinguished Young Scientist Award, and SCOSTEP Distinguished Service Award. The SCOSTEP Distinguished Service Award recognizes a unique contribution to SCOSTEP activities, to realization of its programs and events.

After a number of nominations from the solar-terrestrial community at large, the Awards Selection Committee unanimously selected and recommended to the SCOSTEP Bureau that Professor Marvin Alan Geller be the recipient of the SCOSTEP Distinguished Service Award for 2017. The SCOSTEP award will be presented at the Award ceremony during the SCOSTEP General Council meeting, to be held on April 28, 2017 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in Vienna, Austria.

Professor Marvin A. Geller

Professor Dr. Marvin Alan Geller, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, USA, is the recipient of SCOSTEP’s Distinguished Service Medal for 2017. The Award is given to Prof. Marvin Geller for his substantial and unique contributions to various SCOSTEP programs through his leadership roles in them and his immense service to the Solar-Terrestrial Physics community as a leader of institutions and a mentor of many students.

Professor Marvin A. Geller has shown a long term commitment to the successful realization of several SCOSTEP programs and events and has made unique contributions to SCOSTEP activities through his leadership roles in various international programs. These include his chairing the Scientific Study Group on Tides, Gravity Waves, and Turbulence, and coordinating the first attempt at global observations of atmospheric tides and gravity waves using radars during SCOSTEP's Middle Atmosphere program (MAP, 1982÷1985) which promoted research into the Earth's middle atmosphere, an important component of the Sun-Earth system that was previously neglected. Later he served as a member of the Steering Committee for SCOSTEP's Solar-Terrestrial Energy Program (STEP, 1990÷1997) and also led the atmospheric coupling component of STEP. He was elected president of SCOSTEP for two terms during 1999÷2007, a period that saw the development and implementation of the highly successful Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES) program of SCOSTEP. He has also served the international space science community as a Principal Investigator of Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), a founding co-chair of World Climate Research Programme's project on Stratosphere Processes and Role in Climate (SPARC, 1992÷2002), and a leader of the Tropical Rain Measurement Mission (TRMM). He has also led institutions: he served as the chief of the Laboratory for Atmospheres at NASA GSFC, and was the head of Stony Brook University's Institute for Planetary and Terrestrial Atmospheres and Marine Sciences Research Centre. Marvin Geller also served as the USA’s National Adherent Representative to SCOSTEP (2011÷2014). In addition to this, he has supervised an impressive 20 PhD students, training some of the current leaders in the field.

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received on October 12, 2016
from Kazuo Shiokawa
VarSITI Co-Chair

International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) Awards
IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA joint Assembly,
Cape Town, South Africa, August 27÷September 1, 2017


Dear Colleagues,

Please consider nominating your colleagues for the following International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) Awards:

IAGA Young Scientist Award
The IAGA Young Scientist Award is given to young scientists who have made outstanding contributions at specialist meetings and workshops for which IAGA is a major sponsor.

IAGA Long Service Award
The IAGA Long Service Medal honors outstanding long term service to the IAGA community in technical or managerial positions.

Shen Kuo Award for Interdisciplinary Achievements
The Shen Kuo Award acknowledges outstanding scientists whose activities and achievements include fields of research covered by IAGA.

Honorary members
A person who has given outstanding service to IAGA may be elected at a Conference of Delegates as an Honorary Member of IAGA (By-Law 4).

Best Wishes
Clare Watt (Chair) and
Simon Wing (Co-Chair),
Division III IAGA

More details can be found at
http://www.iaga-aiga.org/index.php?id=awards-and-honors
The deadline for all nominations is December 31, 2016

received on September 29, 2016
from Katya Georgieva
VarSITI Co-chair

Small Satellite Technologies International R&D event
in Bulgaria, 18-23 October 2016

Dear Colleagues,

Being the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee , I would like to inform you that Bulgaria is hosting a series of International R&D and business (B2B) events in the area of small satellite technologies and applications, and I would like to INVITE YOU TO ATTEND

The 7th Nano-Satellite Symposium and the 4th UNISEC-Global Meeting
Both are to be held for the first time outside Japan, in Europe.

Detailed Info: For more information please visit the Conference site : https://unisec2016.castra.org

Program You can see the preliminary Program at site of the event: click here

Exhibits: Interested Space technology and service provider organizations and companies could consider the possibility to attend as Exhibitors, please see the information available on https://unisec2016.castra.org/index.php/unisec2016/index/pages/view/exhibits

Attendance: We expect to meet more than 150 professionals representing more than 28 countries. https://unisec2016.castra.org/index.php/unisec2016/index/pages/view/participants

SPECIAL EVENTS: In particular, please be informed about the following events - part of the program:

LATE NEWS POSTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:

At present, the Organizing Committee can still accept for considerations late abstracts for poster presentations, according the attached template (the second attached file). High quality original poster abstracts could be invited to be extended to a full paper (up to 12pages), to be published in a hard cover IAA series book (http://shop.iaaweb.org)

Please consider the possibility to attend and share your work !

I remain available at any time for any additional information and clarifications you may need.

Looking forward your feedback, and visit to Bulgaria,
With my very best regards,
Dr. Vesselin Vassilev PhD(eng)
Chair Local Organizing Committee
CEO CASTRA www.castra.org
cell: +359-887-548-201

Abstract Guideline     UNISEC-Global Meeting Overview    


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received on August 16, 2016

JASTP special issue
"First VarSITI General Symposium"

Dear participants in the First VarSITI General Symposium,

As announced during the Symposium, a Special Issue (SI) of Elsevier’s Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (JASTP) will be published with papers based on the presentations (invited, oral, and poster) given at the symposium.


Elsevier provides promotional access for all papers included in this SI, which means:

The Elsevier Editorial System is now ready for article submission

Instructions for submission:

The submission website is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/atp/default.asp

A good idea is to pre-read "Guide for Authors" or download and read the "Author information pack"

1) Login as “Author” and choose “Submit new manuscript”.

2) In the next step you may be prompted to link to ORCID if you haven’t done this yet. You can choose

  • to link to ORCID
  • or skip at this moment (choose “Cancel” in this case).

3) In “Selecting an Article” be sure to choose “SI:VarSITI Symposium”

4) Please follow online instructions for the next steps.


DEADLINE for paper submission: 30 NOVEMBER 2016

Looking forward to your contributions,

Kazuo and Katya
VarSITI Co-chairs

received on July 25, 2016

EGU2017
Call-for-session-proposals

Maybe of interest for those of you who would like to prepare a session for EGU 2017!

Best regards,
Manuela Temmer

Dear colleague,

The next EGU General Assembly 2017 (EGU2017) will be held again at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) from 23 Apr 2017 to 28 Apr 2017.

We hereby invite you, from now until 09 Sep 2016, to take an active part in organizing the scientific programme of the conference.
You can do this at: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/provisionalprogramme

Please suggest (i) new sessions with conveners and description and (ii) modifications to the skeleton programme sessions. The latter were compiled by the respective EGU Programme Group Chair and Officers based on community input at the last division meetings or later.

When making suggested changes/additions to the programme, as a general guideline we encourage: (i) a minimum of three active conveners from multiple countries and institutes, (ii) the inclusion of early career scientists, and (iii) gender diversity. Please check with all of the suggested conveners that they agree to take part in the proposed session.

When making suggestions, explore the Programme groups (PGs) and after studying those sessions that already exist, put your proposal into the PG that is most closely aligned with the proposed session's subject area. If the subject area of your proposal is strongly aligned with two or more PGs, co-organization is possible and encouraged between PGs. Only put your session proposal into ONE PG, and you will be able to indicate PGs that you believe should be approached for co-organization.

Please note that EGU introduced the Programme group Interdisciplinary Events (IE) in 2016. IE looks for links between disciplines in a coordinated and coherent effort, trying to create new approaches that would not be possible if handled separately. IE has four sub-programme groups that highlight new themes each year. If you plan to propose an Interdisciplinary Event, please submit your proposal in Programme group IE and indicate relevant other Programme groups in the session description or comment box. For IE sessions we kindly ask to identify another Programme group that becomes the scientific leader of the event. Accepted IE sessions will be part of the session programme of the scientific leader in addition to the IE programme.

If you have questions about the appropriateness of a specific session topic, please contact the Programme group chair and/or the officers for the specific EGU2017 Programme group: http://egu2017.eu/information/programme_committee.html

The EGU2017 Programme committee will take into account all suggested new sessions and modifications to existing sessions, and use these to compile the final session programme as the basis for the call-for-abstracts. Then, conveners of approved sessions will be asked to actively promote their sessions and the public will be invited to submit their abstracts. This will be announced by separate email.

Please inform your colleagues about these opportunities. We look forward to receiving your suggestions. Thank you very much in advance.

In case any questions arise, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Kind regards,
Katja Gänger
Copernicus Meetings
egu2017[at]copernicus.org

NOTE ON HOTEL RESERVATIONS Please note that the congress ECCIMD2017 with 10,000 participants takes place in Vienna in parallel to the EGU2017. In addition, the Vienna marathon with 40,000 participants takes place on Sunday with load on the hotels in the night before. Therefore, we strongly recommend booking accommodation as soon as possible.

received on July 14, 2016

JGR Special Section

Title: Geospace system responses to the St. Patrick's Day storms in 2013 and 2015

The new deadline is August 15, 2016

Manuscripts are solicited for the JGR-Space Special Section on the study of upper atmospheric disturbances and M-I-T coupling during the recent solar storms, in particular during the 2015 and 2014 St Patrick Days.

A QUICK NOTE FROM THE JGR-SPACE EDITOR: It is worth underlining that new science is essential for publication in JGR including special sections.

Geospace responses to solar and interplanetary disturbance induced geomagnetic storms via changes in electromagnetic fields, particle precipitation, plasma and neutral dynamics and energetics, are the fundamental components of space weather. Despite that major processes through which the coupled magnetosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere and mesosphere (MITM) system responds to storms are generally known, a number of significant aspects of these responses remain challenging, including quantitative understanding of the processes, the feedback and nonlinear interaction effects within the MITM system, and the vast variability in the system responses themselves. Geomagnetic storms around 17-19 March in 2013 and 2015 (the St. Patrick’s Day intervals) provide a fresh opportunity to address these challenges while testing our current understanding of the storm-time MITM behavior with improved global observations and new modeling capability. In particular, comparative studies between these two storms are of great interest since they occurred at the same dates (season) but were of different intensities. Comparisons with other storms with similar upstream drivers are also valuable to fully understand the MITM system response to storms under different geophysical conditions.

Organizers: S. Zhang (MIT Haystack), Y. Zhang(JHU-APL), W. Wang (NCAR HAO),
O. Verkhoglyadova (JPL)

With my best regards,
Shun-Rong Zhang, PhD
MIT Haystack Observatory
Westford, MA 01886, USA
:::: phone +1-781-981-5725

received on April 29, 2016
significantly renovated on September 21, 2016

Topical Issue of "Solar Physics"

Title: Earth-affecting Solar Transients

The deadline for submission of manuscripts is 15 September 2016 October 15, 2016

Journal HOME
The text posted on September 21, 2016

Upon the request from several of you, we have decided to extend the deadline by one month. The new deadline is now October 15, 2016.

Please be reminded that October 15, 2016 is a rather rigid deadline. A number of papers have been already submitted and are under review. To ensure the timely and simultaneous publication of all papers belonging to the Topical Issue, any paper submitted after this new deadline might not be considered as part of the Topical Issue.

To submit the manuscript, use Editorial Manager at http://www.editorialmanager.com/sola/default.aspx.

If you do not have an account already, you need to register in the Editorial Manager.

When you click on “Submit New Manuscript”, you will be prompted of “Choose Article Type”. Please make sure that you choose the option of “TI: Earth-affecting Solar Transients”.


Further, if you use LaTex, please use the style files of Solar Physics instead of a different style. The style files can be found in: Journal site (Look for the link "Author tool (LaTeX)")

Best regards,
Guest Editors: Jie Zhang, Xochitl Blanco-Cano, Nariaki Nitta, and Nandita Srivastava.

end of text posted on September 21, 2016

The text posted on April 29, 2016

We solicit research articles on the subject of Earth-affecting Solar Transients. In the past decade, nearly continuous observations of the Sun and the inner heliosphere with an unprecedented wide spatial coverage from a fleet of spacecraft, including STEREO Ahead/Behind, SDO, SOHO, Messenger, Venus Express, ACE and WIND, in combination with a significant advancement of global MHD numerical simulation and theoretical analysis, have greatly improved our understanding of solar transients and the prediction of their potential impact on Earth. Recently, the ISEST (International Study of Earth-affecting Solar Transients) Program was launched to bring together scientists across many countries to join efforts on addressing this problem. The event catalogs, data and information used during the past three ISEST workshops can be found at this page. The ISEST is one of the four projects of the VarSITI (Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact) Program, sponsored by SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics) for the period 2014 – 2018.

Earth-affecting solar transients encompass a broad range of phenomena, including major solar flares, CMEs, ICMEs, solar energetic particle events, and co-rotating interaction regions. We solicit research articles that address, but are not limited to, the following questions: (1) how do various geo-effective phenomena originate? (2) how do they propagate and evolve in the inner heliosphere? (3) how can we reconcile in-situ and remote-sensing data on the transients? (4) how can we predict the probability of arrival, time of arrival, and geo-effectiveness of these phenomena? (5) what kind of solar wind transients are geoeffective and why? Articles on observational, numerical, and theoretical studies are all welcome. We particularly encourage results on campaign events listed in the ISEST website. This Topical Issue is not a conference proceedings volume and is not limited to research presented at the ISEST workshops. All submissions must be original papers that meet the quality and peer-review standards of Solar Physics.

The deadline for the Statement of Interest (SOI) is 15 June 2016, and the deadline for manuscript submission is 15 September 2016. Please submit the SOI (i.e., title, authors, a short abstract, and three potential referees) to Jie Zhang at jzhang7[at]gmu.edu.

Guest Editors: Jie Zhang, Alejandro Lara, Nandita Srivastava, and Xochitl Blanco-Cano.
Solar Physics Editor: Cristina Mandrini (mandrini[at]iafe.uba.ar).
With my best regards,
Jie Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor of Solar Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy

George Mason University
4400 University Dr., MSN 3F3

Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Phone: (703)993-1998
Fax: (703)993-1269

E-mail: jzhang7[at]gmu.edu
URL: http://solar.gmu.edu

received on March 24, 2016

"Earth, Planets and Space (EPS)" Special Issue

Title: Global Data Systems for the Study of Solar-Terrestrial Variability

The deadline for submission of manuscripts is 31 March 2016 30 April 2016
Dear participants of the SCOSTEP-WDS Workshop in Tokyo, 2015

The deadline of submission to the special issue of EPS, entitled “Global Data Systems for the Study of Solar-Terrestrial Variability”, has been postponed to 30 April 2016. Please submit your contribution via EPS Web page http://www.earth-planets-space.org/ by this new deadline.

With my best regards,
Takashi Watanabe
WDS-IPO

received on January 31, 2016

"Space Weather" Special Issue

Title: Sun to Earth: Heliospheric Remote Sensing Observations Applicable to Space Weather

Guest Editors: Mario M. Bisi, J. Americo Gonzalez-Esparza, Bernard V. Jackson, and Igor V. Chashei

The deadline for submission of the statement of interest is 29 February 2016 07 March 2016
Dear Colleagues.

We are soliciting statements of interest for contributions to a special issue in AGU’s Space Weather Journal (SWJ) focused on scientific aspects of remote sensing techniques that support improvements in understanding and predicting space weather. The special issue will document scientific results of the Third Remote Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere and Space Weather Applications Workshop held in Morelia, Mexico, 20-24 October 2015, and we welcome non-workshop manuscripts related to inner heliosphere remote sensing of space weather, especially those emphasizing radio techniques.

The special issue will highlight:
1) Advances in heliospheric Sun to Earth remote-sensing techniques for space weather, and ancillary measurements;
2) ground-based observations of interplanetary scintillation (IPS) and radio polarisation; and
3) the recently-established space-weather service in Mexico (SCiESMEX) including the dedicated IPS array near Morelia, Mexico.

See http://www.sciesmex.unam.mx/workshop2015/ for further information on the Morelia workshop.

The special issue will consist of original research papers on this common theme, which would benefit from being published together. Manuscripts should clearly describe new space-weather-related science results derived from remotely-sensed observations or from model-data comparison. All papers will be fully refereed according to AGU publication standards. Dr. Mario M. Bisi, Dr. J. Americo Gonzalez-Esparza, Dr. Bernard V. Jackson, and Prof. Igor V. Chashei will act as Guest Editors and will assist the SWJ Editor, Dr. Barbara Giles, in seeking referees for the special issue.

The deadline for submission of the statement of interest – consisting of title, preliminary abstract, estimated number of pages, and names and E-Mail addresses of at least three suggestion referees – is Monday, 29 February 2016 07 March 2016. Please provide this information via E-Mail to Mario Bisi (Mario.Bisi[at]stfc.ac.uk) with the subject line: URGENT – Space Weather Remote Sensing Special Issue.

The Space Weather GEMS page (http://spaceweather-submit.agu.org/cgi-bin/main.plex) will open for submissions that have been coordinated with the Guest Editors on Friday 01 April 2016. Completed manuscripts must be submitted via GEMS by Friday 01 July 2016.

We will be strict with submission deadlines in order to accommodate an anticipated printing of the special issue by late Fall of 2016. Papers that are delayed in submission or protracted review can appear individually in later issues of the journal.

Many thanks, best wishes, and we look forward to hearing from you soon,
Mario M. Bisi, J. Americo Gonzalez-Esparza, Bernard V. Jackson, Igor V. Chashei

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received on November 30, 2015

Nominations for
SCOSTEP Distinguished Science and Young Scientist award

GREETINGS:

Please find information about the SCOSTEP Awards and a description of the nomination procedure. The Deadline for nominations for the Distinguished Science and Young Scientist Awards for 2016 is February 29, 2016. Nominations should be sent to the SCOSTEP Secretariat, in electronic form as a pdf file . The Award Statute and Procedure are placed on the SCOSTEP Website, section "Awards" (http://www.yorku.ca/scostep/?page_id=1356).  Please distribute the information to your peers in the scientific community.

Sincerely, Marianna Shepherd

SCOSTEP Awards Announcement

Recognizing the societal importance of studies in the field of solar-terrestrial physics and willing to give credit to scientists who contribute significantly to these studies and to SCOSTEP activities, the SCOSTEP Bureau decided to institute the following awards:

SCOSTEP Distinguished Science Award
The award is given to recognize an outstanding contribution of a scientist to solar-terrestrial physics;

Distinguished Young Scientist Award
The award is given to young scientists who achieved considerable success in solar-terrestrial physics and took an active part in SCOSTEP-related activities;

SCOSTEP Distinguished Service Award
The award is given to recognize a unique contribution to SCOSTEP-related activities, to realization of its programs and events

The SCOSTEP awards are given biennially. The first SCOSTEP Service Award was given in November 2013 during the SCOSTEP CAWSES-II International Symposium at Nagoya, Japan (November 18 ? 22, 2013). The first Science Award and the first Young Scientist Award were given in 2014 at the 13th STP Symposium in Xi’an, China (October 12–17, 2014).

The Award Statute and Procedure are placed on the SCOSTEP web site section “Awards” (http://www.yorku.ca/scostep/?page_id=1356).

Award nomination packages (nomination letter and nominee’s curriculum vitae) for the Science and Young Scientist Awards should be submitted to the SCOSTEP secretariat (mshepher[at]yorku.ca) by no later than February 29, 2016, as a single pdf file. The currently serving SCOSTEP Executive Officers and Bureau Members are not eligible for nomination. The award decision will be made by the SCOSTEP Awards Committee (SAC) and communicated to the Bureau after considering submissions.

Download the text above as a PDF file

Dr. Marianna G. Shepherd, Adjunct Professor
Scientific Secretary (SCOSTEP)

VarSITI-related JGR special issue:
Energetic Electron Loss and its Impacts on the Atmosphere

received on November 11, 2015
updated on January 29, 2016

Title: Energetic Electron Loss and its Impacts on the Atmosphere
Open for submissions: till February 29, 2016 January 29, 2016
Organizers: Robyn Millan, Pekka Verronen and Alexa Halford
With best wishes,
Pekka Verronen,
Send your manuscript now

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Manuscripts are invited for a joint special issue between JGR-Space Physics and JGR-Atmospheres on recent advances in energetic (~120 keV - 10 MeV) electron loss in the magnetosphere and the impacts of energetic precipitation on the atmosphere.

We welcome submissions on the study of processes that cause energetic precipitation and quantify the relative importance of precipitation versus magnetopause loss for the radiation belts and ring current. There is evidence that energetic precipitation may have significant impacts on the atmosphere through the production of odd hydrogen (HOx) and odd nitrogen (NOx), which can affect ozone chemistry, and lead to modification of atmospheric dynamics in the polar regions.

This special issue welcomes observational studies that use historical or recent data sets as well as theoretical studies of electron loss and its impacts. Manuscripts should be submitted through the JGR-Space Physics or JGR-Atmospheres submission systems.

For additional information please contact Robyn.Millan[at]dartmouth.edu
or contact the journal directly:jgr-spacephysics[at]agu.org or jgr-atmospheres[at]agu.org

All the Best,
Robyn Millan

Dear VarSITI colleagues,

I am forwarding the information of AGU special paper collection on the Geomagnetically Induced Current (GIC), which is freely available online until 31 December 2015.

received on November 02, 2015



With best wishes, Kazuo Shiokawa,
VarSITI co-chair

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First ever AGU cross-journal Special Collection in Space Weather

"Space Weather" is home to a new manuscript collection on Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs). In this Special Collection the Space Weather editorial team and a group of commentators have surveyed GIC-related manuscripts from all American Geophysical Union (AGU) journals for the last 60 years to highlight: (1) known interactions between GICs and technological systems and (2) present gaps in understanding GICs as an electromagnetic hazard. Four commentaries/editorials provide perspective on this collection.

The more than 100 articles in the Special Collection are categorized as: (1) forward and commentaries; (2) monitoring and modeling of geomagnetic disturbances; (3) models and significant parameters of induced surface E- and B-fields; (4) regional and extreme GICs; (5) grid vulnerability in terms of economic impact, system risk, and mitigation; and (6) historical papers on telluric currents. This collection is a living collection and will add relevant papers as they are published.

Within the Special Collection Knipp [2015] provides the introduction and motivation for Collection. Pulkkinen [2015] addresses the current and future state of GIC modeling and forecasting. Jonas and McCarron [2015] provide a policy perspective while Gaunt [2015] summarizes the contributions of the last 25 years.

As a special bonus all articles in this collection are freely available without a subscription to anyone online, anywhere until December 31, 2015. After December 31, 2015 please note that a large swath of articles will remain open, as AGU offers free access to all journal articles from 1997 to content published 24 months ago.

To find the Special Collection simply click on Special Issues on the Space Weather home page or go to http://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/agu/issue/10.1002/(ISSN)1542-7390(CAT)SpecialIssues(VI)GIC15/

All the Best,
Delores Knipp
Editor in Chief
Space Weather

VarSITI reception announcement
SCOSTEP/VarSITI reception on Thursday, Dec 17, 2015

received on December 07, 2015


Dear VarSITI colleagues,

During the AGU Fall Meeting, we will have a SCOSTEP/VarSITI reception on Thursday, Dec 17. This is an informal reception to meet and greet and chat about future collaborations related to SCOSTEP/VarSITI. If you are planning to attend the AGU fall meeting, please stop by.

Date/Time: December 17 (Thu), 2015 18:30-20:30

Location: San Francisco Marriott Marquis (780 Mission Street) Room: Sierra C (5th floor)

With best wishes,
Kazuo Shiokawa and Katya Georgieva,
VarSITI co-chairs

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received on August 14, 2015
updateded on November 05, 2015

JASTP special issue
"Effects of the solar wind and interplanetary disturbances on the Earth’s atmosphere and climate"

Manuscripts Submission Deadline is over!

The special issue will summarize the present level of knowledge and the new ideas about the effects of the solar wind and interplanetary disturbances on the Earth’s atmosphere and climate, and the mechanisms by which these influences are transmitted from the top to the bottom of the atmosphere, including their long‐term variability and the possible contribution to climate change. Papers are welcome which address both theoretical and empirical recent results, as well as model studies.

To submit a paper, please go to http://ees.elsevier.com/atp/default.asp, log in as author and go to "Submit new manuscript". A "Link to ORCID" page opens from where you can either Link to ORCID or skip by clicking on "Cancel". Then from "Choose Article type" (bottom of page) choose "SI: Solar wind and climate" and follow the instructions.

The deadline is October 1, 2015.
The deadline is December 1, 2015.
Deadline is over!

Dr. Katya Georgieva,
Professor, VarSITI Co-chair

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received on February 11, 2015

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
FOR THE SCOSTEP DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

Nominations Deadline is over!

Recognizing the societal importance of studies in the field of solar-terrestrial physics and to give credit to scientists who contribute significantly to these studies and to SCOSTEP activities, in 2013 the SCOSTEP Bureau instituted three awards:

The awards are given biennially.

The first SCOSTEP Distinguished Service Award was given in November 2013 during the SCOSTEP Symposium at Nagoya (November 18-22, 2013, SCOSTEP CAWSES-II International Symposium at Nagoya, Japan). The First Distinguished Scientist and Distinguished Young Scientist Awards were presented in October 2014 during SCOSTEP’s 13th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics symposium (STP13) (October 12-18, 2014) in Xi’An, China).

This is a call for nominations for the Second edition of the SCOSTEP Distinguished Service Award, to be presented in 2015. The Statute and Procedure for the award are given in the Appendix. The Statute of SCOSTEP Awards is located on the SCOSTEP web site in the section “About” -> “Awards”.

The deadline for submitting nominations is April 30, 2015. All nominations should be sent to the SCOSTEP Scientific Secretary, Prof. Marianna Shepherd (mshepher[at]yorku.ca).

The award decision will be made by a SCOSTEP Award Committee (SAC).

Nominations Deadline is over!

Appendix:

Statute of the SCOSTEP award for unique contribution to SCOSTEP activities, to realization of its programs and events (SCOSTEP Distinguished Service Award)

This award will recognize unique contributions to SCOSTEP science through a variety of different routes, for example through the running of programmes in solar-terrestrial physics, administration of SCOSTEP, and life time contributions of service to SCOSTEP. Such awards would be nominated via the Bureau membership, although the wider SCOSTEP community should be encouraged to contribute nominations either directly or through the Bureau membership. One award will be made every 2 years.

Nominations should include
  1. a statement of the contributions made by the nominee;
  2. the CV of the nominee

The nominations for the award will be judged by the SCOSTEP Bureau or by a representative sub-group of the Bureau.

The award includes a medal and citation.

The award will be announced in the SCOSTEP bulletin (Newsletters); information about the award winner will appear on SCOSTEP Web site,http://www.yorku.ca/scostep/ in the Section Awards.


Dr. Marianna G. Shepherd,
Adjunct Professor
Scientific Secretary
(SCOSTEP)

http://www.yorku.ca/scostep/

received on January 12, 2015

Coimbra Solar Physics Meeting
"Ground-based Solar Observation in the Space Instrumentation Era"
October 5-9, 2015, Coimbra, Portugal

We would like to invite the SCOSTEP VarSITI community to participate in the Coimbra Solar Physics Meeting "Groud-based Solar Observations in the Space Instrumentation Era" (5–9 October 2015, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal) for discussing the state-of-art of solar ground-based and space-based observing techniques and related topics. This CSPM-2015 scientific meeting, sponsored by the VarSITI Program, will cover various aspects of solar dynamic and magnetic phenomena which are observed over the entire electromagnetic spectrum: white-light, Hα, Ca II, and radio from ground and in a variety of other wavelengths (UV and EUV, and X-rays) from space. Emphasis will also be placed on instrumentation, observing techniques, solar image processing techniques, as well as theory and modelling through detailed radiative transfer in increasingly realistic MHD models. The long-term (cyclic) evolution of solar magnetism and its consequence for the solar atmosphere, eruptive phenomena, solar irradiation variations, and space weather, will be in focus. Here, special attention will be devoted to the long-term observations made in Coimbra and also to the results of the SCOSTEP VarSITI and SPRING / SOLARNET studies. In particular, the weak solar activity during the current solar maximum will be discussed. Finally, a session will be specially dedicated to new solar instruments (both ground-based and space-borne) that will give access to unexplored solar atmospheric features and dynamic phenomena over the coming years.

Sincerely, Ivan Dorotovic
On behalf of the organizers
of the CSPM-2015

For further information please visit http://www.mat.uc.pt/~cspm2015
or click here.


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received on October 09, 2014

Akimasa Yoshikawa

UN/Japan Workshop on Space Weather
March 2–6, 2015 in Fukuoka, Japan

With the support of numerous sponsors, the United Nations and the International Center for Space Weather Science and Education (ICSWSE, Kyushu University, Japan) are hosting this space weather workshop during 2-6 March 2015 in Fukuoka, Japan. Travel support is available from the UN based on the quality of registrant’s abstract. There is no registration fee. Online registration starts on 01 September 2014 at this website:
http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/SAP/act2015/japan/index.html

[Note: This workshop will be conducted in parallel with other workshops, the primary one being the 2015 Workshop of AOSWA (Asia Oceania Space Weather Alliance).]

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received on August 06, 2014

40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly – VarSITI lunch-time meeting
August 4, 2014, Moscow, Russia

Subject: short report

We had a lunch-time meeting during COSPAR 2014 on August 4, 2014. It was a well-attended meeting with ~50 people were in audience, running out all the cafe/tea/light meals we prepared.

Myself (VarSITI, SPeCIMEN), Dibyendu (SEE), Jie (ISEST), and William (ROSMIC) made presentations to introduce each project. Then we had several comments from the audience.

Dr. Madhulika Guhathakurta reported the US activity. NASA and NSF will soon announce a budget for VarSITI in US. (thanks to Nat's efforts).

Dr. Duggirala Pallam Raju reported Indian situation. They are trying to form VarSITI-related funding in India with 1-year delay (maybe from 2015).

Dr. Guhathakurta suggested to make possible collaboration with NASA ILWS activity with VarSITI. She also asked whether we have a formal way to approach to other national/international bodies (e.g., EGU/ESA) for funding related to VarSITI. Currently we do no have such formal way.

Dr. Manuel Grande announced the SCOSTEP activity to send young scientists (students) from developing countries to some host institutions for a few months with support by SCOSTEP. The announcement will come soon.

During the meeting, the audience asked to put our presentation into VarSITI web site. They are already there (click here) the web-admin

Best regards,
Kazuo Shiokawa VarSITI Co-chair

received on August 07, 2014

VarSITI session in AOGS2014
July 30–31, 2014, Sapporo, Japan

Subject: short report

The VarSITI session (ST26) was held at the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 2014 conference in Sapporo, Japan on July 30-31, 2014. Twenty-six oral and seventeen poster presentations were made in this session, forming one of the longest sessions in the AOGS 2014 Meeting. This session gave a forum to discuss on-going and planned scientific projects related to VarSITI, in order to make coordination of various projects between the sun and the earth. The presentations covered the field of ground and satellite observations, theory, modeling, and applications for space weather forecast, as well as capacity building. The project names discussed in this session were, for example, Hinode, Solar-C, solar neutron monitors, ERG, Geotail, Akebono, Sounding Rockets, EAR, MAGDAS, GMDN, CHAIN, NICT Space Weather, SuperDARN, OMTI, AVON, GPS receivers, Antarctic lidar, GAIA, WDS, and IUGONET.

Best regards,
Kazuo Shiokawa VarSITI Co-chair