E-SWAN Newsletter
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Volume 2024 Number 14 - May 7, 2024
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Advancing E-SWAN: A Look at Recent Developments and Future Plans
Dear E-SWAN followers,
First of all, I would like to welcome the new Awards Committee. The AWComm will be responsible for defining the criteria for the E-SWAN awards, announcing the call for nominations, forming the review panel(s), collecting and reviewing the nominations, and selecting the winners of the awards. Finally, the Awards Committee will organize the Medal Ceremony at the European Space Weather Week.
Last month, the E-SWAN Executive Board (EB) had a meeting with the committee chairs to discuss the status of the bylaws, the work done and the plans for the near future. There will be a new call for chair of the AWComm as Andrea Opitz will finish her term soon. Many thanks Andrea for putting the AWComm on the rails!
The PubComm had a telecon with the publisher with a presentation of the editorial office. They will launch an open call for associate editors. The PC will apply a new way to decide on plenary talks. The EOCOM welcomed three new members. The school in Toulouse was a great success and the book on space weather and space climate will be ready in September 2024.
As you can see, we are very active further building the research community. Thanks to all of you!
Enjoy reading this Newsletter.
Stefaan Poedts,
Topical Issues open for submission
"Observing, modelling and forecasting TIDs and mitigating their impact on technology", deadline extended to 30 September 2024
Topical Editors-in-Chief (T-EiCs):
"Fast and Slow Solar Winds: Origin, Evolution, and Space Weather effects", deadline 31 October 2024
Topical Editor-in-Chief (T-EiC):
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The International Space Weather and Space Climate Medal Committee has recently joined E-SWAN and its new name is E-SWAN Awards Committee.
Since 2013 there are three International Space Weather and Space Climate Medals distributed: Kristian Birkeland, Baron Marcel Nicolet, and Alexander Chizhevsky. Medal recipients’ work must have been documented via publications in peer-reviewed journals or book chapters, or must be technological contributions that have led to a fully implemented new Space Weather or Space Climate capability. Medal recipients’ work must be internationally recognized in the field of Space Weather and/or Space Climate.
The Call for Medal Nominations is posted now (see below) and the deadline is 15th July 2024.
Further information about the medals, the list of previous awardees and the composition of the Awards Committee in 2024 you can find on our website:
https://eswan.eu/index.php/organs/awards-committee
Dear Colleagues,
We are happy to announce the 2024 contest for the three International Space Weather and Space Climate Medals. The medal recipients will be announced during the Medal Ceremony on 4th November 2024 at the European Space Weather Week in Coimbra (Portugal). Each winner will be invited to give a 20-minute lecture about his/her research in a dedicated session on the following day.
All three prizes are prestigious recognitions of the recipients’ major contributions in the field of Space Weather and Space Climate. Medal recipients’ achievements must have been documented via publications in peer-reviewed journals or book chapters, or must be technological contributions that have led to a fully implemented and documented new Space Weather or Space Climate capability. Medal recipients’ work must be internationally recognized in the field of Space Weather and/or Space Climate.
In addition to the above common criteria, there are the following specific requirements for each of the three medals:
The Kristian Birkeland Medal for Space Weather and Space Climate:
The Kristian Birkeland Medal is awarded for outstanding achievements in combining basic and applied research, and in developing essential Space Weather and/or Space Climate products used across scientific disciplines and/or even outside the research community. The work must have led to a better physical comprehension of the solar-terrestrial phenomena, to a crucial improvement of Space Weather and/or Space Climate modelling, or to a new generation of observational techniques or instruments.
The Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal for Space Weather and Space Climate:
The Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal is awarded for outstanding achievements in educating and serving the Space Weather and Space Climate community, for binding it together in a spirit of peace and friendship, fostering collaboration and cooperation, and/or for going even beyond the Space Weather and Space Climate research community by engaging larger audiences.
The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal for Space Weather and Space Climate:
The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal is awarded to an early career scientist in recognition of outstanding achievements in Space Weather and Space Climate with an innovative approach. The nominee must be an early career scientist within eight (8) years of receiving his/her first PhD or an equivalent degree at the time of nomination. This period may be increased for confirmed career breaks (such as periods of sickness, military service, parental leave, and other care duties which took them away from their scientific work).
How to nominate?
In order to nominate a person for one of the International Space Weather and Space Climate Medals, please send one single pdf document which includes:
- Your full name and professional address.
- The full name and professional address of the person that you nominate (the nominee).
- Which of the three medals the nominee is nominated for (only one medal type is allowed for each nominee).
- Reasons for the nomination (two pages maximum). Please make sure that these reasons should relate to Space Weather and/or Space Climate and fulfill the criteria listed above.
- A full CV of the nominee (three pages maximum).
- Letters of support from two colleagues, preferably outside your own or the candidate's institution. You may also include those two colleagues as co-signatories on the nomination proposal. For the Chizhevsky prize, a recommendation letter from the PhD advisor (in case the PhD supervisor is not the person submitting the nomination) is recommended.
- Up to five references (journal articles, prizes, patents, etc.) of the nominee's work.
Self-nominations are not allowed. Any individual can only nominate one person for a medal. Note that the medal committee members cannot nominate or be nominated.
Send the documents by email to:
The deadline for the nominations: 15th July 2024.
Composition of the Medal Committee in 2024:
Previous winners:
Delores Knipp (2019 Nicolet)
Richard Horne (2020 Birkeland)
Madhulika Guhathakurta (2020 Nicolet)
Mateja Dumbovic (2020 Chizhevsky)
Kazunari Shibata (2021 Birkeland)
Maria Kusnetsova (2021 Nicolet)
Martin A. Reiss (2021 Chizhevsky)
Charles N. Arge (2023 Birkeland)
Claudio Cesaroni (2023 Chizhevsky)
Ex-officio members:
Ronald van der Linden: Representative of the E-SWAN Executive Board.
Mario M. Bisi: Representative of the ESWW Programme Committee.
Ilya Usoskin: Representative of the E-SWAN Publication Committee.
The Medal Committee is chaired by Andrea Opitz.
For further information go to: https://eswan.eu/index.php/organs/awards-committee
The 20th European Space Weather Week (ESWW) conference will be held in Coimbra, Portugal with the theme of “20 years of expanding horizons, from fundamental science to protecting society”:
https://esww2024.org/
ESWW2024 will again adopt the central aim of bringing together the diverse groups in Europe working on different aspects of Space Weather and Space Climate: such as scientists, engineers, satellite operators, power grid technicians, communication and navigation specialists, people working in aviation, space weather service providers, STEM practitioners. The conference will have a hybrid format to allow online participation in addition to those attending in-person.
ESWW2024 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The submission system for abstracts to one of the proposed sessions is now open:
The titles, conveners and abstracts for the sessions can be found via the following two links:
Registration to European Space Weather Week (ESWW) 2024 will be open soon. Registration instructions will be available soon at https://esww2024.org/info-
Information on the venue and travel is also available on the website. This will be updated in the coming months with more information for attendees.
A timeline with key dates is available here: https://esww2024.org/schedule/
ESWW 2024 is devoted to universal values of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), as well as sustainability regarding the environmental impact of the conference, and we expect all participants to adhere to the same principles. More details on these principles with directive and recommendations can be found here: https://esww2024.org/info-
The names of those on the Local Organising Committee (LOC) and Programme Committee (PC) can be found here: https://esww2024.org/
For any queries on the conference emails can be sent to:
Additional events around ESWW
In order to lower our carbon footprint by reducing our travels, additional events/meetings may be held the week and week-end preceding or after ESWW2024 at or near the venue in Coimbra. Please contact the LOC as soon as possible (and no later than June 2024) to discuss this further if you plan to hold a meeting around ESWW2024.
Looking forward to seeing you in Coimbra!
ESWW2024 LOC
Contact:
Online introductory lectures on Solar Physics and Space Weather
The STCE started a collaboration with the Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia in support of the new solar physics group of Dr. Nagessa Tilahun in the form a series of online lectures on Solar Physics and Space Weather. The morning (9:30-12:00 CET) lectures are organised on a monthly basis:
Practical info: anyone can register for free for each lecture separately through the webpage https://events.
17th European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM-17) (9-13 September 2024, Turin, Italy)
Please save the date for the “UK Space Weather and Space Environment (UKSWSE) II: Celebrating 10-years of 24/7 space-weather operational forecasting in the UK” Meeting, 09-12 September 2024, at Sandy Park, Exeter, UK. This is the second of a series of UKSWSE Meetings and the focus of this meeting will be around the 10-year celebration of 24/7 space-weather forecasting in the UK with more details to follow in due course. We apologise that this clashes with the European Solar Physics Meeting 17, but logistics around the timing and availability of suitable venues in the Exeter area provided extremely-limited options – hence also the delay in advertising the dates openly to the community.
Further information on the website, content of the meeting, and travel etc… is envisaged to be provided by early April 2024 at the latest.
The 9th International Space Climate Symposium (Space Climate 9) (1-4 October 2024, Nagoya, Japan)
The Space Climate 9, "Extremity, Long-Term Variability, and Data of Solar Impacts on Earth ", will be organized as a joint symposium with the ISEE Symposium of Nagoya University.
The objective of Space Climate is to study the extremity, the long-term variability, and data of the solar-terrestrial environments, space-climate impacts on the heliosphere, Earth’s space environment, atmosphere, climate, and their possible impact on human civilizations.
This joint symposium will take place at Nagoya, one of the historical and economic centers in Japan, on 1-4 October 2024. This will be an in-person meeting.
Details on venue, registration, scientific program, accommodation etc., are available on the meeting website
https://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~spaceclimate9
All questions, enquires, comments related to the meeting, can be sent to
Important deadlines (preliminary):
Abstract submission deadline for Oral contributions: 30 June 2024
Abstract submission deadline for Poster contribution: 15 July 2024
Early bird registration deadline: 31 July 2024
Organizers:
Hisashi Hayakawa, Agnieszka Gil, Ilya Usoskin, Fusa Miyake, and Kalevi Mursula
The fifteen years since the launch of SDO has seen papers describing wide ranges of science results from this mission. Join us during the maximum of Solar Cycle 25 to discuss what we have learned about the Sun and compare the new cycle and those in the past. To accommodate the interest in multiple research topics, SDO 2025 will include parallel sessions on developments in helioseismology and coronal modeling.
Any research result using SDO data can be submitted as a contribution to the workshop. Invited speakers will introduce 7 themed sessions spanning SDO‘s wide range of research topics:
Solar Internal Dynamics and Structure
From Creation to Emergence: Magnetic Fields of the Sun
Coronal Dynamics: Unveiling the Origins of the Solar Wind
Energetic Outbursts: Deciphering Solar Flares, CMEs, and SEPs
Impacts of Solar Variability on Earth, Other Planets, and Space Weather
Next Horizon: the Future Solar and Heliophysics Missions
Stellar insights from the SDO Observations
There will also be one day of parallel mini-workshops and an EUV calibration workshop.
Registration, abstract submission, and other information about SDO 2025 will be available at http://sdo2025.sdo-workshops.
Please send a message to
Job opening at CEA Paris-Saclay in France for 2+1 years on improving solar wind models for space weather forecasting
The Department of Astrophysics of CEA Paris-Saclay invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position to work in the framework of the WindTRUST project.
The WindTRUST project is dedicated to the improvement of solar wind simulations and space weather forecasting.
It aims at developing state-of-the-art 3D simulations and validation processes for the next generation of space weather forecasts (for future integration in ESA space weather portal). It will in particular address the capability to predict intense events at solar maximum. To do so, it will incorporate small-scale and highly variable magnetic structures using magneto-frictional methods, which will in turn be improved by novel comparisons with the most recent solar and heliospheric observations.
You can find more information about this project here: https://irfu.cea.fr/en/Phocea/Vie_des_labos/Ast/ast.php?t=fait_marquant&id_ast=5204
The position can start as soon as September 1st 2024. The appointment will be for 2+1 years (depending upon satisfactory performance).
Applicants should e-mail curriculum vitae, list of publications and contact information for two references to
The position will remain open until filled, however, priority consideration will be given to applications received by June 30 2024.
For more details, please contact:
Multiple open positions at GFZ-Potsdam
Space Physics and Space Weather at GFZ Potsdam, Germany is pleased to announce multiple open positions related to machine learning, numerical modelling, and data analysis.
Our section is working on understanding of the dynamical evolution of the hazardous space radiation environment and developing the tools for specification and prediction of the adverse effects of space environment using models and data assimilation. We study physical processes in the near-Earth space environment and focus on the understanding of fundamental processes responsible for the evolution of space radiation.
For more information about the section, please visit: spaceweather.gfz-potsdam.de
For additional questions please contact
All current job announcements and links to online applications can be found at: spaceweather.gfz-potsdam.de/job-openings
SCOSTEP’s Next Scientific Program Committee
The Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) is an Affiliated Body of the International Science Council (ISC). SCOSTEP runs long-term (4-5 years) international
interdisciplinary scientific programs of solar-terrestrial physics relevant to ISC scientific bodies. Recent examples of SCOSTEP scientific programs are CAWSES-I and -II (2004-2013),
VarSITI (2014-2018), and PRESTO (2020-2024). In order to define the next scientific program (NSP) after PRESTO, SCOSTEP has formed the NSP committee on February 2024.
The NSP committee members are:
Carine Briand, Paris Observatory, LESIA, France
John Bosco Habarulema, SANSA, South Africa
Natalie Krivova, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany
Kanya Kusano, ISEE, Nagoya University, Japan
Monica Laurenza (chair), INAF, Italy
Hanli Liu, NCAR, USA
Maria Graciela Molina, FACET - UNT, Argentina
Hilde Nesse, University of Bergen, Norway
Jana Safrankova, Charles University, Czech Republic
Jie Zhang, George Mason University, USA
Qiugang Zong, Macau University of Science and Technology & Peking University, China
The committee will have two face-to-face meetings in June and October 2024 to discuss the next scientific program. We urgently need input from the solar terrestrial physics community to help shape the next scientific program. Please send your ideas and/or concise white papers via the following Google Form, or any other way that may be convenient to you. Please share information of new/current space missions, observing facilities, and modeling efforts planned for 2025-2030, which should be addressed in the next program. All ideas received by the end of May 2024 will receive full consideration by the committee.
Link to the Google Form:
for text input: https://forms.gle/C9ivpCUZBXP8
for uploading white papers (Google login needed): https://forms.gle/DAQyszEXjs4V
With best regards,
Kazuo Shiokawa (President of SCOSTEP)
Bernd Funke (Vice President of SCOSTEP)
The Sixth TNA Call is open from 15 January 2024 until 31 May 2024
PITHIA-NRF launches its sixth call to provide effective and convenient access to the best European research facilities for observations of the upper atmosphere, including the plasmasphere, ionosphere and thermosphere.
For more information: https://pithia-nrf.eu/pithia-n
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