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: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The deadline for the nominations: 15th July 2024.

Composition of the Awards 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 Awards Committee is chaired by Andrea Opitz.

For further information go to:  https://eswan.eu/index.php/organs/awards-committee

 

ESPMs are organized by the Board of the European Solar Physics Division (ESPD, http://solar.epsdivision.org), a Division of the European Physical Society (EPS). This will be the first in-person ESPM after the stop due to the worldwide pandemic.

 

The scientific program of the next ESPM meeting will be organized around the following topics:

 

- Solar interior, sub-surface flows and long-term variability

- Fundamental mechanisms of solar plasmas: magnetic reconnection, waves, radiation and particle acceleration

- Energy and mass transfer throughout the solar atmosphere and structures within

- Multi-scale energy release, flares and coronal mass ejections

- Space weather and the solar-heliospheric connections

- Diagnostic tools and numerical methods in solar physics 

 

The meeting will start on the morning of September 9, and will finish around noon on September 13. The afternoon of September 11 will be dedicated to social excursions, and the conference dinner will be held on September 12. A welcome reception will be offered on Sunday 8 late afternoon.

 

The 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 for early registration and abstract submission has 𝗯𝗲en 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 12𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂ly 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰

 

Further details related to registration fees, abstract submission, accommodation, financial assistance and relevant deadlines will be circulated in a third announcement and will also be available on the meeting’s website: https://indico.ict.inaf.it/e/espm-17 

 

 

UKSWSE II: Celebrating 10-years of 24/7 space-weather operational forecasting in the UK (9-12 September 2024, Sandy Park, Exeter, UK)

 

Abstracts are warmly invited from all national and international colleagues for

UK Space Weather & Space Environment Meeting II: Celebrating 10-years of 24/7 space-weather operational forecasting in the UK, https://iop.eventsair.com/ukswse2024 , 9-12 September 2024, Sandy Park, Exeter, UK

Abstracts can be submitted here https://iop.eventsair.com/ukswse2024/abstract-submission. It is possible to submit more than one abstract and on any of the below themes

1. Research to Operations and Operations to Research (R2O2R)
2. Instrumentation
3. Industry and Users
4. Policy and Strategy
5. Space Weather Science
6. Space Weather Forecasting
7. Space Sustainability
8. Space Domain Awareness (Space Surveillance & Tracking; Space Situational Awareness; Space Environment)
9. Education and Outreach
10. Other

If you have an idea for something “slightly out of the box”, then please let us know and explain/describe in the abstract submission (you can submit more than one abstract after all). In short, please do not let there be any obstacle to communicating an idea or discussion etc.

Abstract deadline and other key dates are currently as follows:

Extended Abstract submission deadline: 14 June (no further extensions will be granted)

Programme release: 3 July 2024

Early registration deadline: 21 July 2024

Standard registration deadline: 13 August 2024

Final registration deadline: 25 August 2024  

Accommodation deadline: TBC

For questions regarding the running of the conference (logistics etc) please get in touch with contacts as described according to this page https://iop.eventsair.com/ukswse2024/contacts

For questions regarding the scientific programme please contact the Science Organising Committee (https://iop.eventsair.com/ukswse2024/committee , This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. cc This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

For context please see the 2023 iteration here https://iop.eventsair.com/ukswse2023/

 

 

 

We are now inviting abstracts to the 2024 AGU Fall Meeting Session SH035:  "The May 2024 Gannon Storm: Space Weather Operational performance, Validations and Operations-to-Research Lessons", due on July 31, 2024.  Please view our session details below and abstracts can be submitted at https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/225301

The recent May 2024 Gannon Storm marked the first G5 event since 2003 and provides the right circumstances for testing Space Weather infrastructure developed in recent decades to mitigate the effects of extreme events. Amidst ongoing solar activity near solar maximum, these intense storms provide valuable opportunities for the space weather community to evaluate the effectiveness and timeliness of current operational capabilities in forecasting adverse impacts and taking mitigation actions, for both space and ground-based technologies. This session seeks to synergize performance results, validation efforts, and operations-to-research (O2R) endeavors that center on the Gannon Storm. We encourage submissions examining and analyzing the storm, utilizing operational or operation-ready models to deepen our comprehension of significant events and thereby enhancing existing space weather forecasts. Contributions from all Space Weather domains and a wide array of topics, including modeling, validation, instrumentation, observations & forecasts, and research case studies, are enthusiastically welcomed.

Please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you have any other questions and we look forward to seeing all the contributions!

Anthony Rasca - SWPC/NOAA

Kimberly Moreland - SWPC/NOAA

Jordan Guerra - SWPC/NOAA

Robert Steenburgh - SWPC/NOAA

James Spann - NOAA

 

11th VERSIM Workshop (30 September - 4 October 4, 2024, Breckenridge, CO, USA)

 

 

 

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) invites you to the SDO 2025 Science Workshop: A Gathering of the Helio-hive, to be held February 24-28, 2025, at the Center Green in Boulder, CO. All members of the science community are welcome and encouraged to attend.

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.org/.

Please send a message to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to receive further information about this workshop.