The International Space Weather and Space Climate Medal Committee has recently joined E-SWAN and its new name is E-SWAN Awards Committee.

We are 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, as well as deciding the winners of the awards. Finally, the Awards Committee organises the Medal Ceremony that typically takes place at the yearly European Space Weather Week.
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: 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 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

Plenary sessions - https://esww2024.org/programme/plenary-sessions/ 

Parallel sessions - https://esww2024.org/programme/parallel-sessions/ 

The deadline for oral abstract submissions is 6th June 2024 The late poster abstract submissions will close in September 2024 (exact date TBA - to be announced)

Registration to European Space Weather Week (ESWW) 2024 will be open soon. Registration instructions will be available soon at https://esww2024.org/info-guidelines/registration/  and should be read carefully before starting registration as they provide important information

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/timeline/ 

The TBA dates will be updated shortly. Those planning to attend are encouraged to check the website frequently for more information.

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-guidelines/edi-statement/

The names of those on the Local Organising Committee (LOC) and Programme Committee (PC) can be found here: https://esww2024.org/committees/

For any queries on the conference emails can be sent to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

• Solar Orbiter, 30 Apr

• Proba-2 and Proba-3, 28 May

• Predictions and services, 25 June

 

These lectures are taught at master level, especially students from developing nations are encouraged to participate. 

 

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.

 

Online registration and abstract submission will open in early spring 2024. The ESPM-17 Local and Scientific Organizing Committees are currently working to secure funding that will hopefully provide limited travel and/or local support mainly to young researchers.

 

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)

 

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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.;

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 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.