The next UK solar missions forum will be on the 7th January 2016 at the RAS.

The agenda is yet to be decided, and to some extent will depend on what input the community may be to provide to STFC. We will keep in contact with Chris Arridge about this. But we will be discussing current and future plans for facilities which will include space and ground-based instruments and also computing needs. We will work with Philippa Browning, Alan Hood, Jackie Davies and Dave Williams to ensure we cover all bases.

The website that summarises information, about UK mission involvement and related meetings, is on:

http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~lkh/UKsolarmissions/

Please let me know if there are any omissions/updates.

Early career stage solar physicists are warmly welcome – these instruments are developed over long time periods and we need your input!

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Dear All.

With the Fall AGU abstract-submission deadline fast approaching we remind you to submit a contributed abstract to our SH (Solar and Heliosphere) space-weather science, forecasting, and operations session at the upcoming Fall AGU in San Francisco, 14-18 December 2015. Abstract submission deadline is 05 August 2015 at 11:59 P.M. EDT / 06 August 2015 at 03:59 UT.

The full session details are given below. To submit an abstract, the first author must be the submitting author and must already be an AGU member. First authors are allowed to submit one contributed abstract, or one contributed abstract and one invited abstract, or two invited abstracts to the science sessions.

To submit your abstract, please go here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/sh/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=7566

Confirmed invited abstracts are as follows:
Karel Schrijver (Lockheed Martin, USA)
Mark Gibbs (Met Office, UK)
Tom Berger (NOAA SWPC, USA)

Best wishes,

Mario.

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Session ID#: 7566

Session Description:

Human technologies/industries are becoming more reliant on regular, uninterrupted energy supplies. They are at high risk from extreme space weather. However, such technologies/industries are also susceptible to a lesser extent by ‘everyday’ space weather (SW) that occurs at Earth during moderate-to-intense geomagnetic storms (often caused by CMEs, but sometimes by solar-wind structure). Susceptibilities include power grids, airlines, communications, GNSS, etc.

The session intends to assess the state-of-the-art global SW forecasting capabilities and establish where improvements/additional services are necessary to advance our forecast/prediction of potential SW incoming to Earth.

This session solicits contributions of: ongoing developments of SW forecasting services/models; the provision of observational data/measurements from instruments/spacecraft; and pulling through of scientific models into operational use. Contributions emphasising science from SW operational missions (e.g. GOES, DSCOVR, NOAA-2020, etc.) including those highlighting data/model gaps and that identify steps needed to further improve or keep existing SW forecasting services viable, are also highly welcomed.

Primary Convener: Mario Mark Bisi, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OX11, United Kingdom
Convener: David F Webb, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States

Cross-Listed:

NH – Natural Hazards
SA – SPA-Aeronomy
SM – SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Index Terms:
4305 Space weather [NATURAL HAZARDS]
7513 Coronal mass ejections [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7924 Forecasting [SPACE WEATHER]
7959 Models [SPACE WEATHER]

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The deadline for registration for the Solar-tokamak 2 one-day meeting, which will have the theme of “beyond single-fluid”, is August 10th.
Topics of interest are:

• Single-fluid plus kinetic effects
• Radiation effects
• Spectroscopic data and intepretation
• Two-fluid

The aim of the meeting is to promote links between UK universities and CCFE, the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. The theme reflects the fact that tokamak edge plasmas will be the main physics focus of CCFE’s programme in the coming years. The morning session will include introductory material, and participants are also encouraged to submit abstracts of short talks relevant to the theme. The meeting will take place on 11th September 2015 at CCFE. No fee, local transport to/from the CCFE site will be arranged.

Please register online before 10th August 2015 at http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/solar_tokamak_2.aspx where more details are available.

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Dear All.

We ask for contributed abstracts to our SH (Solar and Heliosphere) space-weather science, forecasting, and operations session at the upcoming Fall AGU in San Francisco, 14-18 December 2015. Abstract submission deadline is 05 August 2015 at 11:59 P.M. EDT / 06 August 2015 at 03:59UT (apologies that the UT time was incorrect in the first announcement).

The full session details are given below. To submit an abstract, the first author must be the submitting author and must be an AGU member (before 24 July 2015). First authors are allowed to submit one contributed abstract, or one contributed abstract and one invited abstract, or two invited abstracts to the science sessions.

To submit your abstract, please go here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/sh/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=7566

Confirmed invited abstracts are as follows:
Karel Schrijver (Lockheed Martin, USA)
Mark Gibbs (Met Office, UK)
Tom Berger (NOAA SWPC, UK)

Best wishes,

Mario.

Session ID#: 7566

Session Description:

Human technologies/industries are becoming more reliant on regular, uninterrupted energy supplies. They are at high risk from extreme space weather. However, such technologies/industries are also susceptible to a lesser extent by ‘everyday’ space weather (SW) that occurs at Earth during moderate-to-intense geomagnetic storms (often caused by CMEs, but sometimes by solar-wind structure). Susceptibilities include power grids, airlines, communications, GNSS, etc.

The session intends to assess the state-of-the-art global SW forecasting capabilities and establish where improvements/additional services are necessary to advance our forecast/prediction of potential SW incoming to Earth.

This session solicits contributions of: ongoing developments of SW forecasting services/models; the provision of observational data/measurements from instruments/spacecraft; and pulling through of scientific models into operational use. Contributions emphasising science from SW operational missions (e.g. GOES, DSCOVR, NOAA-2020, etc.) including those highlighting data/model gaps and that identify steps needed to further improve or keep existing SW forecasting services viable, are also highly welcomed.

Primary Convener: Mario Mark Bisi, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OX11, United Kingdom
Convener: David F Webb, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States

Cross-Listed:

NH – Natural Hazards
SA – SPA-Aeronomy
SM – SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Index Terms:
4305 Space weather [NATURAL HAZARDS]
7513 Coronal mass ejections [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7924 Forecasting [SPACE WEATHER]
7959 Models [SPACE WEATHER]

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Dear All,

We invite contributions to the session (ID#: 7960) “Flare/CME Coupling from the Corona to the Deep Solar Interior” at the Fall AGU in San Francisco, 14-18 December 2015. Details on the session follow.

We would like to remind you that the abstract submission deadline is 5 August 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT.

Abstracts can be submitted using the following link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/sh/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=7960

Best regards,

Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros
Hugh S Hudson
Charles A Lindsey
Angelos Vourlidas

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Session ID#: 7960

Session Description:
Flares and CMEs are two spectacular manifestations of the explosive release of magnetic energy in the solar atmosphere. The released magnetic energy is transformed into kinetic (CMEs) and thermal energy, (flares), and into the injection and subsequent acceleration of particles. A zoo of wave phenomena accompanies these events and their analysis can provide a wealth of information about the solar atmosphere. The focus of the discussion is the manifestation of flare- and CME-induced waves from the corona to the solar interior and how multiwavelength observations (IRIS, SDO, RHESSI, Hinode, NoRH, OVSA) can help our understanding of the mechanics of momentum and energy transfer in the solar atmosphere.

Primary Convener:
Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:
Hugh S Hudson, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States,
Charles A Lindsey, NorthWest Research Associates Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and
Angelos Vourlidas, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Space Department, Laurel, MD, United States

Index Terms:

7509 Corona [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7513 Coronal mass ejections [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7519 Flares [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7522 Helioseismology [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
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Dear all,

We invite all solar physics delegates to NAM/UKSP in Llandudno to attend the UKSP Lunch which will be on Wednesday July 8th in the Orme Suite 12:00 to 13:00. Everybody is encouraged to attend, especially students and postdocs: come along and meet the community, and have your say.

The agenda for the meeting is as follows:

• Missions overview – Louise Harra
• Report from STFC Solar System Advisory Panel  –  Chris Arridge
• Summer Schools – reports on recent/forthcoming Schools, guidelines and rota for future Schools
• Future of UKSP conference – discussion
• Website and newsletter – David Williams/Iain Hannah
• UKSP nuggets – Iain Hannah
• Other future UKSP activities  – outreach, social media, ….
• AOB

We look forward to seeing you there.

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