Dear All.

We ask for contributed abstracts to our co-convened SH (Solar and Heliospheric Physics) and SM (Magnetospheric Physics) space-weather science, forecasting, operations, and missing information session at the upcoming Fall AGU in San Francisco, 12-16 December 2016 (http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/). The abstract-submission deadline is 03 August 2016 at 11:59 P.M. EDT / 04 August 2015 at 03:59UT. However, if you submit early (before 27 July 2016 11:59 P.M. EDT/28 July 2016 03:59UT), you will be entered into a free prize draw for a VIP Package (see: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/early-abstract-submission/).

Full session details are below. To submit, 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/fm16/sh/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=12359.

Please note that this session is being organized as one of the new alternate-format sessions and the details will be given in the next announcement; please see: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/alternate-session-formats/ for further AGU details on the alternate format sessions. Invited abstracts and panelists to be announced in due course.

Best wishes,

Mario (on behalf of all the SH019 Conveners).

Session ID#: 12359

Session Description:
Society is ever-more reliant on reliable energy supplies and the technologies which they enable/run. These are susceptible to both extreme and everyday space weather (SW); the latter in the current solar cycle has proven to be more-surprisingly influenced by solar-wind structures and not just CME events. Such susceptibilities include power grids, aviation/maritime, communications, GNSS positioning/timing, etc…

Following the highly-successful session at Fall-AGU-2015, this session is intended to follow-up and expand/continue the assessment of the state-of-the-art global SW forecasting capabilities and establish where additional-services/improvements are necessary to advance our SW forecast/prediction capabilities.

The session solicits contributions of: the provision of suitable observations/measurements; the developments of scientific models into operational use; and ongoing developments of SW forecasting. Contributions emphasizing science from SW operational missions (e.g. GOES/DSCOVR/NOAA-2020/Carrington) including those highlighting data/model gaps and that identify steps needed to further improve or keep existing SW forecasting services viable, are also very-much welcomed.

Primary Convener: Mario Mark Bisi, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
Conveners: Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Americo Gonzalez-Esparza, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Ciudad DE Armería, Mexico

Co-Organized with:
SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics (SH), and SPA-Magnetospheric Physics (SM)

Cross-Listed:
NH – Natural Hazards
P – Planetary Sciences
SA – SPA-Aeronomy
SM – SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Index Terms:
4305 Space weather [NATURAL HAZARDS]
7594 Instruments and techniques [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7924 Forecasting [SPACE WEATHER]
7999 General or miscellaneous [SPACE WEATHER]

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Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce that the 8th Coronal Loops Workshop will be held in Palermo, Sicily, during the week of 26-30 June, 2017. The venue for the Workshop will be the Grand Hotel Piazza Borsa, located in the old city centre. Fabio Reale will Chair the SOC.

Further announcements will be made in due course.

Best wishes,

Steve Bradshaw
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You are invited to submit abstracts to the 2016 Fall AGU session
“Organizing and Understanding Solar and Heliospheric Data for
Discovery” (description below). Abstracts may be submitted here

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13558

The abstract submission deadline is 3 August 2016 11.59pm EDT.

Session Description:
The Sun influences the Earth through a complex set of interactions
across interplanetary space. The behavior of this system is measured
by many different instruments that produce many varied data. In the
near future, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope will produce data at
rates exceeding the Solar Dynamics Observatory, and Solar Probe Plus
and Solar Orbiter will bring entirely new perspectives on the
Sun-Earth system. These disparate data are essentially different views
of the same Sun-Earth system. Maximizing the scientific output from
these variegated data is the key to progress, and the subject of this
session. We solicit contributions covering the following topics: –
automated solar feature recognition and tracking – cloud computing in
support of solar big data analysis – data/knowledge visualization and
discovery – efficient spatio-temporal data querying – machine learning
from solar data – spatio-temporal pattern mining – storage of, and
access to big data repositories.

Conveners: J. Ireland (ADNET Systems, Inc.,/NASA GSFC), R. Angyk (Georgia State University, USA)

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3rd Announcement of Meeting on “Partially Ionised Plasmas in Astrophysics”
Extended registration and abstract submission deadline

Tenerife, Spain
Monday 29th August – Friday 02 September

The registration and abstract submission has been extended to July 5, 2016.
Hotel reservation deadline – 28 July 2016

The meeting will cover various aspects of partially ionised plasmas in astrophysics, such as solar chromosphere, interstellar medium, protostellar discs, planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres, etc. The meeting aims to broaden and strengthen the collaboration of scientists working in partially ionised plasmas in astrophysics and space science and to develop common scientific interest that could enhance cross-collaborations between the different fields.

The meeting will focus on the observational and theoretical aspects of the following topics:

Fundamental physical processes in partially ionised plasmas
Waves and instabilities in partially ionised plasmas: theory and observations
Turbulence, dynamo and non-linear processes
Magneto-convection, flux emergence and reconnection in partially ionised plasmas

Web page: www.iac.es/congreso/pipa2016

On behalf of the Organizers:
Elena Khomenko and Istvan Ballai

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SDO 2016:  Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity
Oct. 17-21, 2016   *   Burlington, VT
Website:  http://SDO2016.lws-sdo-workshops.org
 
Living With a Star’s Solar Dynamics Observatory invites you to its 2016 Science Workshop “SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity.”  One of the defining characteristics of past SDO Meetings are the excellent mini-workshops.  On Friday, Oct. 21, we have 8 workshops planned.  Join us for one or more!  They are:
 
1) Magnetic Data Calibration: Vector Field Working Group, 2) Solar Cycle Prediction Retrospective, 3) EUV Irradiance Calibration and Data Inter-Comparisons, 4-5) Thermal Diagnostics with SDO/AIA (Part I – II), 6) Image Processing and SunPy: Bridging from IDL to Python, 7) Image Processing and SunPy: Solar Data Processing with Python, and 8) Local Helioseismology Working Group.
 
SDO 2016 Important Due Dates:
•  Abstracts:  July 15
•  Early Registration & Hotel Reservation:  September 16
 
All members of the science community are welcome to SDO 2016.  With a great science program and Vermont’s beautiful fall foliage in mid-October, we hope you make plans to join us.  Submit your abstract today!
 
Sincerely,
The Scientific Organizing Committee for SDO 2016:
W. Dean Pesnell (chair), Charles Baldner, Mark Cheung, Frank Eparvier, Meng Jin, Aimee Norton, and Barbara Thompson

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From Monday 18th July to Wednesday 20th July we will be holding a meeting entitled “Modern Observations, Theory, and Techniques for Solar and Stellar Physics”, at University of Warwick. The meeting will gather experts in solar and stellar physics with the aim of reviewing the recent advances, and discussing common points of interest in both research fields.

Invited speakers include Louise Harra (MSSL), Elena Kupriyanova (Leuven), Sean Matt (Exeter), Richard Morton (Northumbria), John Pye (Leicester), Eamon Scullion (Northumbria), Antonio Vecchio (Observatoire de Paris).

We would like to encourage members of the community to attend and contribute presentations. Please register your interest by July 1st by e-mailing Anne-Marie Broomhall (a-m.broomhall@warwick.ac.uk).

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This session will discuss the latest results in solar flux emergence, including the dynamical effects of emergence on the solar atmosphere. We seek contributions on the latest research in flux emergence. We are particularly keen for contributions on new or innovative techniques of analysing increasing complex models and observations. Applications to space weather are also welcome.

Submission can be made by emailing a type (poster or talk), a title and an abstract to david.mactaggart [at] glasgow.ac.uk. Informal enquiries can also be sent to me. The meeting web page is below.

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Dear Colleagues.

Summer is already upon us and we would like to invite you to submit a contributed abstract to our exciting SHINE session on ‘Remote-Sensing Observing Techniques for Improving Space-Weather Science and Forecasting’ – Session number 4.

The full session description can be found here: http://shinecon.org/shine2016/session2016.php#session4.

The deadline for submitting abstracts to SHINE this year is 9th June 2016, and the oral discussion session will take place on the Friday (15th July 2016 – http://shinecon.org/shine2016/shine2016schedule.php). As well as presenting a poster, if you would like to show a couple of slides during the discussion session, then please let us know at least by the end of June 2016. The oral discussion session will be introduced through two talks: one from Angelos Vourlidas (JHU-APL), and one from Doug Biesecker (NOAA-SWPC); it will also be guided along by the Convenors in order to address the wider scope of the session.

The abstract-submission page is here: http://shinecon.org/pages/AbstractSub.php.

We look forward to seeing you at SHINE in Santa Fe, NM, USA next month!

Best wishes,

Mario – on behalf of the Session 4 convenors: Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space, UK), Bernard V. Jackson (CASS-UCSD, USA), and David F. Webb (ISR-BC, USA).

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