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Fall AGU – SH025: Space Weather Research and Forecasting: End Users, Impacts, and Tomorrow’s Monitoring Capabilities – FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear All.

This is our first call for contributed abstracts to our co-convened SH and SM (and SI, SA, and NH cross-listed) SWIRLS Extreme Events & Hazards session (SH025) “Space Weather Research and Forecasting: End Users, Impacts, and Tomorrow’s Monitoring Capabilities” at the upcoming Fall AGU in San Francisco, CA, 09-13 December 2019 (https://www2.agu.org/fall-meeting). The FINAL abstract-submission deadline is 31 July 2019 2019 at 11:59 P.M. EDT / 01 August 2019 at 03:59UT (see: https://www2.agu.org/en/Fall-Meeting/Pages/Submit-an-abstract) for full details on abstract submissions).

To submit your abstract, please go here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/77736.

The full session details are below. To submit, the first author must be the submitting author and must 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. You can also submit to Public Affairs sessions separately without counting towards this quota. You can also be presenting author on multiple abstracts.

Please note that this session is being organized as one of the alternate-format sessions which will include oral talks, panellists, and posters.

This is further a follow-on from previous years which have included very-active poster sessions, good interactions at talks, and excellent audience participation at the panel session.

Best wishes, and thanks,

Mario (on behalf of all the SH025 Conveners).

Session ID#: 77736

Session Description:
Year-on-year civilization advancement means that society becomes even-more reliant on energy-supplies/technologies susceptible to damage/interruption from space weather (SW). Thus, new capabilities are being imagined and/or realized (missions/infrastructures/models) to improve SW forecasting, our understanding of SW impacts, and to provide end users the solutions they require across many sectors (power, GNSS-positioning/timing, spacecraft/satellite operations, transport/communications, etc.).

As the session’s fifth incarnation (since 2015), the focus specifically turns to end users and what their requirements are for the current/future ground-/space-based SW capabilities and data/modelling products. Multiple ongoing international studies are scoping the options for sustained/improved SW observations/measurements/modelling that include novel models, instrumentation, satellites, and spacecraft with multi-national collaborations becoming ever-more important/necessary. It is critical that end users are fully engaged in the process to best-realize their specific needs going forward.

We solicit contributions of: ideas/discussions regarding specifying end-user needs/requirements; economic impacts; developing SW architectures that meet end-user requirements; and wider international collaborations/concepts.

Primary Convener: Mario Mark Bisi, UKRI STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Harwell Campus, Didcot, United Kingdom.
Co-Conveners: Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Brent Gordon, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States; and Krista Hammond, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom.

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

Cross-Listed:
SI – Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
SA – SPA-Aeronomy
NH – Natural Hazards

SWIRL Themes:
Extreme Events & Hazards

Index Numbers:
4323 – Natural Hazards: Human impact
7594 – Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy: Instruments and techniques
7934 – Space Weather: Impacts on technological systems
7999 – Space Weather: General or miscellaneous

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ESPM-16 Pre-announcement

This is a pre-announcement for the 16th European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM-16) that will take place in Turin (Italy) in the period 07-11 September, 2020. The meeting will be hosted in the “Aula Magna” of Turin University, centrally located in Turin.

ESPMs are organized by the Board of the European Solar Physics Division (ESPD, http://solar.epsdivision.org), a joint Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) and the European Astronomical Society (EAS).

ESPMs are held every 3 years with the purpose of bringing together researchers from Europe and beyond, who are active in the theoretical and observational study of solar phenomena.

May all interested participants mark their calendar for this event. Preliminary information about the meeting can be found on the ESPM-16 website:

https://indico.ict.inaf.it/e/ESPM-16

Further details will be circulated with the first announcement and will also be available on the meeting’s website.

We look forward to welcoming you to Turin!

Alessandro Bemporad, on behalf of ESPM-16 Scientific and Local Organizing Committees… continue to the full article

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Dynamic Sun III: special total solar eclipse meeting 2020. First announcement.

This special solar eclipse meeting (Villarrica, Chile, 14-20 December 2020) will be devoted to the recent achievements in understanding photospheric, chromospheric dynamics, energy transport between the lower and upper layers of the solar interior and the solar atmosphere and dynamical processes in the confined solar transients. Special attention will be paid to the key results and goals of the current and proposed space- and ground- based instruments. This meeting will pay special attention to a new generation ground-based instruments, for e.g., the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST, USA), European Solar Telescope (EST, Europe), new Indian facilities (MAST, upcoming 2m-NLST, Aditya-I) and more recently CHROMIS (located alongside CRISP at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope).

The meeting is organised in collaboration with Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Villarrica (southern Chile) which is set on the path of the total 2020 solar eclipse phase: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2020-december-14

We warmly welcome participation of internationally recognised experts in the field of solar physics, early career researchers and PhD students. We anticipate that Dynamic Sun III conference will help to establish a long-term relationships between research groups.

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AGU Fall Meeting Session: NG007 – Machine Learning in Space Weather

We would like to draw your attention to the Session NG007 – Machine Learning in Space Weather.

Abstract submission deadline: July 31 (11:59 EDT)

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/72833

In the last few years, several ground-breaking milestones were reached in Artificial Intelligence, such as image recognition at super-human accuracy and the notorious defeat of world champion Lee Sedol in the game of Go.
Advances in Machine Learning (ML) have been fueled by the growth of available data and ubiquity of capable computing technologies. Space physics and geophysics are characterized by impressive amounts of freely-available data and can certainly benefit from data-driven ML applications.

This session will focus on applications of Machine Learning to Space Weather problems across the subdisciplines of the Heliophysics and the physics of the Earth’s environment, involving as well the coupling of the interplanetary plasma with the upper atmosphere. Contributions ranging from black-box models to data-driven physics-based simulations are welcome, including (but not limited to) regression and classification problems, inverse problems, dimensionality reduction, automatic event identification, Bayesian inference, feature extraction, deep learning, and reinforcement learning.… continue to the full article

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AGU 2019 Fall Meeting – SH010 Innovative approaches in solar flare forecasting

Abstract deadline approaching!

You are cordially invited to participate and submit an abstract to Session SH010 Innovative approaches in solar flare forecasting of the AGU 2019 Fall Meeting held on 9-13 December 2019 in San Francisco, CA.

Contributions on any aspects about solar flare forecasting or solar flares are welcome. For submission to this session please follow:

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/79145

Submission Closes: 31 July 2019

Session Description:

Solar flares are one of the major sources of space weather disturbances. The monitoring and forecasting of solar flares (and CME) are crucial to reduce space weather risks for our modern society on the Earth as well as for human exploration in space. In recent years, solar observations have made great progress thanks to the very high spatial, temporal and spectral resolutions available. Various new approaches for solar flare forecasting have also emerged. Prominent progresses include the emergence of artificial intelligence methods in parallel to the advanced numerical modelling approaches in solar physics. In this session, we invite contributions on any kinds of innovative approaches relevant for solar flare forecasting, which include but are not limited to the empirical, statistical, big-data, artificial intelligence, physical measures, and numerical modelling methodologies. The scope of discussions covers from preliminary ideas, experimental techniques to mature operational schemes advancing solar flare forecasting. Other related topics about solar flares are also welcome.

Session Conveners:
Han He, NAOC (hehan@nao.cas.cn)
Robertus Erdelyi, SP2RC, U of Sheffield (robertus@sheffield.ac.uk)

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AGU 2019 Fall Meeting: Session SH021 — Preparing for Solar Orbiter: Linking the Sun to the Heliosphere

The abstract submission for the AGU Fall Meeting 2019 session SH021 — Preparing for Solar Orbiter: Linking the Sun to the Heliosphere is now open.
Solar Orbiter is scheduled for launch in February 2020. We welcome contributions from the entire community in a broad range of topics covering all objectives of Solar Orbiter, which are the following:
 
  1. What drives the solar wind and where does the heliospheric magnetic field originate?
  2. How do solar transients drive heliospheric variability?
  3. How do solar eruptions produce energetic particle radiation that hills the heliosphere?
  4. How does the solar dynamo work and drive connections between the Sun and the heliosphere?
Meeting date: AGU Fall Meeting 9-13 December 2019, San Francisco, CA.
Session organisers: Yannis Zouganelis (European Space Agency), Russ Howard (NRL), Chris Owen (MSSL) & Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber (U. of Kiel).
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31 July 2019 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT
Session abstract:
ESA/NASA’s next heliophysics mission Solar Orbiter has completed its environmental test campaign and is getting ready to be launched in February 2020. The mission’s unique design will enable breakthrough science focusing on the linkage between the Sun and the heliosphere. By approaching as close as 0.28 AU from the Sun and orbiting the Sun in a plane up to 33 degrees from the ecliptic, Solar Orbiter will view the Sun and corona with remote imaging with high spatial resolution and with in-situ measurements of the surrounding heliosphere. Thanks to this unique orbit, Solar Orbiter will deliver images and data of the unexplored Sun’s and inner heliospheric polar regions and the side of the Sun not visible from Earth. This session focuses on the capabilities of the mission, the performance of its instruments, coordinated observations with other missions, and theoretical developments to understand how the Sun creates and controls the heliosphere.

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Stars, Pyramids & Photographs – now open for registration

Stars, Pyramids & Photographs – now open for registration

Events to celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Piazzi Smyth The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 3-4 September 2019

Charles Piazzi Smyth is the man who invented mountain top astronomy, started the One O’clock Gun, was a photographic pioneer, measured the Great Pyramid of Giza, made significant advances in solar spectroscopy, meteorology, and the zodiacal light, and was a prolific artist. He is alive on Twitter @piazzismyth and has a dedicated website at https://www.piazzismyth.org.

There are three bookable events:

Sept 2nd, evening: a screening of the 2016 film “A Residence Above the Clouds”.
Panel discussion after the film. Tickets available for £4.

Sept 3rd, evening: a public lecture by Denis Pellerin (London Stereoscopic Company, and the archivist for Brian May’s stereo photograph collection.) Denis will hand out special glasses so the audience get the 3D effect! Wine and nibbles reception afterwards. Tickets available for £12.

Sept 3-4 daytime: the Piazzi Smyth Symposium. Two full days of talks by historians of science, Egyptology and photography, astronomers and curators, including a plenary lecture by Professor Simon Schaffer. Registration £45. (£25 for students). The registration fee includes lunches and coffee breaks and includes the above evening events.

More information, and link to registration page, available at:
https://www.piazzismyth.org/piazzi-smyth-symposium/
https://www.rse.org.uk/event/charles-piazzi-smyth-symposium/

We thank the Centre for the History of the Sciences, University of Kent; the Royal Society of Edinburgh; the Astronomical Society of Edinburgh; the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh; and Ursula Martn (on behalf of the developing network of historians of science in Scotland) for their support.

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