Please register before Friday 7th of April here: https://forms.gle/e7Ut34dW8Ypn5Xcm7

A draft schedule for the meeting can be found here: https://www.uksolphys.org/planning-and-stratergy/uk-solar-missions-forum/meeting-schedule/

The meeting will be used to discuss current and future instrumentation projects and bring together different representatives from the solar community, STFC panels and UKSA. In particular, we will discuss:

• Projects in operation and in development
• Horizon scanning future projects
• Strategy/planning/updates from UKSA/STFC
• New opportunities with CubeSats and UK spaceports (and links with industry)

All presentations at the forum are by invitation only. However, as well as updates regarding current and future missions, the day will include discussion sessions covering the topics of e.g., proposing opportunities, training future PIs, mission planning and links with industry. If you wish to suggest a topic for the discussion sessions, then please use the box in the above registration form for this.

Organising Committee
Richard Harrison (RAL)
Sarah Matthews (MSSL)
UKSP Council… continue to the full article

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The UKSP ECR Workshop provides an opportunity for early career researchers (PhD or 5 years or less after PhD excluding career breaks) to promote their work to their peers and to the community as a whole. Although the presentations are limited to ECRs, we encourage all members of our community to attend in-person or online.

Please submit an abstract by Monday, 20th of March via the registration form (ECRs only): https://forms.gle/EA1gq2FSpFLHhiRv9

A draft schedule for the workshop can be found here: https://www.uksolphys.org/planning-and-stratergy/uksp-early-career-researcher-ecr-workshop/2023-2/

We can also offer financial support (up to £200) to ECRs attending the workshop. If you wish to be considered for financial support, please send a brief (half page) justification to natasha.jeffrey@northumbria.ac.uk. We hope that financial support will encourage ECRs to stay and attend the UK Solar Instrumentation and Facilities Forum on Friday 21st of April.

Please email your submission for financial support by Friday 31st of March.

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Dear Colleagues.

We would like to draw your attention to our upcoming “UK Space Weather & Space Environment Meeting I: Transitioning from the SWIMMR Space-Weather Programme”. This is the first UK-focussed meeting and is timed as such to coincide with the latter part of the SWIMMR (Space Weather Instrumentation, Measurement, Modelling and Risk) Programme building off the previous successful SWIMMR Symposia meetings as well as the UK’s hosting of ESWW2021 in Glasgow.

This will be the start of an international meeting series with a UK core with this first meeting naturally being heavily focussed around the SWIMMR Programme. Details of the SWIMMR Programme can be found here: https://www.ralspace.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/SWIMMR.aspx which includes links to several of the previous SWIMMR meetings.

Please note that the dates have changed to one week earlier than advertised last year – the meeting will now take place Tuesday 12th September 2023 through Friday 15th September 2023 (inclusively, over four full days) in Cardiff, Wales, UK.

The website will be live shortly, but no later than Friday 17th March 2023 and can be found here: https://iop.eventsair.com/ukswse2023 – please bookmark this for future use.

More details to follow in subsequent communications and at the website (so please check back regularly). The meeting is open to the world, and indeed we encourage international involvements and collaborations.

We look forward to welcoming you to Cardiff in September.

Best wishes,

Mario.

On behalf of the Founding Organising Committee:
– Mario M. Bisi (UKRI STFC RAL Space)
– Claire Garland (IOP)
– Mark Gibbs (Met Office)
– Ian W. McCrea (UKRI STFC RAL Space)
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Dear Colleagues.

Each year, during the European Space Weather Week (ESWW) conference, people from all over the world gather to discuss the newest insights and state-of-the-art in space weather and space climate; endeavouring to address the challenges and impacts of space weather. Science, data exploitation, observations, service development, operational models, engineering, instrument and platform developments, data pipelines, industrial challenges, etc…, are all relevant and some of the most important aspects of space weather.

The overarching theme for ESWW2023 in Toulouse (20-24 November 2023) is ‘Bringing Space Weather, Space Climate and Engineering Together’, with a number of session topics reflecting this theme. The conference will be held once again in hybrid format and the conference website is available here: https://esww2023.org/ – please keep check for periodic updates.

The online submission opened on the 10th of February 2023 and the deadline for submission is 12th of April 2023. The submission system is accessible from: https://esww2023.org/submission-form – please don’t leave it until the deadline to submit!

There are several sessions to submit to, so please check the website above to details and requirements (due to the limits in the length of the announcement for AGU SPA Newsletters).

The ESWW PC is also opening the call for preliminary declarations of interest by teams planning to submit a proposal to form the LOCs of the ESWW for one or more years in the period from 2025 to 2029 (inclusive). It is important that a declaration of interest is submitted in order to have a good chance to be chosen. More information is available here:
https://esww2023.org/submit-your-interest-for-future-esww-local-organisation, and future steps beyond this declaration stage will be completed in due course as we prepare for this year’s meeting.

The deadline for this initial declaration of interest in forming the LOC for a future ESWW is 31st March 2023.

Kind regards, and best wishes,
Mario M. Bisi (PC Chair) and Alexis Rouillard (LOC Chair),
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Dear Colleagues,

The registration is now open until March 17, 2023 for the SOLARNET Summer School ‘Solar atmospheric dynamics – From waves to instabilities and jets’ to be held between June 25 –30, 2023 at GSO (Gyula Bay Zoltan Solar Observatory) Gyula, Hungary.

The aim of this School is to update early-stage researchers (e.g. PhD students and PDRAs) on the latest advances made in observations, theory and numerical modelling of solar atmospheric dynamics. With the availability yielded by new instrument suits both in space and on the ground, solar theory is now more challenging to explore solar magnetism from the photosphere to the low corona at yet unforeseen small spatial, temporal and spectral scales.

During the School, on-site practice of taking daily solar synoptic data and their analysis will also be carried out at the Gyula Bay Zoltan Solar Observatory (GSO, http://hspf.eu/building.html) with their Solar Activity Magnetic Monitor (SAMM) magneto-optical filter (MOF, http://hspf.eu/telescope.html) facility in order to offer the students a direct and real experience of working with solar data.

Accommodation for selected participants will be fully covered by the School. Information on the registration process, travel, venue and accommodation is available at:
https://solarnet-project.eu/solar-waves-jets-instabilities

SOLARNET, including the current School, has received funding from European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824135.

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that registration and abstract submission are open for:

• UK Solar Instrumentation and Facilities Forum, Friday 21st April 2023 (registration only)
• UKSP Early Career Researcher Workshop, Thursday 20th April 2023 (registration and abstract submission)

Both meetings will occur at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK.

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UK Solar Instrumentation and Facilities Forum, Friday 21st April 2023

Please register your attendance using:
https://forms.gle/e7Ut34dW8Ypn5Xcm7

Please register before Friday 7th of April.

The meeting will be used to discuss current and future instrumentation projects and bring together different representatives from the solar community, STFC panels and UKSA. In particular, we will discuss:

· Projects in operation and in development
· Horizon scanning future projects
· Strategy/planning/updates from UKSA/STFC
· New opportunities with CubeSats and UK spaceports (and links with industry)

All presentations at the forum are by invitation only. However, as well as updates regarding current and future missions, the day will include discussion sessions covering the topics of e.g., proposing opportunities, training future PIs, mission planning and links with industry. If you wish to suggest a topic for the discussion sessions, then please use the box in the above registration form for this.

A draft schedule will be uploaded to the UKSP website soon.

Organising Committee
Richard Harrison (RAL)
Sarah Matthews (MSSL)
UKSP Council

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UKSP Early Career Researcher (ECR) Workshop, Thursday 20th April 2023

The UKSP ECR Workshop provides an opportunity for early career researchers (PhD or 5 years or less after PhD excluding career breaks) to promote their work to their peers and to the community as a whole. Although the presentations are limited to ECRs, we encourage all members of our community to attend in-person or online.

Please use the form below to register your attendance and/or submit an abstract (ECRs only):
https://forms.gle/EA1gq2FSpFLHhiRv9

Please submit an abstract by Monday 13th of March via the above registration form.

We can also offer financial support (up to £200) to ECRs attending the workshop. If you wish to be considered for financial support, please send a brief (half page) justification to natasha.jeffrey@northumbria.ac.uk. We hope that financial support will encourage ECRs to stay and attend the UK Solar Instrumentation and Facilities Forum on Friday 21st of April.

Please email your submission for financial support by Friday 31st of March.

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The extended deadline is approaching for registering for the ICDSS2023 “Observing the Sun-Earth System as an Exosolar System” session (Topical Session 4) during the International Conference of Deep Space Science 2023 (ICDSS2023) which will be held in Hefei, China from 24th to 30th April 2023.

Registrations should be done via http://planet.ustc.edu.cn/icdss before 3rd March 2023. The conference will be held in hybrid mode, while in-person attendance is highly encouraged.

Among more than 5000 exoplanets discovered up to now, around 60 are believed to be potentially habitable. The Sun-Earth system provides a unique example based on which detailed insights into the properties, formation, evolution, and thus habitability of exoplanets could be gained. During this session, we will focus on understanding the critical characterizations related to the habitability of the Sun-Earth system, what we could learn from the solar system as a baseline for exoplanet studies, and ongoing/upcoming space missions for solar system and exoplanet research.

The topical session consists of four topics:
1) Sun as a star: global EUV responses of solar activities,
2) The energy budget of the Earth’s climate system and its key controlling factors，
3) Earth as an exoplanet: global and regional characteristics of the visible and near-infrared Earth, and
4) Impact of solar activities on the habitability of Earth.

Convenors of the session are: Dr. Siteng Fan (LMD, France), Prof. Robert von Fay-Siebenburgen (UoS, UK), Dr. Jonathan Jiang (CIT, US), Prof. Rui Li (USTC, China) and Prof. Jiajia Liu (USTC, China)

Confirmed invited speakers include experts on solar physics, atmospheric physics, and planetary science from Caltech, Chinese Academy of Science, JAXA, Peking University, Queen’s University Belfast and University of Colorado etc.… continue to the full article

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce two successive meetings in April (20th and 21st) held at Northumbria University in Newcastle:

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UK Solar Instrumentation and Facilities Forum, Friday 21st April 2023

The next UK Solar Instrumentation and Facilities Forum (previously known as the UK Missions Forum, which was held for many years until 2019) will occur on Friday 21st April 2023 at Northumbria University in Newcastle.

The meeting will be used to discuss current and future instrumentation projects and bring together different representatives from the solar community, STFC panels and UKSA. In particular, we will discuss

• Projects in operation and in development
• Horizon scanning future projects
• Strategy/planning/updates from UKSA/STFC
• New opportunities with CubeSats and UK spaceports (and links with industry)

Organising Committee
Richard Harrison (RAL)
Sarah Matthews (MSSL)
UKSP Council

Please contact the organising committee if there is a project you feel we should include.

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UKSP Early Career Researcher Workshop, Thursday 20th April 2023

The UK Solar Instrumentation and Facilities Forum will be held as part of a two-day meeting, after the UKSP Early Career Researcher (ECR) Workshop on Thursday 20th April 2023 at Northumbria University in Newcastle.

The UKSP ECR Workshop provides an opportunity for early career researchers (PhD or 5 years or less after PhD excluding career breaks) to promote their work to their peers and to the community as a whole. Although the presentations are limited to ECRs, we encourage all members of our community to attend in-person or online.

Organising Committee:
UKSP Council

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Next week, we will send out attendance information for both days (there will be no registration fee for either meeting) and an abstract submission template for the UKSP Early Career Researcher Workshop

We will also provide information about financial support for ECRs (particularly to spend an extra night in Newcastle to attend the UK Solar Instrumentation and Facilities Forum).

We look forward to inviting the community to Newcastle in April. We hope you can visit in person but we should be able to provide an online option for both meetings… continue to the full article

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The registration and abstract submission are now open for “The Many Scales of the Magnetic Sun” in Potsdam (8-12 May 2023). Abstracts should be submitted via https://meetings.aip.de/event/24/ before 3rd April 2023. The conference will be held in person with online participation in a limited capacity.

The five sessions are:

– Latest facilities to observe fundamental processes – space missions, telescopes, and instrumentation
– Small and large-scale magnetic features – from bright points to sunspots (Observations and Theory)
– Energy and mass flow through the solar atmosphere – from solar campfires to CME (Observations and Theory)
– Variations of magnetic fields with the solar cycle – synoptic observations and theory
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I’m happy to announce the inaugural Data, Analysis, and Software in Heliophysics (DASH) workshop, to take place October 9-11, 2023, at JHU/APL in Laurel, MD, USA! Additionally, we are looking for session chairs.

Background: DASH will serve as a forum for scientists and software developers to present and discuss algorithms, software, and data systems used in the acquisition, reduction, analysis, and dissemination of data for Heliophysics, including space and ground-based measurements, as well as models. The meeting will connect practitioners across institutions, and international participation is key to success. All ranges of experience are welcome. The program will contain invited and contributed talks (with virtual participation possible), as well as posters (in-person only).

Call for Session Proposals: We are currently accepting proposals for session topics. Please consider proposing a topic for which you would like to be a session chair. We particularly encourage early career applicants for session chairs. We will announce a set of session topics by March 31, 2023, after which we will solicit contributions to the sessions. If Interested, please send a short, 1-2 paragraph description of your session topic, along with an expression of commitment to serve as a session chair to: jon.vandegriff@jhuapl.edu. See details at

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