ISWI Newsletter - Vol.10 No.01
15 January 2018

Dear ISWI Participant:

This is the first issue of 2018. Please check it out !

The ISWI Newsletter welcomes all ISWI-related news, January through December.

CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE

[1] Message from the Executive Director of ISWI, Dr. N. Gopalswamy (read it)

[2] First announcment COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshop Coronal and Interplanetary Shocks (read it)

[3] Second announcment 14th Quadrennial SCOSTEP Symposium July 9÷13, 2018 Toronto, Canada (read it)

[4] Six-decade-old space mystery solved with shoebox-sized satellite called a CubeSat (read it)

[5] Japan's Fall 2018 Mission to Antarctica (read it)

[6] ISWI Data Policy Announcement (read it)

[1] Message from the Executive Director of ISWI Dr. N. Gopalswamy

Dear ISWI colleague,

Happy New Year 2018!

Agenda of ISWI Steering Committee Meeting 2018

1. Introduction & Report (Nat Gopalswamy, Chair)

2. Secretariat update (Newsletter: George Maeda; Website: Mitko Danov)

3. Steering Committee update; SC member remarks

4. ISWI National Coordinators (Report by Christine Amory)

5. ISWI Instruments update (Shing Fung)

6. Data Subcommittee Report (Shing Fung)

7. ISWI – UNOOSA Collaboration (Sharafat Gadimova – Baku School)

8. Expert Group update (Ian Mann)

9. ISWI/NASA report: Elsayed Talaat

10. UN/US Workshop on ISWI in Boston (Nat Gopalswamy, Patricia Doherty)

11. SunGeo Special Issue (Shing Fung)

11. ISWI/Mekelle Workshop report (Christian Monstein, Nat Gopalswamy)

12. VarSITI Report Katya Georgieva

14. National/Regional Coordinator reports

15. Baku School, COSPAR Capacity Building, COLAGE mini school (2018)

16. Any other matter

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Send by Nat Gopalswamy

[2] First announcment COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshop Coronal and Interplanetary Shocks May 21 ÷ June 1, 2018 Mekelle, Ethiopia

The main objective of the COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshops is to encourage the scientific use of space data by scientists in developing countries. In particular, in view of the large number of extensive archives of data from past and current space missions, and the ready access to these and the associated analysis software via the internet, the typical workshop aims to provide a highly practical training in the use of one or more of these, based on current missions.

Complete details of the workshop including application forms can be found in the workshop web site: http://e-callisto.org/cospar2018/COSPAR2018workshopEthiopia.html

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Send by Christian Monstein

[3] Second announcment 14th Quadrennial SCOSTEP Symposium July 9÷13, 2018 Toronto, Canada

Abstract Deadline: February 15, 2018;    Registration Deadline: April 15, 2018 (Early Bird)

Keynote Speakers: Irina Mironova (Russia), Larry Paxton (USA), David Kendall (Canada), Spiro Antiochos (USA)

There is only one month left for Abstract Submission. Please submit your abstracts to any of the following sessions. Details on travel, visa, accommodation, and venue can be found in: http://www.scostepevents.ca/ .

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Send by Nat Gopalswamy

[4] Six-decade-old space mystery solved with shoebox-sized satellite called a CubeSat Charged particles in Earth’s inner radiation belt created by cosmic rays born from supernova explosions, December 13, 2017

A 60-year-old mystery about the source of energetic, potentially damaging particles in Earth's radiation belts has been solved using data from a shoebox-sized satellite built and operated by students. The satellite is called a CubeSat.

Imagine a fully instrumented satellite the size of a half-gallon milk carton. Then imagine that milk carton whirling in space, catching never-before-seen glimpses of atmospheric and geospace processes.

CubeSats, named for the roughly 4-inch-cubed dimensions of their basic building elements, are stacked with smartphone-like electronics and tiny scientific instruments.

Built mainly by students and hitching rides into orbit on NASA and U.S. Department of Defense launch vehicles, the small, low-cost satellites have been making history.

Now, results from a new study using CubeSats indicate that energetic electrons in Earth's inner radiation belt -- primarily near its inner edge -- are created by cosmic rays born from supernova explosions, said scientist Xinlin Li of the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder).

Earth's dual radiation belts, known as the Van Allen belts, are layers of energetic particles held in place by the planet's magnetic field.

Soon after the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts in 1958, American and Russian scientists concluded that the process of "cosmic ray albedo neutron decay" (CRAND) was likely the source of the high-energy particles trapped in Earth's magnetic field. But over the following decades, no one successfully detected the corresponding electrons that should be produced during the neutron decay.

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Send by G. Maeda

[5] Japan’s next mission to the Antarctic departs next year in the Fall

For the first time, the mission deputy leader will be a woman. She says it is a big deal because it paves the way for the primary leader being a woman someday.

Japanese Antarctic missions do a lot of science (data acquisition) related to space weather.

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Send by G. Maeda

[6] Announcement of ISWI Data Policy

Dear ISWI Community,

This message serves to announce the ISWI Data Policy that has been adopted to guide the management (production, description, archiving, distribution and use) of all ISWI data products. The data policy consist of (1) the policy statements, (2) rules of the road regarding the use of the data, and (3) the ISWI instrument project data management plans (PDMPs).

The data policy is posted on the ISWI Secretariat website (this site) and can be found on the ISWI Steering Committee page (click here)

Send by Nat Gopalswamy

Attachments:

(1) Message from the Executive Director of ISWI Dr. N. Gopalswamy 135KB, 2 pages (click )

(2) First announcment COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshop May 21 ÷ June 1, 2018 Mekelle, Ethiopia 56KB, one page (click )

(3) Second announcment 14th Quadrennial SCOSTEP Symposium July 9÷13, 2018 Toronto, Canada 132KB, 8 pages (click )

(4) Colorado-CubeSat discovery 1 047KB, 6 pages (click )

(5) Japan’s next mission to the Antarctic departs next year For the first time, the mission deputy leader will be a woman 273KB, one page (click )

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