ISWI Newsletter - Vol.11 No.06
18 May 2019

Dear ISWI Participant:

Please send in your space-weather-related news to me. I can send out to the entire ISWI community. There are seven announcements in this issue.

CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE

[1] Enter the Mission Idea Contest -- for space engineering students (read it)

[2] Space Weather Nigerian Communication Network Newsletter (SW-NICONET)
Vol.1, Iss.4, May 2019 (read it)

[3] 2nd INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ASTRONAUTICS, Latin American Symposium on Small Satellites: Advanced Technologies and Distributed Systems 11÷15 November 2019, Argentina (read it)

[4] International Colloquium on Equatorial and Low-Latitude Ionosphere;
Sep. 9÷13, 2019 at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria (read it)

[5] Call for nominations: International space weather & Space climate medals (read it)

[6] Tenure track job announcement: Space Physics Department, Geophysics Institute, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (read it)

[7] CALLISTO status report / news-letter #81 (read it)

[1] Enter the Mission Idea Contest -- for space engineering students

You or your students have a chance to design a space weather payload for the International Space Station (ISS). Detailed information can be found at: http://www.spacemic.net/

The abstract can be submitted on line in June.

MIC-6 means is that it is in the 6th in a series of design contests. However, with MIC-6, if you build your design, it can actually fly in space, as payload onboard the ISS.

See web site for the template for your abstract:  

Send by G. Maeda

[2] Space Weather Nigerian Communication Network Newsletter (SW-NICONET)
Vol.1, Iss.4, May 2019

Editorial to the newsletter

Welcome to the Welcome to the 2nd edition of SW-NICONET Newsletter

A platform where all issues pertaining to Space weather and ionospheric research in Nigeria and UN-ISWI activities are made known to us. The objective of this initiative is to to build a stronger space weather and ionospheric research network in Nigeria. It is also intended to keep us abreast of new developments and research progress in Nigeria. The platform will also continually feature experiences of senior and mid career researchers in the field of Ionospheric and space weather research from Nigeria. This would help young researchers in the field build their research directions. It will also help reduce research repetition but rather help build up on existing works.
SW-NICONET is in collaboration with the International Geophysical Research Group/Europe-Africa (IGRGEA).

For the entire newsletter see:  

[3] 2nd INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ASTRONAUTICS, Latin American Symposium on Small Satellites: Advanced Technologies and Distributed Systems 11÷15 November 2019, Argentina

Hosted by the Colomb Institute Auditorio del Centro Cultural de la Ciencia (C3)
- Buenos Aires INVAP - Bariloche, Argentina

You are invited to contribute a paper for presentation at the Symposium. A one-page, single-spaced abstract of no less than 350 and no more than 600 words is needed. The abstract must be in English. Student papers are encouraged. Advanced Technologies and Distributed Platforms and/or Payloads themes are recommended, but all topic related to Small Satellite Missions will be considered. The symposium will have a worldwide vision, with some focus on the needs and developments of Latin America.

Presentations during the Symposium will preferably be in English, however, presentations in Spanish will be considered.

See also this attachment:  

[4] International Colloquium on Equatorial and Low-Latitude Ionosphere;
Sep. 9÷13, 2019 at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria

WEB-site: https://carnasrda.com/colloq2019/

Preamble

Gaining better understanding of the dynamics of the equatorial and low latitude ionosphere has become an object of global concern more than ever. The past decades have witnessed deployment of observational facilities to equatorial region of the world courtesy of international communities coordinated by United Nations under the International Heliophyical Year IHY and more recently International Space Weather Initiative ISWI. Equatorial region, also known as the low latitude region refers to the region within plus/minus 20 degrees on either side of the geomagnetic equator.

The region is characterised with much complexities and high level of dynamics which result in phenomena such as spread F, ionospheric anomaly, equatorial electrojet, equatorial plasma fountain, etc. The impact of such phenomena on telecommunications, navigation and other space-based technologies has made the region a point of international collaborative focus in scientific research.

See these attachments:   and  

[5] Call for nominations: International space weather & Space climate medals

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce the 2019 contest for the international space weather and space climate medals. The new medal recipients will be announced in a medal ceremony at the European Space Weather Week, the 18^th of November, 2018 (http://www.stce.be/esww16/medals.php).

All three prizes are prestigious recognitions of recipients’ major contributions in the field of space weather and space climate. Medal recipients’ work must have been documented in peer review journals or book chapters, or must be a technological contribution that has led to a fully implemented new space weather or space climate capability. Medal recipients’ work must be relevant to space weather or space climate. The work must also be internationally recognized.

In addition to the above common criteria, there are the following specific requirements for each of the three medals:

The Kristian Birkeland Medal for Space Weather and Space Climate:

The recipient of the Kristian Birkeland Medal must have demonstrated a unique ability to combine basic and applied research to develop useful space weather or space climate products that are being used outside the research community, and/or across scientific research disciplines. The work must have led to a better physical comprehension of the solar-terrestrial phenomena related to space weather and space climate, to a drastic improvement of space weather and space climate modeling, or to a new generation of instruments.

The Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal for Space Weather and Space Climate:

The recipient of the Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal must have demonstrated a unique ability to bind the space weather and space climate community in a spirit of peace and friendship, to educate within the space weather and space climate community, to go also beyond the space weather and space climate research community and address larger audiences, and/or to serve the space weather and the space climate.

The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal for Space Weather and Space Climate:

The prize rewards a young researcher (younger than 35 years, or having successfully defended her/his thesis within the last 6 years prior to the ESWW2018, i.e. after October 30th, 2012) for outstanding achievements in space weather or space climate with an innovative approach. The six-years period is increased with the duration of any parental leave taken during the period.

* How to nominate *

In order to nominate a person for one of the international space weather and space climate medals, please send a pdf document including:

• Your name, first name, professional address.
• The name, first name, professional address of the person that you nominate.
• Which of the three medals you nominate the person for.
• Reasons for the nomination (two pages). Please, make sure that these reasons relate to space weather and space climate and fulfill the criteria below*.*
• A full CV of the nominee.
• Please include letters of support fromtwo colleagues, preferably outside your own home institution. You may also include those two colleagues as co-signatories on the proposal. For the Chizhevsky prize, a recommendation letter from the PhD advisor (in case (s)he is not the person sending the application) is recommended.
• Up to five references (journal articles, prizes, patents…).

Self-nominations are not allowed. The medal committee members cannot be nominated or nominate.

You may resubmit a previous nomination that was not successful. Please indicate in your nomination that you wish the committee to reconsider it. You can update the documents or ask the committee to reconsider the already submitted files.

Send your documents by email only to SWmedals[at]oma.be. The deadline for the nominations is *September, 8th 2019.*

Composition of the Medal Committee:

The Medal committee is composed of

• Prof. Jean-Marie Frere, the Royal Academy of Belgium,>
• Executive director Oyvind Sorensen of the Norwegian Academy of Science
• Dr. Galina Kotova, of the Russian Academy of Science.
• Prof. Joran Moen and Dr. Pal Brekke, Norway
• Prof. Anatoli Petrukovich and Dr. Vladimir Kalegaev, Russia

The co-chair of the ESWW Organizing committee (Prof. M. Messerotti), Dr. R. Van der Linden, the head of the ESA Space Weather Working Team and chair of the ESWW2018 LOC (Prof. S. Poedts) and of the Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (Dr. A. Belehaki).

The following previous winners are also members of the medal committee:

Dr. Antti Pulkkinen, Dr. Mike Hapgood, Dr. Julia Thalmann: in the Committee (2017 - 2019)	Dr. Bojan Vrsnak, Prof. Ji Wu, Dr. Elena Popova: in the Committee (2018 - 2020)
Dr Tamas Gombosi, Christina Kay, Hermann Oppgenorth: in the Committee (2019 - 2021)	The Medal Committee is chaired by Dr.Jean Lilensten.

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Send by Jean Lilensten

[6] Tenure track job announcement: Space Physics Department, Geophysics Institute, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Dear Nat,

Perhaps you still remember me, we met during the VarSITI meeting in Mexico City. I work at the same department as Alejandro.

I am writing since I would like to ask you to help promote a job announcement (tenure track) at our department. The announcement was published yesterday on the institute's web page but it is in Spanish, so I am attaching English version. Perhaps someone from VarSITI community would be interested. I would be grateful for any help.

All best Primo

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See this attachment:  

Send by Kazuo Shiokawa

[7] CALLISTO status report / news-letter #81

Attached the latest Callisto status report / news-letter #81

See also the full text of this Newsletter:  

Send by Christian Monstein

Attachments:

(1) Snapshot "MissionIdea Contest"  (422KB, one page)

(2) Newsletter "Space Weather Nigerian Communication Network SW-NICONET" 
(55KB, 7 pages)

(3) Call for papers "2nd INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ASTRONAUTICS"
Argentina, November 11÷15, 2019  (286KB, one page)

(4) Flier "Colloquim on Equatorial and Low-Latitude Ionosphere" Sep. 9÷13, 2019, Lagos, Nigeria  (130KB, two pages)

(5) Announcement "Colloquim on Equatorial and Low-Latitude Ionosphere"
Sep. 9÷13, 2019, Lagos, Nigeria  (98KB, 3 pages)

(6) "Job Announcement" at Geophysics Institute, Mexico  (68KB, two pages)

(7) "CALLISTO" Status report/Newsletter #81  (1 914KB, 16 pages)

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