ISWI Newsletter - Vol.6 No.046
15 November 2014

Dear ISWI Participant:

The deadline for registering for "2015 UN/Japan Workshop on Space Weather" is coming up -- the deadline is 30 Nov 2014. Two weeks away !

To register, please go here (UN Office for Outer Space Affairs) :
http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/oosa/en/SAP/act2015/japan/index.html

This UN workshop will take place in Fukuoka, Japan, next year March. The host of this workshop is the "International Center for Space Weather Science and Education" (ICSWSE) of Kyushu University.

Travel support is being provided by the UN on a merit-basis for applications from researchers in developing nations; see the UN website for further details.

Webmaster Notes: For more (deadlines, Objectives, Venue...) (click here)

CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE

[1] Observation of a type II burst with the e-Callisto network (read it)

[2] Report on SCOSTEP/ISWI International School on Space Science (ISSS), at Peru (read it)

[3] Call for Participation: 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE of NIGERIA GEOPHYSICAL SOCIETY, THEME: "THE ROLE OF THE EARTH AND ITS ATMOSPHERE ON OUR TECHNOLOGY" (read it)

[4] JGR Special Section of the Causes and Consequences of the Extended Solar Minimum (read it)

[5] The 2014 Nobel Prizes in Physics, (read it)

[6] the City of Fukuoka (read it)

[1] Observation of a type II burst with the e-Callisto network
On November 5th there was a strong solar burst of type M7.9 reported by NOAA as event 8440 popping up between 09:26 and 10:02 UT. Connected to that x-ray event, there was a CME accelerated into interplanetary space, producing an interesting type II radio burst. This burst was observed by at least 13 out of 69 CALLISTO spectrometers as part of the worldwide network e-Callisto .....

For the rest please view the first attached file

(Sent in by C. Monstein)

[2] Report for:
SCOSTEP/ISWI International School on Space Science (ISSS) Lima, Peru, 15-23 September 2014.

For the full text see the second attached file

(Sent in by N. Gopalswamy)

Webmaster Notes: This School is part of ISWI Space Science Training programm (look at)

[3] Call for Participation:

Nigeria Geophysical Society 2^nd International Conference
The Role of the Earth and its Atmosphere on our Technology
March 17-20, 2015, Covenant University, Ogun State, Nigeria

Organized by Nigerian Geophysical Society (NGS)

Supported by: Covenant University (CU); Atmospheric and Space Environment Research Network (ASPERN) Centre for Atmospheric Research (CAR); National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA)

For more click here and
look at third attached file

(Sent in by Falayi E.O.)

[4] JGR Special Section on the Causes & Consequences of the Extended Solar Minimum

Dear Colleagues,

The JGR Special Section on the Causes & Consequences of the Extended Solar Minimum between cycles 23 and 24 is complete. The articles are available on–line at:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%292169-9402/specialsection/SOLARMIN1

With 26 papers published, this has been quite a success. Our experience with JGR has been very positive, the first papers appearing within 6 months of the Chapman Conference in April 2012, and the whole thing wrapped up in a year–and–a–half.

Thanks to all the conference organizers, the special section editors, and to AGU for all the work that went into this.

Yours, Stan

Stanley C. Solomon
High Altitude Observatory
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado, USA

(Sent in by S.C. Solomon)

[5] Nobel Prize in Physics 2014
was awarded jointly to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".

Reference:
"The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 15 Nov 2014.

For article please look at fourth attached file

(Sent in by D.Danov)

[6] The Holiday Season in Fukuoka The lighting up of decorative illumination at JR Hakata Station in Fukuoka marks the start of the holiday season here in the southern part of Japan (Kyushu Island).

For photo and article (in Japanese) please view the last attached file

(Sent in by G.Maeda)

Attachments:

(1) Christian Monstein Observation of a type II burst with the e?Callisto network 1 187 KB pdf, 14 pages (click )

(2) Report for: SCOSTEP/ISWI International School on Space Science (ISSS) Lima, Peru, 15-23 September 2014 4 323 KB pdf, 13 pages (click )

(3) Call_for_Participations 49 KB pdf, one page (click )

(4) The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 56 KB pdf, one page (click )

(5) The Holiday Season in Fukuoka 720 KB pdf, one page (click )