NOTE: THIS VERSION OF THE ISWI NEWSLETTER DOES NOT HAVE ATTACHMENTS. **************************************************************************** * ISWI Newsletter - Vol. 14 No. 007 15 July 2022 * * Editor: George Maeda, georgemaeda3[at]gmail.com * * Archive of back issues: ISWI Website <> * **************************************************************************** Lots of good contents this month. If you have announcement(s) for the ISWI community, please send them in. But please send in well advance of any dead lines that you may have. This newsletter is issued on the 15th of each month. I need your info a few days before that date. -- Editor. JUST RECEIVED NEWS: Ms. Patricia Doherty of Boston College has passed away. She received this honor four years ago at an AGU meeting in Washington DC: https://eos.org/agu-news/doherty-receives-2018-space-physics-and-aeronomy-richard-carrington-education-and-public-outreach-sparc-award ---------------------------------- CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE: [01] An Appeal to the ISWI Community (survey request) [02] Announcement about the next ISWI workshop (Application dead line is coming up fast) [03] CALLISTO status report/newsletter #93 [04] Report on the "2nd Iberian Space Science Summer School_(i4s)" [05] The next ISWI webinar . Title: "Magnetic Storm Intensity and Space Weather" . Speaker: Dr Ramon E. Lopez [06] "The African Capacity Building Workshop on Space Weather . Effects on GNSS" . ICTP, Italy, 3-14 October 2022. **************************************************************************** [01]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kindly read this message from the ISWI Secretariat (Dr Nat Gopalswamy): See: Need_ISWI_community_response.pdf Dead line is mentioned inside the message. [02]------------------------------------------------------------------------ re: Announcement about the next ISWI workshop from: Patrick Gindler, UNOOSA to: ISWI Newsletter Dear George, On behalf of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, I am pleased to share with you the following announcement to be added to the next ISWI Newsletter. On behalf of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, we are pleased to announce that the online application for the United Nations/Azerbaijan Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI): The Sun, Space Weather and Geosphere, 31 October – 4 November 2022, Baku, Azerbaijan, is now open till 15 August 2022. The workshop webpage can be accessed through: https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/psa/schedule/2022/2022-iswi-workshop.html Direct link to the online application: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=2zWeD09UYE-9zF6kFubccAiOPlMdD9xBh9lcdTTfu19URU5XMTBYNkcyNFQ4RlJQMUhQOFpESVVPRy4u Best regards, Patrick _____________________________________________ Patrick Gindler Executive Secretariat of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG) United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Vienna, Austria patrick.gindler@un.org | www.unoosa.org [03]------------------------------------------------------------------------ The latest CALLISTO newsletter is here: See: status_93_V01.pdf [04]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear George, It is my pleasure to share here the report of the successful second edition i4s school. This version is about 300 words long, but I have prepared a shorter version for SCOSTEP/PRESTO newsletter and also a longer version for internal purposes. Please let me know if you think this version is correct for ISWI. Best regards, Antonio Guerrero 11 July 2022. See: Report on the 2nd Iberian Space Science Summer School_(i4s).pdf [05]------------------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________Date: 11 July 2022 Dear ISWI Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the next ISWI Seminar by Dr Ramon E. Lopez scheduled for July 27th at 3 PM Central European Time (9 AM EDT; 6:30 PM IST). To register for this virtual seminar, please send an email to: iswisupport@bc.edu. Please include “ISWI Seminar Registration” in the subject line. There is a limit of 300 participants, so please register your interest as soon as possible. The MS Teams link will be sent to registered participants 2 days before the event. Seminars will be recorded. Please visit the youtube channel of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs where the recording of the previous seminar are available. The playlist which will also include future sessions can be accessed through the following link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaOqa4cng0GF3cKuj6Yz5kqG1BQ-Akkhr With kind regards, Graciela Molina on behalf of the ISWI Seminar Committee ******************************************************************* Title: Magnetic Storm Intensity and Space Weather Speaker: Dr Ramon E. Lopez Abstract: Magnetic storms are an important component of space weather because the disturbances that they produce in the magnetosphere and ionosphere can have significant effects on our technology. The traditional measure of magnetic storm intensity is Dst, which is generally taken as a measure of ring current intensity. However, many of the most important space weather effects involve the ionosphere and are driven by variations in ionospheric currents. In this talk, I will discuss how for many storms the ionospheric currents are correlated with Dst, but for storms where the solar wind magnetosonic Mach number is low, these quantities become uncorrelated. Therefore, for these storms, which tend to be the most intense storms, Dst is a much less useful measure of storm intensity. I will also discuss the current SCOSTEP scientific program known as PRESTO, and provide information about PRESTO activities and programs. ------------------------------------------- Dra. María Graciela Molina Professor FACET -UNT Researcher CONICET ISWI Seminar Series_July27.png Associated researcher INGV ****************** Note: see the attached flyer: ISWI webinar flyer, Dr Lopez, for 27 July 2022.pdf [06]------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Editor of the ISWI Newsletter From: Professor Babatunde Rabiu Date: 12 July 2022 FOR DISTRIBUTION ------------------- The African Capacity Building Workshop on Space Weather Effects on GNSS is scheduled to hold at ICTP, Italy, 3-14 October 2022. It shall be an hybrid event. Details of the event and call for application is available at https://indico.ictp.it/event/9831/overview The deadline for applications needing financial support is 17th July 2022 and for online applications the deadline is 21st August 2022. ................. Professor Babatunde Rabiu Centre for Atmospheric Research, National Space Research and Development Agency Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Prince Abubakar Audu University Campus, Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria *****************[ End of this issue of the ISWI Newsletter ]***************