NOTE: THIS VERSION OF THE ISWI NEWSLETTER DOES NOT HAVE ATTACHMENTS. **************************************************************************** * ISWI Newsletter - Vol. 15 No. 002 18 February 2023 * * Editor: George Maeda, georgemaeda3[at]gmail.com * * Archive of back issues: ISWI Website <> * Archive of all ISWI webinars: * * https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaOqa4cng0GF3cKuj6Yz5kqG1BQ-Akkhr **************************************************************************** As of 12 Feb 2023, this newsletter has 627 subscribers. Please encourage your colleagues to subscribe. If you wish to send out ISWI-related material, please send to me. The target release date is the 15th of each month. (This issue is 3 days late.) This issue contains material covering the recent ISWI Steering Committee Meeting in Vienna. More meeting details shall be provided in the March issue. -- Editor. ---------------------------------- CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE: [01] Letter from the ISWI Secretariat [02] AGS Newsletter - Vol.6 No.01 January 2023 [03] [COLAGE 2024 Total Solar Eclipse] First . Announcement / April 2024 Mexico [04] We are pleased to announce the second ISWI Seminar . of 2023 by Dr Kazou Shiokawa scheduled for February 22nd at . 3 PM Central European Time (9 AM EDT; 6:30 PM IST). [05] ISWI Data Subcommittee Report 2023 [06] All presentation files from recent ISWI Steering . Committee meeting in Vienna **************************************************************************** [01]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please see this attached pdf: ISWI Steering Committee Annual Meeting.pdf [02]------------------------------------------------------------------------ RECEIVED AT ISWI NEWSLETTER ON 25 JAN 2023 ------------------------------------------------- AGS Newsletter - Vol.6 No.01 January 2023 https://mailchi.mp/b84dc8f82a65/ags-newsletter-vol1-no-001-27-november-15535239?e=3d8c869948 Contents of this issue: AGS CONFERENCE 2023 TO HOLD IN ZAMBIA PRESIDENT OF AFRICAN GEOPHYSICAL SOCIETY (AGS) VISITS ARCSSTEE SCOSTEP ISWI WORKSHOP ON THE PREDICTABILITY OF THE VARIABLE SOLAR TERRESTRIAL COUPLING (PRESTO), 29 MAY - 2 JUNE 2022, TRIESTE, ITALY 44TH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR YOUNG ASTRONOMERS IN CAPE TOWN POEM OF THE MONTH: COUNT ON ME, MY FRIEND by Joydip Dutt ***************************************************************** [03]------------------------------------------------------------------------ De: ALAGE Information Secretary Date: lun, 13 feb 2023 Subject: [COLAGE 2024 Total Solar Eclipse] First Announcement / April 2024 Mexico To: ISWI community *************************************************** : First Announcement XIV COLAGE – Conferencia Latinoamericana de Geofísica Espacial Total Solar Eclipse Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico 8-13 April 2024 The Asociación Latinoamericana de Geofísica Espacial (ALAGE) is an autonomous scientific society that attempts to motivate the development of research in Space Geophysics, taking advantage of the human resources and the cultural unity, as well as the similar economic conditions of Latin America. ALAGE seeks to complement the activities of the existing regional geophysical organizations. One of the main activities of ALAGE is the periodic organization of scientific meetings that are attended by most of the scientists and postgraduate students working worldwide in the ALAGE areas of interest: the middle and high atmosphere, the ionosphere, the magnetosphere, the interplanetary medium, the cosmic rays, the planets, satellites, minor planets and small bodies, the Sun and the Solar-terrestrial environment. These meetings are called Conferencia Latinoamericana de Geofísica Espacial (COLAGE). Previous COLAGE workshops have been held in diverse locations: Brazil (1988), Mexico (1991), Cuba, (1993), Argentina (1996), Costa Rica, (1998) Chile (2001), Brazil (2004), Mexico (2007), Costa Rica (2011), Peru (2014), Argentina (2018), Chile (2021, online), and Brazil (2022). The XIV COLAGE will be held at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL), Monterrey, Mexico, from 8-13 April 2024, to celebrate the total solar eclipse on 8th April 2024. The focus of the upcoming COLAGE in Monterrey will include the following scientific fields: • Space Weather • Ionospheric Research • Neutral Atmosphere Dynamics • Solar Physics • Earth's Magnetic Field, including Ground Magnetism • Interplanetary Magnetic Field, including Magnetospheric Physics • Non-Linear Processes • Cosmic Rays COLAGE International Space Science School (ISSS) Historically, ALAGE also promotes schools associated with COLAGEs. The International Space Science School (ISSS) will take place from April 5 to 7, 2024, at the same venue as the XIV COLAGE. The school aims to promote knowledge and training for undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral candidates, from all over the world, in the area of Space Sciences, covering topics such as the Sun and Solar Activity, Interplanetary Medium and the Solar Wind, Magnetosphere, Ionosphere, High Atmosphere, Planetary Sciences, and Space Weather. For further details on the XIV COLAGE, please access the following: https://www.rice.unam.mx/colage2024/ colage2024@igeofisica.unam.mx CD ALAGE [04]------------------------------------------------------------------------ FROM: Maria Graciela Molina Tue, Feb 14; 2023. Dear ISWI Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the second ISWI Seminar of 2023 by Dr Kazou Shiokawa scheduled for February 22nd 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 seminars from 2022 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: Ground-based multi-point network from subauroral to equatorial latitudes by the Optical Mesosphere Thermosphere Imagers (OMTIs) and the PWING Project Speaker: Dr Kazuo Shiokawa, Nagoya Univ., Japan. Abstract: The Optical Mesosphere Thermosphere Imagers (OMTIs) consist of more than 20 all-sky cooled-CCD imagers, 5 Fabry-Perot interferometers, 3 airglow temperature photometers, and 3 meridian-scanning photometers. The OMTIs measure two-dimensional airglow images in the mesopause region and the thermosphere, wind and temperatures in the lower thermosphere, and airglow rotational temperatures in the mesopause region. The PWING project (study of dynamical variation of Particles and Waves in the INner magnetosphere using Ground-based network observations, 2016-2020) operates all-sky airglow/aurora imagers, 64-Hz sampled induction magnetometers, 40-kHz VLF receivers, and 64-Hz riometers at 8 stations at magnetic latitudes of ~60 degrees around the north-pole. The PWING stations cover longitudinal variations of aurora and electromagnetic disturbances in the inner magnetosphere. These PWING and OMTIs instruments are in automatic operation at various locations from high to equatorial latitudes in Canada, US (Alaska), Russia, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, and Australia. We also recently develop low-cost cameras to expand the network to connect between subauroral latitudes and equatorial latitudes. In the presentation, we introduce current configuration and recent results obtained by these multi-instrument ground networks. OMTI Website: https://stdb2.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/omti/ PWING Website: https://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/dimr/PWING/ *********************************************** PDF flyer is attached: ISWI webinar, 22 feb 2023; Prof Shiokawa.pdf [05]------------------------------------------------------------------------ This report was presented at the recent ISWI Steering Committee Meeting in Vienna: ISWI Data Subcommittee Report 2023.pdf [06]------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) Steering Committee Meeting, 10 February 2023, Vienna International Centre, Austria / hybrid Agenda: Space Weather ONLINE PRESENTATIONS -- are all at this link below https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/icg/activities/2023/iswi-sc2023.html ------------------------------ Secretariat Update ISWI Website, Katya GEORGIEVA SCOSTEP/PRESTO Report Report on the SCOSTEP and its PRESTO activities, SHIOKAWA Kazuo Reports from ISWI Regional & National Coordinators: Africa (Benin, Congo, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia) Americas (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, United States) Asia (China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Republic of Korea) Europe (Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye) ISWI/Iberia School 2022 report 2nd Iberian Space Science Summer School, Nat GOPALSWAMY United Nations/Azerbaijan Workshop Report United Nations/Azerbaijan Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative: the Sun, Space Weather and Geosphere, 31 October - 4 November 2022, Baku, Azerbaijan, Elchin BABAYEV ISWI Instruments Update 2023 ISWI Instrument Updates (AWESOME, CHAIN, eCallisto, GIFDS, LISN MAGDAS, OMTIs, RION, SEVAN, SCINDA, Shing FUNG Data Subcommittee Report ISWI Data Subcommittee Report, Shing FUNG ISWI/NASA Report NASA Heliophysics Space Weather Program, Jim SPANN COSPAR Space Weather Roadmap and ISWAT activities COSPAR Space Weather Roadmap & International Space Weather Action Teams (ISWAT) Activities, Masha KUZNETSOVA Discussion On Future Workshop & School ISWI School and the AGS International Conference on Space Weather, Nat GOPALSWAMY Other business----------- NOAA's Space Weather Observations to Provide Continuous Operational Capability, Elsayed TALAAT ISWI Webinar series, Graciela MOLINA **********[ End of this issue of the ISWI Newsletter ]**********