Dear Colleagues,
Welcome on board SW-NICONET Newsletter!!!
In this Issue
i. Editorial
ii. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate Topical Issue on "Space Climate"
iii. 2020 SCOSTEP Awards Announcement
iv. United Nations/India Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative
Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, Thiruvanathapuram,
Kerala, India November 2-6, 2020
v. AGU Journal Space Weather
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Editorial
Welcome to the 2nd edition of Volume 2 of the Space Weather Nigerian Communication Network; 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. It is of utmost importance we are all reminded that the objective of this initiative is 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).
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Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate Topical Issue on "Space Climate"
The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (JSWSC) is accepting submission of research manuscripts for Topical Issues on "Space climate: The past and future of solar activity" to appear in 2020. This is an open call for papers discussing any aspect of Space Climate, i.e., the long-term change in the Sun and its effects in the heliosphere and the near-Earth space environment, including solar effects on the atmosphere and climate.
The deadline for submitting papers has been extended to March 31, 2020.
Note: No additional delay will ensue after this date since each paper will be treated and published individually at the pace of its own refereeing process.
Also note that early submission may even avoid the rush around the deadline and
lead to faster publication.
For more information, visit
https://www.swsc-journal.org/news/297-topical-issue-space-climate-the-past-and-
future-of-solar-activity-deadline-31-march-2020
For submission, start with the following website:
https://www.editorialmanager.com/jswsc/default.aspx
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2020 SCOSTEP Awards Announcement
This is a call for nominations for the 2020 SCOSTEP Awards for Distinguished Scientist, Distinguished Young Scientist and Distinguished Service. Recognizing the societal importance of studies in the field of solar-terrestrial physics and willing to give credit to scientists who contribute significantly to these studies and to SCOSTEP activities, the SCOSTEP Bureau has instituted the
following awards:
SCOSTEP Distinguished Scientist Award:
This award is given to recognize an outstanding contribution of a scientist to solar terrestrial physics
SCOSTEP Distinguished Young Scientist Award:
This award is given to young scientists who have achieved considerable success in solar-terrestrial physics and have taken an active part in SCOSTEP-related activities
SCOSTEP Distinguished Service Award:
This award is given to recognize unique contributions to SCOSTEP-related activities, to realization of its programs and events. This award is nominally made in odd years. Since no award was made in 2019, it may be made retroactively in 2020.
The SCOSTEP awards are given biennially. The first Distinguished Science Awards were awarded in 2014. The first Distinguished Service Award was given in 2013. The Award Statutes and Procedures are placed on the SCOSTEP web site section “Awards” (http://www.bc.edu/scostep/programs/awards).
Award nomination packages (nomination letter and nominee’s curriculum vitae) for the Distinguished Awards should be submitted to the SCOSTEP secretariat (Patricia.Doherty@bc.edu) by no later than April 30, 2020, as a single pdf file. The currently serving SCOSTEP Executive Officers and Bureau Members are not eligible for nomination. The award decision will be made by the SCOSTEP Awards Committee (SAC) and communicated to the Bureau after considering submissions.
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United Nations/India Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative
Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala, India November 2-6, 2020
Preliminary Announcement!
The International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) promotes space weather science via deployment of instruments that collect data, workshops to analyze data from ground- and space based instruments, and advanced space science schools to train young scientists and graduate
students. The ISWI workshops are conducted in collaboration with the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). The next workshop will be hosted by the Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala, India from November 2-6, 2020. The goal of the workshop is to address open questions in space weather science using ground- and space-based data. Analysis of data from ISWI instruments are particularly encouraged. Details on the workshop web site, application procedure, science topics, and organizing committees will be announced soon.
Contact: Radhika Ramachandran (radhika_ramachandran@vssc.gov.in), Tarun Kumar Pant
(tarun_kumar@vssc.gov.in), Sharafat Gadimova (sharafat.gadimova@un.org), Nat
Gopalswamy (nat.gopalswamy@nasa.gov), and Patricia Doherty (dohertpd@bc.edu)
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AGU Journal Space Weather
This is to bring to your notice that AGU Journal Space Weather has become fully open access, as of 1 January 2020, meaning all articles are freely accessible to read, download and share. AGU Space Weather journal is a gold open access journal that publishes original research articles and commentaries devoted to understanding and forecasting space weather and other interactions of solar processes with the Earth environment, and their impacts on telecommunications, electric power, satellite navigation, and other systems. It is devoted to understanding and forecasting space weather. The scope of understanding and forecasting includes: origins, propagation and interactions of solar-produced processes within geospace; interactions in Earth’s space-atmosphere interface region produced by disturbances from above and below; influences of cosmic rays on humans, hardware, and signals; and comparisons of these types of interactions and influences with the atmospheres of neighboring planets and Earth’s moon. Manuscripts should emphasize impacts on technical systems including telecommunications, transportation, electric power, satellite navigation, avionics/spacecraft design and operations, human spaceflight, and other systems. Manuscripts that describe models or space environment climatology should clearly state how the results can be applied. Papers include original research articles as well as feature articles, and commentary.
The Space Weather publishes peer-reviewed articles presenting the latest engineering and science research in the field, including studies of the response of technical systems to specific space weather events, predictions of detrimental space weather impacts, and effects of natural radiation on aerospace systems; news and feature articles providing up-to-date coverage of government agency initiatives worldwide and space weather activities of the commercial sector; letters, policy and opinion articles offering an exchange of ideas; and editorial comments and highlights on current community issues.
For more information , please visit
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15427390 or contact
Editorial: spaceweather@agu.org
Production: SWEprod@wiley.com
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