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Volume 2024 Number 18 - October 7, 2024
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Dear E-SWAN readers,
Our Committees and Working Groups are very active. We are currently preparing the Annual Report of our activities and it will be distributed very soon.
The Executive Board candidate call is closed (since 30/09/2024), and all E-SWAN members will be invited to vote. The details of the candidates will be made available on the member-restricted area of the E-SWAN website. E-SWAN members registered before 30 September 2024 will receive an Opavote Link on 15 October 2024 inviting them to cast their vote for the E-SWAN Executive Board Renewal 2024. The vote will be open until 30 October. Results will be announced at the General Assembly.
We look forward to the next ESWW in Coimbra, Portugal (4 – 8 November 2024). The E-SWAN General Assembly will occur on Monday, 4 November, at 9:30 (till 10:45). We will present the Annual Report there and provide answers to any questions you may have. So, do not worry if you cannot attend the General Assembly: like last year in Toulouse, E-SWAN will organise a booth that will be manned during the ESWW, where you can ask questions, chat with the members, exchange ideas, or formulate suggestions.
We are looking forward to meeting you all in person in Coimbra!
Enjoy reading this Newsletter.
Stefaan Poedts,
President of E-SWAN
Topical Issues open for submission
"Severe Space Weather Events of May 2024 and Their Impacts", deadline 28 February 2025
Topical Editor-in-Chief (T-EiC):
"Swarm 10-Year Anniversary”, deadline 15 February 2025
Topical Editor-in-Chief (T-EiC):
Georgios Balasis (gbalasis-at-noa.gr), National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece
"Fast and Slow Solar Winds: Origin, Evolution, and Space Weather effects", deadline 31 October 2024
Topical Editor-in-Chief (T-EiC):
"Observing, modelling and forecasting TIDs and mitigating their impact on technology"
The official deadline for submission has passed but JSWSC continues to accept submissions for a limited time upon request to the Editorial Office (
Topical Editors-in-Chief (T-EiCs):
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Series of webinars organized by E-SWAN Sustainability Working Group
The E-SWAN Sustainability Working Group continues its series of webinars on issues related to the environmental impact of the space weather and space climate sector. You are invited to the next ones, which will be on:
Life cycle assessment in practice: The case of Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit
by Andreas Wolnievik (IRAP, Toulouse)
Wednesday, 20th November 2024 at 16:00 CET
How the French Astronomy and Astrophysics community plans to cope with the necessity to reduce the environmental impacts of its activities
by Sylvain Bontemps (Astrophysics Laboratory of Bordeaux)
Wednesday, 4th December 2024 at 16:00 CET
The zoom links are available on the working group's web page:
https://www.eswan.eu/index.php
European Space Weather Week 2024 Registration, Final Deadline for Abstract Submission and Fair
The European Space Weather Week (ESWW) is the main annual event in the European Space Weather and Space Climate calendar. It is an international meeting organised annually within the European Region in collaboration with prominent members of the European space weather and Space Climate community. The event will take place in Coimbra, Portugal, from 4th – 8th November 2024.
Registration for the ESWW 2024 is open with student/discounted and regular participant rates, for in person or online participants, and which are tiered by registration date:
regular –15th October 2024
late/onsite – after 15th October 2024 (this is also the last date for cancellations)
Registration for the mini-ISWAT satellite event (3rd November 2024) will be done through the ESWW2024 registration form with a complementary fee of 50€. Details of this event are available here:
https://www.iswat-cospar.org/events
A Vigil workshop is planned for the afternoon of 8th November.
The schedule may be found here:
https://esww2024.org/programme/schedule/
The Space Weather Fair, where users and service providers will interact in an informal working environment, will run throughout the conference with a dedicated exclusive slot on Wednesday afternoon/evening. Those interested in applying for a fair booth may find cost information and the submission form here:
https://esww2024.org/info-guidelines/space-weather-fair/
A full list of important dates for ESWW2024 may be found here:
https://esww2024.org/info-guidelines/timeline/
COSPAR ISWAT Meetings – November 2024 and February 2025 – First-Announcement
We are pleased to announce that registration is open for both the Mini ISWAT Meeting (as part of the registration process for ESWW2024) which will take place on Sunday 03 November 2024 in Coimbra, Portugal, and also for the full ISWAT2025 Meeting 10-14 February 2025 in Cape Canaveral, FL, USA.
Details of both meetings are available from links at the top of the ISWAT website: https://iswat-cospar.org/ - please click the two main meeting links for full details of each meeting, respectively.
In addition, for the mini-ISWAT, we have adjusted the slots available for the live booking in the Google Doc, so if you have not yet got your slot, you may still have a chance to reserve one.
COSPAR ISWAT2025 will bring us into the next big stage of the ISWAT Initiative, going beyond the new roadmap with all ideas welcome from the community going forward.
We are welcoming proposals for ideas for future ISWAT endeavours which can be uploaded here: https://tinyurl.com/future-iswat-ideas - information can be found from the Mini ISWAT information page.
Please check back regularly for updates, and we look forward to seeing you in Coimbra and in Cape Canaveral soon!
Second E-SWAN school: Data, models and observations relevant to Space Weather and the Ionosphere - Registrations open
Free registration for all ESWW 2024 Participants: https://events.spacepole.be/
Fully Online on October 21 and 22 - 14h-17h CEST.
The European Space Weather Week is highly interdisciplinary by nature and its participants are very diverse. Scientists, engineers, satellite operators, power grid technicians, communication and navigation specialists, people working in aviation, space weather service providers, they all have something in common: they want to expand their horizons and gain a better understanding of space weather and its impacts.
The aim of this school is to help early careers and people new to the field gain a basic understanding of the different types of data that are used to study, monitor and predict space weather and ionospheric effects. After finishing the lectures, these newcomers should have a basic understanding of the different data sets that will be presented during the conference and how to interpret them.
The school will cover the basics of space weather, as well as space weather and ionospheric data, models, and indices.
The course is given by qualified STCE staff. Lectures on particular subjects will be given by STCE experts who gained expertise through scientific research, involvement in space missions as well as space weather operations, monitoring, and forecasting.
For more information, please visit: https://eswan.eu/index.php/organs/eocom?id=139
Prepare for an unconventional course at the speed of light.
Time is ticking - don’t let the bomb burst.
Chop chop, kaboom!
The fifteen years since the launch of SDO has seen papers describing wide ranges of science results from this mission. Join us during the maximum of Solar Cycle 25 to discuss what we have learned about the Sun and compare the new cycle and those in the past. To accommodate the interest in multiple research topics, SDO 2025 will include parallel sessions on developments in helioseismology and coronal modeling.
Any research result using SDO data can be submitted as a contribution to the workshop. Invited speakers will introduce 7 themed sessions spanning SDO‘s wide range of research topics:
Solar Internal Dynamics and Structure
From Creation to Emergence: Magnetic Fields of the Sun
Coronal Dynamics: Unveiling the Origins of the Solar Wind
Energetic Outbursts: Deciphering Solar Flares, CMEs, and SEPs
Impacts of Solar Variability on Earth, Other Planets, and Space Weather
Next Horizon: the Future Solar and Heliophysics Missions
Stellar insights from the SDO Observations
There will also be one day of parallel mini-workshops and an EUV calibration workshop.
Registration, abstract submission, and other information about SDO 2025 will be available at http://sdo2025.sdo-workshops.
Please send a message to
Two Post-Doctoral Fellowships in space sciences and in Earth sciences at ISSI (Switzerland)
The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland, invites applications for two Post-Doctoral Fellowships:
* one in the space sciences, including Astrophysics & Cosmology, Heliophysics and Plasmas, and Planetary Sciences.
For more details see:
https://www.issibern.ch/post-d
* one in Earth Sciences.
For more details see:
https://www.issibern.ch/post-d
Both positions are suitable for a candidate with experience in space weather or space climate, either from a space science perspective, or from a more terrestrial perspective.
These positions are for a two-year period, ideally starting in January 2025, to be negotiated. The successful candidate should have received a Ph.D. within the last five year in the fields related to the position. The deadline for applying is October 31, 2024.
Successful candidates are expected to pursue their own independent research program and to participate in ISSI’s research activities. They are encouraged to collaborate with the scientific staff of the Institute, and to interact with a large and diverse community of scientists from all over the world. ISSI provides the possibility to participate and/or lead an international team visiting ISSI. Additionally, cooperation with Swiss universities is strongly encouraged.
Multiple open job offers in a DFG Research Unit Magnetosphere, Ionosphere, Plasmasphere, Thermosphere as a Coupled System (MIPT)
The overarching science objective of the research unit is to better understand how the magnetosphere, ionosphere, plasmasphere, and thermosphere are coupled to each other. The complexity of this system, which covers altitudes from tens to tens of thousands of km and time scales from minutes to decades, requires an interdisciplinary team with specialists in different domains, expertise in modeling and observations, as well as established collaborative ties to the international community.
The Research Unit is planned for 4 years with a possible extension for another 4 years. We offer 6 (postdoc/PhD) positions, one for each project of the Research Unit at 5 Institutions: German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Technische Universität München (TUM), Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), and German Aerospace Center (DLR).
All current job announcements and links to online applications can be found at: https://spaceweather.gfz-potsdam.de/mipt-job-center
For additional questions please contact
Multiple open positions at GFZ-Potsdam
Space Physics and Space Weather at GFZ Potsdam, Germany is pleased to announce multiple open positions related to machine learning, numerical modelling, and data analysis.
Our section is working on understanding of the dynamical evolution of the hazardous space radiation environment and developing the tools for specification and prediction of the adverse effects of space environment using models and data assimilation. We study physical processes in the near-Earth space environment and focus on the understanding of fundamental processes responsible for the evolution of space radiation.
For more information about the section, please visit: spaceweather.gfz-potsdam.de
For additional questions please contact
All current job announcements and links to online applications can be found at: spaceweather.gfz-potsdam.de/job-openings
Call for Solar Orbiter/EUI and PROBA2 Guest Investigators
The Solar Physics team of the Royal Observatory of Belgium invites external researchers to join in the data exploitation of its space telescopes on the PROBA2 microsatellite (SWAP, LYRA) and on Solar Orbiter (EUI). The deadline for applying is November 1, 2024
For more information please visit: https://www.sidc.be/GuestInvestigator/GI_call_2025
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