ISWI Newsletter - Vol.9 No.13
15 October 2017

Dear ISWI Participant:

Atila requests that any matter related to the journal "Sun and Geosphere" be sent to its technical editor, Mitko Danov <ddanov[at]bas.bg>.

George Maeda
Editor of ISWI Newsletter

CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE

[1] An invitation to the ISWI community to contribute to a special issue of Sun and Geosphere dedicated to the UN/US ISWI Workshop held on July 31÷August 4, 2017, at Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA, USA (read it)

[2] Report of the United Nations/United States of America Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative: the decade after the International Heliophysical Year 2007 Boston, US,
31 July÷4 August 2017 (read it)

[1] An invitation to the ISWI community

Dear ISWI Community,

A special issue of the online journal Sun and Geosphere (http://www.sungeosphere.org/) is being planned to publish the papers presented at the UN/US ISWI Workshop held on July 31÷Aug. 4, 2017 at Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA, USA.

The special issue for the previous UN/Japan ISWI workshop held in Fukuoka, Japan, can be found in Vol.10 No.2 - 2015 of the journal.

In order to offer an opportunity to the wider ISWI community to contribute to the workshop, the ISWI community is hereby invited to submit workshop-relevant papers for publication in the special issue.

To that end, original articles addressing any of the following topics will be considered:

1) International recognition of space weather risks;

2) Building on today’s space weather foundation;

3) Developing an international framework for space weather services;

4) Scientific results on the interplanetary medium, geospace, the ionosphere and thermosphere;

5) Space weather instruments;

6) Space Weather Modeling:
(1) From Sun to Geospace and
(2) Radiation and Plasma Environment;

7) Extreme space weather; and

8) Coordination of Space- and Ground-Based Data Resources.


All contributed papers will be limited to 6 journal pages. Deadline for submission is December 31, 2017. Publication is scheduled tentatively for August 2018.

For planning purposes, please let us know at your earliest convenience your interest in

(a) the title of your article,
(b) the list of authors with organizational affiliations, and
(c) the pertinent topic above your article belongs.
submitting an article by sending us:

We thank you in advance for contributing to ISWI and look forward to hearing from you soon.

With best wishes,
Guest Editors

Guest Editors:
Shing Fung (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; shing.f.fung[at]nasa.gov)
David Webb (Boston College; webbd[at]bc.edu)
Manju Gopalapillai (Indian Sp.Res. Org. manju_spl[at]vssc.gov.in)


Send by Shing Fung

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[2] From the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

Report of the
United Nations/United States of America Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative: the decade after the International Heliophysical Year 2007
Boston, United States, 31 July÷4 August 2017

See this report:  link to document

Send by Nat Gopalswamy

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(1) Report of the United Nations/United States of America Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative: the decade after the International Heliophysical Year 2007 Boston, United States, 31 July÷4 August 2017 351KB, 8 pages (click link to document)

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