[Shine-participants] SHINE Newsletter, July 2017

Fri Jun 30 09:59:09 EDT 2017

SHINE Newsletter July 2017

Dear SHINE Community!

The SHINE 2017 Workshop is less than a month away!  We want to bring your attention to the published bus schedule for transportation to the upcoming SHINE 2017 Workshop.  Again, SHINE will be held in Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada from July 24th to 28th and details can be found at : www.shincon.org<http://www.shincon.org/>.

Sincerely,

Georgia A. de Nolfo

SHINE Steering Committee Chair

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Contents:

1.     SHINE 2017 Workshop Bus Schedule

2.     AGU Announcements : SH003. Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Retrospective

3.     AGU Announcements: SH025: Waves, Turbulence, and Dissipation in Solar and Heliospheric Plasma Structures

4.     “Into the Red Dragon’s Lair: Four-in-One Workshop Tackling Outstanding Problems in Heliophysics and Space Weather” at the Clayton Hotel, Cardiff, Wales, UK (03-08 December 2017) – First Announcement.

5.     Fall AGU - SH012: Space Weather Forecasting: Science, Operations, Future Missions, Missing Information, and the Economic Case - First Announcement.

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1.     SHINE 2017 Workshop Bus Schedule
We have worked with a company to provide shuttle buses between the airport (YUL) and the hotel:
YUL to hotel
July 22: 6:30pm - 8:00 pm - 11pm and 1:30 am (on 23rd)
July 23: 11:30am - 3pm -7:30pm

Hotel to YUL
July 28: 2:30 am - 6am - 10am - noon - 2pm - 4pm

Please pay ($80 USD round-trip, $45 one-way) through the SHINE payment button and add your name to the bolded column on the google doc. Take into consideration that most of you will have to pass custom and immigration in Montreal (unless you have a prior connection in Canada), which can take anywhere between 30 minutes and 2.5 hours. If you miss the bus you were planning to take, you can take the next one. On the way back, if you fly from YUL directly to the US, you will pass US immigration and custom in Montreal (so-called pre-clearance), you should plan on arriving at the airport well in advance.
We reserve the right to cancel buses for which there are fewer than 4 people signed up (only applies to July 23rd). We will refund you in that case.

Regarding logistics, there is a Tim Hortons' cafe in the arrival area [there are other Tim Hortons in the airport, but all others are beyond security]. The shuttle driver will pick up people there 15 minutes before the bus departure. We won’t be waiting for people, except for the last run of the day.

For the return on Friday, count 1.5-hour drive to YUL to be on the safe side (it will be closer to 1 hour when there is no rush hour traffic). We can probably move some departures by plus or minus 30 minutes, so if there are some obvious issues, please let Noé Lugaz know asap.

If your travel arrangements cannot be accommodated by one of the scheduled buses, you can arrange a taxi and use the google doc to find someone to share the expense. The taxi price is ~$120 USD one-way.

2.  AGU opportunity to submit an abstract to a special session at the AGU Fall Meeting this December:  SH003. Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Retrospective

Long-range predictions of solar activity are essential to our space weather forecast capability. In order to improve predictions it is important to understand why past predictions succeeded or failed. Solar Cycle 24 was a below-average cycle. There were peaks in the sunspot number in the Northern hemisphere in 2011 and in the Southern in 2014. Predictions of the amplitude of Solar Cycle 24 had values ranging from zero to unprecedentedly high levels of solar activity. With the rapid increase in the quality of solar data and the capability of numerical models, we are improving our ability to forecast the amplitude of the next sunspot cycle. Some questions this session would address include: How did predictions of Solar Cycle 24 compare with the actual cycle? How do recent advances constrain future predictions? Papers addressing the success and failure of predictions of Solar Cycle 24 are solicited for this special session.

Follow this link to submit an abstract to this session https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/sa/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=25018

The Early Abstracts Submission deadline is 26 July, 2017, and the Regular Abstracts Submission deadline is 2 August, 2017.

Please join us in New Orleans for a discussion on how to more accurately predict the next solar cycle.

The Conveners of SH03:

William Dean Pesnell, NASA / GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Douglas Alan Biesecker, NOAA Boulder, SWPC, Boulder, CO, United States

Lisa Upton, Space Systems Research Corporation, Alexandria, VA, United States

3. AGU opportunity to submit an abstract to a special session at the AGU Fall Meeting this December: SH025: Waves, Turbulence, and Dissipation in Solar and Heliospheric Plasma Structures

Dear SHINE Community:

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the AGU Session

SH025: Waves, Turbulence, and Dissipation in Solar and Heliospheric Plasma Structures to be held in New Orleans, December 11-15, 2017,

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session26221

Abstract deadline is 2 August 2017 @ 23:59 EDT.

Session ID#: 26221

Session Description:

Remote-sensing and in-situ observations of solar coronal and heliospheric plasma provide ample evidence of waves and dissipation in MHD and kinetic regimes in turbulent solar and heliospheric plasma. The waves are detected in a wide range of scales, from global coronal waves, to kinetic scales in the magnetized inhomogeneous plasma structures. Evidence for turbulence and cascade is found from fluid to kinetic dissipation regimes. Laboratory experiments provide an important platform to study these waves in the various regimes in laminar and turbulent plasma, providing input for plasma wave theory development. Numerical models of the MHD and plasma kinetic waves and turbulence provide the critical connections between the observations, laboratory experiment, and theory. The goal of the session is to bridge the gaps between observers, experimentalist, and modelers of waves, turbulence and dissipation processes in solar and heliospheric plasma. Contributions based on recent observations and modeling results are especially welcome.

Primary Convener:  Leon Ofman, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Convener:  Shreekrishna Tripathi, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

We hope to see you in New Orleans!

 Thank you,

 Leon Ofman

4. “Into the Red Dragon’s Lair: Four-in-One Workshop Tackling Outstanding Problems in Heliophysics and Space Weather” at the Clayton Hotel, Cardiff, Wales, UK (03-08 December 2017) – First Announcement.
Dear Colleagues.
It is with great pleasure that we announce that registration and bookings are now open for our workshop entitled “Into the Red Dragon’s Lair: Four-in-One Workshop Tackling Outstanding Problems in Heliophysics and Space Weather” – we expect around 40 participants to take part in this workshop which will be held at The Clayton Hotel, Cardiff, Wales (UK) 03-08 December 2017.  This immediately follows the European Space Weather Week (ESWW) in Belgium and precedes the Fall AGU in the USA.
Full details and deadlines can be found on the workshop website here: https://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/meetings/IntoTheRedDragonsLair/.
Our Workshop encompasses four main themes:
- The “Fourth Remote-Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere Workshop”;
- “Where are we on Bz?” (a SEREN follow-on);
- “Novel Ionospheric Studies with Advanced Observing Techniques”; and
- The “11th LOFAR Solar Physics and Space Weather Key Science Project”.
(The combined workshop also incorporates the MWA SHI and future potential SKA SHI SWG science.)
The workshop aims to gather experts from the various fields of remote-sensing observations of the inner heliosphere, including EUV, white-/visible-light, and radio observations, together with modellers, in order to tackle key outstanding heliophysics issues.  The science learned from remote-sensing observations is critical to improving our capabilities of space-weather forecasting as well as having an impact on the fundamental physics behind how the Sun creates and drives the heliosphere.  It is also intended to establish closer working relations and devise the best ways our group can move the field forward as a whole, tapping into observational capabilities that can be used to aid the upcoming Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe Communities, as well as Space Weather science and forecasting enhancements in general.  The workshop also aims to look at ways in which we can more easily and efficiently share and access the various types of data between individual groups and across the different techniques.
The workshop will have a small registration fee (£120 early/£150 late – this includes the lunches, refreshments, welcome reception, workshop dinner, and excursion – but NOT accommodation) and a strong Welsh theme (including the refreshments, food, and excursion).
We look forward to welcoming you to Cardiff!
Best wishes,
Mario (SOC and LOC Chair, on behalf of the SOC and LOC).

Science Organising Committee (SOC):
Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space, UK) (Chair)
Michael (Mike) A. Hapgood (STFC RAL Space, UK)
Richard A. Fallows (ASTRON, NL)
Kent Miller (EOARD, UK/AFRL, USA)
Bernard (Bernie) V. Jackson (UCSD, US)
David (Dave) F. Webb (BC, US)
Biagio Forte (University of Bath, UK)
Alexander (Alec) MacKinnon (University of Glasgow, UK)
Gottfried Mann (AIP, DE)

Local Organising Committee (LOC):
Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space, UK) (Chair)
Catherine A. Baker (Baker-Bisi Executive Assistance, UK)
Annabel Cartwright (Cardiff University, UK)

5. Fall AGU - SH012: Space Weather Forecasting: Science, Operations, Future Missions, Missing Information, and the Economic Case - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
Dear All.
We ask for contributed abstracts to our co-convened SH (Solar and Heliospheric Physics) and SM (Magnetospheric Physics) Space Weather Forecasting: Science, Operations, Future Missions, Missing Information, and the Economic Case session at the upcoming Fall AGU in San Francisco, 11-15 December 2017 (http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/).  The abstract-submission deadline is 02 August 2017 at 11:59 P.M. EDT / 03 August 2017 at 03:59UT.  However, if you submit early (before 26 July 2017 11:59 P.M. EDT/27 July 2017 03:59UT), you will be entered into a free prize draw for a VIP Package (see: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/abstract-submissions/).
Full session details are below.  To submit, the first author must be the submitting author and must be an AGU member (by early July 2017).  First authors are allowed to submit one contributed abstract, or one contributed abstract and one invited abstract, or two invited abstracts to the science sessions.
To submit your abstract, please go here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session23441.
Please note that this session is being organized as one of the alternate-format sessions and the details will be given in the next announcement; please see: https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/alternate-session-formats/ for further AGU details on the alternate format sessions.  Invited abstracts and panelists to be announced in due course.
This is a follow-on from last-years very-successful session which attracted 69 abstracts covered over three dedicated oral sessions, one of which was a panel session, as well as a full and active poster session.
Best wishes, and thanks,
Mario (on behalf of all the SH012 Conveners).
Session ID#: 23441
Session Description:
Society is ever-more reliant on energy supplies and technologies proving increasingly susceptible to everyday and extreme space weather (SW) (power grids, GNSS-positioning/timing, aviation/maritime/rail, communications, etc.).  The present solar cycle's SW has proven to be, perhaps surprisingly, mostly driven by solar-wind structures rather than CME events.
Following the highly-successful sessions at Fall-AGUs-2015/2016, this intends to follow-up and further expand/continue the assessment of state-of-the-art global SW forecasting capabilities and establish where additional-services/improvements are necessary to advance our SW forecast/prediction capabilities with a focus on Lagrange missions.
We solicit contributions of: provisions/justifications of suitable observations/measurements; model developments to utilize future missions' data; ongoing developments in SW forecasting; science from SW operational missions (SWFO/ESA-UK-L5/GOES/DSCOVR/etc.); and identifications of data/model gaps.  We also encourage submissions that quantify the economics of SW.  It is time to review the economic assessments status and identify the paths forward to further-improve the societal-economic case for SW research and operations.
Primary Convener:  Mario Mark Bisi, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Harwell Campus, Didcot, United Kingdom.
Co-Conveners:  Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Edward J. Oughton, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and David F Webb, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States.
Co-Organized between:
SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics (SH), and SPA-Magnetospheric Physics (SM)

Cross-Listed:
NH - Natural Hazards
P - Planetary Sciences
PA - Public Affairs
SA - SPA-Aeronomy

Index Numbers:
4305 - Natural Hazards: Space Weather
7594 - Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy: Instruments and techniques
7924 - Space Weather: Forecasting

7999 - Space Weather: General or miscellaneous
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