Jennifer Hartisch (Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Germany), has been awarded as among the top five finalists at the prestigious Student Paper Competition within URSIGASS2023 with the paper “Observations of Kilometer-Scale Instabilities in the Polar Summer Mesosphere Resembling Varicose Mode Flows”. Congratulations!
Finally, the winning applicants will have to make a 5 minutes presentation during the kick-off meeting of AGATA (held on 12 July as a side meeting during the conference) to explain their research and their interest in AGATA.
You are invited to join the webinar “**Probing the polar ionosphere in-situ and remotely” ,**given by Dr. Wojciech Miloch (University of Oslo), 14 February 2023, at 13:00 UTC. Access here.
10th INTERNATIONAL URSI STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION
Financially Sponsored by the U.S. National Committee for URSI
Chair: Sembiam Rengarajan, California State University, Northridge, CA, USA
Student Paper Prize winners will be awarded certificates, and checks in the amounts of $1500, $1250, $1000, $750
and $500, respectively, for 1st place through 5th place
The XXXVth URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS 2023) is sponsored jointly by The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), and the Science Council of Japan (SCJ), and will be held in Sapporo, Japan on August 19 – 26, 2023.
The scientific program will be organized covering the areas of URSI Commissions A to K and will comprise oral/poster sessions with invited and contributed papers, Commission Tutorials, General Lectures, and Public Lecture. In addition, there will be workshops, short courses, young scientist programs containing the Young Scientist Award and the Student Paper Competition, accompanying persons’ programs, and industrial exhibition.
Prospective participants are invited to submit papers for inclusion in the scientific program. Detailed information is posted on the URSI GASS 2023 website. Any topics related to URSI Commissions are welcome. In addition, papers addressing multidisciplinary aspects will be assigned to inter-Commission joint sessions.
COVID 19: URSI GASS 2023 is planned to be held as an in-person event. Please see details on modalities here.
The Antarctic Geospace and ATmosphere reseArch (AGATA) Programme Planning Group is a coordinated, worldwide effort to monitor, investigate and better understand the physics of the polar atmosphere and the impact of the Sun-Earth interactions on the polar regions. AGATA will take advantage of existing and planned instrumentation in Antarctica, but also in the Arctic and satellite-based observations, and it will aim for coordinated research efforts and data exchange. This bi-polar perspective will allow the study of significant interhemispheric asymmetries in the atmospheric response observed in the polar regions.
After about 3 years of work, a team born within the GRAPE EG and now proposing the planning group AGATA SRP has just published on Surveys in Geophysics a review paper titled : Review of Environmental Monitoring by Means of Radio Waves in the Polar Regions: From Atmosphere to Geospace. Enjoy reading!
The White Paper Polar atmosphere and Geospace: Present knowledge, infrastructures and future research directions is now downloadable at the SCAR Library.
The White Paper will be soon published on the SCAR Bulletin.
The GRAPE on line worskhop has been held via Google Meet 1-3 July 2020. The workshop has been followed by, on the average, 65 participants from all over the world that had the occasion to discuss on the future research direction of the Polar Atmosphere and Geospace.
GRAPE/RESOURCE Online Workshop 1-3 July 2020
WHY: In light of the cancellation of the SCAR Open Science Conference 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, you are hereby invited to participate in an online workshop on topics related to the SCAR Expert Group GRAPE (www.grape.scar.org/) and to the new Proposal Planning Group (PPG) RESOURCE “Radio Sciences Research on AntarCtic AtmosphEre”. RESOURCE aims to gather the communities that investigate the polar atmosphere, with particular reference to Antarctica but with a bi-polar perspective, especially by means of radio probes, into a common shared initiative.
You are kindly invited to register for the workshop to give your valuable contribution.
WHEN: The workshop will take place on 1-3 July 2020, 13:00-15:00 GMTeach day, viaGoogle Meet. The link will be sent with the confirmation of registration. To participate, registration (free of charge) is mandatory.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Registration: opens 20 May, closes 15 June**. We are sorry registration is now closed.****.**
GRAPE on line workshop program .
PARALLEL SESSION DESCRIPTIONS (Day 2)
Conveners: José Valentin Bageston & Monia Negusini
Conveners: Nicolas Bergeot & Emilia Correia
Conveners: Luca Spogli & Pierre J. Cilliers
GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS AND PRESENTATIONS
In order to facilitate and encourage the participants to contribute to the discussions around common studies/investigations, authors are kindly asked to highlight the following aspects in their presentations:
Presentations upload: opens 20 June, closes 29 June. The link for uploading the presentations (as pdf) will be sent with confirmation of registration. In case of difficulties please write to Nicolas Bergeot.
Please prepare one pdf file containing the presentation (file size not to exceed 10 MB). The name of the file should be: Last name of first author_session number.pdf, e.g. Alfonsi_Session1.pdf
If presentations include published materials, please ensure compliance with one of the following options: a) open-access content distributed under a Creative Commons License, or b) public domain works not protected by copyright, or c) permission has been obtained from the publisher. In all cases, do ensure correct attribution with full citation of the original source.
Please note that your pdf will remain online on the GRAPE website. By uploading your presentation material, you grant SCAR the right to keep your material online for viewing and download by individuals participating in the workshop.
HOPING FOR YOUR ENTHUSIASTIC PARTICIPATION
Kind regards
Local Organizing Committee of the GRAPE/RESOURCE online workshop: Giorgiana De Franceschi, INGV, Nicolas Bergeot, ROB, Pierre Cilliers, SANSA, Lucilla Alfonsi, INGV.
Web Masters of the GRAPE/RESOURCE online workshop: Silvia Pau, INGV, Simone Vecchi, INGV.
The Call for Abstracts has been issued for:
1) the XXXVI SCAR (Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 31 July - 11 August 2020),
2) the XXXIII URSI GASS (Rome, Italy, 29 August - 5 September 2020).
You are solicited to submit your contributions to the GRAPE related sessions. Financial support is available for 2 EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS (within 35 years old) submitting and presenting a paper to the XXXVI SCAR.
1. XXXVI SCAR call for abstract deadline: 28 February 2020, 5 pm AEST
#1 (Physical Sciences)
Title: Astronomy and Geospace Observations from Antarctica
Conveners: Tony Travouillon, Lucilla Alfonsi, Adriana Gulisano, Jennifer Cooper
#11 (Physical Sciences and Geosciences)
Title: Remote Sensing of the Polar Regions
Conveners: Anna Hogg, Giorgiana De Franceschi, Nicolas Bergeot, Helen Fricker
Financial support for travel expenses up to 1000 USD is available for 2 EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS (within 35 years old) submitting and presenting a paper to sessions #1 or #11. The ECRs that will apply shall send the abstract submitted, the abstract acceptance and their current position (a short cv) to the GRAPE leaders (giorgiana.defranceschi @ ingv.it, nicolas.bergeot @ oma.be) to participate to the initiative.
2. XXXIII URSI GASS call for abstracts deadline: 31 January 2020
#GHJ1 (Joint session)
Title: The Polar Environment and Geospace
Conveners: Lucilla Alfonsi, Nicolas Bergeot, Mark Clilverd, Stefan Lotz
In 2020 two exciting international Conferences are expected for which scientific sessions dealing with the “Geospace, Space Weather and Polar Environment” have been planned.
The first Conference is the XXXVI SCAR, that will be held in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, from 31 July to 11 August 2020. The SCAR Conference will finish just in time to give you the opportunity to attend XXXIII URSI GASS (General Assembly and Scientific Symposium), Rome, Italy, 29 August-5 September 2020.
The call for papers for both the Conferences is not yet issued, be tuned!
A youtube video about the Research activities at EACF, the Brazilian Antarctic Station (Estação Antártica Brasileira Comandante Ferraz) is available. It is in portuguese, with legend in English. Watch the video!
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Announcement: EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2019, 7 - 12 April 2019, Vienna, Austria. A session deals with the middle and upper atmosphere on the planetary scale. Link…
The 2018 school “Polar Upper Atmosphere: from Science to Operational Issues”, has been held at the International School of Space Science in L’Aquila, Italy, on 17-21 September 2018. A short note on the school is available
The XXXV SCAR BIENNIAL MEETINGS AND OPEN SCIENCE CONFERENCE has been held at Davos (Switzerland) 15 - 26 June 2018. Available documentation… more