Stephen R. Walton, editor
November 1, 1997
From fmi@ll.iac.es (Fernando Moreno-Insertis)
29 Oct 1997
A CROSSROADS for EUROPEAN SOLAR and HELIOSPHERIC PHYSICS:
RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS and FUTURE MISSION POSSIBILITIES
First Announcement (October 1997)
Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain
March 23-27, 1998
Hosted by the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
The time is ripe for an in-depth assessment of the most important results from SOHO, Ulysses and Yohkoh and for discussion of the next possible steps for the European solar community in space. Exciting possibilities include stereoscopic viewing, probe-sampling of the corona and ultra-high resolution observation. The workshop will therefore consist of a series of reviews on results from current space missions together with extensive poster sessions. In addition, there will be overviews of the current situation in ESA and other agencies, together with accounts of the future mission possibilities.
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (SOC)
E. Priest (chair), C Chiuderi, L Culhane, R Harrison, E Marsch, O Kjeldseth-Moe, F Moreno-Insertis, M Schussler, S Solanki, JC Vial.
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LOC)
F. Moreno-Insertis (chair), A. Jimenez, M. Murphy, P. Palle, T. Roca Cortes, H. Socas-Navarro, J.C. del Toro Iniesta, M. Vazquez, C. Westendorp Plaza
INVITED SPEAKERS
R Bonnet, J Christensen-Dalsgaard, M Schussler, C Chiuderi, E Leer, T Roca Cortes, R Harrison, E Antonucci, P Bochsler, A Balogh, L Culhane, J Davila, R Pellinen, D Rust, V Bothmer, L Dame, L Golub, D LeQueau, E Marsch, W Schmidt, S Tsuneta, W Schmidt
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION and PRE-REGISTRATION FORM use the Conference Web Page:
http://www.iac.es/project/eshp
Further queries: email to eshpconf@ll.iac.es.
From "Onsager, Terry" tonsager@sec.noaa.gov
30 Oct 1997
Advances in space weather research, the availability of new real-time data, and efforts at the space weather operations centers to use new models and data operationally are all helping to realize the goals of the National Space Weather Program. A meeting to continue these efforts on the near-term and future transition of research models and data into operational use will be held in Boulder, CO on February 5-6, 1998. The meeting is being jointly organized by the NSF Division of Atmospheric Sciences, the AF Research Laboratory and the NOAA Space Environment Center. Convenors are: Terry Onsager (SEC), Greg Ginet (AF) and Rich Behnke (NSF). The purpose of this meeting is to provide a forum for space environment modelers and other researchers to interact with people from organizations that provide forecasts and services to space weather customers and to address the science problems that are important for space weather activities. The meeting will provide an opportunity for modelers to describe tools that will soon be available for transition to space weather services, and will provide an opportunity for the space weather operations centers to describe the processes they are implementing to select, evaluate, and eventually graduate models/data into operational use. Among the issues that will be emphasized at this meeting are: data availability and data requirements for space weather models and standardization that could benefit both the research and the operations communities.
Additional details regarding the meeting agenda and logistics will be distributed shortly.
From sylvain@cfassp45.harvard.edu (Sylvain Korzennik)
31 Oct 1997
First Announcement and Call for Papers
Structure and Dynamics of the Interior
of the Sun and Sun-like Stars
SOHO 6/GONG 98 Workshop
1-4 June 1998
Boston Park Plaza Hotel
Boston, USA
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/SOHO6
or
To indicate your interest in attending the meeting or in receiving further information, please complete a pre-registration form by 15 December 1997. An electronic version is available on the World Wide Web at:
Note that the Second announcement will be distributed exclusively electronically (sent via e-mail and posted on the Web).
| Calendar of Events and Deadlines | |
| Pre-Registration Deadline: | 15 December, 1997 |
| Second Announcement: | 12 January, 1998 |
| Travel Grant Application Deadline: | 9 February, 1998 |
| Registration Deadline: | 16 March, 1998 |
| Abstract Submission Deadline: | 6 April, 1998 |
| Meeting and delivery of camera ready papers to Editor: | 1-4 June, 1998 |
| Publication of Proceedings: | September, 1998 |
A limited number of travel grants is available. Priority will be given to students and young scientists. The grant application deadline is 9 February 1998. Details on applying for a travel grant are available on the Web at:
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/SOHO6/travelgrants.html
or
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/GONG98/travelgrants.html
Local Contact:
Sylvain G. Korzennik
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Physics Division, M/S 16.
60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Email: skorzennik@cfa.harvard.edu
Phone: +1 (617) 496-7916; FAX: +1 (617) 495-7049
From deland@ssbuv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Matthew DeLand)
20 Oct 1997
The NOAA-11 SBUV/2 solar spectral irradiance data set is now available on-line. This data set contains daily spectra covering the 170-400 nm wavelength region at 1.1 nm resolution for the period December 1988 to October 1994. To access these data via anonymous FTP, use the following procedure:
ftp ssbuv.gsfc.nasa.gov login: anonymous password: your E-mail address cd pub/solar/sbuv2/noaa11
The wavelength scale, observation dates, and irradiance data are provided in XDR format binary files called 'wvlnth.xdr', 'dates_v1.xdr', and 'irrad_v1.xdr' respectively. The 'readme_v1.txt' file provides additional information.
These and other solar data can also be accessed through our Web page at http://ssbuv.gsfc.nasa.gov/solar.html
For further information, contact
Matthew DeLand (Hughes STX Corporation; mdeland@ccmail.stx.com)
Richard Cebula (Hughes STX Corporation; cebula@ssbuv.gsfc.nasa.gov)
From koren@cyclops.nrl.navy.mil (Clarence Korendyke)
30 Oct 1997
The High Resolution Telescope and Spectrograph (HRTS) instrument was successfully launched on Sept. 30, 1997 from the White Sands Missile Range. The flight data and collaborative ground and space based observations resulted in an excellent comprehensive data set to explore the relationship of explosive events to the underlying photospheric field and overlying coronal plasmas. The simultaneous observations in many spectral lines will permit study of the dynamics and flows in the chromospheric and transition region plasmas. The observation target for the mission was the coronal hole at the solar north pole and neighboring quiet sun. A supporting data set was obtained at Kitt Peak Observatory (chromospheric and photospheric magnetograms), Big Bear Solar Observatory and University of Hawaii. The space based collaborative observing campaign included SXT (YOHKOH), MDI (SOHO), EIT (SOHO), CDS (SOHO) and SUMER (SOHO).
Sample images from the flight are available at the NRL HRTS web site:
http://wwwsolar.nrl.navy.mil/HRTS10.html
From Ken Schatten kschatte@nsf.gov
23 Oct 1997
Editor's Note: This was forwarded for inclusion in SolarNews.
Colleagues:
I am pleased to announce that the new program solicitation for Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships is now available. Since this solicitation will only be available on the NSF Homepage (by noon October 23), I recommend you broadcast this information to your constituents electronically or by any means you see fit.
The web address where the solicitation can be found is:
As many of you know, this is an extraordinary opportunity to make major advances in science and engineering research and education. So, please help spread the word about this coming competition.
Thanks,
Nat Pitts
Director
Office of Science and Technology
Infrastructure
From J. Christensen-Dalsgaard jcd@obs.aau.dk
29 Oct 1997
I have made the latest (fourth) edition of these notes available on the WWW, at URL
http://www.obs.aau.dk/~jcd/oscilnotes/
The present edition has been fairly extensively revised and extended, and I hope that it will be found useful in this form.
Needless to say, I should be very grateful for information about any errors or other problems that might be discovered.
From "Gary, G. Allen" Allen.Gary@msfc.nasa.gov
28 Oct 1997
The 1997 August issue of Solar Physics has six orthographic projections of a set of 3-dimensional synthesized coronal loops. These images can be cut and folded into a cube to show the loops from six directions. For those that want to save your Solar Physics journal from such misuse, you can download the image from the URL site:
http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/images/3dbox.jpg
or see the results by going to
http://wwwssl.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/images/boxanim.mov
for a Quicktime version of the box.
The Space and Atmospheric Sciences Group of Los Alamos National Laboratory has immediate openings for postdoctoral research in the fields of solar wind, magnetospheric, and planetary physics. Opportunities exist for the analysis and interpretation of data from current missions (Ulysses, ACE, Geosynchronous, Polar/TIDE, FAST) and upcoming missions (Lunar Prospector, New Millenium) as well as for participation in the hardware phase of future missions (IMAGE, TWINS, GENESIS, Mars 2001). To be eligible, candidates must have obtained their Ph.D. within the last three years. These appointments are normally for 2 years but may be extended to include third and fourth years if the situation warrants. Interested candidates should contact Michelle Thomsen (mthomsen@lanl.gov; MS D466, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545; 505-667-1210) or Jack Gosling (jgosling@lanl.gov; MS D466, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545; 505-667-5389).
Boris Filippov (SolarMail alias: BFilippov) can now be reached at bfilip@izmiran.troitsk.ru.
Shyamsundar Parhi (SolarMail alias: SParhi) is now at shyam.parhi@msfc.nasa.gov; his new SnailMail address is
Space Science Laboratory
Mail code ES82
NASA/ Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, AL 35812
USA
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