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Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative: <span></span></p>

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International Heliophysical Year 2007<span></span></p>

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College<span></span></p>

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Hill, MA<span></span></p>

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31 – August 4, 2017<span></span></p>

<p style="margin-left:0.5in;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">This workshop
marks the 10^th anniversary of the International Heliophysical
Year, which led to the genesis of the International Space Weather Initiative.
It is organized in the framework of the Basic Space Science Initiative of the
United Nations Programme on Space Applications to highlight the achievements
made over the past ten years and to show-case the worldwide development of
science, capacity building, and outreach. The UN Workshops on ISWI have been
aimed at providing a global forum for space weather experts from developed and developing
countries, including representatives of the major instrument operators and data
providers. In particular the Workshop will focus on recent advances made in
scientific research by utilizing ISWI instrument data in conjunction with space
mission data in adding significant new knowledge on space weather phenomena
near Earth and interplanetary space.<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span> <span></span></p>

<p style="margin-left:0.5in;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The workshop will begin with a high level international
forum on the economic and societal effects of extreme space weather. This forum
will include keynote speakers from major international organizations followed
by a panel session to discuss issues and policies for acknowledging space
weather as a global challenge.<span></span></p>

<p style="margin-left:0.5in;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The workshop is also held in preparation for UNISPACE+50
in 2018, the 50^th anniversary of the first UN Conference on the
Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE), held in Vienna in
1968. The three components of the Workshop will also help develop a coherent
international policy towards an appropriate response to space weather. <span></span></p>

<p style="margin-left:0.5in;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">More details on this workshop will be coming soon.  For additional information contact Patricia
Doherty (<a href="mailto:patricia.doherty@bc.edu">patricia.doherty@bc.edu</a>) or Nat Gopalswamy (<a href="mailto:nat.gopalswamy@nasa.gov">nat.gopalswamy@nasa.gov</a>).<span></span></p>

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</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Patricia H. Doherty</div><div dir="ltr">Director<div>Institute for Scientific Research</div><div>Boston College</div></div></div></div></div>
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