<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dear Colleagues,</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">This
is the second announcement for the UN/US Workshop on the International Space
Weather Initiative: The Decade after IHY 2007. 
The workshop will be held at Boston College on July 31 through August 4,
2017. Abstract, registration and logistical information is available on:
<a href="http://iswi2017.bc.edu">iswi2017.bc.edu</a>. <span></span></p>

<p style="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 jointly by the UN Office
for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) and Boston College 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. <span></span></p>

<p style="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. The workshop will then turn to 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> Finally,
this workshop is 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 help develop a coherent
international policy towards an appropriate response to space weather. <span></span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The
Local Organizing Committee website (<a href="http://iswi2017.bc.edu">iswi2017.bc.edu</a>) includes the workshop
logistical information together with registration and abstract submittal opportunities
for US participants. The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs website,
listed below, includes the workshop information and registration, abstract
submittal and financial sponsorship opportunities for non-US participants.  Note that the abstract deadline is March 1^st.
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<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/psa/schedule/2017/2017-un-usa-workshop-on-international-space-weather-initiative.html" target="_blank"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/psa/schedule/2017/2017-un-usa-workshop-on-international-space-weather-initiative.html</span></a><span></span></p></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">​Please join us in Boston for the UN/US Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Patricia Doherty (Boston College)<br>Nat Gopalswamy (NASA)​</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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