CEDAR email: UN/US ISWI Workshop Abstract Deadline - April 24th

[Patricia Doherty]

Dear Colleagues,

The abstract deadline for the UN/US Workshop on the International Space
Weather Initiative: The Decade after IHY 2007 is April 24th. The workshop
will be held at Boston College on July 31 through August 4, 2017.
Abstracts can be submitted online on: iswi2017.bc.edu.  If you need a few
more days, please contact Patricia.Doherty at bc.edu before the deadline.
Please also register on this website as soon as possible for planning
purposes.

This workshop marks the 10th 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.

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.  Finally, this
workshop is held in preparation for UNISPACE+50 in 2018, the 50th
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.

Please visit the website: iswi2017.bc.edu for workshop details,
registration and abstract instructions, and sponsorship opportunities for
US participants.  The website also includes the link to the United Nations
Office for Outer Space Affairs website for this workshop.

​With best regards,

Pat Doherty, Boston College, Local Organizing Chair

Nat Gopalswamy​
​
​, ISWI Chair​

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-- 
Patricia H. Doherty
Director
Institute for Scientific Research
Boston College
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