CEDAR email: [Announcement] First ISWI Seminar of 2025

[Maria Graciela Molina]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the first ISWI Webinar of 2025 by* Dr Lucilla
Alfonsi*  scheduled for *January 29th, 2025 at 3 PM* Central European Time
(9 AM EDT; 7:30 PM IST).

To register for the virtual seminar, please send an email to:
 iswisupport at bc.edu <iswisupport at bc.edu>. Please include “*ISWI Seminar
Registration*” in the subject line. There is a limit of 300 participants,
so please register your interest as soon as possible. The MS Teams link
will be sent to registered participants 2 days before the event.

Looking forward to meeting you in the first ISWI seminar of 2025!
With kind regards,

Graciela Molina
on behalf of the ISWI Seminar Committee
https://iswi-secretariat.org/home-page/organization/iswi-webinar-committee/

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*Title:* *The importance of the polar regions to understand the
magnetosphere-atmosphere coupling: **the AGATA initiative*
*Speaker*:* Lucilla Alfonsi*
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)

*Abstract: *
AGATA (Antarctic Geospace and ATmosphere research) is a new Scientific
Research Programme (SRP) approved by SCAR (Scientific Committee on
Antarctic Research) in 2024 after more than 10 years from the previous
initiative on similar topics.
AGATA started on 1 January 2025 and will be officially kicked off in late
March 2025 (www.scar.org/science/agata/home/).
The SRP aims to gather the scientific communities working on polar regions
to answering the outstanding scientific questions within atmospheric and
space physics over polar regions:
    • How are different atmospheric layers coupled in the polar regions?
    • How does the upper polar atmosphere respond to increased geomagnetic
activity, including energy transfer from space?
    • How does the whole polar atmosphere impact short- and long-term
climate variations?

As the central role of the polar regions in understanding the coupling
between the magnetosphere and the neutral and the ionized atmosphere,
answering these questions will not only have implications on the
understanding of processes in the polar atmosphere, but it will also
greatly improve our understanding of the global atmospheric dynamics, thus
contributing to the development of large-scale whole atmosphere and climate
models.

The webinar aims to open the discussion within the ISWI community to adopt
best practices for collaboration and fruitful development also in view of
the next IPY (2032-2033) opportunities.


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*Dra. María Graciela Molina*
Associate Professor FACET -UNT
Researcher CONICET
Associated researcher INGV

Av. Independencia 1800, Tucumán - Argentina
Tel: +54-381-4364093 (ext.7765)
gmolina at herrera.unt.edu.ar /
*m.graciela.molina at gmail.com* <m.graciela.molina at gmail.com>
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