Online Seminar Series

SCOSTEP/PRESTO Online Seminar Series

In response to the current difficulties of hosting meetings in person, SCOSTEP/PRESTO is hosting online seminars to deliver the latest scientific topics and/or instructive review presentations on solar-terrestrial physics related to SCOSTEP’s PRESTO program. This online seminar is organized with the support of the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, Japan.  The seminar details with recordings are also available at this link. 

We are pleased to announce the next SCOSTEP/PRESTO three (3) online seminars:

The SCOSTEP Distinguished Young Scientist Award 2024 Ceremony and the 23th SCOSTEP/PRESTO Online Seminar
#23 Title: Upper Limit of Earth’s Outer Radiation Belt Electron Fluxes: How Intense Can It Get and Why?
Speaker: Dr. Man Hua
Affiliation: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Date/time: September 23, 2024 (Mon), 22:00-23:00 UT (15:00-16:00 PDT)
 
Zoom Registration URL (Register in advance for this webinar):
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x0ntBHtzQVSSPz8NS7Z25Q
 
#24 Title: Structure and dynamics of the heliosphere – a better understanding for better Space Weather forecasting
Speaker: Dr. Manuela Temmer
Affiliation: Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Austria
Date/time: October 9, 2024 (Wed), 11:00-12:00 UT (13:00-14:00 CEST)
 
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The SCOSTEP Distinguished Scientist Award 2024 Ceremony and the 25th SCOSTEP/PRESTO Online Seminar
#25 Title: Solar Eruptions: Initiation, Propagation and Their Earth Impact
Speaker: Dr. Jie Zhang
Affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University, Virginia, USA
Date/time: November 8, 2024 (Fri), 15:00-16:00 UT (10:00-11:00 EST)

Zoom Registration URL (Register in advance for this webinar):
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kj0uui3LSnSRzfcQHOFHDg

Please register at least 2 days in advance for each webinar.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
 
 

Previous SCOSTEP/PRESTO Online Seminars (recordings available courtesy of ISEE here or at the links below)

#22 Title: Space Weather Consequences of a Weak Heliospheric State
Speaker: Dr. Nat Gopalswamy
Affiliation: Heliosphysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Date/time: July 30, 2024 (Tue), 13:00-14:00 UT (09:00-10:00 EDT)
 
#21 Title: It’s YES for NO, O/N2 and e: Perturbative and transport effects by gravity waves in the mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere
Speaker: Dr. Hanli Liu
Affiliation: High Altitude Observatory, NCAR, USA
Date/time: April 29, 2024, 23:00-24:00 UT
 
#20 Title: Response of High-latitude Surface Climate to the Variation of Solar Spectral Irradiance: sensitivity studies for a Bottom-up Mechanism
Speaker: Professor Xianglei Huang
Affiliation: University of Michigan, USA
Date/time: February 13, 2024, 22:00-23:00 UT (17:00-18:00 EST)
 

#19 SCOSTEP Fellow Award Ceremony and 19th SCOSTEP/PRESTO Online Seminar
Title: Climate implications of solar irradiance and energetic particles: my way in science
Speaker: Dr. Eugene Rozanov
Affiliation: Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos/World Radiation Center (PMOD/WRC), Davos, Switzerland
Date/time: January 23, 2024, 13:00-14:00 UT (14:00-15:00 CET)
Recording (120Mb): https://stdb2.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/SCOSTEP/

#18 Title: Geo-effectiveness of interplanetary coronal mass ejections: How much can be affected due to their evolution in the heliosphere?
Speaker: Dr. Sergio Dasso
Affiliation: LAMP at the Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, UBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Date/time: October 26, 2023, 12:00-13:00 UT (09:00-10:00 ART, 07:00-08:00 CDT, 21:00-22:00 JST)
Recording (184Mb): https://stdb2.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/SCOSTEP/

#17 Title: From Earth to the Edge of Space: How Data Assimilation Advances the Science and Engineering of Forecasting Near Earth Space Environments
Speaker: Dr. Tomoko Matsuo
Affiliation: Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Date/time: August 24, 2023, 13:00-14:00 UT (07:00-08:00 MDT)
 
#16 Title: Solar Influence on climate via energetic particle precipitation: Why is it important and what are the current challenges?
Speaker: Dr. Annilka Seppala
Affiliation: University of Otago, New Zealand
Date/time: April 19, 2023, 08:00-09:00 UT
 
#15 Title: Forecasting the Extreme End of Solar Weather: Flares, Coronal Mass Ejections and SEP Event Complexes
Author: Dr. Manolis K. Georgoulis
Affiliation: RCAAM of the Academy of Athens, Greece
Date/time: September 23, 2022, 10:00-11:00 UT
 
#14 Title: Mesoscales and their Contribution to the Global Response: A Focus on the Magnetotail Transition Region and Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
Author: Dr. Christine Gabrielse
Affiliation: The Aerospace Corporation, USA
Date/time: July 5 (Tue), 2022, 22:00-23:00 UT
 
#13 Title: Ca II observations: Exploiting historical treasures for solar activity and variability studies
Author: Dr. Theodosios Chatzistergos – SCOSTEP 2022 Distinguished Young Scientist Award Winner
Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Gottingen, Germany
Date/time: June 16 (Thu), 2022, 12:00-13:00 UT
 
#12 Title: First Solar Cycle of Observations of our Heliosphere’s Interaction with the Very Local Interstellar Medium
Author: Prof. David J. McComas – SCOSTEP 2022 Distinguished Scientist Award Lecture
Affiliation: Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
Date/time: May 11 (Wed), 2022, 14:00-15:00 UT
 
#11 Title: Solar-Terrestrial Coupling via Energetic Particle Precipitation
Speaker: Dr. Cora Randall
Affiliation: University of Colorado, USA
Date/time: February 10, 2022 14:00-15:00 UT
 
#10 Title: Understanding and Modeling Solar Eruptions: Where Do We Stand?
Speaker: Dr. Tibor Török
Affiliation: Predictive Science Inc., USA
Date/time: November 30, 2021 23:00-24:00 UT
 
#9 Title: Space Weather in the Thermosphere-Ionosphere System – observations and Insights from the GOLD* Mission (*Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk)
Speaker: Dr. Richard Eastes
Affiliation: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Date/time: September 23, 2021 14:00-15:00 UT
 
#8 Title: The Sun making history. The mechanism behind the varying amplitude of the solar cycle
Author: Prof. Dr. Kristof Petrovay
Affiliation: ELTE Eotvos Lorand University, Department of Astronomy, Hungary
Date/time: June 8 (Tue), 2021, 13:00-14:00 UT
 
#7 Title: Physics at the edge between Earth’s atmosphere and space
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Luebken (SCOSTEP 2021 Distinguished Service Award Winner)
Affiliation: Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kuhlungsborn, Germany
Date/time: May 21 (Fri), 2021, 12:00-13:00 UT
 
#6 Title: Utilizing galactic cosmic rays as signatures of interplanetary transients
Author: Mateja Dumbovic (SCOSTEP 2020 Distinguished Young Scientist Award Winner)
Affiliation: Hvar Observatory, Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Date/time: January 19 (Tue), 2021, 12:00-13:00 UT
 
#5 Title: Magnetospheric Response to Interplanetary Shocks: ULF Wave-Particle Interaction Perspective
Author: Q.-G. Zong (SCOSTEP 2020 Distinguished Scientist Award Winner)
Affiliation: Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Date/time: January 14 (Thur), 2021, 00:00-01:00 UT
 
#4 Title: The Ionosphere Connection Explorer – Results from the First Year on orbit (Seminar #4 Recording 359 Mb)
Speaker: Thomas Immel, (Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, USA)
Date/time: November 17, 2020, 23:00-24:00 UT
 
#3 Title: Developing a Highly Predictable Geomagnetic Index to Gauge Magnetospheric Activity and Space Weather (Seminar #3 Recording; 81 Mb)
Author: Joe Borovsky (Space Science Institute, USA)
Date/time: September 10, 2020, 22:00-23:00 UT
 
#2 Title: Extreme solar events: A new paradigm    (Seminar #2 Recording; 90 Mb)
Author: Ilya Usoskin (University of Oulu, Finland)
Date/time: July 20 (Mon), 2020, 12:00-13:00 UT
 
#1 Title: A challenge to Physics-based Prediction of Giant Solar Flares (Seminar #1 Recording; 420Mb)
Author: Kanya Kusano (Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, Japan)
Date/time: May 26 (Tue), 2020, 12:00-13:00 UT
The main contents of this seminar have now been published in Science at https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6503/587/tab-article-info