HamSCI Meeting Receives NSF Support

The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) has recognized the need to join the amateur radio and professional science communities through a recent grant award to support the upcoming HamSCI Workshop from March 22-23, 2019 in Cleveland, OH. The conference is hosted by the Case Western Reserve University Amateur Radio Club and organized and administered by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). The NSF conference grant from the Geosciences Directorate will provide important facilitation for conference activities and associated logistics.

The theme of the 2019 HamSCI Workshop will be “Ionospheric Effects and Sensing,” which includes the use of amateur radio techniques for the characterization and study of ionospheric phenomena such as traveling ionospheric disturbances, sporadic E, response to solar flares, geomagnetic storms, the 2024 total solar eclipse other space weather events. In order to facilitate this science, continued development of the HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station and discussion of integration of amateur radio into the collegiate curriculum will also take place. Featured speakers include well-known amateur radio author Ward Silver, N0AX, propagation specialist Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA, and MIT Haystack Observatory Ionospheric Scientist Dr. Larisa Goncharenko.

Papers and presentations relating to amateur radio and science, particularly space and atmospheric science, space weather, and radio astronomy will be accepted. The HamSCI workshop seeks to not only advance science, but also strengthen the synergy between professional scientific and amateur radio communities and develop open technologies and observation networks that can be used in conjunction with existing space science and space weather infrastructure. Registration for the workshop is open. Please visit http://hamsci.org/hamsci2019 for more information.