Call for nominations: international space weather and space climate medals

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce the 2019 contest for the international space
weather and space climate medals. The new medal recipients will be
announced in a medal ceremony at the European Space Weather Week, the
18th of November, 2019 (http://www.stce.be/esww16/medals.php).

All three prizes are prestigious recognitions of recipients’ major
contributions in the field of space weather and space climate. Medal
recipients’ work must have been documented in peer review journals or
book chapters, or must be a technological contribution that has led to a
fully implemented new space weather or space climate capability. Medal
recipients’ work must be relevant to space weather or space climate The
work must also be internationally recognized.

In addition to the above common criteria, there are the following
specific requirements for each of the three medals:

    The Kristian Birkeland Medal for Space Weather and Space Climate:

The recipient of the Kristian Birkeland Medal must have demonstrated a
unique ability to combine basic and applied research to develop useful
space weather or space climate products that are being used outside the
research community, and/or across scientific research disciplines. The
work must have led to a better physical comprehension of the
solar-terrestrial phenomena related to space weather and space climate,
to a drastic improvement of space weather and space climate modeling, or
to a new generation of instruments.

    The Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal for Space Weather and Space Climate:

The recipient of the Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal must have demonstrated a
unique ability to bind the space weather and space climate community in
a spirit of peace and friendship, to educate within the space weather
and space climate community, to go also beyond the space weather and
space climate research community and address larger audiences, and/or to
serve the space weather and the space climate.

    The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal for Space Weather and Space Climate:

The prize rewards a young researcher (younger than 35 years, or having
successfully defended her/his thesis within the last 6 years prior to
the ESWW2018, i.e. after October 30th, 2012) for outstanding
achievements in space weather or space climate with an innovative approach.
The six-years period is increased with the duration of any parental
leave taken during the period.

  How to nominate?

In order to nominate a person for one of the international space weather
and space climate medals, please send a pdf document including:

-Your name, first name, professional address.

-The name, first name, professional address of the person that you nominate.

-Which of the three medals you nominate the person for.

-Reasons for the nomination (two pages). Please, make sure that these
reasons relate to space weather and space climate and fulfill the
criteria below*.*

-A full CV of the nominee.

-Please include letters of support fromtwo colleagues, preferably
outside your own home institution. You may also include those two
colleagues as co-signatories on the proposal. For the Chizhevsky prize,
a recommendation letter from the PhD advisor (in case (s)he is not the
person sending the application) is recommended.

-Up to five references (journal articles, prizes, patents…).

Self-nominations are not allowed. The medal committee members cannot be
nominated or nominate.

You may resubmit a previous nomination that was not successful. Please
indicate in your nomination that you wish the committee to reconsider
it. You can update the documents or ask the committee to reconsider the
already submitted files.

Send your documents by email only to SWmedals@oma.be
<mailto:SWmedals@oma.be>. The deadline for the nominations is
*September, 8th 2019.*

  Composition of the Medal Committee:

The Medal committee is composed of

Prof. Jean-Marie Frere, the Royal Academy of Belgium,

Executive director Øyvind Sørensen of the Norwegian Academy of Science

Dr. Galina Kotova, of the Russian Academy of Science.

Prof. Jøran Moen, Dr. Pål Brekke, Norway

Prof. Anatoli Petrukovich and Dr. Vladimir Kalegaev, Russia

The co-chair of the ESWW Organizing committee (Prof. M. Messerotti), Dr.
R. Van der Linden, the head of the ESA Space Weather Working Team and
chair of the ESWW2018 LOC (Prof. S. Poedts) and of the Journal of Space
Weather and Space Climate (Dr. A. Belehaki).

The following previous winners are also members of the medal committee:

Dr. Antti Pulkkinen, Dr. Mike Hapgood, Dr. Julia Thalmann: in the
Committee in 2017 – 2019

Dr. Bojan Vrsnak, Prof. Ji Wu, Dr. Elena Popova: in the Committee in
2018 – 2020

Dr Tamas Gombosi, Christina Kay, Hermann Oppgenorth: in the Committee in
2019 – 2021

The Medal Committee is chaired by Dr. Jean Lilensten.