HamSCI Featured in QST Magazine
For the second year in a row, HamSCI is prominently featured in the August issue of the ARRL's QST magazine.
News Articles
An Atlas of HamSCI’s PSWS Doppler Spectrograms
Have you ever wondered how to interpret the Doppler shift spectrograms generated by Personal Space Weather Stations, eg Grape 1s, Grape 1 DRFs, Grape 2s, HamSCI High Frequency Receivers?
HamSCI Workshop 2025 Abstract Submission Open
The abstract submission window for the 2025 HamSCI Workshop, to be held at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, March 14-15, 2025, is now open. The abstract submission deadline, for both oral presentations and posters, is February 10, 2025.
HamSCI @ AGU 2024
The week of December 9, 2024 many HamSCI members are presenting their research at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The AGU Annual meeting is one of the largest professional geoscience meetings in the world, and consists of over 25,000 attendees from over 100 countries. The scientific program includes sessions pertaining to all areas of geophysics, including space weather, the solar wind, auroral activity, the ionosphere, and the neutral atmosphere. Below is a list of selected presentations and sessions being given by HamSCI members (and friends), or of general interest to ham radio operators. The complete scientific program is available here.
HamSCI Newsletter Volume 1, Number 1
The first issue of the new HamSCI newsletter is now available! Issues contain news about past and future HamSCI happenings, such as research projects, in-person meetings and on-air events. Many issues include HamSCI member profiles, stories on tools and techniques used in HamSCI's research work, plus general interest pieces. Reading the HamSCI Newsletter is a great way to learn about what, who, how and why HamSCI is making the connection between space physics and amateur radio! Special thanks to Ed Efchak WX2R for being the driving force behind this, Dr. Mary Lou West KC2NMC for editing and writing, and Vikki Lawhon for graphics design and layout. The HamSCI newsletter archive can be found at hamsci.org/newsletter.
Hardware X Paper on HamSCI Ground Magnetometer
Congratulations to HamSCI member Hyomin Kim, Assistant Professor of Physics at New Jersey Institute of Technology, and his co-authors* on the publication of a paper in HardwareX entitled Citizen science: Development of a low-cost magnetometer system for coordinated space weather monitoring.
2024 Workshop Program and Registration Links Announced
The agenda for the March 22-23, 2024 HamSCI workshop at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio has been published and can be viewed here!
HamSCI Workshop 2024 Abstract Submission Open
We are looking for presenters for the March 22-23, 2024 HamSCI workshop at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio! The workshop will focus on the theme of Alignments - between the Sun, Moon and Earth; between collegiate amateur radio recreation and STEM curriculum; between data collection and analysis; between professional and citizen science. We are preparing for the solar eclipse of 8 April 2024, for which Cleveland will be in totality. If you would like to present, please visit https://hamsci.org/hamsci2024 to submit an abstract. Abstracts are due by February 10, 2024. Presenters will be notified by March 1, 2024.
Grape Personal Weather Station Network Continues its Growth
Dozens of Grape Personal Space Weather Stations are now on the air, and the network is growing on a regular basis. In the last week, stations in Cleveland, OH and Jacksonville, FL were added to the Grape network. They were Node numbers 63 and 64, respectively. You can learn more about the Grape 1, including all of the details needed to build, operate and contribute data to the HamSCI PSWS Grape Server here. The full Grape story, with links to the Grape 1 and the up and coming Grape 2 are here on the HamSCI site.