Date: 9-12 September 2024
Location: Sandy Park, Exeter, UK
‘UK Space Weather & Space Environment Meeting II: Celebrating 10 years of 24/7 space weather operational forecasting in the UK’ will provide an opportunity to reflect on achievements in this field at a time when important new capabilities have been delivered through the Space Weather Instrumentation, Measurement, Modelling and Risk (SWIMMR) programme. Utilising SWIMMR outputs, the UK is poised for a major uplift in its ability to assess, prepare for and respond to severe space weather events.
While it has a UK core, the meeting will have international participation in recognition of the benefits of multinational collaboration, which needs to be at the heart of enhanced understanding of, and resilience to, space weather.
Attendees will include space safety scientists, engineers, forecasters, end-users and policy makers, and will focus on next steps beyond the SWIMMR Programme, embedding enduring Research to Operations to Research (R2O2R) and seizing opportunities to drive further advances.
One of Starion’s space weather experts, Dr Matthew Allcock, will present two papers:
- Wednesday 11 September: ‘Space weather and autonomous transport: Voices from industry on risk and resilience’ in the session on ‘Ground and Infrastructure’
- Thursday 12 September: ‘Recommendations to policymakers to improve space weather resilience of UK critical national infrastructure (SWIMMR S6)’ in the session about SWIMMR.
Starion is soon to publish a report entitled ‘Space Weather Impacts on UK CNI’ as part of the SWIMMR programme.
Find out more at: iop.eventsair.com/ukswse2024/