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Meet the Scientist Shaping Space Weather Research: Prof. Yoshizumi Miyoshi on Winning the E-SWAN Kirsten Birkeland Medal 2024

Shreedevi P R February 17, 2025

Prof. Yoshizumi Miyoshi in a meeting at the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, Japan

1. The Birkeland Medal honors outstanding contributions to space weather research. Can you share what this recognition means to you personally and how it reflects the broader contributions of the scientific community to space weather research? I am deeply honored to receive the Birkeland Medal and grateful to all the colleagues, mentors, and collaborators who have supported my research career ...[Read More]

Impact of upper atmosphere and ionosphere associated with an extremely explosive eruption of the Tonga volcano

authored by Atsuki Shinbori, and edited by Shreedevi P. R. February 5, 2025

1. Introduction Severe natural phenomena of geophysical, hydrological, and meteorological origins cause natural hazards that negatively impact human activity or the environment. Many people living on the earth suffer from natural hazards every year. Although we can predict some natural hazards (e.g., typhoons) in near real-time, forecasts of the geophysical natural hazards such as large earthquake ...[Read More]