Page History

Telecon March 17 Agenda:

Date:  Monday, March 17 at 11am Eastern

Toll Free Number: 866-757-4161

Toll Number: 1-517-968-4405

Passcode: 5807653

Agenda:

1. Louis Lanzerotti:  Editorial Report on continued production of SWJ and SWQ.  
   
   1. Distribution list for quarterly was given "some" scrubbing
2. Thanks to Nancy Crooker!   Article in EOS 
   
   1. additional thanks to Barbara Richman and Mohi Kumar, both of whom are Space Weather supporters from the past.
3. Thanks Delores Knipp!  Working the Journal/Quarterly into the classroom.
4. AGU, AMS, and the Space Weather Journal/Quarterly.  The door appears to be open for collaboration/cooperation
   
   1. Bob McCoy engaged Bill Gail, new president of AMS
   2. Bill Gail reached out to Lou Lanzerotti re jointly supporting the Quarterly with AGU
   3. Lou introduced Bill to Brooks. 
   4. Bill's bottom line:  "I speak only for myself at this point and my interest in seeing space weather well supported as an emerging discipline.  I would have to speak with our publications team if there is any request for AMS support, but I would be glad to do so.  The level of collaboration between AGU and AMS is growing.  We are glad to explore any opportunities that strengthen that collaboration and ensure the health of communities like space weather.  Please let me know what I can do."
   5. As an aside, here is a great picture of Lou and Don Carpenter at the recent Yosemite Conference.  Don is apparently working on a "history of VLF" paper, which must be very interesting as Bill Gail's email to Lou is the third time I've heard it mentioned.  Also, everyone loves the "Full Solar Cycle" theme for the Journal this Year.
5. Search for the next Editor in Chief has begun  
   1. when does the nomination period close? 
   2. timeline for when new editor can reasonably be expected to begin their work?
      
6. Recommended Terms of Reference from the Editorial Board
   1. zeroth order draft circulated from our subgroup
   2. markups from Louis to consider and work in
7. Are there any other actions we can take now to be helpful?  
   1. is it time to step back and prepare to support the new editor as that person may request?
   2. are there actions that would be supportive to make their transition smoother?
      1. something re the Full Solar Cycle theme?  How about an article summarizing the first solar cycle of Journal/Quarterly?
      2. drafting of a proposal to the agencies that they could use/no use as deemed helpful?
      3. drafting of "Quarterly hardcopy mailing list" plan? including priorities for receipt of hardcopies, further work on email list, roll out plan for moderized e-copy version to expand access?
      4. draft a list of article/feature suggestions for Journal/Quarterly?  including lists of suggested interview subjects, tutorials, reviews, special issues, etc.
         
         

Telecon January 29 Agenda:

Toll Free Number: 866-757-4161

Toll Number: 1-517-968-4405

Passcode:  5807653

Agenda:

1. Louis Lanzerotti:  Editorial Report on continued production of SWJ and SWQ.   
2. Nancy Crooker:  Potential submission to EOS as followup to her suggestion at the AGU Luncheon.   
3. Discussion about AGU/AMS and other partnerships
4. Brooks Hansen:  Progress on work to define Terms of Reference / Editorial Search Committee
5. Brooks Hanson/Barbara Giles:  Progress on work to provide visual prototype of SWQ using new Wiley special section software features.  
   
   

Telecon January 17 Agenda:

Toll Free Number: 866-757-4161

Toll Number: 1-517-968-4405

Passcode:  5807653

Agenda:

1. Louis Lanzerotti:  Editorial Report on continued production of SWJ and SWQ.  Last issue of the Quarterly for 2013 is underway and is basically finished.  Very nice editorial this month introducing the solar cycle anniversary concept.   Louis reports that the editorial side of the work is going well.  Continues to solicit and receive non-technical material.  The citation index continues to increase and we believe it will continue to do so as we are all being more viligant with activities that affect the index.
2. Delores Knipp:  Followup on her initiative to increase visibility and utilization: a SWJ version of Astrobites ("SWxbites").  Astrobites is a daily astrophysical literature journal written by graduate students in astronomy. Their goal is to present interesting papers in a brief format that are accessible to undergraduate students.  Delores is going to try this out on her students this semester!  The class has 28 aerospace engineers enrolled.  In addition to HW, they will review SW paper and try to write "astrobite" type of summaries.  Four or five paragraph summary.  Here is an example written by one of the more advanced students. 
   
3. Howard Singer/Dan Baker:  Summary of Discussions at AGU Editorial Board Luncheon (cryptic notes taken during the meeting are here).  WANT MORE INFORMATION ON THE SPECIAL SECTION WILEY FEATURES, were not able to cover that in sufficient detail.  There is a difference between 'special issues' and 'special collections".  We were not able to explore any potential links between this journal and AMS and any connections with IEEE Explorer. 
4. Nancy Crooker:  Potential submission to EOS as followup to her suggestion at the AGU Luncheon.  Barb will circulate Nancy's message; all will reply back with further suggestions and encouragements.
5. Paul Cannon:  Ensuring the "mission statements" or "scope statements" for Radio Science, Space Weather Journal, and JGR-Space Physics are consistent and clear.  Paul encourages an ~100 word description, with the aim to ensure little to no cross-over as much as that is possible.  This is the text that goes in the OVERVIEW area of the journal's website.
6. Barbara Giles/Brooks Hansen:  Progress on work to define Terms of Reference.  A template has been created and our subcommittee of Bob, Bob, and Howard will proceed with a draft.
7. Brooks Hanson/Barbara Giles:  Progress on work to provide visual prototype of SWQ using new Wiley special section software features.  Hope to have this for our telecons by April?  May be able to have something earlier than April.  All agree that more discussion is needed as we are all uncertain as to how this should proceed.
8. Besides status on the various initiatives, what should be the focus for next telecon?  Bob McCoy reporting on AGU/AMS partnership to support also partnerships with IEEE Explorer?  More information on the "special collections" / "special issues" software and features, and how SWJ/SWQ could take advantage. 

Re Distribution List:  We need to scrub that.  Louis will help with that, AGU has already taken a pass wrt congressional staff, Howard will help too. 

AGU has started organizing the confidential search committee for a new Editor-in-Chief and hope to have the announcement out soon.  Having this group involved will be very important.  SEND suggestions for members of the search committee to Brooks. It is essential that everyone in this group be proactive in encouraging appropriate members of our community to apply.

In other news:

Starting to keep a list of suggestions for articles, interviews, tutorials , etc.

Peter Chi, editor of the SPA News, pointed to the Wiley online library subscription service specially noting the Space Weather Journal. Thanks for the "shout out" Peter! To ensure folks remain aware of the need to subscribe, we will add a "notes to the editor" page to remind future editors to post subscription information to the newsletters at least once/twice a year.

Bob Robinson has contributed to a "history" page .  Please take a look and consider what history you may be able to add.  We'll want this material for our "Space Weather Journal First Solar Cycle" celebration.

Article in the Politico re consequences of EMP and magnetic storms.  Thanks Lou for the alert.

AGU home page featured the news release for the very interesting lunar dust and radiation paper that was recently published in Space Weather.