Telecon January 17 Agenda:Toll Free Number: 866-757-4161 Toll Number: 1-517-968-4405 Passcode: 5807653 Agenda: - 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.
- 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 is 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 studientsstudents.
- Howard Singer/Dan Baker: Summary of Discussions at AGU Editorial Board Luncheon (cryptic notes taken during the meeting are here)
- Nancy Crooker: Potential submission to EOS as followup to her suggestion at the AGU Luncheon
- Paul Cannon: Ensuring the "mission 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.
- Barbara Giles/Brooks Hansen: Progress on work to define Terms of Reference
- 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?
- Besides status on the various initiatives, what should be the focus for next telecon? Bob McCoy reporting on AGU/AMS partnership to support?
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. Next Telecon:
Wednesday, January 29 at 1pm Eastern
Wednesday, January 29 at noon Central
Wednesday, January 29 at 11am Mountain
Wednesday, January 29 at 10am Pacific
Wednesday, January 29 at 6pm GMT | 