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Hanna Dahlgren winner in 2006 Fall AGU Student Paper Competition

Congratulations to Hanna Dahlgren, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, who has won a Student Paper Award with her paper 'Auroral Small-scale Structure Observed with ASK and the EISCAT Svalbard Radar' presented at the 2006 Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco

Tor Hagfors, 1930-2007

The funeral of Professor Tor Hagfors will take place at 1400 on 6th February at Bekkenhaugen Kirke, Carl Grøndahlsvei 17, 0871 Oslo

EISCAT Workshop and Radar School 2007   Mariehamn, Åland Islands, Finland, 2007-07-30 00:00:00 - 2007-08-17 00:00:00

The 13th EISCAT Workshop and the first part of the EISCAT Radar School will be held in Mariehamn, in the beautiful archipelago of the Åland Islands in the south-west of Finland. The second part of the school will take place after the workshop at the Sodankylä EISCAT site in Northern Finland.

Proposals for the 2008 World Day Programme

Deadline 4 June!

Deadline for 2008 World Day proposals   , 2007-06-04 00:00:00 - 2007-06-04 00:00:00

 

ISSI proposal accepted

Our proposal to the International Space Science Institute for a series of workshops bringing together modellers and data providers to take advantage of the extensive observations available during the International Polar Year has been approved for implementation.

Special Issue of EISCAT WS papers

Information on paper submission from the Guest Editors: Anita Aikio, Ian McCrea, and Björn Gustavsson

First Science Oversight Committee Meeting

The first SOC meeting is planned for 17-18 September, in the UK

Earthquake rocks ESR

An earthquake initially estimated at magnitude 6.2 and with epicentre about 159km southeast of Longyearbyen rocked the archipelago at about 0346 LT on Thursday 21 February.

End of one-year IPY run at the ESR

 

EISCAT will send a message to the stars

On 12 June 2008, the EISCAT Svalbard Radar will be used to transmit a 30 sec advert towards a star system in the constellation Ursa Major

Partial eclipse at EISCAT

There will be a total solar eclipse on August 1 whose track will pass north of Svalbard and the EISCAT Svalbard Radar

50 years of incoherent scatter radar today!

50 years ago today, Ken Bowles made the first recordings of incoherent scatter from the ionosphere following the suggestion of Bill Gordon that the return should be detectable. Bill Gordon went on to built Arecibo and Ken Bowles built Jicamarca.

EISCAT Council appoints next Director

 

EISCAT_3D added to ESFRI Roadmap

 

EISCAT_3D added to ESFRI Road Map