The Old Crow Lectures on the Aurora: Friday, 19 April @ RASC-London

The Old Crow Lectures on the Aurora: Friday, 19 April @ RASC-London

I’ve been invited by the Royal Astronomical Society of London to give a public talk:

The Aurora Borealis and Space Weather
Space Weather is the study of the interaction of the particles which flow from the Sun with Earth’s atmosphere. This talk will describe the visual result apparent to us on the surface, the Northern (and Southern) Lights, as well as give a lay description of a cutting edge of research: how can the particles from the Sun affect weather on the surface?
Come on out if just to heckle :–)

Can you resist joining the Citation Club?

As always a great 1 April email from the Space Physics & Aeronomy Section of the American Geophysical Union.

Citation Club Membership

Do not break the chain. In your next publication, cite a paper by every one of the authors in the list below. Then remove the top author, add your name to the bottom of the list, and mail this message to ten of your colleagues who are not on the list. One of our colleagues who broke the chain lost the supporting research and technology grant he had previously successfully renewed a dozen times. A colleague who continued the chain soon had a sufficiently high H-index to both become an AGU fellow and be nominated for fellowship in the NAS.

D.N. Baker
P.A. Isenberg
P.J. Chi
R.E. Ergun
J.A. Goldstein
J.E. Borovski
A. Bagenal
(add your name here)