ISEE guidance to new students and members was held on April 8. After greetings by vice director, Prof. Shiokawa, introduction to ISEE education and research of science, engineering, environmental studies, information security guidance, and health and safety training etc. were performed.

Dr. Qidong Zhou (周啓東), who received his PhD in our group in 2018 and now works in the Belle II group of KEK, was awarded Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan.

The mid-latitude SuperDARN review paper titled ”Review of the accomplishments of Mid-latitude Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) HF Radars” has been published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science journal.

The prototype Schwarzschild–Couder Medium-Sized Telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array, a next-generation gamma-ray observatory, has been completed at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Arizona, US. The completion was celebrated at its inauguration ceremony.

Aiming to develop space-earth environmental research, the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE) is presenting an ISEE Award to a prominent research activity that is based on the ISEE Joint Research Program. ISEE seeks nominations for this new award.

Prof. Shiokawa of CICR and five students of ISEE joined the Science Festival in Tarumizu 2018 which was held on 15 December 2018 at Tarumizu, Kagoshima near the ISEE/CICR Kagoshima Observatory.