During the SCOSTEP General Council Meeting held in July 13, 2019 in Montreal, Canada, Prof. Kazuo Shiokawa (director of CICR) was elected as the SCOSTEP President for the next four years.

Ken Ohashi was awarded the Student Presentation Award of the Physical Society of Japan for his oral presentation titled "MC study for the effect of diffractive events on the air shower developments" at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan (Kyushu University, 14-17 March 2019), where his simulation study on the effect of diffractive collisions on air-shower development was presented.

Time: July 2-4, 2019
Place: ISEE, Nagoya University Building II Meeting room in the 3rd & 4th Floor

Application Deadline: July 15, 2019

A new space weather forecasting system has been developed using the ground based interplanetary scintillation observations of ISEE and a global magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the inner heliosphere.

SuperDARN 2019 Onsite School was held during June 8-9, 2019, at the SuperDARN Hokkaido radar site.

Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) Workshop 2019 was held at Highland Resort Hotel & Spa (Fujiyoshida city, Yamanashi, Japan; at the foot of Mt. Fuji) during June 2-7, 2019.

Dr. Otsuka (Division for Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Research) received Tanakadate Award of Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (SGEPSS) on May 29, 2019.