President: Olga Malandraki
(st@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Emilia Kilpua
(emilia.kilpua@helsinki.fi)
The Division on Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (ST) considers all aspects of solar and heliospheric physics, specifically the solar-terrestrial connection. It covers the physical processes occurring on the Sun, in the solar wind, as well as in Earth’s magnetosphere and ionosphere. Solar activity (e.g. coronal mass ejections, solar flares, solar energetic particle events) and the response of the near-Earth space environment to these solar phenomena are studied on a wide-range of temporal and spatial scales. Data analysis and interpretation of space-borne and ground-based data, as well as theoretical studies and different modelling techniques are used to better our understanding of how our local star defines the neighbourhood that we live in.
Recent awardees
The 2022 Hannes Alfvén Medal is awarded to
David J. McComas for pioneering scientific contributions and technical achievements in solar-terrestrial sciences and in our understanding of the heliosphere and its interaction with the interstellar medium.
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- 2022
- Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award
The 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Víctor M. S. Carrasco for outstanding research in the field of space climate and solar physics.
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- 2022
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Angelica M. Castillo Tibocha Reconstructing the dynamics of the outer electron radiation belt by means of the standard and ensemble Kalman filter with the VERB-3D code
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- 2022
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Evangelia Samara Calibrating the WSA velocity in EUHFORIA based on PSP observations
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- 2022
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Josephine Salice Solar Wind Structures and their Effects on the High-Energy Tail of the Precipitating Energetic Electron Spectrum
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- 2022
- Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
The 2022 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to
Chao Yue for innovative contributions to magnetospheric physics, in particular, ring current dynamics and associated wave-particle interactions.
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Latest posts from the ST blog
The impacts of space weather on the mid-latitude upper atmosphere
The upper atmosphere of Earth is constantly being impacted by the flow of charged particles being released from the sun. This flow (the solar wind) carries with it a magnetic field which distorts and reshapes that of Earth, ultimately resulting in a large amount of electromagnetic space weather energy being channelled into the polar regions. One of the most frequently observed outcomes of this process is the Dungey cycle [Dungey, 1961], which is where the bulk ionised population of upper …
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Meet the Early Career Scientists team of our division!
Hi, this is your ST-ECS team. We are a group of Early Career Scientists (ECSs) of the Solar-Terrestrial (ST) division, and we enjoy organizing events and activities with and for ST-ECS, both during the EGU General Assembly and throughout the year. Our aim is to increase the visibility of ECSs and provide you with opportunities for networking. Currently the team is formed by: Dr. Maxime Grandin Maxime is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki in Finland. His research …
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