The Division of Atmospheric and Space Physics (DASP) News

  In this DASP blog, Kaili Song (University of New Brunswick) discusses their recent paper on evaluating different techniques for deriving the Fresnel Frequency of radio waves in the ionosphere. If you have any questions, reach out to Kaili at kl.song@unb.ca .

Registration for the 2025 Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Congress, which will be held at the University of Saskatchewan from June 9 to 13, 2025, is now available. More details can be found here . CAP 2025 will coincide with the annual DASP meeting.   Additionally, the CAP 2025 schedule is available here .   We look forward to seeing you in Saskatoon in June!    

In this DASP blog, Jose Arnal (University of Toronto) walks through the highlights of their paper on data assimilation techniques for space weather forecasting . If you have any questions, reach out to Jose at jose.arnal@mail.utoronto.ca .

 In this DASP blog, lead author Dr Darcy Cordell (UofA) talks about their recent study published in Space Weather about modelling geomagnetically induced currents in the Alberta's power grid. Questions should be directed to dcordell@ualberta.ca .

 The 2024 DASP Workshop took place from Feb 19-23, including the student workshop and science meeting. There were 86 abstracts submitted in total from 93 participants. Thank you to the local organizing committee at the University of Alberta, who did an incredible job putting the meeting together!  The final meeting schedule can be found here , with the student workshop schedule here .

The website for the DASP 2024 workshop, which will be hosted by the University of Alberta in Edmonton, is now live. Please go to https://app.groupize.com/e/dasp-workshop-2024 for more information, including a preliminary schedule, accommodation information, abstract submission, and registration.