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New MIST Chair and Vice-Chair elected

Congratulations to John Coxon on becoming MIST Chair, and to Jasmine Sandhu on becoming MIST Vice-chair in a unanimous vote at a Council meeting last week.
 
MIST Council elects a new Chair whenever the previous Chair steps down, and in addition this year, the council has decided to elect a Vice-Chair for the first time.
 
On behalf of the MIST community, we would like to thank Ian McCrea for doing a superb job as Chair during his tenure on the Council.

EGU elections now open

The call for candidates for the EGU 2019 elections is currently open, with a deadline of 15 September 2019. The following roles are up for election: Union President, General Secretary, and the Division Presidents. More details about these roles and how you can nominate yourselves/colleagues can be found on the EGU website. 
 
MIST Council would like to emphasise that this is an excellent opportunity to contribute to and shape the field on an international scale, and we hope to see members from the MIST community putting themselves forward.

Summer Science Exhibition 2020

The Royal Society is currently accepting proposals for the Summer Science Exhibition 2020, and the deadline for proposals is 10 September 2019. Further details on applying can be found here.
 
MIST Council would like to highlight that this is an excellent opportunity for cross-institutional collaborations! The MIST community is involved in a number of projects with a particularly timely aspect (e.g. Solar Orbiter and SMILE), which would be very appropriate to propose to the Royal Society. If you are currently preparing a proposal that you are happy to invite community members to join or you have an idea for a proposal that you would like to work with the community on, then please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with a short outline by 9 August 2019. We hope to then share these projects with the community to build support for the proposals and involve the wider community!
 
We will be discussing this further and sharing ideas on the #public-engagement channel on the MIST Slack workspace. If you aren’t on the MIST Slack workspace then click here for details.

2019 Rishbeth prize winners announced

We are pleased to announce that the Rishbeth Prizes this year are awarded to Affelia Wibisono and Michaela Mooney , both of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (UCL).
 
Affelia Wibisono wins the prize for the best MIST student talk, entitled “Jupiter’s X-ray Aurorae as seen by XMM-Newton concurrently with Juno”. Michaela wins the best MIST poster prize, for a poster entitled “Evaluating auroral forecasts against satellite observations”.
 
MIST Council would like to congratulate both Affelia and Michaela. As prize winners, Affelia and Michaela have been invited to write articles for Astronomy & Geophysics, which we look forward to reading.

Call for MIST/GEM Liaisons

There is a potential opening for a member of the MIST community to act as a liaison with the GEM (Geospace Environment Modelling) group. This will be an opportunity to act as a representative of the UK MIST community and inform GEM about relevant activities within the MIST community.

GEM liaisons will typically have the following responsibilities:

  1. Attend​​ a preponderance ​​of ​​GEM Steering ​​Committee ​​meetings​ ​at ​​summer​ ​workshop and​ ​mini-GEM​ ​​(June​ ​and​ ​December)
  2. Provide​​ written​​ annual​​ report​​ to​​ GEM Communications ​​Coordinator​​​ (by ​​April)
  3. Help ​​recruit ​​new​ ​GEM Steering​ ​Committee ​​members ​​​(as ​​needed)
  4. Provide ​​feedback​​ from​​ the​​ MIST community ​​and​​ share​​ with the GEM Chair/Vice​ ​Chair​ ​​(ongoing)

At this stage we would like to welcome any expressions of interest for this role from the community. If you are interested in being a GEM Liaison, then please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. including up to 100 words detailing why you would like to be a liaison and how your experience equips you for this role, and how often you would be able to attend GEM meetings.

If you have any further questions or would like more information about what the role would entail then please get in touch!

Past co-ordinators and Council members

The MIST community is grateful for the efforts of past MIST co-ordinators and council members.

MIST co-ordinators

1970-1983 MIST meetings 1-28 P. C. Kendall
1970-1988 MIST meetings 1-42 H. Rishbeth
1988-1995 MIST meetings 43-60 M. Lester
1995-2005 MIST meetings 61-98 A. J. Smith
2005-2007 MIST meetings 99-104 N. F. Arnold

MIST Council members

2007-08 G. A. Abel C. S. Arridge M. A. Hapgood† A. J. Kavanagh B. S. Lanchester
2008-09 G. A. Abel M. A. Hapgood† A. J. Kavanagh B. S. Lanchester G. Provan
2009-10 C. Forsyth M. A. Hapgood† A. J. Kavanagh B. S. Lanchester G. Provan
2010-11 C. Forsyth M. P. Freeman M. A. Hapgood† G. Provan D. J. Southwood
2011-12 R. C. Fear C. Forsyth M. P. Freeman M. A. Hapgood†* D. J. Southwood
2012-13 M. M. Bisi R. C. Fear M. A. Hapgood† D. J. Southwood E. E. Woodfield
2013-14 M. M. Bisi R. C. Fear M. A. Hapgood† I. W. McCrea E. E. Woodfield
2014-15 M. M. Bisi R. C. Fear* I. W. McCrea† I. J. Rae E. E. Woodfield
2015-16 L. A. Barnard J. C. Coxon R. C. Fear I. W. McCrea† I. J. Rae

In 2016, the MIST Charter was amended such that MIST Council comprised six people.

2016-17 S. V. Badman L. A. Barnard J. C. Coxon R. C. Fear I. W. McCrea†* I. J. Rae
2017-18 S. V. Badman L. A. Barnard J. C. Coxon I. W. McCrea† I. J. Rae* J. K. Sandhu
2018-19 O. Allanson S. V. Badman J. C. Coxon* I. W. McCrea† I. J. Rae J. K. Sandhu
2019-20 O. Allanson J. C. Coxon† G. J. Hunt I. J. Rae J. K. Sandhu‡ M.-T. Walach

* Re-elected        † Chair        ‡ Vice-Chair (Introduced 2019)