Call for Nominations for the 2024 IMCP Young Scientist Award

This is a call for nominations for the 2024 International Meridian Circle Program Young Scientist Award.

Definition

This award will provide encouragement to young scientists who achieved considerable success in ground-based detection of space weather research and took an active part in IMCP related studies.

A call for nominations from the IMCP community will be made annually. And it will be announced through the IMCP mailing list and IMCP website.

Eligibility

The definition of a Young Scientist (early career) is normally that the nominee should have been awarded their Ph.D. within 8 years.The nominee should conduct scientific research related to IMCP and have made outstanding progress, using one or more observing facilities on the IMCP or related ground-based detection devices.The award will recognize outstanding individual contributions to space weather through research published in the refereed literature by a Young Scientist. Submitting an abstract to the IMCP workshop may qualify you for nomination, and awards will be presented at the workshop venue.

Nominations

Nominations should be made by at least one scientist from the supervisor or other scientists familiar with the work and should include:

i. Curriculum Vitae with a brief description of the scientific contributions of the nominee;

ii. A full list of relevant publications;

iii. Recommendation letter;

iv. The submitted abstract title

The nominations should be sent to fyang@nssc.ac.cn by the deadline of May 31, 2024.

Selection

The IMCP workshop Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC) members and session chairs will select no more than 10 awardees from these nominations. The award will include a medal and citation. The successful candidate will be sponsored to attend the IMCP related workshops or conferences with 500~2000 US dollars. The award ceremony will be held during the inauguration of a relevant IMCP meeting.

Requirements after funding:

Acknowledge IMCP in publications and presentations.

Please consider nominating a deserving individual for this prestigious award.