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Over the past few decades, people andinfrastructures in Taiwan are vulnerable totyphoons, earthquakes, and other naturaldisasters. Many researches, applications, andsystems are conducted in order to understand thecause of these natural hazards and further
prevent their damages. Therefore, the joint
conference so call Taiwan Geosciences
Assembly (TGA) is conducted every three year
in Taiwan to gather experts and scholars fromvarious research area, involving, AtmosphericScience, Geodesy, Geography, Geology,Geophysics, Hydrology, Oceanic Science, Space
Science, and science education.
This year, the “2019 Taiwan Geosciences
Assembly” was held at the Taipei World TradeCenter Nangang Exhibition Hall, Taipei, Taiwan,
from May 14th to17th, 2019. More than 2000
local and international participants were havinglots of lectures, posters, and in-depth discussionin 14 geoscience-related meetings and forums
during this conference. In addition to scientificcommunication, many exhibitions are provided
at the “Popular Science Area” for outreacheducation.
At the opening Ceremony, Prof. Jann-Yenq(Tiger) Liu, director of Center for Astronautical
Physics and Engineering (CAPE), National
Central University gave a keynote speech about
theFORMOSAT-7mission. Thesix
FORMOSAT-7 satellites were launch on June 25,
2019, and will provide dense radio occultation
measurements at the lower and equatorial
latitudes for atmospheric and ionosphericsciences. It expect to make great improvement
for weather and space weather monitoring,
nowcasting, and forecasting.

Figure 1: The registration site of 2019 TGA

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Figure 2: Audiences of the International Conference on Space weather
Three topics related to AOSWA associates
are the “Satellite Missions for Space Science”,“International Conference on Space weather”,
and “Sounding Rocket Application Forum”.
They were hosted to report results and activitiesof space weather research and operation.
At the Satellite Missions for Space Science,
speakers mentioned about ongoing cube satellite
projects in the university to explorer the spaceenvironment, and reported successful results
made by Taiwan's satellite missions including
ISUAL/FORMOSAT-2, GOX/FORMOSAT-3
and AIP/FORMOSAT-5. Furthermore, Dr.
Katelynn Greer presented the recently successful
globalionosphereobservation
atgeosynchronous orbit by GOLD mission.
The International Conference on Space
weather took two days within more than 30

presentation to cover space weather research andoperation, form the Sun, interplanetary field, theEarth’s magnetosphere, ionosphere, neutral
atmospheric coupling, and advanced scheme asdata assimilation and machine learning.
Dr. Mamoru Ishii from National Institute ofInformation and Communications Technology(NICT) was invited to give two presentation inthis conference.
The first presentation is entitled “GlobalStreams of Space Weather Research andOperation and the Role of Asia”, which is about
the impact assessment and international
activities of space weather as well as aroundAsia-oceanic region to start the first day session.
The other one is “Recent Japanese Space
Weather Research and Operation Activities”,
which more focus at space weather operation at
NICT on the second day.

Figure 3: Dr. Ishii gave the first presentation of the International Conference on Space weather.
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Figure 4: The National Space Organization (NSPO) of the National Applied Research Laboratory
demonstrated FORMOSAT-7 model and provided lectures at the Popular Science Area of 2019 TGA.
Meanwhile, I also gave a presentation
entitled “Space Weather Models for Operation inTaiwan” mainly about the models which areoperated at the Space Weather Operational office,Central Weather Bureau to provide forecast andservice
formagnetopause,
ionosphericscintillation and electron density. Before theend of my talk, a new developing research-tooperation (R2O) transition procedure by virtual
machine technic was also introduced. We are
seeking more collaboration between operational
office and scientific group. However, it isdifficult to transfer well developed software
and/or system from research teams due toenvironmental conflicts. Thus, we proposed
this procedure to shorter the time for transition

process and lower the conflict between two
different system environments.
In summary, Taiwan’s location just rightunder the equatorial ionization anomaly region
as the highest ionospheric electron density,
which could influence radio communications
and global positioning systems. A large numberof great research results and satellite missions aresuccess to investigate the ionosphericmorphology and influence.
It was a best
opportunity to benefit space weather operationand make close partnership of space science
community in Taiwan by this fulfil meetings ofTGA.

Figure 5: Audiences of Sounding Rocket Application Forum

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From July 28th to August 2nd, 2019, the Asia
Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 16thAnnual Meeting was held at The Suntec
Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre,Singapore. This year, AOSWA had its own
session and the Exhibition Booth at the AOGS. It
was intended to have opportunity for lively
discussions more frequently when the AOSWA
regular workshop is not held. It is also expected
to promote our activity, and to encourage many
researchers and scholars who attended to thebiggest geosciences conference in Asia-Oceania
region to join AOSWA associate.
The AOSWA session, entitled as “SpaceWeather Research and Operation in Asia Oceania”
was started in the morning on July 29th by theconvener, Dr. Mamoru Ishii from National
Institute of Information and Communications
Technology (NICT), Japan. The eight speakers
presented their activity from various
perspectives, such as;“The Recent Activities of R2O Transition inKorean Space Weather Operation” by Seung Jun
OH from SELab, Inc, Korea,“Current Status of Ionospheric Space Weather
Products in Taiwan” by I-Te LEE from Central
Weather Bureau (CWB), Taiwan,“NICT Ionospheric Observations in Japan andSoutheast Asia” by Takuya Tsugawa from NICT,
Japan,“Radio Propagation Simulator to Translate
Ionospheric Effect on High Frequency Waves”
by Kornyanat HOZUMI from NICT, Japan,Figure 1 & 2: The venue, Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore

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Figure 3: Many participants at the AOGS check in site
“The Relationship Between Equatorial Plasma
Bubble and Evening Counter Electrojet Current
Measured in West of Southeast Asia” by Nurul
Shazana ABDUL HAMID from Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia,“ROTI Map Generation over Thailand” byPornchai SUPNITHI from King Mongkut's
Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL),
Thailand,“Low-latitude Ionospheric Irregularities in June
Solstice Observed by Equatorial Atmosphere
Radar and GPS Receivers” by Prayitno ABADI
from Indonesian National Institute ofAeronautics and Space (LAPAN), Indonesia, and“Equatorial Ionosphere Disturbance Index Basedon BDS-GEO Data” by Artem PADOKHIN fromLomonosov Moscow State University, Russia.

In spite of starting in the early morning,
there were active discussions seems like theregular AOSWA workshop. Approx. 50
participants attended the session, including nonmembers of the AOSWA associates.
I sincerely would like to introduce that theth8 speaker, Assist. Prof. PADOKHIN joined
AOSWA associate at this AOGS with hiscolleague.
After the AOSWA session, the Exhibition
Booth was opened on the evening of July 29th.
Thanks to the Exhibition hall was located at thecenter of the conference complex, and also usedas the venue of Poster session, conference
reception on the 1st evening, every coffee break
and the beer hour, our booth was blessed with a
lot of participants about 10 to 20 people per hour.

Figure 4: The AOSWA session, “Space Weather Research and Operation in Asia Oceania”

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Figure 5: The AOSWA exhibition booth (Left), Figure 6: Dr. Ishii, NICT Japan, explaining about AOSWA on the“Innovation Theatre”(Right)
This time, five institutes from AOSWA
members such as;-CAS Key Laboratory of Solar Activity, National
Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academyof Sciences-Korean Space Weather Center-National Space Science Center, Chinese
Academy of Sciences-Space Weather Operational Office, Central
Weather Bureau (CWB)(in alphabetical order)
and NICT provided the exhibition material andscreened their slides to explain their activity on
behalf of AOSWA community at the booth.
Furthermore, in the afternoon on August 1st, Dr.
Mamoru Ishii presented AOSWA activity on thestage of “Innovation Theatre”, which is theopportunity of the presentation about theexhibition contents.
Through the period of AOGS, weencouraged AOGS participants to join AOSWA
associate by explaining our activity. At thisopportunity, totally 17 persons from 10 country
joined AOSWA, including newly joinedcountries such as Bangladesh, Mongolia, Nepaland France. AOSWA was established in 2010
and almost 10 years are about to passing. Now
the associate members increase to 212 people
from 20 countries and regions. We hope theactivity of AOSWA will be more closely andmore fruitful through the next decade.

Figure 7: The AOSWA-associate registration sheets from newly joined associates at AOGS
2019

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Editor’s notes
Kenji Nakayama, Editor of AOSWA LINKThis summer, we had a session and exhibition at AOGS.
I hope that we can have more opportunity to discuss,and exchanging the news about current activity eachother. I strongly encourage you to utilize this News
Letter. If you hope to circulate about your activity or
introduction of your institute, please feel free to send anarticle to us at any time.
Now, we are about to starting for the next
AOSWA face to face meeting in Malaysia in the next
year. I will update you when the plan will be emboded.
Sincerely,

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