2022 African Capacity Building Workshop on Space Weather Effects on GNSS

The 2022 African Capacity Building Workshop on Space Weather Effects on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), co-sponsored by BC/ISR, took place 3-14 October 2022 at ICTP  in Trieste, Italy. As with many previous GNSS events aimed at enhancing the knowledge and research capacity of young scientists, especially from Africa, the late Patricia Doherty was a key organizer of the workshop. ISR's Keith Groves, who also helped organize the event, traveled to Trieste to serve as a meeting director, session chair, and lecturer. Several other ISR scientists  gave lectures and tutorial on aspects of GNSS, how space weather affects those signals, and how those effects signals can be used for studies of the ionosphere: Charles Carrano spoke on irregularities and radio occultation data; Rezy Pradipta discussed plasma bubble observations; John Retterer lectured on plasma bubble theory; and Sandro Radicella gave both the introductory lecture on ionospheric physics and a tutorial on meteorological phenomena effects in the ionosphere. Over 125 participants both in-person and on-line from 28 different countries attended the lectures & tutorials, and took part in projects to learn analysis techniques for using GNSS data for their own ionospheric investigations. The Women's Dinner, a favorite event of Pat's, was hosted this year by Dr. Jade Morton from the University of Colorado, Boulder and Yenca Migoy-Orue of ICTP with the support of Boston College.

Photos courtesy of K. Groves, Y. Migoy-Orue, and J. Morton.