GU26 MacGyver Session (SA021) — submit your novel, self-made, and hacked space weather projects

[Vincent Ledvina]

Dear HamSCI community,

The MacGyver session is back for AGU 2026, and it is a natural home for HamSCI projects. Personal Space Weather Stations, Grape receivers, Doppler and HF propagation experiments, magnetometers, ionosondes, and the software and citizen-science efforts that tie them together have all featured in past MacGyver sessions, and we would love to see more of your work this year.

Session info:

SA021 — The MacGyver Session: The Place for Novel, Exciting,Self-Made, Hacked, or Improved Sensors and Software Solutions to UnderstandSpace Weather (Session ID: 281718)

This 7th edition of the MacGyver session focuses on the interdisciplinary applications of space weather across space physics and aeronomy. We welcome contributions on new sensor systems that use technologies in novel or unintended ways; new software, algorithms, and data storage or transmission solutions that send data from the field; and initiatives that facilitate the creation and sharing of novel sensors, open-source code and data, and software systems. Makers, citizen scientists, ham radio enthusiasts, educators, and artists are welcome to bring broad, open science and STEAM outreach. Feel free to bring prototypes and demonstrations!

The AGU 2026 Annual Meeting will be held 7–11 December 2026 in San Francisco, CA.

The abstract deadline is Wednesday, 5 August 2026, 23:59 EDT / 03:59 UTC.

Submit an abstract to our session: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/prelim.cgi/Session/281718

Hope to see your work in San Francisco this December!

Conveners:

Vincent Ledvina, University of Alaska Fairbanks (vled...@alaska.edu)

Kristina Collins, HamSCI Community / Space Science Institute

Nathaniel Frissell, HamSCI Community / The University of Scranton

[Jon Abel]

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[Dr. Nathaniel A. Frissell Ph.D.]

Hi Jon,

I just tested it, and it is working fine here.  Maybe try again later or with a different browser?

Also, we have essentially no control over that website; it is all managed by the AGU. But, we will do our best to help you navigate the process.

73 de Nathaniel W2NAF

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Nathaniel A. Frissell, Ph.D., W2NAF

Associate Professor

Department of Physics and Engineering

University of Scranton

HamSCI Lead

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73

George K9TRV

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[Jon Abel]

Well, I registered with chrome and they want $75 for a yearly membership.   Clickbait. 

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[Dr. Nathaniel A. Frissell Ph.D.]

Hi everyone,

Let me give a little bit more context about what is going on here. The American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting is not clickbait. This is a very large, professional organization and conference for earth and space scientists. The AGU meeting typically hosts about 30,000 scientists from around the world each year. When the scientists come to this meeting, they report on the work they have been doing over the past year in the form of formal oral presentations and posters. They also have a chance to talk with each other in informal environments to exchange ideas.

The AGU general audience is typically professionals with access to research and travel funds. It is not normally a conference that citizen scientists and amateurs attend. Therefore, the registration prices tend to be high. There have been some efforts to make the meeting more accessible to citizen scientists by having reduced rates, but no such program seems to be available this year. There are reduced rates for students, retirees, and K-12 teachers, and certain other categories.

We are sharing the AGU information on this list because HamSCI does typically have quite a few people who attend and present each year. Last year, we had 10 HamSCI presentations there, as listed in the Winter 2025 HamSCI Newsletter.

We are working now to figure out who from HamSCI will be presenting at the 2026 AGU meeting. Abstracts are due August 5, 2026.

This is all part of our efforts to get the professional and amateur communities to talk together.

Thanks and 73,

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