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Workshops on Radiation Monitoring for the International Space Station

The Workshop on Radiation Monitoring for the International Space Station is an annual meeting to discuss the scientific definition of an adequate radiation monitoring package and its use by the scientific community on the ISS. Types of instruments and research topics need to be defined in order to optimise the radiation safety of the ISS crew.

For further questions please contact the chairman of the workshop Dr. Günther Reitz (guenther.reitz@dlr.de) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

The table below lists the workshops held so far, with links to the proceedings.

The 16th Workshop will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, on 6–8 September 2011.

Overview of previous workshops
Nr.YearLocation
15 7-9 Sep 2010 Frascati, Italy
14 8-10 Sep 2009 Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland
13 8-10 Sep 2008 Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Krakow, Poland
12 10-12 Sep 2007 Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
11 6-8 Sep 2006 St. Peters College, Oxford, UK
10 7-9 Sep 2005 Chiba, Japan
9 8-10 Sep 2004 Atominstitute of the Austrian Universities, Vienna, Austria
8 3-5 Sep 2003 LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
7 2-4 Sep 2002 IPSN, Paris, France
6 12-14 Sep 2001 Jesus College, Oxford, UK
5 7-8 Sep 2000 UCL, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
4 1-5 Nov 1999 DERA, Farnborough, UK
3 24-26 Mar 1998 Aerospace Electronics Laboratory, Budapest, Hungary
2 1997 Bonn-Wachtberg, Germany
1 1996 Bulgaria

After very fruitful discussions a set of recommendations (available from the left hand menu) for future research and instrument development was issued and distributed to all relevant bodies.

Intercalibration campaigns

During the fourth WRMISS in Farnborough, all participants agreed that it is necessary to establish a process for calibration and intercomparison of space radiation dosimeters. A group (Günther Reitz, Rudolf Beaujean, Tom Borak, Kazunobu Fujitaka and Jack Miller) was established to coordinate the calibrations at the following facilities:
  • Intercomparison at HIMAC
  • CERN-EC Reference Field (CERF)
  • Proton facility at Loma Linda
  • Brookhaven beams at AGS and BAF
More information on the calibration campaigns is available at the ICCHIBAN website.


Last update: 22 April 2011