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 27^th Workshop will be hosted by Southwest Research institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Co, USA, on 3–5 September 2024 (1301 Walnut Street). Please fill out the registration form and insert an abstract, if you plan to give a talk, and send the document to guenther.reitz@dlr.de before 31 July 2024. Please click here for more information on the venue and travel directions, and here for the workshop program.

**Overview of previous workshops**
Nr.	Year	Location
26	5–7 Sep 2023	Rome, Italy
25	6–8 Sep 2022	Mons, Belgium
24	3–5 Sep 2019	Athens, Greece
23	4–6 Sep 2018	Tsuruga, Japan
22	5–7 Sep 2017	Torino, Italy
21	6–8 Sep 2016	Noordwijk, The Netherlands
20	8–10 Sep 2015	Cologne, Germany
19	9–11 Sep 2014	Kraków, Poland
18	3–5 Sep 2013	Budapest, Hungary
17	4–6 Sep 2012	Austin, Texas, USA
16	6–8 Sep 2011	Prague, Czech Republic
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 August 2024