[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 27, Number 36

Fri Aug 11 08:11:56 PDT 2017

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 27, Number 36
Aug.11,2017

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Table of Contents

1. SPEDAS Session at Mini-GEM, December 10, New Orleans

2. Call for Letters of Application for Membership on NASA’s Heliophysics Senior Review Panel

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1. SPEDAS Session at Mini-GEM, December 10, New Orleans
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From: Jim Lewis, Eric Grimes, Vassilis Angelopoulos (jwl at ssl.berkeley.edu)

We will once again be holding a SPEDAS session at the mini-GEM workshop on Sunday, December 10 2017, the weekend before this year's fall AGU conference in New Orleans, LA.  The agenda will include demonstrations of SPEDAS tools, including any new updates to plugins or core features, and discussions of future development plans.

We are in the early stages of planning our sessions, so if anyone has special requests for features they'd like to see explained or demonstrated, please let us know and we'll put them on the agenda.   Also, if any of you have an interesting or novel application of SPEDAS tools to your specific analysis or visualization needs, and would like to show off what you've done, we'd love to hear about it so we can set aside some time for your presentation.

We'll make another announcement once the schedule and agenda are firmed up. We hope to see you there!

Jim Lewis, Eric Grimes, Vassilis Angelopoulos (on behalf of the SPEDAS development team)

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2. Call for Letters of Application for Membership on NASA’s Heliophysics Senior Review Panel
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From: Jeffrey Hayes (jeffrey.hayes-1 at nasa.gov)

The Heliophysics Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate intends to conduct the Senior Review of Operating Missions. NASA invites applications from scientists and other qualified and interested individuals at U.S institutions to participate in this Senior Review panel.

The panel will be charged with conducting the 2017 HPD Senior Review for Operating Missions with the view to assess the past science merits and performance as well as the future plans of these 16 missions (in alphabetical order): ACE, AIM, Geotail, Hinode, IBEX, IRIS, MMS, RHESSI, SDO, STEREO, THEMIS, TIMED, TWINS, Van Allen Probes, Voyager, and Wind. Performance factors to be evaluated will include mission scientific productivity, technical status, budget efficiency, data quality and accessibility, and contribution to the “Heliophysics System Observatory (HSO).”  The period for this Senior Review will cover Fiscal Years 2018 through 2022. Each mission that is invited to this Senior Review will submit a proposal outlining how its science investigations will benefit the Heliophysics research objectives. These objectives and focus areas are described in the Science Plan for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate 2014 (the SMD Science Plan).

NASA will select panel members based upon demonstrated expertise in areas relevant to the system science of Heliophysics. NASA anticipates the selection of approximately sixteen members.

The Senior Review panel will be formed in late September 2017 and will be disbanded after the Heliophysics Advisory Committee accepts the Senior Review’s final report, expected in the late 2017, early 2018 timeframe. During this anticipated six-month period of time, panel members will participate in the following activities:

1. Weekly to biweekly teleconferences, as appropriate leading up to the Senior Review face-to-face meeting;
2. The face-to-face meeting the week of October 30-Nov 3, 2017 in the Washington DC area, for which travel support will be provided by NASA;
3. The preparation and review of material for and the production of the Senior Review report;
4. Additional virtual meetings the panel deems appropriate.

Applications for membership on the Heliophysics Senior Review Panel are due no later than September1, 2017 (11:59 EDT) and must be submitted by e-mail to Dr. Jeffrey Hayes (address below). The subject line of the e-mail should be “Helio SR Application”.

The application must consist of a single PDF that includes:
1. A cover letter that explains the reasons for the submitter’s interest in the panel and the specific contribution, capabilities, and experience that they would bring to the review process. This letter may be up to two pages in length.
2. A short statement confirming the submitter’s availability during the six-month period that the panel may be active and committing to perform the tasks assigned to the panel. In cases where a submitter anticipates select, significant schedule constraints that could restrict engagement at critical times, this statement must state and discuss them. This statement may be up to one-half of a page in length.
3. A resume or CV that includes any relevant spacecraft mission involvement and publications. This document may be up to two pages in length.

Letters of Application are invited only from individuals; group applications, collaborations, and teams will not be considered.

This Senior Review panel is being chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Members of the panel who are not Regular Government Employees (RGE) will be designated Special Government Employees (SGE). As an SGE, each panel member will be required to submit an OGE 450 (Confidential Financial Disclosure Form), as well as attend an ethics briefing with via telecon or WebEx with the NASA Office of General Council.

NASA reserves the right to cancel this Call for Letters of Application at any time should programmatic and/or other reasons warrant it. The issuance of this Call for Letters of Application does not obligate NASA to accept any of the applications. Any costs incurred by prospective submitters in preparing responses to this Call are incurred completely at their own risk.

Jeffrey J. E. Hayes
Heliophysics Division
Science Mission Directorate
jeffrey.hayes-1 at nasa.gov
202-358-0353

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