[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 28, Number 16

Mon Apr 23 10:09:03 PDT 2018

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 28, Number 16
Apr.23,2018

Announcement submission website: http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/messenger_form/

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Table of Contents

1. New Co-Chair for the Dayside Kinetics Focus Group

2. MEETING: The C. Robert Clauer Research Symposium, Arlington, Virginia, May 31 – June 1, 2018

3. System-Scale Data Analysis to Resolve Thermospheric Joule Heating: Final Reminder of Registration Deadline

4. Ph.D Student Research and Teaching Assistant Positions in Space Plasma Physics-Research Area at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida

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1. New Co-Chair for the Dayside Kinetics Focus Group
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From: Heli Hietala, Gabor Toth, Xochitl Blanco-Cano, Andrew P. Dimmock (heli at igpp.ucla.edu)

Dear Colleagues,

In year three of the Dayside Kinetics FG, we welcome Ying Zou to our co-chair team. Ying brings in expertise on ground-based observations, helping us to fulfill our mission to act as a venue for joint modeling and observational efforts to understand kinetic processes in a global context. Please give her a warm welcome!

Looking forward to seeing you in Santa Fe,
Heli Hietala, Gabor Toth, Xochitl Blanco-Cano, Andrew P. Dimmock, and Ying Zou

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2. MEETING: The C. Robert Clauer Research Symposium, Arlington, Virginia, May 31 – June 1, 2018
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From: Joseph Baker (jo.baker at vt.edu)

The Virginia Tech Center for Space Science and Engineering Research (Space at VT) will host a 2-day research symposium to celebrate the career of Professor C. Robert Clauer. The program will include technical presentations covering the broad range of geospace system science topics Professor Clauer investigated during his career using data from space-based auroral imagers, ionospheric radars, and autonomous magnetometer arrays. Example science topics include: morphology of the ring current, solar wind – magnetosphere – ionosphere coupling, modes of magnetospheric activity, polar potential saturation, and interhemispheric conjugacy. A celebratory banquet will be held on the evening of Thursday May 31st at which participants can share personal reminiscences.

More information about accommodation, registration, and abstract submission can be found at:

https://register.cpe.vt.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=1185049

Discounted rates for accommodation and early bird registration are available until April 30th. 

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3. System-Scale Data Analysis to Resolve Thermospheric Joule Heating: Final Reminder of Registration Deadline
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From: Robert Shore, Anasuya Aruliah, John Coxon, Liz Tindale (robore at bas.ac.uk)

Dear colleagues,

This is a final reminder that the deadline for registration for the workshop ‘System-Scale Data Analysis to Resolve Thermospheric Joule Heating’ is in less than a week, on this Monday (the 23rd).

If you wish to attend, we kindly ask that you preregister on the following site: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/system-scale-data-analysis-to-resolve-thermospheric-joule-heating-tickets-42453674082, since onsite payment is not possible. The registration site also has practical details for attendees, including hotel information, and travel advice for getting to the British Antarctic Survey.  Note that financial support is available for attending postgraduate students.

Event summary: 
The aim of this workshop is to give a forum for discussing of the interdisciplinary utility of data-driven analytical techniques, and the best ways to harness the potential of the available large datasets which are driving advances in near-Earth space research.  The specific focus of the workshop is on the intrinsically interdisciplinary problem of resolving Joule heating – the transfer of energy from electrical currents in the ionosphere to the neutral particles of the upper atmosphere.

Presentation schedule:
09:30 – 10:15: Keynote
 -- Brian Anderson: On Multi-Scale Assessment of Ionospheric Electromagnetic Energy Input
10:15 – 11:15: Session 1: Seasons and Solar Cycles
 -- Sandra Chapman: Reproducible aspects of the climate of space weather over the last five solar cycles
 -- Colin Forsyth: Seasonal and temporal variations of field-aligned currents and ground magnetic deflections during substorms
11:15 – 12:00: Posters and refreshments
12:00 – 13:00: Session 2: Scale-Coupling in Space and Time
 -- Daniel Whiter: Quantifying the effects of fine scale electric fields on Joule heating
 -- Maria-Theresia Walach: Characterising and understanding temporal variability in ionospheric flows using SuperDARN data
13:00 – 14:00: Break for lunch.
14:00 – 15:15: Poster Session, refreshments, discussion topic suggestions
15:15 – 16:45: Session 3: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling from Low-Earth Orbit
 -- Steve Milan: Linear and non-linear dimensionality reduction techniques applied to AMPERE observations of field-aligned currents
 -- Karl M. Laundal: An empirical model of horizontal ionospheric currents from magnetic field measurements at low Earth orbit
 -- Delores Knipp: Poynting Flux Calculated along DMSP F15 orbits
16:45 – 17:30: Discussion Session

The full set of abstracts including poster contributions is available at ftp://ftp.nerc-bas.ac.uk/helpdesk/System_Scale_Data_Analysis_Joule_Heating_Abstracts_20180330.pdf

Conveners: Robert Shore, Anasuya Aruliah, John Coxon, Elizabeth Tindale.
For more information please contact Rob Shore at robore at bas.ac.uk.

Kind regards,
Rob (on behalf of the conveners)

Dr. Robert Shore
Geomagnetic Field Researcher
British Antarctic Survey
Cambridge, UK

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4. Ph.D Student Research and Teaching Assistant Positions in Space Plasma Physics-Research Area at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida
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From: Katariina Nykyri (nykyrik at erau.edu)

The Center for Space and Atmospheric Research (CSAR) and Department of Physical Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is seeking students with B.Sci or M.S degree for the Engineering Physics Ph.D program for Fall 2018, Spring 2019 and Fall 2019 admissions in the Space Plasma Physics-Research area. Student is required to have a strong background in physics and mathematics. Previous experience in numerical simulations and data-analysis is beneficial but not necessary. In addition to four core Ph.D classes in Engineering Physics, the students with no prior background in Space or Plasma Physics will take the following course sequence that will prepare them for space plasma physics research:

Space Physics I
Space Physics II/Advanced Space Physics
Space Plasma Physics

To supplement their background, Ph.D students can also choose electives from the following 500-600-level courses:

Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists
Experimental Methods in Space Science  

The students with adequate background in space/plasma physics will only be required to take the four core classes in the program and they can directly start as a Research Assistant in Prof. Nykyri’s research group in the Embry-Riddle's Laboratory for Solar-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Research (LASMIR).

Both teaching and research assistantships cover full stipend and tuition waivers. For detailed admission requirements, please see:

Erau.edu/epphd

For further information, contact

Dr. Katariina Nykyri, nykyrik at erau.edu 

The Center for Space and Atmospheric Research (CSAR) studies the fundamental physics of Planetary Atmospheres and Space Environments. These systems include the complex and highly-coupled Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and Magnetosphere (AIM) systems of Earth and other planets. The members of CSAR will bring scientific competencies spanning the realms of theory, modeling, observation, and experiment, as they apply to each region of the AIM system.  For further information on CSAR laboratories and facilities please see http://csar.erau.edu/. CSAR faculty collaborate across ERAU’s College of Arts and Sciences, and the College of Engineering, and also utilize facilities in ERAU’s Engineering and Aerospace Innovation Complex (Micaplex) at Embry-Riddle Research Park, which provide state-of-the-art facilities for  platform and instrument development, as well as incubator space and facilities for startup companies (https://erau.edu/micaplex/). Recently, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has installed a Cray® CS™ cluster supercomputer – Vega — into the Lehman Engineering and Technology Center on the Daytona Beach, Fla., campus. Vega is currently being used by CSAR faculty for numerical simulations of processes in the Heliosphere and Earth's AIM systems. CSAR's SAIL lab also house a plasma chamber used for characterization of plasma diagnostic instruments that are flown on rockets and satellites. 

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