[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 29, Number 9

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 29, Number 9
Apr.29,2019

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

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Table of Contents

1. GEM Summer Workshop Schedule, Travel, Deadlines

2. GEM Workshop 2019: “System Understanding of Radiation Belt Particle Dynamics through Multi-spacecraft and Ground-based Observations and Modeling” – Call for Inputs on Challenge Events

3. Growing the Conversation around "Space Weather in the Digital Age"

4. RISR Radar Accepting Experiment Requests

5. Postdoctoral Position at ISEE, Nagoya University in Japan

6. Postdoctoral Position (2 years) in Magnetospheric Physics at Umeå University, Sweden

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1. GEM Summer Workshop Schedule, Travel, Deadlines
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From: Jacob Bortnik on behalf of the workshop organizers (jbortnik at atmos.ucla.edu)

Dear GEM colleagues,

For all those who are starting to prepare for this year's GEM Summer Workshop, please note that a preliminary version of the schedule is now available and can be found here:

https://gemworkshop.org/pages/gem2019/gem2019schedule.php

Please remember to register by May 15th (only ~2 weeks away!)

https://gemworkshop.org/pages/Registration.php

All other information including deadlines, travel and accommodation information can be found on the workshop website here:
https://gemworkshop.org/

Please do remember that we will have a CEDAR-GEM joint meeting on Saturday June 22nd, and consider attending this unique event.

We look forward to seeing you in Santa Fe in just-slightly-over-seven weeks!


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2. GEM Workshop 2019: “System Understanding of Radiation Belt Particle Dynamics through Multi-spacecraft and Ground-based Observations and Modeling” – Call for Inputs on Challenge Events
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From: Hong Zhao (hong.zhao at lasp.colorado.edu)

Dear Colleagues,

The GEM new focus group, System Understanding of Radiation Belt Particle Dynamics through Multi-spacecraft and Ground-based Observations and Modeling, would like to solicit inputs and ideas on the challenge events for GEM workshop 2019. We plan to organize discussion-based workshop-type sessions on challenge events with multipoint measurements and/or combined with theoretical and modeling efforts that can further advance our understanding of radiation belt dynamics. We would appreciate inputs on specific conjunction events which you would like to bring to GEM community for collaboration and discussion, or ideas of specific types of conjunction events that utilize multipoint measurements to address specific science questions. If you have such ideas or inputs that would like to share, please email any of our focus group chairs at:

Hong Zhao (hong.zhao at lasp.colorado.edu)
Lauren Blum (lauren.w.blum at nasa.gov)
Sasha Ukhorskiy (sasha.ukhorskiy at jhuapl.edu)
Xiangrong Fu (sfu at newmexicoconsortium.org)

Thanks in advance for your contributions!


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3. Growing the Conversation around "Space Weather in the Digital Age"
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From: Ryan McGranaghan, Enrico Camporeale, Anastasios Anastasiadis, Manolis Georgoulis  (ryan.mcgranaghan at colorado.edu)

Dear GEM community,

Thank you for your wonderful response to the frontier topical journal issue:  "Space Weather research in the Digital Age and across the full data lifecycle”! You have helped craft this important discussion, and it has become clear that the conversation need be extended. Thus, we are extending the deadline for submissions until September 30, 2019. 

To be a part of the discussion and to submit your fantastic work please find full details here:  https://tinyurl.com/SpaceWeather-DigitalAge. We encourage you to help define the topical discussion taking shape in our community. 

Please do not hesitate to reach out with your questions, thoughts, and manuscripts.

Warm Regards,
Ryan McGranaghan on behalf of Enrico Camporeale, Anastasios Anastasiadis, Manolis Georgoulis, and the Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate editorial staff

For questions regarding this topical issue, please contact the Topical Editor-in-Chief, Ryan McGranaghan.

For questions concerning the submission process the Editorial Office (jswsc at edpsciences.org) should be contacted.


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4. RISR Radar Accepting Experiment Requests
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From: Roger Varney (roger.varney at sri.com)

Dear Geospace Community,

The RISR-N and RISR-C radars have returned to science operations after a hiatus between October 2018 and April 2019. We are now accepting user requests for experiment time in May 2019 and beyond. Science operations were paused after an event in October 2018 that caused damage to some RISR-N power amplifiers, resulting in a reduction of the peak transmit power. RISR-C was unaffected. The cause of this event was identified and has now been mitigated. Example data collected in April 2019 proves that despite the reduced sensitivity, RISR-N can make scientifically useful measurements of all the normal ISR observables. We are adjusting number of beam positions and other aspects of the experiment designs in order to compensate for the reduced sensitivity, and we recommend experiment requestors discuss revised experiment designs with the PI. In the current state we can run both RISR-N and RISR-C at 8% to 9% duty cycle using the large generator or we can run RISR-N alone at 3% duty cycle using a newly installed small generator. For comparison, most of the joint RISR-N and RISR-C operations in 2018 used 5% to 6% duty cycle on both radars. The lower duty cycle runs with the small generator potentially enable a greater degree of scheduling flexibility than was previously practical for RISR-N. Users requesting time on both RISR-N and RISR-C should email both Roger Varney (roger.varney at sri.com) and Robert Gillies (rgillies at ucalgary.ca).

Sincerely,

Roger Varney
Geospace Laboratory
SRI International


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5. Postdoctoral Position at ISEE, Nagoya University in Japan
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From: Yoshizumi Miyoshi (miyoshi at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp) (miyoshi at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University
http://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/employment/upload_images/20190426_isee_en.pdf

Summary
Project for study of dynamical variation of Particles and Waves in the INner magnetosphere using Ground-based network observations (PI: Prof. K. Shiokawa, Nagoya University, http://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/dimr/PWING/en/) is a nation-wide research collaboration supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas from MEXT/Japan. PWING aims to contribute to understanding the mechanisms of the dynamical variation in the inner magnetosphere, which can be evaluated quantitatively combining the network-based observation on the earth, direct in situ observation of the magnetosphere by Arase satellite, and numerical modeling. Successful candidates will work with Prof. Miyoshi at ISEE, Nagoya University under PWING. The successful candidates are required to analyze Arase satellite data and ground-based observations to compare them with outputs from the inner magnetosphere kinetic model RAM-SCB (Ring current Atmosphere interactions Model with Self Consistent magnetic field) developed as part of the SHIELDS project (PI: Dr. V. Jordanova, Los Alamos National Laboratory, https://www.lanl.gov/projects/shields/index.php) in order to improve the understanding of inner magnetosphere dynamics.

Job requirements and Qualifications
1. Work location: Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research
(ISEE), Nagoya University

2. Appointment conditions:
(1) Position: Postdoctoral researcher
(2) Salary: Approx. 400,000JPY/month
(3) Work hours: 38.75 hours/week
(4) Insurance enrollment: Health insurance, Welfare pension,
Employment insurance, Workers compensation insurance

3. Research area: magnetospheric physics

4. Number of persons:  1

5. Qualifications: Applicants must satisfy all of the following conditions:
(1) Holds a doctoral degree or is expected to earn a doctoral degree, and
(2) does not have other primary occupation or is not a graduate
student or a researcher at the time of start of the employment.

6. Starting date: August 1, 2019 or later at the earliest possible time

7. Term of employment: Renewable each fiscal year up to March 31, 2021

8. Application deadline: 5:00pm on Friday, May 31, 2019 (Japan standard time)

9. Screening process: Document screening and, if necessary, interview

10. Application materials:
(1) Curriculum Vitae
(2) Summary of research achievements (up to two A4 sheets)
(3) List of publication and research activity
(4) PDF files of the three most important publications
(5) Research plan (up to two A4 sheets)
(6) Name and contact of two professional references
(7) Possible starting date

11. Method of application:
Applicants should send application materials to the email address below with “Application to PWING Post-Doc” in the subject heading.
Submission email address: miyoshi [at] isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp
After submission, applicants should make further inquiries if a confirmation email is not received within three days of their submission.

12. Inquiries:
Prof. Yoshizumi Miyoshi
Institute of Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University
F3-3 (250), Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
e-mail:   miyoshi [at] isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp

13: Remarks:
Personal information provided in relation to the application will be used only for the purpose of screening. Upon completion of the screening, all personal information, except for information of those who passed the screening, will be discarded responsibly. In addition, Institute for Space– Earth Environmental Research is an active promoter of Gender Equality. Browse the web page below for more detail. http://www.kyodo-sankaku.provost.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/

The contents herein are originally created in Japanese. If any discrepancies do exist, the original Japanese version shall prevail.


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6. Postdoctoral Position (2 years) in Magnetospheric Physics at Umeå University, Sweden
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From: Maria Hamrin, Hermann Opgenoorth (hamrin at space.umu.se)

The aim of the project is to accomplish an advanced physical understanding of the temporal behavior of geomagnetic storms, in particular in terms of their short-term variability with respect to solar wind forcing and internal processes in the Earth's magnetosphere and magnetotail.

Magnetic storms are presently intensively studied because of their potential detrimental impact on space and ground-infrastructure in the scientific context of near-Earth space plasma processes, which today is commonly referred to as “Space Weather”. While the general temporal behaviour of a geomagnetic storm and its various long-term phases is today reasonably well understood, there are still a number of open questions about the short-term variations. While some storms (or storm-phases) exhibit smooth temporal variations, even for large amplitudes of disturbances, other storms exhibit rapid and multiple spikes (defined as periods of large dB/dt of over 1000 nT/min), which may cause the so-called “Geomagnetically Induced Currents” (GICs) discussed in Space Weather. It is not known what exactly determines the spiky nature of stormy periods as compared to other smoother periods of equally large amplitude of the total magnetic disturbances. It is therefore of relevance, both for the scientific community and for the predictability of GICs, to clarify what determines such different temporal behaviours at different times.        

This is a full-time (100%) position for two years. Starting date as soon as possible or according to agreement. The postdoctoral project will be conducted in close collaboration with scientists from the University of Leicester UK, Danish Technical University Copenhagen and the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Washington USA. Application deadline is June 2, 2019.

The full advertisement can be found at
https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/postdoctoral-position-2-years-in-magnetospheric-physics_265963/

For further information, contact Maria Hamrin, maria.hamrin at space.umu.se and/or Hermann Opgenoorth, hermann.opgenoorth at space.umu.se.


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