[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 29, Number 20

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 29, Number 20
Jun.27,2019

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

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Table of Contents

1. Nominations Requested for Bowie Lectures

2. Space Weather in the Digital Age

3. AGU session 'SM025. Magnetospheric Modeling: State of the Art, Gaps, and Future Innovations'

4. ESA Research Fellowships in Space Science

5. JOB OPENING: PhD Student Position in the Space Physics Group at the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland

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1. Nominations Requested for Bowie Lectures
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From: Christina Cohen (cohen at srl.caltech.edu)

Dear Colleagues,

We are soliciting nominations for this year's Bowie lectures.  At the 2019 Fall Meeting, the Parker lecture and the Nicolet lecture will be given which honor Space Scientists who have made significant contributions in the fields of Solar and Heliospheric science and Aeronomy, respectively.

Please send nominee names and a brief description supporting them to either Christina Cohen (cohen at srl.caltech.edu) or Geoff Reeves (geoff at reevesresearch.org) by Monday, July 1, 2019.

Thank you for your contributions,
Christina and Geoff


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2. 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,

While enjoying another engaging GEM workshop, please keep in mind that you now have a unique opportunity to help shape this conversation by contributing your excellent work to a new Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate topical issue:  "Space Weather research in the Digital Age and across the full data lifecycle”!

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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3. AGU session 'SM025. Magnetospheric Modeling: State of the Art, Gaps, and Future Innovations'
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From: Gian Luca Delzanno, Maria Kuznetsova, Dan Welling, Michael McKerns (delzanno at lanl.gov)

Dear Colleagues,

we kindly invite contributions to the following AGU session on modeling the near-Earth space environment, which aims to assess the state of the art, gaps and future innovations that will be necessary to enable progress of the field.

Sincerely,
Gian Luca Delzanno
Maria Kuznetsova
Dan Welling
Michael McKerns

Session Title:
SM025. Magnetospheric Modeling: State of the Art, Gaps, and Future Innovations

Session Description:
The holy grail of computational magnetospheric modeling is to resolve the microscopic/kinetic physics while capturing the macroscopic/large-scale behavior of the system. This is a formidable challenge, since it requires resolving physical phenomena occurring over spatial and temporal scales separated by several orders of magnitude. Thus, despite remarkable recent progress, a fully-kinetic model of the Earth’s magnetosphere remains elusive.
This session aims to bring together experts in different disciplines to assess the state of magnetospheric modeling, its limitations and the new ideas/innovations necessary to move forward.

Solicited contributions include:

1) Modeling studies: from global-MHD to local models, including those treating only specific components of the environment and its couplings (ionosphere, plasmasphere, ring current, radiation belts, waves, …), empirical models, etc.

2) Studies combining modeling and observations (including verification and validation) to expose successes and limitations of current models.

3) Numerical, data-science, high-performance-computing and information-science-and-technology techniques deemed critical to advance the field.


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4. ESA Research Fellowships in Space Science
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From: Oliver Jennrich (fellowship at cosmos.esa.int)

The European Space Agency awards several postdoctoral fellowships each year.

The aim of these fellowships is to provide scientists in their early career, 
holding a PhD or the equivalent degree, with the means of performing research
in fields related to the ESA Science Programme. 

Areas of research include planetary science, astronomy and
astrophysics, solar and solar-terrestrial science, plasma physics and
fundamental physics. The fellowships have a duration of two years, with the 
possible extension to three years, and are tenable at the 
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Netherlands, 
or at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villafranca del Castillo, 
near Madrid, Spain.

Applications are now solicited for fellowships in space science to begin in
the fall of 2020. Preference will be given to applications submitted by
candidates in an early stage of their career. Candidates not holding
a PhD yet are encouraged to apply, but they must provide evidence of
receiving their degree before starting the fellowship.

ESA fellows are enrolled in ESA's Social Security Scheme, which covers
medical expenses. A monthly deduction covers these short-term and long-term risks.

The deadline for applications is 1 October 2019.

More information on the ESA Research Fellowship programme in Space Science,
on the conditions and eligibility, as well as the application form can retrieved from 
http://cosmos.esa.int/fellowship

Questions on the scientific aspects of the
ESA Fellowship in Space Science not answered in the above pages can be sent
by e-mail to the fellowship coordinators, Dr. Oliver Jennrich or Dr. Jan-Uwe Ness 
at the address fellowship at cosmos.esa.int


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5. JOB OPENING: PhD Student Position in the Space Physics Group at the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland
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From: Lucile Turc (lucile.turc at helsinki.fi)

The Space Physics Group of the University of Helsinki is a leading European space physics group specialised both in observations and modelling of space plasmas. We develop in particular the novel global magnetospheric hybrid-Vlasov simulation Vlasiator and have a strong focus on solar eruptions combining observations and models.

We are now opening a doctoral student position. The research of the PhD student will focus on the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at the Earth's magnetopause, and on the associated wave activity inside the magnetosphere.
Prior knowledge of space plasma physics and numerical simulations is considered an advantage. Other useful skills include: Python, C/C++, space physics-related data analysis

We offer a position in a dynamic and international research group, with a possibility to network and to develop as a researcher. The expected start date for the position is 1st January 2020. Applications are open until 30th August 2019.

For more information, please visit:
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/spacephysics/
https://www.helsinki.fi/sustainable-space

For specifics about the position, contact Lucile Turc (lucile.turc ‘at’ helsinki.fi). Interested candidates should send their informal application, a CV, a transcript of their university grades, and a maximum of three names to act as references to the same address (lucile.turc ‘at’ helsinki.fi).


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