[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 30, Number 6

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 30, Number 6
Mar.06,2020

Announcement submission website:
https://forms.gle/FXxfwokFxhUy1KcB9

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Table of Contents

1. Request for Public Comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting from Federally Funded Research

2. Heliophysics Phase I DRIVE Science Center Awards

3. Heliophysics Mission Design School, Applications Open

4. 2020 Space Weather Workshop - Student Information

5. Register for the 2nd Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium

6. Outer Planet Moon-magnetosphere Interaction Workshop

7. JGR Special Section: Geospace multi-point observations in Van Allen Probes and Arase era

8. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position in the Space Physics Group of the University of Helsinki, Finland

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1. Request for Public Comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting from Federally Funded Research
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From: Carrie Black (cblack at nsf.gov)

This Request For Public Comment may be of interest to the GEM Community:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/01/17/2020-00689/request-for-comments-draft-desirable-characteristics-of-repositories-for-managing-and-sharing-data

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has issued this RFC on behalf of the multi-agency Subcommittee on Open Science of the National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Science. The proposed set of desirable characteristics is part of the Subcommittee’s efforts to improve the consistency of information that Federal agencies provide to the scientific community about the long-term preservation of data resulting from Federally funded research. The characteristics could apply to repositories operated by government or non-governmental entities.

Feedback will help the Subcommittee refine and develop a common set of characteristics that Federal research funding agencies can use to support ongoing efforts to improve the management and sharing of data from Federally funded research.  To ensure your comments will be considered, please submit your response before 11:59 ET on Friday, March 6, 2020.


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2. Heliophysics Phase I DRIVE Science Center Awards
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From: James Spann (jim.spann at nasa.gov)

NASA Heliophysics Division is pleased to announce the Heliophysics Phase I DRIVE Science Center awards.
The selected proposals are listed below by Principal Investigator, Institution and Title. The abstracts of each can be downloaded from NSPIRES or by using this link
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init&solId={1FE15C46-31FA-783D-4ED2-F77BC1A233C9}&path=closedPast

PI/Institution/Title
Brain, David/U Colorado, Boulder/Do Habitable Worlds Require Magnetic Fields?
Drake, James/U Maryland, College Park/Solar Flare Energy Release
Gombosi, Tamas/U Michigan, Ann Arbor/Solar Storms and Terrestrial Impacts Center (SOLSTICE)
Hoeksema, Todd/Stanford U/Consequences of Flows and Fields in the Interior and Exterior of the Sun (COFFIES)
Merkin, Viacheslav/Johns Hopkins U/Center for Geospace Storms (CGS)
Opher, Merav/Boston U/Our Heliospheric Shield
Randall, Cora/U Colorado, Boulder/Wave-induced Atmospheric Variability Enterprise (WAVE)
Velli, Marco/U California, Los Angeles/HERMES: HEliospheRic Magnetic Energy Storage and conversion
Welling, Daniel/U Texas, Arlington/The Center for the Unified Study of Interhemispheric Asymmetries (CUSIA)

James Spann,
Heliophysics DRIVE Science Center Program


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3. Heliophysics Mission Design School, Applications Open
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From: Jared Leisner (jared.s.leisner at nasa.gov)

Dear Colleagues,

NASA Science Mission Directorate’s Heliophysics Division is sponsoring an early-career development pilot opportunity in summer/fall 2020 to help prepare the next generation of heliophysics science and engineering mission leaders. 

This Heliophysics Mission Design School (HMDS) is an adaptation of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s long-running Planetary Science Summer School, focused on high-priority heliophysics content and mission design.  Participants learn the process of developing a hypothesis-driven robotic space mission in a concurrent engineering environment while getting an in-depth, first-hand look at mission design, life cycle, costs, schedule and the trade-offs inherent in each.

Two sessions will be led by JPL in 2020.  Session 1 runs June 22 – September 4, and Session 2 runs September 7 – November 13.  Roughly equivalent in workload to a rigorous 3-hour graduate-level course, participants spend the first 10-11 weeks in preparatory webinars acting as a science mission team, prior to spending the final culminating week at JPL being mentored by JPL’s Advance Project Design Team, or “Team X” to refine their mission concept design, then present it to a mock expert review board.

Science and engineering doctoral candidates, recent Ph.D.s, postdocs, and junior faculty who are U.S. Citizens or legal permanent residents (and a very limited number of Foreign Nationals from non-designated counties) are eligible.  We are particularly encouraging applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Full program information, with points of contact, is available at the NASA Science Mission Design School website.  Further communication will be forthcoming from the HMDS pilot managers at JPL, who can also answer your questions. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/intern/apply/nasa-science-mission-design-schools/

Applications are due March 30, 2020.

Jared Leisner
Patrick Koehn
Heliophysics Division
NASA Science Mission Directorate


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4. 2020 Space Weather Workshop - Student Information
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From: Brian Jackson (bjackson at ucar.edu)

The 2020 Space Weather Workshop will be held April 20-24, in Boulder, Colorado. This meeting will bring together Federal agencies, the academic community, the private sector, and international partners to focus on the diverse impacts of space weather, on forecasting techniques, and on recent scientific advances in understanding and predicting conditions in the space environment.  New this year for students is a student-only Networking Session to be held on Sunday, April 19 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and a student focused, space weather 101 workshop on Monday, April 20 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

As in years past, students planning to present a poster are able to apply for the Student Travel Support Fund, sponsored by NOAA and NSF. Applications are due by the close of business on Monday, March 9, 2020. Please visit the website below for more information and application instructions. 

The plenary program, beginning on Tuesday, April 21, will highlight impacts in several areas, including: aviation, human spaceflight and exploration, satellites, power grids, and other sectors affected by space weather. The conference will also include an update on the national and international space weather programs to mitigate and respond to space weather impacts on society. We welcome a broad range of participation, including representatives from research and development, operational organizations, policy development, and industries impacted by space weather. 

The Space Weather Workshop is coordinated by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and co-sponsored by the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, the NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, and the NASA Heliophysics Division. 

Registration and workshop information, including hotel information as well as information for student participation, is now open at https://cpaess.ucar.edu/events/space-weather-workshop.  The program, speakers, and other relevant information will be announced in the next several weeks.


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5. Register for the 2nd Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium
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From: Kendra Greb (kgreb at ucar.edu)

Registration is Now Open at: https://cpaess.ucar.edu/meetings/eddy-symposium-2020

Want to be part of a cross-disciplinary community shaping the direction of how to live with a star?
As our planet becomes one among many thousands of known worlds, our needs to understand how Earth’s space and climate react to our variable star grow in urgency. 

Please join us in Vail, CO from June 8 - 12, 2020 for the 2nd Eddy Cross Disciplinary Symposium. The aim of the Symposium is to bring a cross-disciplinary community (in discipline and in career experience) together to help shape the next decade of helio-physical research, including its implications for planetary and astrophysical objects.  

The 2nd Eddy Symposium is where traditional disciplinary boundaries will be overcome and diversity of thought will be embraced uniting the scientific and operations communities and merging the solar, stellar, heliospheric, terrestrial, magnetospheric, and planetary sciences. 

The Eddy Symposium will cover a broad range of topics including: 

- The Solar-Stellar Connection
- Data Science and Machine-learning based Forecasts
- New Technologies and Opportunities for the Sun, space and Solar System Studies
- Novel Heliospheric Missions, including Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter 

Agenda: 

Monday, June 8 - Wednesday, June 10 
      General session open to all attendees. Will include talks, discussions, posters, and more.

Thursday, June 11 - Friday, June 12
      By invitation only.

For more information and to register please visit https://cpaess.ucar.edu/meetings/eddy-symposium-2020 or contact Christina Bargas at cbargas at ucar.edu (UCAR/CPAESS).

Travel Support for Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellows:

Approximately 15 graduate students and early postdoctoral fellows will be selected through a competitive process organized by the UCAR Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science. The Eddy Symposium lasts for five days, and each participant receives full travel support for registration fees, airline tickets, lodging and per diem costs. Applications are due on Monday, March 16, 2020.

For more information please visit: https://cpaess.ucar.edu/meetings/eddy-symposium-2020/student-travel-funding

Funding for the Symposium is provided by NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).


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6. Outer Planet Moon-magnetosphere Interaction Workshop
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From: Lina Hadid, Mika Holmberg, Hans Huybrighs (lina.zhadid at gmail.com)

Outer planet moon-magnetosphere interaction workshop
Dates: 5-6 November 2020 (directly after JUICE SWT/PI meeting)
Location: ESA/ESTEC

This workshop focuses on the interaction between the moon of outer planets in our Solar System and their magnetospheric environment, in preparation of upcoming missions like JUICE and Europa Clipper. We aim to bring together members of the community working on the different relevant objects and missions.

The workshop will focus on the following topics:
*Upstream and local variability of the moons' magnetospheric environments and the implications for the moon-magnetosphere interaction.
*Interaction processes between magnetospheres and moon surfaces and exospheres, including the role of dust.
*The interaction with irregular satellites (for example Jupiter’s moons Thebe and Amalthea)

We aim to collect abstracts addressing moon-magnetosphere interaction from all disciplines, including ground-based and Earth-orbit based observation, simulation results, theory, in-situ and remote sensing data analysis. We aim to discuss results from past missions such as Voyager, Galileo and Cassini-Huygens, and current missions such as Hubble, Hisaki and JUNO.


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7. JGR Special Section: Geospace multi-point observations in Van Allen Probes and Arase era
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From: Y. Miyoshi, I. Shinohara, K. Shiokawa, S. Ukhorskiy, O. Santolik (miyoshi at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)

Dear colleagues,

We are very pleased to announce that the Journal of Geophysical Research will be soon accepting paper submissions to the Special Section for Geospace multi-point observations in Van Allen Probes and Arase era.

Submission window: March 1 – September  30, 2020.

Special section description:
In Van Allen Probes and Arase era, coordinated multi-point observations with satellites in space and ground-based observatories have been organized in order to improve our understanding of the physical mechanisms of dynamics of geospace environment. This special issue expands upon new findings from these coordinated observations of Van Allen Probes, Arase and ground-based networks as well as interplay among different missions. There have been several storm events during periods of coordinated observations of both Van Allen Probes and Arase satellites; May 2017, July 2017, September 2017, and August 2018, which will be campaign study events from the multi-satellite and ground based observations in this special issue. Moreover, multi-point observations to focus on wave-particle interactions, for example, ULF observations at different MLTs and whistler/EMIC wave observations at different magnetic latitudes have also been planned, which are also good subjects for this special issue. Results from related observations and modeling/simulation studies on the inner magnetosphere are also welcome.

Please use AGU GEMS system
(https://jgr-spacephysics-submit.agu.org/cgi-bin/main.plex) to submit
your manuscript.

We look forward to many articles for this special section.

Special section coordinators:
Yoshi Miyoshi (ISEE, Nagoya University, miyoshi at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
Iku Shiokawa (ISAS/JAXA, iku at stp.isas.jaxa.jp)
Kazuo Shiokawa (ISEE, Nagoya University, shiokawa at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
Sasha Ukhorskiy (JHU/APL, Sasha.Ukhorskiy at jhuapl.edu)
Ondrej Santolik (Czech Academy of Sciences, ondrej.santolik at mff.cuni.cz)


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8. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position in the Space Physics Group of the 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 looking for a postdoctoral researcher in the field of magnetospheric physics. This 2-year position is part of a research project funded by the University of Helsinki to investigate the transmission of ULF fluctuations from the solar wind to the magnetosphere. The successful candidate will contribute to the development and the scientific analysis of the global hybrid-Vlasov model Vlasiator, developed in our research group. The candidate should hold a PhD in space plasma physics or a related field, and have some experience with numerical simulations. Other useful skills include Python, C/C++, and spacecraft 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 Space Physics Group at the University of Helsinki is one of the leading European space physics groups specialised both in observations and modelling of space plasmas. Our current research areas include physics of coronal mass ejections, their influence on magnetospheric dynamics, as well as reconnection, shocks and particle acceleration. We are also leading a Finnish Centre of Excellence (FORESAIL, www.helsinki.fi/sustainable-space), which builds and launches CubeSats.

The expected starting date for the position is in summer 2020. Applications are open until 31st March 2020.

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 list of publication and a maximum of three names to act as references to the same address (lucile.turc ‘at’ helsinki.fi).


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