[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXII, Issue 52

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXII, Issue 52
September 10, 2015

Editor: Peter Chi
Co-Editor: Guan Le
Distribution Support: Sharon Uy, Todd King, Kevin Addison
Email: editor at igpp.ucla.edu       

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Table of Contents

1. (CORRECTION) MEETING: 15th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, “The Science of Ed Stone: Celebrating his 80th Birthday”, April 3 - 8, 2016, Cape Coral, Florida, USA
2. JOB OPENING: Dear Colleague Letter: NSF/AGS, Geospace Section Program Directors Search (modified 8/27/2015)
3. JOB OPENING: Faculty Position in Solar-Terrestrial Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology
4. JOB OPENING: Position in Space Physics/Upper Atmosphere Physics, Department of Physics and Technology University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway
5. JOB OPENING: University Academic Fellow in the Chemistry of Planetary Atmospheres

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(CORRECTION) MEETING: 15th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, “The Science of Ed Stone: Celebrating his 80th Birthday”, April 3 - 8, 2016, Cape Coral, Florida, USA

From: Gary P. Zank (garyp.zank at gmail.com)
 
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE INCORRECT DATE WAS LISTED IN OUR PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT. THE CORRECTED DATE IS ABOVE. 

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: The 15th Annual International Astrophysics Conference will be held at the Westin Cape Coral Resort at Marina Village, Cape Coral, Florida from April 4 to April 8, 2016. (Welcome Reception and Evening Registration begins Sunday, April 3).
 
The meeting entitled, “The Science of Ed Stone: Celebrating his 80th Birthday”, will follow the same format as before with 25-minute presentations punctuated by selected 40-minute invited talks that will explore various themes in greater detail.
 
The Science of Ed Stone: Celebrating his 80th Birthday
 
Ed Stone has made foundational contributions to our understanding of all facets of the physics of energetic particles in the solar wind and the interstellar medium. Much of our current understanding of the interaction of the solar wind with the local interstellar medium is derived from the Voyager Interstellar Mission under Ed’s leadership. His remarkable career has spanned the space age, contributing not only to science but to the leadership of our community. The 15thAnnual International Astrophysics Conference will celebrate the science and scientific achievements of Ed Stone.
 
The website will be available shortly. Please mark your calendars and contact us for your interest in attending. E-mail inquiries about the meeting should be directed to Gary Zank at garyp.zank at gmail.com or icnsmeetings at gmail.com.


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2. JOB OPENING: Dear Colleague Letter: NSF/AGS, Geospace Section Program Directors Search (modified 8/27/2015)

From: Janet Kozyra (JKOZYRA at nsf.gov)

Employment Opportunity--Dear Colleague Letter
Date: July 17, 2015, modified August 27, 2015
 
Dear Colleague:
 
The Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) announces a nationwide search to fill several Program Director rotator positions within the Geospace Section.  This is a modified version of the original DCL (released July 17, 2015) to include the possibility of a broader range in types of rotator and temporary assignments considered and to indicate scientific areas that are the intended focus for the initial open positions.   Rotator positions can be eitherIntergovernmental Personnel Assignment (IPA)  or Visiting Scientist, Engineer, and Educator (VSEE) assignments.  For more information regarding rotator assignments and eligibility, visit our website at https://www.nsf.gov/careers/rotator/.  Fed Temp employment is also a possibility.
 
The current position of highest priority is Aeronomy Program Director.   However, a second program director with broad knowledge of geospace science, to enable contribution to multiple programs within the Geospace Section is also desired.  In the longer term, this letter is intended to serve as an ongoing mechanism for recruiting program directors to fill positions vacated by rotators who have returned to their home institutions.
 
For more details about the requirements for the positions, see the full text of the DCL at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/ags15001/ags15001.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_147 .
 
Formal consideration of interested applicants began August 17, 2015, as specified in an earlier version of this DCL, and will continue until selection is made.  Individuals interested in applying for this position should send a current CV and letter of interest to:
 
Janet Kozyra, Acting Section Head
Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, Suite 775
National Science Foundation 
4201 Wilson Blvd. 
Arlington, VA 22230 
Phone:  703-292-8519
Fax: 703-292-9022
Email: jkozyra at nsf.gov 

Those who have already applied in response to the earlier version of the DCL need not re-apply.  Questions about the positions can be directed to the above or any of the Geospace program directors:

* Therese Moretto Jorgensen, Space Weather (tjorgens at nsf.gov)
* Ilia Roussev, Solar-Terrestrial Relations (iroussev at nsf.gov)
* Sunanda Basu, Aeronomy  (sbasu at nsf.gov)
* John Meriwether, Geospace Facilities (jmeriwet at nsf.gov)

NSF IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER


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JOB OPENING: Faculty Position in Solar-Terrestrial Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology

From: Andrew Gerrard, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology (gerrard at njit.edu)

A faculty position is available within the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) and the Physics Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).  Appointment is anticipated at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor of Physics, with a possibility of tenure for exceptional applicants, and anticipated to start in January 2016.  At present there are 19 tenure track/tenured faculty in the NJIT Physics Department – including 4 members which compose CSTR (Cao, Gerrard, Gary, and Wang).  CSTR is also composed of 2 Distinguished Research Professors (Goode and Lanzerotti), 10 Research Professors, 11 Research Engineers, 2 Administrative Assistants, and a number of post-doctoral fellows and Ph.D. graduate students.  CSTR operates a number of major ground based observing facilities, while having an expanding presence on campus in Newark, NJ.  These remote facilities include the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO), the Owens Valley Solar Array (OVSA), the Second-generation Optimized Fabry-Pérot Doppler Imager (SOFDI) in Peru, and the Automated Geophysical Observatories (AGO) distributed across the Antarctic iceshelf.  These facilities give CSTR-NJIT unique observational facilities in optical-infrared and radio solar astronomy, as well as low, middle and upper atmospheric observations – enabling studies spanning the Sun’s surface through its extended atmosphere and on the Earth’s atmosphere.  Further, CSTR is the PI organization in the NASA Van Allen Probes mission of the NASA Living With a Star (LWS) program.  For a full overview of NJIT's program in solar and terrestrial physics, please visit http://centers.njit.edu/cstr/.
 
Applicants for the position are required to have a Ph.D. in Physics or closely related discipline, as well as relevant scientific and leadership experience.  Full consideration will be given to all applications received before September 18, 2015.  Please email your application (or enquiries) to the Solar-Terrestrial Physics Faculty Search Committee at cheryl.james at njit.edu, and CC the CSTR Physics Search Committee Chair at gerrard at njit.edu.  Please include a resume, a brief statement of your interest in collaborations as part of CSTR, your research goals, and the names of three to five references. Applications will be kept confidential to the fullest extent possible.  NJIT is a public research university and is an equal opportunity, affirmative-action employer.


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JOB OPENING: Position in Space Physics/Upper Atmosphere Physics, Department of Physics and Technology University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway

From: Björn Gustavsson (bjorn.gustavsson at irf.se)

The Space Physics Group of the Department of Physics and Technology of
the UiT Arctic University of Norway (University of Tromsø)
has two open positions, one as professor and one as
associate professor.

Faculty duties at UiT are divided equally between original research
and teaching at bachelor and master level, and supervision of
PhD students.

The department has a rich research tradition going back to the
pioneering auroral research originated by Kristian Birkeland. Present
experimental activities make use of the substantial research
infrastructures in Northern Norway and Svalbard, the EISCAT radars and
Heating Facility, the Andøya Space Center, the ALOMAR lidar facility
at Andøya MST and meteor radars, numerous optical instruments,
lidars, GPS receivers and more.

The Faculty of Science and Technology has resolved to strengthen the
Space Physics Group with new top faculty positions and PhD
scholarships. A powerful motivation has been the decision by the
Research Council of Norway to finance the construction of EISCAT_3D, a
4th generation incoherent scatter radar with 3-dimensional
capabilities that will replace the present EISCAT radars in Northern
Scandinavia. The EISCAT Scientific Association plans to start
construction in 2016 with initial operations 2020. UiT expects to play
a leading role in the development and utilization of EISCAT_3D.

The University of Tromsø has generous employment conditions that
includes sabbatical year every fifth year (after working full
time four years) with the possibility to obtain paid living expenses
in an institution abroad in addition to fully paid salary which,
depending on the country, can be tax-free. See the link to the job
announcements below for more details on welfare, health insurance and
retirement programmes:

http://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/116229/professor-and-professor-associate-professor-of-space-physics-at-the-department-of-physics-and-technology

http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/540161-professor-and-professor-associate-professor-of-space-physics-at-the-department-of-physics-and-technology

UiT The Arctic University of Norway has an active policy aimed  to
increase the proportion of women in senior research positions. In the
event that two or more applicants are found to be approximately
equally qualified, women applicants will be given priority.


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JOB OPENING: University Academic Fellow in the Chemistry of Planetary Atmospheres
 
From: John Plane (j.m.c.plane at leeds.ac.uk)
 
University of Leeds Grade 8 (£38,511 to £45,954) progressing to Grade 9 (£47,328 – £54,841) upon confirmation as Associate Professor.  Closing Date 30thSeptember 2015
 
As part of an extensive expansion and development programme across the whole University, the School of Chemistry is seeking to recruit future academic leaders with research interests in planetary atmospheres. Applications are not restricted to candidates with a current track record in planetary atmospheres, but your application should outline how you plan to apply your skills to develop a research portfolio in your chosen field.
 
Missions, such as Cassini-Huygens, and the discovery of numerous exoplanets have raised the profile of Planetary Atmospheres.  A deeper understanding of the fundamental chemistry of such environments is required to (a) support the interpretation of observations, (b) the design of new missions, (c) improve our understanding of the evolution of solar systems and (d) shed light on the history and possible future of our own atmosphere.
 
The School of Chemistry has an international reputation in observing, modelling and performing laboratory experiments to understand the Earth’s atmosphere.  We are seeking to expand our research and teaching expertise in chemical studies related to the atmospheres of other solar-system bodies and the atmospheres of extra-solar planets.  Our current work in this area includes a laboratory and modelling study of Titan’s organic photo-chemistry and the impacts of cosmic dust in the upper atmospheres of several planets.
 
Existing laboratory equipment from the Atmospheric and Planetary Chemistry (APC) Group would be available to help start up a laboratory-based programme, but we would also welcome applications involving modelling and observations. We encourage you to contact Professor Paul Seakins, as Head of the APC Research Group, to informally discuss issues relating to equipment.
 
As an Academic Fellow, you will be expected to develop independent research in aspects of the chemistry of planetary atmospheres, and would also be encouraged to exploit collaborative research opportunities with other members of the APC group and researchers elsewhere in the University, for example, in the Schools of Physics, Earth and Environment, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (satellite observations).
 
You will develop a research profile that will contribute to the University’s ambition to excel at REF2020, with a sustained record of internationally excellent, and some world-leading, publications. You would also be expected to submit applications for a personal fellowship, for example, EPSRC or STFC Early Career, ERC Starting or Consolidator, as well as for research projects as principal investigator.
 
You will also co-supervise PhD students and be expected to contribute to the development and delivery of relevant programmes at undergraduate, Masters and PhD level.
 
You will hold an appropriate PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Atmospheric Science, Physics or related areas and have significant proven research experience, including evidence of research leadership appropriate to the career stage, for example, lead authorship of significant publications, ability to attract independent funding, the ability to teach at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate level in Chemistry, and a clear and compelling vision for personal academic development.
 
Enquiries can be made to Professor Paul Seakins, email: p.w.seakins at leeds.ac.uk ; Professor John Plane, email: j.m.c.plane at leeds.ac.uk; or Professor Dwayne Heard, email: d.e.heard at leeds.ac.uk
 
Further Information at: http://250greatminds.leeds.ac.uk/


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