[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIII, Issue 16

Sun Apr 3 10:16:35 PDT 2016

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIII, Issue 16
Apr.03,2016

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

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Table of Contents

1. Living With A Star Town Targeted Research and Technology Steering Committee on-line Town Hall

2. MEETING:  SPD 2016: April 6 Abstract Deadline & Update on Support for Students & Early-Career Researchers

3. MEETING: SuperDARN Workshop 2016 - Partial Student Support and Abstract Deadline 11 April 2016

4. MEETING: TREND-2016, 19-23 September, 2016, Kuhlungsborn, Germany

5. MEETING: International Astronomical Union Symposium 328 "Living around Active Stars," 17-21 October, 2016, Maresias, SP, Brazil

6. New Book: "Low-Frequency Waves in Space Plasmas" (published by Wiley)

7. SuperMAG Releases New Tools

8. SCOSTEP Visiting Scholarship – Call for Applications 2016

9. RHESSI Science Nugget No. 270

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Living With A Star Town Targeted Research and Technology Steering Committee on-line Town Hall

From: Alexa Halford (alexa.j.halford at nasa.gov)

The 2016 NASA Living with a Star Targeted Research and Technology  (LWS TR&T) committee will be holding a tele-town hall on Friday April 8th at noon Eastern. We hope to have as much participation from the space physics community as possible as community input in this process is crucial. During this town hall the committee will discuss and answer questions on the new process for submission of science topics and the comment periods.  At the time of the meeting please join us by going to Join WebEx meeting using: 

meeting number: 804 204 121
meeting password: Substorm!

Instead of using their dial in number, please call in using: 

telephone number: 1-844 - 467 - 6272
pass code: 901533

Submissions of science topics can be made through the LWS TR&T website: 

http://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/steering-committee/community-input 

and you can view and comment on already submitted topics from this website: 

http://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/steering-committee/view-community-input

We greatly look forward to your input and to continuing on the path of innovation and scientific exploration in the LWS program.

LWS Steering Committee Members: Eftyhia Zesta (Co-Chair), Mark Linton (Co-Chair), Yuri Shprits, Scott McIntosh, Nathan Schwadron, Jim Slavin, Cha Salem, Alexa Halford, Pontus Brandt, Tim Bastian, Kent Tobiska 

Liaisons: Terry Onsager, Rodney Veireck, Ilia Roussev, Vyacheslav Lukin, Masha Kuznetsova, Mona Kessel, Dean Pesnell, Dave Sibeck, Adam Szab Chris St Cyr 

Ex Officio: Elsayed Talaat, Jeff Morrill, Shing Fung

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MEETING:  SPD 2016: April 6 Abstract Deadline & Update on Support for Students & Early-Career Researchers

From: Valentin Martinez Pillet (vmpillet at nso.edu)

An important reminder for the upcoming 47th Solar Physics Division Meeting in Boulder, Colorado:

Early registration, SPD child care support, and *abstract submission* will close on April 6, 9:00 pm EDT—FIRM !

Please visit www.nso.edu/SPD2016 to access all of the pertinent meeting-related sites. The final program of the meeting will be made available in late April.

Some additional funds have recently become available for supporting students and early-career researchers. If interested, please write to spd_waiver at nso.edu *by April 20* for further information.

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MEETING: SuperDARN Workshop 2016 - Partial Student Support and Abstract Deadline 11 April 2016

From: Roman Makarevich (rmakarevich at alaska.edu)

The Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) Workshop 2016 will be held May 29 - June 3, 2016, in Fairbanks, Alaska, US. Contributions are welcome on any subject of interest to the SPA community, not necessarily limited to research undertaken with SuperDARN. Details are given at http://superdarn2016.gi.alaska.edu. Partial student support is available for student presenters http://superdarn2016.gi.alaska.edu/#Students. To receive support, a student will need to submit an abstract and present a paper (oral or poster). The deadline for abstract submissions is 11 April 2016. The deadline for student
support applications in 1 May 2016.

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MEETING: TREND-2016, 19-23 September, 2016, Kuhlungsborn, Germany

From: Stan Solomon (stans at ucar.edu)

TREND-2016, the 9th workshop on “Long-Term Changes and Trends in the Atmosphere” will be held on 19-23 September, 2016, in Kuhlungsborn, Germany, at the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP).  The workshop is sponsored by IAGA, ICMA/IAMAS, and the ROSMIC program of VarSITI/SCOSTEP, the German Space Organization (DLR), and the German ROMIC research initiative of BMBF.

Key topics of the workshop are:

1. Observed trends and long term variations in the middle atmosphere
2. Modeled and predicted long term variations in the middle atmosphere
3. Trends and long-term changes in the ionosphere and thermosphere
4. Mechanisms of trends and long term variations
5. Role of the middle atmosphere for climate

More information is available at:
https://www.iap-kborn.de/1/trends2016/

Deadline Dates:
Abstract Submission:  May 20, 2016
Travel Support Application:  20 May 2016
Early Registration:  June 30, 2016
Standard Registration:  September 15, 2016

Host and chair of the science organizing committee:

Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Luebken
Director, Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics
18225 Kuhlungsborn, Germany
luebken at iap-kborn.de

Or contact:

Stan Solomon
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado, USA
stans at ucar.edu

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MEETING: International Astronomical Union Symposium 328 "Living around Active Stars," 17-21 October, 2016, Maresias, SP, Brazil

From: Dibyendu Nandi (dnandi at iiserkol.ac.in)

First Announcement

Rationale: The variable activity of stars such as the Sun is mediated via stellar magnetic fields, radiative and energetic particle fluxes, stellar winds and magnetic storms. This activity influences planetary atmospheres, climate and habitability. Studies of this intimate relationship between the parent star, its astrosphere (i.e., the equivalent of the heliosphere) and the planets that it hosts have reached a certain level of maturity within our own Solar System – fuelled both by advances in theoretical modelling and a host of satellites that observe the Sun-Earth system. In conjunction, the first attempts are being made to characterize the interactions between stars and planets and their coupled evolution, which have relevance for habitability and the search for habitable planets. This Symposium will bring together scientists from diverse, interdisciplinary scientific areas such as solar, stellar and planetary physics, atmospheric and climate physics and astrobiology to review the current state of our understanding of solar and stellar environments.  The Symposium is expected to fertilize exchange of ideas and identify outstanding issues – tackling which necessitates coordinated scientific efforts across disciplines. 

Invited Speakers: Anil Bhardwaj (India), Cesar Bertucci (Argentina), Paul Charbonneau (Canada), Manuel Guedel (Austria), Gaitee Hussain (Germany), Moira Jardine (UK), Colin Johnstone (Austria), Laurène Jouve (France),  Eiichiro Kokubo (Japan), Hiroyuki Maehara (Japan), Jose Dias do Nascimento Jr. (Brazil), Rachel Olsten (USA), Katja Poppenhaeger (UK), Steve Saar (USA), Alexander Shapiro (Germany)

Specifics: The symposium will be held in the sea side town of Maresias, Brazil from 17-21 October, 2016. Further details, including registration, abstract submission, financial support and accommodation information are available at the conference websites:

http://www.sab-astro.org.br/IAUS328

Financial support application deadline: 30 April 2016
Abstract submission deadline: 16 June 2016
Early Registration deadline: 16 July 2016

On behalf of the Organizing Committees we welcome you to the IAUS 328 and look forward to hosting you in Maresias, Brazil.

Scientific Organizing Committee: Dibyendu Nandi (Chair), Sarah Gibson (Co-Chair), Pascal Petit (Co-Chair), Margit Haberreiter, Emre Isik, Heidi Korhonen, Kanya Kusano, Duncan Mackay, Cristina Mandrini, Allan Sacha-Brun, Adriana Valio, Aline Vidotto, David Webb

Local Organizing Committee: Adriana Valio (Chair), Gustavo Guerrero (Co-Chair), Alisson Dal Lago, Jorge Melendez, Emilia Correia, Caius L. Selhorst

Contact: iaustars328 at gmail.com

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New Book: "Low-Frequency Waves in Space Plasmas" (published by Wiley)

From: Andreas Keiling, Dong-Hun Lee, Valery Nakariakov (keiling at ssl.berkeley.edu)

In this book, the editors have compiled a collection of review chapters, written by leading experts, on the topic of low-frequency waves in space plasmas. Its main objective is to give a concise and authoritative up-to-date look on where wave research stands: What do we know? What have we learned in the last decade? What are unanswered questions?

Organized into ten parts, each representing a specific space region, the book begins with waves in Earth’s ionosphere and progresses outward to various regions of Earth’s magnetosphere. Then, beyond geospace, waves in the solar wind, at the Moon, and in other planets’ magnetospheres are reviewed. Finally, the book finishes with waves in the Sun’s atmosphere.

More information, including a table of contents, can be found at the official Wiley website: 
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119054958.html

The book can be purchased in electronic form (E-Book) or as hardcover at the above website. Individual chapters can be downloaded from:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119055006

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SuperMAG Releases New Tools

From: Jesper Gjerloev (Jesper.gjerloev at jhuapl.edu)

1.  Uniformly gridded solutions
   SuperMAG now provides uniformly gridded solutions of the ground level magnetic field perturbations.  The solutions are available at the website SuperMAG.jhuapl.edu.  They have a temporal resolution of 1-min and covers the years 1980-2015.  An example can be seen here:

http://supermag.uib.no/polar/?start=1997-01-07T03%3A30%3A00.000Z&step=300&projection=north%2Cmag%2Cstereo-50%2C1%2C0&tab=big

2.  Global ULF products.
   ULF products have been derived from the entire SuperMAG data holdings (1980-2015) and are available from the website.  Currently these are derived from 1-min data.

3.  2015 data released
   2015 data have been obtained from our collaborators and they have been processed, ingested and released on the website.

Comments, corrections and suggestions are welcome.

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SCOSTEP Visiting Scholarship – Call for Applications 2016

From: Marianna Shepherd (mshepher at yorku.ca)

The submission of applications for the 2016 SCOSTEP Visiting Scholarship is now open.  

The SCOSTEP Visiting Scholar (SVS) program is a capacity building activity of SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics), which complements the current scientific program, VarSITI (Variability of the Sun and its Terrestrial Impact, http://www.varsiti.org/) and SCOSTEP’s public outreach activities.

The objective of the SVS program is to provide training to young scientists and graduate students from developing countries in well-established solar terrestrial physics institutes, for one to three months. The training will help the young scientists to advance their career in solar terrestrial physics using the technique/skill they learned during the training. SCOSTEP will provide the airfare, while the host institute will provide the living expenses (accommodation, sustenance, ground transportation, visa fees and other incidentals). Trainees should have their own health insurance or arrange a provision with the host institution.

Interested candidates should contact one of the SVS program hosts listed at http://www.yorku.ca/scostep/?page_id=2103 and work out the details of the visit. Once the applicant and the host agree on a visit, the applicant needs to prepare an application package including the following details of the visit: (i) work to be performed; (ii) applicant’s curriculum vitae, (iii) dates of the visit and an estimate of the airfare in economy class; (iv) letter from the applicant’s supervisor, and (v) a letter from the host scientist/institution. A single pdf file of the above materials should be sent to SCOSTEP’s Scientific Secretary, Dr. Marianna G. Shepherd (mshepher at yorku.ca). Deadline for applications: May 25, 2016. 

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RHESSI Science Nugget No. 270

From: Hugh Hudson (hhudson at ssl.berkeley.edu)

“An Unreported White-light Prominence, by Matt Penn and Hugh Hudson: Massive flare ejecta observed visually.

See 
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI_Science_Nuggets

listing the current series, 2008-present, and

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/nuggets/ 

for the original series, 2005-2008.

We publish these at roughly two-week intervals and welcome contributions,
which should be related, at least loosely, to RHESSI science.

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