[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIII, Issue 9

Sun Feb 21 12:59:31 PST 2016

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIII, Issue 9
February 21, 2016

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. MEETING: 2016 AOGS Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to March 4, Friday
2. MEETING: 47th Solar Physics Division Meeting, Boulder, CO, May 31-June 3, 2016
3. MEETING: CEDAR-GEM Joint Meeting – Call for Proposals of Joint Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 19-24, 2016
4. JOB OPENING: Senior Scientist at Arctic Slope Technical Services (supporting NASA Heliophysics Division)
5. RHESSI Science Nugget No. 267

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MEETING: 2016 AOGS Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to March 4, Friday

From: AOGS Secretariat (info at asiaoceania.org)

Due to the impact of the Lunar New Year holidays, the abstract submission deadline has been extended to 04 March 2016.

Submit your abstracts to one or more of these 8 sections!

• Atmospheric Sciences (AS) 
• Biogeosciences (BG) 
• Hydrological Sciences (HS)
• Interdisciplinary Geosciences (IG)
• Ocean Sciences (OS)
• Planetary Sciences (PS)
• Solar & Terrestrial Sciences (ST)
• Solid Earth Sciences (SE)

2016 AOGS Meeting website: http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/public.asp?page=home.htm

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MEETING: 47th Solar Physics Division Meeting, Boulder, CO, May 31-June 3, 2016

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

Registration and abstract submission are open for the 47th Solar Physics Division Meeting, to be held in Boulder, CO, from May 31 through June 3, 2016. Early registration and abstract submission will be available until April 6, 2016.

Note that some funds are available to waive the registration fee for a limited number of students and early career researchers.

All information is available at http://www.nso.edu/SPD2016. 

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MEETING: CEDAR-GEM Joint Meeting – Call for Proposals of Joint Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 19-24, 2016

From: Mike Wiltberger (wiltbemj at ucar.edu)

In 2016 the annual CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) and GEM (Geospace Environment Modeling) workshops will be held as a Joint Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the interests of promoting meaningful scientific interaction and collaboration in areas of common interest significant portions of their scientific, student, poster, and social programs were merged. A CEDAR-GEM joint planning committee has been established to facilitate the coordination of the shared activities. The members of the committee are listed at the end of this notice. Please direct questions regarding the joint planning committee to any member.

The CEDAR and GEM meetings both conduct topical workshops that are focused on particular research objectives. The traditions differ in that GEM workshops are usually organized by the coordinators of empanelled Focus Groups of several years duration while CEDAR workshops are proposed and approved annually in the lead up to the meeting. With this notice we encourage members of both communities to begin to develop and propose joint workshops with GEM and CEDAR co-conveners. 

The following links may be helpful.

http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/GEM_Focus_Groups gives a listing of the current GEM focus groups and their leaders.

http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2015_Workshop:Workshop_Schedule gives a listing of CEDAR workshop themes and their conveners from the 2015 meeting. 

This cross-listing is not meant to be restrictive; attendees may propose novel and promising themes for joint sessions. Research areas that do not lend themselves to integration will be organized and conducted in the usual way by the CEDAR and GEM organizing committees, where the CEDAR workshops will use the same workshop form as the joint CEDAR-GEM workshops.

Joint and CEDAR workshops must be proposed by Friday, April 1st. We are requesting that you provide justification for your proposed joint (or CEDAR only) workshop, a brief description, and at least the beginning of a list of conveners. Workshops will be accepted and scheduled probably in May.  In order to propose a joint session or a CEDAR only session please complete the form at 
http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/Special:CedarGEMWorkshops?yr=2016

Looking forward to an exciting meeting in Santa Fe!

Respectfully,

The CEDAR-GEM Joint Planning Committee members:
(CEDAR)
Josh Semeter (chair CSSC) jls at bu.edu 
Kendra Greb (UCAR for CEDAR organization) kgreb at ucar.edu
Yue Deng (CSSC) yuedeng at uta.edu
Barbara Emery (ex-officio CSSC and UCAR, CEDAR organizer) emery at ucar.edu
Astrid Maute (CSSC and CEDAR organizer) maute at ucar.edu
Philip Erickson (CEDAR) pje at haystack.mit.edu
(GEM)
Mike Wiltberger (chair GEM) wiltbemj at ucar.edu
Bob Clauer (GEM organizer) rclauer at vt.edu
Matina Gkioulidou (GEM) malamati.gkioulidou at jhuapl.edu
Elizabeth MacDonald (GEM) elizabeth.a.macdonald at nasa.gov
Shin Ohtani (GEM) shin.ohtani at jhuapl.edu
Zhonghua Xu (GEM organizer) zxu77 at vt.edu

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JOB OPENING: Senior Scientist at Arctic Slope Technical Services (supporting NASA Heliophysics Division)

Arctic Slope Technical Services is seeking a Senior Support Scientist in Arlington, VA.

One role of the Senior Scientist/Support Scientist (Sr. Support Scientist) will be the conduct of day-to-day management and/or support of Research and Analysis (R&A) programs in the Heliophysics Division (HPD) of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. Programs of potential interest would include Research Opportunities for Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) solicitations covering Supporting Research, Guest Investigator, Technology and Instrument Development for Science, Grand Challenge Research and Living With a Star Science. The ideal candidate will have Heliophysics Science-related advanced degrees and a minimum of 10 years relevant experience. This experience should include but not be limited to principal and/or co-investigative research, publications, progress reporting, familiarity with the Heliophysics Science proposal submission process; and the aforementioned scientific community.

A role of the Sr. Support Scientist will be to increase efficiency in the running of R&A programs. Other than duties determined by law or by policy to be restricted to NASA civil servants (e.g., final decisions on reviewer assignments will be made by Program Scientist and final decisions on what will be funded will be made by the HPD Division Director), the Sr. Support Scientist would have the many of the responsibilities of a Program Officer.

Requirements:
1. The Sr. Support Scientist must have a minimum of a Master of Science Degree in an area related to Heliophysics Science, OR a relevant Advanced Degree in an area related to Heliophysics Science.
2. Must have at least 10 years of relevant scientific research work experience.
3. The candidate must have demonstrated professional experience in Heliophysics.
4. Knowledge of and experience in, NASA practices and procedures.
5. The candidate must be able to pass a basic background screening for admission into a Federal facility.
6. Other procedural requirements as stated within the full job description.

For the full job description and details on how to apply, see https://asrcfederal.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=16000268.

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RHESSI Science Nugget No. 267

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

“When the Earth’s atmosphere becomes dynamic…”, by Temmer, Krauss, and Veronig: The Earth’s atmosphere reacts strongly to the occurrence of flares and CMEs.

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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