[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIII, Issue 10

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIII, Issue 10
February 28, 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: Second Solar Energetic Particle Measurements Inter-calibration Workshop, Broomfield, Colorado, April 25, 2016
2. MEETING: 2016 Beacon Satellite Symposium, Abstracts Due March 1
3. MEETING: 2016 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, Seoul, Korea, August 21-25, 2016
4. MEETING: SCAR Open Science Conference 2016 extended deadline February 29
5. Space Weather Special Issue “Sun to Earth: Heliospheric Remote Sensing Observations Applicable to Space Weather” – Abstract Deadline Extension
6. JGR Special Issue on “Geospace system responses to the St. Patrick's Day storms in 2013 and 2015” - Call for Papers
7. CISM Summer School Application Deadline (March 1)
8. NASA Ames Summer Program 2016 – Call for Proposals
9. 2016 NASA Planetary Science Summer School Applications Open
10. SHIMMER OH and PMC data now available from SPDF
11. BOOK: A new volume in the "Heliophysics" series
12 JOB OPENING: Post-Doctoral Associate Space Physics, University of Minnesota
13. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
14. CORRECTION: Sample GPS Energetic Particle Data Now Available

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MEETING: Second Solar Energetic Particle Measurements Inter-calibration Workshop, Broomfield, Colorado, April 25, 2016

Juan Rodriguez (juan.rodriguez at noaa.gov)

NOAA will host a second workshop on the comparison and inter-calibration of solar energetic particle (SEP) measurements. It will take place from 1-5 PM on Monday, April 25, 2016, at the Omni Interlocken Hotel in Broomfield, Colorado (10 miles / 16 km from the Space Weather Prediction Center), before the Monday evening ice breaker for the 2016 Space Weather Workshop.

A report on the first workshop held in April 2014 was published in Space Weather in November of that year (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014SW001134/full). One outcome of this workshop was the identification of the January 2014 SEP events as the best opportunity in the present solar cycle for SEP inter-calibration, in order to improve inter-operability of current SEP observations.  Another outcome was a recommendation to draft a set of guidelines for on-orbit inter-calibration of SEP measurements that address ten questions listed in the Space Weather report. Subsequently, sessions and working meetings dedicated to this subject have been held at the Eleventh and Twelfth European Space Weather Weeks in 2014 and 2015. 

The purpose of the upcoming workshop is to report progress on inter-calibrations since the first workshop and to address the questions posed there.  Of note since the first workshop is the release of LANL Global Positioning System (GPS) energetic particle data for January 2014 (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/space-weather/satellite-data/satellite-systems/gps/). While the motivation for this workshop is SEP inter-calibration, illuminating discussions of inter-calibrations of other environmental measurements are welcome.  One desired outcome of the upcoming workshop is a plan for a special issue on energetic particle inter-calibration in a refereed journal.

If you are interested in attending this meeting, please send an e-mail to Juan Rodriguez (juan.rodriguez at noaa.gov), with a cc: to Terry Onsager (terry.onsager at noaa.gov) by April 1, 2016.  This is for planning purposes as there is no formal registration for this workshop (as distinct from the Space Weather Workshop, http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/annual-meeting).  If you would like to give a presentation, please include a title.  Our goal is to balance time for presentations and open discussion.


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MEETING: 2016 Beacon Satellite Symposium, Abstracts Due March 1

From: Patricia Doherty (patricia.doherty at bc.edu)

This is a reminder that the abstract deadline for the 2016 Beacon Satellite Symposium is March 1st, 2016. This is the premiere triennial meeting of the Beacon Satellite Studies Group of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission G. The Beacon Satellite Group is interdisciplinary, servicing science, research, application and engineering interests. These interests include all aspects of satellite signals observed on the ground and by receivers on-board satellites.

The meeting will be held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy on June 27 – July 1, 2016.  If you have not yet had a chance to review the meeting details and submit an abstract, please go to the website hosted by the ICTP:
http://t-ict4d.ictp.it/beacon2016.  
 It is our intent to waive the registration fee and to assist travel costs for a limited number of students and attendees from developing countries. The total level of assistance will depend on sponsorship funding. 
We sincerely hope to see you in Italy for the 19th International Beacon Satellite Symposium.

Patricia Doherty, Chair, Beacon Satellite Studies Working Group, URSI Commission G
Bruno Nava, Co-Chair, Beacon Satellite Studies Working Group
Andrzej Krankowski, Co-Chair, Beacon Satellite Studies Working Group


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MEETING: 2016 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, Seoul, Korea, August 21-25, 2016

From: Wen Li (moonli at atmos.ucla.edu)

The 2016 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (URSI AP-RASC 2016) will be held from Aug 21 to 25, 2016 in Seoul, Korea. There are several special sessions of this conference will be of particular interest to the SPA community, as listed below. The full session details are shown in this link (http://aprasc2016.org/special_sessions.php). If you are interested in attending the conference, please submit the abstract before March 15, 2016.

Commission H (Waves in Plasmas)

S-H1: Theory and Simulation of Waves in Plasma
• Session Conveners: Myoung-Jae Lee (Hanyang University, Korea) and Hae June Lee (Pusan National University, Korea)

S-H2: Generation and Characteristics of Waves in Space
• Session Conveners: Dae-Young Lee (Chungbuk National University, Korea) and Ensang Lee (Kyung Hee University, Korea)

S-H3: Radio Science for Space Weather
• Session Conveners: Mauro Messerotti (INAF-Trieste and University of Trieste, Italy) and Viviane Pierrard (Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Belgium)

S-HG1: Effects of Wave-Particle Interactions in Earth's Magnetosphere and Upper Atmosphere
• Session Conveners: Wen Li (University of California-Los Angeles, USA), Ondrej Santolik (The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Rep.), and Iwona Stanislawska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

S-GH1: ULF/VLF Waves
• Session Conveners: Dong-Hun Lee (Kyung Hee University, Korea) and Kazue Takahashi (Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins University, USA)

S-GH2: Space Weather Impact and Mitigation Efforts
• Session Conveners: Jun-Chul Mun (Korea Space Weather Center, National Radio Research Agency, Korea), Mamoru Ishii (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan), and Iwona Stanislawska (Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

Important Deadlines:

- Paper submission: March 15
(http://aprasc2016.org/Paper_Submission.php)

- Young Scientist Award paper deadline: March 31
(http://aprasc2016.org/Young_Scientist_Award.php)

- Early registration: July 15
(http://aprasc2016.org/Registration.php)

- Special rate for hotel reservation: July 21
(http://aprasc2016.org/Accommodation.php)

The Young Scientist Award (YSA) and The Student Paper Competition (SPC) of the “2016 Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference” (AP-RASC’16) is open for applications.

Further details about the conference are found in the link below.
http://aprasc2016.org/index.php


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MEETING: SCAR Open Science Conference 2016 extended deadline February 29

From: Craig Rodger (craig.rodger at otago.ac.nz)

The deadline for the abstract submission to the SCAR OSC 2016 (Kuala Lumpur, 22-26 August 2016, http://scar2016.com/) has been extended 29 Feb 2016, but the new deadline is fast approaching. A list of useful information regarding the meeting is listed below:

1) Symposia and Sessions descriptions http://scar2016.com/symposia-session.php

Specific solar-terrestrial physics sessions of interest:

  S15. Solar-terrestrial physics in the polar regions. Conveners (Session 15): Emilia Correia, Brazil; Maurizio Candidi, Italy; Craig J. Rodger, New Zealand; Yasmina M. Martos, UK

  S16. Global navigation satellite system research and applications. Conveners (Session 16): Giorgiana de Franceschi, Italy; Paul Prikryl, Canada; Nicolas Bergeot, Belgium; Elizabeth Petrie, UK

2) Abstracts submission http://scar2016.com/abstract-submission.php
DEADLINE 29 FEBRUARY 2016

3) Registration http://scar2016.com/registration.php  
EARLY BIRD RATE DEADLINE 5 MAY 2016

4) SERAnt (Sun-Earth Relationships and Antarctica) Working Group Meeting will be held on Sunday 21 August from 16.00 to 19.00 at the University of Malaya, IPS building, 4th floor, room Cube 2.

People interested in sessions 15 and 16 should consider participating in the session. Important issues will be discussed, particularly the possibility that a new and more ambitious Scientific Research Program (SRP) is launched, focussed on the science of ionospheric propagation and the effects on it of solar phenomena, to give our discipline more visibility within SCAR. This new program would include GRAPE groups (GRAPE is the SCAR expert group GNSS Research and Application for Polar Environment: http://www.grape.scar.org/). We will discuss ways to improve such SRP with wider perspectives by SERAnt groups.

More detail on the proposed new SERAnt action group is now online: http://www.scar.org/serant/serant-about#_msoanchor_2


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Space Weather Special Issue “Sun to Earth: Heliospheric Remote Sensing Observations Applicable to Space Weather” – Abstract Deadline Extension

From: Mario Bisi (mario.bisi at stfc.ac.uk)

Dear Colleagues.

We have extended the deadline for our solicitation for statements of interest for contributions to a special issue in AGU’s Space Weather Journal (SWJ) focused on scientific aspects of remote sensing techniques that support improvements in understanding and predicting space weather.  The special issue will document scientific results of the Third Remote Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere and Space Weather Applications Workshop held in Morelia, Mexico, 20-24 October 2015, and we welcome non-workshop manuscripts related to inner heliosphere remote sensing of space weather, especially those emphasizing radio techniques.  The special issue will highlight: 1) Advances in heliospheric Sun to Earth remote-sensing techniques for space weather, and ancillary measurements; 2) ground-based observations of interplanetary scintillation (IPS) and radio polarisation; and 3) the recently-established space-weather service in Mexico (SCiESMEX) including the dedicated IPS array near Morelia, Mexico. See http://www.sciesmex.unam.mx/workshop2015/ for further information on the Morelia workshop.

The special issue will consist of original research papers on this common theme, which would benefit from being published together.  Manuscripts should clearly describe new space-weather-related science results derived from remotely-sensed observations or from model-data comparison.  All papers will be fully refereed according to AGU publication standards.  Dr. Mario M. Bisi, Dr. J. Americo Gonzalez-Esparza, Dr. Bernard V. Jackson, and Prof. Igor V. Chashei will act as Guest Editors and will assist the SWJ Editor, Dr. Barbara Giles, in seeking referees for the special issue.

The extended deadline for submission of the statement of interest – consisting of title, preliminary author list, preliminary abstract, estimated number of pages, and names and E-Mail addresses of at least three suggestion referees – is now Monday, 07 March 2016.  Please provide this information via E-Mail to Mario Bisi (Mario.Bisi [at] stfc.ac.uk) with the subject line: URGENT – Space Weather Remote Sensing Special Issue.  The Space Weather GEMS page (http://spaceweather-submit.agu.org/cgi-bin/main.plex) will open for submissions that have been coordinated with the Guest Editors on Friday 01 April 2016.  Completed manuscripts must be submitted via GEMS by Friday 01 July 2016.

If you have already sent us your statement of interest, we are in the process of reviewing them now and will respond soon; however, if you sent it with a subject other than that requested above, please can you re-send to be sure of its successful receipt.

We will be strict with submission deadlines in order to accommodate an anticipated printing of the special issue by late Fall of 2016.  Papers that are delayed in submission or protracted review can appear individually in later issues of the journal.

Many thanks, best wishes, and we look forward to hearing from you soon,

Mario M. Bisi, J. Americo Gonzalez-Esparza, Bernard V. Jackson, and Igor V. Chashei (Guest Editors).


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JGR Special Issue on “Geospace system responses to the St. Patrick's Day storms in 2013 and 2015” - Call for Papers

>From Shunrong Zhang (shunrong at haystack.mit.edu)

Manuscripts are solicited for the JGR-Space Special Section on the study of upper atmospheric disturbances and M-I-T coupling during the recent solar storms, in particular during the 2015 and 2014 St Patrick Days. Details are give below:

Title: Geospace system responses to the St. Patrick's Day storms in 2013 and 2015

Submission Window: March 1 - June 15, 2016

Geospace responses to solar and interplanetary disturbance induced geomagnetic storms via changes in electromagnetic fields, particle precipitation, plasma and neutral dynamics and energetics, are the fundamental components of space weather. Despite that major processes through which the coupled magnetosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere and mesosphere (MITM) system responds to storms are generally known, a number of significant aspects of these responses remain challenging, including quantitative understanding of the processes, the feedback and nonlinear interaction effects within the MITM system, and the vast variability in the system responses themselves. Geomagnetic storms around 17-19 March in 2013 and 2015 (the St. Patrick’s Day intervals) provide a fresh opportunity to address these challenges while testing our current understanding of the storm-time MITM behavior with improved global observations and new modeling capability. In particular, comparative studies between these two storms are of great interest since they occurred at the same dates (season) but were of different intensities. Comparisons with other storms with similar upstream drivers are also valuable to fully understand the MITM system response to storms under different geophysical conditions.

Organizers: S. Zhang (MIT Haystack), Y. Zhang(JHU-APL), W. Wang (NCAR HAO), O. Verkhoglyadova (JPL)


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CISM Summer School Application Deadline (March 1)

From: Michael Wiltberger (wiltbemj at ucar.edu)

The application deadline for the CISM Space Weather Summer School is rapidly approaching.  Students need to complete the online application form at https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/CISM-Summer-School by March 1st to receive full consideration for enrollment in this year’s school.

The CISM Space Weather Summer School is intended to give students a comprehensive immersion in the subject of space weather: what it is, what it does, and what can be done about it. Space weather is many things: beautiful when seen through the eyes of a sun-viewing telescope, fascinating when studied for its alien worlds of magnetic structures and phenomena, awesome when witnessed as a solar eruption or auroral storm, and devastating to the users of services it disrupts. Space weather links the Sun, the Earth, and the space in between in a branching chain of consequences. Weather systems on the Sun can spawn interplanetary storms of colossal size and energy that envelop the whole planet in electrical hurricanes. Such storms attack high-tech, complex, and expensive technological systems that provide much of the infrastructure that allows modern society to function. 

Applications are welcome from upper level undergraduates and beginning graduate students interested in pursuing a career in solar and space physics, as well as professionals interested in broadening their understanding of the space environment. The school will provide support for travel and housing expenses for all US student participants. 


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NASA Ames Summer Program 2016 – Call for Proposals

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
June 6 - July 1, 2016

Proposal Deadline: March 14, 2016
2016 Topic Areas
•	Solar stellar connection
•	Space weather impacts on solar and exo-planets
•	Achieving helio/astro-physics science goals with small/nano satellites 

Purpose
The NASA Ames Summer Program focuses on the physics of space weather events and their interactions with planetary atmospheres. In the heliosphere, the events start at the Sun and influence the atmospheres, ionospheres, and magnetospheres of Earth and the other planets in the solar system. Observations of these interactions provide data on the interaction of these bodies with the plasma environment and can be studied to advance theoretical development and validation.  
The “Comparative Heliophysics Summer Program 2016” at NASA Ames will focus on the foundations of heliophysics and related disciplines as applied to stars like the Sun and planets like those in the solar system with similar formation histories and that are relevant to understanding the formation, evolution, and present state of our immediate space environment. The program offers also the opportunity to explore approaches to sensor development that address space-weather impact on planetary atmospheres. It is intended to offer the participants an opportunity to carry out a serious program of research while interacting with colleagues. The primary focus is to seed and encourage new multi-disciplinary research through interactions with scientists of various backgrounds. It is expected that the investigations will lead to high-impact publications and opportunities to expand into new research areas.
Up to 25 students will be selected through a competitive process organized by the UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs. In addition, three to five advisors will be recruited from NASA's Ames Research Center to participate in the Summer Program. 
Successful candidates are:
•	Currently enrolled as advanced undergraduate students** or graduate students in any phase of training, or first or second year postdoctoral fellows. 
**undergraduates in physics in their final years (Junior, Senior) with strong background in applied mathematics, numerical methods, and computer science including advanced programming language skills in C++ , Python, and/or FORTRAN.
•	Majoring in physics with an emphasis on astrophysics, geophysics, plasma physics, and space physics, or experienced in at least one of these areas.
•	Pursuing a career in heliophysics, or astrophysics or planetary science. 
For additional information on this program, submitting a proposal and instructions on how to apply:

http://www.vsp.ucar.edu/Heliophysics/ames-overview.shtml


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2016 NASA Planetary Science Summer School Applications Open

From: Leslie Lowes (leslie.l.lowes at jpl.nasa.gov)

NASA is accepting applications from science and engineering post-docs, recent PhDs, and doctoral students for its 28th Annual Planetary Science Summer School, which will be held July 25-29, 2016 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

During the program and pre-session webinars, student teams will carry out the equivalent of an early mission concept study, prepare a proposal authorization presentation, present it to a review board, and receive feedback. By the end of the session, students will have a clearer understanding of the life cycle of a space mission; relationships between mission design, cost, and schedule; and the tradeoffs necessary to stay within cost and schedule while preserving the quality of science.

Applications are due April 6, 2016.  Partial financial support is available for a limited number of individuals. Further information is available at http://pscischool.jpl.nasa.gov


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SHIMMER OH and PMC data now available from SPDF

From: David Siskind (david.siskind at nrl.navy.mil) and Dieter Bilitza (dieter.bilitza-1 at nasa.gov) 

The Spatial Heterodyne Imager for Mesospheric Radicals (SHIMMER) was launched on March 7, 2007 and ended its mission on October 24, 2009. SHIMMER obtained mesospheric hydroxyl (OH) radiance profiles of solar resonance fluorescence near 309 nm. These were inverted to retrieve OH density profiles between 60 and 90 km. SHIMMER also observed Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs) from the enhanced scattering of sunlight from ice particles in the upper mesosphere. The full set of data is now available from the SPDF archive at ftp://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/. 

The data are provided as ASCII text files and also include summary plots in PostScript format. As a result of the orbital inclination of the satellite (35.4 degrees) and of the viewing geometry of the instrument tropical data are available throughout the mission whereas data from mid-latitudes are only available in the summer hemisphere. For OH, radiance profiles were averaged daily and grouped by latitude into northern tropics (0-15N) and northern mid-latitudes (50-58N). For PMCs, the SHIMMER viewing geometry led to extensive annual coverage equatorward of 58N latitude in both hemispheres, representing the equatorward edge of this primarily polar phenomenon. A Users Guide provides detailed information about these data sets. This data processing and release was made possible through a NASA HDEE data upgrade grant.


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BOOK: A new volume in the "Heliophysics" series

From: Fran Bagenal (bagenal at lasp.colorado.edu)

A fourth volume in the "Heliophysics" series will be released by Cambridge University Press (CUP) on March 17, 2016, entitled "Heliophysics: Active stars, their astrospheres, and impacts on planetary environments". This volume, edited by C. Schrijver, F. Bagenal, and J. Sojka, expands the topics related to the Sun-Earth connections presented in the preceding three volumes to other bodies in the solar system and to extrasolar planetary systems.

CUP (at cambridge.org) offers a 20% discount (on pre-orders, and throughout 2016 after the book becomes available) with discount code "heliophy": www.cambridge.org/9781107090477.

A provisional 5th volume on “Space Weather and Society" can be freely downloaded from:
http://www.vsp.ucar.edu/Heliophysics/science-resources-textbooks.shtml

The Heliophysics book series has its origins in the Summer School series of the same name. Many of the recorded lectures, problem sets, lab manuals, and other online supporting materials can be accessed at the School's site at http://www.vsp.ucar.edu/Heliophysics/.


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JOB OPENING: Post-Doctoral Associate Space Physics, University of Minnesota

From: Julie Murphy (jjmurphy at physics.umn.edu)

The Space Physics group at the University of Minnesota has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral researcher to work on analysis and instrumentation for high-energy solar astrophysics.  This researcher will play an integral role in hardware and analysis for CubeSat and sounding rocket instruments, including the FOXSI-3 experiment, which is a rocket experiment planned to fly in 2018.

Hardware experience with one or more of the following systems will be considered a plus:  X-ray, gamma-ray, or particle detectors; grazing-incidence optics; and rocket, balloon, or CubeSat payloads.  Experience in analyzing solar flare data will be considered a plus, though candidates with interests in other space physics topics or other X-ray astrophysical topics are also encouraged to apply.  Candidates with experience in single-event detectors for particle or nuclear physics may also be considered.

The Space Physics group at UMN includes faculty and researchers with diverse research interests in the physics of space and plasmas, including topics in the ionosphere, magnetosphere, solar wind, and the high-energy Sun. The group also has expertise in electric field and wave instrumentation. The Space Physics group is part of the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics and the School of Physics and Astronomy.

Job duties will include the following:
 
•  Contribute to development of the FOXSI-3 payload, including science planning, detector upgrades, and participation in the 2018 launch campaign.
 
•  Along with a faculty member, supervise and mentor students on a hard X-ray solar CubeSat project.
 
•  Analyze solar and space physics data, including but not limited to multi-wavelength analysis of solar flares.
 
•  Contribute to the development, commissioning and operation of experimental equipment and data analysis software for X-ray detectors.
 
•  Present science results at conferences and in publications, including national and international conferences and collaboration meetings.
 
• Contribute to proposals for submission to funding agencies, including NASA and the NSF.

Required qualifications
 
Applicants with a Ph.D. in physics or space physics by beginning date of appointment.
Experience with astronomical instrumentation or semiconductor detectors. 

Preferred qualifications
 
Experience with X-ray, gamma-ray, or particle detectors; grazing-incidence optics; and rocket, balloon, or CubeSat payloads.  
Experience in analyzing solar flare data will be considered a plus, though candidates with interests in other space physics topics or other X-ray astrophysical topics are also encouraged to apply.  

How to apply
 
https://www.myu.umn.edu/employment
Search for Job ID: 307475 
 
Please provide
 
•  A cover letter
•  Curriculum vitae
•  Names and complete contact information for three references
•  A research experience statement
 
Arrange to have three letters of reference sent to: 
 
jjmurphy at physics.umn.edu 
 
Julie Murphy 
School of Physics and Astronomy 
University of Minnesota 116 Church Street SE 
148 Tate Laboratory of Physics 
Minneapolis MN 55455  

The University of Minnesota shall provide equal access to and opportunity in its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position at the Los Alamos National Laboratory

From: Gian Luca Delzanno (delzanno at lanl.gov)

The Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics group (T-5) of the Los Alamos National Laboratory is seeking an outstanding post-doctoral candidate in the field of plasma physics to contribute primarily to the space weather activities of the group. T-5 has a vibrant and growing space-weather program focused along several themes
- plasma-material interactions
- wave-particle interactions in the near-Earth environment
- the feedback of microscopic scales on the global dynamics of the near-Earth environment
- the development of innovative numerical methods for multiscale plasma physics simulations, with a strong focus on high-performance computing.

Applicants should have a PhD in plasma physics or space physics completed within the past five years or soon to be completed. Applicants should have a demonstrated ability to pursue research independently, as well as collaboratively as a member of a team, and a strong publication record. Experience in computational plasma physics is desired. This is a two-year position with the possibility of an extension to a third year.

Interested candidates should contact Gian Luca Delzanno (505-667-2604, delzanno at lanl.gov), J. David Moulton (moulton at lanl.gov, 505-665-4712) or Vania Jordanova (vania at lanl.gov, 505-667-9908). Interested candidates should apply online at http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/hr/jobs/apply.shtml and search for vacancy IRC47297. LANL is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Review of applicants will start immediately and continue until the position is filled.


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CORRECTION: Sample GPS Energetic Particle Data Now Available

From: William Denig (william.denig at noaa.gov)

Today, NOAA is announcing the release of energetic particle data from Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites. The sample dataset is from 05-January to 01-February 2014 which includes a period of heightened space weather (including two solar proton events). The processed GPS data have been provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory and made available through the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Access to the data is provided via Data.gov (search: “Global Positioning System (GPS) Energetic Particle Data”) or directly at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/space-weather/satellite-data/satellite-systems/gps/ . Questions regarding the use and format of the data can be addressed to John Sullivan (Sullivan at lanl.gov). Feedback on the data can be addressed to Matt Heavner (Matthew_J_Heavner at ostp.eop.gov).


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