[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIII, Issue 3

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXII, Issue 3
January 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. SPA Section Awards
2. BOOK: History of VLF Space Radio Research at Stanford
3. VarSITI Newsletter Volume 8
4. MEETING: 15th Annual International Astrophysics Conference: The Science of Ed Stone: Celebrating his 80th Birthday, April 4 – 8, 2016, Cape Coral, Florida, USA
5. SESSION: JpGU 2016 MMS Session
6. SESSION: EWASS 2016 Special Session SS2: Solar-Terrestrial Coupling and Space Weather: State-of-the-Art and Future Prospects
7. ISSS Course on “Ground and space-based instruments for future research in Solar-Terrestrial physics,” 6-11 June 2016, L’Aquila (Italy)
8. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Positions in Ionospheric Modeling and Radio Propagation at NRL
9. JOB OPENING: Research Associate in Planetary Physics, Space & Atmospheric Physics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London

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SPA Section Awards

From: David Sibeck (david.g.sibeck at nasa.gov)

Several awards recognize young SPA scientists. Members of the SPA section are encouraged to nominate their colleagues for the Scarf, Sunanda
and Santimay Basu Early Career, Basu United States Early Career awards. For details about the requirements for these awards, please see

http://spa.agu.org/awards/spa-section-awards-honors/

Also please note the new Africa Award for Research Excellence in Earth and Space Sciences, which also recognizes early career scientists. See

http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/africa-awards-for-research-excellence-in-earth-and-space-science/

Please help us ensure that our outstanding young scientists are recognized.

David Sibeck, SPA Section President


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BOOK: History of VLF Space Radio Research at Stanford

From: Robert A. Marshall (robert.marshall at colorado.edu)

Donald L. Carpenter, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, has written a historical book titled "Very Low Frequency Space Radio Research at Stanford 1950 to 1990", with the sub-title "Discovery, Innovation, and Analysis, Supported by Field Work Extending from Antarctica to Alaska".  It is a tribute to the work of Prof. Robert A. Helliwell who founded the Stanford VLF Group, and directed it through these four decades.  This book, which contains 224 pages including a 12-page bibliography, also 256 photos and diagrams, is now available from the publisher Lulu Press Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina.  Copies can be ordered on line at 

http://www.lulu.com/shop/donald-carpenter/vlf-history/hardcover/product-22497227.html


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