[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIII, Issue 29

Sun Jun 5 23:21:12 PDT 2016

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIII, Issue 29
Jun.05,2016

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

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Table of Contents

1. JGR-Space Physics Editor Blog Monthly Highlights

2. Draft NASA LWS TR&T 2017 Science Topics Released for Comment

3. ESA Swarm Call for Ideas for New Data Products and Services

4. Topical Issue of Solar Physics on “Earth-affecting Solar Transients”: Second Call, SOI due on June 15

5. New Deadline for JGR Special Section on the St Patrick's Day Storms

6. Monday Science Telecon

7. MEETING: Second Announcement for the meeting on Partially Ionised Plasmas in Astrophysics, Tenerife, Spain, 29 August - 02 September 2016

8. MEETING: Frontiers in Theoretical and Applied Physics |UAE 2017 (FTAPS 2017), Feb. 22 - 25, 2017, American University of Sharjah, Dubai, UAE

9. MEETING: 2017 International Conference on Space Science and Communication, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 35 May 2017 -- Call for Papers

10. SESSION: SHINE 2016 Session "Particle Acceleration and Wave Generation Across Scales: From Reconnection to Shocks" Call for Abstracts

11. SESSION: Call for abstracts to SHINE Session 4: Remote-Sensing Observing Techniques for Improving Space-Weather Science and Forecasting

12. Announcing MMS Data Analysis Software (MDAS) 

13. SPEDAS 2.00 Release Announcement

14. JOB OPENING: Postdoc - Boston University - Ionospheric Radio Occultations at Saturn, Titan, and Mars

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JGR-Space Physics Editor Blog Monthly Highlights

From: Mike Liemohn (liemohn at umich.edu)

In May, I am continuing my call for everyone to log into GEMS and update your Areas of Expertise selections.  Plus a couple of other informational posts.

May 2: Highlighting papers at the journal website
     https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/highlighting-papers/

May 26: Notices now sent to all authors and reviewers at decision time
     https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2016/05/26/decision-notifications/

May 27: the Editors have written an Editorial about reviewer selection and the new Areas of Expertise
     https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2016/05/27/reviewer-selection-editorial/

Main Website:   http://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/

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Draft NASA LWS TR&T 2017 Science Topics Released for Comment

From: Mark Linton, Eftyhia Zesta (mark.linton at nrl.navy.mil)

Dear Colleagues,

This spring, we solicited your input for Living with a Star Targeted Research and Technology (LWS TR&T) Focused Science Topics for the ROSES 2017 Announcement of Opportunity and the response was amazing. We received 57 topics from all areas of Heliophysics and many comments. We are thrilled with your response.

We met in mid-May to carefully review all of these community suggested science topics, keeping in mind the overall Living with a Star goals and the TR&T Strategic Science Areas (SSAs). Based on all of this, we have prepared a draft set of 13 topics, appended here for your inspection and comment. We considered all submitted topics very carefully and created Focused Science Topics that include as much of this input as possible.

Please keep in mind that these are draft topics. We are now soliciting community feedback on these draft topics, as the next, critical stage of this year's process of generating science topics.

All of these draft topics have been posted on our website at http://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/2017DraftTopicsForComments with input boxes for comments and feedback on each individual topic, as well as on the overall process. The comment period will remain open until July 18 (the Monday following the SHINE meeting). The topics will be presented both as posters and as LWS TR&T town hall discussions during the SPD meeting (town hall at 12:30pm June 1), the CEDAR/GEM meeting (town hall at 9:45am June 23), and the SHINE meeting (town hall at 8pm, July 12) to expose them to as much community input as possible.

After this comment period closes, the committee will meet again to review the community feedback on the topics and, based on this feedback and on the LWS and TR&T goals, to finalize the topics for presentation to the NAC Heliophysics Subcommittee, and via that subcommittee, to NASA Headquarters.

We look forward to your feedback on these draft topics.

Sincerely,

Mark Linton, co-chair
Eftyhia Zesta, co-chair
On behalf of the LWS TR&T Steering Committee

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ESA Swarm Call for Ideas for New Data Products and Services

From: David Knudsen (knudsen at ucalgary.ca)

This announcement is to solicit ideas for new data products and services for the European Space Agency's Swarm constellation mission.

The three satellites, launched in late 2013, are currently measuring the best-ever multi-point survey of Earth's geomagnetic field and associated plasma environment.

This call is directed at enhancing the scientific return of Swarm during the remainder of its nominal mission, ending in March 2018, and potentially beyond.

The new concepts may be based on Swarm data only, and/or merged with data from other satellites or ground-based measurements that will enhance the scientific return of the mission.

A full updated description of the Swarm current data products is available on the Data Quality page.

The selection and development of new Swarm data products and services is being carried out through a two-step process, beginning with this open call for ideas. As a second step, selected ideas will then be the basis for open Invitation(s) to Tender (ITT) for Implementation Contracts to support the development of each new product/service and possibly to sustain their operations.

Interested individuals or groups are encouraged to submit new Swarm product/service ideas by 1 July 2016, via email to Swarm_DISC_CallForIdeas at esa.int. Proposals will be reviewed by the Swarm DISC Board of Representatives (SDBR) presently composed by representatives of the Swarm product algorithm providers. The SDBR will report the proposal assessment to the respective point of contact. Concepts may target, for example, the enhancement of an existing Swarm scientific product, the implementation of a web-service to generate new products, or the generation of validated products merging data from other satellites.

Please follow the proposal template for submissions.

Following the review of the submitted ideas, the competitive selection ITT process and subsequent implementation of the contracts will be managed by the Swarm Data, Innovation and Science Cluster (Swarm DISC) - an ESA-funded consortium led by the Technical University of Denmark - under the supervision of ESA. As a rough order of magnitude, the budget of a contract may vary from one-half Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) to one FTE. Please note that the present call for ideas does not imply that a contract will necessarily be placed in the second step.

ITTs for Implementation Contracts are expected to be announced in September 2016, with relevant proposals due approximately one month thereafter. The implementation ITTs will only be open to ESA member states participating to EOEP.

Eventual new data products may become part of the Swarm data distribution, which is open and available to all. More information is available on the Data Access page.

Any further questions can be directed to Swarm_DISC_CallForIdeas at esa.int.

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Topical Issue of Solar Physics on “Earth-affecting Solar Transients”: Second Call, SOI due on June 15

From: Jie Zhang (jzhang7 at gmu.edu)

We solicit research articles on the subject of Earth-affecting Solar Transients. In the past decade, nearly continuous observations of the Sun and the inner heliosphere with an unprecedented wide spatial coverage from a fleet of spacecraft, including STEREO Ahead/Behind, SDO, SOHO, Messenger, Venus Express, ACE and WIND, in combination with a significant advancement of global MHD numerical simulation and theoretical analysis, have greatly improved our understanding of solar transients and the prediction of their potential impact on Earth. Recently, the ISEST (International Study of Earth-affecting Solar Transients) Program was launched to bring together scientists across many countries to join efforts on addressing this problem. The event catalogs, data and information used during the past three ISEST workshops can be found at http://solar.gmu.edu/heliophysics/index.php/Main_Page. The ISEST is one of the four projects of the VarSITI (Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact) Program, sponsored by SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics) for the period 2014 – 2018. 

Earth-affecting solar transients encompass a broad range of phenomena, including major solar flares, CMEs, ICMEs, solar energetic particle events, and co-rotating interaction regions. We solicit research articles that address, but are not limited to, the following questions: (1) how do various geo-effective phenomena originate? (2) how do they propagate and evolve in the inner heliosphere? (3) how can we reconcile in-situ and  remote-sensing data on the transients? (4) how can we predict the probability of arrival, time of arrival, and geo-effectiveness of these phenomena? (5) what kind of solar wind transients are geoeffective and why? Articles on observational, numerical, and theoretical studies are all welcome. We particularly encourage results on campaign events listed in the ISEST website. This Topical Issue is not a conference proceedings volume and is not limited to research presented at the ISEST workshops. All submissions must be original papers that meet the quality and peer-review standards of Solar Physics.

The deadline for the Statement of Interest (SOI) is 15 June 2016, and the deadline for manuscript submission is 15 September 2016. Please submit the SOI (i.e., title, authors, a short abstract, and three potential referees) to Jie Zhang at jzhang7 at gmu.edu. 

Guest Editors: Jie Zhang, Alejandro Lara, Nandita Srivastava, and Xochitl Blanco-Cano.  Solar Physics Editor: Cristina Mandrini (mandrini at iafe.uba.ar).

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New Deadline for JGR Special Section on the St Patrick's Day Storms

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. 

The new deadline is July 15, 2016.

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

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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Monday Science Telecon

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

At 12:00 noon EST on Monday (June 6), we plan to hold the next in our ongoing series of science telecoms. The speaker this Monday will be Xuanye Ma from University of Alaska Fairbanks. The topic will be “On the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at the Earth’s magnetopause —View from local 3-D MHD simulations".

The telecom will be broadcast live via webex. If you would like to join, please
go to http://uclaigpp.webex.com/, search for the ‘Dayside Science' meeting, enter your name and contact information, and then the meeting password, which is Substorm1!

To hear the audio, do not dial the number that pops up on the webex website. Instead, please dial the following toll free (in the United States) number:
1-844-467-6272
with passcode 901533

Please remember to mute your telephone if you are not speaking.

Looking forward to speaking with you.

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MEETING: Second Announcement for the meeting on Partially Ionised Plasmas in Astrophysics, Tenerife, Spain, 29 August - 02 September 2016

From: Elena Khomenko, Istvan Ballai (paul_song at uml.edu)

Important deadlines (Registration and abstract submission is now open)

Registration and Abstract submission deadline – 28 JUNE 2016
Hotel reservation deadline – 28 JULY 2016

The meeting will cover various aspects of partially ionised plasmas in astrophysics, such as solar chromosphere, interstellar medium, protostellar discs, planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres, etc. The meeting aims to broaden and strengthen the collaboration of scientists working in partially ionised plasmas in astrophysics and space science and to develop common scientific interest that could enhance cross-collaborations between the different fields. 

The meeting will focus on the following topics:

    Fundamental physical processes in partially ionised plasmas
    Waves and instabilities in partially ionised plasmas:  theory and observations
    Turbulence, dynamo and non-linear processes
    Magneto-convection, flux emergence and reconnection in partially ionised plasmas

Web page: http://www.iac.es/congreso/pipa2016/

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MEETING: Frontiers in Theoretical and Applied Physics |UAE 2017 (FTAPS 2017), Feb. 22 - 25, 2017, American University of Sharjah, Dubai, UAE

From: Ali S. Alnaser (aalnaser at aus.edu)

Frontiers in Theoretical and Applied Physics |UAE 2017 (FTAPS 2017) will be held from Feb. 22 to Feb. 25, 2017 at the beautiful campus of the American University of Sharjah, less than 30 minutes’ drive from Dubai International Airport. 

The conference is organized in partnership with the Emirates Mars Mission and Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC) in Dubai ; and endorsed by the American Physical Society (APS), Materials Research Society (MRS), and the Institute of Physics (IOP) in the UK. The conference program will include parallel focused sessions on Astrophysics, Planetary and Space Physics,  AMO and Laser physics, Condensed Matter, Material Science and Nanophysics. It will also include five keynote  lectures delivered by renowned scientists, and fifty invited talks by leading experts in those fields. Papers contributed to the conference will be published in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS) after  going through a review process. Authors of selected contributions will be invited to submit extended articles toward  a focus issue in Physica Scripta associated with FTAPS2017.

More information about the conference scientific and social programs are available on its website: www.aus.edu/ftaps2017

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MEETING: 2017 International Conference on Space Science and Communication, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 35 May 2017 -- Call for Papers

From: Wai-Leong Teh (wteh at ukm.edu.my)

The Space Science Centre of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia will host the fifth biennial International Conference on Space Science and Communication (IconSpace), with a theme on “Space Science for Sustainability”, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 35 May 2017.

We are soliciting original research papers in, but not limited to, the following areas:
1. Astronomy and Astrophysics
2. Atmospheric and Magnetospheric Sciences
3. Geosciences and Remote Sensing 
4. Satellite and Communication Technology
5. Interdisciplinary Space Science

Important Dates
Full paper submissions: 3 Nov 2016
Acceptance notification: 3 Jan 2017
Early bird payment: 3 Feb 2017
Final submission and payment: 3 April 2017
Conference day: 35 May 2017
Onsite registration (for non-presenter): 3 May 2017

Paper submission process will be managed through EDAS system (http://edas.info/N22695). All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding (soft copy). More importantly, the accepted papers will be submitted to the renowned publishers indexed by SCOPUS and ISI WoS for full consideration of publication.

For more information, please visit our conference website at http://www.ukm.my/iconspace.

We look forward to receiving your papers and seeing you in Kuala Lumpur.

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SESSION: SHINE 2016 Session "Particle Acceleration and Wave Generation Across Scales: From Reconnection to Shocks" Call for Abstracts

From: Kamen Kozarev (kkozarev at cfa.harvard.edu)

http://shinecon.org/shine2016/session2016.php#session1

Reconnection is the key process of flares, which enables different acceleration mechanisms operating at different scales. A “termination” shock formed in the super-magnetosonic reconnection outflow striking the dense loops is a potential efficient particle accelerator. Waves scattering particles across the termination shock can be produced by the reconnection process, eliminating the need for super-Alfvenic particles to excite waves. Understanding particle acceleration at flare termination shocks and large scale CME shocks may provide insight into how observed particles gain their energy and explain abundance variations. In this session, we propose to address the similarities and differences in these mechanisms, in what parameter regimes they occur, what is the observational evidence, and how they compare with simulations. We invite studies exploring shock-related acceleration mechanisms in flares and CMEs, the particle injection problem, wave generation in reconnection and observational evidence of these processes.

Questions to be addressed:

- How does acceleration at shocks associated with reconnection differ from acceleration at CME shocks?

- What are the properties of CME-driven shocks and shocks in reconnection regions as inferred from observations and simulations?

- What are the signatures in the energy distributions and how close/far are we from being able to reproduce them?

- What kinds of observations may give us coronal particle distributions?

- Can shocks in reconnection outflows be a source of suprathermal particles required for SEP acceleration at CME shocks?

The oral part of this double session will take place on Tuesday morning and afternoon. It will be split into an observations-heavy part, with scene-setting speakers Bin Chen (NJIT) and J. Martin Laming (NRL); and a theory/modeling heavy part, with scene-setting speakers Vahe Petrosian (Stanford) and Jan Egedal (UWisconsin). In addition to posters, we welcome oral contributions in the form of one or two slides.

Conveners: Elena Provornikova (NRL/UCAR), Carrie Black (NASA GSFC/UMBC),
Kamen Kozarev (SAO), Joel Dahlin (UMd)

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SESSION: Call for abstracts to SHINE Session 4: Remote-Sensing Observing Techniques for Improving Space-Weather Science and Forecasting

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

Dear Colleagues.

Summer is already upon us and we would like to invite you to submit a contributed abstract to our exciting SHINE session on 'Remote-Sensing Observing Techniques for Improving Space-Weather Science and Forecasting' - Session number 4.

The full session description can be found here: http://shinecon.org/shine2016/session2016.php#session4.

The deadline for submitting abstracts to SHINE this year is 9th June 2016, and the oral discussion session will take place on the Friday (15th July 2016 - http://shinecon.org/shine2016/shine2016schedule.php).  As well as presenting a poster, if you would like to show a couple of slides during the discussion session, then please let us know at least by the end of June 2016.  The oral discussion session will be introduced through two talks: one from Angelos Vourlidas (JHU-APL), and one from Doug Biesecker (NOAA-SWPC); it will also be guided along by the Convenors in order to address the wider scope of the session.

The abstract-submission page is here: http://shinecon.org/pages/AbstractSub.php.

We look forward to seeing you at SHINE in Santa Fe, NM, USA next month!

Best wishes,

Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space, UK), Bernard V. Jackson (CASS-UCSD, USA), and David F. Webb (ISR-BC, USA)

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Announcing MMS Data Analysis Software (MDAS) 

From: Eric Grimes, Barbara Giles, Vassilis Angelopoulos (egrimes at igpp.ucla.edu)

The SPEDAS project announces the beta release of Version 2.00 of the Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software (SPEDAS), including version 1.00 of the MMS Data Analysis Software (MDAS) plugin.

This release includes command-line and GUI support for the following MMS instruments:
- Fast Plasma Investigation (FPI)
- Hot Plasma Composition Analyzer (HPCA)
- Energetic Particle Detectors (EIS and FEEPS)
- Fluxgate Magnetometer (FGM)
- Search Coil Magnetometer (SCM)
- Electric Field Double Probes (EDP)
- Electron Drift Instrument (EDI)
- Digital Signal Processor (DSP)
- Active Spacecraft Potential Control (ASPOC)
- Ephemeris and Coordinates (MEC)

In addition to the MMS mission, V2.00 of SPEDAS contains plugins for the THEMIS/ARTEMIS, GOES, POES, WIND, ERG, IUGONET, and BARREL missions, as well as data from numerous ground-based observatories.

Download
The release, along with instructions for installation, can be found on the web at:
http://spedas.org/wiki/index.php?title=Downloads_and_Installation

Examples
Command-line examples for new users can be found in the zip at:

projects/mms/examples/basic/

Examples showing advanced functionality of the plugin can be found in the zip at:

projects/mms/examples/advanced/

This release also includes ISEE3D - a tool for visualizing 3D distribution functions from FPI and HPCA, developed by the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, Japan. Examples of using this tool can be found in the zip at:

projects/mms/examples/advanced/mms_isee_3d_crib_basic.pro

Documentation
The header of each procedure in the release contain documentation/information on using that procedure (including expected input, output, purpose and available keywords). Documentation can also be found on the web at the SPEDAS wiki:

http://spedas.org/wiki/index.php?title=MMS

Ask Questions
If you have questions or need support, we've created a SPEDAS forum and email list:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/spedas

Users can also email Eric Grimes directly (egrimes at igpp.ucla.edu) with questions, comments, bug reports, etc.

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SPEDAS 2.00 Release Announcement

From: Vassilis Angelopoulos, Jim Lewis (jwl at ssl.berkeley.edu)

The SPEDAS development team announces the release of Version 2.00 of the
Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software (SPEDAS).  This 
is a beta release, in which basic command line functions have been 
tested and verified operational, but the Graphical User Interface
and some of the plugin code has not been put through our full QA test
suite.  We expect to issue a fully tested final release sometime in Fall 2016.

This release introduces version 1.00 of the MMS plugin, with support 
for loading, plotting, and processing data for all the MMS instruments.
Command-line examples for new users can be found in the zip file at
projects/mms/examples/basic/,  with some more advanced examples in
projects/mms/examples/advanced/ .

Another significant new feature is the ISEE3D tool for visualizing
3D particle distribution functions. ISEE3D was developed by the
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, 
Japan.  This tool can be used with data from the FPI and HPCA
instruments on MMS, with some examples of using this tool at:
projects/mms/examples/advanced/mms_isee_3d_crib_basic.pro

The THEMIS plugin has been upgraded to TDAS version 10, with many
bug fixes and upgrades to the THEMIS data plotting and analysis tools,
including support for the recently implemented ESA "low-energy" 
configuration for studying cold electrons and ions.

The plugins for ERG, IUGONET, and BARREL have also been updated with
this release.

Getting SPEDAS

The zip file containing the SPEDAS and plugin source code can be
downloaded from the SPEDAS web site:

http://spedas.org/downloads/spedas_2_00_beta1.zip.  

This is a source-code-only release, which requires an IDL license.  
Pre-compiled, self-contained executable releases (which do not require
an IDL license) are not yet available, but will be released when
the beta testing period is over and the final version is released in
Fall 2016.

Much of our documentation is now available via the SPEDAS Wiki: 
http://www.spedas.org/wiki

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JOB OPENING: Postdoc - Boston University - Ionospheric Radio Occultations at Saturn, Titan, and Mars

From: Paul Withers (withers at bu.edu)

The Center for Space Physics at Boston University invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher position supervised by Professor Paul Withers. The research will involve the analysis of radio occultation observations of the ionospheres of Saturn, Titan, and Mars. Candidates should possess a PhD degree in a relevant field. Experience conducting research on planetary ionospheres is desirable. The salary offered will be competitive and commensurate with experience. Funding is available for two years with the possibility of extension. The appointment is expected to begin as soon as possible after 1 September 2016. Please contact Paul Withers (withers at bu.edu) for further information.

Applications should be sent by email to Paul Withers (withers at bu.edu). 
The application should be submitted in PDF format and contain a curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, and contact information for three referees. Review of applications will begin on 1 July 2016. Women and underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Boston University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

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