[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIII, Issue 11

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIII, Issue 11
March 3, 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. AGU Union Awards
2. MEETING: 2016 CEDAR-GEM Joint Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 19-24, 2016 - Registration is OPEN!
3. MEETING: Partially Ionised Plasmas in Astrophysics (PIPA), Tenerife, Spain, August 29 – September 2, 2016, First Announcement
4. MEETING: SDO 2016:  Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity, Burlington, VT, October 17-21, 2016
5. Monday Science Telecon
6. ISSS Course on “Ground and space-based instruments for future research in Solar-Terrestrial physics,” L’Aquila, Italy, June 6-10, 2016
7. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Space Plasma Physics, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz

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AGU Union Awards

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

The AGU sponsors a broad away of union-wide awards, medals, and prizes to recognize the contributions of our peers to the scientific community and general public.

Nomination packages for union-wide awards, medals and prizes are due March 15. Information about the award process can be found here:
http://honors.agu.org/awards-medals-prizes/

Relevant awards, medals, and prizes include:

• Africa Awards for Research Excellence in Earth and Space Science [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/africa-awards-for-research-excellence-in-earth-and-space-science/]
• Ambassador Award (Chappell, 2015) [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/ambassador-award/]
• Athelstan Spilhaus Award (Gilbert, 2015) [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/athelstan-spilhaus-award/]
• David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism – News [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/david-perlman-award-for-excellence-in-science-journalism-news/]
• Edward A. Flinn III Award (King, 2004) [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/edward-a-flinn-iii-award/]
• Excellence in Geophysical Education Award [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/excellence-in-geophysical-education-award/]
• International Award [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/international-award/]
• Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/robert-c-cowen-award-for-sustained-achievement-in-science-journalism/]
• Science for Solutions Award [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/science-for-solutions-award/]
• Waldo E. Smith Award (Shea, 1998) [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/waldo-e-smith-award/]
• Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism–Features [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/walter-sullivan-award-for-excellence-in-science-journalism-features/]
• William Kaula Award [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/william-kaula-award/]

• James B. Macelwane Medal (Cassak, 2015) [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/james-b-macelwane/]
• John Adam Fleming Medal (Nagy, 2015) [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/john-adam-fleming/]
• William Bowie Medal (Roble, 2013) [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/william-bowie/]

• Climate Communication Prize [http://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/william-bowie/]

We have recently had a good success rate in obtaining union-wide awards. Some of these awards are undersubscribed.

Please ensure that our leading scientists continue to be recognized by submitting your nomination packages promptly.

David Sibeck, SPA Section President


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MEETING: 2016 CEDAR-GEM Joint Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 19-24, 2016 - Registration is OPEN!

From: Susanne Demaree (sdemaree at ucar.edu)

We are excited to present the 2016 CEDAR-GEM Joint Workshop registration website at  http://www.cvent.com/events/2016-cedar-workshop/event-summary-a9c1f9d3db5e404bb3350dd04171394a.aspx.

Due to the current funding climate, our CEDAR Workshop and community proposal funding has been reduced. In the past, CEDAR has funded 130-150 students each year, but the current student funding has been reduced to 125 students. The CEDAR Science Steering Committee (CSSC) is committed to supporting as many students as possible. Therefore, to partially compensate for the limited resources the CSSC has decided on the following: 

1) Only students who present a poster may receive funding. Students do not have to be first author but must present a poster.  Student travel support will be limited to the first 125 students that request it during the registration process.  No requests will be taken outside of the registration process.

2) We have increased the student registration fee and it has been changed to include all student types.   All students are required to pay a student registration fee this year. The student registration fee includes the CEDAR-GEM Welcome Reception, the CEDAR Student Lunch, the CEDAR-GEM Student Dinner and the CEDAR-GEM Banquet Dinner, in order to maximize the opportunity for networking. 

3) Breakfast is included in the hotel rates at the Drury Plaza Inn and the Eldorado hotels, therefore here will be no group CEDAR-GEM student breakfasts.

We look forward to seeing you in Santa Fe!


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MEETING: Partially Ionised Plasmas in Astrophysics (PIPA), Tenerife, Spain, August 29 – September 2, 2016, First Announcement

From: Paul Song (Paul_Song at uml.edu)

We invite abstracts for the forthcoming meeting on “Partially Ionised Plasmas in Astrophysics" (PIPA) that will take place in Tenerife (Spain) in the period 29th August-02 September, 2016.

The dynamics of partially ionized astrophysical plasmas is a relatively new and rapidly growing topic of research. There are growing evidences of the importance of the effects of plasma partial ionization in different astrophysical environments, 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 ionized 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 4 inter-related topical themes: 

Session 1: Fundamental physical processes in partially ionised plasmas
Session 2: Waves and instabilities in partially ionised plasmas: theory and observations
Session 3: Turbulence, dynamo and non-linear processes
Session 4: Magneto-convection, flux emergence and reconnection in partially ionised plasmas 

The abstract submission (for oral or poster contributions) is open via the official conference website: www.iac.es/congreso/pipa2016

At this address you will also find information about registration, accommodation, scientific and social programme.

IMPORTANT DATES: 
• 5th March 2016: Registration/Abstract submission starts
• 28th June 2016: Registration/Abstract submission deadline
• 28th July 2016: Hotel reservation deadline
• 29th August: The start of the meeting

SOC: 
• Elena Khomenko (chair, IAC-ULL) 
• Istvan Ballai (chair, Univ. of Sheffield, UK) 
• Mark Wardle (Macquarie Univ., Sydney, Australia) 
• Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni (Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica, Mexico) 
• Paul Song (Univ of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) 
• Sam Falle (Univ. of Leeds, UK) 
• Michael Goodman (West Virginia High Tech Foundation, USA) 
• Mats Carlsson (Univ. of Oslo, Norway)  
• Robert Erdelyi (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)

LOC: 
• Elena Khomenko 
• Manuel Collados 
• Angel de Vicente 
• Nikola Vitas 
• Pedro Gonzalez-Morales 
• Tobias Felipe 
• Manuel Luna

The meeting is supported by the Leverhulme Trust (UK) and The European Research Council (ERC).

We hope to see you soon in Tenerife

Elena Khomenko and Istvan Ballai (Chairs)


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MEETING: SDO 2016:  Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity, Burlington, VT, October 17-21, 2016

From: Vanessa George (Vanessa.George at lasp.colorado.edu)

Living With a Star's Solar Dynamics Observatory invites you to its 2016 Science Workshop “SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity,” October 17-21, 2016, at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel & Conference Center in Burlington, VT.  All members of the science community are welcome and encouraged to attend.  For science program details, please visit our website:  http://SDO2016.lws-sdo-workshops.org.

Abstracts are solicited for presentations describing solar research in the following eight broad areas.

• Motions Inside the Sun
• The Evolution of Active Regions
• Studies of Solar Eruptive Events (SEEs)
• Motions Near and Above the Solar Surface
• Atmospheric Dynamics and Sources of the Solar Wind
• Solar Magnetic Variability and the Solar Cycle
• The Sun as a Star
• Space Weather at the Earth and other Planets

Important Dates:
• Abstract due:  July 15 
• Early registration / hotel reservation:  September 16

We are looking forward to seeing you at the workshop!  

Sincerely,

The Scientific Organizing Committee for SDO 2016:  
W. Dean Pesnell (chair), Charles Baldner, Mark Cheung, Frank Eparvier, Meng Jin, Aimee Norton, and Barbara Thompson


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Monday Science Telecon

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

At 12:00 noon EST on Monday (March 7), we plan to hold the next in our ongoing series of science telecoms. The speaker this Monday will be Shiva Kavosi from UNH. The topic will be “The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability". 

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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ISSS Course on “Ground and space-based instruments for future research in Solar-Terrestrial physics,” L’Aquila, Italy, June 6-10, 2016

From: Paola Solini (ssc at aquila.infn.it)

Second Announcement
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SPACE SCIENCE
Course on “Ground and space-based instruments for future research in Solar-Terrestrial physics” of the International School of Space Science. 

The International School of Space Science of the Consorzio Interuniversitario per la Fisica Spaziale organizes a Course on “Ground based and space instruments for future research in Solar-Terrestrial physics”, to be held in L’Aquila, Italy, June 6-11, 2016 at the Gran Sasso Science Institute and directed by F. Berrilli, S. Jefferies, C. Scotto. Applications are due before March, 27 2016.
The course is designed for PhD students and young post-doctoral researchers. The school will offer an interactive, hands-on approach to the computational and experimental techniques that will be applied in the next generation of ground- and space-based instruments for solar-terrestrial physics related research. In particular, a mix of experienced scientists and engineers will provide an integrated overview of the experimental techniques that are being applied in the observation and forecasting of Solar Activity, Space Weather, and the conditions in the Earth’s magnetosphere and ionosphere: all of which are important components of Space Situational Awareness. 

For more information visit http://www.cifs-isss.org/ or send an e-mail to ssc at aquila.infn.it


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Space Plasma Physics, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz

From: Yasuhito Narita (Yasuhito.Narita at oeaw.ac.at)

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral researcher position (full-time scale) in the area of space plasma physics focusing on the observational studies of magnetic reconnection, turbulence, and particle acceleration phenomena in Earth's magnetosphere using data from the Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) mission.

The applicant must hold a PhD degree in physics, geophysics, astrophysics, or a related field. Experience in spacecraft data analysis for space plasmas such as Cluster, THEMIS, or planetary missions is a prerequisite, in particular using magnetic field, electric field, and particle data. The appointment begins as early as May 2016 for two years. Salary will be on grade IV/2 according to the scale of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which is 40,900 Euro per year (before tax and social insurance).

The application deadline is March 30, 2016. Applications include 1) cover letter, 2) a curriculum vitae, 3) a list of publications, 4) a statement of applicant's past and current research experience (up to 2 pages), 5) certificates for full academic record, and 6) up to three letters of recommendation. Applications may be sent by post to Space Plasma Physics Group at Space Research Institute, or electronically via email to yasuhito.narita at oeaw.ac.at in PDF format.

The Austrian Academy of Sciences is an equal opportunity employer.


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