[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIII, Issue 12

Sun Mar 6 14:39:18 PST 2016

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIII, Issue 12
March 6, 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. 2016 International Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career Award Open for Nominations
2. JGR-Space Physics Editor Blog Monthly Highlights
3. MEETING: CEDAR-GEM Joint Workshop 2016, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 19-24, 2016; Second Announcement – Instructions for GEM Registration
4. MEETING: The Dust, Atmosphere and Plasma environment of the Moon and Small Bodies (DAP-2017) Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, January 11-13, 2017

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2016 International Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career Award Open for Nominations

From: Fabiano Rodrigues (Fabiano at utdallas.edu)

I would like to invite you to submit nominations for the 2016 International Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career Award. The deadline for nominations is April 15, 2016.

Established in 2008, the Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career Award in Sun-Earth Systems Science is given annually to one early career scientist (within seven years of the award of Ph.D. or highest equivalent terminal degree) from a developing nation in recognition of outstanding contributions to research in Sun-Earth systems science that further the understanding of both plasma physical processes and their applications for the benefit of society.

Eligible nominees (1) have been awarded the degree of Ph.D. (or highest equivalent terminal degree) have completed their degree requirements during the seven-year time period prior to the award presentation year (1 January 2009 - 31 December 2015); and (2) currently live and work in developing nations. Consideration is to be given to nominees who have overcome obstacles in attaining their research objectives.

The award includes:

- Travel support (airfare and housing) to attend the AGU Fall Meeting for the length of his/her stay during the award presentation year
- Complimentary meeting registration to participate in the AGU Fall Meeting during the award presentation year
- Three years of complimentary AGU membership
- Award certificate
- Announcement in Eos
- Invitation to present a talk at the AGU Fall Meeting during the award presentation year
- Recognition at the AGU Fall Meeting during the award presentation year
- Complimentary ticket to the Space Physics and Aeronomy section dinner at the AGU Fall Meeting during the award presentation year

More details about eligibility, required documentation, and nomination procedures can be found at:

http://honors.agu.org/nomination/sunanda-and-santimay-basu-early-career-award-in-sun-earth-systems-science/

Please, feel free to contact me (Fabiano Rodrigues, fabiano at utdallas.edu) if you need additional information.

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JGR-Space Physics Editor Blog Monthly Highlights

From: Mike Liemohn, JGR-Space Physics Editor-in-Chief

Here are a few highlights from my February posts.

February 3: a thank you to the Associate Editors of the journal
https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/jgr-space-physics-associate-editors/

February 4: advice on reviewer-author interactions
https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2016/02/04/reviewer-author-interaction/

February 15: Key Points are now Tweet length
https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2016/02/15/tweet-length-key-points/

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

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MEETING: CEDAR-GEM Joint Workshop 2016, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 19-24, 2016; Second Announcement – Instructions for GEM Registration

From: Zhonghua Xu (zxu77 at vt.edu)

The 2016 CEDAR-GEM Summer Workshop will be a joint meeting of the two scientific communities focusing advancing our understanding of the highly coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system.  While the meeting will have common registration fee and numerous joint sessions for logistical reasons we are asking members of the communities with a primary focus on the GEM side to use the GEM site to register for the meeting. 

The registration is live at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/registration.html  now!

And members with CEDAR as their primary focus are encouraged to use the CEDAR registration
"http://www.cvent.com/events/2016-cedar-workshop/event-summary-a9c1f9d3db5e404bb3350dd04171394a.aspx".

We are looking forward to a highly productive and informative meeting and hope to see you in Santa Fe this summer!

A reminder of important dates:
1 the deadline of GEM student support is on March 14th, 2016
2 the deadline of Early Registration is on May 13th, 2016
3 the deadline of Poster submission is on May 15th, 2016
4 the deadline of Online Registration is on June 10th, 2016

For conference, lodging and travel questions:
Kortni Lindsay 540-231-2602 kortni1 at vt.edu

Leslie Thornton-O'Brien 540-231-9617 lthornto at vt.edu

For general GEM, posters and judging questions:
Zhonghua Xu 757-325-6966 zxu77 at vt.edu

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MEETING: The Dust, Atmosphere and Plasma environment of the Moon and Small Bodies (DAP-2017) Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, January 11-13, 2017

From: Mihaly Horanyi (Mihaly.Horanyi at lasp.colorado.edu)

The Dust, Atmosphere and Plasma environment of the Moon and Small Bodies (DAP-2017) workshop will be held Jan 11-13, 2017 in Boulder, Colorado, to discuss our current understanding of the surface environment of the Moon, the moons of Mars: Phobos and Deimos, and asteroids, to share new results from past and ongoing missions, and to describe expectations for planned upcoming missions. The workshop will be focused on the open science questions, the status and future of our supporting modeling and laboratory experimental capabilities, the definition of the required measurements and instrument capabilities for future investigations from orbit, or to be deployed on the surface.

More information is available at http://impact.colorado.edu/dap_meeting.html , as is a form to express your interest and to join the workshop mailing list.

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