[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIII, Issue 13

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIII, Issue 13
March 10, 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. Invitation to Submit a Special Session Proposal for the 2016 Fall AGU Meeting

2. MMS Data Available to Public

3. University Calgary Redline Camera Data Available

4. University Calgary Redline Camera Data Available

5. Monday Science Telecon

6. JOB OPENING: Faculty Position at Solar and Space Weather Group, KASI

7. JOB OPENING: PhD position in Electronics (Space Instrumentation) Available at University of Oslo, Norway

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Invitation to Submit a Special Session Proposal for the 2016 Fall AGU Meeting

From: Robyn Millan (robyn.millan at dartmouth.edu), Todd Hoeksema, Anja Stromme


The 2016 AGU Fall Meeting Session Proposal submission site is now open! The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, 20 April. To submit a session proposal, go to: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/session-proposals/

This year, we are making an effort to reduce significant overlap of special session topics. Before submitting your proposal, please look to see if a session on a similar theme has already been submitted. If so, consider contacting the original proposers to discuss merging, or rewrite your session proposal so it is focused on a different topic. You can view existing submissions here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/programs.html.  If needed, we will merge or reject proposals with significant overlap, so please make sure your proposal is focused and unique. 

If you have any questions, please contact one of your SPA secretaries (SM: Robyn Millan, SH: Todd Hoeksema, SA: Anja Stromme)


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MMS Data Available to Public

From: Jim Burch (jburch at swri.edu)

The calibrated MMS data are available to the community in CDF format at:

https://lasp.colorado.edu/mms/sdc/public/

For options on accessing the data go to the "How to Get Data" page under the "About the Data" menu tab.

SPEDAS can be used for data plotting.

To download SPEDAS software go to the SPEDAS wiki:
http://wiki.spedas.org  Then go to the "Downloads and Installation" area and download the "Nightly Build” (also known as "bleeding edge"). The direct link is: http://spedas.org/downloads/ and the software is called: spdsw_latest.zip

Also on the home page there is a tutorial video called: "MMS data analysis using SPEDAS: an introduction"

Other standard software with CDF capability can also be used (e. g., MATLAB, Autoplot).

For questions on data access contact Kris Larsen at Kristopher.Larsen at lasp.colorado.edu


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University Calgary Redline Camera Data Available

From: Harald Frey (hfrey at ssl.berkeley.edu)

We are happy to report that the redline camera data of the University of Calgary are now also hosted as ISTP-compliant CDF files at the Space Sciences Laboratory of UC Berkeley. New software tools are now part of the SPEDAS software package that allow reading and plotting of the raw data and the generation of redline mosaics very similar to the THEMIS white-light ASI mosaics. Details about SPEDAS are available at http://themis.ssl.berkeley.edu/software.shtml. Inquiries about the CDF files and SPEDAS tools should be directed to Harald Frey (hfrey at ssl.berkeley.edu).

Overview plots with summary redline keograms can be seen on the THEMIS webpage http://themis.ssl.berkeley.edu under the All-sky-imager and REGO keograms tabs.  Inquiries about the data should be directed to Eric Donovan (edonovan at ucalgary.ca) or Emma Spanswick (elspansw at ucalgary.ca).


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Monday Science Telecon

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

At 12:00 noon EST on Monday (March 14), we plan to hold the next in our ongoing series of science telecoms. The speaker this Monday will be Stefan Eriksson from LASP. The topic will be “Simulations and Observations of Magnetic Islands". 

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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JOB OPENING: Faculty Position at Solar and Space Weather Group, KASI

Junga Hwang (recruit at kasi.re.kr) 

The Solar and Space weather group at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Daejeon, Korea (hereafter SOS group) is now seeking applicants for a faculty position in Space Physics. Candidates with research interests in mangetospherc physics are encouraged to apply. Backgrounds in theory, modeling, laboratory plasma and/or observational analysis will be considered. The candidate is expected to establish a broad, internationally competitive, and well-recognized research program and contribute to graduate school students’ education.

SOS group (http://www.kasi.re.kr/english/Research/SolarAndSpaceWeatherGroup.aspx) constructed the Korean Space Weather Prediction Center (KSWPC). The scope of the KSWC included the extension of the ground observation system, the construction of the space weather database, and the development of prediction models for the space weather application. KASI also utilizes the Van Allan Probes’ real time data to forecast space weather, protecting national space assets from severe space environment. SOS group has been working on various research fields spanning from the solar activity, magnetosphere, and ionosphere to the upper atmosphere of the Earth. SOS group also studies long-term and temporal solar activities and the Sun-Earth connection using a combination of ground and satellite observations, advanced analysis techniques and numerical models for space weather forecasting.

For magnetospheric physics, our targets are as following: (1) Study on the structure and dynamics of the Earth’s radiation belts and their relationship to substorm, ring current, and plasmasphere by satellite data analysis and numerical simulations, (2) Development of numerical and statistical forecast model aimed at prevention of harzardous effects on the satellites, the stability of wireless telecommunications, and the aviation safety of the polar route, (3) Design and development of space plasma payloads.

In order to receive full consideration, applicants should submit their CV, a list of publications, two recommendation letters, and a statement of research interests to recruit at kasi.re.kr until March 31, 2016. The official announcement released in KASI job opening webpage (https://www.kasi.re.kr/eng/post/eng_jobopening).


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JOB OPENING: PhD position in Electronics (Space Instrumentation) Available at University of Oslo, Norway

From: Wojciech Jacek Miloch (w.j.miloch at fys.uio.no)

Position as PhD Research fellow (Stipendiat SKO 1017) in electronics is available at The Department of Physics, University of Oslo.

If the successful candidate has a good knowledge of one Scandinavian language (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish), the fellowship will be for a period of 4 years, with 25 % compulsory work (teaching responsibilities at The Department of Physics). Otherwise, the fellowship will be for a period of 3 years, with no compulsory work. Starting date as soon as possible. Application deadline:
25 September 2014

Job/ project description

The position is part of the interdisciplinary 4DSpace center, an initiative at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo, involving the Departments of Physics, Informatics, and Mathematics. The 4DSpace center is working towards integrated multi-point, multi-scale studies of ionospheric turbulence with new generation sounding rockets and satellites, and cutting edge numerical and analytical models. The center is active with in-situ measurements (such as the ICI-rocket series, CubeSTAR, QB50 or European Space Agency projects), ground-based observations, and development of instruments as well as miniaturized payloads and sub-payloads for rockets and satellites. The modeling of plasma instabilities and turbulence is carried out with fluid as well as particle-in-cell numerical codes.

The successful candidate will work on the development of instrumentation and electronics for space applications such as satellites, sounding rockets and daughter payloads. This will include high-resolution probes for ion densities and plasma temperature, electric and magnetic fields, and the related front-end electronics. Optimization methods for on-board processing may also be a relevant topic.

The candidate will work closely together with experts from all of the involved departments and is expected to be able to acquire the necessary cross-disciplinary knowledge for the project.
 
For the full advertisment see:
http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1250715/64282/


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