[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIII, Issue 59

Tue Nov 8 06:29:55 PST 2016

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIII, Issue 59
Nov.08,2016

Editor: Peter Chi
Co-Editor: Guan Le
Distribution Support: Sharon Uy, Marjorie Sowmendran, Todd King, Kevin Addison
E-mail: editor at igpp.ucla.edu
Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g

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Table of Contents

1. JGR-Space Physics Editor Blog Monthly Highlights

2. Quo Vadis Workshop Report Available

3. MEETING: 17th Solar Orbiter Workshop Second Announcement (3-7 April, 2017, Granada, Spain)

4. MEETING: 3rd COSPAR Symposium, Jeju Island, South Korea, September 18-22, 2017

5. MEETING: 42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Pasadena, CA, USA, July 14-22, 2018

6. Call for Papers to the MMS Special Collection of JGR (1st Notice)

7. Monday Science Telecon, November 14, 2016

8. SCOSTEP/VarSITI Grants for 2017

9. JOB OPENING: Permanent Research Position in Heliophysics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

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JGR-Space Physics Editor Blog Monthly Highlights

From: Mike Liemohn (liemohn at umich.edu)

I realized this month that I never shared the list of awardees for this year's excellence in refereeing prize from AGU, which we selected back in March.  Based on our size, we got to pick 12 winners.  This is a very hard task, as there are many more excellent reviewers than this.

October 17:  Peer Review Week (it's a thing)
     https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/peer-review-week/

October 19:  JGR Space awardees for refereeing excellence
     https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2016/10/19/reviewer-awardees-for-2015/

October 31:  Defining plagiarism, it's more than just verbatim words
     https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/defining-plagiarism/

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

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Quo Vadis Workshop Report Available

From: David Hysell, Scott McIntosh, Josh Semeter, Jeff Thayer, Mike Wiltberger   (wiltbemj at ucar.edu)

Scientists from across the geospace domain participated Exploring the Geospace Frontier: Quo Vadis workshop sponsored by NSF.  The main goal was to identify mechanisms for advancing space weather observations and prediction capabilities. The collective of nearly 100 space scientists reached a consensus that now is the time to invest in infrastructure and observational facilities to meet the societal need and scientific challenges posed by Space Weather. Workshop presenters outlined numerous observing strategies and platform concepts, each with the potential to transform space weather forecast capability in one or another domain. All considered it imperative to develop a conceptual community-wide NSF Major Research Equipment Facilities Construction (MREFC) proposal to bring these platform concepts together into an end-to-end (dedicated) space weather research facility. To develop this plan further, it was determined that we must, as a community-leading group, invest time to evaluate, prioritize, and scope the components of such a cross-cutting initiative.

The full workshop report for the 2016 Quo Vadis Workshop is now available online at 

https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/events/GeospaceFrontier2016

The workshop organizing committee thanks all those that participated in the workshop and looks forward to further developments in this exciting project.

Respectfully submitted,
David Hysell
Scott McIntosh
Josh Semeter
Jeff Thayer
Mike Wiltberger  

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MEETING: 17th Solar Orbiter Workshop Second Announcement (3-7 April, 2017, Granada, Spain)

From: Jose Carlos del Toro Iniesta (ada at astro.uio.no)

Registration is open. Visit our web page at http://spg.iaa.es/solo2017/

Rationale:
The Solar Orbiter mission will bring the community an excellent opportunity for doing unique science that embraces most solar topics from the interior up to the heliosphere employing novel vantage points. The combined use of results from its four in-situ and six remote-sensing instruments will provide an unprecedented view of the Sun and the interplanetary medium. Aimed at discussing most of these topics, the 7th Solar Orbiter Workshop entitled “Exploring the solar environs” will be held in Granada, Spain, from the 3rd through the 6th of April, 2017. Overviews, prospects, and new science about the solar interior, the photospheric structure, dynamics, and magnetic fields, the chromosphere, the corona, the solar wind, and the heliospheric magnetic fields and particles are scheduled. Synergies with other missions and ground-based observatories will also be covered. Theoreticians, observers, and instrumentalist astronomers are encouraged to attend.

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MEETING: 3rd COSPAR Symposium, Jeju Island, South Korea, September 18-22, 2017

From: A. Janofsky (aaron.janofsky at cosparhq.cnes.fr)

3rd Symposium of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR):  Small Satellites for Space Research 
“COSPAR 2017”

Date: 18 - 22 September 2017
Place: Jeju Island, South Korea

Contact:                                                
COSPAR Secretariat, 2 place Maurice Quentin, 75039 Paris Cedex 01, France
Tel: +33 1 44 76 75 10 
Fax: +33 1 44 76 74 37
cospar at cosparhq.cnes.fr
http://cospar.kasi.re.kr/cospar-symposium-2017/

Host Organizations:
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Inst. (KASI) / Korean Space Science Society

Scientific Program Chair:                 
Dr. Dong-Hun Lee, Kyung Hee Univ.

Abstract Deadline:                             
31 March 2017

Topics:  
- New ideas for upper atmosphere research with micro- and nano-satellites
- Interaction of solar wind and Earth’s bow shock:  recent progress in observations and modelling
- Dynamics of the magnetospheric process through coordinated experiment and modelling
- Advances in astrophysical research with small satellites
- Planetary exploration of the solar system
- Enabling technologies

Selected papers published in Advances in Space Research and Life Sciences in Space Research, fully refereed journals with no deadlines open to all submissions in relevant fields.

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MEETING: 42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Pasadena, CA, USA, July 14-22, 2018

From: A. Janofsky (aaron.janofsky at cosparhq.cnes.fr)

14 - 22 July 2018
Pasadena, CA, USA

Contact:                                                
COSPAR Secretariat, 2 place Maurice Quentin, 75039 Paris Cedex 01, France
Tel: +33 1 44 76 75 10 
Fax: +33 1 44 76 74 37
cospar at cosparhq.cnes.fr
http://www.cospar-assembly.org

Host Organization:
Caltech, home of JPL

Scientific Program Chair:                 
Prof. Thomas Prince, California Institute of Technology

Abstract Deadline:                             
9 February 2018

Topics:  
Approximately 125 meetings covering the fields of COSPAR Scientific Commissions (SC) and Panels:
- SC A:  The Earth's Surface, Meteorology and Climate 
- SC B:  The Earth-Moon System, Planets, and Small Bodies of the Solar System
- SC C:  The Upper Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets Including Reference Atmospheres
- SC D:  Space Plasmas in the Solar System, Including Planetary Magnetospheres 
- SC E:  Research in Astrophysics from Space 
- SC F:  Life Sciences as Related to Space 
- SC G:  Materials Sciences in Space 
- SC H:  Fundamental Physics in Space 
- Panel on Satellite Dynamics (PSD)
- Panel on Scientific Ballooning (PSB)
- Panel on Potentially Environmentally Detrimental Activities in Space (PEDAS)
- Panel on Radiation Belt Environment Modelling (PRBEM) 
- Panel on Space Weather (PSW)
- Panel on Planetary Protection (PPP)
- Panel on Capacity Building (PCB)
- Panel on Education (PE)
- Panel on Exploration (PEX)
- Panel on Interstellar Research (PIR)
- Special events:  interdisciplinary lectures, round table, etc.

Selected papers published in Advances in Space Research and Life Sciences in Space Research, fully refereed journals with no deadlines open to all submissions in relevant fields.

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Call for Papers to the MMS Special Collection of JGR (1st Notice)

From: Matthew Argall (matthew.argall at unh.edu)

The Magnetosphere Multiscale (MMS) mission is preparing a special collection in the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR) that will contain detailed reports of discoveries made during the first primary mission phase. Anyone analyzing MMS data is encouraged to submit. Details are below:

SUBMISSION DATES:
Open: Dec. 1, 2016
Close: April 15, 2017

TITLE:
Magnetosphere Multiscale (MMS) mission results throughout the first primary mission phase

DESCRIPTION:
The Magnetosphere Multiscale (MMS) mission was launched March 15, 2015 with the goal of studying the microphysics of magnetic reconnection. During its second day-side pass, the inter-spacecraft separation was reduced to as little as 7km, or 2-3 electron skin depths at the magnetopause, allowing electron-scale physics to be spatially resolved and investigated. The unprecedented temporal resolution of the fields and particle instrument suites has advanced our understanding of dynamical processes from the bowshock, through the magnetosheath, across the magnetopause and into the inner magnetosphere and magnetotail. This special issue expands upon discoveries made during the first primary mission phase and tail pass, and provides in-depth reports of new findings from the second day-side pass.

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Monday Science Telecon, November 14, 2016

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

At 12:00 noon EST on Monday (November 14), we plan to hold the next in our ongoing series of science telecons. The speaker this Monday will be Sarah K. Vines from SwRI. The topic will be “Heavy ions at the dayside magnetopause observed by MMS".

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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SCOSTEP/VarSITI Grants for 2017

From: Katya Georgieva and Kazuo Shiokawa, VarSITI co-chairs (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp)

The submission of applications for VarSITI grants for 2017 is now open. The deadline is December 1, 2016, and the guidelines can be found on the
VarSITI website at: 
http://www.varsiti.org --> Organization --> Guidelines for application.

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JOB OPENING: Permanent Research Position in Heliophysics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

From: Adam Szabo (Adam.Szabo at nasa.gov)

Applications are invited for a permanent civil service research scientist position in the area of Heliophysics and more specifically charged and neutral particle physics focusing on the energization and propagation of particles in the heliosphere and on the interaction of the heliosphere with the interstellar medium.

It is desirable that the applicant hold a PhD degree in physics, geophysics, astrophysics or a related field.  At least one year of experience in spacecraft data analysis or spacecraft instrumentation development is required. The appointment begins in mid 2017. The appointment is for a GS-13 position with salary commensurate with the applicant’s past experience. 

U.S. citizenship is required. To view the full vacancy announcement, which contains further information including qualification requirements and application instructions, go to (http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/455714200).  The vacancy announcement will be open from November 9, 2016 to December 8, 2016. Applications must be received by December 8, 2016 via the USAJobs website.  For additional questions, contact Dr. Adam Szabo via e-mail at Adam.Szabo at nasa.gov.

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