[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIV, Issue 19

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIV, Issue 19
Apr.03,2017

Editor: Peter Chi
Co-Editor: Guan Le
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Table of Contents

1. The 2017 ROSES Competition of Heliophysics Programs - Call for Volunteers for Review Panels

2. MEETING: AGU Chapman Conference on Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions – Abstracts Due April 5

3. MEETING: The 3rd COSPAR Symposium - Small Satellites for Space Research -- Abstract Deadline Extended to April 14

4. MEETING: RHESSI XVI Workshop -- Registration Open, Abstract Deadline Extended to April 22

5. MEETING: L5 Consortium Meeting - Preliminary Announcement

6. MMS Special Collection of JGR -- Submission Deadline Extended

7. British-Russian Seminar of Young Scientists “Dynamical Plasma Processes in the Heliosphere: from the Sun to the Earth” -- 18- 21 September 2017, Irkutsk, Russia

8. SESSION: SHINE 2017 Session “What are the Energy Partition and Dominant Energy Transport Mechanisms Associated with Magnetic Reconnection for Different Heliospheric Plasmas?”: Call for Abstracts

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The 2017 ROSES Competition of Heliophysics Programs - Call for Volunteers for Review Panels

From: Arik Posner (arik.posner at nasa.gov)

The 2017 ROSES competition of Heliophysics programs encourages volunteers for review panels to sign up on the NASA web site for researchers. Sign-up is now open for several of the Heliophysics solicitations (see list below). Please make sure you sign up before April 30, 2017. 

Signing up does not commit you to serve, nor will NASA be obligated to invite you to serve on a review panel.  Instead, the availability of panel volunteers will aid the program officers to more efficiently fill panel vacancies, and it will enhance the quality of the peer review process with the identification of additional expertise. An additional goal is to shorten the time between proposal submission and selection/notification. The community benefits through broadening the peer review panel as well as broadening their own personal experience.

If you are an active researcher in the field of Heliophysics, Postdoc level and beyond, you are encouraged to sign up. We understand that your schedules fill up quickly, and therefore we ask you to identify which weeks of the review windows you would be available to serve. Typical review duration is 3-4 days. 

The following programs currently solicit review panel volunteers for in-person (or virtual) reviews starting in late July 2017 through April 2018:
H-SR (ROSES17 Appendix B.2 Heliophysics Supporting Research) 
H-TIDeS (ROSES17 Appendix B.3 Heliophysics Technology and Instrument Development for Science)
H-GI Open (ROSES17 Appendix B.4 Heliophysics Guest Investigators – Open Element)
H-LWS (ROSES17 Appendix B.6 Heliophysics Living With a Star Science)
H-DEE (ROSES17 Appendix B.7 Heliophysics Data Environment Enhancements)
H-MMS-GI (ROSES17 Appendix B.8 Magnetospheric Multiscale Guest Investigators 2)
H-GCR SC (ROSES17 Appendix B.9 Heliophysics Grand Challenges Research – Science Centers)

You will not be eligible to participate in panel reviews of those programs that you submit to as a PI, Co-I or Collaborator/Consultant. Therefore, you will be asked to self-select the program(s) for which you expect to be available.

The sign-up process is simple, fast and confidential. You can sign up under the following URL:

https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/volunteer-review-panels/roses-heliophysics-programs


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MEETING: AGU Chapman Conference on Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions – Abstracts Due April 5

From: Qiugang Zong, Philippe Escoubet, David Sibeck, Guan Le, Hui Zhang  (qgzong at pku.edu.cn)

Abstract submission deadline for the AGU Chapman Conference on Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions, is April 5. Submit your abstract at http://chapman.agu.org/dayside-magnetosphere/program/abstract-submission-guidelines/

Registration is now open at http://chapman.agu.org/dayside-magnetosphere/registration/

The 2017 AGU Chapman Conference on Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions will be held from 10 to 14 July 2017 in Chengdu, China.  The conference will address the processes by which solar wind mass, momentum, and energy enter the magnetosphere.  Regions of interest include (but is not limited to) the foreshock, bow shock, magnetosheath, magnetopause, and cusps, the dayside magnetosphere, and both the dayside polar and equatorial ionosphere.  The meeting is particularly timely due to the results expected from NASA’s MMS mission which was launched in March 2015, arrays of new ground-based instrumentation currently being installed, and the ongoing operations of NASA’s THEMIS, ESA’s Cluster, and JAXA’s Geotail missions. Parallel processes occur at other planets, and recent results from NASA’s MAVEN mission to Mars, as well as ESA’s Mars and Venus Express missions will be actively solicited.

More information on the conference is available at the following link:
http://chapman.agu.org/dayside-magnetosphere/

Conveners:
Qiugang Zong  (qgzong at pku.edu.cn)
Philippe Escoubet  (Philippe.Escoubet at esa.int)
David Sibeck  (david.g.sibeck at nasa.gov)
Guan Le  (Guan.Le at nasa.gov)
Hui Zhang  (hzhang14 at alaska.edu)


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MEETING: The 3rd COSPAR Symposium "Small Satellites for Space Research" -- Abstract Deadline Extended to April 14

From: The 3rd COSPAR Symposium Committee (cospar2017 at cospar2017.org)

In response to the requests of many participants, the 3rd COSPAR Symposium Committee decided to extend the deadline of abstract submission to April 14, 2017. Information regarding the abstract submission can be found in our website www.cospar2017.org. Please join us to build a memorable symposium and share your expertise with other participants!
 
Key Dates:
- Abstract Submission deadline (EXTENDED to) April 14, 2017
- Acceptance Notification: May 31, 2017
- Early Registration: June 30, 2017
 
If you need further updated information about the symposium, please visit the website or feel free to contact the secretariat at cospar2017 at cospar2017.org.
 
Thank you!
 
Young-deuk Park (Chair, the Korean COSPAR Committee, KASI, Korea)
Dong-Hun Lee (SOC Chair, Prof., Kyung Hee Univ., Korea)
Jong-Uk Park (SOC Co-chair & LOC Chair, KASI, Korea)


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MEETING: RHESSI XVI Workshop -- Registration Open, Abstract Deadline Extended to April 22

From: Amir Caspi (amir at boulder.swri.edu)

Registration and abstract submission are NOW OPEN for the next RHESSI Workshop (number XVI in the series), co-hosted with the MinXSS 1st Workshop, to be held at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, USA from June 19 to 24, 2017.

The details of the final program will be constructed from the input we receive from the community, so please submit your contributions and help guide the scientific goals of the workshop.  Abstract submission and registration are due by April 22, 2017, extended from the original deadline.

The latest information can be found at the workshop website, https://rhessi16.boulder.swri.edu.  The registration fee for the workshop is $325, to include the entire week of the meeting. All morning and afternoon coffee breaks, the Welcome Reception, and the Banquet are free to registered attendees.  Companion tickets for the reception and banquet are available.  Hotel and other travel information is also now posted; specially priced hotel blocks are available until May 18, 2017.

This workshop will consist of a blend of plenary sessions at the beginning and end, with various working group sessions in between. Topics to be addressed include electron acceleration and transport, ion acceleration and transport, the solar atmosphere response to flare energy and momentum input, correlated radio/hard X-ray observations, and pertinent theory.  There will also be sessions on next steps in RHESSI imaging; new results from the MinXSS CubeSat on flare thermal emission and quiescent soft X-ray emission; and future instrumentation.

We look forward to seeing you in Boulder this summer!

Amir Caspi, on behalf of the Local Organizing Committee


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MEETING: L5 Consortium Meeting - Preliminary Announcement

From: Nat Gopalswamy (nat.gopalswamy at nasa.gov)

The L5 consortium is an informal group of scientists that has been promoting science missions to Sun-Earth L5 since 2010. The most recent meeting was held in Boulder, CO in December 2014. The scientific potential was demonstrated by the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) when it was in quadrature with SOHO during 2010-2012. After a two-year hiatus, the Consortium meeting will again be held this year during October 17-20, 2017 at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany. The goal of L5 Consortium meetings has been to address open questions in heliophysics using future missions from L5 and L4.

Deploying a mission at Sun-Earth L5 has several key benefits for heliophysics, especially on magnetic structures inside and outside the solar surface. The benefits and measurements include: (1) magnetograms obtained from L5 can improve the surface magnetic field distribution used as input to MHD models that predict the background solar wind and, together with helioseismology, allow us to study the evolution of active regions for longer periods of time, (2) helioseismology from Sun-Earth line and L5 views will improve the coverage of the surface and thereby improve our ability to study the solar interior as well as allow us to perform stereoscopic seismology in the overlap region, (3) viewing CMEs off the Sun-Earth line appears to be critical in observing Earth-arriving parts of the CME, (4) L5 coronagraphic and wide-field observations may provide better estimates of near-Sun and propagating true speed of CME, which is an important input to models that forecast Earth-arrival times of CMEs, (5) backside and frontside CMEs can be readily distinguished even without locating the coronal source, (6) preceding CMEs in the path of Earth-affecting CMEs can be identified for a better estimate of the travel time, (7) a combination of EUV, coronagraph, and heliospheric imaging an track CME-shock complex from the Sun all the way to 1-AU for shock/flux rope evolution studies, (8) CIRs reach the L5 point a few days before they arrive at Earth, and hence provide significant lead time before CIR arrival, (9) L5 observations can provide advance knowledge of CME and CIR source regions (coronal holes) rotating to Earth view, (10) Energetic particle detection at multiple locations (L5 in combination with L1 and/or L4) is essential in gaining insight into the widespread nature of SEP events, especially in the energy range 300 MeV - 2 GeV that was not measured by STEREO.

The L5 consortium meeting at Max Planck will involve discussion on the science and potential missions to L5 and L4. 
Details: https://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/meetings/2017_L5C/


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MMS Special Collection of JGR -- Submission Deadline Extended

From: Matthew Argall, Daniel Gershman, Shan Wang, Frederick Wilder (matthew.argall at unh.edu)

The submission deadline for the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) special collection of JGR has been extended by six week, to June 1st, 2017. The collection will gather together the wide range of discoveries made by MMS throughout its first primary mission phase. Anyone analyzing MMS data is encouraged to submit. Details are below:

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
June 1, 2017

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

DESCRIPTION:
The Magnetospheric 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 day-side and tail passes, and provides in-depth reports of new findings from the second day-side pass.


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British-Russian Seminar of Young Scientists “Dynamical Plasma Processes in the Heliosphere: from the Sun to the Earth” -- 18- 21 September 2017, Irkutsk, Russia

From: Valery Nakariakov (V.Nakariakov at warwick.ac.uk)

The Russian-British seminar of young scientists, chaired by Professor V.M. Nakariakov (Warwick, UK) and Professor A.T. Altyntsev (ISTP, Russia) will hold on the 18-21st of September in Irkutsk, Russia. The main topics include

• Analogies and differences between the coronal, solar wind and magnetospheric plasmas; and the ionospheric and chromospheric plasmas. 
• Magnetohydrodynamic waves.
• Magnetic reconnection and impulsive energy releases: solar flares and geomagnetic storms. 
• Charged particle acceleration and dynamics. 
• Advanced modelling techniques, high-performance computing. 
• Advanced data analysis techniques. 
• Modern instrumentation.

The attendance of the selected participants will be fully supported (airfare, accommodation and other travel expenses). In addition, we shall also welcome up to 15 self-paying attendees specialised in the relevant research fields. 

The supported participants of workshop are early career researchers affiliated with UK and Russian universities and research institutions, specialising in the field of the workshop: solar, solar wind, magnetospheric, ionospheric and upper atmospheric physics and space weather. Specialists in basic plasma, geophysics, planetology, stellar physics and plasma astrophysics are also be very welcome. We expect the supported early career researchers to have been awarded their PhD not more than 10 years prior to the workshop, but allowances can be made for career breaks.

The self-paying participants can be affiliated in any country and be PhD students or post-doctoral researchers of any stage of their career.

Please submit your application that should consist of
-	CV (curriculum vitae),
-	List of publications,
-	Motivation letter 
to email RBSeminar2017 at iszf.irk.ru. Deadline is the 30th of April 2017.

Additional information about the seminar, its venue, travel, social activity, SOC and LOC, excursions and visas can be found on the webpage http://en.iszf.irk.ru/Russian-British_seminar_SW2017.


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SESSION: SHINE 2017 Session “What are the Energy Partition and Dominant Energy Transport Mechanisms Associated with Magnetic Reconnection for Different Heliospheric Plasmas?”: Call for Abstracts

From: Maria Kazachenko, Benjamin Lynch, Nick Murphy, Lucas Tarr, Silvina Guidoni (kazachenko at ssl.berkeley.edu)

http://shinecon.org/shine2017/session2017.php#session10

We would like to draw your attention to the session “What are the Energy Partition and Dominant Energy Transport Mechanisms Associated with Magnetic Reconnection for Different Heliospheric Plasmas?” to be held at this year's SHINE Workshop (shinecon.org/CurrentMeeting.php , Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada, July 24-28, 2017).

This session aims to bring the solar, in situ, and laboratory heliophysics communities together to discuss the energy partition during magnetic reconnection. Questions of particular interest include:

-- How well does the energy partition predicted by current theory and simulations (particle and fluid) compare to observations? What are the observational signatures of various energy transport mechanisms? 

-- How does the energy partition change with time during a reconnection event, as energy is transported outward from the reconnection region? 

-- Are the dominant energy transport mechanisms similar throughout the heliosphere, or do different processes dominate in the coronal, laboratory, or magnetospheric environment? 

We welcome poster presentations as well as participation in the discussion (Wednesday morning, July 26). Our invited scene-setting speakers will provide reviews on observations and theory and also guide the open discussion, which is expected (and indeed hoped) to be the central part of the session. Those who wish to make (or refute) a particular point may bring one slide that can be quickly put up on the main projector, if relevant to the ongoing discussion. 

Poster presentations will be on display during the whole week. The abstract deadline for poster presentations is June 23rd. We encourage your participation and hope that you will share this announcement with colleagues. 

Conveners: Maria Kazachenko, Benjamin Lynch, Nick Murphy, Lucas Tarr, Silvina Guidoni


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