[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIV, Issue 20

Tue Apr 4 15:29:02 PDT 2017

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIV, Issue 20
Apr.04,2017

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. Nominate a Colleague for SPA Awards

2. Arase(ERG) Space Weather Data at JAXA/SEES

3. MEETING: International Study of Earth-Affecting Solar Transients (ISEST) Workshop, September 18-22, 2017, Jeju, Republic of Korea -- First Announcement

4. SESSION: 3rd COSPAR Symposium Session 3-5 "Radiation Belts Observations using Small Satellites: What Would be the Best Way to Fill Data Gaps?" -- Abstracts Due April 14 (extended deadline) 

5. Monday Science Telecon

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Nominate a Colleague for SPA Awards

From: Larry Paxton (larry.paxton at jhuapl.edu)

Nominations for the 2017 Section and Focus Group Awards are ongoing. The deadline is 15 April 2017. Please consider nominating a colleague for the Space Weather and Non-linear Waves and Processes Prize; Basu Early Career Award; Basu International Early Career Award; Fred Scarf Award; or SPARC Award. The nomination process is straightforward and details can be found at: http://honors.agu.org/section-and-focus-group-awards/space-physics-aeronomy/

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Arase(ERG) Space Weather Data at JAXA/SEES

From: N. Higashio, T. Mitani,  A. Matsuoka, I. Shinohara, and Y. Miyoshi (miyoshi at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)

The Arase (ERG) satellite has provided not only science data but also space weather (SWx) data.  SWx data is a real-time data during the satellite tracking. Note that the SWx data is not well calibrated. It is not expected that the SWx data can be used for the scientific purpose, while the SWx data is useful for monitoring current space environment.

Details of Arase SWx Data:
 (a) Real time quick look plots at JAXA/SEES
 http://sees.tksc.jaxa.jp/fw/dfw/SEES/index.html

 (b) Digital File of Space Weather Data (Registration is necessary)
  - HEP :  Omni flux of  8 energy channels from 100 keV to 2 MeV (100-153, 153-230, 230-340, 340-499, 499-730, 730-990, 990-1400, 1400-2000 keV)
   -XEP :   Omni flux of 8 energy channel from 400 keV to 20 MeV
  - MGF: Total filed and direction cosine at the satellite coordinate

Please visit at the following website for the application form.
http://sees.tksc.jaxa.jp/fw_e/dfw/SEES/English/Application_Form/Application_Form_e.shtml

Your questions and comments are welcome through the following website.
https://sees.tksc.jaxa.jp/fw_e/dfw/SEES/English/YourMessage/your_message_e.shtml

Sincerely,
N. Higashio (Arase-XEP PI), T. Mitani (Arase-HEP PI), A. Matsuoka (Arase-MGF PI)
I. Shinohara (ARASE Project Manager), Y. Miyoshi (Arase Project Scientist)

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MEETING: International Study of Earth-Affecting Solar Transients (ISEST) Workshop, September 18-22, 2017, Jeju, Republic of Korea -- First Announcement

From: Kyungsuk Cho (kscho at kasi.re.kr)

The International Study of Earth-Affecting Solar Transients (ISEST) Workshop is aimed at bringing together scientists from different countries to interact and establish collaborative links that can effectively address the physical mechanisms regarding the origin, propagation, and Earth impact of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and other transient events. The ISEST 2017 Workshop is the latest of a series of workshops organized by the ISEST project, which is one of the four projects of SCOSTEP’s VarSITI program (2014-2018). The ultimate goal of the ISEST project is to develop the capability to predict the arrival and geoeffectiveness and other space-weather consequences of solar transients. The ISEST project, involving a truly global network of scientists, consists of seven active working groups: (1) data, (2) theory, (3) simulation, (4) event campaign, (5) Bs challenge, (6) Solar Energetic Particles, and (7) MiniMax campaign. The project provides a standing website for hosting events catalogs, data and presentations and offers a forum for discussion available at http://solar.gmu.edu/heliophysics/index.php/.

If you are interested in attending the ISEST 2017 Workshop, please register by June 31, 2017. Registration and other information of the workshop can be found at http://kswrc.kasi.re.kr/Workshop/isest2017. A limited among of fund is available for supporting young scholars. Please send an email along with your CV and tentative abstract to Kyungsuk Cho (kscho at kasi.re.kr) before June 15, 2017 for the financial support. Note that the ISEST 2017 Workshop shares the same time and venue with the 3rd COSPAR Symposium on Small Satellites for Space Research, but runs as an independent program.

SOC: Jie Zhang (Co-Chair, USA), Kyungsuk Cho (Co-Chair, South Korea), Nat Gopalswamy (Co-Chair, USA), Manuela Temmer (Co-Chair, Austria), Ayumi Asai (Japan), Mario Bisi (UK), Peter Gallagher (Ireland), Manolis Georgoulis (Greece), Alejandro Lara (Mexico), Noé Lugaz (USA), Alexis Rouillard (France), Nandita Srivastava (India), Bojan Vršnak (Croatia), Yu-Ming Wang (China), David Webb (USA) and Yuri Yermolaev (Russia)

LOC: Kyungsuk Cho (Chair, KASI), Sujin Kim (KASI), Eunkyung Lim (KASI), Roksoon Kim (KASI), Ji-Hye Baek (KASI), Young-Jae Moon (KHU)

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SESSION: 3rd COSPAR Symposium Session 3-5 "Radiation Belts Observations using Small Satellites: What Would be the Best Way to Fill Data Gaps?" -- Abstracts Due April 14 (extended deadline) 

From: Vincent Maget, J. Bernard Blake (vincent.maget at onera.fr)

The 3rd COSPAR Symposium
Small Satellites for Space Research
18-22 September 2017, Jeju, Korea
http://www.cospar2017.org/

We welcome presentations on using small satellites / cubesats for radiation belts observations in the following session. Abstracts can be submitted online at http://www.cospar2017.org/sub0302 by April 14, 2017.

3-5. Radiation Belts Observations using Small Satellites: What Would be the Best Way to Fill Data Gaps?
* Scientific Organizer(s): Vincent Maget (ONERA, France) and J Bernard Blake (The Aerospace Corporation, USA)

Session Summary:
Radiation belts specifications are still an active field of research as well as a big challenge. Indeed, many data gaps still exist, especially in the SLOT region, where the new EOR (Earth Orbit Rising) platforms will encounter drastic environments for a few months. The idea of this session is to discuss on:
    - the new/valuable small detectors opportunities that exist or are being prototyped,
    - in-flight feedback from already flown small missions such as Cubesats and which orbits can be reached as launch opportunities are still the main constraint today,
    - opportunities of "operational" constellations for radiation belt situation awareness (referencing the current ESA SSA framework): how to define a realistic and interesting one?

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Monday Science Telecon

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

At 12:00 noon EST on Monday (April 10), we plan to hold the next in our ongoing series of science telecons. The speaker this Monday will be L. K. S. Daldorff from JHU/APL. The topic will be "Excitation of ULF waves by a solar wind shock impact in global MHD simulations with plasmasphere."

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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