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

Tue Feb 28 00:43:27 PST 2017

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIV, Issue 12
Feb.28,2017

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. New SPA Editor of Geophysical Research Letters

2. SPA Space Weather Prize

3. AGU Union Awards Deadline: Don't Forget Athelstan Spilhaus Awards

4. Nominations for NASA Federal Advisory Committees due March 8, 2017

5. MEETING: MMS Science Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, June 6-8, 2017

6. MEETING: SuperDARN Workshop 2017 – 4 June - 9 June 2016, San Quirico d’Orcia, Italy

7. MEETING: AGU Chapman Conference on Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions 10-14 July 2017, Chengdu, China – Abstract Open

8. MEETING: The 2nd VarSITI General Symposium - Website Open

9. UN/US Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative: The Decade after IHY 2007

10. Summer School on "Natural Space Risks"

11. IAUS335 Abstracts Due March 5

12. SCOSTEP/VarSITI Newsletter Vol.12 

13. RHESSI Science Nugget No. 292

14. RHESSI Science Nuggets in February 2017

15. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position in Space and Atmospheric Physics at Trondheim, Norway

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New SPA Editor of Geophysical Research Letters

From: Bill Peterson (Bill.Peterson at lasp.colorado.edu)

Guan Lu of HAO/NCAR has now joined Andrew Yau of the University of Calgary and Merav Opher of Boston University on the Geophysical Research Letters Editorial Board

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SPA Space Weather Prize

From: Bruce Tsurutani (bruce.tsurutani at jpl.nasa.gov)

This message is to alert you to the upcoming deadline for submission of nominees for the 2017 SPA Space Weather Prize of $10,000.  The website is at http://honors.agu.org/sfg-award-lecture/space-weather-and-nonlinear-waves-and-processes-prize/.   The deadline is 15 April 2017. The award will be presented at the Fall AGU meeting.   

A $10,000 prize will be given out jointly between the SPA Section and the NG Focus Group for Nonlinear Waves and Processes in 2018.  The prize in the upcoming year will be given out for work done on nonlinear plasma waves.  

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AGU Union Awards Deadline: Don't Forget Athelstan Spilhaus Awards

From: Patricia H Reiff (reiff at rice.edu)

Don't forget - deadline for AGU Union Honors is March 15.  Please consider nominating an outstanding colleague for the Athelstan Spilhaus award for lifetime achievement in outreach.  SPA has been fortunate in getting a number of winners and excellent nominees.  Please nominate so we can recognize the many worthy candidates we have in this field.

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Nominations for NASA Federal Advisory Committees due March 8, 2017

From: Janet Kozyra (janet.kozyra at nasa.gov)

NASA invites public nominations for service on four new Federal advisory committees that advise NASA on science. The four new committees, which were formerly subcommittees of the NASA Advisory Council, are The Astrophysics Advisory Committee (APAC), The Earth Science Advisory Committee (ESAC), The Heliophysics Advisory Committee (HPAC), and The Planetary Science Advisory Committee (PAC).

U.S. citizens may submit self-nominations for consideration to fill vacancies on these four new committees. There will be member vacancies from time to time throughout the year, and NASA will consider self-nominations to fill such intermittent vacancies. Nominees will be contacted only if a vacancy should arise and the expertise of the nominees is appropriate for that specific vacancy. The deadline for NASA receipt of all public nominations is March 8, 2017.

For more information, please see the federal register notice at: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/02/23/2017-03541/nasa-federal-advisory-committees.

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MEETING: MMS Science Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, June 6-8, 2017

From: Stefan Eriksson (eriksson at lasp.colorado.edu)

Dear Colleagues,

Abstract submission and meeting registration is now open for the next MMS Science Community Workshop, to be held on 6-8 June in Boulder, Colorado in the beautiful foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

For more details on registration and abstract submission, including hotel information, please visit:

http://lasp.colorado.edu/meetings/mms2017/index.php

Important dates:
Abstract submissions are due by 20 April 2017
Early-bird Registration deadline: 1 May 2017

The MMS Science Community Workshop convenes June 6-8 including an evening poster session and reception on Wednesday June 7.

All members of the science community are welcome and encouraged to attend this meeting, which is organized by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado (http://lasp.colorado.edu).

The main science sessions will be hosted in the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building (https://jscbb.colorado.edu/) adjacent to LASP with poster sessions to be held in the LASP SPSC facility.

MMS Instrument Team-only splinter meetings will be held at LASP SPSC on Monday June 5 and Friday June 9 (as needed).

Abstracts will be solicited on MMS observations and numerical simulations with an emphasis on the six major science topics below:
1)	Magnetic Reconnection of the Ion and Electron Diffusion Regions
2)	Magnetopause
3)	Magnetotail
4)	Shock Physics
5)	Plasma Turbulence
6)	Energetic Particles

Sincerely,
The Local Scientific Organizing Committee:
Narges Ahmadi, Bob Ergun, Stefan Eriksson, Allison Jaynes, Karlheinz Trattner, and Rick Wilder

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MEETING: SuperDARN Workshop 2017 – 4 June - 9 June 2016, San Quirico d’Orcia, Italy

From: Maria Federica Marcucci (federica.marcucci at iaps.inaf.it)

The Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) Workshop 2017 will be held June 4 - June 9, 2017, in San Quirico d’Orcia, Siena, Italy. The annual SuperDARN Workshop is an occasion to gather the scientific community involved in SuperDARN, in order to fruitfully discuss new science results, share technical and data analysis developments, and coordinate the SuperDARN activities. More in general, researchers presenting studies and exchanging knowledge in the upper atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere physics which are central for SuperDARN are welcome. The SuperDARN Workshop 2017 will be hosted by the Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology (IAPS) of the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF). 
Further information on travel, accommodation and preliminary program can be found at the Workshop website: http://www.iaps.inaf.it/sz/SD2017/

Abstract submission deadline: 14 April 2017
Accommodation deadline: Depending on chosen hotel – earliest 28 March 2017, latest 30 April 2017
Early Registration deadline:  28 April 2017

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MEETING: AGU Chapman Conference on Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions 10-14 July 2017, Chengdu, China – Abstract Open

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

Abstract submission for the AGU Chapman Conference on Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions, is now open at
http://chapman.agu.org/dayside-magnetosphere/program/abstract-submission-guidelines/

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 2nd VarSITI General Symposium - Website Open

From: Kazuo Shiokawa (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp)

The website of the 2nd VarSITI General Symposium (Irkutsk, 10-15 July, 2017) has been opened for abstract submission and financial support request until 
February 28, 2017.  The website is http://varsiti2017.iszf.irk.ru/.  

A school for the students and young scientists will be held during this symposium, starting from July 9 (sun).   The title of the school is "Advanced Concepts in Solar-Terrestrial Coupling in the Context of Space Weather" The school website is http://en.iszf.irk.ru/Space_weather_summer_school_2017

We encourage you to join this symposium and school activity this summer! 

Kazuo Shiokawa and Katya Georgieva, VarSITI co-chair 

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UN/US Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative: The Decade after IHY 2007

From: Patricia Doherty, Nat Gopalswamy (patricia.doherty at bc.edu)

This is the second announcement for the UN/US Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative: The Decade after IHY 2007.  The workshop will be held at Boston College on July 31 through August 4, 2017. Abstract, registration and logistical information is available on: iswi2017.bc.edu. 

This workshop marks the 10th anniversary of the International Heliophysical Year, which led to the genesis of the International Space Weather Initiative. It is organized jointly by the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Boston College to highlight the achievements made over the past ten years and to show-case the worldwide development of science, capacity building, and outreach. The UN Workshops on ISWI have been aimed at providing a global forum for space weather experts from developed and developing countries, including representatives of the major instrument operators and data providers. 

The workshop will begin with a high level international forum on the economic and societal effects of extreme space weather. This forum will include keynote speakers from major international organizations followed by a panel session to discuss issues and policies for acknowledging space weather as a global challenge. The workshop will then turn to recent advances made in scientific research by utilizing ISWI instrument data in conjunction with space mission data in adding significant new knowledge on space weather phenomena near Earth and interplanetary space.  Finally, this workshop is held in preparation for UNISPACE+50 in 2018, the 50th anniversary of the first UN Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE), held in Vienna in 1968. The three components of the Workshop will help develop a coherent international policy towards an appropriate response to space weather. 

The Local Organizing Committee website (iswi2017.bc.edu) includes the workshop logistical information together with registration and abstract submittal opportunities for US participants. The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs website, listed below, includes the workshop information and registration, abstract submittal and financial sponsorship opportunities for non-US participants.  Note that the abstract deadline is March 1st. 

http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/psa/schedule/2017/2017-un-usa-workshop-on-international-space-weather-initiative.html

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Summer School on "Natural Space Risks"

From: Carine Briand (carine.briand at obspm.fr)

The Earth is exposed to numerous natural threats that originate from space. Our technology-driven society has become increasingly sensitive to solar storms, while space exploration has generated large amounts of debris that may fall back on Earth without control. Finally, asteroids may also enter the Earth’s atmosphere, lighting up the sky but potentially also causing devastating damage when their size exceeds a few meters.

This summer school aims at providing master and first year PhD students with an intensive training on all these natural space risks. The programme will address space weather, space debris, near-Earth objects, and their societal impacts. Resilience aspects will also be tackled by researchers and by experts from the civil society.

During this one-week school students will have a mix of academic lectures and hands-on sessions on orbitography, solar observations, and applied data reduction and analysis, during splinter sessions. The lectures and the hand-on sessions will be run by experts coming from all over Europe; experts from the industry will explain the importance of natural space risks for their activities. This school is a unique opportunity to meet academic and non academic researchers at the early stage of a career. 

Paris Observatory will host the summer school. Being the oldest and largest infrastructure in astrophysics in France, it will offer the possibility to visit some of the most ancient and up-to-date instrumentation. 

The selection of the students is a two stages process. Candidates are first invited to apply by providing a CV, a short letter (one page) stating the motivations for the school, copies of recent academic transcripts and contact information for one professional reference. A dedicated committee will then select 30 candidates among the best applications. Applications should be submitted by email to nsr-2017-pilote at sciencesconf.org by June 9th, 2017 (17:00 Paris time). The list of the selected students will be available by the end of June. After notification of their selection, the students will be asked to pay the registration fee (100€) to confirm their registration. The fee includes lodging and accomodation and is not refundable.

For more information: https://nsr-2017.sciencesconf.org/
Organizing Committee: C. Briand (chair), F. Deleflie, W. Thuillot, R. Aïd, T. Dudok de Wit

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IAUS335 Abstracts Due March 5

From: Claire Foullon (iaus at exeter.ac.uk)

This will be an important and exciting meeting in the UK this July. The deadline for abstracts and grant applications has been extended to the end of the week, Sunday, March 5. Please consider submitting an abstract.

Registration is now open for IAUS335, Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts. The symposium will be held at the University of Exeter, UK, from 17 - 21 July 2017. Abstracts due March 5.

Space weather is increasingly recognised as an international challenge faced by several communities. The ability to understand, monitor and forecast the space weather of the Earth and the heliosphere is of paramount importance for our high-technology society and for the current rapid developments in knowledge and exploration within our Solar System.

We invite you to register today to discuss this important area of research and to:

*Contribute to scientific sessions and one of two round tables.
*Take part in a poster competition for young scientists as an applicant or as a judge.
*Attend a half-day excursion to the Norman Lockyer Observatory.
*Take part in optional scientific tours, including the UK Met Office.
*Join in with our parallel Education Program, featuring public talks and workshops for schools and teachers.
*Contribute to and receive dedicated Conference Proceedings afterwards.

This is a two-stage registration process. The deadline for the submission of abstracts and for financial support is extended to 5 March 2017. The deadline for early registration is 20 April 2017.

Specific details including the confirmed lists of invited speakers, registration and accommodation, abstract submission, financial support, updated information about location, scientific excursions, social events, and travel can be found on the symposium website.

We look forward to welcoming you in Exeter this year!

On behalf of the IAU Symposium 335 Organising Committees,

The Scientific Organising Committee:
Claire Foullon (Chair), Olga Malandraki (Co-chair), Zouhair Benkhaldoun, Francesco Berrilli, Anil Bhardwaj, Allan Sacha Brun, Norma Bock Crosby, Sergio Dasso, Alina Donea, Hans Haubold, Hermann Opgenoorth, Patricia Reiff, Kazuo Shiokawa, Ilya Usoskin, Jingxiu Wang, David Webb

The Local Organising Committee:
Claire Foullon (Chair), Mitchell Berger (Co-chair), David Jackson (Co-chair), Mark Baldwin, Alice Mills, David Strange

Contact us:
Email:  iaus at exeter.ac.uk,
Website: www.exeter.ac.uk/iaus335
Twitter: #iaus335 @iaus335
This event is kindly supported by:
Lead sponsor: International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Co-sponsors: RAS, VarSITI, STFC Astronomy, EGU, COSPAR, IAGA, CUP, IoP Plasma Physics, DK Books, AFOSR (tbc).
Further sponsorship opportunities are available. 

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SCOSTEP/VarSITI Newsletter Vol.12 

From: Kazuo Shiokawa (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp)

>From Kazuo Shiokawa (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp)

SCOSTEP's VarSITI (Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact, 2014-2018)

VarSITI Newsletter volume 12 has now been published.  The PDF file is available at 
http://newserver.stil.bas.bg/varsiti/newsL/VarSITI_Newsletter_Vol12_low_reso.pdf
Below are the contents of this volume.  

Contents of VarSITI Newsletter Volume 12

Articles
1. An introduction on ISEST (International Study of Earth-Affecting Solar Transients) Working Group on Theory
2. Database of global “EIT waves” identified by the Coronal Pulse Identification and Tracking Algorithm (CorPITA)
3. ULF Wave Power Index for the Space Weather and Geophysical Applications

Highlight on Young Scientists
1. Christina Kay / USA
2. Daniela Wenzel / Germany
3. David Pisa / Czech Republic

Meeting report
1. IAU Symposium 327: Fine Scale Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere
2. ISEE Workshop on Ionospheric plasma bubble seeding and development

Upcoming Meetings

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RHESSI Science Nugget No. 292

From: Hugh Hudson (hhudson at ssl.berkeley.edu)

 “RHESSI’s 15th Anniversary,” by Brian Dennis, Sa”m Krucker, and Albert Shih. RHESSI had its 15th anniversary (launch February 5, 2002; first light February 11).

See http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI_Science_Nuggets (listing the current series, 2008-present), and
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/nuggets/ (for the original series, 2005-2008).

We publish these at roughly two-week intervals and welcome contributions,
which should be related, at least loosely, to RHESSI science.

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RHESSI Science Nuggets in February 2017

From: Hugh Hudson (hhudson at ssl.berkeley.edu)

No. 292, “RHESSI’s 15th Anniversary”, by Brian Dennis, Sa”m Krucker, and Albert Shih. We celebrate 15 years in orbit!

No. 293, “PIerre Kaufmann”. RHESSI has lost a friend.

See http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI_Science_Nuggets listing the current series, 2008-present, and http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/nuggets/ for the original series, 2005-2008. We publish these at roughly two-week intervals and welcome contributions, which should be related, at least loosely, to RHESSI science

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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position in Space and Atmospheric Physics at Trondheim, Norway

From: Patrick Espy (patrick.espy at ntnu.no)

A postdoctoral position within the field of atmospheric and space physics is available at the Department of Physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The duration of the appointment is 2 years, with the possibility of renewal.

JOB DESCRIPTION: The work will be within the Atmospheric and Environmental Physics group to examine the observational evidence for solar and energetic particle effects on neutral atmosphere chemistry and dynamics. Satellite data as well as ground-based atmospheric radar, airglow and radiometer data will be examined for such signatures. The position will be part of the Birkeland Centre for Space Science (BCSS), a Research Council of Norway international collaborative Centre of Excellence. Hence the position, located at NTNU, will provide abundant opportunities for scientific cooperation with both the international and Norwegian space-science communities.

QUALIFICATIONS: The successful applicant should be highly competent, motivated and ambitious. The candidate must have a PhD in Atmospheric Science, Space Physics, Astrophysics or a related field, with strong data analysis, statistical, and programming skills. Practical experience handling large satellite datasets and/or atmospheric models is desirable, but not essential. Excellent communication skills, both oral and written are important, and the applicant must speak and write English fluently.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: The appointment of the Postdoc will be made according to Norwegian guidelines for universities and university colleges and to the general regulations regarding university employees. The position as Postdoc is remunerated according to the Norwegian State salary scale. If you are interested in the position, have any questions or require further information, please email us (patrick.espy at ntnu.no or robert.hibbins at ntnu.no). Further information about the department many be found at https://www.ntnu.edu/physics, and the BCSS can at http://www.uib.no/birkeland/en

THE APPLICATION: Applications with a letter describing the candidate’s motivation, skills and personal qualifications for the position; a CV; a list of publications and other scientific works; and the contact details for at least two referees should be submitted. Applications must be submitted electronically through this site: https://tinyurl.com/PostDocNTNU. 

Applications submitted elsewhere will not be considered. 

The reference number of the position is: NV-28/17

Application deadline: March 25, 2017.

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