[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIV, Issue 8

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIV, Issue 8
Jan.31,2017

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. Released for Public Comment: Space Weather Benchmarks and Operations-to-Research Plan

2. Warning: Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) Websites are Changing to Use HTTPS Instead of HTTP

3. MEETING: Applied Space Environments Conference 2017, Huntsville, Alabama, May 15-19, 2017 - Abstract Submission Now Open

4. MEETING: MMS Science Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, June 5-9, 2017

5. MEETING: 2017 GEM Summer Workshop, Portsmouth, Virginia, June 18-23, 2017

6. MEETING: IAU Symposium 335: Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts, University of Exeter, UK, July 17 - 21, 2017 - Second Announcement

7. MEETING: The Magnetosphere: New Tools, New Thinking, New Results, Puerto Varas, Chile, November 12-17, 2017

8. Course on "Cosmic Ray Physics in Space" of the International School of Space Science

9. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate Topical Issue on 'Flares, coronal mass ejections and solar energetic particles and their space weather impacts' 

10. RHESSI Science Nuggets in January 2017

11. JOB OPENING: Post-doctoral Position in Space Physics at Swedish Institute of Space Physics

12. Graduate Research Opportunities

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Released for Public Comment: Space Weather Benchmarks and Operations-to-Research Plan

From: Seth Jonas, William Murtagh, Michael Bonadonna (michael.bonadonna at noaa.gov)

On January 23, 2017, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), on behalf of the National Science and Technology Council, published in the Federal Register two notices seeking public comment in support of the implementation of actions in the October 2015 U.S. National Space Weather Action Plan (NSWAP) [National Science and Technology Council, 2015; Jonas and McCarron, 2016]. These and are published on behalf of the National Science and Technology Council. To be considered, comments must be received by March 20, 2017.

The first notice, “Space Weather Phase 1 Benchmarks” (82 FR 7801) seeks public comment on a draft of the phase 1 space weather benchmarks, which correspond to NSWAP actions 1.1.1, 1.2.1, 1.3.1, 1.4.1, and 1.5.1. The Federal Register notice is available online at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/23/2017-01333/notice-of-availability-of-and-request-for-public-comment-on-space-weather-phase-1-benchmarks.

The second notice, “Improving the Space Weather Forecasting Research to Operations – Operations to Research Capability” (82 FR 7799) seeks public comment on a draft Federal interagency operations-to-research (O2R) plan, which corresponds to NSWAP action 5.6.2 and Section 5(d) of Executive Order 13744 – Coordinating Efforts To Prepare the Nation for Space Weather Events [Executive Order 13744, 2016]. The Federal Register notice is available online at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/23/2017-01331/notice-of-availability-of-and-request-for-public-comment-on-white-paper-on-improving-the-space.

Comments from the space-weather stakeholder and the broader community will enhance the quality of these and future deliverables from the NSWAP. Please see the notices in the Federal Register on how to submit comments. For answers to any questions, please refer to the point of contact in the notice, or contact Michael Bonadonna at michael.bonadonna at noaa.gov.

References
* Executive Order 13744 (2016), Coordinating Efforts To Prepare the Nation for Space Weather Events. [Available at https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2016-25290]
* Jonas, S., and E. D. McCarron (2016), “White House Releases National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan,” Space Weather, 14, 54–55, doi:10.1002/ 2015SW001357.
* National Science and Technology Council (2015), National Space Weather Action Plan. [Available at https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/final_nationalspaceweatheractionplan_20151028.pdf]

Biographies
* Seth Jonas is a Research Staff Member at the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute where he provides analysis for the formulation of U.S. science and technology policy. He supports the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and other U.S. Executive branch departments and agencies. Dr. Jonas has contributed to the development and implementation of the National Space Weather Strategy and the National Space Weather Action Plan. Email: sjonas at ida.org
* William Murtagh is the Program Coordinator at the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. He recently completed a two-year detail at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he led the effort to develop the National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan. E-mail: william.murtagh at noaa.gov
* Michael Bonadonna is the Secretariat for Federal Meteorological Coordination at the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is currently serving as the Executive Secretary for the Space Weather Operations, Research, and Mitigation Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council. E-mail: michael.bonadonna at noaa.gov

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Warning: Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) Websites are Changing to Use HTTPS Instead of HTTP

From: Robert Candey (robert.m.candey at nasa.gov)

Scientific data from many heliophysics missions are available at the Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) <https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/> through web pages and other access methods <https://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/alternative_access_methods.html> or by using the Heliophysics Data Portal <https://heliophysicsdata.gsfc.nasa.gov/>.  This includes CDAWeb data browsing, SSCweb orbit displays, OMNIweb, and CDF software pages.

All of these SPDF web sites and web services are all changing from HTTP to HTTPS to provide assurance that you are accessing the servers you expect and not some imposter site.  This change has been planned for some time and is in keeping with the rest of the US Government.  FTP data access is not affected at this time.

For most people, this will be transparent since current versions of browsers will redirect automatically to the HTTPS pages.  However, this may be an important and immediate concern for developers and users of SPDF web services inside Java, IDL or other software packages, since most web service calls will break until updated to specify HTTPS instead.  SPDF web services whose use will require changes include:

CDAS <https://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/WebServices/>
SSC <https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/WebServices/>
IDL CREADER <https://hpde.gsfc.nasa.gov/CDAWeb_to_IDL.html>
Calls to OMNIweb inside software packages <https://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/>
Also SPDF web services from the SPEDAS IDL library <http://spedas.org/wiki/>

Clients running on a recent run-time environments (e.g., Java 1.8.0_102, IDL 8.5.1, etc. or newer) will likely not have a problem using HTTPS.  Clients using an older run-time may have to update their environment with newer Certificate Authority (CA) root certificates.  Additional information about accessing these web services over HTTPS is available at <https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/WebServices/https.html>.

Any questions or comments concerning this release should be reported to gsfc-spdf-support at lists.nasa.gov.


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MEETING: Applied Space Environments Conference 2017, Huntsville, Alabama, May 15-19, 2017 - Abstract Submission Now Open

From: Joseph Minow (joseph.minow at nasa.gov)

Applied Space Environments Conference 2017: Measurements, Models, Testing, and Tools
http://sti.usra.edu/asec2017 

Abstract Submission Now Open!

Abstract submission is now open for the Applied Space Environments Conference (ASEC) that will be held in Huntsville, AL on May 15-19, 2017 at The Westin. This event is co-sponsored by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and NASA and will focus on a broad range of topics related to space environments and their effects on space systems. 

All abstracts are welcome, with special consideration for presentations that address aspects of space environment and effects modeling, in-space observations of space environment impacts on space systems, recent space environment measurements and using historical data sets for characterizing space environments for system design and environment specification, and laboratory testing to better understand material and hardware interactions with space environments.  Relevant areas of the space environment include (but are not limited to):

• Charged particles in the solar wind, solar particle events, galactic cosmic rays, and trapped radiation belts 
• Comets, asteroids, and dust 
• Electric and magnetic fields 
• Extreme ultraviolet, ultraviolet, and infrared photons 
• Ionosphere and neutral planetary atmospheres 
• Magnetosphere(s) 
• Meteoroids and orbital debris 
• STEM applications 
• Commercial applications 

Please go to the following link to submit your abstract:  https://asec2017.exordo.com

Abstracts due March 1, 2017.


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MEETING: MMS Science Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, June 5-9, 2017

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

Dear Colleagues,

Please mark your calendars for the next MMS Science Workshop, to be held this June in Boulder, Colorado in the beautiful foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

All members of the science community are welcome and encouraged to attend this meeting, which is hosted by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado.

The MMS Science Workshop will convene June 6-8 including an evening poster session and reception on Wednesday June 7. 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 (http://lasp.colorado.edu).

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

Registration details and abstract submissions will be announced in AGU/SPA this February with final meeting registration deadlines expected in May.

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


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MEETING: 2017 GEM Summer Workshop, Portsmouth, Virginia, June 18-23, 2017

From: Zhonghua Xu (zxu77 at vt.edu)

The GEM 2017 Summer Workshop will be held during June 18-23, 2017 at the Renaissance Portsmouth-Norfolk Waterfront Hotel - Portsmouth, Virginia. Please see more at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html

Student support is open for applycation now (http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/students.html). A high priority will be given to the following groups: graduate students engaged in their thesis or dissertation research, first time attendees and students from small institutions, and students having specific GEM-related duties. We urge those of you who qualify and are planning to attend the 2017 GEM Workshop to act quickly and send applications to Zhonghua Xu (zxu77 at vt.edu) by Friday, March 17, 2017. Applications or adviser recommendations received after this date will be on the waiting list.


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MEETING: IAU Symposium 335: Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts, University of Exeter, UK, July 17 - 21, 2017 - Second Announcement

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

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.
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 27 February 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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MEETING: The Magnetosphere: New Tools, New Thinking, New Results, Puerto Varas, Chile, November 12-17, 2017

From: Joe Borovsky, Mick Denton, Pablo Moya, Marina Stepanova, Juan Alejandro Valdivia  (jborovsky at spacescience.org)

The 5th version of the Magnetospheric Conference will be held at the Hotel “Cabaña del Lago” in Puerto Varas Chile from 12 – 17 of November 2017 under the general topic of “The Magnetosphere: New Tools, New Thinking, New Results”. Previous conferences were held in Viña del Mar, Chile (2009); Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States (2010); Torres del Paine, Chile (2013); and Scarborough, United Kingdom (2015).

The conference is aimed to be a highly interactive with a mix of talks and audience-participation discussions about new tools, new thinking, and new results about the magnetosphere. There will also be a poster session.

Registration and housing information can be found on conference web page:
http://cefei.ciencias.uchile.cl/2017puertovaras/index.php

The website for the hotel “Cabaña del Lago” is:
http://www.hotelcabanadellago.cl/ingles/

Puerto Varas is in the Lake District in the southern part of Chile, where Patagonia begins, with easy access through the Tepual Airport (http://aeropuertoeltepual.cl/) in Puerto Mont, which is only 30 minutes (25 km) by taxi from Puerto Varas. Additional information about Puerto Varas can be found here: 
http://www.puertovaras.org/
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g294299-Activities Puerto_Varas_Los_Lagos_Region.html
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/chile/the-lakes-district/puerto-varas

For more information about the conference, contact Cristina Sanhueza 
anilloact1405 at gmail.com 

The Conveners Are:
Joe Borovsky, Space Science Institute, USA, jborovsky at SpaceScience.org, 
Mike Denton,  Space Science Institute, USA, mdenton at spacescience.org
Marina Stepanova, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile, marina.stepanova at usach.cl
Pablo Moya, Universidad de Chile, pablo.moya at ug.uchile.cl
Juan Alejandro Valdivia, Universidad de Chile, alejo at macul.ciencias.uchile.cl


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Course on "Cosmic Ray Physics in Space" of the International School of Space Science

From: Umberto Villante (umberto.villante at aquila.infn.it)

The International School of Space Science of the Consorzio Interuniversitario per la Fisica Spaziale organizes a Course on "Cosmic Ray Physics in Space", to be held in L’Aquila, Italy, June 12-16, 2017, directed by M. Boezio, S. Coutu, R. Sparvoli. 

The course is designed for PhD students and young post-doctoral researchers. The school will offer an overview of current knowledge of the Physics of Galactic Cosmic Rays as observed with space-borne instruments in a broad sense, thus including charged particles and antiparticles, gamma rays and related topics on neutrinos. The connection with ground-based experiments will be explored. The most important space missions of the past, present and future will be presented. A special emphasis will be given to the indirect search for dark matter. 

Applications are due before March 12, 2017.

For more information visit http://www.cifs-isss.org/ or send an e-mail to ssc at aquila.infn.it


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Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate Topical Issue on "Flares, coronal mass ejections and solar energetic particles and their space weather impacts"

From: Olga E. Malandraki (omaland at noa.gr)

Flares, Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and their interplanetary counterparts (ICMEs) remain topics of important research in the field of solar-terrestrial relations. Flares can have an important impact (UV radiation, particles) on the Earth's atmosphere. Recent remote observations and modeling studies have shown that coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can drive shock waves very low in the solar corona, which, in turn, may produce significant fluxes of solar energetic particles (SEPs). Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) are the main drivers of large geomagnetic storms.

In this topical issue, we invite observational, theoretical, and modeling contributions that address the following topics:

-  particle acceleration at flares as well as the response of the lower ionosphere to a variety of external forcing during flares, such as energetic particles and solar UV and X-ray variability,
- the coronal dynamics of CME and shocks in connection with the early production of SEPs
- the magnetic connectivity and early-stage transport in the heliosphere of SEPs
- the propagation of coronal mass ejections in the heliosphere, their interaction with Earth and/or with other planets,
- the link between CMEs and ICMEs, the relation of coronal mass ejections with energetic particles.

This Topical Issue is seen as an outcome of the session on a similar topic organized at the 13th European Space Weather Week in Ostende but is open to any contributions on the subject.

All manuscripts will be peer reviewed according to the quality standards of international scientific journals. The type of contributions must fit the style of SWSC. All manuscripts should contain enough new insight, present the results against a properly referenced background of existing work, and present adequate evidence that supports the conclusions. Accepted papers are published in electronic format only, and are freely available to everyone via the SWSC web site. SWSC offers the possibility to include electronic material, such as animations, movies, codes and data.

The Topical Editors-in-Chief are:
Nicole Vilmer, LESIA, Paris Observatory (Nicole.Vilmer at obspm.fr) and 
Olga Malandraki, IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens (omaland at noa.gr)

For questions regarding this topical issue, please contact any of them. For questions concerning the submission process the Editorial Office should be contacted. (swsc at edpsciences.org)

Deadline for submission: 30 April 2017
Deadline for sending expression of intent to submit to the Topical Editors-in-Chief: 15 February 2017


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RHESSI Science Nuggets in January 2017

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

No. 290, “GOES Hard X-rays?” by Hugh Hudson, Janet Machol, and Rodney Viereck. Solar minimum conditions reveal interesting properties of the GOES X-ray observations.

No. 291, “Hard X-ray Emission fro Partially Occulted Solar Flares,” by Frederic Effenberger and Fatima Rubio da Costa. Systematic use of occultationlets us observe the corona in hard X-rays.

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: Post-doctoral Position in Space Physics at Swedish Institute of Space Physics

From: Tima Sergienko (tima at irf.se)

Postdoctoral Position in Space Physics at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden, for research related to studies of magnetosphere-ionosphere interaction.

Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position for studies of the magnetosphere-ionosphere interaction focusing on the mechanisms through which the ionosphere affects the magnetosphere. A specific question of the project is how, and to what extent, small scale ionospheric disturbances caused by auroral particle precipitation contribute to this magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling. The project aims to develop a comprehensive time-dependent model of the interaction of the auroral electrons with the upper atmosphere. The project also involves work with data from the auroral particle and optical measurements on board satellites (Reimei, CASSIOPE/e-POP) as well as ground-based optical and radar measurements conducted by groundbased optical imagers (e.g. MIRACLE, ALIS/ALIS_4D) and by the EISCAT radars.

Candidates should have completed (or expect to complete) a PhD in space physics or a related field during 2013 or later. Candidates planning to obtain their PhD degree before February 2017 may apply for this position. Candidates should demonstrate experience with computer modelling. Previous experience in space-related data analysis is an advantage. The candidate should not currently be an active researcher at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics.

The position, placed in Kiruna, is funded by the Swedish National Space Board and is for up to 2 years

Applications should include a CV, a short letter (one page) stating research interests and relevant experience, copies of academic transcripts and contact information for two professional references. Applications should be submitted, preferably by email, to: registrator at irf.se.

Closing date: 28 February 2017. For more information visit http://www.irf.se/Topical/Vacancies/?group=P2&vacid=9&chosen=topical


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Graduate Research Opportunities

From: Jacob Heerikhuisen, Gary Zank (jacob.heerikhuisen at uah.edu)

The Department of Space Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville is accepting applications to its MS and PhD programs for the Fall 2017 semester. We have a number of GRA fellowships to award incoming students, which provide tuition and a competitive stipend, and allow motivated students to begin working on a research project from the day they arrive on campus. We are a small research-focused department that aims to produce proficient and self-reliant scientists through our MS and PhD programs. Students have the opportunity to not only work with our world-renowned faculty, but also with adjunct faculty from the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research and NASA’s Marshal Space Flight Center. Scientists from both centers share office space on the UAH campus with faculty from the department. Our research projects cover topics including: the Sun, solar atmosphere, inner heliosphere and space weather, the solar wind and its interaction with the interstellar medium, solar energetic particles and cosmic rays, high energy astrophysics. Our students graduate with a broad range of professional scientific skills including: analytic methods for solving physics problems, computational physics, data analysis, presentation of scientific ideas in both written and oral formats. UAH is an anchor tenant of the second largest research park in the country, in a city with a rich history of space science that dates back to Wernher von Braun and the birth of the US space program.
http://www.uah.edu/science/departments/space-science


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