[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIV, Issue 17

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIV, Issue 17
Mar.22,2017

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 Yosemite Monograph

2. Online Videos Available From Two Yosemite Conferences on Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling That Took Place Forty Years Apart!

3. MEETING: AGU Chapman Conference on Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions, 10-14 July 2017, Chengdu, China – Abstract Submission Deadline: Apr. 5, Registration Open

4. SESSION: 3rd COSPAR Symposium Session 3-2 "New Magnetospheric Observations Enabled by Cubesats" -- Abstracts Due March 31 

5. Monday Science Telecon

6. JOB OPENING: Post-Doctoral Position at New Jersey Institute of Technology - CSTR

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New Yosemite Monograph

From: Rick Chappell (rick.chappell at vanderbilt.edu)

An AGU/John Wiley monograph, "Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Solar System" has just been published in January of this year.  It consists of papers from the 2014 AGU Chapman Conference at Yosemite and has been edited by Rick Chappell, Bob Schunk, Peter Banks, Richard Thorne and Jim Burch. 
   
The monograph displays our new knowledge about the many aspects of the role of the ionosphere as a major element of magnetospheric plasma supply and dynamics at Earth and other planets.  This monograph has web links throughout that can connect the reader to the Utah State University Digital Commons online archive to view the talks and discussion both from the 2014 conference and from another Yosemite conference on the same subject that was held exactly 40 years earlier.  This monograph represents a unique source of information about these interconnected regions both from coupled models and measurements.  It sets the stage for upcoming measurements from recently launched spacecraft such as the Van Allen Probes and the Magnetospheric Multiscale satellites.  It also represents a double "time capsule" look at our understanding over a 40 year period and as such is an excellent source of insight into the history of our SPA science over a significant period of space exploration.  It can be used to introduce new graduate students to some of the leaders in our field who are no longer with us and to be a resource for graduate studies of the history of how our SPA scientific understanding has evolved over this extensive time period.

The monograph is available in print or electronic versions with a discount for AGU members.  Information can be found at:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119066778.html

For more information, contact Rick Chappell at:  rick.chappell at vanderbilt.edu 


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Online Videos Available From Two Yosemite Conferences on Magneto-sphere-Ionosphere Coupling That Took Place Forty Years Apart!

From: Rick Chappell (rick.chappell at vanderbilt.edu)

In February, 1974, a group of atmospheric, ionospheric and magnetospheric physicists gathered at Yosemite National Park to talk about how these three regions of the Earth space environment might be coupled together.  This was a  time in which it was becoming recognized that the ionosphere could supply up-flowing cold ions to create the plasmasphere and that these same cold plasmaspheric ions and electrons could affect the generation and propagation of waves which could effect the more energetic particles of the ring current and the radiation belts.  But the role of the ionosphere as a strong particle source was then limited to the cold plasmaspheric particles only, although there was a hint of a broader source from the “new” measurement of energetic O+ in the magneto-sphere.

This entire 1974 meeting was videotaped and this original large videocassette taping format was later digitized and archived online at Utah State University’s Digital Commons.  The goal of this first meeting was to bring together scientists from the three, then mostly separated, communities of the atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere.  This original video contains classic talks beginning with Ian Axford’s talk on the magnetosphere-ionosphere, Bill Hanson’s preview of the “new” driftmeters that were to fly on Atmospheric Explorer, Richard Thorne’s talk on how the plasmasphere might affect the inner boundary of the ring current, combined with S-cubed satellite data on this same topic presented by Don Williams and Jim Burch with insights from Keith Cole, Dick Johnson’s talk about the growing knowledge of O+ in the magnetosphere and Andy Nagy’s presentation of the first data about neutral winds measured from ground-based Fabry-Perot inter-ferometers as well as many other other talks.  This meeting ended with the discussion of a potential new NASA mission which became Dynamics Explorer, a two spacecraft mission to address what came to be a new paradigm about the degree to which the Earth’s ionosphere supplies plasma to fill its magnetosphere.  This video shows “the way we were” in 1974 with regard to our understanding (or lack thereof) more than “a career” ago and it is available to the SPA community.

Many of the same people from the 1974 meeting returned to Yosemite in February, 2014 to discuss this same topic four decades later and to broaden the topic from just the Earth to the Earth and other planets of the solar system.  Now there were many more measurements available such as the new Van Allen Probes at Earth and Cassini at Saturn as well as sophisticated models that could couple the outflow of ionospheric plasma up into the magnetospheres above. This meeting was also captured on video, this time color HD video, and this video is also archived online in the Utah State University Digital Commons and is available to the SPA and planetary communities.

These two conferences can be seen online at the following two weblinks:
For the 1974 Yosemite Conference on Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling:
http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/yosemite_chapman/1974/ 
For the 2014 Yosemite Conference on Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Solar System:  http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/yosemite_chapman/2014/ 

By picking out specific topics in magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling and then watching the talks on that topic given in 1974 and 2014, the viewer is able to see the progression of our understanding in this fundamental element of our SPA science as well as to remember many of our esteemed colleagues who gave us the foundation on which we stand today.  For those who are new to SPA research it is an opportunity to personally meet scientists whose names we have heard, but who are now longer with us.  Enjoy!

For more information, contact Rick Chappell at:  rick.chappell at vanderbilt.edu


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MEETING: AGU Chapman Conference on Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions, 10-14 July 2017, Chengdu, China – Abstract Submission Deadline: Apr. 5, Registration Open

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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SESSION: 3rd COSPAR Symposium Session 3-2 "New Magnetospheric Observations Enabled by Cubesats" -- Abstracts Due March 31 

From: Peter Chi and Dong-Hun Lee (pchi at igpp.ucla.edu)

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

We welcome presentations on using EITHER SmallSats OR CubeSats for magnetospheric observations in the following session. Abstracts can be submitted online at http://www.cospar2017.org/sub0302 by March 31, 2017.

3-2. New Magnetospheric Observations Enabled by Cubesats
* Scientific Organizer(s): Peter Chi (UCLA, USA), Dong-Hun Lee (Kyung Hee University, Korea)

Session Summary:
The fast development in CubeSats has fostered a new segment in the space industry where a drastically increased number of low-altitude satellites can provide Earth observations on an unprecedented scale. Similarly, CubeSats may enable new capabilities in observing magnetspheric phenomena with satellite constellations, which are particularly valuable for differentiating spatial effects from temporal effects. This session welcomes presentations on existing and future CubeSat missions bringing new views of the dynamic processes in the Earth’s magnetosphere.


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Monday Science Telecon

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

At 12:00 noon EST on Monday (March 27), we plan to hold the next in our ongoing series of science telecons. The speaker this Monday will be Hui Zhang from University of Alaska Fairbanks. The topic will be "Hot Flow Anomalies and their geoeffects"

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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JOB OPENING: Post-Doctoral Position at New Jersey Institute of Technology - CSTR

From: Rualdo Soto-Chavez, Louis Lanzerotti, Andrew Gerrard (arsoto at njit.edu)

The Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) of the New Jersey Institute of Technology invites applications for a postdoctoral position in numerical simulations of waves in space plasmas. We are looking for a candidate with strong background on Particle-in-Cell simulations of space physics and/or plasma physics. Experience in whistlers and/or chorus waves phenomena is highly desirable. The successful applicant will be expected to perform the duties of a post-doctoral fellow, including the publication of original research, submission of proposals, and the support of CSTR projects.
Applicants should have obtained by the starting date a PhD in plasma physics, space physics, geophysics, or related field. The start date of the appointment is flexible, however, earlier dates are preferred. The appointment is for one year, with a possible renewal for two more years based on successful applicant performance. Benefits are competitive and salary will be commensurate with applicant experience.

The successful applicant will work with Dr. Rualdo Soto-Chavez, as well as Dr. Louis Lanzerotti and Prof. Andrew Gerrard. Applicants are required to complete an on-line application through our website at: https://njit.jobs/ and search for posting # 0603715. You can click on the "Search Postings" link at the left, and enter the number 0603715 to find the link to the job and instructions.  Candidates will need to submit a curriculum vitae, list of publications, a brief statement of research interests, and the names of three professional references. Questions may be directed to Dr. Rualdo Soto-Chavez  arsoto at njit.edu.

The Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, in Newark, NJ, is a worldwide leading institution in solar and space physics. CSTR is a PI organization in the NASA Van Allen Probes mission, manages the Polar Engineering Development Center, and operates the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) and the Owens Valley Solar Array (OVSA) in California. For more information visit http://centers.njit.edu/cstr/
To build a diverse workforce, NJIT encourages applications from individuals with disabilities, minorities, veterans and women. EEO employer.


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