[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIV, Issue 18

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIV, Issue 18
Mar.30,2017

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. NASA Total Solar Eclipse Across America - Subject Matter Expert Request

2. AMS Fellows Open for Nomination

3. MEETING: COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshop – IRI 2017 – NCU, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, Nov 6-17, 2017

4. MEETING: International Workshop on Solar, Heliospheric & Magnetospheric Radioastronomy : The Legacy of Jean-Louis Steinberg (1922 – 2016), Paris Observatory, Meudon – 6-10 November 2017, https://jlsworkshop.sciencesconf.org/

5. Monday Science Telecon

6. Deadline Extension for Special JASTP Issue "Dynamics of the Sun-Earth System: Recent Observations and Predictions" (ISROSES-III)

7. RHESSI Nuggets in March 2017

8. PhD Studentships in the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College London.

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NASA Total Solar Eclipse Across America - Subject Matter Expert Request

From: C. Alex Young (c.alex.young at nasa.gov)

In several months’ time, a total solar eclipse will traverse the contiguous United States on Aug. 21, 2017, the first time such a phenomenon will pass through our skies since 1979 and completely across the US since 1918. From Oregon to South Carolina, tens of millions of residents living in or near the path of totality will see their surroundings go dark, while hundreds of millions in other states will see at least a partial eclipse.

NASA is engaging in this landmark occasion by partnering with organizations across the country to educate the public and highlight how the Agency studies eclipses to augment our understanding of the sun and its interactions with Earth. To help facilitate the effort, NASA is seeking volunteers to serve as subject matter experts on Aug. 21 at Agency-sponsored events nationwide. SMEs will work with designated event coordinators, and while specific roles will vary by location, all experts will answer questions from attendees.

We encourage you to consider serving as an SME at one of NASA’s events. Minimum requirements include being at least 21 years of age and possessing a working knowledge of astronomy, eclipses and the sun-Earth-moon system. Applicants must also review a series of training materials on such topics as eclipse science, viewing safety and public engagement guidance.

Participation is strictly voluntary, although SMEs and event coordinators may choose to separately work out logistics regarding compensation, travel costs and lodging. For additional details and to apply to become an SME, visit https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sme.

Thank you for your consideration.


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AMS Fellows Open for Nomination

From: Barbara Thompson (barbara.j.thompson at nasa.gov)

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) Science and Technology Committee (STAC) on Space Weather would like to draw your attention to the AMS Fellows Program. Nomination to Fellow is open to current Members of the American Meteorological Society.  New Fellows are elected each year, consisting of not more than two-tenths of 1 percent of all AMS Members.   The Fellows criteria states that “Those eligible for election to Fellow shall have made outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications during a substantial period of years.”  Space weather is included among these eligible disciplines.  The current list of AMS fellows is available at: https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/about-ams/ams-organization-and-administration/list-of-fellows/

This is an excellent opportunity to recognize the contributions of exceptional peers for continued innovation and support of the space weather community.  Nomination packages are due May 1, 2017.

The requirements for nomination packages are completion of on-line form (3 pages max.) and a nomination letter limited to one page, along with three one-page letters of support.  Of these three letters, at least one support letter is required from an individual outside the nominee’s home institution.  You need not contact the STAC in order to submit a nomination.  The nominator must be an AMS member, but this is not required of those writing supporting letters.

Please see full awards criteria, helpful guidelines, and submission information at:
https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/about-ams/ams-awards-honors/fellows/

There are also a number of AMS medals that may be of interest, they are also due May 1, 2017:  https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/about-ams/ams-awards-honors/awards/


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MEETING: COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshop – IRI 2017 – NCU, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, Nov 6-17, 2017

From: Dieter Bilitza and Jann-Yenq Liu (Tiger)  (dbilitza at gmu.edu)

The 2017 International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) Workshop will take place at the National Central University (NCU) in Taoyuan City, Taiwan from November 6 to 17, 2017. The NCU campus is just a short taxi ride from Taipei’s Taoyuan International Airport (TPE). The 2-week workshop is supported under the COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshop program and consists of student-oriented lectures and tutorials during the first week followed by the regular IRI science meeting in the second week. The first week activities will introduce graduate students and young researchers to the basics of ionospheric monitoring and modeling and related online resources. The students will work on specific modeling problems in small groups and report their results at the end of the second conference week to the full IRI workshop audience. The second week will be organized as a regular IRI workshop with oral and poster presentations. The special topic of this workshop will be “Improved Real-time Ionospheric Predictions with IRI, COSMIC and other GNSS data”. Papers on general IRI-related topics are also welcome including new data sources and improvements and new additions for IRI. Of special interest are also applications of the IRI model in all areas of technology and science.

A selection of papers from the workshop will make up the core of a special issue of Advances in Space Research on Improved Ionospheric Predictions in Real-Time using IRI, COSMIC and other GNSS data.

Funding will be provided for travel, housing, and meals for a limited number of students.  More information about the workshop can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/iri2017workshop-tw including application forms for financial support. The deadline for applications is May 31, 2017.
The IRI homepage is at irimodel.org. 


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MEETING: International Workshop on Solar, Heliospheric & Magnetospheric Radioastronomy : The Legacy of Jean-Louis Steinberg (1922 – 2016), Paris Observatory, Meudon – 6-10 November 2017, https://jlsworkshop.sciencesconf.org/

From: Milan Maksimovic (milan.maksimovic at obspm.fr)

Preliminary Announcement

Jean-Louis Steinbeg has been one of the major pioneers in radioastronomy. Co-founder of the Nançay Observatory, he has actively participated to, an inspired a large number of radio instruments on many international space missions. Jean-Louis Steinberg is the founder of the Space Radioastronomy laboratory of the Paris Observatory in 1963. Later on, this laboratory widened its science interests and became the DESPA (1971) and then the current LESIA (2002) which is one of the major space sciences laboratories in France. The aim of this workshop is to cover the science topics which Jean-Louis Steinberg has promoted during his career, focusing on Solar, Heliospheric & Magnetospheric radioastronomy & physics. This will be done by covering both observations from either ground facilities (NDA, RH, LOFAR, Artemis etc …) or space missions (ISSEE, Ulysses, WIND, CLUSTER, STEREO, CASSINI, JUNO etc …) and models/theories. A series of invited talks is also foreseen to cover the new developments in the discipline which may come with the future facilities such as Solar Orbiter, Solar Probe Plus, JUICE, JUNO, LOFAR+, SKA etc ….

Scientific sessions

* Solar Radio emissions, energetic particles and UV/X/g emissions, CMEs
* The interplanetary medium
* Terrestrial & Planetary radio emissions
* Future projects


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Monday Science Telecon

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

At 12:00 noon EST on Monday (April 3), we plan to hold the next in our ongoing series of science telecons. The speaker this Monday will be David Malaspina from University of Colorado/LASP. The topic will be "Plasma Waves and Plasma Boundaries in the Inner Magnetosphere: The Virtues of Parameterizing Plasmaspheric Hiss by Plasmapause Location".

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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Deadline Extension for Special JASTP Issue "Dynamics of the Sun-Earth System: Recent Observations and Predictions" (ISROSES-III)

From: Vania Jordanova (vania at lanl.gov)

The submission deadline for the special issue in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (JASTP) on "Dynamics of the Sun-Earth System: Recent Observations and Predictions" has been extended to 30 April 2017. The aim of this special issue is to highlight present understanding of the complex, multi-scale, interactions in the Sun-Earth system (from deep within the Sun to the Earth’s atmosphere) following an international symposium on these topics held in Golden Sands, Bulgaria, in September 2016 (ISROSES III; http://www.isroses.lanl.gov/). The special issue is open to original papers addressing Sun-Earth System dynamics that have not been published or under review elsewhere.

For more information please visit:
 http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-atmospheric-and-solar-terrestrial-physics/call-for-papers/announcement-for-a-special-jastp-issue-dynamics-of-the-sun-e

Special Issue Guest Editors:
Vania Jordanova, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Joe Borovsky, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO
Mick Denton, New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM


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RHESSI Nuggets in March 2017

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

No. 296, “Suppression of Hydrogen Emission in an X-class White-light Solar Flare,” by Ondej Procházka and Ryan Milligan. The absence of hydrogen signatures suggests an event buried in the deep solar atmosphere.

No. 295, “Radio Emissions from Double RHESSI TGFs”, by Andrey Mezentsev and Thomas Gjesteland: Lightning helps with microsecond timing calibrations, and is really interesting as a phenomenon of high-energy astrophysics.

No. 294, “Edward Chupp” 
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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PhD Studentships in the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College London.

From: Michele Dougherty (m.dougherty at imperial.ac.uk)

Up to three STFC PhD studentships are available with a start date of October 2017 in the Space and Atmospheric Physics group, Imperial College London. 

The projects available include: 
•        Laboratory astrophysics: Spectroscopy of astrophysically important elements and applications of the new atomic data to astrophysics (with Juliet Pickering)
•        Cassini end of mission data analysis (with Michele Dougherty)
•        Magnetospheric dynamics and global field modelling at Saturn (with Michele Dougherty)
•        Induced magnetic signature at Jupiter’s moons (with Michele Dougherty and Adam Masters)
•        Aeronomy of Mars with ExoMars (with Ingo Mueller-Wodarg)

For further information on all of the projects please see: 
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/space-and-atmospheric-physics/postgraduate-studies/phd-opportunities/


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