[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIV, Issue 53

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIV, Issue 53
Oct.01,2017

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Table of Contents

1. GRL Special Section on the Eclipse Effects on Geospace

2. SCOSTEP/VarSITI Grants for 2018

3. SESSION: Call for Participation in the MIT Coupling Session at 2017 mini-GEM Workshop

4. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Solar MHD at Naval Research Laboratory

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Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g


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GRL Special Section on the Eclipse Effects on Geospace

From: Wenbin Wang (wbwang at ucar.edu)

Dear Colleagues

We are very pleased to announce that the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) will be soon accepting paper submissions to the Special Section on the 21 August 2017 solar eclipse. We would like to  invite you to submit your work addressing solar eclipse effects on geospace  to this special section. 

Title of the special section: New understanding of the solar eclipse effects on geospace: the 21 August 2017 Solar Eclipse 

Submission window: October 1 - December 31, 2017.   

Special section description:
A solar eclipse generates dramatic changes throughout the Earth's geospace due to the fast reduction and recovery of solar EUV irradiation. It modifies local and global energetics, dynamics, and the ionospheric ionization supply, leading to substantial changes in the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere-mesosphere (geospace) system. It is an idealized "active experiment" to explore the impulse-response dynamics of geospace and to address some of the fundamental scientific questions in geospace. The 21 August 2017 solar eclipse provides an unprecedented opportunity for this because of the large amount of observational data obtained during the eclipse with recent major advances in sensitivity, spatial/temporal resolution, and global coverage of measurements, as well as the development of sophisticated geospace modeling tools. This special issue aims at quantifying the new understanding of the solar eclipse effects on geospace. This new understanding includes, but not limited to, global ionospheric and thermospheric changes, responses of neutral composition, temperature, and winds, traveling ionospheric disturbances, geomagnetic and electric field disturbances, localized and meso-scale structures,  lower ionospheric changes and associated impacts on VLF/LF/HF radio propagation.

Please use AGU GEMS system (https://grl-submit.agu.org/cgi-bin/main.plex) to submit your manuscript. When preparing your manuscript, it is important to follow the regular GRL data  and length  requirements.  See also GRL submission checklists and templates page for new and revised submissions. 

Finally, please note that AGU and its editors are also willing to extend this collection to articles that may be appropriate for JGR-Space Physics [Read full aims and scope], and Space Weather [Read full aims and scope]. 

Special section coordinators:

Wenbin Wang (NCAR HAO,    wbwang at ucar.edu)
Shunrong Zhang (MIT Haystack,    shunrong at mit.edu)
Aaron Ridley  (U of Michigan,    ridley at umich.edu)
Larisa Goncharenko (MIT Haystack,    lpg at mit.edu)


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SCOSTEP/VarSITI Grants for 2018

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

Dear AGU/SPA Colleagues, 

The submission of applications for SCOSTEP/VarSITI grants for 2018 is now open.  The deadline is December 1, 2017, and the guidelines can be found on the VarSITI web-site <http://www.varsiti.org> --> Organization.

We are looking forward to your proposals,

Kazuo Shiokawa and Katya Georgieva, VarSITI co-chair 
shiokawa at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp, kgeorg at bas.bg


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SESSION: Call for Participation in the MIT Coupling Session at 2017 mini-GEM Workshop

From: Hyunju Connor (hkconnor at alaska.edu)

Dear GEM and CEDAR scientists,

I would like to invite you to participate in a mini-GEM session titled “3D ionospheric electrodynamics and its impact on the magnetosphere - ionosphere - thermosphere (MIT) coupled system”. This session will be held between 15:30 - 17:00pm on December 10 (Sunday before the AGU meeting) at the Hilton Garden Inn - New Orleans Convention Center, 1001 S Peters St, New Orleans, LA70130. 

We hope both GEM and CEDAR scientists to join our session, sharing and discussing their recent results in the MI, IT, or MIT field. This session will create synergy between the two communities and help to advance our physics-based understanding of the global MIT system. The detailed session description can be found at the following website:
http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/FG:_3D_Ionospheric_Electrodynamics_and_Its_Impact_on_the_Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere_Coupled_System.

If you are interested in giving a talk, please send the title of your talk to Hyunju Connor at (hkconnor at alaska.edu). We are looking forward to your participation. 

Thank you very much,
Hyunju Connor, Binzheng Zhang, Gang Lu, and Haje Korth.


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Solar MHD at Naval Research Laboratory

From: Mark Linton (mark.linton at nrl.navy.mil)

The Naval Research Laboratory at Washington, DC seeks a qualified applicant for a postdoctoral fellowship in the Heliophysics Theory and Modeling Section of the Solar and Heliospheric Physics Branch of the Space Science Division.  Research activities of the Branch include observational, data analysis, and theoretical investigations of a wide range of solar-terrestrial phenomena, including solar magnetic fields, UV and X-ray emission from the solar atmosphere, solar flares, coronal streamers and mass ejections, the solar wind, solar variability, the sunspot cycle, and their effects on the heliosphere and Earth.

This opportunity emphasizes the study of solar magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) problems such as photospheric flux emergence, chromospheric dynamics, active region modeling, coronal mass ejection initiation, and magnetic reconnection.  Expertise in analytical and numerical modeling of MHD is required.  A background in solar physics is preferred, but not required. The ability to relate MHD theoretical results to observations by existing solar missions such as the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, Hinode, Solar Dynamics Observatory, and Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph spacecraft and to upcoming observatories such as the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter spacecraft and the Daniel K. Inoue Solar Telescope is required.  The successful applicant should have demonstrated skill in writing scientific papers and proposals for research support. 

The preferred mechanism for this postdoctoral fellowship is the NRC-NRL Research Associateship program.  The 2018 stipend level for the NRC-NRL Research Associateship program is expected to be in the range of $77,000-$80,000 annually, and it is open to US citizens and US permanent residents who have held a doctorate less than five years at the time of application.  See http://nrc58.nas.edu/RAPLab10/Opportunity/Program.aspx?LabCode=64 for more information on this program. NRL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Interested applicants should submit an electronic curriculum vitae to Dr. Mark G. Linton (mark.linton at nrl.navy.mil), who can also be contacted with any questions about the position.  Application review will begin November 1, 2017.  The target start date is the spring of 2018. 


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