AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIV, Issue 49
Sep.08,2017
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Table of Contents
1. JGR-Space Physics Editor Blog Monthly Highlights
2. JGR Special Section on Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions
3. MEETING: “Into the Red Dragon’s Lair: Four-in-One Workshop Tackling
Outstanding Problems in Heliophysics and Space Weather” at the Clayton
Hotel, Cardiff, Wales, UK, December 3-8, 2017 – Third Announcement.
4. MEETING: Workshop on Solar & Stellar Astronomy BIg Data (SABID), Boston,
MA, December 11-14, 2017
5. MEETING: Register for THEMIS/ARTEMIS Post-AGU SWT Meeting, New Orleans,
Saturday, December 16, 2017
6. MEETING: Space Geophysics Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April
16-20, 2018
7. Monday Science Telecon
8. Multi-Spacecraft Analysis with SPEDAS - No IDL License Required
9. SESSION: Call for papers for URSI session on Waves in and Near Non-Earth
Magnetospheres
10. JOB OPENING: Tenure-Track Assistant or Associate Professorship in Space
Physics for high-latitude ionospheric research, University of Oulu, Finland
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Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g
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JGR-Space Physics Editor Blog Monthly Highlights
From: Mike Liemohn (liemohn at umich.edu)
I had a couple of posts last month about being cordial in your manuscript
correspondence. Please double check your language in reviews and responses,
assume positive intent in the words of others, and think about how the
other person could interpret your words. Plus, a new manuscript style guide!
August 14: AGU is adopting a new style guide for manuscripts
https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/new-agu-style-guide/
August 16: A call to be respectful in reviews and responses
https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/be-cordial-in-your-correspondence/
August 21: more on being respectful in our correspondence
https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/the-platinum-rule/
Main Website: http://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/
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JGR Special Section on Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions
From: Qiugang Zong, Philippe Escoubet, David Sibeck, Guan Le, Hui Zhang
(qgzong at pku.edu.cn)
Submission acceptance begins: October 1, 2017
Note: If an author is ready to submit before the October 1, AGU HQ staff
can manually link a paper to the special section if the author requests
this (with a note in the “letter to the editor” text box in GEMS)
Submission deadline: November 30, 2017
Special collection title: Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions
Special section organizers: Qiugang Zong, Philippe Escoubet, David Sibeck,
Guan Le, Hui Zhang
Manuscripts are invited for a special section that focuses on Dayside
Magnetosphere Interactions. This special collection will address the
processes by which solar wind mass, momentum, and energy enter the
magnetosphere. Regions of interest include the foreshock, bow shock,
magnetosheath, magnetopause, and cusps, the dayside magnetosphere, and both
the dayside polar and equatorial ionosphere. Results from spacecraft
observations (e.g., MMS, Cluster, Geotail, THEMIS, and Van Allen Probes),
ground-based observations (all-sky camera, radar, and magnetometer), MHD,
hybrid and PIC simulations are all welcome. Parallel processes occur at
other planets are also solicited. Many of the collected papers will be
based on presentations at a recent AGU Chapman conference held in Chengdu,
China, in July 2017. Papers relevant to the scope but not presented at the
conference are also solicited.
Manuscripts are to be submitted through the AGU's submission system (GEMS)
for JGR: Space Physics (https://jgr-spacephysics-submit.agu.org). The
manuscript type will be a Research Article. When authors submit a
manuscript, they must select the correct special collection designation. If
authors do not see the correct special collection in the list, please
contact journal staff.
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MEETING: “Into the Red Dragon’s Lair: Four-in-One Workshop Tackling
Outstanding Problems in Heliophysics and Space Weather” at the Clayton
Hotel, Cardiff, Wales, UK, December 3-8, 2017 – Third Announcement.
From: Mario Bisi (Mario.Bisi at stfc.ac.uk)
Dear Colleagues.
This is the third announcement of our upcoming exciting workshop entitled
“Into the Red Dragon’s Lair: Four-in-One Workshop Tackling Outstanding
Problems in Heliophysics and Space Weather”. Please register and submit
your abstracts soon – only one month left – and please remember to pay in
the second step of the process as registration is not complete until
payment has been made – we are only expecting around 40 participants to be
able to maintain the workshop environment.
Full details and deadlines can be found on the workshop website here:
https://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/meetings/IntoTheRedDragonsLair/.
Our Workshop encompasses four main themes:
- The “Fourth Remote-Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere Workshop”;
- “Where are we on Bz?” (a SEREN follow-on);
- “Novel Ionospheric Studies with Advanced Observing Techniques”; and
- The “11th LOFAR Solar Physics and Space Weather Key Science Project”.
(The combined workshop also incorporates the MWA SHI and future potential
SKA SHI SWG science.)
The workshop aims to gather experts from the various fields of
remote¬-sensing observations of the inner heliosphere (EUV,
white-/visible-¬light, radio), together with modellers, in order to tackle
key outstanding heliophysics issues. It is also intended to establish
closer working relations and devise the best ways our group can move the
field forward as a whole, tapping into observational capabilities that can
be used to aid the upcoming Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe
Communities, as well as Space Weather science and forecasting enhancements
in general.
The workshop registration fee (£150 late registration) includes lunches,
excursions, welcome reception, and workshop dinner (the latter three are
all Welsh themed allowing participants an insight into Wales’ culture and
recent history). Menus and excursion details have been updated accordingly
on the website along with some other updates.
Several invited speakers have already been confirmed to include Sarah
Gibson (UCAR), Colin Lonsdale (MIT Haystack), Jackie Davies (STFC RAL
Space), Curt de Koning (NOAA SWPC), Anthony Yeates (Durham), David Jackson
(Met Office), Giovanni Lapenta (KU Leuven), Dusan Odstrcil (GMU/NASA), and
Cleo Loi (Cambridge University).
We look forward to welcoming you to Cardiff!
Best wishes,
Mario (SOC and LOC Chair, on behalf of the SOC and LOC).
Science Organising Committee (SOC):
Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space, UK) (Chair)
Michael (Mike) A. Hapgood (STFC RAL Space, UK)
Richard A. Fallows (ASTRON, NL)
Kent Miller (EOARD, UK/AFRL, USA)
Bernard (Bernie) V. Jackson (UCSD, US)
David (Dave) F. Webb (BC, US)
Biagio Forte (University of Bath, UK)
Alexander (Alec) MacKinnon (University of Glasgow, UK)
Gottfried Mann (AIP, DE)
Local Organising Committee (LOC):
Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space, UK) (Chair)
Catherine A. Baker (Baker-Bisi Executive Assistance, UK)
Annabel Cartwright (Cardiff University, UK)
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MEETING: Workshop on Solar & Stellar Astronomy BIg Data (SABID), Boston,
MA, December 11-14, 2017
From: Rafal A. Angryk, Petrus C. Martens, Russel White (martens at
astro.gsu.edu)
The fourth annual workshop on Solar & Stellar Astronomy BIg Data (SABID),
will take place in Boston, MA, during the IEEE conference, December 11-14,
2017. The paper submission deadline is on October 10th. For details see:
https://grid.cs.gsu.edu/rangryk/workshops/SABID17/. The SABID workshop
organizers are
* Rafal A. Angryk
angryk at cs.gsu.edu
Computer Scientist, Georgia State University
* Piet C. Martens
martens at astro.gsu.edu
Solar Physicist, Georgia State University
* Russel J. White
white at astro.gsu.edu
Astronomer, Georgia State University
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MEETING: Register for THEMIS/ARTEMIS Post-AGU SWT Meeting, New Orleans,
Saturday, December 16, 2017
From: Emmanuel Masongsong (emasongsong at igpp.ucla.edu)
We will have our annual THEMIS/ARTEMIS SWT meeting right after AGU on
Saturday Dec 16th, 8:30am-5pm at the Hilton Garden Inn - Convention Center,
New Orleans, LA. It is 1 block west of the AGU meeting site.
If you plan to attend this meeting please see details, map, and
registration here:
http://themis.igpp.ucla.edu/events_fall2017swt.shtml
We are requesting a $20 registration fee to cover the refreshments and room
costs, payable by credit at the site above. The deadline to register is
Friday, November 10th, but you are encouraged to register early so we can
plan the agenda. If you prefer to pay by cash on the day of, please email
Emmanuel at your earliest: emasongsong at igpp.ucla.edu .
We will have a 2 hr mission planning and outlook session, followed by
science
presentations on current topics. As usual, we will have short talks (~5
mins each AND 3 slides absolute maximum) with time for questions, which
helps keep the meeting very focused. If you wish to give a presentation,
please provide a short title or topic of your presentation in the comment
box, along with any scheduling requests.
Rough agenda:
8:30-10:30 am Mission planning and operations outlook.
Products, processing, upcoming opportunities, strategy.
11:00 – 12:00: Science, 5min presentations.
12:00 – 1:15: Lunch
1:15 - 5:00 pm. Science 5min presentations.
We will update the website with the schedule closer to the date.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Best regards,
Emmanuel Masongsong, Tai Phan, and Vassilis Angelopoulos
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MEETING: Space Geophysics Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April
16-20, 2018
From: Sergio Dasso (dasso at df.uba.ar)
COLAGE XI - Eleventh Latin American Conference on Space Geophysics 16-20
April 2018, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Latin American Conference on Space Geophysics (Congreso Latinoamericano
de Geofísica Espacial, COLAGE) is organized every three years by the Latin
American Association of Space Geophysics (Asociación Latinoamericana de
Geofísica Espacial or ALAGE, http://www.alage.org/). It brings together
Space Geophysics researchers and students from all the world. Next COLAGE
will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 16-20 April 2018.
The pre-registration is already open. The registration will be open from
October 1st to November 30th, 2017, and we are soliciting both oral and
poster presentations. All the information about the Conference is available
(and will be
posted with the news) at http://www.iafe.uba.ar/colage11/
Sincerely
LOC of COLAGE XI
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Monday Science Telecon
From: David Sibeck (david.g.sibeck at nasa.gov)
At 12:00 noon EST on Monday (September 11), we plan to hold the next in our
ongoing series of science telecons. The speaker this Monday will be Cong
Zhao from University of California, Los Angeles. The topic will be
"Determining the properties of Flux transfer events using MMS data
including their axial direction and expansion/contraction".
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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Multi-Spacecraft Analysis with SPEDAS - No IDL License Required
From: Eric Grimes, Jim Lewis, Vassilis Angelopoulos and the SPEDAS team
(egrimes at igpp.ucla.edu)
Dear Space Physics community
The Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software (SPEDAS) development
team would like to invite you to participate in a Webex presentation we'll
be holding on September 13, 2017.
On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 10:00am Pacific, we'll be hosting a
session focusing on multi-spacecraft analysis using the SPEDAS Graphical
User Interface (GUI); we plan to use the SPEDAS Virtual Machine (VM) for
all examples in this session, so no IDL installation or IDL license will be
required. For more information on SPEDAS, please see: http://spedas.org/wiki
If there are any particular questions or topics of general interest that
you'd like to see covered, please send your suggestions to Eric Grimes,
egrimes at igpp.ucla.edu, and we'll try to work them in.
See below for the agenda and Webex connection info.
Eric Grimes, Jim Lewis, Vassilis Angelopoulos and the SPEDAS team
Multi-Spacecraft Analysis with SPEDAS - No IDL License Required
Time: September 13, 10:00am-12:00pm Pacific
URL: https://uclaigpp.webex.com/uclaigpp
Meeting name = Multi-Spacecraft Analysis with SPEDAS
Password = SP3DAS_webinar
Phone to use: 1-888-921-8686
Conference ID/pass = 3107947090 and press # International callers dial:
001-678-259-1049
Tentative agenda:
- Getting Started / Installation
- Load Data
- Save Data
- Plots
- SPEDAS documents
- Data Processing
- Calculate
- Field Models
- Neutral Sheet Models
- Overview Plots
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SESSION: Call for papers for URSI session on Waves in and Near Non-Earth
Magnetospheres
From: Bill Kurth, George Hospodarsky (william-kurth at uiowa.edu)
SESSION:
Special Session on Waves in Non-Earth Magnetospheres at US National Radio
Science Meeting (URSI) 4-7 January 2018
This session seeks papers on radio and plasma waves in and near
non-terrestrial magnetospheres, including the solar wind, planetary
magnetospheres, and the solar wind interactions with planets or other
bodies in the solar system. Papers based on observations, theoretical
treatments, or modeling are welcome. Papers driven by Voyager, Cassini,
Galileo, Juno, MAVEN and other space mission or ground-based observations
are appropriate.
Session Co-Chairs: Bill Kurth (william-kurth at uiowa.edu) and George
Hospodarsky (george-hospodarsky at uiowa.edu)
The deadline to submit abstracts to the US National Radio Science Meeting
in Boulder, Colorado (4-6 January 2017) is Monday, 18 September.
The website for the meeting, including registration and abstract submission
is: www.nrsmboulder.org
Look for "Non-Earth Magnetospheres" under Commission H in the drop-down
list of sessions during the abstract submission process.
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JOB OPENING: Tenure-Track Assistant or Associate Professorship in Space
Physics for high-latitude ionospheric research, University of Oulu, Finland
From: Anita Aikio (anita.aikio at oulu.fi)
The Faculty of Science at the University of Oulu, Finland, is announcing an
open tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professorship in Space Physics to
conduct research of the high-latitude ionosphere. The open position is
placed at the Ionospheric Physics Research Unit, where research of space
weather effects on the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system
is carried out. The research group utilizes data from advanced measurements
such as the international EISCAT incoherent scatter radars and ESA’s SWARM
satellite mission, as well as versatile ground-based instruments. The
recent international decision to start building the phased-array EISCAT_3D
incoherent scatter radar in Scandinavia will enhance the activities of the
group.
The candidate to be considered in the position should have a strong
background in experimental research or theoretical modelling combined with
experimental research of the high-latitude ionosphere and how it is coupled
to the magnetosphere, possibly also to the thermosphere.
Terms of employment: The initial employment is for five years. In the end
of the period, the performance of the selected person will be evaluated
according to the criteria of the tenure-track system of the university.
Successful rating in the assessment leads to a new fixed-term employment
contract or a permanent position.
The application: The required documents, including a brief research and
teaching action plan (max 2 pages), are specified in the full announcement:
https://rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/open_job_view.html?did=5600&jc=1&id=00004169&lang=en
Applications must be submitted electronically by using the link above and
selecting “Apply for the job” in the end of the web-page that opens from
the link. Applications submitted elsewhere will not be considered.
For further information, please contact: Prof. Anita Aikio, e-mail:
anita.aikio at oulu.fi
Start date: 1 January 2018 or later according to mutual agreement with the
successful applicant.
Application deadline: 30 September 2017.
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