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

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXV, Issue 8
Feb.07,2018

REMINDER: Abstracts for COSPAR 2018 are due 9 February, 23:59 CET. See details at http://www.cospar-assembly.org/.

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Table of Contents

1. JGR-Space Physics Editor Blog Monthly Highlights

2. MEETING: Space Weather Workshop, April 16-20, 2018, Westminster, Colorado

3. MEETING: System-Scale Data Analysis to Resolve Thermospheric Joule Heating: Announcement of Registration and Abstract Submission for 1-day Workshop

4. Solar and Heliospheric Physics Division Days at IAU General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, August 2018

5. TESS Session: Space Physics of Star-Planet Interactions

6. Course on “The Polar upper Atmosphere: from Science to Operational Issues” of the International School of Space Science, September 17-21, 2018, L’Aquila, Italy

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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 (liemohnjgrspace at gmail.com)

The big news is that we are adding two new Editors to the JGR Space Physics board, bringing the total number of Editors up to 7.  Please ask if you have questions and please apply if you are interested. We have set the application deadline to be February 23.

January 31: details about the new Editor search
     https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2018/01/31/new-jgr-space-physics-editor-search/

January 29: I had three posts with top-10 most-cited papers from 2, 5, and 10 years ago
     https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2018/01/29/top-10-papers-of-2007/

January 8: AGU has released a new all-in-one mobile device app for its journals
https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2018/01/08/the-new-agu-journals-app/

Main Website:   http://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/


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MEETING: Space Weather Workshop, April 16-20, 2018, Westminster, Colorado

From: Susanne Demaree (sdemaree at ucar.edu)

Space Weather Workshop

REGISTRATION is now OPEN!

Space Weather Workshop is an annual conference that brings industry, academia, and government agencies together in a lively dialog about space weather. What began in 1996 as a conference for the space weather user community, Space Weather Workshop has evolved into the Nation's leading conference on all issues relating to space weather.

The Meeting of Science, Research, Applications, Operations & Users
April 16-20, 2018

Westin Westminster Hotel
10600 Westminster Blvd
Westminster, CO  80020
(303) 410-5000

Deadlines: 
- Student Abstract Submission: Friday, March 2
- Decisions on Student Support will be offered by Friday, March 9
- All other speaker and poster abstract submission: Friday, March 16
- Hotel Room Block: Monday, March 26
- Banquet Registration and payment:  Wednesday, April 11

Space Weather Workshop 2018
cpaess.ucar.edu/events/space-weather-workshop


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MEETING: System-Scale Data Analysis to Resolve Thermospheric Joule Heating: Announcement of Registration and Abstract Submission for 1-day Workshop

From: Robert Shore, Anasuya Aruliah, John Coxon, Elizabeth Tindale (robore at bas.ac.uk)

We are pleased to announce that registration and abstract submission are now open for the 1-day workshop “System-Scale Data Analysis to Resolve Thermospheric Joule Heating”, which will be held at the British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge, UK) on Friday 27th April 2018.

The aim of this workshop is to give a forum for discussing of the interdisciplinary utility of data-driven analytical techniques, and the best ways to harness the potential of the available large datasets which are driving advances in near-Earth space research.  The specific focus of the workshop is on the intrinsically interdisciplinary problem of resolving Joule heating – the transfer of energy from electrical currents in the ionosphere to the neutral particles of the upper atmosphere.

Registration and practical details are here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/system-scale-data-analysis-to-resolve-thermospheric-joule-heating-tickets-42453674082. Registration is open until 23rd April.  Note that financial support is available for attending postgraduate students.

Abstract submission and details on the scientific focus of the meeting are here: https://goo.gl/forms/HWxTUEmG6XNge0LV2.  Abstract submission deadline is 19th March.

Why this workshop is needed: 
To enjoy the benefits of an improved description of Joule heating and to improve predictions of its impact, we must understand its components – ionospheric electric field, conductivity and current flow – and the solar, magnetospheric and thermospheric factors which drive them.  These improvements require systems-level (global) analyses, spanning the complex and strongly coupled solar-terrestrial environment. The increasing availability of large ground-based and satellite datasets, such as AMPERE, SuperDARN and SuperMAG which span multiple years (even multiple solar cycles) with often excellent geographic coverage provides an unprecedented set of complementary observations to achieve this.

Analytical techniques from the disciplines of statistics, machine learning and information theory are driving new discoveries of spatiotemporal trends and interdependencies in solar-terrestrial system phenomena. We see a need to communicate the use of these techniques to the solar-terrestrial community.  We aim to foster discussion on new and existing techniques which provide state-of-the-art descriptions of the Joule heating, its causative electrodynamic components, and the associated thermospheric response. In particular, we seek out approaches which exploit all available data, rather than focusing on single instruments, epochs, or phenomena. Contributions which improve the understanding of coupling between systems and thus improve the nowcasting, forecasting or hindcasting of Joule heating phenomena are especially welcome.

Conveners: Robert Shore, Anasuya Aruliah, John Coxon, Elizabeth Tindale.
For more information please contact Rob Shore at robore at bas.ac.uk.


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Solar and Heliospheric Physics Division Days at IAU General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, August 2018

From: Sarah Gibson (sgibson at ucar.edu)

Abstract and IAU grant submission deadline: February 28, 2018

Registration and abstract submission:
http://astronomy2018.univie.ac.at/registration/

Division E (Sun and Heliosphere), as all other IAU Divisions, will have a dedicated Division Meeting at the upcoming IAU General Assembly in Vienna.

The Division Meeting is a scientific mini-symposium on “Solar and Heliospheric Physics” covering all research areas relevant for Division E: Solar Interior and Dynamo, Solar Atmospheres, Flares and CMEs, Solar Wind, Heliospheric Transients and Space Weather, and Solar Instrumentation. The Meeting is scheduled for Friday, August 24 and Monday, August 27. All Division Meetings will run in parallel, but no other meetings (scientific or business) will be scheduled for these time slots. The PhD. Prize talks and Poster Session will be on August 27 2018. The joint Business Meeting of Division E, its Commissions and Working Groups is on the same day between 15:30-17:00.

The SOC of the Division Meeting consists of the members of the Division Steering Committee: Yihua Yan (chair), Sarah Gibson, Marc L DeRosa, Lyndsay Fletcher, Natalie Krivova, Ingrid Mann, Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi, Arnab Rai Choudhuri, Eduard P. Kontar, Toshifumi Shimizu, Nandita Srivastava, Rudolf von Steiger.


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TESS Session: Space Physics of Star-Planet Interactions

From: David Alexander, Stan Sazykin (Dalex at rice.edu)

We invite contributions to a session on the space physics relevant to star-planet interactions at the upcoming Triennial Earth-Sun Summit meeting (https://connect.agu.org/tess2018/home). The deadline for abstract submissions is Tuesday, 20 February 23:59 ET.

Session description:

Exoplanet research is rapidly transitioning from a prolific period of detection to a new phase focused on physical characterization and discovery. This is an emerging area for exploration by the TESS science community. Understanding the possible habitability of such planets requires a deeper knowledge of how stars and planets interact and, in particular, what role stellar and planetary magnetic fields play in this interaction. In the proposed session we aim to focus on the key elements in the Sun-Earth interaction that are the most relevant to address general star-planet systems. Specifically, for TESS, we would like to address the impact of strong stellar activity on planetary atmospheres, relevant to recent habitable-zone terrestrial planet discoveries (Proxima Centauri and Trappist-1 systems).


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Course on “The Polar upper Atmosphere: from Science to Operational Issues” of the International School of Space Science, September 17-21, 2018, L’Aquila, Italy

From: Paola Solini (ssc at aquila.infn.it)

The International School of Space Science of the Consorzio Interuniversitario per la Fisica Spaziale organizes a Course on “The Polar upper Atmosphere: from Science to Operational Issues”, to be held in L’Aquila, Italy, September 17-22, 2018, directed by G. De Franceschi (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, IT), M. Mendillo (Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, USA), C. Mitchell (University of Bath, Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Bath, UK).
The goal of the school is to foster excitement and encourage involvement of the next generation of space researchers in studies of the geospace environment of Polar Regions.  The importance of these regions is rapidly growing due to modern society’s dependence on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) services and products, strongly affected by ionospheric variability at high latitudes. Topics will focus on the infrastructures for multi-instrument monitoring, data management from sub auroral to polar latitudes, the need for specialized models of the upper atmosphere, and the development of mitigation algorithms to improve GNSS services and products. The school is mainly addressed to graduate and post-graduate students with enthusiastic interest on this topic. Students-teams will be organized through an “inside team building” activity scheduled on the first day of the school.  This initial activity will formulate, under the supervision of experts, the “first iteration” of student-led project proposals. The establishment of the student-teams aims to both stimulate the interaction among the new generation of scientists from different countries and furnish the preliminary tools to build successful project proposals.  On the final day the students-teams will present their project results and participate in their evaluation by the School Program and Organization Committees.

Applications are due before May 6, 2018.

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


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