[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXV, Issue 14

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXV, Issue 14
Feb.23,2018

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Table of Contents

1. Reminder: Juno Participating Scientist Program Step-1 Due Date

2. Award of Cooperative Agreement for Management and Operations of Arecibo Observatory

3. Family Care Grants Available for 2018 TESS Meeting 

4. MEETING: Space Weather Workshop - Registration Reminder

5. MEETING: HEPPA-SOLARIS 2018 Workshop - 2nd Announcement

6. MEETING: Europlanet Workshop: Planetary Atmospheric Erosion

7. Monday Science Telecon

8. RHESSI Nuggets in February 2018

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


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Reminder: Juno Participating Scientist Program Step-1 Due Date

From: Jared Leisner (jared.s.leisner at nasa.gov)

NASA Heliophysics Division is collaborating with the Planetary Science Division on the Juno Participating Scientist Program (PSP). This competition will add science team members to the Juno mission, currently orbiting Jupiter. The Heliophysics Division strongly encourages the proposal of projects that adapt capabilities, studies, and insights developed at Earth for application at Jupiter. 

These projects may be Jupiter-specific or leverage other mission data sets for comparative planetology studies. NASA anticipates proposals on the ITM system, the magnetosphere, and other studies that involve innovative uses of the Juno instrument payload.

The Step-1 due date for this program is March 1, 2018. As this program is being managed primarily by the Planetary Science Division, the rules in C.1 will apply to the solicitation, unless otherwise noted. One significant difference between Heliophysics and Planetary Science ROSES solicitations is the ability to add Co-Is between Steps 1 and 2 (see C.1, Planetary Science Research Overview, Section 2).

The Juno PSP solicitation, as well as a Proposal Information Package that summarizes the mission, may be found on NSPIRES: https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary!init.do?solId={AC1C72D9-A51A-BEC5-A96E-F57DE7844446}&path=open

Any questions about the solicitation may be sent to Jared Leisner, Heliophysics Division, at the email address in the solicitation.


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Award of Cooperative Agreement for Management and Operations of Arecibo Observatory

From: Michael Wiltberger (mwiltber at nsf.gov)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is pleased to announce that beginning Feb. 22, the University of Central Florida (UCF) will start formal transition activities to take on the operations and management of NSF's Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. NSF is currently negotiating the operations and management award with UCF.

With this award, UCF will fulfill NSF's preferred alternative for management and operations of the observatory. The university will take over formal management and execute a program of research and education consistent with the objectives and priorities of the scientific community. The university will provide support and technical personnel to manage the observatory, its research and educational activities.

The award duration is expected to run five years, with NSF contributions decreasing over time from the current level of approximately $8 million per year to approximately $2 million per year by the second half of Fiscal Year (FY) 2022.

This award ensures continued science-focused operations that maintain atmospheric, planetary and astronomical research, including radio observations of astronomical sources, planetary radar observations of solar system and near-Earth objects, and studies of Earth's atmosphere.


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Family Care Grants Available for 2018 TESS Meeting 

From: Holly Gilbert (holly.r.gilbert at nasa.gov)

The SPD Executive Committee, along with the AAS, are committed to helping SPD members and SPD affiliate members with young children attend the TESS meeting.

SPD childcare grant applications for up to $400 are available for and are due by Monday, March 30, 2018 at 7 P.M. (EST):  https://spd.aas.org/family-care-grants

The grant recipient will be responsible for arranging the childcare; the grants are intended to offset the cost of this childcare. We anticipate awarding up to eight grants of up to $400 each to offset childcare costs. This might include babysitting costs at the hotel, or contributions towards the daily expenses of a spouse/relative attending the meeting to care for the child. The recipient needs to supply a receipt or other proof of payment to obtain the reimbursement.

Applications will be processed in the order received. Please send questions to treasurer at spd.aas.org


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MEETING: Space Weather Workshop - Registration Reminder

From: Susanne Demaree (sdemaree at ucar.edu)

DEADLINES REMINDER

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

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

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: HEPPA-SOLARIS 2018 Workshop - 2nd Announcement

From: Brentha Thurairajah (brenthat at vt.edu)

We welcome you to attend the 7th International HEPPA-SOLARIS 2018 Workshop (http://www.cpe.vt.edu/heppa.solaris.2018/), which will be held June 11-15, 2018 in Roanoke, Virginia, USA. The workshop will focus on observational and modeling studies of the inuences of solar radiation (SR) and energetic particle precipitation (EPP) on the atmosphere and climate. The workshop format includes plenary sessions with both invited and contributed talks, as well as poster sessions.

Session topics include:
1. Solar and precipitating particle variability
2. Solar photon and particle effects on the stratosphere and above 
3. Dynamical processes influencing the coupling of altitude regions
4. Solar and particle effects on the troposphere and climate system including atmosphere and ocean-atmosphere coupling
5. Tools for assessing solar and precipitating particle influences, including measurements, models, and techniques

** Abstract submission for contributed presentations opens 1 March 2018.
http://www.cpe.vt.edu/heppa.solaris.2018/abstracts.html.

** Self-nominations of invited presentations are due by 16 March 2018.
In addition to contributed talks and posters, we solicit ‘self-nominated’ invited talks on HEPPA-SOLARIS related work that is new, timely, creative and/or controversial. To be considered for an invited talk, please submit an abstract for a contributed talk, and also send a summary of your work to Dr. Scott Bailey (baileys at vt.edu) before 16 March 2018. We encourage self-nominations from scientists at all levels, from students to senior scientists.
Self-nominations will be reviewed by the HEPPA-SOLARIS Science Organizing Committee, and all who submit self-nominations will be notified of the decision by 15 April. If your work is chosen for an invited talk, you will be sent an official invitation and your contributed abstract will be converted to an invited abstract. 

** Support for early career scientists: A limited amount of funding is available for students and scientists in need of assistance. More information can be found @ (http://www.cpe.vt.edu/heppa.solaris.2018/registration.html#support) 

The workshop is hosted by the Center for Space Sciences and Engineering at Virginia Tech and will be held at the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center. Information regarding accommodation, travel, student support, abstract submission and registration can be found @ http://www.cpe.vt.edu/heppa.solaris.2018/.

Scientific Organizing Committee: Scott Bailey, Bernd Funke, Kuni Kodera, Daniel Marsh, Katja Matthes, Jerry Meehl, Hilde Nesse Tyssøy, Cora Randall, Craig Rodger, Esa Turunen, Pekka Verronen 

Local Organizing Committee: Brentha Thurairajah, Scott Bailey, Cora Randall, Justin Carstens, Justin Yonker


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MEETING: Europlanet Workshop: Planetary Atmospheric Erosion

From: Stein Haaland (Stein.Haaland at uib.no)

Europlanet Workshop: Planetary Atmospheric Erosion
Murighiol, Romania
11-15 June 2018

The Europlanet workshop "Planetary Atmospheric Erosion" will be held  June 11-15 at Puflene Resort, Murighiol, Romania.

Among the topics to be addressed during the workshop are:
*  Atmospheric escape mechanisms
*  Comparative atmospheres: Earth versus other planets
*  Variability in outflow, controlling factors
*  Long term evolution of planetary atmospheres
*  Impact of atmospheric erosion
*  Mass balance: escape versus accretion
*  Innovative methods for data analysis
*  Space missions to study atmospheric erosion

The workshop will be a mix of tutorials, presentations and with ample time for discussion. Further information, can be found on the workshop's WWW page: 
http://gpsm.spacescience.ro/europlanet2018/

Travel support is available for a limited number of early career scientists from Europlanet inclusive states.

Several rooms at the resort are guaranteed for the workshop participants, to be booked individually by 15 April 2018.

The deadline for registration, travel support and abstract submission is 30 April 2018

Scientific Organization Committee:
Andreas Keiling, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States 
Anita Aikio, University of Oulu, Finland. 
Anna Losiak, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Eduard Dubinin, Max-Planck Institute, Germany
Iannis Dandouras, IRAP, France
Jasper Halekas, University of Iowa,  United States 
Masatoshi Yamauchi, IRF Kiruna, Sweden
Natalia Zalewska, Space Science Section, Polish Acadademy of Science
Octav Marghitu, Institute of Space Sciences, Romania
Stein Haaland, Birkeland Centre of Space Science, Bergen, Norway


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Monday Science Telecon

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

At 12:00 noon EST on Monday (February 26), we plan to hold the next in our ongoing series of science telecons. The speaker this Monday will be Simone Di Matteo from University of L'Aquila, Italy. The topic will be "The Identification of Waves at Discrete Frequencies at the Geostationary Orbit: the Role of the Data Analysis Techniques and the Comparison with Solar Wind Observations".

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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RHESSI Nuggets in February 2018

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

No. 316, "Joint MinXSS and RHESSI Flare X-ray Spectra between 1 and 15 keV", by Chris Moore, Brian Dennis, and the MinXSS Science Team. MinXSS adds systematic views of flare soft X-ray spectra to RHESSI imagery.

No. 317, "Non-Maxwellian Diagnostics from SDO/EVE spectra of an X-class flare," by Jaroslav Dudik. Ratios of high-excitation ion lines can readily detect kappa distributions in flare plasmas.

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, chriwhich should be related, at least loosely, to RHESSI science.


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