[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXV, Issue 43

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXV, Issue 43
Jul.12,2018

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Table of Contents

1. Presentations to and Report From the NASA Heliophysics Advisory Committee

2. MEETING: Workshop: Towards Future Research on Space Weather Drivers -- First Announcement

3. Solar Radio Physics from the Chromosphere to Near Earth - Topical Collection published

4. JOB OPENING: Research Professor in Atmospheric Research and Imaging Applications at Sodankyla Space Campus, Finland

5. Job Opportunity: Geospace Model Scientist/Developer

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


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Presentations to and Report From the NASA Heliophysics Advisory Committee

From: Mike Liemohn (liemohn at umich.edu)

Over the last year, NASA reformulated its advisory committee structure, making the division-level advisory groups no longer subcommittees to the Science Committee but rather full and formal advisory committees.  The Heliophysics Subcommittee therefore became the Heliophysics Advisory Committee (HPAC), operating under FACA rules. The meetings are open to the public and announced in the Federal Register. We would like to share with you the link to the HPAC website, all information about the committee can be found. 

The HPAC website:
https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/nac/science-advisory-committees/hpac

This includes the following: membership listing; meeting times, announcements, and minutes; PDFs of the presentations made to the committee; and the reports from the committee back to NASA HQ.

Our first meeting was in late 2017 and second meeting was in early April 2018; the documents from these meetings now online at the site above.  For the April meeting, note that there are two reports from HPAC back to NASA HQ, a letter with our findings and recommendations as well as our feedback on the "Research and Analysis Charge" issued by Dr. Zurbuchen, regarding high-impact/high-risk projects and interdisciplinary/interdivisional projects.


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MEETING: Workshop: Towards Future Research on Space Weather Drivers -- First Announcement

From: Hebe Cremades (hebe.cremades at frm.utn.edu.ar)

Workshop FReSWeD 2019
Towards Future Research on Space Weather Drivers
July 2-7, 2019
San Juan, Argentina

Understanding and being able to forecast space weather is an increasingly important aspect of our modern technology-reliant society. This Workshop will promote the exchange of information in the area of space weather, from the point of view of the phenomena that drive it from its origin in the solar atmosphere, through its evolution in the interplanetary medium, to its arrival in geospace. Advanced understanding on space weather drivers is essential to improve predictability of the solar-terrestrial coupling.

Among the specific subjects that will be covered are:

-Solar sources, generation and development of dynamic events that determine space weather conditions.
-Coupling of solar atmospheric layers: data-driven models of the large scale corona and solar wind.
-Interplanetary counterparts of solar activity and its space weather consequences.
-Computational and observational tools for space weather forecasting.
-Space- and ground-based instrumentation with space weather applications.

The Workshop will include invited and contributed talks, posters, as well as joint discussions. The Workshop will be accompanied by a school with a mix of introductory tutorials, demos and hands-on labs.  These activities are geared towards students and young researchers who seek to gain a broad overview of space weather domains, concepts and tools/resources.

This space weather Workshop and its associated school are being organized on the occasion of the total solar eclipse of 2019, whose totality path will cross five provinces of Argentina extending for more than 1200 km.

Further information can be found at: http://www.iafe.uba.ar/freswed2019 

If you are interested in attending and would like to be on a pre-registration email list, please fill in the pre-registration form on our website above.

Hebe Cremades,  Cristina Mandrini, and  Carlos Francile,
On behalf of FReSWeD SOC and LOC


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Solar Radio Physics from the Chromosphere to Near Earth - Topical Collection published

From: Eduard (eduard at astro.gla.ac.uk)

Solar Physics Topical Collection “Solar Radio Physics from the Chromosphere to Near Earth” is now completed and published. The collection contains 16 articles and provides a snapshot of the developments and challenges that were discussed during CESRA2016 workshop. The collection of papers cover four sub-topics:

  Solar Radio Emission Modelling
  Solar Flares and Solar Energetic Particles
  Fine Structures in Solar Radio Emission
  Coronal Mass Ejections

For details see:
http://cesra.net/?p=1913


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JOB OPENING: Research Professor in Atmospheric Research and Imaging Applications at Sodankyla Space Campus, Finland

From: Esa Turunen (esa.turunen at oulu.fi)

Joint professorship by Finnish Meteorological Institute and University of Oulu, in Atmospheric Research and Imaging Applications,  is now open for applications.
This is a Research Professor position at Sodankyla Space Campus and is filled at the level of Assistant Professor/ Associate Professor/ Professor, according to the qualifications and merits of the selected applicant.

Application deadline is 10 August 2018.

Please refer to the full announcement for more information and use the application form, linked in the end of the full announcement, in order to apply.

https://www.saimanet.com/certiahome/open_job_view.html?id=00005971&did=5600&lang=en

Please contact us directly for more information:
Professor Jouni Pulliainen, FMI, +358 50 5895821, jouni.pulliainen (at) fmi.fi
Director Esa Turunen, SGO, +358 50 5663264, esa.turunen (at) sgo.fi

See also SGO blog on Thu 12 July 2018:

https://blog.sgo.fi


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Job Opportunity: Geospace Model Scientist/Developer

From: Howard Singer (howard.singer at noaa.gov)

I would like to bring to your attention that the University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) is advertising for a Geospace Model Scientist/Developer to work on validation and product development utilizing the Geospace Model at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. Details can be found at:

https://cu.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=14087


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