[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXV, Issue 37

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXV, Issue 37
Jun.19,2018

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Table of Contents

1. JGR-Space Physics Editor Blog Monthly Highlights

2. Mini-Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Processes in Space Plasmas at APS-DPP Conference 5-9 Nov 2018 in Portland, OR -- Contributed Papers Solicited

3. Monday Science Telecon, June 25

4. DMSP SSIES-2 Database Transferred From University of Texas at Dallas to MIT Haystack Madrigal System

5. JOB OPENING: NASA GSFC Civil Servant Position in Upper Atmospheric Physics

6. JOB OPENING: NASA GSFC Civil Servant Position in SEP Theory/Modeling

7. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position (2 years) in Magnetospheric Physics, Umeå University, Sweden

8. ESA Research Fellowships in Space Science

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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)

For those asking about data repositories, below is a link to a post about it, including links to several excellent choices for the data behind your paper. Also, the search committee's work is done and we have two new editors for JGR Space Physics:  Dr. Viviane Pierrard of the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy and Dr. Natalia Ganushkina of both the University of Michigan and the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

June 7: there was an excellent plenary session at the TESS meeting on unconscious bias, including strategies to mitigate and reduce it
     https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2018/06/07/unconscious-bias-in-space-physics/

June 13:  the announcement about the new editors for JGR Space
     https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2018/06/13/new-editors-for-jgr-space-physics/

June 18:  repositories for your paper-specific data bricks
     https://liemohnjgrspace.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/data-set-repositories/

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


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Mini-Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Processes in Space Plasmas at APS-DPP Conference 5-9 Nov 2018 in Portland, OR -- Contributed Papers Solicited

From: Mark Koepke, David Knudsen, Greg Howes, Sergey Savin (Mark.Koepke at mail.wvu.edu)

Mini-Conferences perform a valuable function at APS-Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meetings, providing opportunities to focus on areas of research in plasma science and interdisciplinary discourse not ordinarily covered in the regular annual meeting program, and encourages participation from scientists who do not usually attend DPP.

We hope to provide a forum for developing modeling methods and tools, to foster cross-fertilization among different subdisciplines of application, and to enable communication between the theorists who build the models and simulations and the experimentalists who apply them. Nonlinear waves, wave-wave interactions, and chaos are believed to play dominant roles in the heating and acceleration of charged particles and generating turbulence in space, astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. These waves represent the electromagnetic signature of solar-terrestrial coupling and are useful for the forecasting and monitoring of space weather.

Please note mini-conference presenters should submit oral contributed abstracts, not to be confused with nominations for invited speakers, by the abstract submission deadline of June 29. From the submission link at https://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/annual/abstract.cfm, presenters must select mini-conference subject category 15.5 and may include the mini-conference title in the Special Instructions (Nonlinear Waves and Processes in Space Plasmas). Mini-conference presenters are allowed one additional first author paper submission in the regular technical program. Note: Mini-conference presenters must pay the appropriate registration fee to attend the DPP annual meeting.


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Monday Science Telecon, June 25

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

At 12:00 noon EST on Monday (June 25), we plan to hold the next in our ongoing series of science telecons. The speaker this Monday will be Le Contel Olivier from the Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique. The topic will be "Analysis of kinetic structures embedded in fast earthward flows occurring during a substorm event detected by MMS".

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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DMSP SSIES-2 Database Transferred From University of Texas at Dallas to MIT Haystack Madrigal System

From: Marc Hairston (hairston at utdallas.edu)

Since 2003, the University of Texas at Dallas has provided a public website to distribute thermal plasma parameters from the SSIES-2 instrument packages on several of the DMSP spacecraft, specifically F11 through F15. These data consist of three-dimensional ion flow velocities, ion density, ion and electron temperatures, plasma composition, and quality flags. The server hosting this website at UTD has been retired, and therefore we have migrated all these data to the NSF supported Madrigal distributed database system at MIT Haystack Observatory to make them more easily accessible to the community. Madrigal now hosts all the single orbit summary data plots generated by the old website, along with all the data and quality flags that were available on the old website.  

The work has also provided a large upgrade in the amount of measurements available to the community.  Previously, because of budget limitations, data available on the UTD website were limited to time periods prior to 1 January 2006.  However, as part of the transfer effort, the Madrigal database now hosts all SSIES-2 data past that date for DMSP F13 through F15 platforms.  The expanded SSIES-2 dataset covers the period from 1992 through the present for a total of over sixty satellite-years of data, although we note that DMSP F15 is the only current operational satellite in this particular data set.  

To access this data, go to “cedar.openmadrigal.org” and select “Access Data” -> “List Experiments” -> “Satellite Instruments”-> “Defense Meteorological Satellite Program”.  Note that this will produce a list of experiment files that include both the newly available UTD SSIES-2 database (labeled as “UT DMSP with quality flags”) and also the previously available Level 1 DMSP data (all other files), provided by Boston College to the Madrigal distributed database system.

Support for formatting and the large UTD SSIES-2 database transfer for the space science community use has been provided at UT Dallas by NSF grant AGS-1663763 and at MIT Haystack Observatory by NSF Cooperative Agreement AGS-1242204 to the Millstone Hill Geospace Facility.  For any questions about these data and about the new Madrigal hosting of the database, please contact Marc Hairston (UTD) at hairston at utdallas.edu or Bill Rideout (MIT Haystack) at brideout at mit.edu.


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JOB OPENING: NASA GSFC Civil Servant Position in Upper Atmospheric Physics

From: Judy Karpen (judy.karpen at nasa.gov)

The Space Weather Laboratory (Code 674), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is seeking a highly skilled scientist to provide expertise in modeling and numerical simulation of Earth’s ionosphere-mesosphere-thermosphere (ITM), with particular emphasis on implementing/maintaining the Community Coordinated Modeling Center’s physics-based, empirical, and data-assimilation numerical models that simulate the coupled dynamics and energetics of the lower, middle, and upper atmosphere. This position requires extensive interactions with the model developers and science and operational users to update and optimize the CCMC’s versions of the models, and to develop tools for analyzing and interpreting the output; model validation and testing; preparing models for transition to operations (e.g., at NOAA and DoD facilities); providing assistance to the research community with running the models; and collaboration with NASA’s ITM missions (e.g., ICON and GOLD) to serve their space-weather needs and to import, display, and develop analysis techniques for their data streams. An active research program is also expected. Candidates should have ample experience with developing or modifying numerical codes, and with comparing model predictions with observations from NASA missions and ground-based instrumentation. A Ph.D. degree in physics, space physics, computational physics, or related discipline is highly desirable.

This is a civil servant position with NASA, for which U.S. citizenship is required.  Applications at the GS13 or GS14 level are being accepted through the following USAJOBS web site from 13 June – 11 July 2018.
GS-13/14: http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/501795500
A guide to the application process can be found at https://applyonline.nasa.gov/applicant_guide.html.  
For additional questions, please contact Judy Karpen (Chief, Space Weather Laboratory) via email at the address given above. NASA GSFC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.


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JOB OPENING: NASA GSFC Civil Servant Position in SEP Theory/Modeling

From: Judy Karpen (judy.karpen at nasa.gov)

The Space Weather Laboratory (Code 674), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is seeking a highly skilled scientist to provide expertise in theory, modeling, and numerical simulation of the acceleration and transport of solar energetic particles (SEPs), with particular emphasis on SEP model modification/development, validation, and testing; and participation in the CCMC’s ongoing collaboration with SRAG at Johnson SFC to develop SEP prediction capabilities. The position also involves maximizing scientific return from upcoming NASA heliospheric missions (e.g., IMAP and PSP), and assisting with planning and design of new energetic-particle instruments and missions. Candidates should have experience with developing or modifying numerical codes, and with comparing model predictions with observations from NASA missions and ground-based instrumentation. A Ph.D. degree in physics, space physics, computational physics, or related discipline, and a proven track record of obtaining research funding, are highly desirable.

This is a civil servant position with NASA, for which U.S. citizenship is required.  Applications at the GS13 or GS14 level are being accepted through the following USAJOBS web site from 15 June – 13 July 2018.
GS-13/14: http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/502487600
A guide to the application process can be found at https://applyonline.nasa.gov/applicant_guide.html.  
For additional questions, please contact Judy Karpen (Chief, Space Weather Laboratory) via email at the address given above. NASA GSFC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position (2 years) in Magnetospheric Physics, Umeå University, Sweden

From: Maria Hamrin (hamrin at space.umu.se)

The major work tasks of the postdoc are to investigate complex and vortex-like plasma flows in Earth's magnetotail using in-situ spacecraft data, and to some extent also ground based data. The results will be compared with large scale computer simulations that have been conducted among our collaborators.

This is a 2 years full-time postdoc position. Starting date as soon as possible or according to agreement.

The project will be conducted in collaboration with scientists from the University of Colorado, the Finnish Meteorological Institute, and Shandong University, Weihai.

The full advertisement can be found at https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/postdoctoral-position-2-years-in-magnetospheric-physics_214935/

For further information, contact Maria Hamrin, maria.hamrin at space.umu.se.


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ESA Research Fellowships in Space Science

From: Oliver Jennrich (fellowship at cosmos.esa.int)

The European Space Agency awards several postdoctoral fellowships each year.

The aim of these fellowships is to provide scientists in their early career,  holding a PhD or the equivalent degree, with the means of performing research
in fields related to the ESA Science Programme. 

Areas of research include planetary science, astronomy and astrophysics, solar and solar-terrestrial science, plasma physics and fundamental physics. The fellowships have a duration of two years, with the  possible extension to three years, and are tenable at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Netherlands, or at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid, Spain.

Applications are now solicited for fellowships in space science to begin in the fall of 2019. Preference will be given to applications submitted by candidates in an early stage of their career. Candidates not holding a PhD yet are encouraged to apply, but they must provide evidence of receiving their degree before starting the fellowship.

ESA fellows are enrolled in ESA's Social Security Scheme, which covers medical expenses. A monthly deduction covers these short-term and long-term risks.

The deadline for applications is 1 October 2018.

More information on the ESA Research Fellowship programme in Space Science, on the conditions and eligibility, as well as the application form can retrieved from  http://cosmos.esa.int/fellowship

Questions on the scientific aspects of the ESA Fellowship in Space Science not answered in the above pages can be sent by e-mail to the fellowship coordinators, Dr. Oliver Jennrich or Dr. Bruno Altieri at the address fellowship at cosmos.esa.int


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