[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXV, Issue 19

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXV, Issue 19
Mar.29,2018

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Table of Contents

1. NSF's 10 Big Ideas

2. MEETING: HEPPA-SOLARIS Workshop, June 11-15, 2018 - Deadline Extensions

3. MEETING: Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets, July 9-13, 2018

4. MEETING: Announcing the 2018 SDO Science Workshop, Catalyzing Solar Connections, October 29 - November 2, 2018

5. PhD Opportunity in Middle Atmosphere Physics and Chemistry

6. RHESSI Science Nuggets in March 2018

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


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NSF's 10 Big Ideas

From: Michael Wiltberger (mwiltber at nsf.gov)

Dear Colleagues,

NSF’s FY19 budget request was recently released and one of the highlights was a firm funding request for NSF’s 10 Big Ideas.  To kick start the investment into the Big Ideas, NSF has been releasing information related to organizing and applying for funding.  In AGS, we see a role for our community in a number of the Big Ideas:

Growing Convergence Research
Stimulating Research Related to Navigating the New Arctic (NNA)
Harnessing the Data Revolution
NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science)

There is also an obvious connection to Mid-scale Research Infrastructure, and NSF is still working through the results of the survey that was released last Fall in preparation for a competition.

The 10 Big Ideas are likely to be a priority for NSF for a number of years, so we encourage the community to become familiar with the programs and consider whether your research could be extended/enhanced through participation.  We will keep you updated as opportunities evolve.


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MEETING: HEPPA-SOLARIS Workshop, June 11-15, 2018 - Deadline Extensions

From: Brentha Thurairajah (brenthat at vt.edu)

The 7th International HEPPA-SOLARIS 2018 Workshop (http://www.cpe.vt.edu/heppa.solaris.2018/), 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. 

** Deadline for self-nominations of invited presentations has been extended to 12 April 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. http://www.cpe.vt.edu/heppa.solaris.2018/abstracts.html#selfnominations

** Deadline for financial support for early career scientists has been extended to 13 April 2018: 
Registration waivers are available for students and scientists in need of assistance. (http://www.cpe.vt.edu/heppa.solaris.2018/registration.html#support). Successful applicants will be notified before 1 May 2018 

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


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MEETING: Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets, July 9-13, 2018

From: Fran Bagenal (bagenal at colorado.edu)

Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets 9-13 July 2018 will feature Juno and Cassini observations over the poles. http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/mop/mop2018/.  Abstracts due April 9th. Registration due June 25th.


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MEETING: Announcing the 2018 SDO Science Workshop, Catalyzing Solar Connections, October 29 - November 2, 2018

From: Dean Pesnell (William.D.Pesnell at nasa.gov)

We are pleased to announce the 2018 Solar Dynamics Observatory Workshop, Catalyzing Solar Connections. It will be held October 29 - November 2, 2018, at Thagaste, in Ghent, Belgium (http://www.thagaste.be).

It has been eight years since the launch of SDO. We have seen a blizzard of papers and science results from this mission. As Solar Cycle 24 fades, we will get together to discuss what we learned about the Sun and anticipate what Solar Cycle 25 will look like.

We are holding this workshop in Europe to encourage participation from the many international users of SDO data. The 2018 European Space Weather Week will be held the following week, allowing participants to attend both meetings.

This workshop will include invited and contributed oral and poster presentations in 8 themed sessions spanning SDO‘s wide range of research topics and one day of parallel mini-workshops. We encourage your participation and hope that you will share this announcement with colleagues.

Registration, abstract submission, and other information about SDO 2018: Catalyzing Solar Connections will be available at https://register-as.oma.be/sdo2018/.


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PhD Opportunity in Middle Atmosphere Physics and Chemistry

From: Thomas Ulich (thomas.ulich at sgo.fi)

The University of Oulu in Northern Finland, with approximately 16,000 students and 3,000 employees, is an international, multidisciplinary research university with a rich pool of creative and intellectual talent.

The Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory (SGO) is a separate institute of the University of Oulu. Established in 1914, SGO carries out continuous, long-term geophysical measurements of Earth’s high-latitude environment.

The PhD student position is part of the project "Mesospheric Monitoring of Ozone above the Polar Vortex (MeMO)”.

The PhD project investigates the response in mesospheric and stratospheric ozone and related chemistry as consequence of exceptional space weather events such as solar proton events. The study will be conducted using e.g. the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) and satellite-based observations, as well as a wealth of atmospheric measurements located at the Sodankylä Space Campus of the University of Oulu and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Ground-based measurements include, among others, a lidar, a microwave radiometer, a high-resolution Fourier Transform Spectrometer, UV and UV-visible spectrophotometers, balloon-borne and UAV borne instrumentation.

The successful candidate will have a M.Sc. degree in physics, space physics, atmospheric physics or chemistry, meteorology or atmospheric geophysics. Experience in the use of instrumentation and/or atmospheric computer models is highly beneficial, as is experience in data analysis using a high-level programming language (e.g. Python, Matlab). Excellent command of both spoken and written English is essential.

The PhD student position is for 4 years from 1st May 2018 (unless agreed otherwise). 

Apply online latest on Monday, 16th April 2018

Full application text and link to application form: https://rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/open_job_view.html?did=5600&jc=1&id=00005397&lang=en


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RHESSI Science Nuggets in March 2018

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

No. 318, “Homologous CME/flares from AR 12371”, by Panditi Vemareddy and Pascal Demoulin.  An excellent set of homologous flare/CMEs analyzed and explained.

No. 319, “NuSTAR detects X-ray flares in the quiet Sun”, by Matej Kuhar and Sam Krucker. Weak quiet-Sun flares may not be powerful, but they look a lot like ordinary flares.

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


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