[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXVI, Issue 68

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXVI, Issue 68
Dec.03,2019

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Table of Contents

1. 100th Anniversary Recollections in Space Physics

2. AGU SPA Early Career Networking Mixer - 12/8/19

3. The Kristian Birkeland Medal, the Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal and the Alexander Chizhevsky Medal Awarded at European Space Weather Week

4. Announcement of Bill Feldman Science Symposium, April 23 - 24, 2020

5. Call for Proposal: ISEE Nagoya University Joint Research/Workshop

6. Deadline Extension for Submission on JASTP Special Issue of VarSITI2019 and STP-14 (New Deadline: February 28, 2020)

7. JOB OPENING: NASA Heliophysics Division Is Hiring IPA Program Scientists

8. JOB OPENING: NCAR HAO & ASP: Postdoc Positions, Application Deadline January 6, 2020

9. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Position in Space Physics at Princeton University

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


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100th Anniversary Recollections in Space Physics

From: Larry Kepko (larry.kepko at nasa.gov)

Space physics is a comparatively young scientific discipline, tightly linked to the era of satellite-based investigations and the discoveries that came with it. As such, we as a community are fortunate to have met, been taught and mentored by, and even become friends with many of those who were around to witness the birth of, and in many cases establish, our field. Each of these “Pioneers” have remarkable stories to tell. These accounts from the dawn of the space age provide a glimpse into that era of scientific discovery, and are an important part of our collective history that deserve to be shared and commemorated. These are stories of perseverance, ingenuity, luck, and sometimes failure. We are fortunate to live in an era in which these distinguished scientists are still with us, and able to share their experiences.

To commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), JGR – Space Physics has solicited a special collection of recollection papers to memorialize these experiences. This is not the first such effort to capture these stories. In 1994 (Vol. 99, No. A10, pp. 19099-19212) and again in 1996 (Vol. 101, No. A5, pp. 10477- 10585) JGR-Space Physics published special sections entitled, “Pioneers of Space Physics”, in celebration of AGU’s 75th anniversary. Later, in 1997, Gillmore and Spreiter [1997] added a set of recollection papers on the discovery of the magnetosphere. Together, these papers containing personal accounts from the pioneers of the space age covered the period of roughly 1958-1967.

It is our great honor to present retrospective papers from several of our distinguished colleagues who contributed significantly to the explosion in understanding of space physics and aeronomy that occurred from roughly 1967-1980. We chose to start at the end of the previous set of recollections and cover the decade of the 1970s, during which our field greatly expanded. It is also a time in which the second generation of space scientists entered the field, and made foundational discoveries that continue to define our discipline.

As with the previous papers, we asked the authors to “recount some of the events leading to the emergence of space physics and to put the events into a professional as well as personal perspective.” [Gombosi et al., 1994]. The authors of this special collection of recollections were selected following the same guidelines as the previous efforts. We started from a long list of senior colleagues, and narrowed the list to roughly two dozen distinguished scientists based on discipline and geographic balance. Some of our colleagues, when asked, felt they would be unable to devote the time or energy to such a recollection, and declined. Sadly, in the intervening 25 years since the original effort, some of our colleagues who were most active during the early years of the space age have passed. Therefore, this new special collection, 25 years after the first one, is timely with the AGU centennial celebrations, but late in fully capturing the stories of the pioneers of space physics. This is unfortunate and we encourage future editors of this journal to commission special sections of legacy perspectives with a faster cadence than a quarter of a century.

Larry Kepko, Editor
Mike Liemohn, Editor-in-Chief

The 100th Anniversary recollections, as well as previous recollections, can be accessed at the following link. We still have many more to be published, so please check back frequently.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2169-9402.RECOLSP1


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AGU SPA Early Career Networking Mixer - 12/8/19

From: Liz MacDonald (e.a.macdonald at nasa.gov)

Space Physics and Aeronomy Early Career Networking Mixer
Sunday, 8 December 2019, 19:30 - 21:00
Intercontinental - InterCon C, L5 (as space permits, please come!)

The Space Physics and Aeronomy leadership team would like to invite early career people to be introduced to NASA, NSF, AGU, and other agency leadership, hear of recent early career initiatives, and have an informal mixer opportunity. Those within 10 years of receiving a PhD and students are welcome to attend. SPA is committed to an inclusive environment; early career women, people of color, and under-represented groups are especially encouraged to participate. 

The agenda will include light apps and a cash bar (for ticketed attendees) & the following:

* Welcome & Leadership Perspective & Introduction (~20 min) AGU, NASA, and NSF representatives will introduce themselves and their organizations.
* Special Opportunities for Early Career Scientists (~20 min) Top tips for proposers, How to become a panel reviewer, special proposal opportunities (ECIP update)
* Meet and Greet with Program Officers (~30 min) Bring a business card, bring up a topic, or just say hello.


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The Kristian Birkeland Medal, the Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal and the Alexander Chizhevsky Medal Awarded at European Space Weather Week

From: Jean Lilensten (jean.lilensten at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr)

The 2019 medals were given respectively to Bruce Tsurutani, Delores Knipp and Jiajia Liu. Details may be found at http://www.stce.be/esww2019/medals.php. 

* International Alexander Chizhevsky Medal for space weather and space climate:  Jiajia Liu

Dr. Jiajia Liu is awarded with the Alexander Chizhevsky Medal for his early-career innovative achievements in space weather research. He obtained his PhD degree in June 2015 from the University of Science and Technology of China with honors.  He has published 31 peer-reviewed papers in top journals. Of those, he has led 13 peer-reviewed papers as the first or corresponding author. 

Jiajia is receiving this medal in recognition of several accomplishments. He carried out research in a number of areas of solar and space physics. At very high standards, he combines complex physics behind various phenomena, like solar jets, MHD waves and coronal mass ejections, with the latest advanced mathematical and computer science techniques, including machine learning for forecasting space weather. 

Dr. Liu introduced the novel techniques of computer vision and machine learning into the area of CME arrival time prediction. By training machine learning algorithms with historical data, and applying advanced convolution neural networks on single observations, he achieved a significant progress in CME arrival time forecast, with an accuracy of less than 12 hours. Importantly, he created a free of charge user-friendly software in order to allow the scientific community to benefit from his recently implemented improved space weather forecasting approach.

* International Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal for space weather and space climate: Professor Delores Knipp

Delores Knipp is an outstanding ambassador for space weather, and has been a leader in the science, teaching, and dissemination of space weather research for decades. She has made major contributions to our understanding of the ionosphere and thermosphere and to the intimate relation between these two co-located domains. In parallel, Delores has also been developing and presenting space weather courses for undergraduate and graduate students, and mentoring numerous graduate students and post-docs.  

Delores has recently completed a five-year term as Editor-in-Chief of AGU’s Space Weather journal. During her term, she has expanded the international reach of the journal, creating an international editorial board and engaging with authors and reviewers from around the world. She also contributed to the wider space weather community in two other areas: opening up underused datasets, and research on historical space weather events. 

Delores has undertaken studies of several historically large space weather events and encouraged and supported others around the world to do the same. This is an important area of study since it gives insights into what adverse space weather looks like, and its potential impacts on technology and on human society. Delores recently published papers on the 1967 and 1972 events, she looked beyond the space weather community by gaining important insights from discussions with users affected by those events, a timely collection of what we may call “living history”. She has also encouraged other recent work on the major space weather events that occurred in 1770, 1859, 1909 and 1921.

* International Kristian Birkeland Medal for space weather and space climate: Doctor Bruce Tadashi Tsurutani.

Dr. Tsurutani is renowned in multiple research fields including space weather, nonlinear plasma waves, plasma instabilities and wave-particle interactions, auroral particle precipitation, dayside ionospheric physics, solar wind interactions with magnetosphere and ionosphere, geomagnetism. Among them, space weather has provoked his lifelong attention and dedication. He has published ~ 700 papers in peer-reviewed journal.

In his Ph.D. thesis, he suggested that the main triggering mechanism of magnetospheric substorms is the southward turning of interplanetary magnetic field (IMF).  In 1984 he revealed that although the IMF southward turning may trigger geomagnetic activity substorms, the substorms can be further intensified by heliospheric current sheet crossing the magnetosphere. In 1987 he found that High Intensity Long Duration (T > 2 days), and continuous aurora1 activity (HILDCAA) events are caused by outward (from the sun) propagating interplanetary Alfven wave trains. After studying major magnetic storms during the maximum of the 20th solar cycle, Dr. Tsurutani found that the extreme values of the southward IMF, rather than solar wind speed, are the primary causes of great magnetic storms. He soon found out that a possible mechanism for generating the intense interplanetary Bs, which is responsible for the subsequent intense magnetic storms, is the shock compression of preexisting southwardly- directed IMF Bz. 

He discovered the “superfountain effect” of the dayside ionospheric total electron content (TEC), a consequence of the “prompt penetration” of interplanetary/polar cap electric fields to the equatorial and near-equatorial ionosphere. He also explored the ionospheric effects of prompt penetration electric fields for a variety of interplanetary magnetic field directions. He categorized the positive-phase ionospheric storms that occur in the dayside (i.e., the superfountain), and negative-phase ionospheric storms that occur on the nightside (with a TEC reduction).  Later Dr. Tsurutani reported that extreme EUV solar flares can result in extreme ionospheric effects, including a sudden, intense, and long-lasting ionospheric TEC enhancement in the dayside ionosphere, and may affect radio navigation and communications. 


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Announcement of Bill Feldman Science Symposium, April 23 - 24, 2020

From: David J. Lawrence, Katherine Mesick (david.j.lawrence at jhuapl.edu)

In April 2020, Bill Feldman is turning 80 years and his friends and colleagues would like to honor him with a symposium of talks covering the wide variety of scientific disciplines to which he has made significant contributions. These include: spaceflight instrument development; solar and magnetospheric physics; planetary nuclear spectroscopy; lunar, Mars, Mercury, and asteroid science; and fundamental physics (e.g., neutron lifetime).

Invited and contributed talks will include both a review of the contributions made by Bill and/or a discussion of the current state of the fields. All are invited to attend and participate in invigorating and enjoyable scientific discussions.

Los Alamos National Laboratory is hosting the symposium, which will take place in Los Alamos, NM at the Cottonwood on the Greens on April 23–24, 2020. A dinner/banquet will be held on the evening of April 23.

Please indicate your interest either in attending and/or giving a talk by sending a note to Sarah Balkey (slbalkey at lanl.gov), with copies to David Lawrence (David.J.Lawrence at jhuapl.edu) and Katherine Mesick (kmesick at lanl.gov). 

For meeting logistics, go to: http://cses.lanl.gov

Due to limited space, attendance will be on a first come, first served basis.

Questions/comments:
David.J.Lawrence at jhuapl.edu
kmesick at lanl.gov


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Call for Proposal: ISEE Nagoya University Joint Research/Workshop

From: Kanya Kusano (kusano at nagoya-u.jp)

The Institute for Space–Earth Environmental Research (ISEE) Nagoya University has announced an opportunity of
(1) International Joint Research Program
(2) ISEE International Workshop
for the fiscal year 2020.

For (1), the ISEE supports researchers to visit ISEE to make international joint researches with ISEE researchers. For (2), ISEE supports organizing small international workshops on focused topics related to the Space-Earth environmental research. The deadline for application is January 15, 2020. For details, please visit the following website:

http://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/co-re-application.html


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Deadline Extension for Submission on JASTP Special Issue of VarSITI2019 and STP-14 (New Deadline: February 28, 2020)

From: Kazuo Shiokawa (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp)

This is to let you know that the deadline for submitting papers to the JASTP special issue of VarSITI2019 and STP-14 has been extended to February 28, 2020. For submission, please visit the following website.  

Submission page: https://www.evise.com/profile/#/ATP/login
(Log in with EVISE account, choose Start New Submission. During the submission process, author will be asked to choose an Article Type. Choose VSI: VarSITI2019 and STP-14). 

New deadline of submission: February 28, 2020

Guest Editors of the special issue 
Kazuo Shiokawa (Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Japan)
Rositsa Miteva (Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory, Bulgaria)
Sergio Dasso (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Astronomíay Física del Espacio (IAFE), Buenos Aires, Argentina) 
Shunrong Zhang (MIT Haystack Observatory, USA)
Duggirala Pallamraju (Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, India)


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JOB OPENING: NASA Heliophysics Division Is Hiring IPA Program Scientists

From: Nicky Fox (nicola.j.fox at nasa.gov)

NASA’s Heliophysics Division (HPD) is seeking driven, experienced heliophysicists that want to join NASA HQ to manage the Heliophysics science portfolio and to develop the policy and strategy that guides our science into the next decade.

HPD intends to hire two experienced heliophysics researchers to serve as a Program Scientists under an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) appointment. These appointments will be for up to two years, with the potential for extension up to a maximum of six years.

Applications are due March 1, 2020 at 11:59pm US Eastern Standard Time.

For the full job announcement, see  https://science.nasa.gov/about-us/job-opportunities 

Interested parties should direct any questions to Jared Leisner (jared.s.leisner at nasa.gov). Submission and other application instructions are located in the full job announcement.


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JOB OPENING: NCAR HAO & ASP: Postdoc Positions, Application Deadline January 6, 2020

From: Matthias Rempel (rempel at ucar.edu)

HAO offers two-year postdoctoral fellowships to early career Ph.D. scientists interested in theoretical, experimental and observational studies of the Sun and Earth’s upper atmosphere. The HAO postdoc program is closely coordinated with the postdoc program of NCAR’s Advanced Study Program (ASP) and HAO postdocs will receive the same salary and benefits as ASP postdocs.

Successful applicants will pursue research, in collaboration with members of the HAO scientific staff, on a wide range of topics, including study of the Earth’s ionosphere, thermosphere, and magnetosphere; observations and simulations of coronal mass ejections; spectro-polarimetric observations and interpretation using HAO instrumentation and data inversion tools; probing solar magnetism through observations and modeling; and instrument development. Postdoctoral fellows are appointed for two years beginning in September or October; some flexibility is possible on the specific times of arrival and departure.

See https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/partnerships/visitor-program/postdoctoral-fellows for further detail, or contact Caitlyn Quinn Erdesz (cquinn at ucar.edu) or Matthias Rempel (rempel at ucar.edu) for further information.

The application deadline is January 6, 2020.
HAO Fellowships will be granted on the basis of proven scientific ability and relevance to HAO research programs. Applications are accepted through NCAR’s Advanced Study Program (https://www.asp.ucar.edu). Applicants who specify HAO as a host laboratory will automatically be considered for both HAO and ASP fellowships, and initial offers will be made in early March. Additional offers may also be made later in the spring. See the ASP website for complete application details: https://www.asp.ucar.edu/postdocs/prospective-applicants. 


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Position in Space Physics at Princeton University

From: Daniel White (danieljw at princeton.edu)

The Space Physics Group in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, is expanding and anticipates offering one or more postdoctoral or more senior research positions in experimental/observational space physics.
Space Physics Group website:  https://spacephysics.princeton.edu/

The Space Physics Group carries out research in many aspects of space physics (aka heliophysics), and currently leads NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun (ISOIS) instrument suite, and the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission. The successful candidate(s) can play a major role in 1) the development of the experimental capability of the group and development of space flight instrumentation for IMAP, 2) the analysis and publication of SEP observations from ISOIS, and 3) the analysis and publication of ENA observations from IBEX, and/or other funded space physics research. Preferred qualifications include having prior experience in the development of space flight instrumentation, analyzing these type(s) of particle data, the proven ability to lead/participate in the rapid development and publication of numerous excellent research articles.

For more information about this position, please visit 
https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/14383


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