[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXVI, Issue 69

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXVI, Issue 69
Dec.06,2019

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Table of Contents

1. Survey of Parenthood in Academic Research Environments and Training (PARENT)

2. Reaffirming Research Community Awareness of Upcoming Dual Anonymous Proposal Review

3. NASA Living with a Star Town Hall Meeting / Annual Briefing at Fall AGU

4. Announcement of the Establishment of the International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance (IHDEA)

5. Bhanu Remya won the 2019 Parvez Guzdar Award

6. MEETING: Webex for Balloon-Relativistic-Accelerator Meeting, December 8

7. MEETING: The 9th VERSIM workshop at Kyoto University, March 23-27, 2020, Uji, Kyoto, Japan --Abstract Deadline Extended to December 20

8. Graduate Student Positions in Electrical Engineering and Space Physics at Virginia Tech

9. Online Archive of SPA Newsletter

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


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Survey of Parenthood in Academic Research Environments and Training (PARENT)

From: Christina Cohen (cohen at srl.caltech.edu)

Drs. David Ortiz-Suslow and Ni Sun-Suslow are conducting a survey-based research study to explore AGU members' perspectives and experiences of parenthood while in academic or research training to examine the following questions:  How does the nexus of a demanding career trajectory and growing personal responsibility impact individuals? What are trainees' perspectives on parenthood as they navigate their developing careers? How do established professionals reflect on their training experience, as it relates to parenthood? 

Parents and non-parents are eligible for the study and participants can be in any stage of their career (e.g., student, postdoc, professor, etc.). Please consider participating in this survey. The survey takes approximately 5-10 minutes to finish and is completely anonymous. Please find the survey by following this link:

ucsd.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_88NRthyr6NjyBlH

The study has been approved by the UC San Diego Internal Review Board (IRB #190551). Participants that complete the survey are eligible to win a $50 REI gift card (multiple will be given). This is supported by an AGU Celebrate 100 Grant.


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Reaffirming Research Community Awareness of Upcoming Dual Anonymous Proposal Review

From: Mike Liemohn (liemohn at umich.edu)

At its 1-3 October 2019 meeting, the NASA Heliophysics Advisory Committee (HPAC) heard a briefing on innovations to the research and analysis programs. One in particular that we would like to highlight to the research community is the implementation of dual anonymous review for several ROSES program elements. It is planned that one program in the Heliophysics Division will institute dual anonymous peer review for the ROSES-2020 call, the the Heliophysics Guest Investigator Open program. Also of potential relevance to the SPA community is that the cross-disciplinary Habitable Worlds program will initiate dual-anonymous review in ROSES-2020 as well.

In addition to changing the way the reviews and panels are conducted for the HGIO and Habitable Worlds programs, dual anonymous review mandates a modification in the proposal preparation and submission process. Proper implementation involves broad community support and adherence to these new guidelines to be included in the ROSES-2020 call.

Please see Dr. Kessel’s SPA newsletter announcement from November 19 on this topic. She invites potential proposers to an informational meeting at the Fall AGU Meeting, to be held at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco on Thursday, December 12 at 12:30 pm in the Cyril Magnin I/II rooms. HPAC strongly encourages community attendance at this informational meeting.

SPA newsletter with dual anonymous review training session announcement:
http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/pipermail/spa/2019-November/000330.html

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


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NASA Living with a Star Town Hall Meeting / Annual Briefing at Fall AGU

From: Mark Linton (mark.linton at nrl.navy.mil)

Date: Sunday, 8 December 2019, 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: Parc 55, 55 Cyril Magnin Street, San Francisco, California, 94102, USA 
Room: Market Room, 3rd floor

From: Jeff Morrill, Simon Plunkett (NASA Heliophysics/LWS),
Mark Linton & Anthea Coster (LPAG Co-Chairs)

We will hold the Town Hall meeting for the NASA Heliophysics Living With a Star (LWS) program at the Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco, CA. You are invited to attend and hear brief summaries on the program status and to participate in an open discussion of the LWS program. Please check the LWS TR&T website at lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov for further information on the LWS TR&T program.


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Announcement of the Establishment of the International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance (IHDEA)

From: Shing F. Fung, Arnaud Masson, Aaron Roberts, Todd King, Christophe Arviset, Guido de Marchi, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, and Baptiste Cecconi (shing.f.fung at nasa.gov)

We are delighted to announce the establishment of the International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance (the IHDEA; https://ihdea.net). The heliophysics community has long been in the era of big data, particularly in terms of data complexity. Research analysis and modeling efforts to understand heliophysical phenomena and space weather events and to develop and validate tools for space weather forecasts have to rely on the availability, accessibility and usability of diverse (space-based and ground-based) heliophysics and space weather data products. In recognition of the importance of international coordination and collaboration in making the diverse observation and simulation data resources available for supporting heliophysics and space weather research, a series of meetings were held with representatives from NASA, ESA, CNES, JAXA (ISAS), and Nagoya University-ISEE. One major outcome of those meetings is the formation of the IHDEA to guide the development of an open heliophysics data environment.

The IHDEA vision entails enabling the international heliophysics research community to seamlessly find, access, and use all relevant electronically accessible data sets in accordance with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). The IHDEA will focus on:

1) Enabling efficient exchange of and access to the diverse data products obtained from space missions, ground-based experiments, and models;

2) Fostering coordinated development of existing and future heliophysics standards for data, metadata, and services to enable interoperability; and

3) Promoting and assisting the adoption of the above standards.

The IHDEA recognizes standardization and interoperability efforts by international bodies in other domains and will coordinate and collaborate with them when appropriate. Further information about the IHDEA (reviewing the Charter and Bylaws documents, becoming an active member with voting rights, and subscribing to news) can be found on its website: https://ihdea.net.

With best wishes,

Shing F. Fung (NASA GSFC)
Arnaud Masson (TpZ for ESA)
Aaron Roberts (NASA GSFC)
Todd King (UCLA)
Christophe Arviset (ESA)
Guido de Marchi (ESA)
Yoshizumi Miyoshi (Nagoya University-ISEE)
Baptiste Cecconi (Observatoire de Paris)


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Bhanu Remya won the 2019 Parvez Guzdar Award

From: Bruce Tsurutani (bruce.tsurutani at gmail.com)

Prof. Bhanu Remya has won the 2019 Parvez Guzdar award for young Indian scientists working anywhere in the world.  The award is for research contributions in plasma physics and/or controlled fusion. Prof. Remya is from the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Navi Mumbai and works in space plasmas.  The award is given by the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) in Ahmedabad, India.  Her email address is remyaphysics at gmail.com.


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MEETING: Webex for Balloon-Relativistic-Accelerator Meeting, December 8

From: Joe borovsky (jborovsky at spacescience.org)

The meeting will be 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Sunday December 8 in the Gold Rush B room at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway. The Holiday Inn Golden Gateway is at 1500 Van Ness Avenue, at Pine Street.

The format will be an open discussion. Things we would like to discuss include science that could be accomplished, feasibility issues, instrumentation, logistics, etc.

For those who cannot attend, the Webex address is
https://lanl-us.webex.com/lanl-us/j.php?MTID=m5b07d6a6552a9897c414cee71c94f129
Meeting number: 802 735 635

Gian Luca (delzanno at lanl.gov) will be controlling the Webex session.


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MEETING: The 9th VERSIM workshop at Kyoto University, March 23-27, 2020, Uji, Kyoto, Japan --Abstract Deadline Extended to December 20

From: Yoshiharu Omura (omura at rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp)

ANNOUNCEMENT:
The 9th VERSIM Workshop will be held at the Uji Campus of Kyoto
University, Japan, from March 23 to 27, 2020.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE:
http://pcwave.rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp/versim/

SCIENTIFIC TOPICS:
Plasma structures and boundaries - morphology and dynamics
Wave-particle and wave-wave interactions
Wave-induced particle precipitation
Wave propagation in magnetosphere and ionosphere
Sprites and the effects of lightning on the ionosphere
Results of recent space missions such as Arase, MMS, and Van Allen Probes

Scientific Program Committee:
Jacob Bortnik (UCLA, USA)
Mark A. Clilverd (British Antarctic Survey, UK)
Craig Rodger (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Janos Lichtenberger (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary)
Jyrki Manninen (University of Oulu, Finland)
Andrei G. Demekhov (Polar Geophysical Institute, Russia)
Rajesh Singh (Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, India)
Binbin Ni (Wuhan University, China)
Yoshiharu Omura (Kyoto University, Japan)

INVITED SPEAKERS
Oleksiy Agpitov / Narges Ahmadi / Jay Albert / Daniel Baker / Michael Balikhin / 
Robert Bingham / James Burch / Gerard Chanteur / Lunjin Chen / Chris Crabtree / 
Mei-Ching Fok / John Foster / Huishan Fu / Gurudas Gangli / Mark Golkowski / 
Mitsuru Hikishima / Richard Horne / Masahiro Hoshino / Allison Jaynes / 
Shrikanth Kanekal / Satoshi Kasahara / Yoshiya Kasahara / Yuto Katoh / 
Khan-Hyuk Kim / Craig Kletzing / Guan Le / Lou-Chuang Lee / Wen Li / Xinlin Li / 
Quanming Lu / James McCollough / Evgeny Mishin / Yoshizumi Miyoshi / 
Frantisek Nemec / Toshi Nishimura / Dennis Papodopoulos / Geoff Reeves / 
Jean-Francois Ripoll / Ondrej Santolik / Kazuo Shiokawa / David Shklyar / 
Xin Tao / Bruce Tsurutani / Weichao Tu / Drew Turner / Maria Usanova / 
Frederick Wilder / Xu-Zhi Zhou / Qiu-Gang Zong

E-mail inquiries about the meeting should be directed to
versim2020 at rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp


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Graduate Student Positions in Electrical Engineering and Space Physics at Virginia Tech

From: Joseph Baker, Mike Ruohoniemi (jo.baker at vt.edu)

The SuperDARN HF radar group at Virginia Tech (VT) is looking to fill multiple Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) positions for students to pursue a PhD in Electrical Engineering (EE) with a research emphasis on Space Physics and Ionospheric Radar Techniques. Candidates should already have a BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Space Physics, Physics, or other related fields.  Primary research activities will utilize SuperDARN HF radar data in conjunction with other ground- and space-based datasets to investigate the physics of the near-Earth space environment. Academic requirements for the PhD degree include a minimum of 30 credit hours of graduate courses, primarily in Electrical Engineering. All students are also expected to participate in various radar operations support activities, such as radar maintenance, construction, hardware prototyping, data distribution, and software development. 

Interested applicants should contact Joseph Baker (jo.baker at vt.edu) and/or Mike Ruohoniemi (mikeruo at vt.edu). The nominal start date is the beginning of the Fall 2020 semester but positions will be filled as suitable candidates are identified.

The VT SuperDARN Group is affiliated with the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Center for Space Science and Engineering Research (Space at VT). 

Additional information about VT SuperDARN can be found at http://superdarn.org

Additional information about Space at VT can be found at https://www.space.vt.edu/

Additional information about the ECE PhD Application Process can be found at https://ece.vt.edu/grad/phdadmissions


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Online Archive of SPA Newsletter

From: Editor (pchi at igpp.ucla.edu)

A recent change of the AGU website has removed its online archive of the SPA Newsletter. We are contacting AGU to understand whether this problem can be resolved. In the meantime, you can find past issues of the SPA Newsletter (as early as August 2014) at the following UCLA website:

http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/pipermail/spa/  

We apologize for any inconvenience that this change has caused.


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