[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXVI, Issue 53
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SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXVI, Issue 53
Sep.17,2019
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Table of Contents
1. MEETING: 43rd COSPAR Assmebly, Sydney, Australia, 15 - 22 August 2020
2. MEETING: COSPAR ISWAT Inaugural Working Meeting - Save the Date Announcement - 10-14 February 2020
3. Webinar: Analyzing MMS Data with SPEDAS
4. Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellowship
5. JOB OPENING: Tenure Track Faculty Position in Engineering Physics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Daytona Beach Campus
6. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Fellow in Space Physics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada
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Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g
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MEETING: 43rd COSPAR Assmebly, Sydney, Australia, 15 - 22 August 2020
From: Editor (editor at igpp.ucla.edu)
The 43rd Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) will be held in Sydney, Australia from 15 - 22 August 2020.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 14 February 2020. The conference website is now accepting abstracts at http://www.cospar2020.org/abstracts.php.
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MEETING: COSPAR ISWAT Inaugural Working Meeting - Save the Date Announcement - 10-14 February 2020
From: Barbara J. Thompson (barbara.j.thompson at nasa.gov)
COSPAR ISWAT Inaugural Working Meeting - Save the Date Announcement - 10-14 February 2020
The inaugural working meeting of the COSPAR International Space Weather Action Teams (ISWAT) will be held 10-14 February 2020 at the Radisson Resort, Port Canaveral, Florida, USA. Information about the ISWAT initiative is available at: https://iswat-cospar.org/. This meeting also comes inside the current launch window of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft from nearby Cape Canaveral.
ISWAT consists of Teams that focus on a variety of key problems and topics in space weather research and forecasting. The Teams are organised into Clusters (by domain, phenomena, impact, or overarching activities), to facilitate collaboration and ensure complementarity. On the website you can register a new Team (and in the near future, request to join existing teams). Team registration is open to all established and newly-formed teams focused on different aspects of space weather.
The COSPAR ISWAT initiative is built upon its precursor - the International Forum on Space Weather Capabilities Assessment (https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/assessment/) initiated during the 2017 International CCMC - LWS Working Meeting: “Assessing Space Weather Understanding and Applications” (https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/CCMC-LWS_Meeting/). The progress of Forum working teams is highlighted in the AGU Space Weather Journal special issue: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1542-7390.SW_CASS. Active Forum Teams are anticipated to register into ISWAT and to participate in the February 2020 ISWAT Meeting. Success of the working meeting and the ISWAT initiative depends on active involvement of team leads, cluster moderators, and participants in meeting preparation and all follow-on activities.
The 10-14 February 2020 ISWAT meeting will:
- Allow Teams and Clusters to meet to establish their respective goals and plans;
- Consolidate existing Teams, foster new Teams, and form a platform for the overarching activities and for the Teams to work together within and across Clusters;
- Facilitate establishment of multi-disciplinary space weather community by bringing together experts in space weather phenomena and space environment impacts, model and application developers, data providers and forecasters.
- Allow us to understand the needs of the user communities and space weather impacts, and to set targets for scientists and Teams to address;
- Allow us to understand and assess constituent data and models;
Expand on-going community-wide research projects and jump-start new campaigns;
- Set the stage for ISWAT’s future, understand how Teams and Clusters must interact in order to achieve long-term objectives; and
- Develop approach to updating the COSPAR global space weather roadmap into a living document.
Registration information will be posted on the website by early October 2019 at the latest, followed by a preliminary schedule by the end of October 2019. We envisage around 100-150 participants and have 10 breakout rooms available at the venue. Everyone is welcome to join ISWAT and to attend the meeting - and to come to the meeting with a view to joining one or more existing Teams if you haven’t already done so in advance.
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Webinar: Analyzing MMS Data with SPEDAS
From: Eric Grimes, Jim Lewis, Vassilis Angelopoulos and the SPEDAS team (egrimes at igpp.ucla.edu)
The SPEDAS development team invites you to a webinar we'll be holding on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern. The focus of this webinar will be on MMS analysis tools in SPEDAS.
Topic: Analyzing MMS Data with SPEDAS
Time: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern
Tentative agenda:
1) Ephemeris/Coordinates Data
2) FIELDS Data
3) EPD (FEEPS/EIS) Data
4) Plasma (FPI/HPCA) Data
If there are any topics of interest you would like to see covered, please email: egrimes at igpp.ucla.edu.
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Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellowship
From: Kendra Greb (kgreb at ucar.edu)
Application Deadline: January 17, 2020
UCAR is pleased to announce the 2020 call for applications for the Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellowship program sponsored by NASA’s Living with a Star (LWS) program. These fellowships are designed to train the next generation of researchers in the emerging field of heliophysics.
Heliophysics embraces all aspects of the Sun-Solar System, and includes many of the basic physical processes found in the laboratory, the solar system, and throughout the universe. These processes generally involve the interactions of ionized gases (plasmas) with gravitational and electro-magnetic fields, and with neutral matter. The physical domain of heliophysics ranges from deep inside the Sun to the Earth’s upper atmosphere.
Jack Eddy Fellowships provide a unique opportunity to go where few have gone before! Fellows are UCAR employees and receive a fixed annual salary, UCAR’s extensive benefits package, and allowances for relocation, travel and publications. Appointments will be announced by April 1, 2020.
To apply for the fellowship and for more information and please visit: https://cpaess.ucar.edu/heliophysics/jack-eddy/how-postdocs-apply
Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
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JOB OPENING: Tenure Track Faculty Position in Engineering Physics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Daytona Beach Campus
From: Alan Liu (alan.liu at erau.edu)
The Department of Physical Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Daytona Beach Campus invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position emphasizing space- or ground-based instrumentation and systems engineering in the areas of atmospheric, geospace, planetary or astronomical sciences. This 9-month tenure-track position will be at the rank of assistant professor. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in any related discipline. The preferred start date for the position is January 5, 2020, but a start date in fall of 2020 would be considered. The successful candidate must demonstrate the ability to develop a productive and vigorous externally-funded research program, as well as possess the enthusiasm and drive to teach and mentor both undergraduate and graduate students.
The Physical Sciences Department, comprising approximately 35 faculty members, is home to one of the leading ABET-accredited undergraduate Engineering Physics programs in the US, as well as growing BS Space Physics, BS Astronomy & Astrophysics, MS Engineering Physics, and PhD Engineering Physics programs. The Department also delivers physics, astronomy and chemistry service courses to other majors.
Applications will be reviewed as they are received, with full consideration assured for those received by September 30, 2019. Please submit applications online, including a cover letter, full CV, statements of teaching philosophy and research interests, as well as the names, telephone numbers and email addresses of at least three professional references. Please submit all application materials at https://careers.erau.edu/, requisition #190125.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is committed to providing equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for qualified individuals. The university does not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Embry-Riddle is also committed to diversity and inclusion in higher education. We continually strive to recognize, respect and celebrate the differences and cultural identities among individuals as we recruit, support, and embrace our diverse community. We work to provide a safe environment where self-expression is welcome. We strive to create a campus climate free of discrimination so that networks, partnerships and cultural competency continue to be fostered through leadership, integrity, care and respect.
Inquiries may be addressed to:
Terry D. Oswalt, Ph.D.
Chair, Dept. Physical Sciences
Office: (386) 226-7571
terry.oswalt at erau.edu
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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Fellow in Space Physics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada
From: Danny Summers (dsummers at mun.ca)
A position of Postdoctoral Fellow in Space Physics is available in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in space physics, plasma physics, or related field. Experience is required in one or more of the following: radiation belt physics, Earth's magnetosphere, solar wind, planetary magnetospheres, kinetic theory, MHD, computer simulations. Initial
appointment is for one year, renewable subject to satisfactory performance and budget. Please send letter of application, statement of research interests and CV, and have three letters of reference sent, to Professor Danny Summers, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada A1C 5S7.
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