[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXVI, Issue 54

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXVI, Issue 54
Sep.25,2019

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Table of Contents

1. Comment Period For Proposed AGU Position Statements on Data and on Climate

2. Apply for "The PI Launchpad: From Science Idea to NASA Mission"

3. MEETING: Python in Heliophysics Fall 2019 Meeting, Boulder, CO, 4-6 November 2019

4. MEETING: SCOSTEP’s 15th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium (STP-15), Alibag, India, February 21-25, 2022

5. Special Issue on Southward IMF GEM Challenge: Deadline Extended to 15 November

6. Solar Physics Topical Collection: Reminder

7. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Position at Imperial College London, Global Magnetospheric Modelling

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


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Comment Period For Proposed AGU Position Statements on Data and on Climate

From: Paul Cassak (Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu)

AGU is has drafted two new position statements - one on scientific data and one on the climate crisis.  There is a comment period for both statement that has already begun, and will continue until October 13.  Please consider commenting on one or both before the deadline.  The statements and the site to make comments are 

https://www.agu.org/Share-and-Advocate/Share/policymakers/position-statements-member-review.


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Apply for "The PI Launchpad:  From Science Idea to NASA Mission"

From: Jared Leisner (jared.s.leisner at nasa.gov)

Dear Colleague,

NASA, the University of Arizona and the Heising-Simons Foundation are organizing a workshop in Tucson, AZ for researchers and engineers who would like to submit a NASA space mission proposal in the next few years but don’t know where to start. We are interested in broadening the pool of potential NASA space mission PI’s. People with marginalized identities are strongly encouraged to apply. There is no cost to attend the workshop and travel, meals, and lodging for non-NASA participants will be covered by the Heising-Simons Foundation.

Launchpad applications and instructions on how to apply are available on the NSPIRES page for this opportunity. Applications may be submitted via NSPIRES until 11:59 pm Eastern Time on October 4th, 2019. All applications must be submitted as a "Notice of Intent" via NSPIRES as a self-contained PDF file that includes your name, organization, and contact information. To submit an application, an NSPIRES account is required. To create a new account, please see the NSPIRES User Registration Page.

Additional details are below. Answers to FAQs are available at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/pi-launchpad. Please share this message with others who may be interested.

**The PI Launchpad:  From Science Idea to NASA Mission

Important Dates:

Applications due on NSPIRES: October 4th, 2019
Selections made no later than: October 21st, 2019
Workshop Dates: November 18th-20th, 2019
Workshop Location: University of Arizona Campus, Tucson, AZ

Workshop description:

Are you thinking about developing your first flight mission proposal in the next few years but have no idea where to start? If you are a researcher in any NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) discipline who wants to take your career to the next level but have not yet held a leadership position on mission proposals or large science teams, this is the workshop for you. Join us November 18 - 20, 2019 in Tucson, AZ for Launchpad: an expenses-paid three-day workshop that will teach you the skills to get your mission idea off the ground.

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD), in partnership with the University of Arizona and the Heising-Simons Foundation, will host Launchpad to guide participants through turning their science question into a mission concept. Participants will go step-by-step through the process of developing a science case, defining requirements, building a team, securing partnerships, and obtaining support from the home institution. Participants will also have time for networking and personal reflection as they mature their mission concepts.

We are interested in broadening the pool of potential NASA space mission PI’s. People with potentially intersecting marginalized identities are strongly encouraged to apply. There is no cost to attend the workshop and travel, meals, and lodging for non-NASA participants will be covered by the Heising-Simons Foundation.

We will select between 35-40 participants from the pool of applicants. For those not selected, we are planning to hold additional Launchpads in 2020 and beyond. Applicants should be currently at US institutions.

Please visit the NSPIRES page (link below) to apply and watch https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/pi-launchpad for new announcements. 

Please email questions to hq-smd-piworkshop at mail.nasa.gov.

NSPIRES page: https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId={DFEE66D5-CBD9-0B17-4BF0-1F2B9D723E9D}&path=&method=init

NSPIRES user registration page: https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/aboutRegistration.do;jsessionid=JO47L-TkMw5Z_lpIFVYzCi28iCUB4u63XDrbadI-GmGMpXbodYsZ!1419207557!wnp1.nasaprs.com!7006!-1!363414256!wnp2.nasaprs.com!7006!-1


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MEETING: Python in Heliophysics Fall 2019 Meeting, Boulder, CO, 4-6 November 2019

From: David Stansby (d.stansby at ucl.ac.uk)

Please see below for the announcement of the Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Fall 2019 meeting:

The Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Fall 2019 meeting will take place at LASP in Boulder, CO, 4-6 November 2019. The 4th (Mon) and the 5th (Tues) are full days, while the 6th (Wed) is a half day. All days will have coffee/snacks provided, while full days will also feature catered lunches.

This meeting focuses on delving further into topics brought up in the Spring 2019 meeting, as well as considering several other relevant themes brought up since said meeting. We will be revisiting PyHC governance and standards, discussing funding opportunities for PyHC and PyHC community members' funded projects, and discussing and working in tandem on various other topics deemed important by the PyHC group. The meeting will generate a report with findings and recommendations that will be presented to the community.

For more information and to register see http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/pyhc-meeting/


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MEETING: SCOSTEP’s 15th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium (STP-15), Alibag, India, February 21-25, 2022

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

We are happy to announce that the SCOSTEP’s 15th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium (STP-15) will be held at Alibag, India, on February 21-25, 2022.  

The Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) organizes the Solar-Terrestrial Physics (STP) symposium once every four years. SCOSTEP is engaged in three major activities: long-term scientific programs, capacity building and public outreach. The scientific programs are of interdisciplinary nature involving scientists from around the world. They are designed to advance our understanding of the solar-terrestrial relationship using space- and ground-based observations, cutting-edge models and theory.  Under what ways the Sun affects the Earth and its environment over various time scales is the underlying theme of the scientific programs pursued under SCOSTEP. Having addressed the variability component during the recently concluded Variability of the Sun and its Terrestrial Impact (VarSITI) program, the new program of SCOSTEP, Predictability of the variable Solar-Terrestrial Coupling (PRESTO, 2020-2024, http://www.issibj.ac.cn/Publications/Forum_Reports/201404/W020190620592906717714.pdf.), address the predictability component of those phenomena that have impact on the Sun-Earth system as a whole in various time scales. 

The STP-15 will aim to gather eminent scientists from solar, magnetospheric, ionospheric and atmospheric physics communities to discuss and deliberate on the cutting-edge sciences pertaining to STP. STP-15 will address the predictability as a focus area in each of the traditional topics deliberated upon during the earlier STP meetings, namely, the mass and radiation chains and intra-atmospheric coupling. 

Please put the date of STP-15 into your calendar, and prepare to join in with the new SCOSTEP program PRESTO.  

With best regards, 
Kazuo Shiokawa, SCOSTEP President 
Daniel Marsh, SCOSTEP Vice President 
Nat Gopalswamy, SCOSTEP Past President 
Patricia Doherty, SCOSTEP Scientific Secretary
SCOSTEP Bureau members and their liaison organization: Aude Chambodut (WDS), Jorge Chau (URSI) , Kyung-Suk Cho (IAU), Yoshizumi Miyoshi (COSPAR), Renata Lukianova (IAGA), Annika Seppala (SCAR), Prasad Subramanian (IUPAP), and Peter Pilewskie (IAMAS)
S. Gurubaran, LOC chair (Indian Institute of Geomagnetism)


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Special Issue on Southward IMF GEM Challenge: Deadline Extended to 15 November

From: Andrew P. Dimmock (andy at irfu.se)

The submission deadline for the special issue on the dayside kinetic southward IMF GEM challenge has been extended to 15 November 2019. 

Details of the event can be found on the CCMC webpage: https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/support/GEM/Dayside_Kinetic_Processes/Dayside_Kinetic_Challenge/Introduction.php. The special issue is joint between JGR-Space Physics and Earth and Space Science. Therefore, submissions can be the subject of new scientific results (JGR), or of a more technical nature (Earth and Space Science) which provide a contribution to the community. The issue information can be found here: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/23335084/call-for-papers.html 

Please note that the issue is open to all, so even those who have not participated in our challenge are welcome. For example, we encourage submissions which may have focused on a similar event or southward IMF in general.

If you would like more details, please contact one of the special issue organisers below.

Organisers: Heli Hietala (heli at igpp.ucla.edu), Andrew P. Dimmock (andy at irfu.se), or Ying Zou (yz0025 at uah.edu).

We look forward to reading your papers!


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Solar Physics Topical Collection: Reminder

From: Hebe Cremades (hebe.cremades at frm.utn.edu.ar)

Topical Collection of Solar Physics “Towards Future Research on the Drivers of Space Weather”

We remind you that the deadline for submission of statements of interest (SOI) for including manuscripts in this Topical Collection of the Solar Physics Journal is 30 September 2019. SOIs should contain a tentative title, abstract, author list, and three suggestions for referees, preferably with e-mail. The deadline for submission of full manuscripts is 15 December 2019.

This Topical Collection is inspired after the subjects discussed in the meeting held in San Juan, Argentina, in occasion of the total solar eclipse on 2 July 2019. It must be noted that this Topical Collection is not a conference proceedings and all submissions must be completed original papers that meet the regular quality of the journal. Although participants of the recent FReSWeD meeting are especially encouraged to submit their papers, the Topical Collection is open to all scientists who would like to advance our understanding on space weather drivers. Some of the topics are:

-Phenomena and structures affecting space weather, from the solar interior to the lower solar atmosphere
-Energy release in the low solar atmosphere
-Eruptive phenomena initiation and consequences
-Coronal mass ejections
-Solar energetic particles
-Radio emissions
-Radiation variation of short time-scale
-Coronal large-scale structuring and coupling with the solar wind
-Interplanetary space weather drivers
-Tools and simulations for space weather predictions
-Missions and instrumentation with space weather applications
-Scientific issues and questions to be answered by the observation of total solar eclipses

For further information and submission of statements of interest, please send an email to hebe.cremades at frm.utn.edu.ar and Teresa.Nieves at nasa.gov.

Hebe Cremades (Guest Editor)
Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla (Guest Editor)
Cristina Mandrini (Handling Editor in Chief) 


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Position at Imperial College London, Global Magnetospheric Modelling

From: Jonathan Eastwood (jonathan.eastwood at imperial.ac.uk)

Post-doctoral Research Assistant/Associate in Global Magnetospheric Modelling
Imperial College London, Space and Atmospheric Physics, working with Dr. Jonathan Eastwood
Deadline 11-October-2019
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/NAT00533/research-assistantassociate-space-physics

Applications are invited for a Research Assistant/Associate within the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group of the Department of Physics. You will be required to perform, analyse and interpret high performance computer simulations of the Earth’s magnetosphere using global modelling (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/space-and-atmospheric-physics/research/areas/space-weather/). The primary aim of the work is to better understand the behaviour of the solar wind magnetosphere interaction during space weather events. The work will focus on modelling the magnetospheric and ionospheric conditions that are associated with strong geomagnetically induced currents on the surface of the Earth. The work will involve using a variety of computer simulation codes developed in the physics department at Imperial College together with high performance computing services including Imperial’s CX1 system and the UKRI/NERC ARCHER system. The work will be performed in the context of a UKRI/NERC-funded consortium led by the British Geological Survey (SWIGS http://swigs.bgs.ac.uk/) whose goal is to radically improve our understanding of how space weather affects ground-based technology through the production of geomagnetically induced currents.

For questions or queries please contact jonathan.eastwood at imperial.ac.uk


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