[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXVII, Issue 76

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXVII, Issue 76
Dec.09,2020

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Table of Contents

1. Parker Solar Probe at AGU - Slack Discussions

2. Interstellar Probe Webinar 10 December at 12PM EST - Interstellar Dust Grains: Galactic Messengers

3. Upcoming SHIELD Webinar: Coming From Far Away Lands: How different backgrounds Shape their Careers - Jan 8, 2021 1PM EST

4. Call for Proposal: ISEE Nagoya University Joint Research/Workshop (FY2021)

5. CALL FOR PAPERS: GRL/JGR/SWE Special Section on "Probing the Magnetosphere through Magnetoseismology and Ultra-Low-Frequency Waves" – Last Call

6. CALL FOR PAPERS: Topical Collection of Solar Physics on "Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Waves and Oscillations in the Sun’s Corona and MHD Coronal Seismology"

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


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Parker Solar Probe at AGU - Slack Discussions

From: Kristoff Paulson (kristoff.paulson at cfa.harvard.edu)

Hello AGU Fall Meeting attendees,

As the pre-recorded portions of the oral sessions will be viewed asynchronously this year, we as chairs of the PSP sessions (SH052 and SH054) invite you to participate in discussion of the talks prior to the live sessions held on Wednesday December 16th. The live sessions will have limited periods for Q&A, so we encourage audience members to join us at heliophysicsworkshops.slack.com beforehand for coordinated viewings of the talks as well as posing any questions we can direct towards the authors. We plan to actively host sessions during the afternoons of December 9th and 10th, but invite interested attendees to take part as available.

This workspace can be joined at:

https://join.slack.com/t/heliophysicsworkshops/shared_invite/zt-jfpfiimv-8I0tssh_l7KrhPesAe6vZg


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Interstellar Probe Webinar 10 December at 12PM EST - Interstellar Dust Grains: Galactic Messengers

From: Andrea S. Harman (ams573 at alumni.psu.edu)

Please join the Interstellar Probe Study team for another installment of the Interstellar Probe Webinar Series on Thursday, 10 December at 12:00PM EST.

Title: 
Interstellar Dust Grains: Galactic Messengers

Panelists:
Pontus Brandt, Project Scientist, Interstellar Probe Study, JHUAPL
Bruce Draine, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
Veerle Sterken, Senior Research Assistant, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Abstract:
Dust grains from the local interstellar medium are entering the heliosphere as we speak. It is natural to presume that these grains will have properties (sizes and compositions) representative of dust in the general diffuse interstellar medium of our Galaxy. An Interstellar Probe mission to the edge of our Heliosphere and beyond would provide a unique opportunity to directly sample these grains, unaffected by the magnetic deflections of the inner heliosphere. Measurements of the mass distribution of the grains and their composition would test and differentiate between different models for interstellar dust. This webinar will discuss these measurement opportunities and the open questions of dust science in the solar system and beyond.

Following the presentations there will be a question and answer session.

To watch this webinar please visit the following event page, which has the Zoom link: http://interstellarprobe.jhuapl.edu/Resources/Meetings/agenda.php?id=96

Also, please visit the following link to watch recordings of the previous webinars: http://interstellarprobe.jhuapl.edu/Resources/Webinar-Series/index.php

The JHUAPL Interstellar Probe Study Team


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Upcoming SHIELD Webinar: Coming From Far Away Lands: How different backgrounds Shape their Careers - Jan 8, 2021 1PM EST

From: Stamatios Krimigis , Parisa Mostafavi (shieldoutreach at gmail.com)

Join us for the Upcoming Shield Webinar on Jan 8 2021 - 1pm EST
Coming From Far Away Lands: How different backgrounds Shape their Careers

Speaker: Dr. Stamatios Krimigis 
Dr. Stamatios Krimigis is Emeritus Head of the Space Exploration Sector at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), has built instruments that have flown to all 9 classical planets beginning with Mariner 4 to Mars in 1965, and is Principal Investigator on NASA’s Voyager 1, 2. Among his most recent awards are the National Air and Space Museum Trophy for Lifetime Achievement (2015), the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (2016), and the Theodore von Karman Award (2017) of the International Academy of Astronautics. He has published more than 630 papers in peer–reviewed journals and books and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Physical Society (APS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Speaker: Parisa Mostafavi
Parisa Mostafavi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory interested in investigating the structure and properties of the solar wind plasma both in the heliosphere and the interstellar medium. Parisa is from Iran and she graduated from Science and research university in Tehran with a BS in Engineering Physics (minor in plasma). Parisa got an MS in Plasma Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. Then she immigrated to the USA in 2014 to follow her dreams in a space science major. She got an MS in Space Science from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). She was awarded her Ph.D. in Space Science, supported by the NASA Earth and Space Sciences Graduate Research Fellowship, at UAH under the advisement of Prof. GaryZank.Parisa received numerous awards and recognitions during the past years. She was recognized by the Dean of graduate studies at UAH for the Academic Excellence Award every year from 2015 to 2019. She also received the UAH College of Science Graduate Research Award in 2019. Recently, Parisa received the prestigious Fred L. Scarf Award which is given annually to one honoree in recognition of an outstanding dissertation that contributes directly to solar–planetary science. She is an honorary member of Phi–Kappa–Phi. She spent the last year of her Ph.D. working with Prof. Dave McComas at Princeton University where she was awarded the Visiting Student Research Collaborator position. She continued her collaboration with the Space Physics group at Princeton as a Visiting Research Collaborator. Her work focused on shock waves mediated by energetic particles. She developed a theoretical model and a numerical code to investigate the structure of the shock waves in the presence of the energetic particles in the heliosphere and the very local interstellar medium. Parisa Mostafavi has started working at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2019. She is currently working on many interesting projects such as modeling the inner heliosphere, analyzing the Parker Solar Probe data, and working on the future Interstellar Probe mission.

Friday, January 8 , 2021 - 1:00pm EST
Registration link: https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtcOGspjIvGdUSJErVO4pQGtMxlCgOm7Od


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Call for Proposal: ISEE Nagoya University Joint Research/Workshop (FY2021)

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

The Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, Japan, has announced an opportunity of
(1) International Joint Research Program
(2) ISEE International Workshop

for the fiscal year 2021.

For (1), the ISEE supports researchers working outside of Japan to visit ISEE to make 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, 2021.

For details, please visit the following website.
http://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/co-re-application.html


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CALL FOR PAPERS: GRL/JGR/SWE Special Section on "Probing the Magnetosphere through Magnetoseismology and Ultra-Low-Frequency Waves" – Last Call

From: Peter Chi, Kazue Takahashi, and Alfredo Del Corpo (pchi at igpp.ucla.edu)

As the AGU Fall Meeting is in progress, we would like to remind interested authors that the special section of AGU journals, including GRL, JGR-Space Physics, and Space Weather, continue to accept manuscripts on magnetospheric seismology and ULF waves through December 31, 2020.

If you have a related article under review by one of these three AGU journals but currently not linked to this special section, we will be happy to assist you in coordinating with the associated Editorial Office.

The scope of this special section is as follows:

GRL/JGR-A/SWE Special Section:
Probing the Magnetosphere through Magnetoseismology and Ultra-Low-Frequency Waves

The vast magnetosphere can experience a variety of impulses and fluctuations at ultra low frequencies (ULF) that result from the interaction with the solar wind or internal resonances and wave-particle interactions. These continuous or impulsive perturbations provide a unique way to probe the state of and physical processes in the magnetosphere. In particular, two magnetoseismic methods have been well demonstrated for investigation of the magnetosphere. Observations of the widespread field line resonance in the magnetosphere show the variability of the plasmasphere in timescales ranging from within an hour to over a solar cycle. Timing impulse arrivals has enabled new capability of remotely monitoring sudden impulses and substorm onsets, which are important magnetospheric phenomena but rarely measured on site. The occurrence of certain ULF wave types, such as electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves or long-period poloidal waves, can imply the existence of warm plasma populations. This special issue solicits all papers that use magnetoseismology and/or ULF waves to explore the magnetosphere.


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CALL FOR PAPERS: Topical Collection of Solar Physics on "Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Waves and Oscillations in the Sun’s Corona and MHD Coronal Seismology"

From: Dmitrii Kolotkov (D.Kolotkov.1 at warwick.ac.uk)

We solicit manuscripts on this general subject for inclusion in a Topical Collection of Solar Physics. The deadline for submission of statements of interest (SOI) with a tentative title, abstract, author list, and three suggestions for referees (preferably with e-mail) is 30 January 2021. The deadline for manuscript submission is 15 July 2021.

This Topical Issue is an outgrowth of the conference "MHD Coronal Seismology 2020: Twenty Years of Probing the Sun’s Corona with MHD Waves", held online in December 2020:
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/cfsa/people/kolotkov/coronal-seismology-2020.
This Topical Collection is not a conference proceedings, and it is not limited to research presented at the conference. All submissions must be completed original papers that meet the regular quality of the Journal. The Topical Collection can start off with one or two invited reviews to summarise the subject and frame the work in the research papers which follow. Please consult
https://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/11207?tabName=topicalCollections,
for the recent Topical Collections. Topics to be included in the Topical Collection are:

- Decaying kink and sausage oscillations and waves in the corona
- Decayless kink oscillations of coronal loops
- Slow magnetoacoustic waves in coronal loops
- Coronal heating and implications of thermodynamic activity of the corona for MHD waves
- Nonlinear effects of coronal MHD waves: observational manifestations and theoretical modelling
- Coronal MHD waves and magnetic reconnection in the solar atmosphere
- MHD waves in a lower solar atmosphere
- MHD waves in open coronal structures and global wave phenomena
- Oscillations in coronal filaments and prominences
- Novel techniques and approaches in coronal seismology
- Multi-wavelength observations (from radio to gamma-rays) and modelling of quasi-periodic pulsations in solar and stellar flares

For further information, and submission of statements of interest, please contact <sola.coronal.waves.seismo at gmail.com> (John Leibacher, Dmitrii Kolotkov, Bo Li).

John Leibacher (Solar Physics editor), Dmitrii Kolotkov (guest editor), Bo Li (guest editor).


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