[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXVII, Issue 39

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXVII, Issue 39
Jun.30,2020

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Table of Contents

1. JGR – Space Physics Grand Challenge Papers

2. MEETING: 2020 Virtual GEM Summer Workshop (VGEM): Announcement

3. MEETING: Outer Planet Moon-magnetosphere Interaction Workshop: Abstract Deadline Extended

4. Submission Deadline Change: Frontiers Special Issue “The Role of Turbulence in the Solar Wind, Magnetosphere, Ionosphere Dynamics”

5. SESSION: VGEM Discussion Session of the ‘Impact of the cold plasma in magnetospheric physics’  Focus Grouop

6. INPE's Online Seminar: The radiation belts of Jupiter: open science questions, in-situ exploration and technical challenges

7. JOB OPENING: Physical Scientist/ZP-1301-5/ NOAA NESDIS Office of Projects, Planning, and Analysis (OPPA)/Silver Spring, MD 

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


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JGR – Space Physics Grand Challenge Papers

From: Larry Kepko, Mike Liemohn (Larry.kepko at nasa.gov)

As part of the AGU Centennial Celebration, all AGU journals were asked to solicit manuscripts to address “Grand Challenges in the Earth and Space Sciences”. The full collection, spanning all AGU disciplines, can be found here:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1944-9208.GRANDCHAL1

JGR-Space Physics solicited four manuscripts. By design, these papers were not meant to be ‘standard’ review papers. While each paper provides an excellent overview of the state of understanding, the authors were tasked with highlighting outstanding questions in their respective disciplines, and to be ‘forward looking’. Rod Heelis and Astrid Maute provide an in-depth but accessible overview of the complex Ionosphere-Thermosphere system, while highlighting the challenges and obstacles of understanding this critical, underexplored region just above our heads. Michael Hesse and Paul Cassak review the universal process of magnetic reconnection, with a twin focus of making the concept of magnetic reconnection understandable for a broad audience while providing a comprehensive outlook of future research directions, including simulations, observations, and laboratory experiments. Wen Li and Mary Hudson summarize the incredible advances in understanding Earth’s radiation belts, and outline the major outstanding questions still remaining. Finally, Nicki Viall and Joe Borovsky discuss 9 key questions of solar wind physics, and provide a new framework for understanding the release and acceleration of solar wind plasma.

These papers provide a fantastic resource for those just starting out, for experts looking to be inspired, or for researchers simply looking to expand their knowledge of our collective discipline. We thank the authors for their hard work on this project, and we hope you enjoy reading these special papers.

Challenges to Understanding the Earth’s Ionosphere and Thermosphere
By R. Heelis and A. Maute
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019JA027497

Magnetic Reconnection in the Space Sciences: Past, Present, and Future
By M. Hesse and P. Cassak
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JA025935

Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belts: From Discovery to the Van Allen Probes Era
By W. Li and M. Hudson
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JA025940

Nine Outstanding Questions of Solar Wind Physics
By N. Viall and J. Borovsky
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JA026005

Larry Kepko
Mike Liemohn
Past Editors, JGR – Space Physics


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MEETING: 2020 Virtual GEM Summer Workshop (VGEM): Announcement

From: Chia-Lin Huang, Christopher Mouikis (Chia-Lin.Huang at unh.edu)

As we are less than a month away from this year’s Virtual GEM Summer Workshop (VGEM, July 20-23), we would like to remind you of the following:

* The Poster Title Submission deadline is July 10th.  It has been a tradition of the GEM summer workshops to host a great number of posters, providing students and young scientists a platform to showcase and discuss their research.  The virtual workshop format should not deter us from continuing this important tradition.  For more information on the poster submission process and presentation format, please visit https://gemworkshop.org/pages/posters.php.

* In order to be able to access the password-protected virtual meeting site, you must register at the GEM Workshop site: https://gemworkshop.org/.  No registration fee is required.

Thank you!


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MEETING: Outer Planet Moon-magnetosphere Interaction Workshop: Abstract Deadline Extended

From: Lina Hadid, Mika Holmberg and Hans Huybrighs (lina.hadid at lpp.polytechnique.fr)

We have extended the deadline for the abstract submission of the Outer planet moon-magnetosphere workshop until the 31st of July 2020. We look forward to welcoming you on November 5-6 2020 at ESA/ESTEC (as announced on the website https://indico.esa.int/event/337/, we might shift to a virtual meeting depending on the COVID19 situation).

The focus of this workshop is the interaction between the outer planet moons in our Solar System and their magnetospheric environment, in preparation of upcoming missions like JUICE and Europa Clipper.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
Upstream and local variability of the moons' magnetospheric environments, interaction processes between magnetospheres and moon' surfaces and exospheres, including the role of dust and the interaction with irregular satellites (for example Thebe and Amalthea).  

Abstracts addressing moon-magnetosphere interaction from all disciplines are welcome, including ground-based and Earth-orbit based observation, simulation results, theory, in-situ and remote sensing data analysis. We welcome results from past missions such as Voyager, Galileo and Cassini-Huygens, and current missions such as Hisaki and Juno.


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Submission Deadline Change: Frontiers Special Issue “The Role of Turbulence in the Solar Wind, Magnetosphere, Ionosphere Dynamics”

From: Joe Borovsky (jborovsky at spacescience.org)

Owing to the COVID-19 impact, the submission deadline for the Frontiers special issue “The Role of Turbulence in the Solar Wind, Magnetosphere, Ionosphere Dynamics” has been moved to October 1, 2019.

The special issue website is:
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/12663/the-role-of-turbulence-in-the-solar-wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere-dynamics

The special issue papers can be submitted to either 
Frontiers in Physics
 or Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Physics

Maria Stepanova (Lead Topic Editor)
Joe Borovsky
Alessandro Retino
Vadim Uritsky
Zoltan Voros
Gaetano Zimbardo


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SESSION: VGEM Discussion Session of the ‘Impact of the cold plasma in magnetospheric physics’  Focus Grouop

From: Gian Luca Delzanno (delzanno at lanl.gov)

Dear Colleagues,

The GEM Focus Group (FG) ‘Impact of the cold plasma in magnetospheric physics’ will have a discussion session at the Virtual GEM meeting (20-23 July 2020) to plan the activities of the FG for subsequent years. The session will be organized with 
1) a short introduction on the goals of the FG, 
2) two scene-setting talks (30 min in total, given by Elena Kronberg and Thom Moore), followed by 
3) ample time for discussions.
The session is scheduled for Thursday July 23rd, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT.

We solicit input from the community on the kind of activities that the FG should develop. Some questions that might be useful to think about and that will be used for the discussion are the following
1. What are the open questions associated with the cold plasma in magnetospheric physics?
2. What kind of measurements are necessary to fully understand the role of the cold plasma in magnetospheric physics?
3. How do we include the impact of the cold plasma in magnetospheric modeling, including global codes?
4. What kind of activities would you like to see carried out in this cold-plasma FG?

Contributed presentations are welcome. They will be limited to one-slide/5-minutes per contribution and we kindly ask you to prepare it as part of the discussion, following one of the four questions mentioned above. We will keep the record of contributions on the FG website. Please contact Gian Luca Delzanno (delzanno at lanl.gov) to submit your contribution.

Here is the link to the FG website where all the activities will be listed:
https://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php/FG:_The_Impact_of_the_Cold_Plasma_in_Magnetospheric_Physics

Gian Luca Delzanno on behalf of the Cold-plasma FG leaders


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INPE's Online Seminar: The radiation belts of Jupiter: open science questions, in-situ exploration and technical challenges

From: Luis Eduardo Antunes Vieira (luis.vieira at inpe.br)

Dr. Quentin Nenon
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley

When: Jul 1, 2020 02:00 PM Sao Paulo 

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsc-Crrz4jH9AGdTtY9yBnJNGlZtY3laXo 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Abstract

Jupiter has the largest and most energetic radiation belts in our solar system. These are populated by electrons, protons and heavy ions that are trapped by the intense magnetic field of the planet and have velocities up to more than 99% the speed of light.
This presentation will give an overview of (1) the past, current and future planned exploration of the Jovian radiation belts by Earth observatories and space missions, and (2) the state of the art on our understanding of the origin of this complex system and its coupling with the Jovian environment: atmosphere, rings, moons, electromagnetic fields and waves.
However, the extremely hazardous environment of the Jovian radiation belts severely limits their in-situ exploration, so that they have kept many of their secrets hidden. In answer to the 2019 and 2020 calls for the Decadal Surveys of the European Space Agency and NASA, an international consortium has formulated seven overarching questions which will not be answered by future planned space missions. We will argue in this presentation why these secrets are worth unveiling for space physics and planetary science. Preliminary considerations for a Van Allen Probe type mission at Jupiter dedicated to the radiation belts will be introduced, as the technical challenges that would have to be overcome.


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JOB OPENING: Physical Scientist/ZP-1301-5/ NOAA NESDIS Office of Projects, Planning, and Analysis (OPPA)/Silver Spring, MD 

From: Elsayed Talaat (elsayed.talaat at noaa.gov)

NOAA is seeking a Project Scientist for the Space Weather Follow-On at L1 Project. The SWFO-L1 Project Scientist will perform the following duties:

    • Act as the Project Scientist for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO) mission and advocate for NOAA on space weather issues and policies.
    • Chair the SWFO Algorithm Working Group and Product Team(s) and oversee operational space weather product definition and development.
    • Ensure SWFO and future space weather instruments, missions, and products fulfill NOAA space weather requirements.
    • Interface with the user, and science community including, National Weather Service (NWS), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and other stakeholders to ensure NOAA space weather products support user and stakeholder needs.
    • Define and oversee verification and validation campaigns for space weather instrument Integration and Test (I&T) as well as Post-launch Test and on-orbit calibration (Cal/Val).

This position will report to NOAA’s Office of Projects, Planning, and Analysis. 

The DHA announcement for one Physical Scientist, ZP-1301-5 position has been posted in the link below. The announcement will open for 14 days; it is set to open on 6/30/2030 and close on 7/14/2020. It will be open for 1 extra day due to Monster Maintenance. 

Job Announcement # (MAP):  NESDIS-2020-0051

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/572174400

Please note per NOAA direct-hire rules, the announcement will be open only for 2 weeks and can only be extended if no qualified candidates respond. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. Payment of relocation incentives may be authorized. 


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