[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXVII, Issue 15

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXVII, Issue 15
Mar.07,2020

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Table of Contents

1. 2020 Fall AGU Meeting - Invitation to Propose a Session

2. JGR Special Section: Geospace multi-point observations in Van Allen Probes and Arase era

3. Heliophysics Mission Design School, Applications Open

4. Heliophysics Phase I DRIVE Science Center Awards

5. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Scholar in Meteor Science and Heliophysics

6. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position at UCL Mullard Space Science Lab

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


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2020 Fall AGU Meeting - Invitation to Propose a Session

From: Christina Lee, Elizabeth MacDonald, Romina Nikoukar (clee at ssl.berkeley.edu)

We invite you to submit your scientific session proposals for the 2020 Fall AGU Meeting at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. This is your opportunity to bring together a group of your colleagues to present the latest results in an area of interest to you. 

We especially encourage session proposals from first-time session planners, early career researchers (including students!) and those under-represented in our field. Conveners who are well-established in the field should consider helping students and/or early career scientists to gain more experience in this role by inviting them to be your co-conveners.  Note that to be a primary convener of a session, you must be a current member of the American Geophysical Union (https://membership.agu.org/join-renew/).

Before submitting your proposal, please check to see if a session on a similar theme has already been submitted. If so, please consider contacting the other session proposers to discuss a merger or rework your session proposal to focus on a unique topic. Proposals with significant overlap may be merged or rejected. You can view existing SPA session submissions here (on the left select the Program of interest, e.g., SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics): 

Existing SPA-Aeronomy Session Submissions:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/Program/2842

Existing SPA-Magnetospheric Physics Session Submissions:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/Program/2850

Existing SPA-Solar & Heliospheric Physics Session Submissions:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/Program/2846

In additional to the traditional oral- and poster-session formats, we encourage proposal sessions that use alternate session formats such as panels, short talks, and eLightning sessions. 

The 2020 AGU Fall Meeting Session Proposal submission deadline is 15 April 2020 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT. 

To submit a proposal, go to https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Home/0.

If you have any questions, please contact one of your SPA secretaries (SH: Christina Lee, SM: Elizabeth MacDonald, SA: Romina Nikoukar). 


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JGR Special Section: Geospace multi-point observations in Van Allen Probes and Arase era

From: Y. Miyoshi, I. Shinohara, K. Shiokawa, S. Ukhorskiy and O. Santolik (miyoshi at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)

Dear Colleagues

We are very pleased to announce that the Journal of Geophysical Research will accep paper submissions to the Special Section for Geospace multi-point observations in Van Allen Probes and Arase era.

Submission window: March 1 – September  30, 2020.

Special section description:
In Van Allen Probes and Arase era, coordinated multi-point observations with satellites in space and ground-based observatories have been organized in order to improve our understanding of the physical mechanisms of dynamics of geospace environment. This special issue expands upon new findings from these coordinated observations of Van Allen Probes, Arase and ground-based networks as well as interplay among different missions. There have been several storm events during periods of coordinated observations of both Van Allen Probes and  Arase satellites; May 2017, July 2017, September 2017, and August 2018, which will be campaign study events from the multi-satellite and ground based observations in this special issue. Moreover, multi-point observations to focus on wave-particle interactions, for example, ULF observations at different MLTs and whistler/EMIC wave observations at different magnetic latitudes have also been planned, which are also good subjects for this special issue. Results from related observations and modeling/simulation studies on the inner magnetosphere are also welcome.

Please use AGU GEMS system (https://jgr-spacephysics-submit.agu.org/cgi-bin/main.plex) to submit your manuscript.

We look forward to many articles for this special section.

Special section coordinators:
Yoshi Miyoshi (ISEE, Nagoya University, miyoshi at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
Iku Shiokawa (ISAS/JAXA, iku at stp.isas.jaxa.jp)
Kazuo Shiokawa (ISEE, Nagoya University, shiokawa at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
Sasha Ukhorskiy (JHU/APL, Sasha.Ukhorskiy at jhuapl.edu)
Ondrej Santolik (Czech Academy of Sciences, ondrej.santolik at mff.cuni.cz)


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Heliophysics Mission Design School, Applications Open

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

Dear Colleagues,

NASA Science Mission Directorate’s Heliophysics Division is sponsoring an early-career development pilot opportunity in summer/fall 2020 to help prepare the next generation of heliophysics science and engineering mission leaders. 

This Heliophysics Mission Design School (HMDS) is an adaptation of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s long-running Planetary Science Summer School, focused on high-priority heliophysics content and mission design.  Participants learn the process of developing a hypothesis-driven robotic space mission in a concurrent engineering environment while getting an in-depth, first-hand look at mission design, life cycle, costs, schedule and the trade-offs inherent in each.

Two sessions will be led by JPL in 2020.  Session 1 runs June 22 – September 4, and Session 2 runs September 7 – November 13.  Roughly equivalent in workload to a rigorous 3-hour graduate-level course, participants spend the first 10-11 weeks in preparatory webinars acting as a science mission team, prior to spending the final culminating week at JPL being mentored by JPL’s Advance Project Design Team, or “Team X” to refine their mission concept design, then present it to a mock expert review board.

Science and engineering doctoral candidates, recent Ph.D.s, postdocs, and junior faculty who are U.S. Citizens or legal permanent residents (and a very limited number of Foreign Nationals from non-designated counties) are eligible.  We are particularly encouraging applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Full program information, with points of contact, is available at the NASA Science Mission Design School website.  Further communication will be forthcoming from the HMDS pilot managers at JPL, who can also answer your questions. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/intern/apply/nasa-science-mission-design-schools/

Applications are due March 30, 2020.

Jared Leisner
Patrick Koehn
Heliophysics Division
NASA Science Mission Directorate


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Heliophysics Phase I DRIVE Science Center Awards

From: James Spann, Heliophysics DRIVE Science Center (jim.spann at nasa.gov)

NASA Heliophysics Division is pleased to announce the Heliophysics Phase I DRIVE Science Center awards.
The selected proposals are listed below by Principal Investigator, Institution and Title. The abstracts of each can be downloaded from NSPIRES or by using this link
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init&solId={1FE15C46-31FA-783D-4ED2-F77BC1A233C9}&path=closedPast

PI/Institution/Title
Brain, David/U Colorado, Boulder/Do Habitable Worlds Require Magnetic Fields?
Drake, James/U Maryland, College Park/Solar Flare Energy Release
Gombosi, Tamas/U Michigan, Ann Arbor/Solar Storms and Terrestrial Impacts Center (SOLSTICE)
Hoeksema, Todd/Stanford U/Consequences of Flows and Fields in the Interior and Exterior of the Sun (COFFIES)
Merkin, Viacheslav/Johns Hopkins U/Center for Geospace Storms (CGS)
Opher, Merav/Boston U/Our Heliospheric Shield
Randall, Cora/U Colorado, Boulder/Wave-induced Atmospheric Variability Enterprise (WAVE)
Velli, Marco/U California, Los Angeles/HERMES: HEliospheRic Magnetic Energy Storage and conversion
Welling, Daniel/U Texas, Arlington/The Center for the Unified Study of Interhemispheric Asymmetries (CUSIA)


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Scholar in Meteor Science and Heliophysics

From: Robert Marshall (robert.marshall at colorado.edu)

JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Scholar in Meteor Physics and Heliophysics

Start: ASAP

From: Prof. Robert A. Marshall (robert.marshall at colorado.edu)

The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) is soliciting applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar to participate in research activities in the area of Meteor Physics in the department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. The position is currently open and the successful candidate can start as soon as possible.

This position is supported by a number of funded research projects in the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR; https://www.colorado.edu/ccar/) in the Aerospace Engineering Sciences department at CU Boulder. These projects are focused on the ablation physics, detection, and characterization of meteors entering the Earth’s atmosphere. This work involves measurement of meteors using an array of all-sky cameras and VLF radio receivers, together with analysis of data from those instruments; experimental work at CU Boulder’s Institute for Modeling Plasma, Atmospheres and Cosmic Dust (IMPACT) facility (http://impact.colorado.edu), where we conduct ablation experiments in one of the world’s premier dust accelerator facilities; and simulation work of meteor ablation and radar scattering. The successful postdoc will lead some of these activities, and work with and mentor a PhD student. This position is an ideal fit for a recent PhD graduate with interests and experience in combining the key aspects of scientific research: instrument development, data collection and analysis, and numerical modeling. 

This position is nominally for one year with the possibility of continued work contingent on performance and funding availability. The position will be located in the new Aerospace Engineering Sciences building at CU Boulder (https://www.colorado.edu/engineering/aero-building) and will work in the Lightning, Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and Radiation Belts (LAIR) research group led by Professor Robert A. Marshall. The LAIR lab is actively involved in a number of ongoing projects, including development of ground-based instrumentation and three CubeSat missions. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to get involved in some of these projects as well, collaborating with other researchers in the Aerospace Engineering Sciences department and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). 

Applicants should send a complete CV and a brief statement of interests to Prof. Marshall (robert.marshall at colorado.edu). 


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position at UCL Mullard Space Science Lab

From: Robert Wicks (r.wicks at ucl.ac.uk)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Fellow to join the UCL Department of Space and Climate Physics (Mullard Space Science Laboratory) to undertake research in the area of space plasma physics, with particular emphasis on studies of solar wind that are relevant to the ESA Solar Orbiter mission. UCL/MSSL is the Principal Investigator institute for the Solar Wind Analyser (SWA) suite of instruments for this mission. The post is available immediately, through to the end of March 2022 in the first instance, with a possible extension thereafter subject to obtaining funding through renewal of the post under the MSSL Solar System Research Consolidated Grant from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), or through additional national or international funding sources.

The Department is family friendly and applications would be welcome from applicants seeking part-time opportunities. The Department is currently applying to become an Institute of Physics Juno Practitioner, and is currently a Juno supporter. The aim of Project Juno is to recognise and reward physics departments, schools, institutes and organisations that can demonstrate they have taken action to address gender equality in physics and to encourage better practice for all staff.

The successful applicant should hold or be expected to hold a PhD in Physics or closely related discipline or have equivalent experience.

A full job advert can be found here:

https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?amNvZGU9MTg2MTEwMyZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT05NjUmb3duZXI9NTA0MTE3OCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZicmFuZF9pZD0wJmpvYl9yZWZfY29kZT0xODYxMTAzJnBvc3RpbmdfY29kZT0yMjQ%3D&jcode=1861103&vt_template=965&owner=5041178&ownertype=fair&brand_id=0&job_ref_code=1861103&posting_code=224

If you have any questions about this role, please contact me (r.wicks at ucl.ac.uk)


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