[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXVII, Issue 29

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SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXVII, Issue 29
May.15,2020

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Table of Contents

1. Data Call for National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan 

2. MEETING: Virtual NASA Citizen Science Community Workshop

3. MEETING: The 17th European Space Weather Week (ESWW17/ESWW2020) is Postponed to 01-05 November 2021

4. MEETING: Outer Planet Moon-magnetosphere Interaction Workshop - Abstract Submission and Registration Open

5. Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series

6. Announcing WALDO: Massive Public Repository of ELF/VLF Radio Data

7. CALL FOR PAPERS: Research Topic “New Challenges in Space Plasma Physics: Open Questions and Future Mission Concepts”

8. PhD Student in Space Physics to Studies of Space 

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


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Data Call for National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan 

From: Jennifer Meehan, Janelle Jenniges (jennifer.meehan at noaa.gov)

The Space Weather Operations, Research, and Mitigation (SWORM) Interagency Working Group is requesting input to identify what historical data NOT currently available in the public domain would benefit research efforts and have the potential to improve models for characterizing and forecasting space weather events.

The 2019 National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan (NSW-SAP) identifies space weather as having the potential to adversely affect national critical infrastructure, defense and intelligence systems, and military operations. Existing space weather operational modeling and forecasting capabilities fall short of what is required to meet the Nation’s needs for space weather services. To fully realize the benefits of its research investments, the Nation should develop improved research models targeted to operational needs, transition these research models to operational models, and incorporate them into operational forecasts. Developing forecasting capabilities with increased accuracy, lead-time, and geographic resolution will enable more effective mitigation approaches and further national preparedness for space weather events. Greater access to existing data sets would advance the development, validation, and testing of models used for characterizing and forecasting space weather events and improve the quality of space weather products and services.

Complete the form at the below link for EACH data set that you recommend be made available in the public domain. Please provide specific information on the data and how it could be used.

https://forms.gle/96WbbNPcciPzgb3o7

Submit responses no later than 1 June 2020. Direct any inquiries about this data call to Jennifer Meehan at jennifer.meehan at noaa.gov.


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MEETING: Virtual NASA Citizen Science Community Workshop

From: Liz MacDonald (e.a.macdonald at nasa.gov)

Registration is open for the now virtual 2nd Annual NASA Citizen Science Community Workshop event series! Heliophysics has excellent use cases for and growing opportunities in citizen science. This series is intended to promote exchange of scientific and engagement practices that make citizen science projects effective. NASA civil servants, collaborators, grantees, contractors, and partners involved or interested in citizen science are encouraged to attend all sessions to build a more robust approach to designing and running these projects. Goals include providing participants opportunities to connect with others in the NASA Citizen Science practitioner network; and sharing actionable insights and strategies to advance work towards NASA’s dual goals for citizen science: advancing scientific research and building understanding of the process of science. The series starts Wednesday, May 27. Visit the series website and follow the link to register now for some or all of the ten events in this series. 

https://nasacitsci2020.gmri.org/

(Note that you do not have to register to access event recordings; these will be posted on the series website as they become available). For any questions please contact Liz MacDonald, Heliophysics Citizen Science Lead, or Marc Kuchner SMD Citizen Science Officer (marc.j.kuchner at nasa.gov) or visit science.nasa.gov/citizenscience


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MEETING: The 17th European Space Weather Week (ESWW17/ESWW2020) is Postponed to 01-05 November 2021

From: Mario M. Bisi (Mario.Bisi at stfc.ac.uk)

With the ongoing uncertainties around the current COVID-19 pandemic, and now with concerns regarding second and third peaks in some countries, the PC in conjunction with the LOC Core Team have taken the decision to postpone the 17th European Space Weather Week (ESWW17/ESWW2020) to 01-05 November 2021.  Therefore, the 17th European Space Weather Week will now be known as ESWW2021.  We will now look forward to welcoming you all to Glasgow in November 2021.

With regards to the current preparations – PC Working Group leads will be in touch separately regarding work undertaken to-date in preparation for the 17th ESWW.

In addition, we are looking at some possibilities of having a European Space Weather online meeting in November 2020 – and this will be completely separate from the ESWW series.  We will make any announcements about this in due course.  The ESWW medals will also still be going ahead for 2020 – so again – please watch for announcements regarding those too.

Finally, we want to thank everyone who took the time to complete our questionnaire last week – this was very helpful in assisting us in making the decision to postpone by one year – and to wish you all well and hope that you remain safe for however much longer this pandemic lasts.

All the best, and see you in Glasgow 01-05 November 2021,

Mario
PC Chair
LOC Vice Chair
(on behalf of the PC and LOC for ESWW17/ESWW2021)


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MEETING: Outer Planet Moon-magnetosphere Interaction Workshop - Abstract Submission and Registration Open

From: Hans Huybrighs, Lina Hadid, Mika Holmberg (hans.huybrighs at esa.int)

Outer planet moon-magnetosphere interaction workshop - abstract submission and registration open

Dates: 5-6 November 2020 (directly after JUICE SWT/PI meeting)
Location: ESA/ESTEC
Registration is now open: https://indico.esa.int/event/337/
Please note that the number of participants is limited to 60 people.

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.

COVID19: We hope the workshop will go ahead as planned in person. However, we are committed to shifting to an online conference in case the situation regarding COVID19 prevents us from meeting in person. 
Please do not make any accommodation and/or travel bookings that are not fully refundable.

Mika Holmberg, Lina Hadid and Hans Huybrighs


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Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series

From: Kyle Murphy, David Sibeck (magnetosphere.seminars at gmail.com)

Our next seminar is Monday May 18, “The Magnetosheath” by Ferdinand Plaschke. We’ll be taking a break May 25 for Memorial day but will be back June 1 with Ying Zou and “The Magnetopause”. A link to join the seminar can be found on our home page (https://msolss.github.io/MagSeminars/), the password to join the seminar is Mag at 1.

See previous talks here - https://msolss.github.io/MagSeminars/blog.html.

Add your name to the mailing list here - https://msolss.github.io/MagSeminars/mail-list.html.


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Announcing WALDO: Massive Public Repository of ELF/VLF Radio Data

From: Morris Cohen, Mark Golkowski (mcohen at gatech.edu)

We enthusiastically announce a massive repository of ELF/VLF/LF radio data collected over decades at sites all over the world by Stanford University, Georgia Tech, and University of Colorado Denver. As recently written up in EOS (https://eos.org/science-updates/returning-lightning-data-to-the-cloud), the database is known as the World Archive or Low-frequency Data Observations, WALDO, and can be accessed at http://waldo.world. I don’t know about you, but I can’t think of anything more fun to do during a pandemic quarantine than analyze ELF/VLF/LF data!

These data already include or will include many valuable recordings, amongst them

- Antarctic recordings at Palmer Station and South Pole over decades
- Siple Station Antarctica experiment recordings from 1974-1986
- Alaska VLF recordings in conjunction with HAARP experiments
- VLF/LF Data from the 2017 Great American Solar Eclipse
- Narrowband data from global IHY/ISWI/AWESOME receivers
- VLF recordings preceding the 2011 Tohoku M9.0 earthquake

Our hope is for the broader community to think of new ways to analyze these datasets that have not been previously considered.

The raw data are in a common format and available for direct download, along with quick-look plots. WALDO includes detailed data descriptions and some available scripts (Matlab with python coming soon) to view and analyze the data.

WALDO is jointly managed by Georgia Tech (Morris Cohen) and University of Colorado Denver (Mark Golkowski). Currently there are nearly 200 TB of data, with many 100s more TBs awaiting upload in the coming weeks and months. Currently we are focusing on uploading data previously collected by Stanford University’s VLF group (stored on 10s of thousands of DVDs), but will also be augmenting it with more recent data collected by CU-Denver and GaTech’s receiver networks. If there a specific dataset you know was recorded that is not yet up at WALDO that you would like to see, please contact us. We can let you know if it still exists, and/or prioritize it if you have a specific interest.

We encourage anyone interested in ELF/VLF and wanting to work with data to use the data. We are happy to answer any questions about the data, as well, or interested in any feedback in how the WALDO portal is working.

We also welcome anyone else collecting ELF/VLF data who would like to join WALDO and contribute their data as an official partner, please contact Morris Cohen (mcohen at gatech.edu) and Mark Golkowski (mark.golkowski at ucdenver.edu)

-Morris Cohen, Georgia Tech
-Mark Golkowski, University of Colorado Denver
http://waldo.world


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CALL FOR PAPERS: Research Topic “New Challenges in Space Plasma Physics: Open Questions and Future Mission Concepts”

From: Luca Sorriso-Valvo (lucasorriso at gmail.com)

We would like to draw your attention to the new Research Topic “New Challenges in Space Plasma Physics: Open Questions and Future Mission Concepts” in the journals Frontiers in Physics and Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences (website: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13935/new-challenges-in-space-plasma-physics-open-questions-and-future-mission-concepts).
We would greatly appreciate if you would consider submitting an article to this series of articles.

Our Research Topic is designed to capture the state of space plasma physics, both in terms of the important open questions and the mission concepts that are being considered to address those questions. So far, several authors of white papers submitted to ESA’s Voyage 2050 strategic planning exercise have expressed their interest in participating, and our aim is to make this Research Topic broad to cover the full international community. Our hope is to have a collection of articles that show our field as a vibrant and active area of physics with an exciting future ahead.

As you may know, Frontiers is a community-driven, fully open-access, online journal with an emphasis on responsible collaborative peer-review, accountability, and editorial independence. The journal is relatively new in our field, but growing well. Articles are in principle subject to a publication fee, but a discount/waiver can be applied for if you do not have access to sufficient funds for this type of publication.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 21 June 2020, and the deadline for the manuscript submission is 19 October 2020.

If you have any questions about the Research Topic, please contact the editors.
on behalf of the topic editors: Luca Sorriso-Valvo (lucasorriso at gmail.com), Alessandro Retinò (alessandro.retino at lpp.polytechnique.fr), Christopher Chen (christopher.chen at qmul.ac.uk), Daniel Verscharen (d.verscharen at ucl.ac.uk)


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PhD Student in Space Physics to Studies of Space 

From: Emiliya Yordanova, Yuri Khotyaintsev (eya at irfu.se)

Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Uppsala, Sweden, is looking for a PhD student in Space Physics. The position is related to studies of space plasmas.

Applications are invited for a PhD student to study kinetic plasma processes operating in space plasma regions of fundamental importance, such as magnetic reconnection sites, shocks, and turbulence regions. Such processes operate in most astrophysical plasma environments leading to plasma heating and production of energetic particles.

The new PhD student will work directly with state-of-the-art experimental data from the NASA multi-spacecraft Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission.

Our team performs observations, data analysis and modelling of space plasma processes (https://space.irfu.se). The team has decades of experience in developing and operating instruments to measure electric fields, plasma temperature, density and density fluctuations for spacecraft missions (e.g. Rosetta, MMS, Cluster, Solar Orbiter, Swarm, Cassini).

The position is available at the Uppsala office of IRF, located at the Ångström Laboratory, starting at the latest in the second half of 2020 for a total duration of four years.

The PhD students will belong to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University and must therefore fulfill the university requirements. http://www.physics.uu.se and http://www.teknat.uu.se.

Information on research at IRF Uppsala can be found at http://www.irfu.se. The Swedish National Space Agency, the Swedish Research Council and Uppsala University fund the position.

Contact:
Dr Emiliya Yordanova, eya at irfu.se
Assoc. Prof. Yuri Khotyaintsev, yuri at irfu.se

Trade union representative:
Thomas Leyser, SACO-S, thomas.leyser at irfu.se
Jan Karlsson, ST, jan.karlsson at irfu.se

The application should include a CV, a short (one-page) letter stating research interests and relevant experience, copies of academic transcripts, completed theses or manuscripts and other relevant publications, and contact information for two professional references.

The application should be submitted, preferably to: registrator at irf.se

or by post to:

Swedish Institute of Space Physics,
Registrar,
Box 812,
SE-981 28 Kiruna, Sweden

Closing date for applications: 31 May 2020.
Quote reference number: 2.2.1-146/20

If your application is sent by e-mail you should get a confirmation that we have received it. If you do not get the confirmation within three days, please contact the registrar: +46-980-790 00.

IRF is a government agency that conducts research and postgraduate education in space physics, atmospheric physics and space technology. Many of IRF's projects are run as large international projects in collaboration with other research institutes and space agencies. IRF has about one hundred employees and offices in Kiruna (headquarters), Umeå, Uppsala and Lund. www.irf.se


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