[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 25

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIX, Issue 25
Apr.18,2022

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Table of Contents

1. Reminder: Deadline is Approaching to Submit Fall AGU Session Proposals 

2. Correction and Reminder: "Student/Early Career Convener" - New/added Option for Fall AGU Session Proposals

3. NSF Geospace Virtual Office Hour

4. NSF Plasma Physics Webinar on May 6

5. ESA – IRIS Science Planners: 8th ESA AO

6. MEETING: Chapman Conference on Alfven Waves -- Postponement

7. MEETING: Beacon Satellite Symposium - Extended Abstract Deadline

8. MEETING: MagNetUS Meeting, Abstract and Discussion Prompt Submission Open

9. MEETING: Conference on Partially Ionised Plasmas in Astrophysics (PIPA2022)—Second Announcement

10. Online Cold-Plasma Seminar Series

11. International Space Weather Initiative Webinar Series Announcement

12. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position in Lunar Science

13. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Positions in Space Plasma Instrumentation and in Outer Heliosphere Data Analysis at Los Alamos National Laboratory

14. JOB OPENING: Two Postdoctoral Positions at the University of Southampton, UK

15. JOB OPENING: Post-doctoral Position in Space Weather at IRF

16. Princeton University Visiting Fellows in Space Physics

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


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Reminder: Deadline is Approaching to Submit Fall AGU Session Proposals 

From: Christina Lee (SH), Amy Keesee (SM), Romina Nikoukar (SA) (clee at ssl.berkeley.edu)

The deadline to submit your Fall AGU session proposals is next week on Wednesday 20 April 2022 (23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT).  Please submit your proposal via the "Submit A Proposal" link at the top of this page:

https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting

A list of proposed sessions to SPA SA/SM/SH can be viewed once you are logged into the proposal submission system: Under the navigation bar on the left, select "Browse Current Proposals".

Questions, comments? Please reach out to us!

Christina Lee (SH), Amy Keesee (SM), and Romina Nikoukar (SA)


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Correction and Reminder: "Student/Early Career Convener" - New/added Option for Fall AGU Session Proposals

From: Christina Lee (SH), Amy Keesee (SM), Romina Nikoukar (SA) (clee at ssl.berkeley.edu)

New for the 2022 Fall AGU session proposal is the option to include a student or early career convener to your list of conveners! This option appears in the "People" step, when names are provided and role assignments are made. In the past, the role assignment options were "Convener" and "Primary Liaison". (The person submitting the session proposal is automatically assigned the role of "Primary Convener".)

Early-career people are welcome to serve as primary conveners and co-conveners; this new role is just one way to encourage more people to participate in and learn about the session organization process.

(CORRECTION:) Note that having a student/early career convener is IN ADDITION to the named primary convener plus up to 3 additional conveners.

Please consider including a student or early career researcher when you submit your session proposal for SPA Aeronomy (SA), Magnetospheric Physics (SM), and Solar-Heliospheric Physics (SH). Several sessions had student/early participants last year, either as official or “shadow” conveners and we thank them for getting this process underway. This gives these members of our community the opportunity to learn how to organize a session, gain visibility within their subfield, and provide new perspectives.

Questions, comments? Please reach out to us!

Christina Lee (SH), Amy Keesee (SM), and Romina Nikoukar (SA)


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NSF Geospace Virtual Office Hour

From: Chia-Lin Huang (chihuang at nsf.gov)

The NSF Geospace Section (GS) will host a virtual office hour on April 21 from 1 - 2pm EDT to give a brief update on current activities, but mainly to answer questions from the community.  With the upcoming target dates of SHINE (5/11) and CEDAR (5/20) solicitations, we hope to use this opportunity to help the community to prepare for proposal submission but other GS-related questions are also welcome.  There will also be opportunity for individual one-to-one questions in break-out rooms.

Register in advance is required for this meeting:

https://nsf.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJItcOChrzstGGoHcLd66Tou_Q_GJrFyDxk

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.  Hope to see you there!


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NSF Plasma Physics Webinar on May 6

From: Vyacheslav (Slava) Lukin (vlukin at nsf.gov)

NSF Plasma Physics Program Semi-Annual Webinar

When: Friday, May 6, 2022, 03:00 PM – 4:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

Agenda:
1) NSF and plasma physics program news and updates
2) New and recurring funding opportunities
3) Extensive Q&A

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_jAsQYn6zReeqzDTkqv01QA

Or an H.323/SIP room system:
    H.323: 161.199.138.10 (US West) or 161.199.136.10 (US East)
    Meeting ID: 161 747 3993
    Passcode: 225596
    SIP: 1617473993 at sip.zoomgov.com
    Passcode: 225596

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


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ESA – IRIS Science Planners: 8th ESA AO

From: Bernhard Fleck (bfleck at esa.nascom.nasa.gov)

ESA solicits proposals for participation in the NASA-led IRIS mission from scientists working in ESA Member States, under the form of Science Planners. The Announcement of Opportunity (AO) and a Letter of Invitation by the ESA Director of Science can be found at https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/iris-2022/

As last year, all IRIS science planning and training can be done remotely, so there is no need for attending training in Palo Alto, CA, USA, and thus no requirement for financial support for travel.

The IRIS team is committed to facilitating the timing and requirements of any selected science proposals that are focused on coordinated observations with IRIS and Solar Orbiter.

Proposals shall be submitted electronically in PDF format at the above web site and must be received not later than 23 May 2022, 12:00 (noon) CEST.


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MEETING: Chapman Conference on Alfven Waves -- Postponement

From: Andreas Keiling (keiling at berkeley.edu)

Due to health and safety concerns, restrictions on international travel, we have made the decision to move the dates of the onsite conference in Berlin, Germany, to May/June 2023 (exact dates will be announced later).  We hope that this change will enable researchers from around the world to participate in person in this interdisciplinary conference.

The Program Committee continues its work on the conference, entitled "Advances in Understanding Alfven Waves in the Sun and the Heliosphere", and will provide updates in this newsletter as information becomes available, including a hyperlink to the conference website.

With best wishes,
The Organizers


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MEETING: Beacon Satellite Symposium - Extended Abstract Deadline

From: Patricia Doherty (patricia.doherty at bc.edu)

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to extend the abstract deadline for the International Beacon Satellite Symposium to April 29, 2022.  

The symposium will be held at Boston College on August 1-5, 2022.  For more information on sessions, registration and other details, please view our website: www.bc.edu/BSS2022

I hope to welcome you to Boston in August.

With kind regards,
Pat Doherty


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MEETING: MagNetUS Meeting, Abstract and Discussion Prompt Submission Open

From: Jim Schroeder, Emily Lichko (emily.lichko at gmail.com )

Second Annual MagNet Meeting: June 7-10, 2022
Williamsburg, VA and Online

This is the second announcement of the MagNetUS meeting to be held June 7-10, 2022. This hybrid meeting is open for anyone to participate either virtually or in-person. The in-person component will be held at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA. The purpose of this meeting is (1) to spotlight exciting research in and adjacent to the MagNetUS community and (2) to foster and maintain collaborations in basic magnetized plasma research.

Intended participants include anyone researching the basic science of magnetized plasmas. More specifically, this could include, but is not limited to, those using spacecraft data, simulationists, theoreticians, and those working with experiments ranging from collaborative research facilities (e.g. BaPSF, WiPPL, MPRL, and Frontier experiments on DIII-D) to single-PI college and university-scale labs. Members of the HED, LTP, and fusion plasma communities are encouraged to participate with an eye toward developing potentially collaborative projects for magnetized midscale facilities. Information about the meeting and MagNetUS in general can be found at http://MagNetUS.net.   

Participants are invited to submit an abstract and/or a discussion prompt by April 26, 2022.

Abstracts: Abstracts on previous or ongoing research can be submitted using this form bit.ly/abstractMNUS.

Discussion prompts: The meeting will include two sessions dedicated to more informal discussion for the purpose of fostering future collaborations. These sessions are tentatively titled “Opportunities to explore theory, simulation, and space” and “Lab measurements needed to open new frontiers.”  The Program Committee encourages existing and prospective members of the MagNetUS community to submit a wide array of discussion prompts on these topics. Discussion prompts can be submitted using this form https://bit.ly/discussMNUS.

Sincerely,

Jim Schroeder, Wheaton College, MagNetUS Program Committee Chair 

Program Committee Members
Mel Abler, Space Science Institute
Jimmy Juno, PPPL
Eva Kostadinova, Auburn University
Emily Lichko, University of Arizona
Saskia Mordijck, College of William and Mary
Joe Olson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
David Schaffner, Bryn Mawr College


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MEETING: Conference on Partially Ionised Plasmas in Astrophysics (PIPA2022)—Second Announcement

From: Istvan Ballai (i.ballai at sheffield.ac.uk)

We invite abstracts for the forthcoming meeting on “Partially Ionised Plasmas in Astrophysics” (PIPA2022) that will take place in Budapest (Hungary) in the period 6-10 June, 2022. The meeting will take place in person.

Registration and Abstract submission deadline: 08 May 2022

The dynamics of partially ionized astrophysical plasmas is a relatively new and rapidly growing topic of research in various areas of astrophysics (solar lower atmosphere, interstellar medium, protostellar discs, planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres, etc). The meeting aims to broaden and strengthen the collaboration of scientists working in partially ionized plasmas in astrophysics and space science and to develop common scientific interest that could enhance cross-collaborations between the different fields.

The PIPA2022 meeting includes contributions from all areas of Astrophysics in which partially ionised plasmas (PIPs) play an essential role:
- Fundamental processes and phenomena in partially and weakly ionised plasmas (radiation transfer, collisional and kinetic effects, etc.)
- Dynamical processes in partially and weakly ionised plasmas (waves, instabilities, flows, winds, etc.)
- Turbulence, dynamo and nonlinear processes
- Magneto-convection, reconnection

The abstract submission (for oral or poster contributions) is open via the official conference website: http://astro.elte.hu/PIPA2022/index.php

SOC: Istvan Ballai (UK), Emese Forgacs-Dajka (Hngary), Elena Khomenko (Spain), Ramon Oliver (Spain), Javier Ballesteros (Mexico), Turlough Downes (Ireland), Mario Flock (Germany), Patrick Hennebelle (France) , Ildar Shaikhislanov (Russia), Jeffrey Thayer (USA)

We hope to see you soon in Budapest!


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Online Cold-Plasma Seminar Series

From: Pedro Resendiz (resendiz at lanl.gov)

Dear colleagues,

Please join us for the Online Cold-Plasma Seminar series on April 20th, 2022. 
Details can be found at:
https://www.lanl.gov/org/ddste/aldsc/theoretical/applied-mathematics-plasma-physics/cold-plasma-seminars.php

where the zoom link will be posted prior to each seminar. You can also join the distribution mailing list by contacting Gian Luca Delzanno (delzanno at lanl.gov).

The speaker is John Lyon from Dartmouth College:

Speaker: John Lyon, Dartmouth College.
Title: Multifluid Simulations of the Magnetosphere.
Date: April 20th, 2022
Time: 11 AM-12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 4-5 PM Universal Time Coordinated, 5-6 PM Central European Summer Time.

Thanks,
Pedro Resendiz
Los Alamos National Laboratory


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International Space Weather Initiative Webinar Series Announcement

From: Patricia Doherty (patricia.doherty at bc.edu)

Dear Colleagues,
The International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) is pleased to announce a webinar series on topics relevant to ISWI.  The webinars will be held monthly on a variety of topics including space weather, ionospheric physics, ISWI instrumentation, international government policies and actions, and national activities.  

This webinar series is led by a committee of ISWI members.  It will be chaired by Dr. Maria Graciela Molina of Argentina.  The webinars will be held as MS Teams meetings organized by UNOOSA.  The presentations will be recorded and broadcast using UNOOSA’s YouTube Channel.

The inaugural seminar will be held on April 27th at 3PM Central European Time (9AM EDT; 6:30PM IST).  The featured speaker is:   Dr. Nat Gopalswamy, Executive Director of ISWI. The presentation will focus on an overview of ISWI including the organization, projects, instruments and opportunities.

To register for this virtual seminar, please send an email to: iswisupport at bc.edu.  Please include “ISWI Seminar Registration” in the subject line.  There is a limit of 300 participants, so please register your interest as soon as possible.  The MS Teams link will be sent to registered participants 2 days before the event.

After a long time apart due to COVID travel restrictions, we look forward to engaging with the worldwide ISWI community in this Webinar Series. 

Best regards,
Patricia Doherty
ISWI Meetings Coordinator


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position in Lunar Science

From: Jasper Halekas (jasper-halekas at uiowa.edu)

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa is searching for a postdoctoral research scientist to study the interaction of the space plasma environment with the Moon's surface, exosphere, and crustal magnetic fields. The successful candidate will join a growing lunar science group at the University of Iowa, and will have the opportunity to work with new data from current lunar missions and to help develop future lunar missions. More details and application instructions are available at (http://physics.uiowa.edu/~jhalekas/Moon-Postdoc.html). Please contact Prof. Jasper Halekas (jasper-halekas at uiowa.edu) with any questions about the position.   


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Positions in Space Plasma Instrumentation and in Outer Heliosphere Data Analysis at Los Alamos National Laboratory

From: Dan Reisenfeld (dreisenfeld at lanl.gov)

The Space Science and Applications Group (ISR-1) seeks candidates for one or more postdoctoral positions for space plasma and ENA instrumentation development for future heliophysics missions and/or in the observational study of Energetic Neutral Atoms (ENAs).

The Space Science and Applications Group leads the IBEX-Hi instrument on the ongoing Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission and is leading two instruments for the upcoming Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which will launch in 2025. Our group has also recently lead instruments on the Van Allen Probes, ACE and TWINS missions, as well as plasma instruments deployed to space for verification of international nuclear treaties.

The successful candidates for these positions will be expected to carry out original research in the observational study of IBEX ENA data, and/or support the development and calibration of instrumentation for the IMAP mission and for other current and future NASA and National Security missions. Applicants should have experience in heliospheric science (magnetospheres, solar wind, outer heliosphere, etc.) and/or laboratory experience broadly applicable to developing hardware for the detection of space plasmas. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to interact with Laboratory scientists engaged in a broad range of observational, computational, and theoretical research in heliophysics.

These are two-year positions with the possibility of an extension to a third year. Applicants should have a doctoral degree in Physics, Space Physics, Astronomy, Engineering, or a closely related field at the time of employment. Applicants should send their applications electronically (https://lanl.jobs, posting IRC100796) including a CV, a publication list, and statement of research interests.  Applicants are encouraged to contact Dan Reisenfeld (dreisenfeld at lanl.gov) regarding the expectations of the positions, possible research topics, and other questions related to the application.


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JOB OPENING: Two Postdoctoral Positions at the University of Southampton, UK

From: Robert Fear (R.C.Fear at soton.ac.uk)

Applications are invited for two postdoctoral research positions in the Space Environment Physics group at the University of Southampton. The first position is to work on a project studying the large-scale response of the Earth’s magnetosphere to driving by northward interplanetary magnetic field. The position is funded by the group’s current STFC Consolidated Grant until 31/3/2024, with possibility of further extension. The second position is for a project studying the fine-scale structure of the Earth’s aurora, its electrodynamics and its influence on the heating of the atmosphere. This is a three year post funded by a recently-awarded NERC Standard Grant. Both posts are available immediately:

Research fellow in magnetospheric physics: https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=1774822WF
Research fellow in auroral physics: https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=1775022WF

The Space Environment Physics group (https://space.soton.ac.uk/) operates state-of-the-art optical instruments situated in the Arctic, which are used in conjunction with both radar and satellite observations to study magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions from the global scale down to the physics of small-scale auroral processes. We are part of the School of Physics & Astronomy; 100% of the school’s research impact on society was rated world leading or internationally excellent in the last Research Assessment Framework, and the University of Southampton is in the top 1% of world universities and the top 10 of the UK’s research-intensive universities. As a school, we are committed to all of our staff achieving a healthy work-life balance, with flexible working hours and onsite childcare facilities. Committed to tackling gender inequality, we are Athena SWAN silver award recognised. We are particularly determined to address the under-representation of women in Physics and Astronomy, so we are delighted to have been awarded Project Juno Champion status.

For further details on the two posts, please follow the links above. Informal enquires are very welcome, and should be directed to Dr Robert Fear (R.C.Fear at soton.ac.uk). The application deadline is 4th May 2022.


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JOB OPENING: Post-doctoral Position in Space Weather at IRF

From: Martin Eriksson (martin.eriksson at irf.se)

Post-doctoral position in space weather at IRF (Swedish Institute of Space Physics)
The work will include analysis of coronal images from various spacecraft, analysis of in-situ solar wind data, and development of methods and algorithms. The goal is to develop models for automatic detection of coronal mass ejections as part of IRF’s space weather system.

The position, placed in Lund, is for 2 years, with possible extension of an additional year.

For more information: https://www.irf.se/en/news/2022/04/08/post-doctoral-position-in-space-weather/


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Princeton University Visiting Fellows in Space Physics

From: Dan White (spacephysics at princeton.edu)

The Space Physics at Princeton Group (https://spacephysics.princeton.edu/) in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences is pleased to offer Visiting Fellow positions. The program supports faculty and equivalent senior researchers to do intensive research in residence at Princeton for periods from one month up to a full year. Visiting Fellows will work closely with Space Physics at Princeton Group members on one or more of several topical areas: 1) Energetic Particles observations from Parker Solar Probe, 2) Energetic Neutral Atom and/or Interstellar Neutral Atom observations from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), and 3) scientific preparations for the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The environment is scientifically intense, highly collaborative, and extremely rewarding. The goal of the program is to strengthen the Group with new and diverse perspectives while carrying out world-class research and publishing numerous papers in collaboration with the Group. Visiting Fellow positions are suitable for faculty members on sabbatical and other comparable senior researchers on leave from their primary appointments. Financial support (including stipend and/or housing) may be offered. Interested researchers can reach out to spacephysics at princeton.edu for more information and can formally submit by providing 1) a brief cover letter stating the specific reasons you would like to visit the Space Physics at Princeton Group and the dates you are available to visit and 2) your CV to: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=25641.


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