[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 26

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIX, Issue 26
Apr.25,2022

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Table of Contents

1. Decadal White Paper Organization Resource

2. MEETING: 2022 Space Weather Workshop, Boulder, CO, 26-28 April 2022 -- Final Announcement

3. CALL FOR PAPERS: Frontiers Special Issue on “Solar Wind Magnetosphere Interaction”

4. CALL FOR PAPERS: ML-Helio Call for Papers and Post-conference Info

5. Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series

6. Outer Heliosphere/LISM Community Meeting, Wednesday, April 27th

7. 2022 Boulder Space Weather Summer School

8. Course on “Radiation Belt Dynamics and Remote Sensing of the Earth’s Plasmasphere”

9. JOB OPENING: Two Civil Service Research Scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Ionosphere/Thermosphere/Mesosphere Physics Lab (application period begins May 20, 2022)

10. JOB OPENING: SHIELD Postdoc Position at BU

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


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Decadal White Paper Organization Resource

From: Larry Kepko (larry.kepko at nasa.gov)

Though no official deadline has been announced, it would be sensible for the SPA community to expect the due date for white paper submissions to the “Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033” to be rapidly approaching, given that the call for nominations to the steering committee and panels are due May 3rd

https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/decadal-survey-for-solar-and-space-physics-heliophysics-2024-2033

Once the steering committee and panel self-nominations are in, it is likely that the white papers would be due very soon thereafter. The community may receive only ~1 month notice from the call for white papers to due date. Therefore, it would be prudent to start finalizing white papers within the next few weeks.

After Helio2050 last year the organizers established a spreadsheet for the community to share their white paper titles to facilitate collaboration in this virtual environment, allow for quick identification of topical gaps, and enable cross-referencing:

tinyurl.com/HelioWP

The “Ground-based assets in the HSO” tab has been active and is worth looking at to see how this can be used to self-organize.

No one is obligated to use the spreadsheet, and placing an entry does not obligate anyone to submit a white paper. This is simply an informal community tool to help organize.

Again, while there is no official due date, for planning purposes it would be prudent based on available information to assume an early to mid-June deadline for white paper submissions.


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MEETING: 2022 Space Weather Workshop, Boulder, CO, 26-28 April 2022 -- Final Announcement

From: Michelle McCambridge (mmccamb at ucar.edu)

The 2022 Space Weather Workshop will be held virtually April 26-28, 2022. This meeting will bring together Federal agencies, the academic community, the private sector, and international partners to focus on the diverse impacts of space weather, on forecasting techniques, and on recent scientific advances in understanding and predicting conditions in the space environment. The theme for this year’s workshop is: 

Collaboration: Advancing the Space Weather Enterprise.

The program will highlight impacts in several areas, including space traffic coordination, aviation, human spaceflight and exploration, satellites, power grids, and other industries affected by space weather. The conference will also include an update on the national and international space weather programs to mitigate and respond to space weather impacts on society. We welcome a broad range of participation, including representatives from research and development, space weather service providers, policy development, and industries impacted by space weather.

Registration is free for this virtual event and is available through April 22, 2022. (https://cpaess.ucar.edu/space-weather-workshop-2022-registration)

The meeting Agenda, speakers, poster presentations, information for a student program, and other relevant information is provided at the Space Weather Workshop’s website https://cpaess.ucar.edu/space-weather-workshop-2022.

Registered students are encouraged to attend the following student sessions:

* Monday evening: Space Weather: Student Welcome and Citizen Science Discussion 6:00pm – 8:00pm EDT 
* Wednesday’s Lunch session: Panel on Career Paths in Government and the Private Sector 11:30am – 1:00pm EDT. 

The Space Weather Workshop is coordinated by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and co-sponsored by the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, the NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, and the NASA Heliophysics Division


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CALL FOR PAPERS: Frontiers Special Issue on “Solar Wind Magnetosphere Interaction”

From: Simon Wing (simon.wing at jhuapl.edu)

As a follow-on to the August 30 - September 16 2021 virtual workshop “Solar Wind Magnetosphere Interaction”, the special issue of Frontiers has been created and is now open for paper submissions.  The special issue is open to the entire community. The special issue can be viewed at
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/30810/solar-wind---magnetosphere-interaction

The submission deadline has been extended to June 30, 2022.

The special issue accepts original research articles, reviews, mini-reviews, perspective articles, opinion articles, etc.  The list of article types appears here
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/astronomy-and-space-sciences/sections/space-physics#article-types
Special-issue submission can be made to either Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences or Frontiers in Physics.  

If you need any more info, contact us.

Thanks,

Simon Wing
Olga Khabarova
Lauri Holappa
Joe Borovsky


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CALL FOR PAPERS: ML-Helio Call for Papers and Post-conference Info

From: Enrico Camporeale (enrico.camporeale at noaa.gov)

Call for papers for AGU special collection "Machine Learning in Heliophysics"
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2022

Special Collection Organizers:
Enrico Camporeale, University of Colorado
Thomas Berger, University of Colorado
Sophie Murray, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Veronique Delouille, Royal Observatory of Belgium

In the heliospheric community, machine learning is far from being a mainstream approach. However, over the last few years the community has witnessed several pioneering works spanning the whole range of heliophysics: solar physics, inter-terrestrial medium, solar-terrestrial relationships, magnetospheric, ionospheric and thermospheric physics, and space weather forecasting. This community is now facing the challenge of overcoming the barrier of technical skills not generally mastered by the typical scientist, in order to fully appreciate and critically understand what is within reach in a few years and what could be achieved in a decade. This special collection calls for contributions pertaining to the application of machine learning in any subfield of Heliophysics. Works that have already been presented at the ML-Helio 22 conference are welcome. However, the call is open to all contributors, and not limited to conference participants. We particularly encourage works focused on the process of automation of scientific discovery via machine learning, and on large heliospheric dataset mining. Other relevant topics include:

- inverse estimation of physical parameters,
- automatic event identification,
- feature detection and tracking,
- times series analysis of dynamical systems,
- combination of physics-based models with machine learning techniques,
- surrogate models and uncertainty quantification.

To submit your manuscript, use the standard submission portal for Space Weather, JGR: Space Physics, Geophysical Research Letters or Earth and Space Science and select the collection’s title from the drop down menu in the Special Section field of the submission form.

ML-Helio post-conference information.
All materials (posters and slides) from the ML-Helio 2022 conference is now available on the website: https://ml-helio.github.io/


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Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series

From: Homayon Aryan, David Sibeck, Kyle Murphy et al.,  (magnetosphere.seminars at gmail.com)

We invite you to join us every Monday at 12pm (ET) for the weekly Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series. On Monday April 25, Andre Runov will discuss Magnetotail Transients Revisited. 

A link to join the seminar via Zoom or YouTube can be found on our home page:
https://msolss.github.io/MagSeminars/

The password to join the Zoom seminar is: Mag at 1


You can view the current 2021 schedule here:
https://msolss.github.io/MagSeminars/schedule.html

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

Read about previous talks here:
https://msolss.github.io/MagSeminars/blog.html


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Outer Heliosphere/LISM Community Meeting, Wednesday, April 27th

From: Elena Provornikova, Justyna Sokol, Marc Kornbleuth (Elena.Provornikova at jhuapl.edu)

Dear Colleagues,

We continue virtual bi-weekly meetings dedicated to the exploration of the outer heliosphere and local interstellar medium, white paper coordination and preparation for the upcoming Heliophysics Decadal Survey. 

Please join us on Wednesday, April 27th 11:00 am EDT for a presentation by Dr. Stefan Eriksson (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics) "Characteristics of Multi-Scale Current Sheets in the Solar Wind at 1 AU Associated with Magnetic Reconnection: A Case for a Heliospheric Current Sheet Avalanche and Implications for an Interstellar Probe Mission".

A link to join the meeting via Zoom will be posted on the website https://outer.helio.zone/ shortly before the meeting.


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2022 Boulder Space Weather Summer School

From: Wendy Hawkins (whawkins at ucar.edu)

Hosted by HAO/NCAR and Sponsored by NSF
Application Deadline: Monday, 1 May 2022
When/Where: Sunday 17 July – Saturday 30 July 2022, in person Boulder, CO.
Who: Graduate students starting their research careers in space physics as well as selected undergraduate students interested in exploring the topic.

Theme: The physics of space weather and its impacts on the space environment, space craft, astronauts and ground based systems. Deepen your conceptual understanding of space weather and the physics behind using fundamental physics principles, spacecraft and ground based data, and model results. Learn from leading researchers in the field and experts in forecasting space weather. Meet other students working in the field.

Description: The Boulder Space Weather Summer School (SWSS) is a two-week program, funded by NSF and hosted by HAO, that gives students a comprehensive introduction to the science of space weather: what it is, what it does, and what can be done about it.
For more information and to apply: https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/SWSS


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Course on “Radiation Belt Dynamics and Remote Sensing of the Earth’s Plasmasphere”

From: Umberto Villante (ssc at aquila.infn.it)

The International School of Space Science of the Consorzio Interuniversitario per la Fisica Spaziale organizes a Course on “Radiation Belt Dynamics and Remote Sensing of the Earth’s Plasmasphere”, to be held in L’Aquila, Italy, 26-30 September, 2022 directed by Prof. János Lichtenberger (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary), Prof. G. Reeves (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA) and Prof. Massimo Vellante (University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy).

The course is designed for PhD students and young post-doctoral researchers. It will offer an overview of the current knowledge of a key Space Weather region, the radiation belts, and in particular on its related energization and loss processes due to wave-particle interactions, and particle precipitation into the atmosphere. These processes are strongly governed by the properties of the plasmasphere (the outward extension of the ionosphere) which is partially overlapping with the radiation belts.  Part of the course will be then devoted to present, both from a theoretical and observational point of view, as well as through modelling, the basic plasmasphere dynamics, including its coupling with the ionosphere.

Applications are due before May 22, 2022.
For more information visit http://www.cifs-isss.org/ or send an e-mail to ssc at aquila.infn.it


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JOB OPENING: Two Civil Service Research Scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Ionosphere/Thermosphere/Mesosphere Physics Lab (application period begins May 20, 2022)

From: Doug Rowland, Alexa Halford (douglas.e.rowland at nasa.gov)

The Ionosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere Physics Laboratory (“ITM Lab”) at NASA Goddard seeks to hire two full-time researchers studying aspects of ITM dynamics, coupling, and chemistry:

1) A senior (GS-15 – roughly equivalent to full professor) researcher with experience in developing whole atmosphere models and using them to address critical problems in ITM science. This is a “permanent” position, meaning it comes with civil service tenure after a one-year probation period. The application period for this position will be open May 20, 2022 through May 24, 2022. Applications are through USAJobs, and the vacancy announcement is located here:

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/649052900

2) An early-career (GS-13 – roughly equivalent to assistant professor) researcher with experience in using satellite and ground-based observations to address critical problems in ITM science. This is a six-year “term” position that has the potential to be converted to a tenured position. The application period for this position will be open from May 20, 2022 through May 26, 2022. Applications are through USAJobs, and the vacancy announcement is located here: 

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/649054800

The ITM Lab, formed in 2018, consists of ~45 government and university researchers, and addresses a wide range of problems in the middle and upper atmospheres and ionospheres of Earth and other planets. Our lab cultivates strong collaborations with the Solar, Heliospheric, Geospace, and Space Weather Labs at NASA Goddard, providing great potential for interdisciplinary collaborations in Heliophysics. The ITM Lab also enjoys strong collaborations with NASA Goddard’s Earth Science, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics Divisions.

Because of the short application periods for these positions, we encourage interested applicants to prepare their USAJobs CV and other application materials well in advance to smooth the application process. The vacancy announcements listed above can be viewed now, but applications cannot be entered for those jobs until May 20, when the application periods open.

These are US Government Civil Service positions and applicants are expected to have experience in related areas of research. While most researchers live and work on-site at the Greenbelt, MD campus, there is flexibility for telework and remote work on a case-by-case basis. We encourage all interested to apply.

If you have questions about these positions, please contact:

Doug Rowland, ITM Lab Chief  douglas.e.rowland at nasa.gov
Alexa Halford, ITM Lab Associate Chief  alexa.j.halford at nasa.gov


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JOB OPENING: SHIELD Postdoc Position at BU

From: Merav Opher, John Richardson (jdr at space.mit.edu)

The SHIELD NASA DRIVE Center at Boston University (https://sites.bu.edu/shield-drive/ ) is offering a postdoctoral position to do computational simulations of the heliosphere. SHIELD researches many aspects of the interaction of the heliosphere with the interstellar medium via simulations and comparison with data.

The successful candidate will have experience in computer simulations of complex systems. A scientist with knowledge of the physical processes that affect the heliosphere is preferred. They must be team-oriented as they will be working with the SHIELD team. A Ph.D. or equivalent experience in physics, astrophysics, space science, or a closely related field is required.


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