[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 71

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIX, Issue 71
Dec.01,2022

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Table of Contents

1. AGU Attendees: Please Sign Up to Judge Student Presentations in the OSPA

2. LWS Town Hall at Fall 2022 AGU

3. Heliophysics Advisory Committee – Member Nominations Due December 20, 2022

4. Topical Issue "Solar Sources of Space Weather" — Deadline for Submission: 30 September 2023

5. SESSION: Mini-GEM SCIMM Focus Group Session in Chicago on December 11th, 2022

6. SESSION: Invitation to Participate in Mini-GEM RB FG Session

7. UCAR | CPAESS Is Pleased to Announce the 2023 Call for Applications to the NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellowships

8. Apply Now for the 2023 NASA Heliophysics Summer School

9. JOB OPENING: Early-career Staff Member Position in Space Plasma Physics at the Los Alamos National Laboratory

10. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Solar-Heliospheric Physics Research Group at the University of California Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory (UCB/SSL)

11. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Uncertainty Quantification for Space Weather Modeling

12. JOB OPENING: Scientist/PostDoc in Space Plasma Physics at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF)

13. JOB OPENING: Research Fellow in Solar Wind Origins at UCL/MSSL

14. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position in Space Physics (MMS), University of Murcia, Spain (2nd announcement)

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


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AGU Attendees: Please Sign Up to Judge Student Presentations in the OSPA

From: Sam Schonfeld (schonfsj at gmail.com)

If you are attending the Fall AGU meeting, either virtually or in person, please consider signing up to judge student presentations in the OSPA competition. By providing feedback to student presenters you are helping to support your future colleagues and shape the field.

Judges are asked to evaluate three (or more!) presentations of their choice by providing both scores and written feedback to the student presenter through an online evaluation form. More information about serving as a judge is available online (https://www.agu.org/Learn-and-Develop/Learn/Student-Competitions/OSPA/How-to-participate/#1), and you can sign up to judge and select the presentations you want to evaluate by clicking the "Judge Login" link on the OSPA website (https://www.agu.org/Learn-and-Develop/Learn/Student-Competitions/OSPA). If you have any questions, please contact the OSPA coordinators at agu.spa.ospa at gmail.com.


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LWS Town Hall at Fall 2022 AGU

From: John McCormack (john.p.mccormack at nasa.gov)

The NASA Living With a Star (LWS) Town Hall at the Fall 2022 AGU meeting in Chicago will be held Monday December 12 at 6:30-7:30pm Central in McCormick Place S102ab. The session number is TH15A in the AGU program. The town hall is an opportunity for the community to hear updates on the program status and to participate in an open discussion of the LWS program with representatives from the Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters. The event will include a report from program staff on the status of LWS missions, the annual ROSES LWS Science program element, and announcement of new Focused Science Topics to be solicited in ROSES-2023. There will be ample opportunity for questions and open discussion with LWS program staff. Please join us!


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Heliophysics Advisory Committee – Member Nominations Due December 20, 2022

From: Rachel Morrow, Janet Kozyra (janet.kozyra at nasa.gov)

The NASA Heliophysics Division seeks community members to serve on the Heliophysics Advisory Committee (HPAC), the Federal Advisory Committee that advises NASA on Heliophysics science. 

The HPAC draws on the expertise of its members to provide advice and make recommendations to the Heliophysics Division Director, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters on Heliophysics programs, policies, plans, and priorities. The HPAC’s recommendations and analysis can be used to inform decisions on the programmatic scope and priorities, as well as the implementation of Heliophysics programs. In addition, the HPAC will provide a regular forum for broad discussions of Heliophysics and the role of Heliophysics within and outside of NASA. 

NASA Heliophysics Division openly solicits nominations of individuals who are affiliated with U.S. institutions for membership on the HPAC. U.S. citizens may submit self-nominations for consideration to fill vacancies on the committee. There will be member vacancies from time to time throughout the year, and NASA will consider self-nominations to fill such intermittent vacancies. Nominees will be contacted only if a vacancy should arise, and the expertise of the nominees is appropriate for that specific vacancy. All member appointments are non-compensated. However, NASA does cover travel and per diem expenses for all member appointments. 

Members shall be selected by the Director, Heliophysics Division, following written consultation with the Associate Administrator, Science Mission Directorate. Appointment letter(s) and reappointment letter(s) will be signed by the Associate Administrator, Science Mission Directorate. The HPAC shall consist of 13-15 members for up to a three-year term, renewable at the discretion of the Director, Heliophysics Division. The Director, Heliophysics Division, shall ensure a balanced representation in terms of the points of view represented and the functions to be performed. Diversity shall be considered as well. NASA is committed to selecting members to serve on these committees based on their individual expertise, knowledge, experience, current/past contributions to the relevant subject area, and overall diversity of the committee.

Interested community members are asked to complete and submit the form using the link below by Friday December 20, 2022.

https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/nac/hpac-2022

If you have any questions, please reach out to Janet Kozyra (janet.kozyra at nasa.gov).


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Topical Issue "Solar Sources of Space Weather" — Deadline for Submission: 30 September 2023

From: Erika Palmerio (epalmerio at predsci.com)

The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (JSWSC, https://www.swsc-journal.org) opens a Topical Issue "Solar Sources of Space Weather". Deadline for submission: 30 September 2023.

The Sun and its atmosphere are shaping the heliosphere, including the near-Earth space environment, and driving our space weather. Flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), their associated shock waves, and solar energetic particles (SEPs) are the main sources of major space weather disturbances at Earth and the other planets. The strongest events tend to originate from large, magnetically complex active regions, but might also result from CMEs related to large, quiet-Sun filament eruptions. In addition, streamer-blowout stealth CMEs and high-speed streams (HSSs) emanating from coronal holes can unleash moderate storms.

We invite contributions on studies that focus on the build-up, origin, triggering, and early dynamics of solar eruptive events, as well as on space weather effects driven by non-eruptive events, such as HSSs that provide better characterization, diagnostics and deeper physical understanding of the solar sources of space weather at Earth and anywhere in the heliosphere. The scope of this topical issue covers both observational and modeling approaches, as well as new techniques and studies on the conditions for moderate to extreme events, which are key to improve space weather predictions.

This Topical Issue arises from Session SWR1 entitled “Solar Sources of Space Weather” at the 18th European Space Weather Week (ESWW2022) held in October 2022. However, it is not limited to papers presented during this session or the meeting and is open for all submissions within the scope.

All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed according to the quality standards of international scientific journals. The type of contributions must fit the style of JSWSC. All manuscripts should contain enough new insight, present the results against a properly referenced background of existing work, and present adequate evidence that supports the conclusions. Accepted papers are published in electronic format only, and are freely available to everyone via the JSWSC website. JSWSC offers the possibility to include electronic material, such as animations, movies, codes, and data.

Topical Editor-in-Chief (T-EiC):
• Judith de Patoul (judith.depatoul at oma.be), Solar–Terrestrial Centre of Excellence, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium

Topical Editors (TEs):
• Hebe Cremades (hebe.cremades at um.edu.ar), Grupo de Estudios en Heliofísica de Mendoza, CONICET, Universidad de Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina
• Yana Maneva (yana.maneva at oma.be), Solar–Terrestrial Centre of Excellence, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
• Erika Palmerio (epalmerio at predsci.com), Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, USA
• Li Feng (lfeng at pmo.ac.cn), Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
• Tshimangadzo Merline Matamba (mtshimangadzo at sansa.org.za), South African National Space Agency, Hermanus, South Africa

For intention to submit a manuscript and for questions questions regarding this Topical Issue, contact the T-EiC and TEs. For questions concerning the submission process, please, contact the Editorial Office (jswsc at edpsciences.org).


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SESSION: Mini-GEM SCIMM Focus Group Session in Chicago on December 11th, 2022

From: Qianli Ma, Cristian Ferradas, Chao Yue, Jacob Bortnik (qma at bu.edu)

Dear Colleagues,

The GEM Focus Group ‘Self-Consistent Inner Magnetosphere Modeling’ will have a hybrid session during this upcoming mini-GEM workshop. Our session will be at 12:00 - 13:30 pm (Central Time) on December 11th, 2022. We invite in-person or remote contributed talks about the ring current dynamics or wave-particle interactions. Presentations about the Challenge Events of our focus group are also welcome. The SCIMM focus group activity website is

https://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php/FG:_Self-Consistent_Inner_Magnetospheric_Modeling

The zoom information will be provided before the meeting on the focus group website. If you would like to present in our session, please contact Cristian Ferradas (cristian.ferradasalva at nasa.gov) or Qianli Ma (qma at bu.edu) to submit the title of your presentation before December 9th. Thank you for your participation!

Sincerely,

SCIMM focus group leaders


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SESSION: Invitation to Participate in Mini-GEM RB FG Session

From: Hong Zhao (zzh0054 at auburn.edu)

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to participate in the mini-GEM session of our focus group, “System Understanding of Radiation Belt Particle Dynamics through Multi-Spacecraft and Ground-Based Observations and Modeling”. 

Our hybrid session will be at 1:45 – 3:15 pm CT on December 11, 2022. We are soliciting contributed talks, preferably on non-AGU, in-progress work. If you would like to present in our session, please send the title of your presentation to Hong Zhao (zzh0054 at auburn.edu) by December 9. Details of the session (including Zoom info) can be found at our GEM wiki page https://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php/FG:_System_Understanding_of_Radiation_Belt_Particle_Dynamics_through_Multi-spacecraft_and_Ground-based_Observations_and_Modeling#2022_mini-GEM.

Thank you very much for your contribution and participation in our FG activities. We look forward to seeing you in this mini-GEM!

Hong Zhao, Lauren Blum, Sasha Ukhorskiy, and Xiangrong Fu


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UCAR | CPAESS Is Pleased to Announce the 2023 Call for Applications to the NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellowships

From: Dawn Mullally (mullally at ucar.edu)

UCAR | CPAESS is pleased to announce the 2023 call for applications to the NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellowships, sponsored by the NASA Living With a Star (LWS) program. The fellowships are designed to train the next generation of researchers in the emerging interdisciplinary field of Heliophysics.

Heliophysics embraces all science aspects of the Sun-Solar System, and includes many of the basic physical processes found in our solar system, the laboratory, and throughout the universe. These processes generally involve the interactions of ionized gases (plasmas) with electromagnetic and gravitational fields, and to some extent with neutral matter. The physical domain of interest ranges from deep inside the Sun to the beginning of interstellar medium as well as planetary atmospheres including Earth's upper atmosphere. Within this broad science discipline, LWS is a program designed to develop the scientific understanding required for the Nation to address effectively those aspects of the Sun-Earth system that affect life and society.

There will be up to 5 positions available this year. The deadline is January 20, 2023. More Information: https://heliophysics.ucar.edu/jack-eddy/recruitment-announcement


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Apply Now for the 2023 NASA Heliophysics Summer School

From: Dawn Mullally (mullally at ucar.edu)

NASA's Heliophysics Summer School is open for applications through UCAR | CPAESS. The Summer School has two sections - a remote phase from July 17-21, 2023; and an in-person phase from August 7-11, 2023. We have expanded the summer school to include a remote phase so that more people can participate. Admission is competitive; up to 50 students are selected to attend each year. This year’s theme is Observational Heliophysics. Deadline: March 3, 2023. Learn more and apply at: https://heliophysics.ucar.edu/summer-school 


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JOB OPENING: Early-career Staff Member Position in Space Plasma Physics at the Los Alamos National Laboratory

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

The T-5 Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics group of the Los Alamos National Laboratory is looking for an energetic individual to support and expand its space physics program.
The details of the application can be found here (note that Jan 2nd 2023 deadline):

https://jobsp1.lanl.gov/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?page=/oracle/apps/irc/candidateSelfService/webui/VisVacDispPG&OAHP=IRC_EXT_SITE_VISITOR_APPL&OASF=IRC_VIS_VAC_DISPLAY&akRegionApplicationId=821&transactionid=961472822&retainAM=N&addBreadCrumb=RP&p_svid=113855&p_spid=5259398&oapc=8&oas=QGJ8l7mvwR0-Q9qICW7fAQ..

For further information, please contact Gian Luca Delzanno (delzanno at lanl dot gov).


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Solar-Heliospheric Physics Research Group at the University of California Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory (UCB/SSL)

From: Christina Lee (clee at ssl.berkeley.edu)

The Solar and Heliospheric Physics Research Group at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory is seeking a candidate to fill one full-time (100%) Postdoctoral position under the general supervision of Dr. Christina Lee. The successful candidate will collaborate with Dr. Lee and the project team members to investigate the role of magnetic connectivity to interplanetary shocks (e.g., driven by coronal mass ejections, CMEs) in determining the large longitudinal extents of solar energetic particle (SEPs) events observed from multiple vantage points throughout the inner heliosphere. A combination of analysis of existing in-situ data sets and remote observations and data-driven modeling will be used to carry out the investigation.

The ideal candidate will have skills and/or experience with

- multi-spacecraft data analysis of quiescent solar wind, CME, SIR, and SEP event intervals from in-situ observations (e.g., ACE, GOES, STEREO-A, ACE, PSP, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, MAVEN, etc.) 

- remote sensing data analysis of multiwavelength solar disk and coronagraph data

- 3D MHD simulations of solar wind and CME propagation using coupled solar corona-solar wind models (e.g., Wang-Sheeley-Arge (WSA) + ENLIL, EUFORIA, Gamera, etc.) 

- modeling transport of solar energetic particles

- programming and utilizing software tools in IDL, Matlab, or Python

For more information about the position, including required qualifications, application materials, and deadlines, go to https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03705.

The position will remain open until filled. For questions, please email Dr. Christina Lee at clee (at) ssl.berkeley.edu. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Uncertainty Quantification for Space Weather Modeling

From: Leonard Smith (lennys at vt.edu)

A new position for a postdoctoral research associate is available in Space at VT with Professor Leonard Smith at Virginia Tech. The project is part of a NASA-funded DRIVE Science Center for Geospace Storms, which is a large, vibrant, highly collaborative, interdisciplinary research team led by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory focusing on simulation, modeling, data analytics, machine learning, and uncertainty quantification (UQ) of the geospace system. Virginia Tech will contribute new approaches, based on UQ, for more aggressive and effective pathways toward improvement of the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment (MAGE) model developed by CGS. CGS seeks to apply advances in modeling, simulation, and analysis capabilities afforded by increased computational power to augment and maximize the scientific understanding; this position will focus on identifying and exploiting inadequacies in the dynamics of the model to improve simulation in a structured manner. Skills acquired will be highly transferable. We envision the postdoc will leverage these efforts to creatively advance simulation and prediction in the broadest sense, interacting and contributing to prediction science activities across Virginia Tech. 
Questions about this position can be email to Professor Leonard Smith (lennys at vt.edu, Subject: Space Weather Postdoc).
More details and a link to apply can be found at the following link: http://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/522652/postdoctoral-associate


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JOB OPENING: Scientist/PostDoc in Space Plasma Physics at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF)

From: Stas Barabash (stas.barabash at irf.se)

The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) invites applications for Scientist (permanent) and PostDoc (up to 3 years) positions for processing and analysis of data collected by IRF’s particle instruments onboard ESA’s BepiColombo and Mars Express missions.

Closing date for applications is January 9 2023.

https://www.irf.se/en/news/2022/11/25/a-permanent-research-position-scientist-in-space-plasma-physics-ref-2-2-1-428-22/

https://www.irf.se/en/news/2022/11/25/post-doctoral-position-in-space-plasma-physics-ref-2-2-1-429-22/


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JOB OPENING: Research Fellow in Solar Wind Origins at UCL/MSSL

From: Suzanne Winter (s.winter at ucl.ac.uk)

Research Fellow in Solar Wind Origins at UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Fellow to join the Department of Space and Climate Physics (Mullard Space Science Laboratory), University College London (UCL). In particular, the funding is awarded to pursue original research addressing key questions in solar and heliospheric physics, including finding and understanding the source regions of the various states of the solar wind, and determining the physical mechanisms responsible for heating and accelerating the wind originating from disparate regions. The postholder will join the Space Plasma Physics Group at the Department of Space and Climate Physics and perform scientific research into the origins, evolution and fundamental processes of the solar wind. The appointee will be expected to perform scientific investigations using the state-of-the-art EUI and SWA data which are being collected by MSSL's PI/Co-PI instruments on Solar Orbiter (launched in February 2020), together with other relevant datasets from other instruments on the mission, and from current or previous missions, such as PSP and Helios.

The successful candidate should hold or expect to hold, a PhD in Physics (closely related disciplines will also be considered). The postholder should have knowledge of fundamental space plasma and/or solar physics along with the ability to present results of complex scientific studies effectively through scientific publication, written and oral presentations. The ability to develop data analysis routines using environments such as Python, C, C++, IDL and MATLAB is also an essential requirement of the post. 

A job description, person specification and to apply please click on the following URL: https://tinyurl.com/Solar-Wind-Origins

Informal enquiries should be made to Professor Andrew Fazakerley (a.fazakerley at ucl.ac.uk). However, if you are having difficulty accessing the on-line recruitment system please contact Suzanne Winter (s.winter at ucl.ac.uk) for advice

Closing date: midnight on 2 January 2023


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position in Space Physics (MMS), University of Murcia, Spain (2nd announcement)

From: Sergio Toledo-Redondo (sergio.toledo at um.es)

The Department of Electromagnetism and Electronics at the University of Murcia, Spain, opens a call for applications for a Postdoctoral contract, financed by the Ministry of Science, in the frame of the R+D project: The Oxygen Plasma Cloak in the near-Earth space environment.
Application deadline

Until filled. Applications received before 31st December 2022 will receive full consideration. The appointment is expected to begin during the first semester of 2023.

Project description	

The successful candidate will perform original research in the frame of the MMS mission. Magnetic reconnection is a  universal process that converts magnetic energy into kinetic energy. It is of particular interest in space plasmas, where it drives large-scale phenomena such as coronal mass ejections or magnetospheric storms.  The project is centered in studying the effect of the multiple ion populations present in the magnetosphere and that participate in magnetic reconnection. The successful candidate will analyze in-situ data of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission to advance our understanding of the role of ionospheric populations in regulating the solar wind – magnetosphere coupling. The candidate is expected to collaborate with scientists at various international institutions, and attend international conferences.

What we offer

• Work at the University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain. Murcia is the seventh city of Spain in terms of population (~400 000 habitants), well known for its mild climate and its ~3000 hours of Sun per year on average. It is a vibrant University city located ~50 km from the Mediterranean sea.
• Initial contract until 31st November 2024. Salary is 36,966 Eur gross/year.
• Medical expenses of the successful candidate and family residing in Spain are covered by the National Health system.
• Attendance to conferences and hardware are covered by the project.

What we look for

• Strong academic record with experience in plasma physics or related field.
• Previous experience in data analysis of the MMS mission will be an asset.

Eligibility

• PhD in a field relevant to the project (e.g. physics, astronomy, mathematics, computer science).

Application procedure and information about the position

Send an email to sergio.toledo at um.es with subject ‘Postdoc MMS 2023’, including a motivation letter, CV, publication list, and two reference contacts.

Any questions about the position can be sent to sergio.toledo at um.es


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