[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 74

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIX, Issue 74
Dec.26,2022

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Table of Contents

1. GRL Editors in Space Physics & Aeronomy (SPA)

2. New NSF Funding Opportunity - Geosciences Open Science Ecosystem (GEO OSE) (NSF 23-534)

3. Please Support a Final Extension of the Cluster Mission!

4. AGU SpecialCollection "Machine Learning in Heliophysics" -- Extended Deadline

5. MEETING: PRESTO Workshop and School (May 29-June 2, 2023) at ICTP, Trieste, Italy 

6. SESSION: Call for Abstracts -- IAGA Div. IV Solar Wind and Interplanetary Field Sessions

7. SESSION: URSI GASS 2023 Call for Papers - Commission H Session H05: Machine learning techniques and their application to plasma waves

8. SESSION: URSI GASS 2023 Call for Papers - Commission H Session H09: H09 Small Satellites and observations of the space environment

9. 2023 Los Alamos Space Weather Summer School

10. JOB OPENING: Heliophysics Scientist/Data Steward opening at NOAA/NCEI (Multiple Locations)

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


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GRL Editors in Space Physics & Aeronomy (SPA)

From: Marit Oieroset, Yuichi Otsuka, Andrew Yau (yau at phys.ucalgary.ca)

We are pleased to inform the SPA community that Marit Oieroset and Yuichi Otsuka have been appointed GRL Editors effective January 1, 2023, replacing Gang Lu and Merav Opher who will be ending their terms as Editors at the end of 2022. 

We would also like to express our sincere appreciation and gratitude to both Gang and Merav for their outstanding dedication and tireless efforts on the GRL Editorial Board over the past six years on behalf of the SPA community. 

We look forward to serving the community in the coming year as GRL Editors, and to receiving submissions from community members of their best works to GRL in various areas of Space and Planetary Science. Please feel free to reach out to GRLonline (grlonline at agu dot org) or any one of us (oieroset at berkeley dot edu, otsuka at isee dot nagoya-u dot ac dot jp, and  yau at phys dot ucalgary dot ca) for assistance or information.

Marit Oieroset 
Yuichi Otsuka
Andrew Yau  


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New NSF Funding Opportunity - Geosciences Open Science Ecosystem (GEO OSE) (NSF 23-534)

From: Alan Liu (zhualiu at nsf.gov)

In alignment with the 2023 Federal Year of Open Science, the NSF Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) recently announced a new funding opportunity, the Geosciences Open Science Ecosystem (GEO OSE). The GEO OSE program seeks to support sustainable and networked open science activities to foster an ecosystem of inclusive access to data, physical collections, software, advanced computing, and other resources toward advancing research and education in the geosciences. The purpose of this support is to broadly enable geoscientists to leverage expanding information resources and computing capabilities to address interdisciplinary grand challenge research questions at the forefront of the geosciences.

Proposals to the GEO OSE program solicitation (NSF 23-534) are due March 16, 2023. Two tracks of support are available based on the size and scope of expected efforts. Track 1 will support smaller-scale activities to advance early stage GEO OSE activities, with funding provided for 2 years with a maximum budget size of $400,000 per project. Track 2 will support larger-scale activities, with funding provided for 3 years with budget size commensurate with the size and scope of the project up to about $1,600,000.

NSF will be holding an informational webinar (tentatively, Friday, January 20, 2023, at 1 PM EST) to offer guidance on the GEO OSE program and to provide an opportunity for Q&A. Please mark your calendars. We expect that registration details for the webinar will be provided in early January and posted on the GEO OSE program page.


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Please Support a Final Extension of the Cluster Mission!

From: Andrew Fazakerley (a.fazakerley at ucl.ac.uk)

We are writing as the Cluster Principal Investigators to inform you that a positive decision by ESA to support a final extension of the Cluster mission during 2023-2025 is in doubt. We would like to ask for your help in our efforts to persuade ESA to support a final extension.

If you would like to show your support, please simply visit the following link, and add your name/institute/nation at the bottom of the google document that you find there, at your earliest convenience (and no later than Friday 13 January). 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13sEBJh4A_TkiRO6i_LUJ6F_nfJkKnFqFFAU5smoM99g/edit

The document that you will find there consists of a letter that the Cluster PIs have drafted to send to ESA's Director of Science and the members of its Science Programme Committee (SPC). We aim to send the completed letter in mid-January, ahead of a key SPC Workshop in early February (which itself precedes the SPC meeting in March at which the extension decision is expected to be formalised). 

Thank you in advance, if you choose to indicate your support. 

best wishes

The Cluster Principal Investigators

Mats Andre, Michael Balikhin, Patrick Canu, Chris Carr, Patrick Daly, 
Iannis Dandouras, Andrew Fazakerley, Jolene Pickett, Jean-Louis Rauch, 
Roy Torbert, Klaus Torkar, Rob Fear


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AGU SpecialCollection "Machine Learning in Heliophysics" -- Extended Deadline

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

Submission Deadline extended: 31 March 2023

This AGU 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 Space Weather, JGR: Space Physics, Geophysical Research Letters and Earth and Space Science and select the collection’s title from the drop down menu in the Special Section field of the submission form.


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MEETING: PRESTO Workshop and School (May 29-June 2, 2023) at ICTP, Trieste, Italy 

From: Kazuo Shiokawa (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp)

The SCOSTEP-UN-ISWI Workshop on the Predictability of the Variable Solar-Terrestrial Coupling (PRESTO) will be held on May 29 - June 2, 2023 (1-day school and 4-day workshop) 
at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.  Please put this workshop into your schedule.  Details will be announced in early next year. 


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SESSION: Call for Abstracts -- IAGA Div. IV Solar Wind and Interplanetary Field Sessions

From: Mari Paz Miralles (mmiralles at cfa.harvard.edu)

The 2023 IAGA Div. IV sessions will be held during the 28th IUGG General Assembly, July 11-20, Berlin, Germany. 

Important deadlines:
Abstract Submission: February 14, 2023
Early bird registration: April 28, 2023  

For abstract submission, registration, and more information visit the meeting website https://www.iugg2023berlin.org

The solar physics sessions of IAGA Division IV, Solar Wind and Interplanetary Field, are below. Since these sessions cover a broad range of topics, the conveners of each session would appreciate hearing from those interested in attending. After submitting your abstract on the meeting website, please send a title and abstract to the convener, so that we can plan the sessions based on interest and anticipated attendance. For session descriptions and other details visit
https://www.iugg2023berlin.org/899-2/

A15. Advances and Upcoming Development in Solar and Heliospheric Physics        
         (Mari Paz Miralles, mmiralles at cfa.harvard.edu )

A16. Waves and Turbulence in the Solar Corona and Wind         
         (Luca Franci, l.franci at qmul.ac.uk)

A17. Interplanetary Shocks, Particle Acceleration, and Transport In Solar and Heliospheric Physics        
        (Manolis Georgoulis, manolis.georgoulis at academyofathens.gr) 

A18.  Space Weather And Space Climate: Data And Models                    
          (Laure Lefevre,  laure.lefevre at oma.be )           

A19. Solar Eruptions (CMEs, Flares, Filaments), Their Source Region Evolution, and Forecast                   
        (Bernhand Kliem,  bkliem at uni-potsdam.de)

A20. The Rising Phase Of Solar Cycle 25 And Comparisons To Previous Cycles
         (Nishu Karna, nkarna at cfa.harvard.edu)


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SESSION: URSI GASS 2023 Call for Papers - Commission H Session H05: Machine learning techniques and their application to plasma waves

From: David Malaspina (David.Malaspina at colorado.edu)

Dear Colleagues, 

The URSI General Assembly Meeting (https://www.ursi-gass2023.jp/) will take place August 19-26, 2023 in Sapporo (Japan).  The abstract deadline January, 25 2023.  

Please submit your abstract here: 
https://www.eventure-online.com/eventure/login.form?A1c4fbc04-5ebf-4a04-a174-0447a681f5d9

We would like to draw your attention to Commission H, Session H05 “Machine learning techniques and their application to plasma waves”.  A session description is below: 

"Wave-particle interactions are critical pathways of energy transfer in collisionless plasmas. They can lead to the growth and damping of plasma waves, particle acceleration, or particle scattering in a wide variety of space plasma environments. Because so much of our understanding of collisionless plasma dynamics depends upon wave-particle interactions, plasma waves and their interaction with particles are among one of the most widely studied topics in space physics. Many aspects of wave-particle interactions are notoriously difficult to model from a first principles approach, especially for physically vast systems where plasma waves can only be measured at a small number of locations, such as planetary radiation belts, ionospheres, or the solar wind. However, machine learning techniques enabling new progress by providing new ways to examine and interpret data from past and present space missions. This session will focus on applications of machine learning techniques to wave-particle interactions through the analysis of observational data, large-scale simulation data, or the fusion of observational and simulation data. Contributions that employ any machine learning techniques applied to wave/particle interactions in space plasmas are welcome, including techniques complimentary to machine learning such as those from system science."

Drew Turner, Katariina Nykyri, Xiangning Chu, and David Malaspina
Session H05 Conveners

Information on other URSI General Assembly sessions can be found here: https://cloud.ilabt.imec.be/index.php/s/6jp5tnASX5DbY2n


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SESSION: URSI GASS 2023 Call for Papers - Commission H Session H09: H09 Small Satellites and observations of the space environment

From: David Malaspina (David.Malaspina at colorado.edu)

Dear Colleagues, 

The URSI General Assembly Meeting (https://www.ursi-gass2023.jp/) will take place August 19-26, 2023 in Sapporo (Japan).  The abstract deadline January, 25 2023.  

Please submit your abstract here: 
https://www.eventure-online.com/eventure/login.form?A1c4fbc04-5ebf-4a04-a174-0447a681f5d9

We would like to draw your attention to Commission H, Session H09 “Small Satellites and observations of the space environment”.  A session description is below: 

"The rapid maturation of small satellites and CubeSats in Earth orbit and beyond has opened the door to new observations of the space environment. These small satellites have enabled novel mission and instrument designs, missions with focused and dedicated science goals, and arrays or constellations of spacecraft for multi-point measurements. This session solicits contributions describing recent or upcoming small satellite missions aimed at addressing science goals in the near-Earth space environment through remote sensing and/or in-situ measurements. We welcome contributions related to small satellite missions, spacecraft, and instruments targeting observations and understanding of near-Earth space, including plasma waves, fields, particle populations, and wave-particle interactions; and/or analysis of data from recent small satellite missions with similar science goals."

Robert Marshall, and David Malaspina
Session H09 Conveners

Information on other URSI General Assembly sessions can be found here: https://cloud.ilabt.imec.be/index.php/s/6jp5tnASX5DbY2n


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2023 Los Alamos Space Weather Summer School

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

Dear colleagues,
the Los Alamos National Laboratory is accepting applications for its 2023 Space Weather Summer School, scheduled for June 5th-July 28th 2023. The school, which will be in-presence, combines lectures and summer research projects. Information about the school can be found at:
https://www.lanl.gov/projects/national-security-education-center/space-earth-center/space-weather-school/index.php

The list of suggested projects and mentors can be found at:

https://www.lanl.gov/projects/national-security-education-center/space-earth-center/_assets/docs/Suggested-Projects.pdf

Students interested in a specific project are welcome to contact the relevant mentor ahead of the application. Students are also welcome to propose their own research topic (which could be aligned with their PhD) as part of the application, in which case an effort will be made to pair the student with a LANL mentor interested in that topic. 

The details of the application process can be found at:
https://www.lanl.gov/projects/national-security-education-center/space-earth-center/space-weather-school/apply.php

The deadline for application is January 31st 2023.

Please do not hesitate to contact the school for any clarifications.

Sincerely,
Gian Luca Delzanno
Mike Henderson
LANL Space Weather Summer School co-directors


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JOB OPENING: Heliophysics Scientist/Data Steward opening at NOAA/NCEI (Multiple Locations)

From: Laurel Rachmeler (laurel.rachmeler at noaa.gov)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) has an opening for a permanent Physical Scientist federal hire in the Solar & Terrestrial Physics (STP) group. The STP group consists of 40+ world-class scientists and technical experts in Boulder, CO. The successful applicant will have a lead role in all of NCEI’s space weather data stewardship services with a focus on heliospheric data sets from NOAA’s satellite assets in the solar wind such as DSCOVR, SWFO-L1, and future missions. These services include real-time and historical data oversight, scientific algorithm development, calibration & validation activities, long term preservation and access, and interfacing with primary operational and scientific data users.

The duties and example experience of the STP Heliophysics Steward:

- The steward will have oversight of the entire heliospheric data library at NCEI. The steward will lead the development of long term strategy and direction for the heliophysics services within NCEI including collaborating with internal and external stakeholders. Demonstrated success as a heliophysics project lead is a plus.

- The steward will work independently and with a group of scientific experts and code developers to design and implement space weather product pipelines, perform instrument calibration and validation activities, and conduct data analysis projects. Research experience in heliophysics or space weather data analysis or product development is beneficial. 

-The steward will be a public face for these data, interfacing with national and international partners and stakeholders in NOAA, across the federal government, the scientific community, and the general public. Strong demonstrated communications skills are encouraged. 

Applications are accepted through USAJOBS; applicants should research best practices for USAJOBS if you are not familiar with it as the process can be very different from academic or research applications. Applications will be accepted from Dec 27 until Jan 10. This is a permanent federal civil servant non-supervisory 1301-ZP-4 position (equivalent to GS 13/14). The duty station for this position is in Boulder CO (where the STP group is based), Silver Spring MD, Asheville NC, or Stennis MS. If you have any questions please contact Laurel Rachmeler at Laurel.Rachmeler at noaa.gov. USAJOBS announcement link: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/692920400


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