[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 1

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SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIX, Issue 1
Jan.04,2022

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Table of Contents

1. Call for Session Proposals for the Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS), a joint AGU/SPA and AAS/SPD meeting

2. Call for a Medium-size and a Fast Mission Opportunity in ESA's Science Programme

3. MEETING:  Space Systems Anomalies and Failures (SCAF) Workshop 2022

4. MEETING: Lunar Surface Science Workshop  Heliophysics Applications Enabling and Enabled by Human Exploration of the Lunar Surface

5. MEETING: Helio 2050: Measurement Techniques & Technologies Workshop, 1st Community Announcement

6. MEETING: Second Announcement of US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection

7. MEETING: Layered Phenomena in the Mesopause Region (LPMR), August 15-19, 2022 -- First Announcement

8. CALL FOR PAPERS: Frontier Special Issue on Solar Wind-Magnetosphere interaction (SWMI)

9. CALL FOR PAPERS: Topical collection: Applications of Statistical Methods and Machine Learning in the Space Sciences -- Due Date Extension

10. BOOK: Elsevier Book on Cross-Scale Coupling and Energy Transfer in the M-I-T System

11. JOB OPENING: Tenure Track Assistant Professor Opening - Experimental Space Physics at Montana State University

12. JOB OPENING: Visiting Young Scientist Opportunity at Dartmouth College

13. JOB OPENING: Open Tenure-track Positions as Assistant Professor, Umeå University, Sweden

14. RHESSI Nuggets in December 2021

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


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Call for Session Proposals for the Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS), a joint AGU/SPA and AAS/SPD meeting

From: Dale Gary (dgary at njit.edu)

The TESS Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC) is pleased to open the call for session proposals for the upcoming TESS meeting, being held 8-12 August 2022 in Bellevue/Seattle WA . The TESS meeting is organized largely around sessions proposed by the science community on topics of interest to SPD and SPA members. Organizers of session proposals should expect to fill 90 minute sessions with two or fewer invited talks plus contributed talks, a discussion panel, or other described format. Acceptance of session proposals will be judged by the TESS SOC based on our assessment of the appeal of the topic to SPD and SPA members.  We particularly encourage topics of cross-disciplinary appeal.  

The session proposal site is now open and the deadline for completing the form is 31 Jan 2022.  Submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/cW5JYeuq85eRbCV6A.  Please help spread the word about this call for session proposals with your colleagues, and we look forward to seeing you all at the TESS meeting in August 2022.  

TESS SOC: Dale Gary, Craig DeForest, Geoff Reeves, Christina Cohen, James Klimchuk & Angeline Burrell


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Call for a Medium-size and a Fast Mission Opportunity in ESA's Science Programme

From: Paul McNamara, Luigi Colangeli (Paul.McNamara at esa.int)

The ESA Director of Science solicits the scientific community in ESA's Member States for proposals for both a "Fast" mission opportunity (to be launched in the 2030-2031 timeframe) and for a Medium mission opportunity (to be launched around 2037).

The new long-term scientific plan - Voyage 2050 - for the Science Programme of the European Space Agency (ESA), has been issued in June 2021, following a broad consultation of the scientific community and a peer review process, with final recommendations issued by an independent scientific Senior Committee.

The plan includes three Large (L) missions in selected science themes (Moons of the Giant Planets, From Temperate Exoplanets to the Milky Way, and New Physical Probes of the Early Universe) and a set of Medium (M) and Fast (F) missions.

The definition of the F and M space missions is based on a competitive, peer-reviewed selection process. Even though the Voyage 2050 plan identifies a set of possible themes for the Medium missions, proposals in all fields of space science will be considered, with no prejudice.

Full details can be found at:  https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/call-for-missions-2021/


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MEETING:  Space Systems Anomalies and Failures (SCAF) Workshop 2022

From: Joseph Minow (joseph.minow at nasa.gov)

SCAF Workshop 2022 will be held on 11-12 January 2022 as a virtual event.  The workshop is two days of invited presentations and discussions on space system anomalies and failures.  NASA civil service and contractor personnel require NCTS approval using NCTS # 45625-22

Additional workshop information to be posted to the workshop website:  
https://www.nasa.gov/nase/conferences/SCAF

Registration:  There is no fee to register, but registration is required to attend.
Day 1, Jan 11 (open to public):  https://www.eventbrite.com/event/224359143237
Day 2, Jan 12 (clearance required):  contact John Christensen @ john.s1.christensen at mail1.ctfv.com


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MEETING: Lunar Surface Science Workshop  Heliophysics Applications Enabling and Enabled by Human Exploration of the Lunar Surface

From: James Spann/Sabrina Savage (jim.spann at nasa.gov/sabrina.savage at nasa.gov)

Lunar Surface Science Workshop
Heliophysics Applications Enabling and Enabled by Human Exploration of the Lunar Surface

February 17, 2022 Virtual

This Heliophysics-focused Lunar Surface Science session will address aspects of Heliophysics science that enable or are enabled by human presence on the lunar surface.

Abstract submission deadline — January 10, 2022, 5:00 p.m. U.S. Central Standard Time (GMT -6)
Input is solicited from the Heliophysics community in the form of short abstracts (<1,200 characters) for both poster and oral presentations. Topics include but are not limited to:
·       How can HERMES and other measurements from Gateway support lunar surface operations, for example, by determining the radiation environment on the surface of the Moon?
·       What are the electrodynamic conditions on the lunar surface and their relationship to exploration hazards such as dust and electrostatic discharge?
·       How can solar, magnetospheric, and other imaging techniques help predict conditions on the Moon that may affect human exploration?
·       How does our understanding of electrodynamic processes in and near magnetic anomalies inform and guide human activities on the lunar surface?

Contributions made during the session will be summarized in a short report.

Registration
Registration fees are not being collected for this session, but registration is required. Registration will be available through February 17. Before the session, registered attendees will receive an email from Houston Meeting Info with virtual connection information.


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MEETING: Helio 2050: Measurement Techniques & Technologies Workshop, 1st Community Announcement

From: Sabrina Savage (sabrina.savage at nasa.gov)

We are happy to announce the virtual Helio 2050: Measurement Techniques & Technologies Workshop scheduled for February 23-25, 2022. 

Following on the science framework envisioned by the community during the Helio 2050 Workshop held in May 2021, the objective of this Measurement Techniques & Technologies Workshop is to enable and facilitate a community discussion to determine what technological advancements are needed to enable the broad scientific vision outlined by the Helio 2050 Workshop and to make transformative advancements in Heliophysics. The workshop will be a forum to organize and solicit community inputs that will inform the upcoming Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey.

Abstracts will be due in mid-January. Abstract submissions are not required to participate in the workshop. More information on registration and abstract submission will be forthcoming soon. 

**** Seeking Volunteers ****

The workshop committee is seeking volunteers for panel discussion facilitators and session rapporteurs. Please contact Sabrina Savage (sabrina.savage at nasa.gov) and Dan Gershman (dan.j.gershman at nasa.gov) to volunteer.


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MEETING: Second Announcement of US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection

From: Paul Cassak, Michael Shay, Michael Hesse (shay at udel.edu)

This is the second announcement of the US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection (MR2022) from May 16-20, 2022, in Monterey, California.  This year, the workshop will be held in honor of the milestone birthdays of two illustrious community members - Jim Drake’s 75th and Masaaki Yamada’s 80th.  

The first round of invitations has been distributed, and the list of confirmed speakers at https://physics.wvu.edu/magnetic-reconnection-conference-2022/confirmed-invited-speakers is being updated. All oral presentations at the workshop will be invited presentations. In addition, there will be a poster session – we encourage the community to submit contributed abstracts for it, including from postdocs and students.

Of course, the organizers recognize that there is uncertainty as a result of the pandemic, and will monitor the situation.  Currently, the plan is for the meeting to be in-person only (not hybrid).  Timely updates will be provided as necessary if circumstances change.  If you are concerned about registering for the workshop in light of this uncertainty, please note that we are able to refund your registration (but not travel expenses) back to the credit card that was used if the workshop is canceled.  If you have any questions, please email Paul Cassak at Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu.

If you plan to attend, we ask your help in registering by Saturday, January 15, 2022.  The organizers need your registration soon to ensure there are enough attendees to hold the meeting.

The format of the meeting will be much like previous MR meetings. The meeting website is https://physics.wvu.edu/magnetic-reconnection-conference-2022. To request financial support for students to attend the meeting, please email Prof. Hantao Ji at hji at pppl.gov. 

DEADLINES:

Registration Deadline: January 15, 2022
Housing Deadline: Friday, April 1, 2022
Abstract Deadline: Friday, April 29, 2022

Please let the organizers know if you have any questions,

Paul Cassak, Mike Shay, and Michael Hesse


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MEETING: Layered Phenomena in the Mesopause Region (LPMR), August 15-19, 2022 -- First Announcement

From: Jörg Gumbel (gumbel at misu.su.se)

The 15th International Workshop on Layered Phenomena in the Mesopause Region (LPMR) will be held in the Stockholm/Uppsala region in Sweden on August 15-19, 2022. It will be held together with the 20th International EISCAT Symposium, thus bringing together two communities with considerable overlap concerning upper atmospheric processes and observational techniques. The goal of LPMR is to advance our understanding of mesospheric particles and related processes in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere, ranging from particle microphysics to the global and solar-terrestrial processes controlling the region. 

The joint meeting will be hosted by the Department of Meteorology (MISU) at Stockholm University and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF). The meeting will comprise both joint sessions and separate EISCAT and LPMR sessions. 

Please mark the dates in your calendars. And let us hope that the world will be a more travel-friendly place by then. Please spread this news to your colleagues, and stay tuned for more information! 


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CALL FOR PAPERS: Frontier Special Issue on Solar Wind-Magnetosphere interaction (SWMI)

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 nominal submission deadline is April 19, 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: Topical collection: Applications of Statistical Methods and Machine Learning in the Space Sciences -- Due Date Extension

From: bala.poduval at unh.edu (bala.poduval at unh.edu)

The due date for submission of manuscripts to the topical collection, Applications of Statistical Methods and Machine Learning in the Space Sciences, in Frontiers in Space Physics, has been extended to 4 February 2022. For further details, please visit: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/25408.


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BOOK: Elsevier Book on Cross-Scale Coupling and Energy Transfer in the M-I-T System

From: Toshi Nishimura, Yue Deng, Olga Verkhoglyadova, Shunrong Zhang (toshi16 at bu.edu)

A new book entitled "Cross-Scale Coupling and Energy Transfer in the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere System" has been published in Elsevier. The editors thank all authors of the chapters and community members who have provided supports to develop this book.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128213667/cross-scale-coupling-and-energy-transfer-in-the-magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere-system

The magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere (M-I-T) coupling system evolves constantly due to variable energy inputs and complexity of exchange in mass, momentum and energy. Determining the state of the M-I-T system is an important objective in the field of our community research because it is a fundamental science problem when nonlinear coupling occurs across regions and different spatial and temporal scales. Coupling across multiple scales, among global (large-scale), regional (meso-scale) and turbulence (small-scale) domains, is a critical challenge because observational and modeling capabilities for bridging different scales are quite limited. 

This book was motivated by growing interests in the nature and challenges of the multi-scale M-I-T coupling in the community. Through these community activities, we realized that this growing area of research does not have a reference manual that broadly describes key concepts. Thus we decided to compile such a book in responding to this need. The main theme of this book is to provide basic concepts, definition, equations, examples on M-I-T coupling processes across scales. This book is not intended for a collection of research papers or a thorough literature review. This book targets not only active research experts but also researchers and students who would like to learn M-I-T coupling topics. The book also includes original materials useful for classrooms and tutorials.

Toshi Nishimura, Yue Deng, Olga Verkhoglyadova, and Shunrong Zhang
Book Editors


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JOB OPENING: Tenure Track Assistant Professor Opening - Experimental Space Physics at Montana State University

From: David Klumpar, John Sample (klumpar at montana.edu)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS-SPACE SCIENCES
within the College of Letters and Science
at Montana State University

The Department of Physics at Montana State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the field of Space Sciences, with an emphasis on experimentalists, to start in 2021. The first five years of this position are funded through the NSF Faculty Development in Space Sciences (FDSS) program. Candidates will hold a Ph.D. in physics, or a discipline related to space sciences and will have demonstrated the potential to conduct a vigorous and significant experimental space physics research program as evidenced by previous involvement in space-based instrumentation development and by an appropriate publication record. Duties include teaching physics, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels; the development of new course offerings related to the discipline; and the involvement of students in formal multidisciplinary experiential training activities.

Required Qualifications:
1.	A Ph.D. in physics or closely related field.
2.	Demonstrated research experience in experimental space science, as evidenced by a record of publication.
3.	Demonstrated ability or the potential to teach both undergraduate and graduate physics courses and to involve students from other academic disciplines in formal multidisciplinary experiential training.
4.	Demonstrated ability or potential for excellence in advising graduate and undergraduate students through research experiences.
Candidates with expertise in any area of experimental space sciences utilizing space-based or near-space platforms are encouraged to apply. Research areas include, but are not limited to: solar, magnetospheric, ionospheric, and planetary physics.

Complete job announcement and application procedures:
 https://jobs.montana.edu/postings/25472
Information about the Department of Physics may be found at:
http://www.physics.montana.edu/

Refer to the on-line posting above for MSU's diversity and inclusivity perspectives, disability accommodations, and veterans’ preferences policies.

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JOB OPENING: Visiting Young Scientist Opportunity at Dartmouth College

From: James LaBelle (James.W.LaBelle at dartmouth.edu)

A visiting appointment for a recent Ph.D. scientist is available at Dartmouth College. The appointment would be for up to 6 months during academic year 2022-23. The position includes teaching in the departments of Physics and Astronomy, Engineering, or Earth Sciences. Extension of appointment may be possible using appropriate sponsored research projects. To qualify, candidates must be U.S. citizens engaged in research related to space science, planetary science, astrophysics, remote sensing, aerospace technology, or technology dependent on space-based platforms. To apply, send a 1-2 page summary of short-term and long-term (career) teaching and research goals, curriculum vitae, and the names of three references to: Visiting Young Scientist, c/o James LaBelle, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, 6127 Wilder Hall, Hanover, NH 03755. For more information, email james.labelle at dartmouth.edu. Applications will be reviewed starting March 7, 2022. The position is funded by NASA NH Space Grant. Dartmouth College is committed to diversity in hiring, and members of under-represented groups are encouraged to apply.


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JOB OPENING: Open Tenure-track Positions as Assistant Professor, Umeå University, Sweden

From: Maria Hamrin (hamrin at space.umu.se)

There are presently 5 open tenure-track positions as Assistant professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Umeå University, Sweden. Some of the positions may well go to physical sciences, hopefully to space plasma physics.

Please, spread the word about this opportunity among your colleagues in your institute and all over the world!

This is a six-year appointment for junior researchers and gives the opportunity to develop a long-term research activity and to qualify for promotion to an Associate Professorship (Senior Lecturer).

Starting date upon agreement. The application shall be submitted no later than 23.59 Swedish time (CET) on February 15, 2022.

This is a great chance for anyone who wants to join the Umeå Space Plasma Physics Group in Sweden. Some information about the group can be found on: https://www.umu.se/en/research/groups/space-plasma-physics-group/

The successful candidate should conduct research and contribute to the continued development of the research environment in the field. Applicants with a research plan that is linked to and/or complements the department's research activities are given priority.

For further information about the space plasma physics research environment at Umeå University, please contact Maria Hamrin, maria.hamrin at space.umu.se

The entire advertisement can be found on:

https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/up-to-five-tenure-track-positions-as-assistant-professor_446404/


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RHESSI Nuggets in December 2021

From: Hugh Hudson (hugh.hudson at glasgow.ac.uk)

No. 423, “Resolving two distinct thermal X-ray components in a compound solar flare,” by Zhenjun ZHAO and Rui LIU: Superhot coronal sources may be independent loop systems.

No. 422, “Bridging solar flares to coronal mass ejections,’’ by Markus ASCHWANDEN: The Neupert effect allows us to trace coronal mass ejections seamlessly.

We welcome contributions to the RHESSI Nuggets, and the topics may wander some distance away from specifically RHESSI results if they are generally interesting. See http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI_Science_Nuggets for these and others. Comments about specific flares can often be found by searching for their SOLyyyy-mm-dd identifier from this home page.


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