[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 36

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIX, Issue 36
Jun.26,2022

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Table of Contents

1. Volunteer to Be on One of SPA's Four New Committees

2. Corrected Link for Named Lecture Nomination

3. SHIELD DRIVE Center Webinar The Voyager Mission: 45 Years of Discovery

4. JOB OPENING: General Engineer, ZP-0801-5, Office of Projects Planning and Analysis (OPPA) at NOAA

5. Four New RHESSI Science Nuggets

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


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Volunteer to Be on One of SPA's Four New Committees

From: Geoffrey Reeves (Geoff at Reevesresearch.org)

The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy section has a number of committees that are looking for dedicated volunteers. We have a review committee for each section award and other committees that assist in promoting SPA's activities and initiatives.

Currently (summer 2022) we are looking for volunteers to serve on four new committees. Because they are new the exact scope and responsibilities of the committees are not yet fixed and will be determined, in part, by the committee itself

The new SPA Digital Engagement Committee will help develop and implement strategies for engaging the SPA community (and beyond) through a variety of platforms including social media and the SPA Section web pages (https://connect.agu.org/spa/home)

The new SPA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee will help our section develop and advance DEI initiatives in coordination with the Nomination Task Force and other AGU DEI activities (https://www.agu.org/Learn-About-AGU/About-AGU/Governance/Committees/Diversity-Committee)

We are also starting two new committees to advise SPA section leadership on topics of particular interest to students and early career scientists. The chairs of each of these committees will also serve as part of the SPA section leadership team

To self-nominate please use the (yes another) form at https://forms.gle/ZR9obY18y9aqCkr96


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Corrected Link for Named Lecture Nomination

From: Geoff Reeves (geoff at reevesresearch.org)

My previous post about Named Lecture nominations had a link that didn't work. Please use this link instead: https://forms.gle/uhoh4xqKsFsRQAvt

If, for some reason, the short link doesn’t work then try the long version:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYd8tOGn8xkNTmmAbmBg7gmI_DpfQ7-7k9A1HzPDQIO9ydiQ/viewform?usp=sf_link 

The deadline for Named Lecture nominations remains 7-1.


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SHIELD DRIVE Center Webinar The Voyager Mission: 45 Years of Discovery

From: Nicholas Gross (gross at bu.edu)

Aug. 19th at 2pm ET
Webinar Registration: https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8sYLwV14R4OOY3NFrzJoLg  

Join us for this panel discussion to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the launch of Voyager as well as 20 years of exploration outside of the Heliopause. This panel will reflect on how the past discoveries of Voyager have shaped humanity’s understandings of the outer regions of the Solar System as well as the current and future observations in the Interstellar Medium influenced by the Heliosphere. Panelists will also highlight connections with current missions, such as IBEX and New Horizons, and future missions such as IMAP.  The panelists will reflect on the outstanding scientific puzzles that scientists are looking to solve through the future of exploration, and then conclude with a Q and A session.

Panelists include:
- Dr. Nicola Fox - Director, Heliophysics Division, NASA Science Mission Directorate
- Dr. Linda Spilker - senior research scientist and Fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory  and  Voyager Deputy Project Scientist
- Prof. Merav Opher - Professor of Astronomy, Boston University. Radcliffe Fellow 2021-2022, Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Director of the NASA SHIELD DRIVE Science Centers. 

For more information and to register, go to https://sites.bu.edu/shield-drive/outreach-2/webinars/

Find us on the web at:
Email: shieldoutreach at bu.edu 
Website: https://sites.bu.edu/shield-drive/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SHIELDDriveScienceCenter 
Twitter: @SHIELD_drive 
Join the SHIELD Outreach list serve by sending a message to our email 


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JOB OPENING: General Engineer, ZP-0801-5, Office of Projects Planning and Analysis (OPPA) at NOAA

From: Irfan Azeem (irfan.azeem at noaa.gov)

The NOAA Office of Projects Planning and Analysis (OPPA) is seeking an accomplished candidate for the position of Supervisory General Engineer in Silver Spring, MD. In this role, the selected candidate will serve as the Deputy Chief of the Research to Operations and Project Planning (ROPPD) Division. The division provides multidisciplinary science, engineering, and technical expertise to develop and execute projects to collect space weather observations from satellites. It leads pre-formulation and formulation phases of new satellite systems and/or instruments acquisition projects. The selected candidate will manages the formulation, development, and acquisition of space weather satellite projects, directs scientists and engineers to develop innovative ideas for data collection systems and space-based architectures for space weather observations, oversees data exploitation initiatives within the division to fulfill NESDIS’s strategic objectives in space weather, and supports and enhances activities for workforce development to ensure NOAA’s leadership in space weather satellite observations. 

Vacancy Announcement Information:
• NESDIS-2022-0036  (Direct Hire)
• Opens:   06/21/2022
• Closes:  07/05/2022

The vacancy can be located via USAJOBS (search by the vacancy number).


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Four New RHESSI Science Nuggets

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

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI_Science_Nuggets

No. 428, “Solar Hard X-rays with Insight,” by Wei WANG and Ping ZHANG. A spectacular limb flare introduces Insight/HXMT, a new high-energy observational resource.

No. 429, “Carl Størmer,” by Hugh HUDSON and Lyndsay FLETCHER. Størmer and the theory of particle trapping in magnetic loops.

No. 430, “Sun-as-a-star spectroscopic observations of the line-of-sight velocity of the solar eruption SOL2021-10-28T15:35,”  by Yu XU and Hui TIAN. The observation of the full 3D velocity of a CME, for a RHESSI anniversary event.

No. 431, “Thermal/non-thermal with MinXSS and RHESSI,” by Shunsaku NAGASAWA. Time-domain studies of improved X-ray spectra reveal a “super-hot” component.

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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