[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 30

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SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIX, Issue 30
May.22,2022

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Table of Contents

1. MEETING: LPMR Workshop / EISCAT Symposium: Abstracts and Registration

2. MEETING: 2nd SmallSats for Space Weather Research & Forecasting (SSWRF II) Workshop — 3–7 October 2022 — Laurel, MD + Online -- Save the Date

3. SESSION: Cold-plasma Focus Group Sessions at GEM

4. Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series

5. Outer Heliosphere/LISM Online Discussion, Wednesday, May 25th

6. Cluster Boundary Identification: Invitation to Tender Issued

7. JOB OPENING: Research Associate in Magnetic Fields in Planetary Systems at Imperial College London (3 posts, deadline 9 June 2022)

8. JOB OPENING: (Junior) Group Leader (F*M) in Space Instrumentation at the Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

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


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MEETING: LPMR Workshop / EISCAT Symposium: Abstracts and Registration

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

20th International EISCAT Symposium, and
15th International LPMR Workshop (Layered Phenomena in the Mesopause Region)
August 15-19, 2022
Meeting website: https://www.space.irfu.se/workshops/LPMR-EISCAT

The 15th International Workshop on Layered Phenomena in the Mesopause Region (LPMR) and the 20th International EISCAT Symposium will be held as a joint meeting in Sweden on August 15-19, 2022. Abstract submission is now open until May 28. Registration is open until June 10.

The meeting will be held in Sundbyholm Castle, approximately 80 km west of Stockholm. The EISCAT-related sessions will be held in a hybrid mode, thus also providing an option to participate online.

A goal of this joint meeting is to bring the LPMR and EISCAT communities together, thus providing a forum to learn more about scientific interests, recent advances and new opportunities. The meeting will comprise both separate and combined LPMR and EISCAT sessions. The LPMR workshop traditionally aims at advancing our understanding of mesospheric ice clouds and related phenomena in the Earth’s mesosphere and lower thermosphere, ranging from microphysics to the global and solar-terrestrial processes controlling the region. The EISCAT Symposium has its focus on incoherent scatter radar and on the atmospheric/ionospheric science explored by this measurement method, including the upcoming EISCAT_3D system. 

Deadlines:
May 28: Abstract submission
June 10: Registration

Conference fees are all-inclusive, covering conference costs, accommodation, meals, excursion etc. Fees are approximately EUR 1150 / USD 1190 for ordinary participants, EUR 670 / USD 700 for accompanying persons, EUR 670 / USD 700 for students in shared camping cottages, EUR 290 / USD 300 for online participants (available only for EISCAT sessions), all excluding VAT.

Please see the meeting website for more information: https://www.space.irfu.se/workshops/LPMR-EISCAT 

Contact: 
for EISCAT: Stephan Buchert Swedish Institute of Space Physics, scb at irfu.se
for LPMR: Jörg Gumbel, Stockholm University, gumbel at misu.su.se 

Please spread his news to your colleagues, and stay tuned for more information! 

On behalf of the organizing committee.


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MEETING: 2nd SmallSats for Space Weather Research & Forecasting (SSWRF II) Workshop — 3–7 October 2022 — Laurel, MD + Online -- Save the Date

From: Amir Caspi (amir at boulder.swri.edu)

Dear Colleagues,

Please save the date! The second SmallSats for Space Weather Research and Forecasting (SSWRF II) workshop will be held October 3–7, 2022! We are planning a hybrid meeting. The in-person component will be at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, MD; online access will be provided via Zoom.

This workshop follows from the first SSWRF in May 2017 and brings together academia, government, and industry partners to discuss recent and upcoming advances in space weather-related research from small satellites, including CubeSats. Themes will include current status of research and forecasting with SmallSats; data exploitation and modeling (including “big data” from constellations); new instrumentation, enabling technologies, and mission concepts; and programmatic issues including policy, international collaboration, and workforce development.

The workshop website, https://sswrf.boulder.swri.edu, will be updated in real time over the coming weeks. The full Science Organizing Committee and detailed topics, along with a call for abstracts and registration, will be announced in late June 2022.

Please save the dates of October 3–7, 2022 for SSWRF II in Laurel, MD – we look forward to seeing you there, or online!

On behalf of the SSWRF II lead organizers:
Amir Caspi (chair)
James P. Mason (LOC chair)
Therese Moretto Jørgensen
Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla
Linda Neergaard Parker
Bob Robinson
Vadim Uritsky


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SESSION: Cold-plasma Focus Group Sessions at GEM

From: Gian Luca Delzanno, Natalia Buzulukosva, Barbara Giles, Roger Varney, Joe Borovsky (delzanno at lanl.gov)

Please mark your calendar for the three sessions of the cold plasma focus group at the GEM summer meeting, June 19 – 26 2022 in Hawaii (https://gemworkshop.org).

The first session (Wed 6/22, 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Hawaii time) focuses on the impact of the cold plasma on wave-particle interactions, and it is joint with the 

- System Understanding of Radiation Belt Particle Dynamics through Multi-spacecraft and Ground-based Observations and Modeling
- Self-Consistent Inner Magnetospheric Modeling
- Magnetospheric Sources of Particle Precipitation and Their Role on Electrodynamic Coupling of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Systems 

focus groups. It will be kicked off with a scene-setting talk given by Jacob Bortnik, followed by research contributions and open discussion. 

The second session (Thu 6/23, 1:30 PM- 3:00 PM Hawaii time) will be on recent progress in cold plasma research. It will kick-off with a scene-setting talk given by Alex Glocer, followed by research contributions and open discussion. All types of contributions relevant to cold-plasma research are welcome.

The third session (Thu 6/23, 3:30 PM- 5:00 PM Hawaii time) will be a discussion of white papers needs for the ongoing decadal survey in space physics, focusing on 1) what white papers are needed; 2) what needs to be in them and 3) who is interested in contributing to them. Panelists (including Alex Glocer, Maria Usanova, Jerry Goldstein, Carlos Maldonado, …) will discuss some of the white papers that are already under development. If you are thinking of a white paper with a cold plasma theme, please consider joining the panel or simply make sure to bring it up during the discussion!

Please contact the Gian Luca Delzanno (delzanno at lanl.gov) if you are interested in contributing to any of these sessions.

Thanks,
Gian Luca Delzanno on behalf of the FG leaders


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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 May 23, Subash Adhikari will discuss a fundamental connection between reconnection and turbulence. 

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 2022 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 Online Discussion, Wednesday, May 25th

From: Justyna Sokol, Elena Provornikova, 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, May 25th 11:00 am EDT for a presentation by Dr. Merav Opher
 (Boston University) about the SHIELD DRIVE Science Center. The vision of the SHIELD is to understand the nature and structure of the heliosphere. NASA recently selected the SHIELD for Phase II as one of three DRIVE Science Centers.

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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Cluster Boundary Identification: Invitation to Tender Issued

From: Matt Taylor (matthew.taylor at esa.int)

Dear Colleagues, 
Please be aware of the following opportunity related to Cluster  - > 
1-11280 - GEOSPACE REGION AND MAGNETOSPHERIC BOUNDARY IDENTIFICATION USING THE CLUSTER SCIENCE ARCHIVE 
The purpose of this activity is to develop a comprehensive dataset providing information on a variety of Geospace regions and magnetospheric boundaries that the proposer must identify in the data sets of the four Cluster spacecraft, and deliver it to the Cluster Science Archive (CSA). 
This opportunity is open to ESA member states only. Closed date for proposals is 28 June 2022 13:00 CEST. 
  
More details can be found on ESA Star -> 
https://esastar-publication.sso.esa.int/ESATenderActions/details/40349 

Please send any queries to me at Matthew.taylor at esa.int

regards 
Matt Taylor, on behalf of the ESA Cluster team.


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JOB OPENING: Research Associate in Magnetic Fields in Planetary Systems at Imperial College London (3 posts, deadline 9 June 2022)

From: Adam Masters, Michele Doughetry (a.masters at imperial.ac.uk)

Three Research Associate positions are available in magnetic fields in planetary systems in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London. The postholders will produce original research results within this broad field. They will work independently, collaborating with members of the space and atmospheric physics group and members of the international scientific community. They will communicate the results of their work to the community and submit publications to peer-reviewed journals. The postholders are expected to support the running of the group and contribute to teaching.

Three posts are available within this broad field of research.

Electromagnetic Sounding of Solar System Bodies (1 post)
Line-managed by Dr Adam Masters, working closely with Prof Michele Dougherty.

The aim of this post is to establish the potential of passive electromagnetic sounding to constrain the interior structure of different solar system bodies, including Mercury, Mars, and the many icy moons of the giant planets. The postholder will implement and apply an established one-dimensional model of inductive response to each body. Present knowledge of internal electrical conductivity structure with associated uncertainties, combined with the frequencies of known background electromagnetic signals, will allow model application that establishes the full potential of future passive electromagnetic sounding for furthering our knowledge of each body’s interior structure. Example topics that will be impacted are the search for groundwater on Mars, and the identification and characterisation of possible ocean habitats inside giant planet moons. This work will directly support our plans to begin developing magnetotelluric instrumentation for surface deployment during exploratory space missions.

The Magnetic Environments of Jupiter and Ganymede: Preparing for the JUICE Mission (2 posts)
Line-managed by Prof Michele Dougherty, working closely with Dr Adam Masters.

The aim of these posts is to further our knowledge of Jupiter’s and/or Ganymede’s magnetic field environment in direct support of the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission. We recently delivered the JUICE magnetic field investigation. Once in the Jupiter system our instrument will provide the data needed to separate different contributions to the magnetic field around Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest and magnetised moon, ultimately leading to the characterisation of Ganymede’s sub-surface ocean of liquid water. The postholders will contribute to the definition of priority investigations to be carried out in support of this key objective, subsequently carrying out these investigations using the theory, data analysis, numerical modelling, or a combination of approaches. Relevant themes include the state of Jupiter’s magnetosphere along Ganymede’s orbital path, physics of Ganymede’s magnetosphere, induction in Ganymede’s sub-surface ocean, and magnetic field generation by a dynamo action deeper inside this moon.

For more information and to apply please see the below link. Also, feel free to contact Dr Adam Masters (a.masters at imperial.ac.uk) and Prof Michele Dougherty (m.dougherty at imperial.ac.uk). The closing date for this is 9 June 2022.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/NAT01157/research-associate-magnetic-fields-planetary-systems-3-posts


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JOB OPENING: (Junior) Group Leader (F*M) in Space Instrumentation at the Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

From: Werner Magnes (werner.magnes at oeaw.ac.at)

The Space Research Institute (IWF) is with about 100 employees from twenty nations one of the largest institutes of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). The institute is located in the Victor Franz Hess Research Center of OeAW in the south of Graz. The IWF also operates a world-leading satellite laser ranging station at the Lustbuehel Observatory. 
The Space Research Institute invites applications for a position as (Junior) Group Leader (F*M) in space instrumentation.

The candidates profile shall include a PhD in engineering or physics/astrophysics, experiences in development of space-qualified instrumentation and related engineering disciplines, proven track record in development of at least one spaceborne instrument or in leading subunit development as well as experiences in project and in people management. 
The appointment begins as early as September 01, 2022 for initially 4 years with the option for tenure track. More senior applicants can be offered the position of a group leader for an initial duration of 6 years with a tenure-track option.

Applications must include a cover letter, their curriculum vitae, list of publications, a statement of the applicant's research experience (2 pages) and a research plan (1 page), certificates for full academic record, and the full contact information for two references letters. Please send the application as one PDF file, to cosima.muck[at]oeaw.ac.at, mentioning Job ID: IWF184JGL121, no later than 30 June 2022 , but the position remains open until a suitable candidate has been found.

The complete advert text can be found here: 
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/details/open-position-job-id-iwf184jgl121


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