From editor at igpp.ucla.edu Sun Oct 2 23:14:24 2022 From: editor at igpp.ucla.edu (Newsletter Editor) Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 23:14:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 56 Message-ID: <73499465.5281972.1664777664826.JavaMail.zimbra@zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXIX, Issue 56 Oct.02,2022 *********************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. Special Topical Issue of Advances in Space Research (ASR) Entitled ?Information Theory and Machine Learning for Geospace Research? 2. MEETING: Chapman Conference on Advances in Understanding Alfv?n Waves in the Sun and the Heliosphere (Second Announcement) 3. MEETING: Date Correction for 3rd CGS Workshop 4. Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series 5. Online Cold Plasma Seminar 6. Textbook "Principles of Heliophysics" 7. JOB OPENING: Digital Librarian at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 8. JOB OPENING: Data Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 9. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Position Oppotunity at the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University (ISEE Job Opportunity Announcement No. 04 FY2022) 10. RHESSI Nuggets in September 2022 *********************************************************************** Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 Special Topical Issue of Advances in Space Research (ASR) Entitled ?Information Theory and Machine Learning for Geospace Research? From: Simon Wing (simon.wing at jhuapl.edu) Papers are invited for a special topical issue of Advances in Space Research (ASR) entitled ?Information Theory and Machine Learning for Geospace Research?. Recent works point to a considerable importance of information theory and machine leaning in Solar and Space Physics; and Space Weather. We invite contributions of information theory for uncovering relevant yet complex processes interlinking different solar and geospace subsystems, variables and spatio-temporal scales. Furthermore, we solicit contributions of machine learning for space weather forecasting and on open challenges for the community related to the combination of physics-based and machine learning approaches, known as gray box. Studies combining information theory and machine learning in solar and space physics as well as space weather would be of particular interest. Papers must be submitted electronically to https://www.editorialmanager.com/AISR. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, authors must select ?Special Issue: Information & ML Geospace? when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. The general format for submission of papers can be found on the ASR Elsevier web site at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/advances-in-space-research/ The deadline for submissions is 31 May 2023. Papers will be published electronically as soon as they are accepted while the printed issue will be assembled within a reasonable time in regular issues of ASR. All articles will be typeset at no cost to the author. There is a charge for printing color figures; there is no charge for color figures on the electronic version. Dr. Georgios Balasis (gbalasis at noa.gr) and Dr. Simon Wing (Simon.wing at jhuapl.edu) are the Guest Editors for this special issue. Questions can be directed to Drs. Balasis and Wing or to the Co-Editor for Special Issues, Dr. Peggy Ann Shea (sssrc at msn.com). 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 MEETING: Chapman Conference on Advances in Understanding Alfv?n Waves in the Sun and the Heliosphere (Second Announcement) From: Andreas Keiling, Tom Van Doorsselaere (keiling at berkeley.edu) Advances in Understanding Alfv?n Waves in the Sun and the Heliosphere Berlin, Germany, 28 May ? 2 June 2023 Conference website: https://www.agu.org/Chapman-Alfven-Waves Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2023 This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together scientists from different communities to review and discuss the current state of research on Alfv?n waves in space plasmas, including the solar atmosphere, the solar wind, planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres, and laboratory plasmas (if relevant to space plasmas). The conference will take place in Berlin (in-person), one of the most iconic cities in Europe with a history of over 750 years, and one of the trendiest vacation destinations in Europe (to quote a couple of travel websites). The conveners/SPC are: Andreas Keiling (UC Berkeley, USA) Tom Van Doorsselaere (KU Leuven, Belgium) George Clark (JHU/APL, USA) Lyndsay Fletcher (University of Glasgow, UK) Akimasa Yoshikawa (Kyushu University, Japan) David Knudsen (University of Calgary, Canada) Lei Dai (National Space Science Center, China) Ineke De Moortel (University of St Andrews, UK) Ali Sulaiman (University of Minnesota, USA) Hermann L?hr (GeoForschungsZentrum, Germany) Petra Kohutova (University of Oslo, Norway) 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 MEETING: Date Correction for 3rd CGS Workshop From: Michael Wiltberger (wiltbemj at ucar.edu) Apologies for the multiple messages, the message about the 3rd CGS workshop had the dates from last year. The correct dates for the workshop are November 14-15, 2022. The corrected announcement follows Dear colleagues, The team of the Center for Geospace Storms (CGS), one of the recently selected NASA DRIVE Science Centers, would like to bring to the community's attention the workshop we are planning to hold on November 14-15, 2022. Please, mark your calendars! The purpose of the workshop is to bring together experts, early career scientists and students in the fields of space and atmospheric sciences, for an open-forum discussion of outstanding issues in the physics of geospace storms as well as ways to broaden participation in our field. While some of the details are still being finalized, we are pleased to announce the release of the first version of our agenda including an excellent array of speakers with numerous early career scientists. We will also have a student showcase on the first day that has a panel discussion on seeking a PhD in our field. Participation in the hybrid workshop is free but requires registration which must be completed by November 6. The workshop website is online at cgs.jhuapl.edu/workshop including the registration page and our agenda. We look forward to seeing you at the workshop! Michael Wiltberger On behalf of the CGS Team! 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series From: Kyle Murphy (magnetosphere.seminars at gmail.com) We invite you to join us every Monday at 12 pm (EDST, 1600 UT) for the weekly Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series. Gozalo Cucho-Padin and Alex Shane will give our next set of Early Career Seminars on Monday October 3 (https://msolss.github.io/MagSeminars/abstracts.html). 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. There is no seminar Monday October 10. You can view the current 2022 schedule here - https://msolss.github.io/MagSeminars/schedule.html Add your name to the mailing list here - https://msolss.github.io/MagSeminars/mail-list.html And see previous talks here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNlOK9mCmI3V111EHQRCuEQ 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 Online Cold Plasma Seminar From: Justin Holmes, Gian Luca Delzanno, Pedro Resendiz Lira (jcholmes at lanl.gov) Dear colleagues, Please join us for the Online Cold-Plasma Seminar series on October 5th, 2022. Details can be found at: https://www.lanl.gov/org/ddste/aldsc/theoretical/applied-mathematics-plasma-physics/cold-plasma-seminars.php where the zoom link will be posted prior to each seminar. You can also join the distribution mailing list by contacting Gian Luca Delzanno (delzanno at lanl.gov). The speaker is Rhyan Sawyer from the University of Iowa. Speaker: Rhyan Sawyer, University of Iowa Title: Low Energy Ions Within the Cusp: TRICE 2 Observations Date: October 5th, 2022 Time: 11 AM-12 PM Eastern Daylight time, 3-4 PM Universal Time Coordinated, 5-6 PM Central European Summer time Thanks, Justin Holmes Los Alamos National Laboratory 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 Textbook "Principles of Heliophysics" From: Karel Schrijver (karelschrijver at gmail.com) This 429-page textbook, based on the NASA Heliophysics Summer School series, has been developed for students in physical sciences in later years of their university training and for beginning graduate students in fields of solar, stellar, (exo-)planetary, and planetary-system sciences. It emphasizes universal processes from a perspective that draws attention to what provides Earth (and similar (exo-)planets) with a relatively stable setting in which life as we know it can thrive. The text includes 200 "activities" in the form of problems, exercises, explorations, literature readings, and "what if" challenges. New in this extensively edited Version 2.0 are revisions to the activities in response to student comments from the Summer School; solutions to, and discussions of, 31 of these activities; chapter headings that list the main topics and key concept; and a subject index. The free e-book can be accessed directly at arXiv at https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.14022. Printed copies are available via Amazon (US$10 for the paperback and US$17.75 for the hardcover edition), see http://tinyurl.com/PrinciplesOfHeliophysics. 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 JOB OPENING: Digital Librarian at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center From: Bob Robinson (robinsonr at cua.edu) The Heliophysics Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is seeking to fill a Digital Librarian position to support the Heliophysics Digital Resource Library (HDRL). The overall objective of the position is to increase the rate of registration of digital assets for HDRL and enhance and improve the discovery, description (metadata) and management of these digital assets using modern technologies and processes. Education & Experience: Bachelor?s or Master?s degree in digital library science, or equivalent experience. Background in a relevant science discipline, e.g., space physics, astronomy, earth science. Experience with semantic web and related technologies for linking and providing digital resources. This appointment will be through one of the six member institutions of the Partnership for Heliophysics and Space Environment Research (PHaSER). Please visit the PHaSER web site for more information on this announcement and the PHaSER partner organizations: https://physics.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/phaser/. Specific questions about these positions may be addressed to Dr Aaron Roberts (aaron.roberts at nasa.gov) or Brian Thomas (brian.a.thomas at nasa.gov). To apply, submit the following by November 1, 2022: ? A cover letter describing background, qualifications, scientific interests, and experience relevant to the Digital Librarian position (no more than two pages); ? A full curriculum vitae (CV) - detailing education, research experience, publications, awards, software experience and other skills/accomplishments; ? Contact information for three professional references. Email all documents, preferably in a single pdf file, to cua-physics at cua.edu, with the subject line ?HDRL Digital Librarian Job Application?. The appointment start date will be determined by mutual agreement with the successful candidate and can be initiated immediately after selection. The positions are open to U. S. citizens, residents, and foreign nationals from non-designated countries. All PHaSER institutions are Equal Opportunity Employers. 8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8 JOB OPENING: Data Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center From: Bob Robinson (robinsonr at cua.edu) The Heliophysics Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is seeking to fill a Data Scientist position to support the Heliophysics Digital Resource Library (HDRL). The overall objective of the position is to enable the interlinking of HDRL digital assets with outside digital assets such as the literature available at the Astrophysical Data Service (ADS), and to develop automated means to aid in the registration and interlinking of these digital assets. Education & Experience Bachelor's or Master?s degree in Data Science or the equivalent 1+ yrs experience in text analytics, NLP and Machine Learning 3+ yrs demonstrated ability writing code in Python3 NLP/ML libraries and tools in Python Git repositories and software development best practices. This appointment will be through one of the six member institutions of the Partnership for Heliophysics and Space Environment Research (PHaSER). Please visit the PHaSER web site for more information on this announcement and the PHaSER partner organizations: https://physics.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/phaser/. Specific questions about these positions may be addressed to Dr Aaron Roberts (aaron.roberts at nasa.gov) or Brian Thomas (brian.a.thomas at nasa.gov). To apply, submit the following by November 1, 2022: ? A cover letter describing background, qualifications, scientific interests, and experience relevant to the Data Scientist position (no more than two pages); ? A full curriculum vitae (CV) - detailing education, research experience, publications, awards, software experience and other skills/accomplishments; ? Contact information for three professional references. Email all documents, preferably in a single pdf file, to cua-physics at cua.edu, with the subject line ?HDRL Data Scientist Job Application?. The appointment start date will be determined by mutual agreement with the successful candidate and can be initiated immediately after selection. The positions are open to U. S. citizens, residents, and foreign nationals from non-designated countries. All PHaSER institutions are Equal Opportunity Employers. 9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9 JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Position Oppotunity at the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University (ISEE Job Opportunity Announcement No. 04 FY2022) From: Kanya Kusano (kusano at nagoya-u.jp) The Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, invites applications for the postdoctoral research position. The application deadline is November 11, 2022 (Japanese Standard Time). Full details about the job are available at https://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/koubo2022-4-eng.pdf 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 RHESSI Nuggets in September 2022 From: Hugh Hudson (hugh.hudson at glasgow.ac.uk) http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI_Science_Nuggets No. 437, "KW-Sun: The Konus-Wind Solar Flare Database in Hard X-Ray and Soft Gamma-Ray Ranges,? by Alexandra LYSENKO: An unrivaled hard X-ray and gamma-ray database is entering its third activity maximum. No. 436, "First Detection of Kink Oscillations with Solar Orbiter,? by Sihui ZHONG et al.: SolO sees coronal oscillations as well as AIA can, and even better. No. 435, ?Energetic Neutral Hydrogen from Large Solar Flares,? by Glenn MASON: A rediscovered data treasury reveals the occurrence of many flare/CME events producing solar high-energy neutral atoms. 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. ***** SUBSCRIPTION AND ANNOUNCEMENT REQUESTS ***** The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. Back issues are available at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/pipermail/spa/ To request announcements for distribution by the newsletter, please use the online submission form at: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g To subscribe to the newsletter, please go to the web page at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/spa (Do not use this web page to post announcements.) 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SPA Newsletter Editorial Team: Peter Chi (Editor), Guan Le (Co-Editor), Sharon Uy, Marjorie Sowmendran, and Kevin Addison AGU SPA Web Site: https://connect.agu.org/spa/home SPA Leadership Team E-mail: spa.leadership.team at gmail.com *************** END OF NEWSLETTER **************** From editor at igpp.ucla.edu Thu Oct 6 20:48:42 2022 From: editor at igpp.ucla.edu (Newsletter Editor) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 20:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 57 Message-ID: <2081474341.5344903.1665114522259.JavaMail.zimbra@zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXIX, Issue 57 Oct.06,2022 *********************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. Heliophysics Virtual Town Hall: October 24, 2022, at 1 p.m. EDT 2. ROSES-22: F.19 Multidomain Reusable Artificial Intelligence Tools 3. Webinar Recommendation: Commercial Sub-Orbital Flight Opportunities for ROSES-2022 Heliophysics Low-Cost Access to Space (H-LCAS) investigations (NNH22ZDA001N-HLCAS) 4. MEETING: 4th PSP Scholars Meeting 5. New SOHO Archive at European Space Agency ESAC Science Data Centre (ESDC) 6. Special Issue on Mesosphere-Thermosphere-Ionspheric studies in Advances in Space Research 7. JOB OPENING: Assistant/Associate Professor in Space Physics at the University of Texas at Arlington *********************************************************************** Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 Heliophysics Virtual Town Hall: October 24, 2022, at 1 p.m. EDT From: Rachel Morrow (rachel.morrow at nasa.gov) NASA?s Heliophysics Division invites you to participate in the first Heliophysics Town Hall. This one-hour community meeting will be held on Monday, Oct. 24 at 1 p.m. EDT. The Heliophysics Town Hall will start with a division update from Dr. Nicola Fox. It will include discussions on current activities of interest to the community and an open question and answer session. The update and discussions include but are not limited to the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission, including the GDC Independent Review Board report, which will soon be posted here, the Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (DYNAMIC) mission, and a Research and Analysis (R&A) update. Members of the Heliophysics community, academia, and the public are invited to participate by joining at the link below. Join from the webinar link: https://nasaenterprise.webex.com/nasaenterprise/j.php?MTID=mbabd5b72f52a17d2714093b3212035ee Join by the webinar number: Webinar number (access code): 2763 738 4726 Webinar password: 2iSxk2kRV2? (24795257 from phones) Individuals may submit questions before and during the town hall and view and up-vote submitted questions using the link below. https://nasa.cnf.io/sessions/jgme/#!/dashboard Presentation materials will be available for download after the meeting. If you have any questions about the virtual town hall meeting, please contact Chris Caisse at christopher.caisse at nasa.gov. 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 ROSES-22: F.19 Multidomain Reusable Artificial Intelligence Tools From: Madhulika Guhathakurta (madhulika.guhathakurta at nasa.gov) The new ROSES-2022 Cross division program element F.19 Multidomain Reusable Artificial Intelligence Tools (MDRAIT) solicits proposals that would enable critically needed tools to advance both Heliophysics and Earth Science research. Proposed tool projects must be mature enough to demonstrate its value to both Heliophysics and Earth Science after one year. Proposed tool projects must be Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5, as defined by the Earth Science Technology Office, at the start of the award and present a convincing plan to mature to TRL 6 by the end. As a new program element. Mandatory Notices of Intent are due November 9, 2022 and Proposals are due January 13, 2023. Questions concerning F.19 MDRAIT should be directed to Lika Guhathakurta at madhulika.guhathakurta at nasa.gov and Michael M. Little at m.m.little at nasa.gov 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 Webinar Recommendation: Commercial Sub-Orbital Flight Opportunities for ROSES-2022 Heliophysics Low-Cost Access to Space (H-LCAS) investigations (NNH22ZDA001N-HLCAS) From: Dan Moses (dan.moses at nasa.gov) The ROSES 2022 Program Element B.9 (H-LCAS) has been amended/updated. A suite of new-generation commercial suborbital platforms are now available, in addition to the traditional NASA-provided suborbital platforms. to include the option of sub-orbital flight. The H-LCAS now includes an option to utilize these new platforms for heliophysics research and technology investigations. This change necessitates the submission by proposers of a required Notice of Intent, due by November 17, 2022. H-LCAS proposers are advised to attend the Webinar described below, provided by the Astrophysics Division in conjunction with the ROSES 2022 D.3 Astrophysics Research and Analysis (APRA) program. Both the APRA and H-LCAS programs will provide the option for commercial sub-orbital access to space via the same mechanism: the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) Flight Opportunities Program (FOP). Thus the APRA Webinar is directly applicable to H-LCAS investigations employing NASA commercial suborbital platforms . Webinar topic: Overview of ROSES-22 APRA Amendment and Addition of Commercial Suborbital Platforms Date and time: Tuesday, Oct 11, 2022 1:00 pm | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Join link: https://nasaenterprise.webex.com/nasaenterprise/j.php?MTID=m4ab607b95ee517113ead55953214120b Webinar number: 2761 111 4886 Webinar password: Wfq9H5JS96$ (93794557 from phones) Join by phone +1-929-251-9612 USA Toll 2 +1-415-527-5035 US Toll 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 MEETING: 4th PSP Scholars Meeting From: Kristoff Paulson (kristoff.paulson at cfa.harvard.edu) Dear Colleague, We hope this email finds you well. The 4th Parker Solar Probe Scholars Meeting is scheduled for November 8-9, 2022. It will be held virtually and will consist of a series of 15+5 minute talks via Zoom. As before, this meeting is intended to highlight the work of students and early career scientists working on topics of interest to the PSP community. Additionally, we intend to host data tutorials to assist with future PSP data analysis. If you wish to present your work, please submit a title and an abstract by Oct. 24, 2022. The link for submission can be found here: https://sppgway.jhuapl.edu/psp_scholars_abstract We look forward to a collaborative meeting! The PSP Scholars Team 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 New SOHO Archive at European Space Agency ESAC Science Data Centre (ESDC) From: Dr. Arnaud Masson, ESAC science data centre (Arnaud.Masson at ext.esa.int) The SOHO project is pleased to announce the release early October 2022 of a brand-new version of the SOHO Science Archive (SSA) at the ESAC Science Data Center (ESDC), European Space Agency, near Madrid, Spain: https://ssa.esac.esa.int/ssa/#/pages/search Work has been performed with the PI teams to easily filter the science data in three processing levels: mission-long, calibrated, and raw. Datasets related to engineering modes of operations can also be filtered out or selected. The HEK database is progressively integrated in the archive, leading to more science focused search in the near feature. This version (3.0) is based on Angular technology for its front end and the IVOA standard Table Access Protocol for its command line access (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/soho/command-line). This archive is open access and does not require registration. Happy science with this new archive! We look forward to getting your feedback if you have any question (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/soho/contact-point). 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 Special Issue on Mesosphere-Thermosphere-Ionspheric studies in Advances in Space Research From: K. Venkatesh, M. Pezzopane (venkatkau at gmail.com) Announcement of Special Issue in Advances in Space Research "Recent advances in equatorial, low- and mid-latitude mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere studies" Papers are invited for a special topical issue of Advances in Space Research (ASR) entitled ?Recent advances in equatorial, low- and mid-latitude mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere studies?. The coupling processes taking place between mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere, from equatorial to mid latitudes, are of significant importance to understand the variability of Earth?s middle and upper atmosphere. The main objective of this ASR special issue is to highlight the recent developments in the field of equatorial, low- and mid-latitude mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere from observational (ground-based and space-borne), theoretical and simulation studies. This ASR special issue is open to all scientists who have an appropriate scientific paper related to various aspects in this area that include: Short-term, long-term and space-time variability of the mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere; response of the thermosphere-ionosphere system to forcing from above and below; coupling between high-, mid- and low-latitude regions; magnetosphere-ionosphere-atmosphere coupling; Lithosphere-ionosphere coupling; Equatorial electrodynamics: Equatorial Ionization Anomaly (EIA), Equatorial Electrojet (EEJ), Spread-F phenomena; Ionospheric irregularities, scintillations; F-region multi-layer stratification, F3 and StF4 layers; Mid-latitude trough; Sporadic E layer; Space weather effects on the ionosphere; Geomagnetic storms; solar flares; Ionospheric response to SSW; Nowcasting/forecasting modelling of the ionosphere, data-assimilation and tomography; Satellite and ground based observational techniques. We welcome high quality and relevant manuscripts from all scientists in the upper atmosphere community. Papers must be submitted electronically to https://www.editorialmanager.com/aisr/. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, authors must select ?SI: Recent progress in MTI? when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. The general format for submission of papers can be found on the ASR Elsevier web site at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/advances-in-space-research/ Submitted papers must be written in English and should include full affiliation postal addresses for all authors. Only full-length papers will be considered for publication, subject to peer review by a minimum of two reviewers. There are no page limits although the length of the paper should be appropriate for the material being presented. While the deadline for submissions is 28th February 2023, papers will be published electronically as soon as they are accepted. The printed issue will be assembled within a reasonable time with late papers being printed in regular issues of ASR. All articles will be typeset at no cost to the author; there is a nominal charge for printing color figures although there is no charge for color figures on the electronic version. Dr. Venkatesh Kavutarapu (venkateshk at prl.res.in) and Dr. Michael Pezzopane (michael.pezzopane at ingv.it) are the Guest Editors for this special issue. Questions can be directed to Drs. Venkatesh and Pezzopane or to the Co-Editor for Special Issues, Dr. Peggy Ann Shea (sssrc at msn.com). 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 JOB OPENING: Assistant/Associate Professor in Space Physics at the University of Texas at Arlington From: Yue Deng (yuedeng at uta.edu) Assistant/Associate Professor in Space Physics at the University of Texas at Arlington Position ID: F00346P Job Summary The Department of Physics in the College of Science, the University of Texas at Arlington, invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position as an Assistant or Associate Professor in Space Physics. The Space Physics unit in the department plays an important role for the NASA Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) satellite mission, which focuses on multi-scale spatial and temporal variations of energy inputs and ionosphere-thermosphere coupling. The successful candidate will be able to contribute substantially; either in modeling or data analysis and enhance the research ability of the team in the related area. In accordance with USCIS regulations, successful applicants must be legally able to accept work in the United States. Essential Duties and Responsibilities The successful candidate must meet all expectations of a tenure-track faculty candidate: establish an independent and externally funded research program in space physics, provide research and mentoring opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students, and teach physics courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Required Qualifications Candidates must have a PhD or equivalent in space physics or a closely related field, and some postdoctoral experience is desired. The candidates must demonstrate their commitment to excellence in teaching, research, and service. The key objective is to hire a faculty member with outstanding qualifications that shares the University?s core values of high standards of excellence in teaching. In addition, the qualified candidate displays innovative and collaborative research, and service combined with fostering an open and inclusive environment that promotes diversity and participation of groups that are currently underrepresented. University Information The University of Texas at Arlington is located in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metroplex, a vibrant and diverse metropolitan area that is home to over 7 million people, one of the fastest-growing tech economies in the United States, and a wide array of arts, entertainment, and cultural activities. UTA is a comprehensive teaching, research, and public service institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge through scholarship and creative work. The University is committed to providing access and ensuring student success, and to a culture of innovation, entrepreneurship, and commercialization of discoveries by our community of scholars. With an enrollment of approximately 46,000 students, UTA is the largest institution in North Texas and the second-largest in the UT System. As a result of its combination of rigorous academics and innovative research, UTA is designated as a Carnegie R-1 ?Very High Research Activity? institution and as a Texas Tier One institution. In 2021, UTA received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award for its deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education. UTA ranks No. 4 nationally in Military Times? annual ?Best for Vets: Colleges? list and No. 1 in Texas for the number of degrees awarded to African American students (Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2021). UTA is designated by the U.S. Department of Education as both a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI), and it has the fifth-most ethnically diverse undergraduate population in the United States (U.S. News & World Report, 2023). UTA is among the top 50 performers nationwide for promoting social mobility of its graduates (U.S. News & World Report, 2023), and its approximately 250,000 alumni, including some who occupy leadership positions at many of the 23 Fortune 500 companies headquartered in North Texas, contribute to the UTA?s $22.2 billion annual economic impact on Texas. Department and College/School Information The Physics Department is comprehensive and provides students a wide choice of research topics from the major areas of current physics research, including international?ly recognized research in nanomaterials, particle physics, astrophysics, and space physics. The College of Science offers world-class educational and research opportunities with small class sizes and outstand?ing faculty mentorship. Diversity Statement Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate a commitment to diversity and equity in education through their scholarship, teaching, and/or service as well as a strong commitment to teaching, advising, and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students from diverse backgrounds. For more information on UT-Arlington?s diversity initiatives, please visit the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion webpage. Special Instructions to Applicant To apply applicants should go to https://uta.peopleadmin.com/postings/20170 and submit the following materials: ? a cover letter ? full curriculum vitae ? statements of research and teaching objectives ? transcripts ? contact information of at least three references Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Questions may be addressed to: Dr. Yue Deng (yuedeng at uta.edu) For more information about UTA, please visit: http://www.uta.edu/uta EEO Statement - The University of Texas at Arlington is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and family-friendly environment in which all faculty and staff can excel irrespective of race, national origin, age, genetic or family medical history, gender, faith, gender identity and expression as well as sexual orientation. A criminal background check will be conducted on finalists. The?UTA?is a tobacco free campus. UTA also encourages applications from veterans. ***** SUBSCRIPTION AND ANNOUNCEMENT REQUESTS ***** The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. 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SPA Newsletter Editorial Team: Peter Chi (Editor), Guan Le (Co-Editor), Sharon Uy, Marjorie Sowmendran, and Kevin Addison AGU SPA Web Site: https://connect.agu.org/spa/home SPA Leadership Team E-mail: spa.leadership.team at gmail.com *************** END OF NEWSLETTER **************** From editor at igpp.ucla.edu Fri Oct 7 08:31:47 2022 From: editor at igpp.ucla.edu (Newsletter Editor) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 08:31:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 58 Message-ID: <1363720406.5353589.1665156707006.JavaMail.zimbra@zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXIX, Issue 58 Oct.06,2022 *********************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. Obituary for Vincent Wickwar *********************************************************************** Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 Obituary for Vincent Wickwar From: Jan J Sojka (Jan.Sojka at usu.edu) Vincent Beauchamp Wickwar, a longtime member of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences and Professor of Physics at Utah State University, died on September 27, 2022 at his home in Logan, Utah. Dr. Wickwar was an early pioneer in Aeronomy and Space Physics, which is a field devoted to the scientific study of the physics and chemistry of the upper atmosphere of the Earth and other planets. Dr. Wickwar moved to Logan in 1988 to join the faculty of USU to take advantage of the low level of light pollution in Northern Utah's Cache Valley. Here he would create a unique, laser- based upper atmospheric observatory to study the complex conditions of the Earth's atmosphere located at the edge of geospace above 100 km. One of Dr. Wickwar's major contributions early in his career to the field of aeronomy was to realize and encourage through both his leadership and example the merits of collaborative investigations that could be accomplished through the combination of both radar and optical measurements to achieve a broader perspective on the atmospheric phenomena being studied. At USU, Dr. Wickwar taught graduate courses in optics and aeronomy while serving over many years as a thesis advisor for multiple graduate students. He has been the principal investigator on numerous grants involving studies of the upper atmosphere employing lidar (light detecting and ranging) systems, photometers, Fabry-Perot interferometry, and incoherent-scatter (IS) radar. From 1973 to 1988, Dr. Wickwar was employed at SRI International in Menlo Park, California, where he was co-principal investigator of the Sondrestrom, Greenland based IS radar and principal investigator on numerous IS radar studies. Dr. Wickwar's field of IS aeronomy was created in the wake of the US-USSR nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963, with the US wanting to better understand the possible effects of high altitude nuclear detonations on long-range communications. By using the recently created IS radar systems, scientists were able for the first time to observe the ionospheric physics associated with high altitude detonations. The thinking at the time was that if the US or others were to ever repeat the high altitude nuclear tests or, more ominously, in the event of a nuclear war, an IS radar (with the capability of measuring plasma densities, temperatures, and motions) would be a much better diagnostic of the fundamental processes that produced the observed effects on communications. Now, modern applications of these technologies are employed to better understand global climate changes, among other natural phenomena. Dr. Wickwar was an expert in esoteric scientific innovations and discoveries, but he was also thoroughly at ease with and enjoyed interacting with non-science focused students while teaching two beloved introduction to sciences courses for USU undergraduate students. Born in New London, Connecticut, in 1943, Dr. Wickwar's early years were spent in New York City, where his British-born father William Hardy Wickwar worked at the United Nations and mother Margaret Wickwar as a social worker and later a museum docent. Dr. Wickwar's formative years were spent in Princeton, New Jersey, where as a young man he occasionally encountered Albert Einstein, who was an early inspiration for Dr. Wickwar's lifetime love of physics. Dr. Wickwar's father's work as an international civil servant at one point took Dr. Wickwar to Lebanon, where he learned French at the Jesuit School of Beirut. Upon returning to the US, he attended Pomfret School in Connecticut, and later gained admission to Harvard College's Class of 1965 where he majored in Physics. He received a PhD in Space Physics at Rice University in 1971 under the mentorship of Dr. William E. Gordon, who was one of the creators of the Arecibo IS radar in Puerto Rico. Dr. Wickwar also performed postdoctoral research at Yale University. Dr. Wickwar maintained that from an early age his parents nurtured his many hobbies, including photography, which became a lifetime passion. His interest in photography served as his early introduction to optics, the underlying basis for the complex lidar and other optics-based systems he employed in his academic and research studies. At the time of his death, Dr. Wickwar was one of the principal investigators in a large multi-university collaborative grant from the Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA) to employ Dr. Wickwar's lidar system to collect detailed density and temperature measurements from the mesopause region - the junction between Earth's upper atmosphere and space. Dr. Wickwar enjoyed wonderful collegial relations with many aeronomy scientists around the world. His passion and strong interest in aeronomy and space physics research will be very much missed by friends and colleagues. ***** SUBSCRIPTION AND ANNOUNCEMENT REQUESTS ***** The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. Back issues are available at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/pipermail/spa/ To request announcements for distribution by the newsletter, please use the online submission form at: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g To subscribe to the newsletter, please go to the web page at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/spa (Do not use this web page to post announcements.) NOTE: Due to the large number of SPA-related sessions at major conferences, the SPA Newsletter can no longer accept announcement requests for individual sessions at AGU, AOGS, COSPAR, EGU, or IAGA Meetings. Titles and web links (if available) of these sessions will be distributed in a special issue of the Newsletter before the abstract deadline. SPA Newsletter Editorial Team: Peter Chi (Editor), Guan Le (Co-Editor), Sharon Uy, Marjorie Sowmendran, and Kevin Addison AGU SPA Web Site: https://connect.agu.org/spa/home SPA Leadership Team E-mail: spa.leadership.team at gmail.com *************** END OF NEWSLETTER **************** From editor at igpp.ucla.edu Tue Oct 11 21:37:47 2022 From: editor at igpp.ucla.edu (Newsletter Editor) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:37:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 59 Message-ID: <184110319.5412228.1665549467069.JavaMail.zimbra@zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXIX, Issue 59 Oct.11,2022 *********************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. ESA AO for Membership in the Science Working Group of Solar-C 2. ASO-S Successfully Launched on 9 October, 2022 3. MEETING: CGS Workshop Registration Deadline 4. JOB OPENING: Multiple Open Rank Faculty Positions in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech 5. JOB OPENING: Tenured Academic Posts at Northumbria University, UK 6. JOB OPENING: CIRES/ NOAA SWPC Space Weather Geoelectric Research Scientist 7. JOB OPENING: Post-doctoral Position with Space Radiation Laboratory at Caltech 8. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Opportunity at the New Jersey Institute of Technology 9. JOB OPENING: Two Positions (Postdoc and a PhD Student) in Space Physics Group at the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland *********************************************************************** Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 ESA AO for Membership in the Science Working Group of Solar-C From: Bernhard Fleck (bfleck at esa.nascom.nasa.gov) ESA has issued an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) soliciting proposals for membership in the Solar-C Science Working Group (SWG). The AO is open to scientists affiliated with institutes located in ESA member states. The AO and further details, including the appointment requirements and conditions, a description of the Solar-C science management structure, and the format and contents of the application is available at: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/solar-c-swg-2022 Applications must be submitted electronically in PDF format. The deadline for receipt of applications is 03 November 2022 at 12:00 (noon) CEST. 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 ASO-S Successfully Launched on 9 October, 2022 From: Weiqun Gan, Li Feng (lfeng at pmo.ac.cn) The first comprehensive space solar observatory in China, Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), was successfully launched from Jiuquan, Gansu Province, on 9 October at 07:43 am China Standard Time. ASO-S focuses on solar eruptions and their origins (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01593-9). A special issue describing the whole mission can be found at http://www.raa-journal.org/issues/all/2019/v19n11/. The ASO-S home page can be accessed via the following link http://aso-s.pmo.ac.cn/en_index.jsp, which is being updated continuously. ASO-S team will announce the training course on how to access the data in due time. 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 MEETING: CGS Workshop Registration Deadline From: Michael Wiltberger (wiltbemj at ucar.edu) The team of the Center for Geospace Storms (CGS), one of the recently selected NASA DRIVE Science Centers, would like to bring to the community's attention the hybrid workshop we are holding on November 14-15, 2022. The in-person component will be held in Parsons Auditorium on APL campus in Laurel Maryland. In order for us to plan accordingly we need both virtual and in-person attendees to complete the online registration. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together experts, early career scientists and students in the fields of space and atmospheric sciences, for an open-forum discussion of outstanding issues in the physics of geospace storms as well as ways to broaden participation in our field. We will also have a student showcase on the first day that has a panel discussion on seeking a PhD in our field. You can the full agenda and the free registration for the hybrid workshop at cgs.jhuapl.edu/workshop We kindly ask those that are interested in attending the workshop to complete the registration process by 9PM ET November 6th. We look forward to seeing you at the workshop! Michael Wiltberger On behalf of the CGS Team! 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 JOB OPENING: Multiple Open Rank Faculty Positions in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech From: Scott England (englands at vt.edu) The Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech seeks applications for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the level of assistant, associate or full professor effective August 2023. We are seeking candidates in all areas relevant to Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, motivated to contribute to a collegial, interdisciplinary community with a strong tradition of both basic and applied research. Applicants must apply online at jobs.vt.edu (job number 522014): application materials will include a cover letter; curriculum vitae including a list of published journal articles and pedagogical achievements; a teaching statement; a research statement and plan; the candidate?s most significant publications (up to 3); a statement on advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion; and contact information for at least three references. Review of applications will commence on December 1, 2022 and continue until the positions are filled. The job posting can be found via https://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/522014/faculty-positions-in-aerospace Questions regarding the position should be directed to Dr. William Devenport at wdevenpo at vt.edu. The department fully embraces Virginia Tech?s commitment to increase diversity among faculty, staff, and students; to ensure a welcoming, affirming, safe, and accessible campus climate; to advance our research, teaching, and service mission through inclusive excellence; and to promote sustainable transformation through institutionalized structures. Virginia Tech does not discriminate against employees, students, or applicants on the basis of age, color, disability, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status, or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants, or on any other basis protected by law. 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 JOB OPENING: Tenured Academic Posts at Northumbria University, UK From: Robert Wicks (robert.wicks at northumbria.ac.uk) Northumbria University is a research-intensive modern University, ranked 23rd in the UK for Research Power in the recent Research Excellence Framework (REF2021). The Faculty of Engineering and Environment has relevant existing research strengths in Solar and Space Physics, Optical Communications, Quantum and Molecular Photonics, Photovoltaics, Electrical Power, Artificial Intelligence and Data Intensive Science, Earth observation, and Geography. Within the Faculty, the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering has recently been successful with significant funding for space technology research from the UK Space Agency, the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), a high-profile industrial partner, and the Office for Students. Therefore, we are now making a significant strategic investment to hire staff to enhance and expand our expertise in space-related technology. This strategic investment provides the opportunity for multiple appointments across academic grades, including the potential to establish a small research group. There are adverts for Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor or Lecturer level appointments in the links below, which include instructions for how to apply. https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/work-for-us/job-vacancies/academic-13417-professor--associate-professor-in-space-technology https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/work-for-us/job-vacancies/academic-13416-assistant-professor--lecturer-in-space-technology We are looking for applicants with expertise in the design and development of novel instrumentation to complement and enhance the Faculty?s strengths in one or more of the areas of: laser systems, earth observation, solar and space physics, and active experiments in space. We also welcome applications in other areas of space-related technology. Interest in bringing technology to the level of space mission involvement through the UK Space Agency, European Space Agency or other international opportunities is encouraged, as well as connections with industry. The deadline for applications is the 10th of November 2022. For informal enquiries please email Robert Wicks robert.wicks at northumbria.ac.uk or Clare Watt clare.watt at northumbria.ac.uk 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 JOB OPENING: CIRES/ NOAA SWPC Space Weather Geoelectric Research Scientist From: Enrico Camporeale (enrico.camporeale at noaa.gov) The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CU CIRES) invites applications for a Research Scientist position at NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). The successful applicant will work to advance SWPC?s ability to predict the dynamics of geomagnetic activity from space weather as it pertains to terrestrial impacts on the electrical power grid. The position will require the ability to develop and validate high readiness level scientific software for space weather products; to interact with operators and planners in the electrical power industry, specifically to communicate advances in SWPC?s space weather services and products; to educate this user community about how they are affected by space weather; and to engage with users to understand their needs and requirements for actionable space weather information. This position will remain posted until filled. Applications received by October 31st, 2022 will receive full consideration. For more information and to apply see: https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail?jobId=43133 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 JOB OPENING: Post-doctoral Position with Space Radiation Laboratory at Caltech From: Christina Cohen (cohen at srl.caltech.edu) Applications are invited for a post-doctoral research position with the Space Radiation Laboratory (SRL) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to work with Drs. Christina Cohen and Richard Leske on energetic particle data from the Parker Solar Probe instruments. Parker Solar Probe is currently in orbit around the Sun, making in-situ measurements of the energetic particle environment at distances closer to the Sun than ever before. The work will involve analysis of current data from the particle detector suite, the Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun, as well as pre-flight calibration data to finish in-flight calibration and intercalibration of the separate sensors of the suite. As suitable, modeling efforts may also be employed to understand the acceleration and transport of the particles measured in-situ. The initial appointment will be for one year, renewable on an annual basis for up to three years, based on satisfactory performance and availability of funding. Candidates with experience in data analysis of energetic particle data and/or computational modeling of energetic particles are especially encouraged to apply. The expected starting date is January 1, 2023, but earlier dates are possible, and is dependent on your completing your Ph.D. requirements as well as a valid work authorization if applicable. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in physics, astronomy, space physics or a related field by the date of the appointment. Applicants should submit a CV, brief research statement outlining their relevant knowledge and experience, a cover letter stating their motivation for applying to this opportunity, and three letters of reference sent directly to cohen at srl.caltech.edu. We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Caltech is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor. Click here (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf) to read more about Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). Caltech is committed to working with and providing access and reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. To request disability accommodations for any part of the interview or hiring process, please reach out to the contact on the job posting. Caltech has implemented a mandatory vaccination policy effective October 15, 2021, requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for all employees (with Institute-approved exemptions for religious or medical contraindications only). At present, an individual is deemed ?fully vaccinated? when that person has received, at least 14 days prior, either the second dose in a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine series (e.g., Pfizer or Moderna) or a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine (e.g., Johnson & Johnson). Upon eligibility, employees are required to receive the COVID-19 booster as part of the vaccine mandate. As a condition of employment, employees must submit official COVID-19 vaccine documentation. More information may be found here (https://together.caltech.edu/faq/vaccination-faq). 8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8 JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Opportunity at the New Jersey Institute of Technology From: Lindsay V Goodwin (lindsay.v.goodwin at njit.edu) The Center of Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher supervised by Dr Lindsay Goodwin. Located within Newark, New Jersey, CSTR is an international leader in ground- and space-based solar and terrestrial physics, with interest in understanding the effects of the Sun on the geospace environment. The research associated with this position will involve the analysis of ground-based observations to better understand the dynamics and plasma physics associated with the upper atmosphere. In addition to research, the successful candidate will help plan future ground-based networks in collaboration with other members of NJIT. Essential qualifications/expertise: - A PhD degree in physics or a related field (e.g. electrical engineering). - Expertise in plasma and space physics. - Experience in analyzing data from ground-based instrumentation. Preferred qualifications/expertise: - Expertise in research that couples observations: 1) from the Sun to the Earth, and 2) between the magnetosphere and ionosphere. - Experience in analyzing radar data (e.g. SuperDARN, incoherent scatter radars). - Simulation and model development of plasma physics and motion/dynamics. Applications should be submitted by email to Lindsay Goodwin (lindsay.v.goodwin at njit.edu) in PDF format. Please include: 1) a cover letter, 2) a curriculum vitae, 3) statement of research interests, and 4) contact information for three professional references. Review of applications will begin on November 15 and continue until the position is filled. Please contact Dr. Goodwin with any questions. NJIT is an equal opportunity action employer. It is NJIT policy to provide equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by state of local laws. 9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9 JOB OPENING: Two Positions (Postdoc and a PhD Student) in Space Physics Group at the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland From: Minna Palmroth (minna.palmroth at helsinki.fi) The Space Physics Group of the University of Helsinki is a leading European group specialised both in computational modelling and in spacecraft observations. We have developed the global magnetospheric beyond-MHD simulation Vlasiator. We have recently completed the first 6-dimensional runs of the entire magnetosphere-ionosphere system, offering high-resolution results both from the 3D real space as well as from the 3D velocity space. Our first runs show how the ion-kinetic physics at small scales lead to global reconfigurations, and vice versa. We can also study how changes in the ionosphere influence ion-kinetic physics within the magnetosphere. We are excited to open two positions, as follows: (1) A postdoctoral fellow position for a 2-year project, with a possibility of extension pending funding situation and performance. The postdoctoral fellow will focus on the 3D reconnection process within the simulation, looking both at the dayside and tail reconnection which occur simultaneously in the same simulation box. (2) A PhD student will study the same processes as the postdoctoral fellow. This position is for four years, which is the nominal length of a Finnish PhD thesis project. The PhD student will write original papers that will comprise the thesis. Prior knowledge and useful skills: Physics of magnetic reconnection, model development and/or data analysis, Python. We offer a position in a dynamic and international research group, with a possibility to network and to develop as a researcher. We are innovative, high-spirited and a welcoming community. Finland is the happiest country in the world offering a great environment fostering equality, equality of opportunities, the world?s best schooling system, vacations, and possibilities for work-family balance. The positions are available immediately. We start reviewing the applications on 14 November, but the positions will remain open until filled. Interviews are held in Nov-Dec. For more information, please visit: http://helsinki.fi/vlasiator http://blogs.helsinki.fi/spacephysics/ https://www.helsinki.fi/sustainable-space For specifics about the position, contact Minna Palmroth (minna.palmroth(at)helsinki.fi). Interested candidates should send their informal application, CV, list of publications, and a maximum of three names to act as references to Hewan.Zewde(at)helsinki.fi by 11 Nov 2022, and cc minna.palmroth(at)helsinki.fi. ***** SUBSCRIPTION AND ANNOUNCEMENT REQUESTS ***** The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. Back issues are available at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/pipermail/spa/ To request announcements for distribution by the newsletter, please use the online submission form at: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g To subscribe to the newsletter, please go to the web page at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/spa (Do not use this web page to post announcements.) NOTE: Due to the large number of SPA-related sessions at major conferences, the SPA Newsletter can no longer accept announcement requests for individual sessions at AGU, AOGS, COSPAR, EGU, or IAGA Meetings. Titles and web links (if available) of these sessions will be distributed in a special issue of the Newsletter before the abstract deadline. SPA Newsletter Editorial Team: Peter Chi (Editor), Guan Le (Co-Editor), Sharon Uy, Marjorie Sowmendran, and Kevin Addison AGU SPA Web Site: https://connect.agu.org/spa/home SPA Leadership Team E-mail: spa.leadership.team at gmail.com *************** END OF NEWSLETTER **************** From editor at igpp.ucla.edu Tue Oct 18 23:17:41 2022 From: editor at igpp.ucla.edu (Newsletter Editor) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 23:17:41 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 60 Message-ID: <816259278.5567341.1666160261058.JavaMail.zimbra@zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXIX, Issue 60 Oct.18,2022 *********************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. MEETING: International Workshop on Machine Learning and Computer Vision in Heliophysics, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 19-21, 2023 ? First Announcement 2. MEETING: PUNCH 4 Summer Meeting and PUNCH Winter Telecon 3. Online Cold Plasma Seminar Series 4. Outer Heliosphere/LISM Online Seminar, Wednesday, Oct 19th 11AM EDT 5. JOB OPENING: Permanent Academic Positions at Queen Mary University of London 6. JOB OPENING: Two Positions at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 7. JOB OPENING: Postdoc Position in Machine Learning and Data Science 8. JOB OPENING: Postdoc Position in Planetary Science - Cosmic Dust / Heliosphere 9. JOB OPENING: Two Space Weather PhD Positions at the University of Otago (New Zealand) 10. JOB OPENING: PhD Researcher Position in the University of Oulu *********************************************************************** Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 MEETING: International Workshop on Machine Learning and Computer Vision in Heliophysics, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 19-21, 2023 ? First Announcement From: Kamen Kozarev (kkozarev at astro.bas.bg) International Workshop on Machine Learning and Computer Vision in Heliophysics, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 19-21, 2023 This interdisciplinary workshop will focus on applications of Computer Vision and Machine / Deep Learning techniques to heliophysics research and forecasting frameworks, as well on the integration of these techniques into modeling efforts of solar and heliospheric phenomena. Topics to be covered: - Computer Vision and Machine Learning applications in - Solar magnetism - Solar activity (flares, CMEs, particles) - Space weather forecasting, gaps and applications that can be tackled with CV and ML - Magnetospheres (terrestrial and planetary) and ionospheres - Heliospheric radio emissions CV/ML techniques, explainable ML - Open source tools for CV and ML (Python, OpenCV, scikit-learn, TF/Pytorch, etc). Scientific Organising Committee: Astrid Veronig (Graz University) Manolis Georgoulis (Academy of Athens) Long Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Pietro Zucca (ASTRON, The Netherlands Institute of Radio Astronomy) Shane Maloney (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) Kamen Kozarev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Further information about abstract submission, registration and conference hotel will be provided on the conference website in the coming weeks: https://mch23.astro.bas.bg 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 MEETING: PUNCH 4 Summer Meeting and PUNCH Winter Telecon From: Sarah Gibson (sgibson at ucar.edu) Save the dates! PUNCH will host a community virtual meeting on Monday, January 23, 2023 at 7:00 AM U. S. Pacific, lasting 3.5 hours. The topic of this telecon will be synergies between PUNCH and other missions/projects. Everyone is welcome to join in the discussion. In addition, we have set the dates for the fourth PUNCH science meeting, which will be at the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, on July 6-7, 2023. Further information will be forthcoming and maintained at the PUNCH meeting website https://punch.space.swri.edu/punch_science_meetings.php 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 Online Cold Plasma Seminar Series From: Justin Holmes, Gian Luca Delzanno, Pedro Resendiz Lira (jcholmes at lanl.gov) Please join us for the Online Cold-Plasma Seminar series on October 19th, 2022. Details can be found at: https://www.lanl.gov/org/ddste/aldsc/theoretical/applied-mathematics-plasma-physics/cold-plasma-seminars.php where the zoom link will be posted prior to each seminar. You can also join the distribution mailing list by contacting Gian Luca Delzanno (delzanno at lanl.gov). The speaker is Lauren Blum from LASP at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Speaker: Lauren Blum, LASP/CU Boulder Title: The role of cold plasma in EMIC wave structure and evolution Date: October 19th, 2022 Time: 11 AM-12 PM Eastern Daylight time, 3-4 PM Universal Time Coordinated, 5-6 PM Central European Summer time 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 Outer Heliosphere/LISM Online Seminar, Wednesday, Oct 19th 11AM EDT From: Justyna Sokol, Elena Provornikova, Marc Kornbleuth (Elena.Provornikova at jhuapl.edu) Dear Colleagues, We are continuing virtual bi-weekly seminars to discuss science advances in the field of the outer heliosphere and local interstellar medium. Please join us on Wednesday, Oct 19th 11:00 am EDT for a presentation by Dr. Matina Gkioulidou (Johns Hopkins APL) "On the Energization of Pickup Ions Downstream of the Heliospheric Termination Shock by Comparing 0.52?55 keV Observed Energetic Neutral Atom Spectra to Ones Inferred from Proton Hybrid Simulations". A link to join the meeting via Zoom will be posted on the website https://outer.helio.zone/ shortly before the meeting. 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 JOB OPENING: Permanent Academic Positions at Queen Mary University of London From: Christopher Chen (christopher.chen at qmul.ac.uk) The Faculty of Science and Engineering at Queen Mary University of London are advertising a set of academic positions as part of a major investment in its strategic research themes, with 25 positions at Lecturer / Senior Lecturer level and 5 positions at Reader / Professor level. The research areas for these positions include any areas of Heliophysics, Space Plasma Physics, Space Weather, and Plasma Astrophysics. We encourage candidates to apply whose research would complement, enhance or expand the work we currently undertake in these areas. Successful applicants could work in any of the schools in the Faculty, although in the above areas would most likely work primarily in the Astronomy Unit within the Department of Physics and Astronomy, which is itself within the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences. In the UK?s most recent national research assessment (2021 REF), 98% of our research was rated internationally excellent and world leading (3*/4*). Those appointed would be welcomed, supported, mentored in their academic career, and fully integrated into the positive and supportive environment of the School, Department, and research group. Queen Mary's mission statement is to be the most inclusive university of its kind, anywhere. The Astronomy Unit is one of the largest such research groups in the UK, with 14 full-time permanent academic staff, as well as many postdoctoral researchers and PhD students, and a vibrant visitors' research programme. Our research focuses on several active areas of modern astrophysics: Space & Astrophysical Plasma Physics, Cosmology & Relativity, and Extrasolar Planets & Planet Formation. Our members play key roles in many space missions and large collaborations, e.g., NASA's Parker Solar Probe and ESA's Solar Orbiter, together with other projects including the Square Kilometre Array, the Vera Rubin Observatory, Euclid, LIGO and LISA. We run comprehensive undergraduate and masters taught programmes in Astrophysics, maintain a successful PhD research training programme, and undertake an extensive range of outreach activities, both within the local area and nationally. For more information about these positions, please see: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/strategic-hires-se/ For the Astronomy Unit, please see: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/spcs/astro/ and for the Space & Astrophysical Plasmas group, please see: https://www.space-plasma.qmul.ac.uk The deadline for applications is 12th November 2022. Please get in touch if you are interested in applying, or would like more information. David Burgess, Christopher Chen, Heli Hietala Space & Astrophysical Plasmas Group, QMUL 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 JOB OPENING: Two Positions at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory From: Matina Gkioulidou, Ian Cohen (matina.gkioulidou at jhuapl.edu) The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is conducting a search to fill two (2) positions to conduct basic scientific research in the field of Solar and Space Physics: 1) a Postdoctoral Fellow with emphasis on data analytics and particle instrument work applied to studies of planetary magnetospheres and 2) a Staff Scientist to conduct basic scientific research in upper atmospheric and ionospheric physics. Postdoctoral Fellow - Magnetospheric Physics Description: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to conduct basic scientific research in the field of Solar and Space Physics with an emphasis on data analytics and particle instrument work applied to studies of planetary magnetospheres. The successful candidate will work in an exciting environment, interfacing with experts in comprehensive data analysis and instrument development for a multitude of Solar and Space Physics missions as well as state-of-the-art modeling of geospace and other space environment systems. The APL Space Physics Group (SRP) has a broad and active basic research program that includes data analysis, theory and modeling studies of Earth's magnetosphere and Sun-Earth connections, planetary magnetospheres throughout the solar system, and heliospheric and solar physics. It also has a significant and long-running history of developing space instrumentation hardware and mission concepts. Current science and instrument participation in active missions includes ACE, Geotail, Juno, MMS, New Horizons, Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, STEREO, and Voyager. Future missions in development include Europa Clipper, EZIE, JUICE, and IMAP. In addition, the Group is playing the leading role in the multi-institutional, cross-disciplinary Center for Geospace Storms, one of the three NASA DRIVE Science Centers recently selected for Phase II. Job Summary: The research position focuses on applying comprehensive data analysis and analytics techniques for systems understanding of the complex coupled dynamics of the terrestrial magnetosphere, as well as developing new particle instruments for future Heliophysics and Planetary Science missions. The successful candidate would be expected to publish original research in peer-reviewed journals and team with SRP and other APL Space Exploration Sector staff to pursue external support for continued research and instrument development work. The successful candidate is expected to have a Ph.D. in physics, electrical engineering, or a related technical field, or the demonstrated equivalent experience. For further details please contact Matina Gkioulidou (Matina.Gkioulidou at jhuapl.edu). Interested applicants can submit their applications online at the following link: https://careers.jhuapl.edu/jobs/51326?lang=en-us Staff Scientist - Upper Atmospheric and Ionospheric Physics Description The Geospace & Earth Science Group (SRG) of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) is seeking a Staff Scientist to conduct basic scientific research in Upper Atmospheric and Ionospheric Physics. The APL Geospace & Earth Science Group (SRG) has a broad and active basic research program that primarily focuses on data analysis studies of Earth's ionosphere and thermosphere, with specific expertise in data assimilation and working with sponsors to transition from research-to-operations. It also has significant development programs in space instrumentation and mission design. Active Civil Space missions and projects in the group include TIMED, AMPERE, SuperDARN, SuperMAG, MMS, and Lunar Vertex; missions currently in development include EZIE and IMAP. In addition, the Group is involved in multiple suborbital geospace and technology demonstration missions as well as multiple programs funded by National Security Space sponsors. The Group seeks to apply advances in modeling, simulation, and analysis capabilities afforded by increased computational power to augment and maximize the scientific understanding obtained from new and existing atmospheric and ionospheric datasets, both observational and simulated. Job Summary: The Staff Scientist will conduct fundamental research in Upper Atmospheric and Ionospheric Physics, including numerical modeling and analysis of ground- and/or space-based datasets, presenting and publishing the research findings in peer-reviewed journals and at national and international conferences, and leading and participating in NASA and NSF grant proposals. The successful candidate will participate in the formulation and development of novel concepts for future Heliophysics mission opportunities. The successful candidate is expected to have a Ph.D. in physics or a related field with at least five (5) years of additional experience after Ph.D. For further details please contact Ian Cohen (Ian.Cohen at jhuapl.edu). Interested applicants can submit their applications online at the following link: https://careers.jhuapl.edu/jobs/51325?lang=en-us 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 JOB OPENING: Postdoc Position in Machine Learning and Data Science From: Chip Manchester (chipm at umich.edu) The University of Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) announces the opening of several postdoctoral positions. As supporting faculty, see below, we are seeking a postdoctoral applicant interested in applying machine learning and data science to space science and space weather forecasting. The applicant's primary responsibility will be the development of machine learning models to forecast energetic events in the solar and Earth space environment including solar flares, coronal mass ejections, solar energetic particles and geomagnetic disturbances. The postdoc will be advised by experts in machine learning and space physics and space weather. Applicants should have completed a Ph.D. in Statistics, Data Science, Space Science, or related fields, with experience in machine learning. Requirements also include extensive computational skills including working knowledge of modern programming languages and experience handling and analyzing large quantities of scientific data. The initial appointment will be for one year, with the possibility of renewal for up to four years, contingent on performance and availability of research funds. Starting salary will be in the range between $55,000 and $60,000 per annum depending on qualifications and prior experience. Review of applications will begin immediately. The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity employer. Interested applicants should apply via the Michigan Institute for Data Science ?AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program?, specifying two faculty mentors, one science mentor and one AI mentor. Applications should include a curriculum vitae, publication list, short description of research interests, and names and contact information of two individuals who can provide letters of reference. Supporting faculty include Professor Yang Chen (ychenang at umich.edu) Department of Statistics, Professor Alfred Hero (hero at umich.edu) Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering and Statistics and Professor David Fouhey (fouhey at umich.edu) Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Research Professors Gabor Toth (gtoth at umich.edu) and Ward Manchester (chipm at umich.edu) in the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering. Applications and inquiries can be directed to any of the supporting faculty listed above. Applications are due on November 7 and decisions will be made by December 2 2022. 8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8 JOB OPENING: Postdoc Position in Planetary Science - Cosmic Dust / Heliosphere From: Veerle Sterken (vsterken at ethz.ch) Job Announcement: The Astrophysical Dust Group at the Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA), ETH Z?rich, in Switzerland, is looking for a highly motivated candidate to apply for a postdoctoral researcher position, within the framework of the ERC funded project ASTRODUST: ?The heliosphere and the dust: characterisation of the solar and interstellar neighbourhood?. The project includes cosmic dust data analysis, modelling of the interstellar dust transport through the heliosphere, and applying the results to other astrospheres and the solar system in different environments of the interstellar medium. For more details on the project, requirements, and for submission of the application, see: https://jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_ethz_MrDMpbtbjGwRWPgJbE Only applications submitted via these forms will be considered. Application deadline: November 1st, 2022. For questions (not the application!): vsterken [-at-] ethz.ch Website: https://astrodust.phys.ethz.ch/ 9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9 JOB OPENING: Two Space Weather PhD Positions at the University of Otago (New Zealand) From: Anna Tarr, Craig Rodger (anna.tarr at otago.ac.nz) The Space Physics research group at University of Otago in New Zealand is leading the Solar Tsunami research programme, focused on how energy infrastructure like power networks would be impacted an extreme space weather event. We have access to (rare) industrial datasets as well as world-leading international collaborators to answer very important global questions around space weather by creating validated models. More information on the Solar Tsunami's research programme is available from our website: auroraalert.otago.ac.nz/solartsunami/index.php We seek two PhD candidates to work inside the programme. Three years of scholarship funding is available for each candidate (stipend and fees), at the rate of the University of Otago Doctoral Scholarship (currently NZ$28,600 stipend per annum). Applicants will have completed a BSc(Hons) or MSc in Physics or a closely related discipline in the physical sciences or electrical engineering. They will have a very strong academic record, as will as evidence of a research background at an appropriate level. We have two projects available, one more suitable for data analysis and the other for theoretical modelling. Both projects will combine aspects of modelling with data analysis, combining datasets from many different sources. Travel to international conferences is expected. We seek candidates who can begin their PhD study in New Zealand before 1 October 2023. More details on the requirements for entering the Otago PhD programme can be found at: https://www.otago.ac.nz/physics/postgraduate/postgraduate-degrees/phd/index.html 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 JOB OPENING: PhD Researcher Position in the University of Oulu From: Lauri Holappa (lauri.holappa at oulu.fi) Fully funded (4-year) PhD researcher position in Space Weather (coupling between ionospheric currents and solar wind). The earliest start date January 1, 2023. See the full announcement here: http://rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/open_job_view.html?did=5600&lang=en&id=000014035&jc=1 ***** SUBSCRIPTION AND ANNOUNCEMENT REQUESTS ***** The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. 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SPA Newsletter Editorial Team: Peter Chi (Editor), Guan Le (Co-Editor), Sharon Uy, Marjorie Sowmendran, and Kevin Addison AGU SPA Web Site: https://connect.agu.org/spa/home SPA Leadership Team E-mail: spa.leadership.team at gmail.com *************** END OF NEWSLETTER **************** From editor at igpp.ucla.edu Sun Oct 23 00:14:33 2022 From: editor at igpp.ucla.edu (Newsletter Editor) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:14:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 61 Message-ID: <254670560.5631769.1666509273793.JavaMail.zimbra@zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXIX, Issue 61 Oct.23,2022 *********************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. Obituary: Leroy Leonard Cogger *********************************************************************** Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 Obituary: Leroy Leonard Cogger From: Andrew Yau, Andrew Howarth, David Knudsen, Sandy Murphree, Trond Trondsen (yau at ucalgary.ca) Leroy L. Cogger was the Founding Director of the former Institute for Space Research at University of Calgary (U of C), and long-time Professor and Professor Emeritus at U of C. Dr. Cogger died peacefully on October 5, 2022, at his home in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 85. Dr. Cogger earned his doctorate at the University of Saskatchewan in 1968, where he developed optical instrumentation to study upper atmospheric airglow under the supervision of Gordon G. Shepherd. Following a three-year post-doctoral position at Arecibo Observatory, Dr. Cogger joined the Physics department at the University of Calgary in 1971, rising to the rank of Professor in 1982. His early research centered on observations of upper atmosphere dynamics using a variety of techniques followed by working with airglow and aurora observations from Canada?s ISIS-II satellite. In 1979 he led a team that, in conjunction with Fairchild Semiconductor, developed the world?s first digital (CCD) camera. He later contributed to the development of UV auroral imagers for the Swedish Viking and Freja satellites as well as the NASA IMAGE satellites, and he served as Principal Investigator for the auroral imagers on the Russian INTERBALL-2 and Canadian CASSIOPE/e-POP satellites. In 1989 Dr. Cogger founded the Institute for Space Research and served as Director until 2002. During that time, he led a successful bid to form the Canadian Network for Space Research (CNSR), a National Center of Excellence that operated from 1990 to 1995. The creation and management of CNSR represented a massive administrative effort, and it made possible the recruitment and retention of an entire generation of new space researchers in Canada, many of whom are now scientific leaders ? and former mentors of current leaders ? in Canadian universities, government laboratories, and space industry. Dr. Cogger also played an instrumental role in the reestablishment of the space plasma group from the National Research Council Canada at U of C in 1995. The joining of the space plasma group and the U of C imaging group led to the creation of a new type of CCD-based particle imager that has culminated in Canada?s provision of the Electric Field Instrument to ESA?s Swarm mission, and in the combination of particle and optical instrumentation technologies that underpin the CASSIOPE/e-POP satellite mission. In the late 1990?s Dr. Cogger initiated a series of community-led space environment workshops that led to a new community vision captured in his extensive report ?The Canadian Space Environment Program: Toward a Better Future?, elements of which continue to guide the trajectory of space environment research in Canada. On the international stage, Dr. Cogger has actively and specifically cultivated scientific collaborations in developing nations throughout his career, for example through a sabbatical stay in Bulgaria, and through the donation of a tilting-filter photometer that he installed and helped to maintain outside Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Dr. Cogger?s commitment to furthering the careers and lives of others is evident not only professionally but also in his private life: Dr. Cogger and his wife Marilyn are principals in a group of founders and benefactors of the Good Samaritan?s India/Calgary Health and Training Centre in rural India, which provides training in typing (now computing), sewing, and printing. This group purchases sewing machines and provides training for young widows who have no other sources of income and who would otherwise be consigned to a life of abject poverty. During the years of the INTERBALL-2 mission, when he traveled frequently to the former Soviet Union for instrument integration and testing, Dr. Cogger would often fill his suitcase with medicine acquired from pharmaceutical companies in Canada, for distribution to the local poor with the help of his friend, the late Prof. Yuri Galperin. Dr. Cogger enjoyed wonderful collegial relations with many scientists in aeronomy and space physics around the world, including China, Japan, Russia (and the former Soviet Union), Sweden, and the United States. His commitment to mentoring has left many an indelible mark on his students and research associates over half a century. His gentle and quiet spirit, his passion for research and in making a difference in life will be very much missed by his many friends and colleagues in Canada and abroad alike, as will his great sense of humor. ***** SUBSCRIPTION AND ANNOUNCEMENT REQUESTS ***** The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. Back issues are available at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/pipermail/spa/ To request announcements for distribution by the newsletter, please use the online submission form at: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g To subscribe to the newsletter, please go to the web page at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/spa (Do not use this web page to post announcements.) NOTE: Due to the large number of SPA-related sessions at major conferences, the SPA Newsletter can no longer accept announcement requests for individual sessions at AGU, AOGS, COSPAR, EGU, or IAGA Meetings. Titles and web links (if available) of these sessions will be distributed in a special issue of the Newsletter before the abstract deadline. SPA Newsletter Editorial Team: Peter Chi (Editor), Guan Le (Co-Editor), Sharon Uy, Marjorie Sowmendran, and Kevin Addison AGU SPA Web Site: https://connect.agu.org/spa/home SPA Leadership Team E-mail: spa.leadership.team at gmail.com *************** END OF NEWSLETTER **************** From editor at igpp.ucla.edu Sun Oct 23 21:51:00 2022 From: editor at igpp.ucla.edu (Newsletter Editor) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 21:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 62 Message-ID: <1255250825.5636986.1666587060568.JavaMail.zimbra@zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXIX, Issue 62 Oct.23,2022 *********************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. NSF Funding for the Great American Solar Eclipses 2023 and 2024 2. NSF Non-R1 Virtual Office Hour 3. Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series 4. RBSP Online Seminar 28 October 12:00 ET US 5. GeoDAWG Seminar Series 6. JOB OPENING: Tenure-track Faculty Position in Planetary Science at CU-Boulder?s Laboratory for Atmospheric & Space Physics 7. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position ? Solar Radio Astronomy and Machine Learning 8. UTSA-SwRI Graduate Program Application Deadline January 1, 2023 *********************************************************************** Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 NSF Funding for the Great American Solar Eclipses 2023 and 2024 From: Lisa Winter (lwinter at nsf.gov) The upcoming Great American Solar Eclipses, on October 14, 2023 and April 8, 2024, provide unique opportunities for science, education and outreach that various National Science Foundation (NSF) programs seek to support through this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL). The annular eclipse in 2023 will cover the western United States from Oregon to Texas while the total eclipse in 2024 will be visible from Texas to Maine with a partial solar eclipse viewable over most of the continental United States. The ease of observing these eclipses provides tremendous educational and outreach potential for the Americas. In addition, scientific advances enabled by observations of the eclipse include, understanding of the solar corona and magnetospheric, ionospheric, and atmospheric responses to changes in solar flux. The eclipses provide opportunity for ground-based observations of the solar corona to test new diagnostics enabled by instrumentation development. NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences and Division of Astronomical Sciences welcome proposals and supplements to fund science and outreach surrounding the 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipses. Details are available here: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23014/nsf23014.jsp?WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 NSF Non-R1 Virtual Office Hour From: Chia-Lin Huang (chihuang at nsf.gov) The AGS division will host a drop-in Virtual Office Hour on 26 October 2022 between 2-3 PM Eastern Time for students and faculty members at Non-R1 Academic Institutions (e.g., Community Colleges, Tribal Colleges and Universities, HBCUs, Undergraduate, Masters, and R2 Institutions). Register to attend by using this link: https://nsf.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJItc-ygqj4qGXV4IhmwqHtDQ-MTcs3l5N0. Please drop by if you want to chat with NSF Geospace program officers. 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series From: Kyle Murphy (magnetosphere.seminars at gmail.com) We invite you to join us every Monday at 12 pm (EDST, 1600 UT) for the weekly Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series. Chris Chaston will give our next seminar ?Broadband Electromagnetic Turbulence and Radiation Belt Electrons? on Monday October 24. 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. On October 31 Enrico Camporeale will be discussing ?Data-Driven Discovery of Fokker-Planck Equation for the Earth's Radiation Belts Electrons Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks?. You can view the current 2022 schedule here - https://msolss.github.io/MagSeminars/schedule.html Add your name to the mailing list here - https://msolss.github.io/MagSeminars/mail-list.html And see previous talks here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNlOK9mCmI3V111EHQRCuEQ 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 RBSP Online Seminar 28 October 12:00 ET US From: Sasha Ukhorskiy (ukhorskiy at jhuapl.edu) Next RBSP online seminar will be held on 28 October 2022, 12:00 ET US on the topic: Spacecraft Exploration and Physics Modeling of the Earth?s Ring Current, lead by two speakers: Matina Gkioulidou ?Observing the Global Geospace in Mesoscale Resolution? Anthony Sciola ?Build-up of the Storm-Time Ring Current via Mesoscale Plasma Sheet Flows? For Zoom and YouTube streaming details please goto: https://sites.google.com/view/rbsp/home 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 GeoDAWG Seminar Series From: Tomoko Matsuo, Anthony Sciola, Adam Michael (adam.michael at jhuapl.edu) Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to attend the monthly seminar series of the IAGA ?Geospace Data Assimilation Working Group? (GeoDAWG). GeoDAWG?s purpose is to provide a forum to aid in the discussion of data assimilative modeling methods across the geospace sciences. More information can be found on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/geodawg/home Seminars are held virtually at 11 am Eastern Time on the first Tuesday of every month. The next seminar will be held on November 1st by Humberto Godinez titled ?Data Assimilation for the Space Weather Environment: Ring Current Estimation with Ensemble Kalman Filter.? A link to join the seminar via Zoom can be found on the GeoDAWG website: https://sites.google.com/view/geodawg/seminars, along with the current GeoDAWG seminar schedule. You can request to join our mailing list, https://sites.google.com/view/geodawg/mailing-list, if you would like to receive our regular newsletter where we share research highlights and information relevant to the community. Speaker suggestions or questions can be also submitted online: https://sites.google.com/view/geodawg/contact-us, or you can email us directly at iaga.geodawg at gmail.com 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 JOB OPENING: Tenure-track Faculty Position in Planetary Science at CU-Boulder?s Laboratory for Atmospheric & Space Physics From: Fran Bagenal (bagenal at colorado.edu) Tenure-track Faculty Position in Planetary Science at CU-Boulder The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position to start in August 2023 in the general field of planetary science. The opening is targeted at the level of Assistant Professor, but experienced candidates with appropriate credentials will be considered for an Associate Professor appointment. Depending on the background and teaching interest, the successful candidate would also be affiliated with the appropriate academic department at CU (Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Physics, Geological Sciences, or Aerospace Engineering Sciences), and will be expected to teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Areas of interest include: Research approaches from remote sensing, to instrument development, to space missions, to laboratory studies and to theory, addressing research targets both within our solar system and exoplanets, and applying fields such as atmospheric science, planetary geology, astrobiology, geophysics, space environments, dynamics, etc. The University of Colorado Boulder is committed to building a culturally diverse community of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to contributing to an inclusive campus environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Evaluation of applications starts November 28, 2022 . Position will remain open until filled. For further information about LASP see https://lasp.colorado.edu/home/ Full job posting at https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=43550 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position ? Solar Radio Astronomy and Machine Learning From: Kamen Kozarev (kkozarev at astro.bas.bg) The heliophysics research group at the Institute of Astronomy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher to study the coronal structure and activity by employing multi-wavelength observations and low-frequency radio imaging observations by the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) and Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescopes. The position is available starting immediately for a duration of one year, extendable by an additional year upon satisfactory performance. Very competitive salary and ample conference travel funds are offered. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The successful candidate will actively participate in the development of near-real time space weather radio pipelines in collaboration with researchers from The Netherlands Institute of Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) and the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (DIAS). The researcher will help develop and employ techniques for solar interferometric observations, as well as machine learning models for feature classification. He/She will participate in the building of the Bulgarian LOFAR-BG station, which is expected to begin operation in 2025. REQUIREMENTS Applicants must hold or near completion of a PhD in physics, astronomy, or astrophysics, with a focus in radio astronomy, heliophysics, or a closely related field. Previous experience in scientific programming in Python, Sunpy, CASA or similar, Linux/Unix environments, version control (svn, git), and machine learning will be considered an advantage. HOW TO APPLY Interested candidates should contact Assoc. Prof. Kamen Kozarev (kkozarev at astro.bas.bg), arrange for two letters of recommendation to be sent to Dr. Kozarev, and provide 1) a cover letter describing their experience and research interests, 2) a curriculum vitae, 3) a list of relevant publications. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The position is part of the 5-year CAREER-type project ?Modeling and ObServAtional Integrated Investigations of Coronal Solar Eruptions? (MOSAIICS), funded by the National Science Fund of Bulgaria. The project is led by Assoc. Prof. Kamen Kozarev. 8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8 UTSA-SwRI Graduate Program Application Deadline January 1, 2023 From: Rob Ebert, Tracy Becker (tbecker at swri.org) The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) invite motivated students to apply for our innovative, joint Space Physics Ph.D. program! UTSA is an R1 Research University and its Department of Physics and Astronomy offers both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics for areas such as Space Physics, Planetary Science, Astrophysics, Material Science, Biophysics and Nanotechnology. SwRI is a leader in space physics and planetary science research and is known internationally for leading and contributing to a number of NASA and ESA flight instruments and missions. The UTSA-SwRI Ph.D. Program prepares students for a career in Space Physics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics through research-focused course work and direct involvement in investigations with space flight missions including ACE, Bepi-Columbo, Europa Clipper, IMAP, JUICE, Juno, LRO, MMS, Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, SWFO-L1, among others. Applications due: January 1, 2023 (https://future.utsa.edu/programs/doctoral/physics/) ***** SUBSCRIPTION AND ANNOUNCEMENT REQUESTS ***** The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. Back issues are available at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/pipermail/spa/ To request announcements for distribution by the newsletter, please use the online submission form at: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g To subscribe to the newsletter, please go to the web page at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/spa (Do not use this web page to post announcements.) 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SPA Newsletter Editorial Team: Peter Chi (Editor), Guan Le (Co-Editor), Sharon Uy, Marjorie Sowmendran, and Kevin Addison AGU SPA Web Site: https://connect.agu.org/spa/home SPA Leadership Team E-mail: spa.leadership.team at gmail.com *************** END OF NEWSLETTER **************** From editor at igpp.ucla.edu Sun Oct 30 21:25:48 2022 From: editor at igpp.ucla.edu (Newsletter Editor) Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:25:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 63 Message-ID: <1889047258.5772981.1667190348920.JavaMail.zimbra@zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXIX, Issue 63 Oct.30,2022 *********************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. MEETING: Symposium on the Future of Heliospheric Science: From Geotail and Beyond -- 1st Circular 2. MEETING: 5th COSPAR Symposium 3. MEETING: 2023 Space Weather Workshop April 17-21, 2023 (In-person with a Virtual Component) 4. MEETING: 45th COSPAR Scientific Assembly 5. GDC Community Town Hall at Fall AGU: Dec 15, 1245-1345 Central, McCormick S103ab 6. Deadline Extension of the STP-15 Special Issue in JASTP (new deadline: December 31, 2022) 7. Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series 8. GeoDAWG Seminar Series 9. Online Cold Plasma Seminar 10. SHIELD Webinar: ?From Stars to Einstein?s Waves: An improbable path to a Breakthrough Discovery?, Dr. Vicky Kalogera 11. New Cluster Archive Data Mining and Interactive Plotting Tools 12. JOB OPENING: Tenure-track Faculty Position in Remote Sensing at University of Colorado Boulder 13. JOB OPENING: Early-career Staff Member Position in Space Plasma Physics at the Los Alamos National Laboratory 14. SCOSTEP/PRESTO Newsletter Vol.33 (OCT 2022) *********************************************************************** Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 MEETING: Symposium on the Future of Heliospheric Science: From Geotail and Beyond -- 1st Circular From: Yoshifumi Saito (saito at stp.isas.jaxa.jp) It is our great pleasure to announce that "Symposium on the Future of Heliospheric Science: From Geotail and Beyond" will be held at Koshiba-Hall, University of Tokyo, between 28 -31 March 2023. The Geotail satellite, launched in July 1992 from Florida, U.S.A., as a joint project between ISAS (now JAXA) and NASA, has been studying the structure and dynamics of the magnetotail and other key regions of the magnetosphere. It has achieved epoch-making results, including numerous discoveries in magnetospheric physics. After more than three decades in operation, a failure of the onboard data recorder that occurred at the end of June has considerably reduced the amount of data that can be received, while data from some onboard instruments are no longer available. Therefore, we have now decided to end Geotail?s operation. The shutdown is scheduled to take place by the end of December of this year. The purpose of this symposium is to link the tremendous results of Geotail to the future by reviewing the achievements of Geotail to date and looking forward to the exploration of the inner heliosphere system that consists of several sub-systems, Geospace, planetary system, interplanetary space, and the Sun in the late 2020s. The exploration will further expand its area to the whole heliosphere beyond that time frame. The future exploration will also contribute to the space weather research/forecast that supports human activities in Geospace, Moon and other planets. The symposium will be held in a hybrid format. In addition to invited talks, we plan to call for contributed talks and posters. The call for contributed papers is scheduled to open around December. Place: Koshiba Hall, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo (https://www.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/map/map01.html) Date: March 28(Tuesday) to 31(Friday) 2023 SOC: I. Shinohara, Y. Saito, M. Nakamura, G. Murakami (ISAS/JAXA) H. Kojima, A. Matsuoka (Kyoto University Y. Miyoshi, K. Shiokawa (ISEE, Nagoya University) M. Hoshino, K. Seki, T. Terasawa (University of Tokyo) G. Le (GSFC/NASA) V. Angelopoulos (UCLA) S. Petrinec (IMCO) R. Nakamura (IWF/OAW) P. Escoubet (ESA) T. Mukai, T. Nagai, S. Machida LOC?? M. Hoshino, K. Seki, T. Amano, S. Imada, S. Kasahara, K. Keika, M. Nishino (University of Tokyo) I. Shinohara, Y. Saito (ISAS/JAXA) 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 MEETING: 5th COSPAR Symposium From: Aaron Janofsky (aaron.janofsky at cosparhq.cnes.fr) 5th Symposium of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR): Space Science with Small Satellites ?COSPAR 2023? Date: 16 ? 21 April 2023 Place: Singapore Contact: COSPAR Secretariat cospar at cosparhq.cnes.fr https://www.cospar-assembly.org (scientific program, abstract submission) https://www.cospar2023.org/ (registration, accommodation, etc.) Host Organizations: Nanyang Technical University and the Office for Space Technology and Industry, Singapore Abstract Deadline: 31 December 2022 Topics: - Space Science with Small Satellites - Space Debris Monitoring and Mitigation Using Small Satellites - Earth Observation and Environment Monitoring from Small Satellites - Deep-Space Science and Exploration with Miniaturized Systems - Capacity Building with Small Satellites ? a COSPAR-INSPIRE Long Term Plan - Enabling Technologies from Small Satellites - Microsatellites for Space Weather and Radio Astronomy - Establishing a Constellation of Small Satellites Selected papers published in Advances in Space Research and Life Sciences in Space Research, fully refereed journals with no deadlines open to all submissions in relevant fields. 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 MEETING: 2023 Space Weather Workshop April 17-21, 2023 (In-person with a Virtual Component) From: Leanne R (lrehme at ucar.edu) Hold the Date. Hotel, registration, student program, and additional information will be announced in early 2023 at the UCAR Website (https://cpaess.ucar.edu/meetings/space-weather-workshop-2023). The 2023 Space Weather Workshop will be held in-person, with a virtual component, April 17-21, 2023. Space Weather Workshop is an annual conference that brings industry, academia, and government agencies together in a lively dialog about space weather. What began in 1996 as a conference for the space weather user community, Space Weather Workshop has evolved into the Nation's leading conference on all issues relating to space weather. The conference addresses the remarkably diverse impacts of space weather on today's technology. The program highlights space weather impacts in several areas including communications, navigation, spacecraft operations, human space exploration, aviation, space traffic coordination, and electric power. The workshop will also focus on the highest priority needs for operational services that can guide future research and new high-value capabilities that can be transitioned into operations. The conference fosters communication among researchers, space weather service providers, and users of space weather services. Space Weather Workshop is organized by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS), along with a community-based organizing committee and co-sponsored by the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, the NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, and the NASA Heliophysics Division. 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 MEETING: 45th COSPAR Scientific Assembly From: Aaron Janofsky (aaron.janofsky at cosparhq.cnes.fr) 45th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and Associated Events ?COSPAR 2024? Date: 13 ? 21 July 2024 Place: Busan, South Korea Contact: COSPAR Secretariat cospar at cosparhq.cnes.fr https://www.cospar-assembly.org (scientific program, abstract submission) https://www.cospar2024.org/ (registration, accommodation, etc.) Host Organizations: Ministry of Science and ICT, Korean National Committee for COSPAR Organizers: Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), The Korean Space Science Society Abstract Deadline: mid-February 2024 Topics: Approximately 140 meetings covering the fields of COSPAR Scientific Commissions (SC), Panels, and Task Groups: - SC A: The Earth's Surface, Meteorology and Climate - SC B: The Earth-Moon System, Planets, and Small Bodies of the Solar System - SC C: The Upper Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets Including Reference Atmospheres - SC D: Space Plasmas in the Solar System, Including Planetary Magnetospheres - SC E: Research in Astrophysics from Space - SC F: Life Sciences as Related to Space - SC G: Materials Sciences in Space - SC H: Fundamental Physics in Space - Panel on Satellite Dynamics (PSD) - Panel on Scientific Ballooning (PSB) - Panel on Potentially Environmentally Detrimental Activities in Space (PEDAS) - Panel on Radiation Belt Environment Modelling (PRBEM) - Panel on Space Weather (PSW) - Panel on Planetary Protection (PPP) - Panel on Capacity Building (PCB) - Panel on Education (PE) - Panel on Exploration (PEX) - Panel on Interstellar Research (PIR) - Panel on Innovative Solutions (PoIS) - Panel on Social Sciences and the Humanities (PSSH) - Task Group on Establishing a Constellation of Small Satellites (TGCSS) - Task Group on Establishing an International Geospace Systems Program (TGIGSP) - IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) Initiative Task Group (IITG) Selected papers published in Advances in Space Research and Life Sciences in Space Research, fully refereed journals with no deadlines open to all submissions in relevant fields. 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 GDC Community Town Hall at Fall AGU: Dec 15, 1245-1345 Central, McCormick S103ab From: Doug Rowland (douglas.e.rowland at nasa.gov) For anyone attending AGU who?d like to learn more about NASA?s upcoming Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission, we?ll be hosting a Community Town Hall (session TH43J) Thursday December 15 at 1245-1345 Central Time. All are encouraged to come and participate. TH43J - Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) Community Town Hall Thursday, 15 December 2022 13:45 - 14:45 McCormick Place - S103ab This is an open meeting focused on providing status updates on plans for the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission, NASA?s next Living With a Star mission. GDC?s six satellites, orbiting in an evolving constellation at 350-400 km altitude, will provide groundbreaking observations of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere?s response to magnetospheric and solar energy input, over scales ranging from local to regional to global. In addition to the status updates, this Town Hall will include some community discussion and Q&A about the current status and future plans for the mission. Of particular interest are 1) avenues by which GDC observations could be leveraged to serve as a strategic hub for other projects; 2) ways to leverage GDC?s measurements to support R2O activities that can support National Space Weather goals; 3) community plans for ground-based observations that could work in concert with GDC to produce unique science. 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 Deadline Extension of the STP-15 Special Issue in JASTP (new deadline: December 31, 2022) From: Kazuo Shiokawa (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp) The deadline of the special issue of SCOSTEP?s 15th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium (STP-15) in Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (JASTP) has been extended. The new deadline is December 31, 2022. Please encourage your colleagues to submit papers to this special issue. Submission page: https://www.editorialmanager.com/jastp/default1.aspx (Log in with Editorial Manager account, choose an Article Type: VSI: STP-15). 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series From: Kyle Murphy (magnetosphere.seminars at gmail.com) We invite you to join us every Monday at 12 pm (EDST, 1600 UT) for the weekly Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series. Enrico Camporeale will give our next seminar ?Data-Driven Discovery of Fokker-Planck Equation for the Earth's Radiation Belts Electrons Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks? on Monday October 31. 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. On November 7, Frances Staples and Qusai Al Shidi will give our next set of early career seminars. You can view the current 2022 schedule here - https://msolss.github.io/MagSeminars/schedule.html Add your name to the mailing list here - https://msolss.github.io/MagSeminars/mail-list.html And see previous talks here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNlOK9mCmI3V111EHQRCuEQ 8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8 GeoDAWG Seminar Series From: Tomoko Matsuo, Anthony Sciola, Adam Michael (adam.michael at jhuapl.edu) Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to attend the monthly seminar series of the IAGA ?Geospace Data Assimilation Working Group? (GeoDAWG). GeoDAWG?s purpose is to provide a forum to aid in the discussion of data assimilative modeling methods across the geospace sciences. More information can be found on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/geodawg/home Seminars are held virtually at 11 am Eastern Time on the first Tuesday of every month. The next seminar will be held on November 1st by Humberto Godinez titled ?Data Assimilation for the Space Weather Environment: Ring Current Estimation with Ensemble Kalman Filter.? A link to join the seminar via Zoom can be found on the GeoDAWG website: https://sites.google.com/view/geodawg/seminars, along with the current GeoDAWG seminar schedule. You can request to join our mailing list, https://sites.google.com/view/geodawg/mailing-list, if you would like to receive our regular newsletter where we share research highlights and information relevant to the community. Speaker suggestions or questions can be also submitted online: https://sites.google.com/view/geodawg/contact-us, or you can email us directly at iaga.geodawg at gmail.com 9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9 Online Cold Plasma Seminar From: Pedro Resendiz (resendiz at lanl.gov) Dear colleagues, Please join us for the Online Cold-Plasma Seminar series on November 2nd, 2022. Details can be found at: https://www.lanl.gov/org/ddste/aldsc/theoretical/applied-mathematics-plasma-physics/cold-plasma-seminars.php where the zoom link will be posted prior to each seminar. You can also join the distribution mailing list by contacting Gian Luca Delzanno (delzanno at lanl.gov). The speaker is Elena Kronberg from Munich University: Speaker: Elena Kronberg, Munich University. Title: Circulation of ionospheric ions and their impact on the magnetospheric dynamics. Date: November 2nd, 2022 Time: 11 AM-12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 3-4 PM Universal Time Coordinated, 4-5 PM Central European Time. 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 SHIELD Webinar: ?From Stars to Einstein?s Waves: An improbable path to a Breakthrough Discovery?, Dr. Vicky Kalogera From: Nicholas Gross (Gross at bu.edu) Dr. Kalogera will speak about her experience in the leadership of the LIGO project which detected gravity waves. She is also the author of the essay, ?Not Taking ?No? for an Answer: Learning How to Persist and Persevere with a Smile?. Webinar Registration: https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8sYLwV14R4OOY3NFrzJoLg Website: https://sites.bu.edu/shield-drive/outreach-2/webinars/ Short Biosketch Vicky Kalogera is the Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the co-founder and the current director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) at Northwestern University. She is an expert in the astrophysics of compact objects, black holes and neutron stars, the death remnants of stars, studying their formation and evolution especially in systems of multiple stars. Kalogera is a leading astrophysicist in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, LIGO being the special kind of ?telescopes? that first detected gravitational waves in 2015, waves that were first predicted to exist by Einstein a hundred years earlier. The first detection opened a new window onto the universe uniquely revealing powerful mergers of black holes. Later detections enabled coupled gravitational-wave and electromagnetic-wave, multi-messenger, observations revealing the sites of gold and other heavy metals production. Kalogera is at the forefront of this emergent field of gravitational-wave astronomy and uses data analysis and astrophysical modeling to understand the universe?s population of black holes and neutron stars. For her research she has been recognized by numerous awards, including the Bethe Prize of the American Physical Society (2016), the Heineman Prize for Astrophysics by the American Institute for Physics and the American Astronomical Society (2018), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021). Over the years she has served as member or chair on important professional committees. In 2018 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2021 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 New Cluster Archive Data Mining and Interactive Plotting Tools From: C. Philippe Escoubet (philippe.escoubet at esa.int) The Cluster project is happy to announce two new tools available to the community: 1. The data mining tool that uses 1-minute average of 86 parameters coming from the 11 instruments on the four spacecraft. It uses a standard interface for most used parameters or an expert interface for the full list of parameters and for parameter variance selection. In addition the 1-minute averaged parameters can be downloaded using the command line interface. All three interfaces are selectable at the top of the screen. The web address is: https://caa.esac.esa.int/data-mining 2. A new interactive plotting tool for publication quality plots where the user can dynamically update some plot aspects such as titles, axis ranges and types, font, line thickness. The selected parameters and plot information can also be saved for future usage. Please note that for some data, such as high-resolution spectrograms, the plot can take some time to appear on the screen. The web address is: https://caa.esac.esa.int/panels/form/ Data from 2001 up to 2022, for most recent delivered parameters, are included in these tools. You can access the Cluster data at the Cluster archive: https://csa.esac.esa.int/csa-web/ Please let us know if you have questions or comments at: caaops at sciops.esa.int 12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12 JOB OPENING: Tenure-track Faculty Position in Remote Sensing at University of Colorado Boulder From: Xinlin Li (lix at lasp.colorado.edu) The Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences (AES) Department in the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) at the University of Colorado Boulder is currently seeking applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the area of Remote Sensing Technology. The opening is targeted at the level of Assistant Professor, but experienced candidates with outstanding credentials will be considered for an Associate or Full Professor appointment. CU Boulder has a highly ranked engineering college with several top 10 programs, including Aerospace Engineering Sciences. The department has an active remote and in-situ sensing research program as part of its CCAR research center (https://www.colorado.edu/ccar). Remote sensing is a multidisciplinary field that bridges engineering with the applied sciences. Candidates are expected to conduct research that advances this multidisciplinary field. Examples of possible research aligned with department interests include developing new remote (or in-situ) sensing systems, exploiting remote sensing capabilities from the ground/air/ space for Earth, Space, or Planetary science, innovating data analysis and modeling approaches that use remote sensing data or inform the development of new remote sensing technology. The department has active research programs in a variety of aerospace topics that align with remote sensing, such as the development of aerospace vehicles which serve as platforms for remote sensing instrumentation (for example, cubesats / smallsats: visit https://www.colorado.edu/aerospace/research/cu-boulder-cubesats and UAS: visit https://www.colorado.edu/recuv/). Candidates whose expertise cuts across engineering and related disciplines, including data science, are encouraged to apply. The position will remain open until filled, though for full consideration, please apply no later than November 1, 2022. Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email. For consideration, applications must be submitted through CU Boulder Jobs for job requisition number: 42978. For details, please see https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=42978 For inquiries, please contact the Search Committee Chair: Prof. R. Steven Nerem (nerem at colorado.edu). 13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13 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: https://lanl.jobs/search/jobdetails/early-career-theoretical-and-computational-plasma-physicist/f50d7774-7585-4cab-8368-b58ec33a2813 For further information, please contact Gian Luca Delzanno (delzanno at lanl.gov). 14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14 SCOSTEP/PRESTO Newsletter Vol.33 (OCT 2022) From: Kazuo Shiokawa (SCOSTEP President) (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp) SCOSTEP/PRESTO Newsletter volume 33 (OCT 2022) has now been published. The PDF file is available at https://scostep.org/newsletter-archive/ Below are the contents of this volume. Contents of SCOSTEP/PRESTO Newsletter OCT.2022 (Vol.33) 1.A new journey of the Arase satellite to the 25th solar cycle 2.NASA's Moon to Mars Space Weather Analysis Office 1. Jing Liu, China 2. 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