[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 56

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIX, Issue 56
Oct.02,2022

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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 Alfvén 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

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


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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).


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MEETING: Chapman Conference on Advances in Understanding Alfvén Waves in the Sun and the Heliosphere (Second Announcement)

From: Andreas Keiling, Tom Van Doorsselaere (keiling at berkeley.edu)

Advances in Understanding Alfvén 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 Alfvén 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 Lühr (GeoForschungsZentrum, Germany)
Petra Kohutova (University of Oslo, Norway)


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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!


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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


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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


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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.


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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.  


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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.  


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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


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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.


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