[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 62

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIX, Issue 62
Oct.23,2022

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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

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


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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


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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.


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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.

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


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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


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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


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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


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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.


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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/)


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