[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 63

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SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIX, Issue 63
Oct.30,2022

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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)

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


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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)


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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). 


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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.

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


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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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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.


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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.


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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


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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).


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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).


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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)
<Articles>
          1.A new journey of the Arase satellite to the 25th solar cycle
          2.NASA's Moon to Mars Space Weather Analysis Office
<Highlight on Young Scientists>
          1. Jing Liu, China
          2. Harneet Kaur Sangha, USA
<Upcoming Meetings>


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