[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXX, Issue 3

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXX, Issue 3
Jan.16,2023

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Table of Contents

1. Congratulations to SPA's 2022 Award Winners

2. Volunteer to be on the SPA Student Leadership Advisory committee

3. MEETING: ISTP Workshop May 8-10 at JHU/APL

4. SHIELD Webinar: Peggy Shea, “The Road Taken: My Journey in Space Physics from IGY (1957) to the Present”.

5. JOB OPENING: Digital Librarian Position at NASA GSFC

6. JOB OPENING: Data Scientist Position at NASA GSFC

7. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Solar-Heliospheric Physics Research Group at the University of California Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory (UCB/SSL)

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


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Congratulations to SPA's 2022 Award Winners

From: Geoffrey Reeves & The SPA Leadership Team (geoff at reevesresearch.org)

The following individuals were recognized at the SPA Section Reception and Union Awards Ceremony at the fall meeting. Whether you were able to attend in person or not, please join us in congratulating our new Fellows and Section and Union Award winners.

AGU’s Joanne Simpson Medal for mid career scientists 
Yue Deng: UT Arlington 

New AGU Fellows
Stuart D. Bale, University of California, Berkeley
Sarah Gibson, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Yoshiharu Omura, Kyoto University
Nathan Schwadron, University of New Hampshire

SPA’s Basu Innovation Scholar Grant
Muhammad Fraz Bashir, UCLA

The Basu US Early Career Award
William Longley, Rice University

The Scarf Award: (Recent PhD): 
Andrea Larosa, Queen Mary University of London

The SPARC Award for impact on students’ and/or public understanding of space physics:  Jade Morton, University of Colorado

The Marcel Nicolet Lecture (Aeronomy)        
Rob Pfaff, Goddard Space Flight Center

The Eugene Parker Lecture (Solar and Heliospheric Physics)        
Marco Velli, UCLA

The Willam B. Hanson Lecture (Observations)
Claudia Stolle, University of Rostok


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Volunteer to be on the SPA Student Leadership Advisory committee

From: Geoffrey Reeves & the SPA Leadership Team (geoff at reevesresearch.org)

The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy section has created several new committees to help advise the SPA Leadership Team on ways to better serve our community. Chairs of these committees will be part of the leadership team.

We are currently looking for student volunteers to serve on the Student Leadership Advisory Committee. We are also looking for volunteers who are willing to chair the committee or would consider it pending further discussions.

The form for volunteering is at https://forms.gle/xhws1GzmgJkM9kS38


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MEETING: ISTP Workshop May 8-10 at JHU/APL

From: Larry Kepko (larry.kepko at nasa.gov)

Please save the date for an International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Workshop to be held at JHU/APL May 8-10.

The goal of this workshop is to engage the worldwide Heliosphysics community to discuss how we could organize our discipline under a common scientific framework, and provide a forum for coordination, planning, and strategy. The idea for this workshop grew out of the COSPAR Task Group on establishing an International Geospace Systems Program (TGIGSP), which has now evolved into a larger desire to constitute a grass-roots version of the original ISTP program, unifying the Sun-Heliosphere and Geospace communities. Such an international program could help to coalesce our discipline around a common scientific framework, and help coordinate current and future observations, programs, and initiatives to holistically study our interconnected system-of-systems to answer fundamental science questions within our discipline.

Example of potential topics include:
•	GDC+DYNAMIC and establishing the ITM Great Observatory
•	Coordination of solar observations at all latitudes and longitudes, including space- and ground-based
•	The mesoscale magnetosphere and heliosphere
•	Community tools & methods (e.g. pyspedas, sunpy), AI/ML
•	Next generation numerical simulations across the heliosphere
•	Future mission coordination and ground-based coordination
•	Data standards, archiving, and data access

This workshop is intended to be responsive to the needs of the community. Therefore, if you are interested in helping to organize or lead a session, or simply have topical suggestions, please email the lead organizers. International participation is eagerly encouraged.

Larry Kepko (NASA GSFC), George Ho (JHU/APL), Yoshifum Saito (JAXA), and Louise Harra (PMOD/WRC)


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SHIELD Webinar: Peggy Shea, “The Road Taken: My Journey in Space Physics from IGY (1957) to the Present”.

From: Nicholas Gross (gross at bu.edu)

Please join us for the next SHIELD Webinar on Friday, Jan. 20th at 2pm ET to hear 
Dr. Peggy Shea talk titled, “The Road Taken:
My Journey in Space Physics from IGY (1957) to the Present”.

Dr. Shea will discuss her journey in the space physics research starting with the
International Geophysical Year 1957 to the present. She will discuss her educational experience as one of three women in her class in the late 1950’s, the supportive mentors she found, and how space physics has evolved over the course of her career.  

Register here: https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8sYLwV14R4OOY3NFrzJoLg 
SHIELD Website: https://sites.bu.edu/shield-drive/outreach-2/webinars/ 


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JOB OPENING: Digital Librarian Position at NASA GSFC

From: Robert 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).

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.  To apply, submit the following:

•	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 Position at NASA GSFC

From: Robert 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).

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.  To apply, submit the following:

•	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 Researcher in the Solar-Heliospheric Physics Research Group at the University of California Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory (UCB/SSL)

From: Christina Lee (clee at ssl.berkeley.edu)

The Solar and Heliospheric Physics Research Group at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory is seeking a candidate to fill one full-time (100%) Postdoctoral position under the general supervision of Dr. Christina Lee. The successful candidate will collaborate with Dr. Lee and the project team members to investigate the role of magnetic connectivity to interplanetary shocks (e.g., driven by coronal mass ejections, CMEs) in determining the large longitudinal extents of solar energetic particle (SEPs) events observed from multiple vantage points throughout the inner heliosphere. A combination of analysis of existing in-situ data sets and remote observations and data-driven modeling will be used to carry out the investigation.

The ideal candidate will have skills and/or experience with

- multi-spacecraft data analysis of quiescent solar wind, CME, SIR, and SEP event intervals from in-situ observations (e.g., ACE, GOES, STEREO-A, ACE, PSP, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, MAVEN, etc.) 

- remote sensing data analysis of multiwavelength solar disk and coronagraph data

- 3D MHD simulations of solar wind and CME propagation using coupled solar corona-solar wind models (e.g., Wang-Sheeley-Arge (WSA) + ENLIL, EUFORIA, Gamera, etc.) 

- modeling transport of solar energetic particles

- programming and utilizing software tools in IDL, Matlab, or Python

For more information about the position, including required qualifications, application materials, and deadlines, go to https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03705.

The position will remain open until filled. For questions, please email Dr. Christina Lee at clee (at) ssl.berkeley.edu. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.


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