[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXX, Issue 61

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SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXX, Issue 61
Nov.05,2023

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Table of Contents

1. MEETING: Canadian Division of Atmospheric and Space Physics (DASP) Workshop 2024 Call for Abstracts and Registration -- First Announcement

2. Hybrid Cold Plasma Seminar

3. SHIELD Webinar:  Lika Guhathakurta: “We are all Living Stars”; Nov. 17th, 2pm ET

4. SCOSTEP Visiting Scholar Program 2024

5. JOB OPENING: Research Scientist Position at the University of Texas at Dallas W. B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences

6. Doctoral Researcher in Magnetospheric and Heliospheric Physics in Oulu

7. Solar Orbiter Science Nuggets (October Releases)

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


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MEETING: Canadian Division of Atmospheric and Space Physics (DASP) Workshop 2024 Call for Abstracts and Registration -- First Announcement

From: Ian Mann, Sneha Babu (sbabu at ualberta.ca)

Dear colleagues,

The annual Canadian Division of Atmospheric and Space Physics (DASP) meeting, a division of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP), will be hosted by the University of Alberta, Edmonton from February 20 to 23, 2024. A workshop focused on graduate student training will also be held on Monday, February 19, 2024. Please note that this will be an in-person meeting. 

Abstract submissions and registrations are now open, with an abstract submission and registration deadline of January 19, 2024.

Please visit our website: https://app.groupize.com/e/dasp-workshop-2024 for more information regarding Workshop registration, travel, and updates on schedule.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach us at: space.physics+dasp at ualberta.ca.

We hope to see you all at the 2024 DASP Workshop.


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Hybrid Cold Plasma Seminar

From: Justin Holmes, Gian Luca Delzanno, Pedro Resendiz Lira (jcholmes at lanl.gov)

Please join us for the Hybrid Cold-Plasma Seminar series taking place on Wednesday, November 8th, 2023. The seminar will be held at the Moon Room located at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA. 

If attending the seminar in person is not feasible, virtual attendance is also available. The Webex link will be made available prior each seminar on our website at:
https://www.lanl.gov/org/ddste/aldsc/theoretical/applied-mathematics-plasma-physics/cold-plasma-seminars.php

You can also join the distribution mailing list by contacting Gian Luca Delzanno (delzanno at lanl.gov).

Speaker: Alex Glocer, NASA GSFC:
Title: Studying the Origin of Near-Earth Plasma
Date: November 8th, 2023
Time: 12 PM - 1 PM Eastern Time, 5-6 PM Universal Time Coordinated, 6-7 PM Central European Time.
Please note this takes place after setting clocks back for the end of Daylight Savings Time (both US and Europe)! The times above should reflect that.


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SHIELD Webinar:  Lika Guhathakurta: “We are all Living Stars”; Nov. 17th, 2pm ET

From: Nick Gross (gross at bu.edu)

Please join us on Nov. 17th, 2pm ET for the next SHIELD Webinar: 
Lika Guhathakurta: “We are all Living Stars”
Registration Link: https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gSlfyiJKSRS6PHknV9-JYA   

Dr. Madhulika Guhathakurta is a Senior Advisor for New Initiatives, Heliophysics, for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and a Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters. For the past two decades, Dr. Guhathakurta has enabled the development of Heliophysics as an integrated scientific discipline from which fundamental discoveries about our universe provide direct societal benefits. She was the lead for the Living With a Star (LWS) program for 16 years since its initiation in 2000 she made possible the flagship missions (e.g. the Solar Dynamics Observatory, Van Allen Probes, Solar Orbiter Collaboration with European Space Agency and Parker Solar Probe), many other missions, including STEREO that would revolutionize our understanding of how the Sun shapes space weather in the solar system.

To nurture the next generation of leaders in Heliophysics, she created the Jack Eddy Fellowship Program which has become an important channel for the professional growth of promising researchers. She is the recipient of many national and international awards, including India’s Most Powerful Women” for 2020, Business Today, India, Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal for Space Weather and Space Climate, 2020 and American Geophysical Union Ambassador Award, 2021.

For more information visit: https://shielddrivecenter.com/shield-webinars/ 


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SCOSTEP Visiting Scholar Program 2024

From: Kazuo Shiokawa (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp)

The SCOSTEP Visiting Scholar (SVS) program is accepting applications for 2024.  The SVS program is a capacity building activity of the Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP).  The program provides training to graduate students in well-established solar terrestrial physics institutes for periods of one to three months.  The training helps the awardees advance in their career in solar-terrestrial physics using the skills they learned during the training. SCOSTEP provides the airfare, while a host institute provides living expenses.

The program is open to applicants from all countries with an emphasis on applicants from developing countries. Interested candidates will need to contact one of the SVS program hosts; develop a program of mutual interest; and work out the details of a visit.  Once the applicant and host agree on a visit, the applicant will prepare an application package.  

Interested candidates should obtain all of the necessary information to apply for this program from the SCOSTEP website: https://scostep.org/svs/

The deadline for application is February 15, 2024. Please contact the host institution well before this deadline, to enable full consideration of your application. 


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JOB OPENING: Research Scientist Position at the University of Texas at Dallas W. B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences

From: Phillip Anderson (phillip.anderson1 at utdallas.edu)

The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) is seeking to fill a Research Scientist position in the W. B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences. The Center has a vigorous research program associated with fundamental and applied studies of the Earth’s ionosphere-thermosphere-magnetosphere (ITM) system using space and ground-based experimental resources as well as numerical modeling. We seek candidates capable of complementing the research capabilities of the Center, in particular in the area of ionosphere-thermosphere coupling. The candidate will be especially involved in the development of analysis tools and research associated with the thermal plasma instruments that are a major part of the Center’s historical and ongoing efforts. There are currently nine Earth-orbiting platforms with CSS thermal plasma instruments on board. The Center has recently been selected to provide the Thermal Plasma Sensor (TPS) instruments for NASA’s Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC). GDC is a six-satellite mission designed to investigate the coupling between the ionosphere and thermosphere and their response to external energy inputs. It will dramatically improve our understanding of the near-Earth environment and how disturbances (space weather) there impact human technology and society. The candidate will be expected to be a major part of this exciting mission (launch currently scheduled for 2031 - 2032).

Candidates must have a PhD or equivalent in space physics or a closely related field,and demonstrate their commitment to excellence in research. All candidates are expected to work effectively in a highly collaborative, engaging, and dynamic environment comprised of individuals of diverse backgrounds, skills, and perspectives.

Applications can be submitted to the UTD jobs website at https://jobs.utdallas.edu/hr/postings/24801. Applications will be evaluated starting Nov 20, 2023 and will continue until the position is filled. Salary is commensurate with experience.

The University of Texas at Dallas is committed to providing an educational, living, and working environment that is welcoming, respectful, and inclusive of all members of the university community. The University prohibits unlawful discrimination against a person because of their race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status.


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Doctoral Researcher in Magnetospheric and Heliospheric Physics in Oulu

From: Ilya Usoskin (ilya.usoskin at oulu.fi)

A PhD position is open at the University of Oulu (Finland) in magnetospheric and heliospheric physics (application deadline 15-Nov-2023). Details and application form can be found at
https://oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:660568/

More information can be requested from Prof. Ilya Usoskin
e-mail: ilya.usoskin-at-oulu.fi


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Solar Orbiter Science Nuggets (October Releases)

From: Solar Orbiter science nuggets (October releases) (miho.janvier at esa.int)

It is our pleasure to share new Solar Orbiter science nuggets (October releases): https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/solar-orbiter/science-nuggets

SO Nugget #17 "Unusually long path length for a nearly scatter-free solar particle event observed by Solar Orbiter at 0.43 au" (R.F. Wimmer-Schweingruber, L. Berger, A. Kollhoff, P. Kühl, B. Heber, et al.) 

SO Nugget #18 "Fleeting small-scale surface magnetic fields build the quiet-Sun corona" (L. P. Chitta, S. K. Solanki, J. C. del Toro Iniesta, J. Woch et al.)

SO Nugget #19 "Observations of mini coronal dimmings caused by small-scale eruptions in the quiet Sun" (R. Wang, Y. D. Liu, X. Zhao, & H. Hu)

As a reminder, new nuggets will be added on a regular basis, based on input from the entire solar physics community. If you are working on Solar Orbiter data and would like your results to be featured, please contact Yannis Zouganelis (ioannis.zouganelis at esa.int) and Miho Janvier (miho.janvier at esa.int).

— The ESA Solar Orbiter team


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