[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXX, Issue 66

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXX, Issue 66
Nov.27,2023

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Table of Contents

1. MEETING: Macau International Forum on Space and Planetary Sciences 2024 Call for Abstracts and Registration -- First Announcement

2. SESSION: ABSCICON 2024 Session "Superflares and Eruption Events from Active G, K and M dwarfs  and Their Impact on Habitable Environments"

3. SESSION: URSI AT-RASC 2024 Commission GH02 "The High Latitude Atmosphere"

4. SESSION: URSI AT-RASC 2024 Commission H08 "Turbulence and Instabilities in Space Plasmas"

5. JOB OPENING: Post-Doctoral Position for the Solar Orbiter Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) at Kiel University, Germany

6. JOB OPENING: Postdoc Position at the Institute of Space Science and Physics,, Shandong University in Weihai, China

7. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Position in Space Physics at Mahidol University, Thailand

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


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MEETING: Macau International Forum on Space and Planetary Sciences 2024 Call for Abstracts and Registration -- First Announcement

From: Xiaojun Xu (xjxu at must.edu.mo)

First Announcement: Macau International Forum on Space and Planetary Sciences
2024 Call for Abstracts and Registration

Dear colleagues,

The Macau International Forum on Space and Planetary Sciences will be hosted by the University of Science and Technology of Macau from January 10 to 14, 2024. In this forum, we will have the opportunity to delve into China's space exploration achievements, including the latest discoveries from the Chang'E-5 and Tianwen-1 satellites, as well as preliminary research results from the Macau Scientific Satellite-1. Macau offers a variety of delicious food and convenient transportation. The average temperature in January is 13°C-18°C, with an average daytime temperature of 18°C, making the climate pleasant. The Macau Science Center is also very suitable for children to visit. In addition, we will also hold several science popularization activities simultaneously. If any experts are interested in giving science popularization lectures, please feel free to let us know. Macau implements a visa-free policy for most countries.

Abstract submissions and registrations are now open, with an abstract submission and registration deadline of December 15,2023.

Please visit our website: https://www.must.edu.mo/ssi/ifmacao for more information regarding Workshop registration, travel, and updates on schedule.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach us at: IFmacao at must.edu.mo.

We hope to see you all in January 2024.


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SESSION: ABSCICON 2024 Session "Superflares and Eruption Events from Active G, K and M dwarfs  and Their Impact on Habitable Environments"

From: Vladimir Airapetian (NASA GSFC), Kevin France (LASP), Junxiang Hu (NASA GSFC),  Graham  Kerr (NASA GSFC) (vladimir.airapetian at nasa.gov)

Recent discoveries of rocky exoplanets in the habitable zones around magnetically active G, K and M dwarfs a suggest that many exoplanets should be subject to the high fluxes from ionizing radiation via astrospheric space weather. This includes coronal X-ray and extreme-ultraviolet emission, stellar winds and eruptive events in the form of stellar flares and associated coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and stellar energetic particles (StEP) events. These stellar emissions are the critical factors affecting atmospheric escape, chemistry and climates of rocky exoplanets around active stars, which ultimately may determine exoplanetary habitability. The proposed session invites theoretical and observational studies that provide insights on the physical processes and signatures of active G, K and M planet host chromospheres, coronae and winds, stellar (super)flares, CMEs and StEP events; as well as new observational and theoretical approaches to studying their impact on exoplanetary atmospheres, climates and spectral signatures.

 https://agu.confex.com/agu/abscicon24/prelim.cgi/Session/215888 

Primary Convener: Vladimir Airapetian (NASA GSFC); Convener: Kevin France (LASP); Junxiang Hu (NASA GSFC); Primary Liaison: Graham Stewart Kerr (NASA GSFC)

AbSciCon 2024 will take place in Providence, RI, USA and online on May 5-10,

Abstract Deadline: Wednesday, January 10, 2024


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SESSION: URSI AT-RASC 2024 Commission GH02 "The High Latitude Atmosphere"

From: Liliana Macotela (elmc23 at bath.ac.uk)

Dear SPA community,

The 4th URSI Atlantic Radio Science Meeting - 2024 (URSI AT-RASC 2024) will be held during 19 - 24 May, 2024.

We would like to draw your attention to the URSI AT-RASC 2024 session "GH session: The high latitude atmosphere". Information regarding the session is provided below. We hope you consider contributing and submit an abstract. Abstracts are due on 20 January 2024.

Session
GH02 : The high latitude atmosphere
Abstract submission link: https://www.eventure-online.com/eventure/login.form?A366e99a4-33f8-4841-9ec7-6fb8257a111f

Session description
The use of a multi-disciplinary and multi-instruments approach, with the aid of modelling efforts, is imperative to advance the current knowledge of the high-latitude atmosphere, including the ionosphere, and geospace. Some of the outstanding scientific questions within atmospheric and space physics, are:

1. How are different atmospheric layers coupled in the polar regions?
2. How does the upper polar atmosphere, i.e., mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere, respond to increased geomagnetic activity, including energy transfer from space?
3. How does the whole polar atmosphere impact short- and long-term climate variations?

Answering these questions will not only have implications on the understanding of processes in the polar atmosphere, but it will also greatly improve our understanding of the global atmospheric dynamics. We welcome contributions that help to answer the outstanding scientific questions related to the whole-atmosphere coupling, space weather influences and whole atmosphere response to climate change. We also welcome presentation and discussion of existing and planned instrumentation at high-latitudes and space-borne sensors.

Conveners
Liliana Macotela (UoB, UK)
Lucilla Alfonsi (INGV, Italy)
Jyrki Manninen (SGO, Finland)
Wojciech J. Miloch (UoO, Norway)


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SESSION: URSI AT-RASC 2024 Commission H08 "Turbulence and Instabilities in Space Plasmas"

From: Gary P Zank (garyp.zank at gmail.com)

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Commission H Session Announcement

The triennial URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference (URSI AT-RASC) is one of the URSI flagship conferences, alongside the URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GASS) and the Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC).

The 4th URSI AT-RASC will be held May 19-24, 2024, in Gran Canaria, Spain, as a fully in-person conference with only on-site presentations. The conference will have a series of convened and open sessions within the domains covered by all ten Commissions of URSI. 

One of the convened sessions is the following: 

H08: Turbulence and Instabilities in Space Plasmas 

Conveners: Alexander Pitňa (Charles University, Czechia), Owen Wyn Roberts
(Space Research Institute, Austria), Julia Stawarz (Northumbria
University, UK), Domenico Trotta (Imperial College London, UK), Gary
Zank (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)

Description: Plasma turbulence is a complex phenomenon that involves the nonlinear interaction of electromagnetic waves and plasma particles, affecting the transport of energy, momentum, and particles in various plasma environments such as solar and stellar winds, and planetary magnetospheres. This session will explore plasma turbulence and its connection to waves from various perspectives, covering topics of basic plasma turbulence theory, modeling, and observations as well as applications to plasma heating, scattering of plasma particles, the influence of turbulence on instabilities and wave modes, the heating of the solar corona and acceleration of the solar wind, the interaction and impact of turbulence with shock waves, reconnection processes, including the acceleration of particles. The session welcomes contributions on the use of radio observations to determine the nature of density and velocity fluctuations remotely in the solar wind, alongside work on the theory, numerical modeling, and in situ observations of turbulence and instabilities. The topics are relevant to many current in situ missions (e.g., Wind, DSCOVR, ACE, Cluster, MMS, STEREO, THEMIS/ARTEMIS, Van Allen Probes, Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter). Contributions on methods and techniques for measuring and analyzing turbulence are welcomed.

Abstract submissions are now open, and the submission deadline is January 20, 2024.

The complete list of sessions and their descriptions are available here: https://www.atrasc.com/papersubmission.php


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JOB OPENING: Post-Doctoral Position for the Solar Orbiter Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) at Kiel University, Germany

From: Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber (wimmer at physik.uni-kiel.de)

The Extraterrestrial Physics Division at Kiel University is looking for a Post-Doc to work with the  Energetic Particle Detector on Solar Orbiter. The Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel (CAU) is a medium-sized research university with ~27’000 students situated on the Baltic sea. The Extraterrrestrial Physics Division counts some 40 students, researchers, and engineers, and has a long history of designing, building, and developing instruments for solar and heliospheric missions, and analyzing and interpreting their data. 

The candidate is expected to analyze and interpret data primarily from the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) on Solar Orbiter. EPD consists of four sensors which cover energies from a few keV to > 100 MeV. The CAU Solar Orbiter team consists of several students and Post-Docs.

The candidate should have:
- PhD in physics, preferably space physics, or a related field
- Demonstrated research experience in data analysis, ideally from space missions
- Demonstrated ability and experience in publishing high-impact results
- Demonstrated understanding of (space) instruments and modeling techniques, e.g. GEANT4.
- Demonstrated experience with mentoring students

The position is open and should be filled as soon as possible. It will remain open until filled. Salary is at the E13 level (https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2021&matrix=1). Funding is assured to the end of 2025, an extension is very likely, but contingent on performance. 

Application: Your application package should include: cover letter, CV, statement of research interests, and a list of three potential references. Please send your application package to nebendahl at physik.uni-kiel.de. Questions should be addressed to wimmer at physik.uni-kiel.de.


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JOB OPENING: Postdoc Position at the Institute of Space Science and Physics,, Shandong University in Weihai, China

From: Alex Degeling (alexdegeling1 at gmail.com)

We are excited to invite applications to a new post doctoral fellowship position at the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Interaction Group in the Institute of Space Science and Physics, at Shandong University in Weihai, China. The available position deals with numerical simulations and observation analysis in the are of magnetospheric physics and space weather. Further details on the position are given below:

Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled, starting on 1st January, 2024.

Contact: Dr Alex Degeling (degeling at sdu.edu.cn)
Description: The successful applicant will contribute to a new project investigating global scale MHD waves and their interaction with trapped energetic particle populations, by means of numerical modelling/simulation (using existing and newly developed models during the project) and the analysis of ground- and space- based observations. The main goal of the project is to investigate whether/how various sources of ULF wave power affect radiation belt electron energization, transport and loss, and characterize the dynamics of wave-particle interactions taking place. The duration of the fellowship is 2 years, which may be extended subject to the availability of further funding.

Link to the advertisement for the position (pdf document):
https://iss.wh.sdu.edu.cn/system/_content/download.jsp?urltype=news.DownloadAttachUrl&owner=1523408765&wbfileid=11928803
Link to the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Interaction Group: 
https://iss.wh.sdu.edu.cn/info/1077/1662.htm


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Position in Space Physics at Mahidol University, Thailand

From: David Ruffolo (david.ruf at mahidol.ac.th)

Ph.D. graduates of any nationality are welcome to apply for a full-time postdoctoral research position at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand for a duration of at least one year.  Our group of 5 faculty members, 2 post-docs, and several students is actively performing research on distinct yet interrelated aspects of Space Physics: 1) Particle detector development for space missions, 2) Solar energetic particle data analysis and transport modeling, 3) Detector simulation of ground-based neutron monitors and muon telescopes, 4) Cosmic ray anisotropy: Analysis of TeV-range data from LHAASO, 5) Cosmic ray time variations: Analysis of GeV-range data from neutron monitors and muon telescopes, and 6) Solar wind turbulence: Analysis of public in-situ data.  The researcher can choose to work on one or more of these topics, and could start as early as January 1, 2024.  Round-trip airfare can be supported for coming to work with us in Thailand.  If you are interested, please send your CV and at least 3 letters of recommendation to Prof. David Ruffolo at david.ruf[at]mahidol.ac.th   Expressions of interest received by December 7, 2023 will be responded to within December 14.  


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