From editor at igpp.ucla.edu Sun Oct 1 08:06:25 2023 From: editor at igpp.ucla.edu (Newsletter Editor) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 08:06:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXX, Issue 53 Message-ID: <1071941462.4701088.1696172785973.JavaMail.zimbra@zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXX, Issue 53 Oct.01,2023 *********************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. MEETING: Shape the Future of Polar Geospace Research: Hybrid Workshop GEOSCOPR October 18-20 in Arlington VA 2. MEETING: IMC-IV Workshop ? First Announcement 3. JOB OPENING: Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Space Sciences at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 4. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position in Solar Physics at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 5. JOB OPENING: New Postdoctoral Position Available in DIAS Planetary Magnetospheres Group 6. PhD Student in Space Physics for Studies of Space Weather 7. Solar Orbiter Science Nuggets (September Releases) *********************************************************************** Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 MEETING: Shape the Future of Polar Geospace Research: Hybrid Workshop GEOSCOPR October 18-20 in Arlington VA From: Zhonghua Xu (zxu77 at vt.edu) Dear colleagues, We invite current and future polar researchers to a hybrid workshop, ?GEOSCOPR - Geospace Exploration and Observation with Scientific COllaboration in Polar Regions, towards IPY 2032?, on October 18-20 in Arlington VA to help address the current challenges and shape the future of polar geospace research. Antarctic measurements have been crucial in shaping our understanding of the dynamics of the polar atmosphere and ionosphere, their connections with the magnetosphere and solar wind, and the causes and consequences of north-south hemisphere asymmetries in the coupled system. Recent studies suggest that more measurements are needed in this sparsely sampled region, not less. However, many Antarctic geospace measurements that the space weather research community has come to rely on (e.g., southern hemisphere TEC accessed via MADRIGAL, magnetic field accessed via SuperMAG) are increasingly under threat for decommissioning and removal (https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-cancels-or-curtails-half-its-antarctic-research-projects), and support for future experiments is very uncertain (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23117/nsf23117.jsp?org=NSF). We encourage users of Antarctic measurements to attend this workshop, including modelers/data assimilators, as a major goal is to break down barriers between the user community and instrument operators to coordinate measurement campaigns that best address the user community needs. The workshop will culminate in a report to NSF, with objectives including: (1) identification of high level geospace/space weather research goals in the next 10 years, (2) near-term plans for instrument deployments, (3) identification of new collaborations (including interdisciplinary collaborations across the geosciences), (4) coordination to advocate for polar measurement projects that span multiple countries/programs. There is NO registration fee for the workshop and a few travel supports available for students and early-career researchers. We encourage all to register before Oct 8th, 2023, especially for in-person participants. More details can be found at the workshop website https://register.cpe.vt.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=6741765 . We look forward to seeing you at the workshop! Zhonghua Xu (zxu77 at vt.edu), Michael Hartinger (mhartinger at spacescience.org), Hyomin Kim (hyomin.kim at njit.edu) 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 MEETING: IMC-IV Workshop ? First Announcement From: Yuri Shprits, Julia Himmelsbach, Dedong Wang, Anthony A. Saikin, Alexander Drozdov (himmel at gfz-potsdam.de) The International Magnetosphere Coupling IV (IMC-IV) workshop will be held in Potsdam, Germany, from June 3rd to 7th, 2024. Building on the success of previous workshops, IMC-IV will bring together researchers to examine and discuss: - The strongly coupled inner magnetosphere system. - How disturbances from the sun can propagate to the magnetosphere, thereby radically altering the plasma conditions and wave distributions. - How these disturbances ultimately influence the Earth?s ionosphere and upper atmosphere. - The tools to predict and monitor: space weather, comparative magnetospheres, and global magnetospheric interactions. As in previous workshops, short presentations will pave the way for in-depth discussions. The presentation time will be matched by an equal time allocated to in depth discussions to promote the exchange of ideas and foster interdisciplinary collaborations. Among the discussion leaders will be: Tuija Pulkkinen, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Jerry Goldstein, Claudia Stolle, Ondrej Santolik, Miriam Sinnhuber, Daniel Baker, Mary K. Hudson, Larry Kepko, Theodore Sarris, Juha-Pekka Luntama, Philippe Escoubet, Emma Woodfield, Drew Turner, Matt Taylor, and Terry Onsager Organizers: Yuri Shprits, Julia Himmelsbach, Dedong Wang, Anthony A. Saikin, and Alexander Drozdov 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 JOB OPENING: Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Space Sciences at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor From: Shasha Zou (shashaz at umich.edu) The Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP) in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM) in Ann Arbor invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position with expertise in the broad space sciences and space weather area, spanning from heliosphere to ionosphere-thermosphere sciences; both for science investigations and for space weather forecast and impact applications. The CLaSP department welcomes expertise in the areas of experimental/observational (satellite or ground-based instrumentation) research, theoretical research and numerical modeling, and data-driven research (including machine learning). We are especially interested in candidates who can bridge and strengthen our existing research and teaching portfolio in space sciences and engineering. Although the position is open to all ranks, we especially seek candidates at the Assistant Professor level. We look for candidates capable of developing an internationally recognized research program, successfully competing for external funding, mentoring undergraduate and doctoral students, participating in our educational mission and programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and positively contributing to the culture, diversity, and collaborative nature of the department, college, and university. Applications should include: (1) cover letter, (2) CV, (3) research statement, (4) teaching statement, (5) a statement describing activities, contributions, or plans related to supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion, (6) and a list of four references with contact details. Desired Qualifications: Experience in experimental, observational or computational space sciences and space weather research. A PhD in a subject related to space sciences or other relevant disciplines in sciences or engineering is required by the time of the appointment. For full consideration, applications should be received by November 1, 2023. Please contact the search committee chair Prof. Shasha Zou (shashaz at umich.edu) if you have any questions. How to apply: https://deptapps.engin.umich.edu/facultycandidate/apply?dept=224000&searchID=41 More information can be found at: https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/239875/asstassocfull-professor 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position in Solar Physics at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center From: Terry Kucera (therese.a.kucera at nasa.gov) A postdoctoral position in solar physics is available at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to perform scientific research using data from the Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument on Solar Orbiter (SO). SPICE is an extreme-ultraviolet imaging spectrometer that enables the characterization of temperature, density, flow, and elemental composition in the solar upper atmosphere. The postdoc will work with other researchers at Goddard to analyze and interpret SPICE data in combination with data from other SO instruments and heliophysics missions to study the complex dynamic connection between the Sun and inner heliosphere. The postdoc will also participate in SPICE observational planning, calibration, and assisting the community in the use of SPICE data. Employment will be through the Partnership for Heliophysics and Space Environment Research (PHaSER). For details please see the PHASER web site https://physics.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/phaser/job-opportunities.html Applications due Dec. 15, 2023 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 JOB OPENING: New Postdoctoral Position Available in DIAS Planetary Magnetospheres Group From: Caitriona Jackman (cjackman at cp.dias.ie) A new postdoctoral position is available within the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) Planetary Magnetospheres Group: https://dias.ie/planetary_magnetospheres This position, for 2 years in the first instance, has a broad scope depending on candidate expertise. Focus can include the analysis of spacecraft data/model outputs from planets such as Mercury, Earth and Jupiter, complementing and extending the current activities of the group. Closing date October 20th 2023. Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact Prof. Caitriona Jackman directly to discuss scientific opportunities. cjackman at cp.dias.ie https://www.dias.ie/2022/06/28/postdoctoral-fellowship-in-the-dias-planetary-magnetospheres-group/ At DIAS, we are committed to building an inclusive scientific community, distinguished by scientific excellence, gender balance, and diversity. Proposals for flexible working will be considered. Applicants are encouraged to include in their CV any career breaks, and (if applicable) a short statement on any impact the Covid-19 pandemic had on their scientific productivity. 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 PhD Student in Space Physics for Studies of Space Weather From: Dr. Andrew P. Dimmock, Prof. Yuri Khotyaintsev (andrew.dimmock at irfu.se) PhD student in space physics for studies of space weather The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) is seeking a highly motivated individual to join a space-weather research project to investigate geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) in the Swedish power grid. The project is part of an ongoing collaboration between IRF, the Swedish Research Defence Agency, the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, and Svenska Kraftn?t to improve awareness and resilience to space weather effects in Sweden. GICs are unwanted currents that flow in ground-based infrastructure caused by varying condi-tions in space, often due to plasma eruptions from the Sun. They can cause physical damage and lead to disruptions such as blackouts, and thus, it is of high societal importance to mitigate this hazard. One of the outstanding questions is identifying the transmission lines at risk to GICs in Sweden. The PhD project will focus on evaluating and understanding the causes of GICs in Sweden using state-of-the-art ground- and space-based experimental data, advanced plasma simulations, as well as 3D ground conductivity modelling. Our team performs observations, data analysis, and modelling of space plasma processes and their ground effects. The team has decades of experience developing and operating space-based instruments to measure electric fields, plasma temperature, density, and density fluctuations for spacecraft missions. The position is available at the Uppsala office at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), located at the ?ngstr?m Laboratory in Uppsala, Sweden. Starting at the latest before Spring 2024 for a total duration of four years. For further information: Dr. Andrew P. Dimmock, andrew.dimmock at irfu.se Prof. Yuri Khotyaintsev, yuri at irfu.se Applications should be sent to: registrator at irf.se Or by post to: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Registrar, Box 812, SE-981 28 Kiruna, Sweden The closing date for applications is 31 October 2023. Full description: https://www.irf.se/en/news/2023/09/27/phd-student-in-space-physics-dnr-2-2-1-333-23 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 Solar Orbiter Science Nuggets (September Releases) From: Miho Janvier (miho.janvier at esa.int) It is our pleasure to share new Solar Orbiter science nuggets (September releases): https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/solar-orbiter/science-nuggets SO Nugget #15 "Polarisation of decayless kink oscillations of solar coronal loops" (S. Zhong, V. M. Nakariakov, D. Kolotkov et al.) SO Nugget #16 "Solar Orbiter reveals non-field-aligned solar wind proton beams and its role in wave growth activities" (X. Zhu, J. He, D. Duan, D. Verscharen et al.) 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 ***** SUBSCRIPTION AND ANNOUNCEMENT REQUESTS ***** The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. Back issues are available at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/pipermail/spa/ To request announcements for distribution by the newsletter, please use the online submission form at: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g To subscribe to the newsletter, please go to the web page at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/spa (Do not use this web page to post announcements.) NOTE: Due to the large number of SPA-related sessions at major conferences, the SPA Newsletter can no longer accept announcement requests for individual sessions at AGU, AOGS, COSPAR, EGU, or IAGA Meetings. Titles and web links (if available) of these sessions will be distributed in a special issue of the Newsletter before the abstract deadline. SPA Newsletter Editorial Team: Peter Chi (Editor), Guan Le (Co-Editor), Marjorie Sowmendran, and Kevin Addison AGU SPA Web Site: https://connect.agu.org/spa/home SPA Leadership Team E-mail: spa.leadership.team at gmail.com *************** END OF NEWSLETTER **************** From editor at igpp.ucla.edu Sun Oct 8 07:53:33 2023 From: editor at igpp.ucla.edu (Newsletter Editor) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2023 07:53:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXX, Issue 54 Message-ID: <884140879.4893222.1696776813957.JavaMail.zimbra@zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXX, Issue 54 Oct.08,2023 *********************************************************************** SPECIAL ISSUE: TESS 2024 MEETING (2) Table of Contents 1. TESS 2024 Meeting: General Information 2. List of TESS24 Sessions *********************************************************************** Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 TESS 2024 Meeting: General Information The Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) is a joint meeting of the AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy Section and the AAS Solar Physics Division. TESS 2024 will be held 7-12 April 2024 in Dallas, TX at the Hilton Anatole. TESS will kick off with a reception Sunday followed by the solar eclipse on 8 April; Dallas is in the path of totality. The eclipse day is followed by four days of scientific programming. TESS24 website: https://www.agu.org/tess2024 Abstract submission site: https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Home/0 Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 11 October 2023 (23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT). 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 List of TESS24 Sessions Below are the TESS24 sessions open for abstract submissions. The detailed session description for each session can be found by clicking the web link. * Advances in Equity, Inclusivity, Diversity, and Accessibility in Solar and Space Physics https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/197628 Convener(s): McArthur Jones Jr, US Naval Research Laboratory, Space Science Divsion, Washington, DC, United States * Broadening Broader Impacts in Space Science: Coming Together to Further Programs' Reach https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/196554 Convener(s): Amy M Keesee, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States * Burnout in heliophysics: How to reset the culture to thriving Convener(s): https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/197634 Kelly E Korreck, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States * Consequences Of Fields and Flows in the Interior and Exterior of the Sun https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/196651 Convener(s): Alexander G Kosovichev, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Computational Heliophysics, Edison, NJ, United States * Coordinated approaches to fundamental questions in ITM coupling to solar, geomagnetic, and lower atmosphere processes https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/193515 Convener(s): Douglas E. Rowland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States * Data Analysis Techniques & Cloud Data and Computing for Scientists https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/196256 Convener(s): Alex K Antunes, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States * Early Evolution and Characteristics of Heliospheric Large-Scale Structures https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/197539 Convener(s): Cecilia Mac Cormack, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Sanchita Pal, Shaheda Begum Shaik, Carlos Braga * Energetic particle acceleration, transport, and effects https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/198375 Convener(s): Michael Warren Liemohn, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States * Exploring the connectivity of the Sun to the Heliosphere through understanding of the Middle Corona https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/196434 Convener(s): Daniel B Seaton, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States * Geomagnetically Induced Currents and Their Impact on Technology https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/196751 Convener(s): Chigomezyo Mudala Ngwira, Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, DC, United States * Heliosphere General https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/198502 Convener(s): Katharine Reeves, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States * High Latitude Ionospheric Mesoscale Structures and Impacts on the Magnetosphere https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/193829 Convener(s): Robert M Albarran, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States * How are filament channels formed on the Sun and what is their structure? https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/197450 Convener(s): Judith T Karpen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States * How Do We Accomplish Complexity Science in Space? https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/197560 Convener(s): Ryan Michael McGranaghan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States * Instrumentation https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/198480 Convener(s): Nicholeen M Viall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States * ITM General https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/198514 Convener(s): Hyunju KIM Connor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States * Magnetosphere General https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/198508 Convener(s): Geoffrey D Reeves, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States * Mesoscale Processes from Sun to Dust https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/196439 Convener(s): Matina Gkioulidou, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States * Model Validation throughout the Sun-Earth Domain https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/195806 Convener(s): Yihua Zheng, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, United States * Plasma-Neutral Interactions in Solar and Planetary Atmospheres https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/197368 Convener(s): Zihan Wang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States * Solar Cycle https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/198482 Convener(s): Nicholeen M Viall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States * Solar General (quiet, eruptive, etc) https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/198492 Convener(s): Craig DeForest, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States * Solar-stellar/Helio-Astro connections https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/198469 Convener(s): Nicholeen M Viall, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Craig DeForest, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States * The MacGyver Session: The Place for Novel, Exciting, Self-Made, Hacked, or Improved Sensors and Software Solutions for the Heliophysics Big Year https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/196444 Convener(s): Vincent Ledvina, New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, United States * The Structure and Evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections in the Heliosphere https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/196453 Convener(s): Emma Davies, Austrian Space Weather Office, GeoSphere Austria, Graz, AUSTRIA, Ravindra Desai, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Erika Palmerio, Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States, Andreas Weiss, Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Emma Davies, Austrian Space Weather Office, GeoSphere Austria * Tracing the Birth and Evolution of the Solar Wind by Connecting Spacecraft Conjunctions and Remote Observations https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/196438 Convener(s): Samuel Timothy Badman, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, United States, Yeimy Rivera, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States and Tatiana Niembro Hernandez, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States * Transition Regions and Interface Layers in Heliophysics https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/197276 Convener(s): J Todd Hoeksema, Stanford University, HEPL, Stanford, United States * Wave-particle resonant interaction in the solar wind and planetary magnetospheres https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/193650 Convener(s): Xiaojia Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, Physics, Richardson, United States, Anton Artemyev, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Lynn B Wilson III, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Lunjin Chen, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, United States * What are the onset conditions of fast magnetic reconnection? https://agu.confex.com/agu/TESS24/prelim.cgi/Session/196686 Convener(s): James A Klimchuk, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States ***** SUBSCRIPTION AND ANNOUNCEMENT REQUESTS ***** The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. Back issues are available at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/pipermail/spa/ To request announcements for distribution by the newsletter, please use the online submission form at: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g To subscribe to the newsletter, please go to the web page at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/spa (Do not use this web page to post announcements.) NOTE: Due to the large number of SPA-related sessions at major conferences, the SPA Newsletter can no longer accept announcement requests for individual sessions at AGU, AOGS, COSPAR, EGU, or IAGA Meetings. Titles and web links (if available) of these sessions will be distributed in a special issue of the Newsletter before the abstract deadline. SPA Newsletter Editorial Team: Peter Chi (Editor), Guan Le (Co-Editor), Marjorie Sowmendran, and Kevin Addison AGU SPA Web Site: https://connect.agu.org/spa/home SPA Leadership Team E-mail: spa.leadership.team at gmail.com *************** END OF NEWSLETTER **************** From editor at igpp.ucla.edu Sun Oct 15 05:44:01 2023 From: editor at igpp.ucla.edu (Newsletter Editor) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2023 05:44:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXX, Issue 55 Message-ID: <791284756.4969017.1697373841072.JavaMail.zimbra@zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXX, Issue 55 Oct.15,2023 *********************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. Apply Now for TESS 2024 Student & Early Career Travel Grants 2. Did You Receive Your Abstract Notification Email from AGU? 3. OH-VLISM Online Seminar Series (October 18, 2023 at 11 am ET): Suprathermal Ions in the Magnetosphere and Outer Heliosphere 4. Cold Plasma Seminar Series 5. SCOSTEP/PRESTO Online Seminar, October 26, 2023 6. JOB OPENING: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Solar Physics and Astro-informatics at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 7. JOB OPENING: Research Fellow in Planetary Atmospheres at the University of Leeds 8. JOB OPENING: Nordic Postdoctoral Plasma Physics Fellowship (NORPPA) in Space Physics and Astrophysics 9. Space Physics PhD on Svalbard 10. PhD Student in Space Physics *********************************************************************** Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 Apply Now for TESS 2024 Student & Early Career Travel Grants From: Geoff Reeves, Craig Deforest, & the TESS24 SOC (geoff at reevesresearch.org) The 2024 Triennial Earth Sun Summit (TESS) meeting will take place in Dallas, TX April 7-12 to coincide with the total solar eclipse. TESS is now accepting applications for student and early career travel grants. You can find the application form at: https://forms.monday.com/forms/f6a096e235f6bf361e64ab40daece265?r=use1 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 Did You Receive Your Abstract Notification Email from AGU? From: Amy Keesee (amy.keesee at unh.edu) I have heard of numerous people (including myself) that did not receive (one of) their abstract notification email(s) with details about their presentation for Fall Meeting. If this happened to you, please email abstracts at agu.org to let them know and they will resend it. Even if you already found your presentation in the program, it would be helpful for them to know how widespread this problem is and ensure that you have all the necessary presentation details. They have found that all emails were sent out but somehow they aren?t all getting received, even by people that successfully received other emails from the same email address. Thanks, Amy Keesee, Secretary SPA-SM 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 OH-VLISM Online Seminar Series (October 18, 2023 at 11 am ET): Suprathermal Ions in the Magnetosphere and Outer Heliosphere From: Marc Kornbleuth, Justyna Sokol, Elena Provornikova, Lennart Baalmann (kmarc at bu.edu) Please join us for our next OH-VLISM online seminar on Wednesday, 10/18/2023 at 11 am ET, where we will be having a topic-focused seminar on suprathermal ions throughout the heliosphere, focusing on the regions of the magnetosphere and outer heliosphere. We will have Adam Michael (JHU/APL) giving a talk on his research related to suprathermals in the magnetosphere and Masaru Nakanotani (UAH/CSPAR) giving a talk on his research related to suprathermals in the outer heliosphere. The link to the seminar can be found here: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/99696885649?pwd=K1l5ZEtLUTNyR09CbGJhSzR1NnlDUT09 (passcode if prompted: 730382) For questions, inquiries, or requests to join the OH-VLISM mailing list please contact Marc Kornbleuth (kmarc at bu.edu), Justyna Sokol (justyna.sokol at swri.org), Elena Provornikova (elena.provornikova at jhuapl.edu), or Lennart Baalmann (lbaalmann at phys.ethz.ch). For more information, please visit our website at www.heliosphere.community 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 Cold Plasma Seminar Series From: Pedro Resendiz (resendiz at lanl.gov) Dear colleagues, Please join us for our Cold-Plasma Seminar series taking place on October 18th, 2023. The seminar will be held at the Moon Conference 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). The speaker is David Hartley from University of Iowa: Speaker: David Harley, University of Iowa. Title: Observations and Modeling of Cold Plasma Density, and How it Impacts Wave Dynamics and Measurements Date: October 18th, 2023 Time: 12 PM - 1 PM Eastern Time, 4-5 PM Universal Time Coordinated, 6-7 PM Central European Time. Recorded Seminar: Yes. Thanks, Pedro Resendiz Los Alamos National Laboratory 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 SCOSTEP/PRESTO Online Seminar, October 26, 2023 From: Ramon Lopez (relopez at uta.edu) Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the SCOSTEP/PRESTO Online Seminar by Dr. Sergio Dasso will be held via online on October 26, 2023, as below. To join the seminar, please register via the following zoom address. Best wishes, Ramon Lopez, PRESTO chair 18th SCOSTEP/PRESTO Online Seminar Title: Geo-effectiveness of interplanetary coronal mass ejections: How much can be affected due to their evolution in the heliosphere? Speaker: Dr. Sergio Dasso Affiliation: LAMP at the Instituto de Astronom?a y F?sica del Espacio, UBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Date/time: October 26, 2023, 12:00-13:00 UT (09:00-10:00 ART, 07:00-08:00 CDT, 21:00-22:00 JST) Zoom Registration URL (Register in advance for this webinar): https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3d0_MrAGSJmoT7cZbp2Oag After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Abstract: Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) are the solar wind transients producing the major perturbations to the geo-space. Generally larger ICMEs travel faster, has more intense magnetic field, and produce stronger perturbations to the geospace and thus, they can produce the most extreme Space Weather events. However, different dynamical processes occurring in the interplanetary medium from their solar launching to their arrival to Earth, can change these properties, and consequently can change their geoeffectiveness. In this seminar I will present the main properties of ICMEs, and those physical processes that produce significant changes on their level of impact. Finally, I will briefly present the effect of ICMEs on ground level flux of galactic cosmic rays, and a new Space Weather laboratory in an Argentine base at the Antarctic peninsula (Marambio), from where the variability of GCRs at ground level can be observed in real time. 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 JOB OPENING: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Solar Physics and Astro-informatics at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA From: Petrus C Martens (martens at astro.gsu.edu) The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University (GSU) is seeking to fill a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level to begin Fall 2024. We are looking for a solar physicist with significant expertise in the MHD of the solar corona and flares and/or in Big Data and Machine Learning, along with a desire to enhance GSU's solar physics and big data curriculum. GSU tenure-track faculty divide their efforts between research (40%), teaching (40%, including student mentoring), and service (20%, institutional and professional). The new hire will join our Astro-informatics Cluster, a close collaboration between the solar/stellar physics groups in the department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Computer Science department at GSU. We work closely with the remote sensing for space sciences group and the global muon detector initiative in our department. Our ideal candidate will have a strong background in solar and stellar physics and demonstrated expertise in relevant fields in AI and Data Science. Applicants should have the following basic qualifications: 1) Ph.D. in astronomy, physics, or closely related field, 2) postdoctoral research experience, 3) evidence of the ability to establish and maintain a successful research program, 4) evidence of the ability to teach GSU's undergraduate and graduate students, 5) evidence of the ability and desire to work in a large, collaborative environment. GSU enrolls and graduates one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation and advances innovative research. GSU therefore strongly encourages applications from candidates who will enrich the research, teaching, and service missions of the university. Applications should include 1) a CV, including a detailed publication list, 2) a statement of the candidate?s research interests describing how the proposed research will be synergistic with and complement existing research of the cluster, 3) a statement of teaching experience and philosophy, 4) a statement of how the candidate?s professional and academic experiences have prepared them to support and apply GSU?s mission and core values (https://strategic.gsu.edu/), and 5) contact information for at least three references. All materials should be sent via email to AstroSearch at astro.gsu.edu. Questions regarding the position can be addressed to Dr. Piet Martens at pmartens at gsu.edu. Applications received by November 15, 2023, will receive full consideration. 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 JOB OPENING: Research Fellow in Planetary Atmospheres at the University of Leeds From: John Plane (j.m.c.plane at leeds.ac.uk) You will become a key team member of the Ice Nucleation Group and the Atmospheric and Planetary Chemistry group in Leeds. You will be responsible for exploring the mechanisms of ice clouds in the atmospheres of Venus and Mars through novel experiments. Recent missions reveal conditions where CO2 and H2O ice clouds can exist in the mesosphere of both Mars and Venus. Comparable ice clouds in Earth?s atmosphere are important for the redistribution of condensable materials, atmospheric chemistry and, in the case of denser ice clouds, radiative transfer. These cloud-atmosphere interactions depend critically on ice particle size and number, which is determined by the nucleation mechanism. However, our understanding of how ice particles in these clouds form in the mesospheres of Mars and Venus is in its infancy. As an international research-intensive university, we welcome students and staff from all walks of life and from across the world. We foster an inclusive environment where all can flourish and prosper, and we are proud of our strong commitment to student education. Within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences we are dedicated to diversifying our community and we welcome the unique contributions that individuals can bring, and particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to Black, Asian and ethnically diverse people; people who identify as LGBT+; and people with disabilities. Candidates will always be selected based on merit and ability. To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact: Ben Murray, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Email: B.J.Murray at leeds.ac.uk or John Plane, Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, Email: J.M.C.Plane at leeds.ac.uk How to apply: https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=EPSCH1091 8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8 JOB OPENING: Nordic Postdoctoral Plasma Physics Fellowship (NORPPA) in Space Physics and Astrophysics From: Minna Palmroth (minna.palmroth at helsinki.fi) Nordic Postdoctoral Plasma Physics Fellowship (NORPPA) in Space Physics and Astrophysics Applications are invited for postdoctoral research positions as Nordic Postdoctoral Plasma Fellows (NORPPA Fellows) at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The selected fellows will lead an independent research program on a topic that has strong synergy with space physics research and/or plasma astrophysics conducted in Helsinki. We anticipate being able to offer multiple positions. A successful applicant will work in a vibrant research environment with theoretical, observational, and computational research on space and astrophysical plasmas. The research of plasmas at the University of Helsinki is supported by numerous grants, including 3 ERC grants and the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence. The fellow will conduct research under the mentorship of professors in space physics (Minna Palmroth; https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/vlasiator) and astrophysics (Joonas N?ttil?; http://natj.github.io/group/). Application process: The initial appointment will be for 2 years, with an anticipated renewal for a total of 4 years. The start date is flexible. The applicant should have a Ph.D. in space physics, computational physics, plasma physics, astrophysics, or a related field (by the appointment date).? Applicants should submit a CV with the list of publications, a research statement (max. 3 pages), and arrange for three reference letters to be sent directly by the referees. The research statement should summarize past research achievements and describe the planned research program. All application material should be sent to hewan.zewde(at)helsinki.fi with the subject title "NORPPA Fellowship Application 2023" by November 15, 2023. The University of Helsinki fosters equality, diversity, inclusion, and workplace well-being.? Helsinki: Finland has been selected as the happiest country six times and is one of the safest locations worldwide. We enjoy beautiful nature and the cleanest air in the world. Helsinki is an international city with many cultural and recreational activities and outstanding services for families and children.? Salary & Benefits: The annual salary will be according to the University of Helsinki salary rules, including comprehensive occupational health care access. The fellows will also have ample travel funds and access to exceptional computing resources, including the pre-exascale supercomputer LUMI and a new, dedicated local computing cluster. In addition, the position includes a paid five weeks of vacation per year, paid sick leave, and an option for a paid 6-month parental leave (per parent). Links: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/spacephysics/ http://natj.github.io/group/? https://www.helsinki.fi/en/about-us/careers/information-arriving-international-staff https://research.csc.fi/lumi-access 9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9 Space Physics PhD on Svalbard From: Katie Herlingshaw (katieh at unis.no) Interested in Space Physics and adventure? We are employing a PhD student at the University Centre in Svalbard to research exciting new aurora-like features called 'fragments'. If you - or anyone you know - would like to live in the world's northernmost town and use world-class auroral observatories and radars then please check out the job advert: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/251211/phd-position-in-arctic-geophysics Please spread the word to anyone you think might be interested and get in touch (katieh at unis.no) if you have any questions. Warm regards, Katie Herlingshaw 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 PhD Student in Space Physics From: Prof. Yuri Khotyaintsev, Dr. Daniel B. Graham (yuri at irfu.se) Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden is looking for a highly motivated individual to join the Extreme Plasma Flares project, a collaboration between Chalmers, Gothenburg, IRF, Uppsala, and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. Plasma flares ? explosive releases of magnetic energy ? play a central role in such diverse phenomena as solar flares, aurora, and fusion plasmas. One of the outstanding questions is what conditions lead to the most extreme electron acceleration events. The PhD project will focus on the analysis of extreme acceleration events associated with magnetic reconnection. The PhD student will work with state-of-the-art experimental data from the NASA multi-spacecraft Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission. Our team performs observations, data analysis, and modeling of space plasma processes (https://www.irf.se/en/research/space-plasma-physics/). For further information: Prof. Yuri Khotyaintsev, yuri at irfu.se Dr. Daniel B. Graham, dgraham at irfu.se Applications should be sent to: registrator at irf.se The closing date for applications is 30 October 2023. Please quote reference number: 2.2.1-318/23 Click on the link for full description: https://www.irf.se/en/news/2023/09/20/phd-student-in-space-physics-dnr-2-2-1-318-23/ The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) is a governmental research institute that conducts postgraduate education and research in space physics, atmospheric physics, and space technology. Many of IRF?s projects are run as large international projects in collaboration with other research institutes and space agencies. IRF has about one hundred employees and offices in Kiruna (headquarters), Ume?, Uppsala, and Lund. www.irf.se ***** SUBSCRIPTION AND ANNOUNCEMENT REQUESTS ***** The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. 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SPA Newsletter Editorial Team: Peter Chi (Editor), Guan Le (Co-Editor), Marjorie Sowmendran, and Kevin Addison AGU SPA Web Site: https://connect.agu.org/spa/home SPA Leadership Team E-mail: spa.leadership.team at gmail.com *************** END OF NEWSLETTER **************** From editor at igpp.ucla.edu Mon Oct 16 06:23:58 2023 From: editor at igpp.ucla.edu (Newsletter Editor) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 06:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXX, Issue 56 Message-ID: <2026831862.4973515.1697462638337.JavaMail.zimbra@zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXX, Issue 56 Oct.16,2023 *********************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. MEETING: 4th CGS Workshop 2. MEETING: Workshop on Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GIC), NEW DATES : Feb 27 ? Mar 1, 2024, College Park, MD 3. MEETING: DKIST/Parker Solar Probe/Solar Orbiter Joint Meeting April 9-12, 2024 | San Antonio, Texas, USA ? First Announcement 4. Open House: UTSA-SwRI Space Physics Graduate Program 5. Twenty-third Annual Michael J. Buonsanto Memorial Lecture 6. EISCAT Radar Time: Open Call for Applications 7. Call for Abstract and Papers: Space Weather: Magnetosphere Ionosphere Thermosphere (M-I-T) Coupling, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science. 8. JOB OPENING: Solar and Heliospheric Scientist 9. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position in Space Plasma Physics at Auburn University 10. JOB OPENING: Post-doctoral Position in Space Plasma Physics (IRF, Sweden) *********************************************************************** Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 MEETING: 4th CGS Workshop From: Michael Wiltberger (wiltbemj at ucar.edu) Dear colleagues, The team of the Center for Geospace Storms (CGS) would like to bring to the community's attention a hybrid workshop we are holding on November 13-14, 2023. The in-person component will be held in Center Green Auditorium on NCAR/HAO campus in Boulder, Colorado. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together experts, early career scientists and students in the fields of space and atmospheric sciences, for an open-forum discussion of outstanding issues in the physics of geospace storms as well as ways to broaden participation in our field. We are pleased to announce the nearly final version of our agenda, https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/4th-cgs-workshop-agenda, including an excellent array of speakers with numerous early career scientists. We will also have a student showcase on the first day that has presentations from students that spent time over the summer doing internships with CGS team members. Participation in the hybrid workshop is free but requires registration which must be completed by Friday November 3. The workshop website is online at https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/events/workshop/4th-cgs-workshop including the registration page - https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/form/4th-cgs-workshop-registration. We look forward to seeing you at the workshop! Michael Wiltberger On behalf of the CGS Team! 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 MEETING: Workshop on Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GIC), NEW DATES : Feb 27 ? Mar 1, 2024, College Park, MD From: Surja Sharma (ssh at umd.edu) The Workshop will bring together participants from research, industry and government sectors to develop a supported and sustained community centered on all aspects of geomagnetically induced currents (GIC). The main goal is the integration of modeling and prediction of GIC with their applications to the needs of commercial entities and government agencies in managing potential consequences of impact on critical infrastructure during severe space weather. Please note the NEW DATES: Feb 27 ? Mar 1, 2024, changed from Oct 24 ? 27, 2023. For more details please visit the workshop website ( /sites.google.com/terpmail.umd.edu/gic2023/). Limited funds are available to support participation in the Workshop. 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 MEETING: DKIST/Parker Solar Probe/Solar Orbiter Joint Meeting April 9-12, 2024 | San Antonio, Texas, USA ? First Announcement From: Alessandro Liberatore, Michelle Valero, Stefano Livi (alessandro.liberatore at jpl.nasa.gov) The National Science Foundation?s (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), the NASA Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission team, and the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter (SO) mission team are pleased to announce the first DKIST/PSP/SO Joint Meeting in San Antonio, Texas on 09-12 April 2024. In-person participation is encouraged (virtual participation is possible). The goal of the meeting is to share and discuss recent discoveries, theories and results obtained with these new solar observatories, and improve communication and synergies between teams. The scientific program is divided into separate sessions, from the Origin of the Solar Wind and the Heliospheric Magnetic Field, to the Evolution of plasma and magnetic field in the solar atmosphere, passing through Solar Transients and Heliospheric Variability, Particle phenomena, etc? A hands-on data analysis session will be held on the last day of the meeting. Abstracts from the solar, heliospheric, and space plasma physics communities involving theory, simulations, in-situ and remote sensing data analysis, and observations with both ground-based and space-based observatories are encouraged. Registration and abstract submission is now open. Note: A total solar eclipse will occur in the San Antonio area on April 08, 2024, at 01:32 p.m. CDT (the day before the meeting). The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) is organizing a trip to observe the eclipse for all the interested attendees. For further information, visit: https://eclipse2024sa.com/ Important Information - All attendees (virtual and in-person) must register in order to attend the conference. - All attendees interested in the organized eclipse day trip must select the option ?I will join the eclipse day trip - Monday, April 08, 2024? during the registration process. Important Dates Registration Closes: December 31, 2023 Abstract Submission Deadline: January 31, 2024 Talk/Poster Decisions: Announced March 01, 2024 Conference Fees In-Person: $450.00 Accompanying Person: $150.00 For further information, visit: https://eclipse2024sa.com/Registration For further information, questions, and suggestions, please contact: Alessandro Liberatore (SOC, alessandro.liberatore at jpl.nasa.gov) Michelle Valero (LOC, michelle.valero at swri.org) Stefano Livi (SOC/LOC, slivi at swri.org) 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 Open House: UTSA-SwRI Space Physics Graduate Program From: Rob Ebert, Angela Rihn (rebert at swri.edi) We invite you to attend our hybrid Open House for the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Graduate Program in Space Physics. Come learn about exciting graduate research opportunities in Space Physics, Planetary Science and Astrophysics. The event will be held on Friday, October 27th 2023 at SwRI in San Antonio, Texas. The virtual schedule will be from 11:00-3:00 CDT with a live interactive lunch session. In-person will be from 11:00-4:45 with an after-hours event. Registration is located at https://forms.gle/tC2rXGWPdKi35sNe9 The Fall 2024 PhD application deadline is Jan 1, 2024. For more information, please visit the links below. UTSA-SwRI Joint Program: grad.space.swri.edu UTSA Physics and Astronomy Department: https://www.utsa.edu/physics/ Please contact Rob Ebert (robert.ebert at swri.org) or Angela Rihn (angela.rihn at swri.org) if you have any questions. 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 Twenty-third Annual Michael J. Buonsanto Memorial Lecture From: Heidi Johnson (heidij at mit.edu) We are pleased to announce that the Twenty-third Annual Michael J. Buonsanto Memorial Lecture will be presented by Juha Vierinen of the University of Troms?, Norway. The Buonsanto Lecture topic this year is ?Unlocking the Mysteries of Space with Radio Technology: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future? For more information on this year?s lecture, including an abstract and speaker bio, please see https://www.haystack.mit.edu/conference-2/buonsanto-lecture/. Date: Wednesday, November 1, 2023 Time: 3:00 p.m. (ET) The 2023 Buonsanto Lecture will be held both in person and online via Zoom. Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/98185496260 Please RSVP to mailto:heidij at mit.edu if you plan to attend in person. We hope to see you in November! 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 EISCAT Radar Time: Open Call for Applications From: Maria Mihalikova (EISCAT Scientific Association) (maria.mihalikova at eiscat.se) The EISCAT Scientific Association invites applications for observing time on the EISCAT facilities in 2024, by individual scientists, research groups, and consortia throughout the world on equal, competitive basis. This means that anyone can apply, independent of whether or not the applicant is from an EISCAT associate country. The present call is the first one for 2024. In total, 200 hours of experiment time are open for international, peer-reviewed competition, and are available for the use of any of the current EISCAT facilities. Roughly half of this time is allocated in each call. Please refer for more information and instructions how to apply to: https://eiscat.se/news/eiscat-peer-reviewed-program-experiments-3/ The deadline for applications is 1 November 2024 at 24:00 UTC. 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 Call for Abstract and Papers: Space Weather: Magnetosphere Ionosphere Thermosphere (M-I-T) Coupling, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science. From: Ram Singh, Sandeep Kumar, Kuldeep Panday (ramphysics4 at gmail.com) Dear Researchers, We would like to draw your attention to the special issue "Space Weather: Magnetosphere Ionosphere Thermosphere (M-I-T) Coupling" in the Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. This research topic seeks scientific inputs on space weather and its effects on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere system of the Earth. We welcome original research articles, reviews, and mini-reviews on following topics: 1. Observations and modeling of the impact of space weather on the coupled M-I-T system 2. M-I-T system simulations and observations using satellite and ground-based techniques 3. Interactions of charged particles in the Earth's radiation belts with the ionosphere 4. Ionospheric electrodynamics and irregularities under quiet and disturbed geomagnetic conditions 5. Impact of disturbed space-weather conditions on radio wave propagation, communication, and GPS/GNSS total electron content 6. Neutral dynamics of the ionosphere, using ground and space observations and modeling You can read more about the special issue here: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/60058/space-weather-magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere-m-i-t-coupling. Please register your interest in submitting the abstract by December 4, 2023. https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/60058/space-weather-magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere-m-i-t-coupling/participate-in-open-access-research-topic. The deadline to submit the manuscript is May 05, 2024. Best Regards, Topic Editors: 1. Dr. Ram Singh (Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic Korea); Email: ramphysics4 at gmail.com 2. Dr. Kuldeep Panday (ISAS, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada) Email: KuldeepPandey1306 at gmail.com 3. Dr. Sandeep Kumar (Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University Japan) Email: sandeepk.iig at gmail.com 8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8 JOB OPENING: Solar and Heliospheric Scientist From: Fan Guo (guofan at lanl.gov) We seek candidates with strong expertise in heliophysics to join the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The T-2, Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology group invites applications for a Scientist 2 position to lead research in computational and theoretical heliophysics. The group is particularly interested in particle acceleration, transport and nonthermal emissions during solar eruptions, and kinetic processes and nonthermal particles in inner and outer heliosphere, with the goal to understand space weather environment and explain observations made by current and future spacecraft and ground-based observations. The hired scientist is expected to establish and sustain their own research portfolio. This will include leading proposal development for both internal and external projects. The candidate is expected to work in an environment with substantial collaborative research. This includes recruiting and mentoring students and postdocs. A successful candidate is expected to publish in peer reviewed journals, present their research at conferences and workshops, and collaborate with scientists and managers to develop and sustain programs. To view details or apply, please go to https://lanl.jobs/ and search for Req. Number IRC125917, or use the link https://lanl.jobs/search/jobdetails/solar-and-heliospheric-scientistscientist-2/fa6dbee1-c105-4447-8723-0bf3fe79e2f2 Minimum Job Requirements: * Research experience in theoretical or computational heliophysics or related fields * Demonstrated ability and experience to mentor students * Demonstrated ability and experience to execute projects and publish high-impact results Education/Experience: Positions requires a Bachelor' degree in a STEM field from an accredited college and university and 4 years of related experience, typically with post-doctoral research experience at a university or national lab or equivalent experience directly related to the occupation. Desired Qualifications: * Experience with kinetic plasma simulations and/or magnetohydrodynamic simulations * Experience with theory and modeling of space physics problems * Experience with obtaining research funding * Strong communication skills * Experience with leading scientific projects * Ph.D. in heliophysics, theoretical physics, astrophysics, heliophysics or related fields and 3 years of postdoctoral research experience. Note to Applicants: * Please include in the application a CV, contact information for 3 references, and a cover letter describing your interest in the position and how you meet minimum requirements and desired qualifications listed above * Contact Christopher Lee (clee at lanl.gov) (T-2 Deputy Group Leader) for more details with questions about this position or application process. The hiring official for this position is Anna Hayes-Sterbenz (T-2 Group Leader). * For full consideration please apply by Nov. 10, 2023, and the job ad will be open until Dec. 1. 9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9 JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position in Space Plasma Physics at Auburn University From: Xueyi Wang; Yu Lin (wangxue at auburn.edu) A post-doctoral research position is now available in the field of space plasma physics at Auburn University, with an expected starting date in May, 2024 or earlier. Review of applicants will begin Nov. 15, 2023 and will continue until the position is filled. The contact persons for this position are Drs. Xueyi Wang (wangxue at auburn.edu) and Yu Lin (linyu01 at auburn.edu). This position is focused on understanding the physics of plasma waves, wave-particle interaction, and their global consequences in the Earth?s magnetosphere using our existing ANGIE3D and GCPIC simulation codes. Experience in kinetic simulations and/or observation data analysis is highly desirable. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit application according to the following instructions. The College of Sciences and Mathematics at Auburn University located in Auburn AL (http://www.auburn.edu/cosam) is seeking candidates for the position of postdoctoral fellow in the sciences and mathematics. From time-to-time, postdoctoral positions become available under a variety of research grants and projects in the college. We are seeking applications from individuals with a Ph.D. in any one area such as: biology, chemistry, geosciences, mathematics, statistics, physics or related fields. The candidates selected for these positions must be able to meet eligibility requirements to work in the United States at the time appointment is scheduled to begin and continue working legally for the proposed term of employment; and must possess excellent written and interpersonal communication skills. The positions are available for a minimum of one year as full-time 12 month appointments, with renewal possible based on performance, need, and/or funding for a maximum of four years. These are non-tenure track positions. Salary will be commensurate with education and experience. Please upload a curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, statement of contributions to diversity and inclusion (click here (https://www.auburn.edu/cosam/about/mission-vision-oied.htm) for more information), and contact information for three professional references. Please apply at the following link: https://www.auemployment.com/postings/39386. Auburn University is an EEO/Vet/Disability Employer and committed to building an inclusive and diverse community. 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 JOB OPENING: Post-doctoral Position in Space Plasma Physics (IRF, Sweden) From: Stas Barabash, Martin Wieser, Mats Holmstr?m (stas.barabash at irf.se) Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Kiruna, Sweden, welcomes applications for a Post-Doctoral position in space plasma physics for studies of the Moon environment with a focus on the plasma?surface interaction processes. IRF is a leading research institute in the field of planetary magnetospheres and solar wind interactions with a focus on particle measurements. Applicants are invited for a position for data analysis and numerical simulations related to the Moon environment with a focus on the plasma?surface interaction processes. The selected candidate will work in a successful research group, the Solar System Physics and Space Technology program (SSPT) at IRF. The group conducts active research on the solar system by developing particle instruments for planetary missions, analyzing data, and performing computer simulations. The tasks include but are not limited to: * Science data analysis from IRF?s particle instruments onboard lunar missions Chandrayaan-1 and Chang?e-4 * Collaboration with our simulation group working on the exosphere dynamics and global moon?solar wind interaction models. Candidates should have completed a PhD in space plasma physics or expect to complete within the next months. We will primarily consider candidates with a degree obtained within the last three years. If you have an older degree and want to refer to special circumstances, such as parental leave, this should be clearly stated in your application. Experience of working with space particle data is a strong merit. Experience of plasma modelling is a merit. Programming skills are required. Main languages used are C, C++, Python. The position is placed in Kiruna, Sweden, and is up to 2 years. For more information please contact: Stas Barabash, stas.barabash at irf.se, +46-980 791 22 Martin Wieser, martin.wieser at irf.se, +46 980 791 98 Mats Holmstr?m, mats.holmstrom at irf.se, +46 980 791 86 Closing date for applications is 29 October 2023. Full description: https://www.irf.se/sv/news/2023/10/02/post-doctoral-position-in-space-plasma-physics-2/ ***** SUBSCRIPTION AND ANNOUNCEMENT REQUESTS ***** The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. Back issues are available at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/pipermail/spa/ To request announcements for distribution by the newsletter, please use the online submission form at: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g To subscribe to the newsletter, please go to the web page at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/spa (Do not use this web page to post announcements.) NOTE: Due to the large number of SPA-related sessions at major conferences, the SPA Newsletter can no longer accept announcement requests for individual sessions at AGU, AOGS, COSPAR, EGU, or IAGA Meetings. Titles and web links (if available) of these sessions will be distributed in a special issue of the Newsletter before the abstract deadline. SPA Newsletter Editorial Team: Peter Chi (Editor), Guan Le (Co-Editor), Marjorie Sowmendran, and Kevin Addison AGU SPA Web Site: https://connect.agu.org/spa/home SPA Leadership Team E-mail: spa.leadership.team at gmail.com *************** END OF NEWSLETTER **************** From editor at igpp.ucla.edu Sun Oct 22 07:27:01 2023 From: editor at igpp.ucla.edu (Newsletter Editor) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 07:27:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXX, Issue 57 Message-ID: <237601565.5100032.1697984821632.JavaMail.zimbra@zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXX, Issue 57 Oct.22,2023 *********************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. Provide Feedback to NSF on Antarctic Geospace Science Support by October 27 2. Ground-based Instruments over Africa 3. MEETING: 21st Annual International Astrophysics Conference, March 25-29, 2024, Turin, Italy -- Save the Date! 4. SHIELD Webinar: Lika Guhathakurta: ?We are all Living Stars?; November 17th, 2pm 5. RBSP Online Seminar 27 October 11:00 ET US 6. JOB OPENING: Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Space Sciences at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 7. JOB OPENING: Ph.D. Student in Atmosphere-Space Coupling at Stockholm University *********************************************************************** Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 Provide Feedback to NSF on Antarctic Geospace Science Support by October 27 From: Zhonghua Xu (zxu77 at vt.edu) Dear all: AGU is collecting feedback to provide to NSF on science support for Antarctica, including geospace/space weather research via this form (deadline Oct 27): https://tinyurl.com/acs83trj This is in response to the dramatic reductions in logistical support for current and future Antarctic experiments (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23117/nsf23117.jsp?org=NSF). If you operate or plan to operate instruments in Antarctica, assimilate Antarctic data into your models (e.g., obtained via databases such as MADRIGAL or SuperMAG), or otherwise require southern hemisphere measurements for your data analysis and modeling, please consider responding to this form. Custom responses are preferred, but please also feel free to use this sample text under the ?Please describe the impact of NSF?s announcement on your science??: ?Antarctica is an essential Earth-based region for achieving an understanding of geospace phenomena and physical processes in Earth?s polar regions. Only on Antarctica can the highest geographic and geomagnetic regions of Earth be reached and studied with instruments. Without frontier measurements in Antarctica ? and theory and models derived from such measurements ? comprehensive understanding of Earth?s upper atmosphere and ionosphere (space weather around Earth) would not only be incomplete, but would be impossible to achieve.? Thank you for your support! Best regards, Zhonghua Xu, Mike Hartinger, and Hyomin Kim 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 Ground-based Instruments over Africa From: Olu Jonah, Lindsay Goodwin (lindsay.v.goodwin at njit.edu) SRI is proposing to establish a network of semi-autonomous precision GNSS stations filling the largely unexplored area along the geomagnetic equatorial and low-latitude regions over the African continent. The stations will be sourced in the USA and deployed through a collaboration with UN regional center in Nigeria. Wherever possible, individual stations will be hosted by local academic institutions who will also participate in the use of the collected data for academic and technical training and research. If you live or work in any of the countries shown in the map (see link) or are interested in this network of GNSS receivers (also known as CONGA) for your future research, please take a minute to complete the form at: https://forms.gle/g3XHKARPwkwBbjGH6 and feel to send email to Olu Jonah at olu.jonah at sri.com for any further questions. Thanks for your time. Olu Jonah and Lindsay Goodwin 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 MEETING: 21st Annual International Astrophysics Conference, March 25-29, 2024, Turin, Italy -- Save the Date! From: Gary P. Zank (garyp.zank at gmail.com) FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: We are pleased to announce that the 21st Annual International Astrophysics Conference will be held for the first time internationally in Turin, Italy at the AC Hotel Torino, from March 25-29, 2024 (Welcome Reception and Evening Registration begins Sunday, March 24). The theme for the 21st AIAC is ?Bracketing the Solar Wind: The Physics of its Initiation and Termination.? We will select 25-minute presentations punctuated by selected 40-minute invited talks that will enhance both the theme and scope of the meeting. Please save the date! More information will be available soon. E-mail inquiries about the meeting should be directed to Gary Zank at garyp.zank at gmail.com. 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 SHIELD Webinar: Lika Guhathakurta: ?We are all Living Stars?; November 17th, 2pm From: Nicholas Gross (gross at bu.edu) Please join us on Nov. 17th, 2pm 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/ 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 RBSP Online Seminar 27 October 11:00 ET US From: Sasha Ukhorskiy (ukhorskiy at jhuapl.edu) Next RBSP online seminar will be held on 27 October 2023, 11:00 ET US (one hour earlier than our usual time) on the topic of 2022 Heliophysics SMEX Concepts recently selected by NASA into Phase A. We will hear from Robyn Millan on Cross-scale Investigation of Earth?s Magnetotail and Aurora (CIMEMA) and Mile Liemohn on Magnetospheric Auroral Asymmetry Explorer (MAAX). For Zoom and YouTube streaming details please goto: https://sites.google.com/view/rbsp/home 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 JOB OPENING: Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Space Sciences at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor From: Shasha Zou (shashaz at umich.edu) The Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP) in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM) in Ann Arbor invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position with expertise in the broad space sciences and space weather area, spanning from heliosphere to ionosphere-thermosphere sciences; both for science investigations and for space weather forecast and impact applications. The CLaSP department welcomes expertise in the areas of experimental/observational (satellite or ground-based instrumentation) research, theoretical research and numerical modeling, and data-driven research (including machine learning). We are especially interested in candidates who can bridge and strengthen our existing research and teaching portfolio in space sciences and engineering. Although the position is open to all ranks, we especially seek candidates at the Assistant Professor level. We look for candidates capable of developing an internationally recognized research program, successfully competing for external funding, mentoring undergraduate and doctoral students, participating in our educational mission and programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and positively contributing to the culture, diversity, and collaborative nature of the department, college, and university. Applications should include: (1) cover letter, (2) CV, (3) research statement, (4) teaching statement, (5) a statement describing activities, contributions, or plans related to supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion, (6) and a list of four references with contact details. Desired Qualifications: Experience in experimental, observational or computational space sciences and space weather research. A PhD in a subject related to space sciences or other relevant disciplines in sciences or engineering is required by the time of the appointment. For full consideration, applications should be received by November 1, 2023. Please contact the search committee chair Prof. Shasha Zou (shashaz at umich.edu) if you have any questions. How to apply: https://deptapps.engin.umich.edu/facultycandidate/apply?dept=224000&searchID=41 More information can be found at: https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/239875/asstassocfull-professor 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 JOB OPENING: Ph.D. Student in Atmosphere-Space Coupling at Stockholm University From: Linda Megner (linda at misu.su.se) The Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University is seeking a Ph.D. student to become part of our MATS satellite team. The Swedish MATS satellite (Mesospheric Airglow/Aerosol Tomography and Spectroscopy) was launched in November 2022. The aim of the mission is to investigate atmospheric gravity waves. These waves efficiently connect the Earth?s high atmosphere (the mesosphere) to our nearest space environment (the lower thermosphere). The main instrument on MATS is a telescope that images the mesosphere / lower thermosphere in several wavelength channels in order to determine the properties of atmospheric gravity waves. In close collaboration with other members of the MATS team, the doctoral student will analyse data in relation to atmospheric dynamics and space environment properties. A central aim is to better understand the interactions between atmosphere and space. The Ph.D. student position concerns full-time employment for a period of four years. Please find details and information about the application process at https://www.su.se/english/about-the-university/work-at-su/available-jobs/phd-student-positions-1.507588?rmpage=job&rmjob=21953&rmlang=UK . For more information about the project, please contact Linda Megner, linda at misu.su.se. The application deadline is November 3, 2023. ***** SUBSCRIPTION AND ANNOUNCEMENT REQUESTS ***** The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. Back issues are available at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/pipermail/spa/ To request announcements for distribution by the newsletter, please use the online submission form at: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g To subscribe to the newsletter, please go to the web page at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/spa (Do not use this web page to post announcements.) NOTE: Due to the large number of SPA-related sessions at major conferences, the SPA Newsletter can no longer accept announcement requests for individual sessions at AGU, AOGS, COSPAR, EGU, or IAGA Meetings. Titles and web links (if available) of these sessions will be distributed in a special issue of the Newsletter before the abstract deadline. SPA Newsletter Editorial Team: Peter Chi (Editor), Guan Le (Co-Editor), Marjorie Sowmendran, and Kevin Addison AGU SPA Web Site: https://connect.agu.org/spa/home SPA Leadership Team E-mail: spa.leadership.team at gmail.com *************** END OF NEWSLETTER **************** From editor at igpp.ucla.edu Sat Oct 28 05:40:02 2023 From: editor at igpp.ucla.edu (Newsletter Editor) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 05:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXX, Issue 58 Message-ID: <1206029226.5190687.1698496802253.JavaMail.zimbra@zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXX, Issue 58 Oct.28,2023 *********************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. Obituary: Dr. J. Bernard Blake *********************************************************************** Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 Obituary: Dr. J. Bernard Blake From: George Paulikas, Dan Baker, Joe Fennell, Mary Hudson, Lou Lanzerotti, Janet Luhmann, Geoff Reeves, Harlan Spence (maryk at dartmouth.edu) Dr J. Bernard Blake, a pioneer in space research, passed away on 21 October 2023. During his more than 60-year career as a space scientist at the Aerospace Corporation, he was a pioneer and leader in the studies of the radiation belts that surround the Earth as well as studies of cosmic ray physics and nuclear astrophysics. Dr. Blake (Bern) was a skillful experimentalist and a skilled designer of complex instrumentation that flew into orbit aboard innumerable Air Force, NASA and ESA satellites near the Earth and as far away as the Moon. He was skilled in the interpretation of the data these instruments returned and was the author or contributor to more than 1400 scientific publications and presentations at scientific conferences at home and abroad. For his many noteworthy scientific contributions he was recognized as both an APS and AGU Fellow. His energetic particle instrumentation development, from the ATS-1 era to the NASA Van Allen Probes, Magnetosphere Multiscale Mission and recent cubesats, led to improved designs of commercial and national security space systems over the ensuing decades. He was the inspiration and mentor to generations of space scientists and engineers who will now carry on his legacy. Submitted by: George Paulikas, Dan Baker, Joe Fennell, Mary Hudson, Lou Lanzerotti, Janet Luhmann, Geoff Reeves and Harlan Spence ***** SUBSCRIPTION AND ANNOUNCEMENT REQUESTS ***** The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. Back issues are available at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/pipermail/spa/ To request announcements for distribution by the newsletter, please use the online submission form at: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g To subscribe to the newsletter, please go to the web page at: http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/spa (Do not use this web page to post announcements.) NOTE: Due to the large number of SPA-related sessions at major conferences, the SPA Newsletter can no longer accept announcement requests for individual sessions at AGU, AOGS, COSPAR, EGU, or IAGA Meetings. Titles and web links (if available) of these sessions will be distributed in a special issue of the Newsletter before the abstract deadline. SPA Newsletter Editorial Team: Peter Chi (Editor), Guan Le (Co-Editor), Marjorie Sowmendran, and Kevin Addison AGU SPA Web Site: https://connect.agu.org/spa/home SPA Leadership Team E-mail: spa.leadership.team at gmail.com *************** END OF NEWSLETTER **************** From editor at igpp.ucla.edu Mon Oct 30 06:52:38 2023 From: editor at igpp.ucla.edu (Newsletter Editor) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 06:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXX, Issue 59 Message-ID: <73925395.5204636.1698673958795.JavaMail.zimbra@zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXX, Issue 59 Oct.30,2023 *********************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. Student and Early Career Mixer at AGU 2. Heliophysics Coalition Action Network 3. Announcement of Upcoming NASA Heliophysics Advisory Committee Meeting 4. ASO-S Guest Investigator Program Call 2024 5. MEETING: Next Generation Solar Wind Machine Workshop 6. Call for Papers: Special Topic "The Loss and Acceleration Mechanisms of Energetic Electrons in the Earth's Outer Radiation Belt", Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 7. JOB OPENING: Open Rank Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Engineering Physics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach campus 8. JOB OPENING: Designated Assistant Professor at Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Japan 9. JOB OPENING: Planetary Astronomer/Computer Scientist - Southwest Research Institute 10. JOB OPENING: Research or Associate Scientist in Ionospheric Data Assimilation at CIRES CU Boulder/NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center 11. JOB OPENING: Ph.D. Student in Numerical Modeling of Space Plasmas (Laboratory of Plasma Physics, Paris, France) 12. SCOSTEP/PRESTO Newsletter OCT. 2023 (vol.37) *********************************************************************** Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 Student and Early Career Mixer at AGU From: Amy Keesee (amy.keesee at unh.edu) All student and early career members are encouraged to attend the Space Physics and Aeronomy Student and Early Career Mixer that will be the Monday evening of AGU. When you register, during the ?add events? step, you can add a ticket ($5 for students and $15 for others). If you?ve already registered, you can go back and add events until November 2. If needed, you can filter the events by ?section events? to make it easier to find. You?ll have a chance to meet the SPA executive committee and agency representatives as well as meet other students and early career members of the field. 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 Heliophysics Coalition Action Network From: Ian Cohen, Gordon Emslie (Ian.Cohen at jhuapl.edu) Hello Solar and Space Physics Community Members, The AAS/SPD Public Policy Committee and AGU/SPA Advocacy Committee continue to work together to monitor the situation regarding federal funding for NASA Heliophysics for FY24 and beyond, and to advocate for robust funding, both for this Division and for other agencies that support solar and space physics research. To aid in this effort, these committees have fostered the formation of the ?Heliophysics Coalition,? a grassroots effort that aims to bring together institutions (both academic and other) across the solar and space physics community, to advocate to policymakers and stakeholders with a common and consistent voice. You may have seen information about these efforts at recent TESS, GEM, SHINE, and CEDAR meetings. To further these efforts, and to enhance our engagement with, and participation from, the community, we are seeking to develop an Action Network of community members who would like to support these efforts. Members who volunteer for this Network may be asked to write brief letters to congress or on occasion help with a congressional in-person visit. (Funds to support the latter are available.) If you are interested in helping to advocate for solar and space physics research, please fill out the survey below. https://forms.gle/Ec1dbAq2q2qJ5pTC8 Cheers, Ian Cohen, Chair, AGU/SPA Advocacy Committee Gordon Emslie, Chair, AAS/SPD Public Policy Committee 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 Announcement of Upcoming NASA Heliophysics Advisory Committee Meeting From: Paul Cassak (Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu) The next meeting of the NASA Heliophysics Advisory Committee (HPAC) will take place November 14-16, 2023. The purpose of HPAC is to provide community advice to leadership of the Heliophysics Division, and is governed by Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) rules. The meeting has been announced in the Federal Register. The meetings are open to the public (remote attendance only for this meeting), and there are brief opportunities for members of the public to speak. The meeting will take place from 10am-5pm on Nov. 14, 9:30am-5pm on Nov. 15, and 9:30am-12pm on Nov. 16, all in Eastern time. Audio for the meeting is by telephone at 1-929-251-9612 or 1-415-527-5035 each day. Video is via WebEx; the link is https://nasaenterprise.webex.com/nasaenterprise/j.php?MTID=m2c166394b3bdd893949b1a410ce31f40, the meeting number is 2764 871 5032, and the password is pA6QJxWv at 83 (case sensitive; use 72675998 from phones and video systems) for each day. Past activities of HPAC are available at the HPAC website: https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/nac/science-advisory-committees/hpac. Connection information for the meeting and the full agenda will be updated there before the meeting. Please let me know if you have questions about the above information. 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 ASO-S Guest Investigator Program Call 2024 From: Ying Li (yingli at pmo.ac.cn) Why: ASO-S, being the first comprehensive solar spacecraft in China, was successfully launched on October 9, 2022. After 6-month commissioning phase, the mission is now in scientific operation stage. The instruments onboard work mostly well (except coronagraph) and the data have been released to the community in April, 2023. In order to encourage the users to make use of the ASO-S data, enhance the scientific return, and promote closer international cooperation, ASO-S team releases now the ASO-S Guest Investigator Program (AGIP) to the worldwide solar community. What: Each year AGIP could support up to 12 researchers, each of who is suggested to visit for 2-3 months the Science Operation and Data Center (SODC) of ASO-S at Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing. During this period of time, the visitors can perform independent researches or cooperated researches, based on or related to ASO-S data. How: AGIP will support each guest investigator with a competitive allowance, in addition to the international travel fees and partial lodging assistance. Besides a resume, the intended applicants should write one to two pages for his/her research plan and the desired period of visit. We encourage applicants to provide a potential cooperator in the ASO-S team where appropriate. The submission time should be at least three months earlier than the proposed visit time, so that to leave enough time for preparations. The selection for the application is based mainly on the scientific merits, together with research experience and feasibility. Young students are also welcome. Normally we evaluate applications once by bimonthly, i.e., we inform the results within a maximum of two months. For the highly qualified applicants, we will inform the result within two weeks from receiving the applications. There is no application deadline for the initial two years till the end of 2024. Please send your application or enquiry to Dr. Weiqun Gan (current chief scientist of ASO-S) at wqgan at pmo.ac.cn. Background material: The description on ASO-S can be found in Gan et al. 2023 (Solar Physics, 298:68). The ASO-S homepage is at http://aso-s.pmo.ac.cn/en_index.jsp, and the data, data download, analysis tools and guide can be found at http://aso-s.pmo.ac.cn/english/data/datapolicy.jsp. 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 MEETING: Next Generation Solar Wind Machine Workshop From: Seth Dorfman for the Solar Wind Machine Working Group (sethd at SpaceScience.org) We are planning a workshop focused on a Next Generation Solar Wind Machine to isolate, control, and diagnose plasma phenomena responsible for the complex solar wind behavior. The goal of the workshop will be to firm up physics targets and discuss diagnostics and machine design to move this idea closer to the proposal stage. Participants will submit short one-page white papers and/or posters discussing a physics, machine design, or diagnostics idea for the device. The proposed dates are Thursday through Saturday April 18-20, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA immediately following the 2024 MagNetUS (http://magnetus.net) general meeting. If you are potentially interested in attending the workshop, please fill out this form by Wednesday, November 8th to help us figure out how big of a space we will need to reserve: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YSJ-Hwlvghs7C_FgvzZ0g10lzmiW1buh8BqIIrQWcTM/ 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 Call for Papers: Special Topic "The Loss and Acceleration Mechanisms of Energetic Electrons in the Earth's Outer Radiation Belt", Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences From: Chaoling Tang, Zheng Xiang, Hong Zhao, and Xu Liu (xu.liu1 at utdallas.edu) We invite you to submit your original research and review papers to the research topic "The Loss and Acceleration Mechanisms of Energetic Electrons in the Earth's Outer Radiation Belt" of the Journal " Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences". We welcome papers on radiation belts, including but not limited to (1) New features of plasma waves, (2) theoretical analysis, simulation, and observational evidence of non-linear wave-particle interactions, (3) evolution characteristics, bifurcation drift effect, transportation, loss, and acceleration of electron, (4) drivers, spatiotemporal dynamics, pathways, and impacts of the electron precipitation, and (5) Comparative studies about loss and acceleration mechanisms of electrons in the radiation belts of the Earth and other planets, etc. Manuscript summary submission is due on Dec. 24, 2023. Manuscript submission is due on Apr. 24, 2024. For a detailed description of the research topic, please visit the website: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/60873/the-loss-and-acceleration-mechanisms-of-energetic-electrons-in-the-earths-outer-radiation-belt. If you have any questions, please contact Topic Editors Chaoling Tang (tcl at sdu.edu.cn), Zheng Xiang (xiangzheng at whu.edu.cn), Hong Zhao (zzh0054 at auburn.edu), and Xu Liu (xu.liu1 at utdallas.edu). We sincerely look forward to your contributions. 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 JOB OPENING: Open Rank Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Engineering Physics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach campus From: Aroh Barjatya, John Hughes (barjatya at erau.edu) The Department of Physical Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University?s Daytona Beach Campus invites applications for a Tenure-Track faculty position emphasizing space- or ground-based instrumentation and systems engineering in the areas of space, atmospheric, or astronomical sciences. This 9-month tenure track position may be at any rank: assistant through full professor. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in any related discipline and be available by August 15, 2024. The successful candidate must demonstrate the ability to develop a productive and vigorous externally-funded research program as well as the enthusiasm and drive to teach and mentor both undergraduate and graduate students. Applications are under consideration now and the position will remain open until filled. Depending on position availability and the applicant pool, multiple hires could be made. To apply, please visit https://careers.erau.edu, click on the Career Search tab, and search for requisition R306671. A full application includes a cover letter, full CV, statements of teaching philosophy and research interests, as well as the names, telephone numbers and email addresses of at least three professional references. For more information on the position and department, please contact Dr. Aroh Barjatya, Search Committee Chair, at barjatya at erau.edu, or Dr. John Hughes, Department Chair, at john.hughes at erau.edu. 8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8 JOB OPENING: Designated Assistant Professor at Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Japan From: Yoshi Miyoshi (miyoshi at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp) The Center for Heliospheric System Science (CHS) is established by ISEE, Nagoya University, ISAS/JAXA and NAOJ, to promote heliospheric system science. At the center, the research environment using satellite data, ground-based observation data, and numerical simulations are included. Missions that will be supported at the CHS will include Arase, Mio (BepiColombo Mercury Orbiter), Hinode, and Solar-C (EUVST) which is a future solar physics mission by JAXA/ISAS due for launch in the mid-2020s. The CHS will provide data, analysis software, and computer resources to the community in support of multi-source multi-discipline scientific investigations. CHS seeks a candidate who will promote the use of data obtained from the BepiColombo/Mio and Arase missions, develop relevant databases and integrated analysis tools, and support and improve in-house heliospheric simulations. The successful candidate will also be responsible for designing observation plans in collaboration with other missions. CHS also seeks expertise in data science, new computational methods for data-driven simulations, advanced analysis methods including machine learning. The positions are expected to engage in their own research in heliospheric system science through incorporating new methods and knowledge of data science. The successful candidate is expected to promote research that integrates across missions, disseminate the new research environment to the community through, e.g., workshops and outreach, and collaborate with researchers across the country to lead and promote novel investigations in heliospheric system science in Japan. Through the activities at CHS, we expect the new CHS hire will contribute to future space missions in the field of heliospheric system science. Application deadline: 17 December, 2023 (08:00UTC) ISEE, Nagoya University: https://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/ Center for Heliosphere Science : https://chs.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/ The full job announcement can be found at https://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/koubo2023-9en.pdf 9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9 JOB OPENING: Planetary Astronomer/Computer Scientist - Southwest Research Institute From: Kurt Retherford (KRetherford at swri.edu) Come help our team complete tasks on several planetary mission and/or space telescope spectroscopy programs. We intend to expand our team expertise in scientific computing, programming, and data analysis capabilities. The applicant will participate in NASA funded planetary research and analysis projects and/or observing programs; projects include Europa Clipper, JUICE, Juno, LRO, New Horizons, Cassini, HST, JWST, laboratory Raman/far-UV/mid-IR ices, and ground-based observations. See Job ID 15-01679 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 JOB OPENING: Research or Associate Scientist in Ionospheric Data Assimilation at CIRES CU Boulder/NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center From: Hazel Bain (hazel.bain at noaa.gov) The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, Boulder invites applications for an applied Research or Associate Scientist position at the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). The successful applicant will work to advance SWPC?s ability to predict the dynamics and response of the ionosphere and atmosphere to space weather as it pertains to impacts on communication, navigation, and satellite drag applications. The primary responsibilities will include the development, validation and operationalization of data assimilative models of the ionosphere and atmosphere for the advancement of SWPC?s space weather products and services. This applied research position will require an understanding of the needs and requirements for actionable space weather information, and to educate the operational user community about how they are affected by space weather. The successful applicant will work closely with the space weather testbed to transition proven capabilities into real-time operations. For more information on the job and how to apply, please follow the appropriate link: Research Scientist: https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail?jobId=52500 Associate Scientist: https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail?jobId=52333 This position will remain posted until finalists have been identified. 11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 JOB OPENING: Ph.D. Student in Numerical Modeling of Space Plasmas (Laboratory of Plasma Physics, Paris, France) From: Nicolas Aunai (nicolas.aunai at lpp.polytechnique.fr) The Laboratory of Plasma Physics is seeking candidates for a PhD thesis in numerical modeling of space plasmas. The position is funded for 3 years, for a start around October 2024. The PhD project will focus on coupling fluid and kinetic solvers in the adaptive mesh hierarchy of the code PHARE http://github.com/phAREHUB/PHARE/, and use it to study the multiscale aspects of key plasma processes such as magnetic reconnection and shocks. Work will take place at the Laboratory of Plasma Physics (LPP), at Ecole Polytechnique, nearby Paris, and at Sorbonne University, in Paris. The successful candidate will join the development team with researchers and HPC engineers. The ideal candidate is highly motivated for numerical modeling for plasma physics and a very strong interest and skill set in C++/Python development for HPC. Prior experience and contribution to open source projects is a strong asset. Application should include: a CV, copies of academic transcripts, links/copies of previously written reports/theses/publications, a short (1 page) letter to explain the motivation for the project and demonstrate required skills in development. Links to existing open source contributions, GitHub profiles etc. are encouraged. Applications should be sent by email to: nicolas.aunai at lpp.polytechnique.fr and andrea.ciardi at obspm.fr 12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12 SCOSTEP/PRESTO Newsletter OCT. 2023 (vol.37) From: Kazuo Shiokawa (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp) SCOSTEP/PRESTO Newsletter volume 37 (OCT 2023) has now been published. The PDF file is available at https://scostep.org/resources/scostep-presto-newsletter-archive/ Below are the contents of this volume. Contents of SCOSTEP/PRESTO Newsletter OCT.2023 (Vol.37) ??? 1. SWATNet - Space Weather and Doctoral Degree in Marie Curie Network ??? 2. Application of Machine Learning to the Prediction and Understanding of Space Weather ??? 3. Comprehensive Study of Plasma Wave Fluctuations in the Inner Heliosphere: Towards DUWI Database Establishment ??? 1. 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