[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXX, Issue 48

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXX, Issue 48
Sep.10,2023

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Table of Contents

1. Mini-Workshop: Can Space Activities be made Environmentally Sustainable? 

2. SHIELD Webinar: Cherilynn Morrow, Enhancing Your Eclipse Experience with Novel Outreach Activities Created by the NASA PUNCH Mission

3. JOB OPENING: Bartol Postdoctoral Scholar Position

4. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Researcher: In Situ Use of AI/ML in Missions of Space Exploration

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


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Mini-Workshop: Can Space Activities be made Environmentally Sustainable? 

From: Thierry Dudok de Wit (ddwit at cnrs-orleans.fr)

This one-day workshop is a satellite meeting of the European Space Weather Week, which will take place at the same venue (Toulouse, France) on 19 November 2023. The aim of the workshop is to share ideas and best practices, and discuss how we can move forward and leave a sustainable future for the next generations. Early bird registration is open until 13 September. More information can be found at: https://esww2023.org/satellite-events-before-esww-2023


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SHIELD Webinar: Cherilynn Morrow, Enhancing Your Eclipse Experience with Novel Outreach Activities Created by the NASA PUNCH Mission

From: Nicholas Gross (gross at bu.edu)

SHIELD Webinar: Cherilynn Morrow, Enhancing Your Eclipse Experience with Novel Outreach Activities Created by the NASA PUNCH Mission

Friday Sep 22 2pm ET

Dr. Cherilynn Morrow, is the director of the Public Engagement (or Outreach) program embedded in NASA’s PUNCH mission. PUNCH (Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere) is designed to study the Sun's outer corona and the space weather of the entire inner heliosphere as a unified system. Our multi-institutional public engagement team aligns all of its activities and events with an Ancient & Modern Sun-watching theme to make NASA heliophysics more personally and culturally relevant to a broader diversity of people.  The theme portrays NASA's exploration of the Sun as a natural extension of ancient Sun-watching as exemplified in Chaco Canyon and all over the world. Our activities are developed and field-tested via collaborations with mission team members, blind and low vision learners, Native and Hispanic youth and families, and girls in STEM. These collaborations have led us to develop multi-sensory, multicultural, arts-integrated activities of benefit to all people.  Dr. Morrow's seminar shares a subset of these activities, emphasizing those that can be used in your eclipse event, whether celebrating with your family or contributing to a larger event.  These activities are effective ways to engage participants whether you are on or off the path of totality or for any event featuring the Sun, whether or not an eclipse is in play.  Please see our website for the latest published versions of all our activities: https://punch.space.swri.edu/punch_outreach_products.php

Registration Link:  https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ycpWkRIoSf2PGam5WWxsUQ


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JOB OPENING: Bartol Postdoctoral Scholar Position

From: Michael Shay (shay at udel.edu)

A postdoctoral scholar position available at the Bartol Research Institute/ University of Delaware. This is a new initiative - the goal is to hire an independent researcher who has some potential for research overlap with one of more members of the Institute. The position is for 2 years, with the possibility of extension for 1 year, with benefits and a competitive salary. New PhD's are not excluded from applying, but the search committee will likely focus on applicants with one or two prior postdocs.

Applications are due on October 15, 2023. 

The Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware hosts faculty with interests in space physics, heliophysics, plasma physics, astroparticle physics, and astronomy. 

A link to a list of Bartol Faculty is here: https://www.bartol.udel.edu/wwwroot/faculty.html

The application link is:

https://careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job/500174/post-doctoral-researcher-physics-astronomy-the-bartol-research-institute 

Questions? Contact Michael Shay (shay at udel.edu) or any other member of Bartol. 


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Researcher: In Situ Use of AI/ML in Missions of Space Exploration

From: Giovanni Lapenta (giovanni.lapenta at kuleuven.be)

The new Horizon Europe project ASAP looks for a PostDoc interested in developing artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can be deployed in space missions of exploration. This means developing and using algorithms that can be run on the type of processors that can be used in space. Space is a hostile radiation environment and the types of computing units (e.g. GPUs) that are used for AI on Earth cannot sustain the radiation exposure. In space, special processors must be used, capable to survive the space radiation. These processors are less powerful, and the complex algorithms of AI need to be adapted so that they can function in space.  ASAP is primarily a method development project that wants to develop such algorithms and demonstrate their use on the same type of processors that can be used in space. ASAP will choose a few important physical applications such as analysis of time series and velocity or energy distributions to extract physics insight. The final goal is to make AI tools that can decide the importance of the data measured and extract its physics without having human intervention and without having to first transmit the data to the Earth. This is a critical need for future missions of exploration to other planets and deep space where the communication with Earth will be slow and intermittent. 

We look for a candidate with a PhD in Space Science, Physics, Engineering or in AI/ML with a background in computer sciences applied to physics. The ideal candidate has experience or is interested in learning the bases on machine learning, including neural networks, data processing and machine learning. It is desirable that the candidate has already some knowledge on Python programming and of the domain of physics related to space sciences: e.g. particle physics, plasma physics, aerospace engineering, fluid dynamics.

To obtain more information or apply online: 
https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60256246


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