[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXXI, Issue 10

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXXI, Issue 10
Feb.11,2024

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Table of Contents

1. Contribute to Plans for Cutting-Edge Research During International Polar Year 5

2. MEETING: COSPAR 2024 Abstract Submission Deadline Extended: 16 February

3. MEETING: MagNetUS 2024 Workshop - April 14-18

4. MEETING: Next Generation Solar Wind Machine Design Workshop: April 18-20, 2024, Los Angeles, CA

5. MEETING: UK Space Weather and Space Environment (UKSWSE) II: Celebrating 10-years of 24/7 Space-Weather Operational Forecasting in the UK – Save-the-Date

6. MEETING: A Joint Symposium of Space Climate Symposium 9 and ISEE Symposium

7. RBSP Online Seminar 16 February 12:00 ET US

8. OH-VLISM Online Seminar: Dust and Radiation Pressure in the Heliosphere - February 21, 2024 at 11 am ET

9. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position at the Center for Space Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas

10. JOB OPENING: Senior Research Associate in Ionospheric Ouflow at Lancaster University - Space and Planetary Physics Group

11. Two Summer Graduate Student Interns Openings at The Aerospace Corporation

12. PhD Student in Space Physics for Studies of Space Weather (IRF)

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


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Contribute to Plans for Cutting-Edge Research During International Polar Year 5

From: Michael Hartinger, Allan Weatherwax (mdhartin1 at gmail.com)

International Polar Years are major international, interdisciplinary, coordinated research efforts in polar regions. They’ve led to significant advances in geospace research, infrastructure improvements, and transformations in how we share data. Planning for the fifth International Polar Year 2032-2033 has begun (https://iasc.info/cooperations/international-polar-year-2032-33), and it’s essential for the SPA community to participate in planning efforts to ensure that geospace research is a key part of the IPY5 program. In previous IPY’s, planning documents were used to inform programming at NSF, NASA, and other agencies. This is no less important in IPY5, with opportunities for campaigns with several major satellite missions and ground-based networks, experiments related to a rare polar total eclipse in Alaska on 30 March 2033, and numerous opportunities for interdisciplinary and international collaborations.
   
Planning for IPY5 is primarily coordinated by two international organizations: the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC, https://iasc.info/) and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR, https://scar.org/). There are several ways to contribute to IPY5 plans via these organizations:

*IASC is currently preparing for the Fourth International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV, https://icarp.iasc.info/). As part of the ICARP IV process, anyone can use online forms to submit resources (https://icarp.iasc.info/engagement/submit-resources) and research priorities (https://icarp.iasc.info/engagement/icarp-iv-survey) for IPY5 programs and Arctic Research more broadly. The deadline to submit feedback is March 1, 2024, and the ICARP IV meeting itself would be held one year later, 21-28 March 2025 in Boulder, Colorado. 

*SCAR will hold a meeting in Pucon, Chile on 19-24 August 2024 with discussions related to IPY5 and future plans for Antarctic research more broadly: https://www.scar2024.org/

*Many countries have representatives on both IASC (https://iasc.info/about/organisation/council) and SCAR (https://scar.org/about-us/leadership/delegates) who can be contacted to submit ideas/resources for IPY5. 

Although IPY5 is nearly a decade away, many of the high-level plans and goals will be set in the next ~1-2 years. Please consider providing feedback via one of the methods above to ensure the interests of the space weather/geospace research communities are represented in IPY5. 


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MEETING: COSPAR 2024 Abstract Submission Deadline Extended: 16 February

From: COSPAR Secretariat (cosparcom at cosparhq.cnes.fr)

The flow of abstracts for COSPAR 2024 continues, and a number of scientific event organizers have requested an extension of the deadline for submission for the 45th Scientific Assembly (Busan, South Korea, 13 – 21 July).  If you wish to submit an abstract and have not already done so, please attend to this matter at your earliest convenience and no later than 16 February, UTC -12.  All information concerning the scientific program and abstract submission may be found at:

https://www.cospar-assembly.org

Please note that this extension does not apply to any other Assembly deadlines.

Looking forward to seeing a great many of you in Busan.

Editor's Note: A list of SPA-related sessions can be found in the SPA Newsletter on January 27 at http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/pipermail/spa/2024-January/000638.html.


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MEETING: MagNetUS 2024 Workshop - April 14-18

From: Jason TenBarge and the MagNetUS Program and Local Organizing Committees (tenbarge at princeton.edu)

Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that registration and abstract submission for the fourth annual MagNetUS* workshop are now open! The workshop is sponsored by the DOE and General Atomics and has two primary goals:  

-To spotlight exciting research in and adjacent to the MagNetUS community and 

-To foster and maintain collaborations in basic magnetized plasma research

Intended participants include anyone researching the basic science of magnetized plasmas. This can include, but is not limited to, those using spacecraft data, simulators, theoreticians, and those working with experiments ranging from collaborative research facilities (BaPSF, WiPPL, MPRL, and Frontier experiments on DIII-D) to single-PI college and university-scale labs.  

The meeting will be held in Lake Arrowhead, CA from April 14-18, 2024 at Lake Arrowhead Lodge. Details on accommodations and travel information can be found at the meeting website: https://magnetus-2024.pa.ucla.edu/

Early registration is $275, and the early registration deadline is March 15th. Late registration is $350 and ends March 31st.

Abstracts for contributed talks and posters submission ends March 31st.

The lodging deadline is March 27th.

This year's meeting will be immediately followed by an April 18-20, 2024 design workshop at UCLA for a Next Generation Solar Wind Machine to isolate, control, and diagnose plasma phenomena responsible for the complex solar wind behavior. Workshop details may be found at the workshop website: https://swim24.pa.ucla.edu

*MagNetUS exists to create an ecosystem for a broad scientific community interested in experimental magnetized plasma research. MagNetUS brings together people from all of the user facilities, along with external users of the facilities, other small magnetized plasma experiments at universities, and theorists and simulators, with the goal of fostering collaborations, broadening participation in experimental magnetized plasma research, and training future generations of plasma physicists. For more information: http://magnetus.net/

We look forward to seeing you all at Lake Arrowhead in April.

MagNetUS 2024 Program Committee
Jason TenBarge, Princeton University (Program Committee Chair)
Jimmy Juno, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 
Eve Stenson, Max Plank Institute for Physics, Garching
Eva Kostadinova, Auburn University 
Shawn Zamperini, General Atomics
Steve Vincena, UCLA

MagNetUS 2024 Local Organizing Committee, UCLA
Derek Schaeffer
Troy Carter
Mel Abler
Meg Murphy


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MEETING: Next Generation Solar Wind Machine Design Workshop: April 18-20, 2024, Los Angeles, CA

From: Seth Dorfman for the Solar Wind Machine Working Group (sethd at SpaceScience.org)

Join us for a workshop to develop a Next Generation Solar Wind Machine to isolate, control, and diagnose plasma phenomena responsible for the complex solar wind behavior.  The future facility aims to help us address how the solar wind is accelerated, heated, and driven turbulent, important open questions in Heliophysics that are difficult to resolve using spacecraft missions and numerical simulations alone.

More information on the idea, as well as travel and logistical details for the April 18-20, 2024 workshop may be found on the workshop website: https://swim24.pa.ucla.edu/

The early registration deadline is *March 15th, 2024.*
The deadline to sign-up to pitch an idea at the workshop is *March 31st, 2024.*

Come join the discussion on the physics targets and machine design that will guide the next generation of cutting-edge Heliophysics in the laboratory!


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MEETING: UK Space Weather and Space Environment (UKSWSE) II: Celebrating 10-years of 24/7 Space-Weather Operational Forecasting in the UK – Save-the-Date

From: Mario M. Bisi (Mario.Bisi at stfc.ac.uk)

Dear colleagues.

Please save the date for the “UK Space Weather and Space Environment (UKSWSE) II: Celebrating 10-years of 24/7 space-weather operational forecasting in the UK” Meeting, 09-12 September 2024, at Sandy Park, Exeter, UK.  This is the second of a series of UKSWSE Meetings and the focus of this meeting will be around the 10-year celebration of 24/7 space-weather forecasting in the UK with more details to follow in due course.  We apologise that this clashes with the European Solar Physics Meeting 17, but logistics around the timing and availability of suitable venues in the Exeter area provided extremely-limited options – hence also the delay in advertising the dates openly to the community.

Further information on the website, content of the meeting, and travel etc… is envisaged to be provided by early April 2024 at the latest.

Many thanks in advance and we look forward to seeing you in Exeter in September for another energetic and exciting UKSWSE Meeting…

UKSWSE II LOC:
Mario M. Bisi (UKRI STFC RAL Space)
Claire Garland (IOP)
Mark Gibbs (Met Office)
Vivien Thomas (IOP)
Simon Machin (Met Office)
Ian McCrea (UKRI STFC RAL Space)
Krista Hammond (Met Office)
Elise Allthorpe-Mullis (UKRI STFC RAL Space)


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MEETING: A Joint Symposium of Space Climate Symposium 9 and ISEE Symposium

From: Hisashi Hayakawa (hisashi at nagoya-u.jp)

Dear Esteemed Colleagues and Friends,

With pleasure, we wish to invite You to

The 9th International Space Climate Symposium (Space Climate 9): 
Extremity, Long-Term Variability, and Data of Solar Impacts on Earth 

to be held in Nagoya, one of the historical and economic centers in Japan, on 1-4 October 2024.

This will be an in-person meeting. 

The objective of Space Climate is to study the extremity, the long-term variability, and data of the solar-terrestrial environments, space-climate impacts on the heliosphere, Earth’s space environment, atmosphere, climate, and their possible impact on human civilizations. 

Details on venue, registration, scientific program, accommodation etc., are available on the meeting website 
https://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~spaceclimate9

All questions, enquires, comments related to the meeting, can be sent to
spaceclimate at gmail.com
    
Important deadlines (preliminary): 
Abstract submission deadline for Oral contributions: 30 June 2024
Abstract submission deadline for Poster contribution: 15 July  2024.
Early bird registration deadline: 31 July 2024.

Welcome to Space Climate 9 in Nagoya!

On behalf of SOC and LOC
Hisashi Hayakawa
Agnieszka Gil 
Ilya Usoskin 
Fusa Miyake
Kalevi Mursula


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RBSP Online Seminar 16 February 12:00 ET US

From: Sasha Ukhorskiy (ukhorskiy at jhuapl.edu)

This year’s first  RBSP online seminar will be held on 16 February 2024, 12:00 ET US on the topic of Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment (CIRBE) Mission: REPTile-2 Measurements and First Results presented by Xinlin Li and the CIRBE Team.

For Zoom and YouTube streaming details please goto: https://sites.google.com/view/rbsp/home  


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OH-VLISM Online Seminar: Dust and Radiation Pressure in the Heliosphere - February 21, 2024 at 11 am ET

From: Marc Kornbleuth, Justyna Sokol, Elena Provornikova, Lennart Baalmann (kmarc at bu.edu)

We are thrilled to announce that the next OH-VLISM online seminar will be on Wednesday, February 21 at 11 am ET.  We will be having a topic-driven seminar on "Dust and Radiation Pressure in the Heliosphere". Our speakers will be Alex Doner (UC-Boulder/LASP) and Izabela Kowalska-Leszczyńska (Polish Academy of Sciences) giving talks on interplanetary dust observations from New Horizons and radiation pressure in the heliosphere, respectively. 

The zoom link to the seminar can be found here: 

https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/96933890891?pwd=NG5qa29weHQwbWVyQ211K3VuRW5MUT09 
(password if prompted: ohvlism)

For additional information, please visit https://www.heliosphere.community/. To be added to the OH-VLISM mailing list, contact Marc Kornbleuth (kmarc [at] bu.edu).


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position at the Center for Space Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas

From: Lunjin Chen (lunjin.chen at gmail.com)

The W. B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences (CSS) at the University of Texas at Dallas is seeking a junior post-doctoral researcher (Research Associate). This Postdoctoral researcher position supports the research in magnetospheric physics with an emphasis on wave particle interaction. Numerical simulations (e.g., particle-in-cell simulation, hybrid simulation) and data analysis are central for the project. The postdoc will further develop existing codes and/or write new ones. 

Required documents: (1) A cover letter summarizing your qualifications, your scientific interests, and your motives for applying (2) A curriculum vitae (3) Names and contact information of three references. 

Inquiries may be directed to Prof. Lunjin Chen (Lunjin.chen at utdallas.edu).
To apply, please click here:  https://jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/25646

Review of applications will begin 3/15/2024 and continue until the position is filled. Start date of 5/15/2024 is desirable.


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JOB OPENING: Senior Research Associate in Ionospheric Ouflow at Lancaster University - Space and Planetary Physics Group

From: Licia Ray (licia.ray at lancaster.ac.uk)

A new opportunity exists to work on an STFC-funded project investigating ionospheric outflow at Jupiter. The three-year post is based in the Space and Planetary Physics (SPP) group within the Physics Department at Lancaster University with project partners at UCL. The position comes with funding for travel, computing, and opportunities exist for professional development.

You will work to globally characterise Jupiter’s ionospheric outflow though development of a 1-D numerical model in conjunction with 3D General Circulation Models of the thermosphere and the latest descriptions of the planet’s intrinsic magnetic field structure. The research is exciting and topical in light of the Juno mission and recent advances in our understanding of Jupiter’s atmosphere and high-latitude magnetosphere. People with skills in numerical modelling and a background in planetary physics, including magnetospheric and/or atmospheric expertise are encouraged to apply. Prospective candidates are encouraged to contact project PI Dr Licia Ray (licia.ray at lancaster.ac.uk) or visit https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/1603-23 for further information.

The application deadline is 16 February 2024.


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Two Summer Graduate Student Interns Openings at The Aerospace Corporation

From: Endawoke Yizengaw (endawoke.yizengaw at aero.org)

The Aerospace Corporation’s Space Sciences Department has two openings for summer graduate student interns for 2024. These are paid internships lasting 10 weeks. While no security clearance will be required for the position, the student would be getting hired by Aerospace and sitting unescorted in our facility. Thus, the student must be a US citizen.

The Chantilly, VA opportunity will involve exploring data assimilation of REACH low altitude radiation data into a drift-diffusion model using a physics-informed neural network.

R009808 – 2024 Space Science Graduate Intern (Chantilly, VA), https://aero.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Chantilly-VA/XMLNAME-2024-Space-Science-Graduate-Intern_R009780

The El Segundo, CA intern opportunity will focus on identification of RFI (radio frequency interference) on GNSS signals around the globe by utilizing high-rate GNSS data from the ground and onboard LEO satellites. 

R009777 – 2024 Space Science Graduate Intern (El Segundo, CA), https://aero.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/El-Segundo-CA/XMLNAME-2024-Space-Science-Graduate-Intern_R009777

Interested applicants can apply through the Aerospace website. For questions, reach out to Dr Tim Guild, timothy.b.guild at aero.org


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PhD Student in Space Physics for Studies of Space Weather (IRF)

From: Andrew P. Dimmock, Yuri Khotyaintsev (andrew.dimmock at irfu.se)

The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) is looking for a PhD student to join the Uppsala team to work on a space-weather research project investigating 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 Kraftnät to improve awareness and resilience to space weather effects in Sweden.

GICs are unwanted currents that flow in ground-based infrastructure caused by varying conditions in space, often due to plasma eruptions from the Sun. They can cause physical damage and lead to disruptions such as power outages, 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.

More information: 
https://www.irf.se/en/news/2024/02/07/phd-student-in-space-physics-for-studies-of-space-weather-dnr-2-2-1-49-24/

Contact persons:
Dr. Andrew P. Dimmock, andrew.dimmock at irfu.se
Prof. Yuri Khotyaintsev, yuri at irfu.se

The closing date for applications is 1 March 2024. 


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