[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXXI, Issue 33
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SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXXI, Issue 33
Jun.02,2024
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Table of Contents
1. SCOSTEP Fellow Award Ceremony and the 22th SCOSTEP/PRESTO Online Seminar by Dr. Nat Gopalswamy on July 30, 2024, 13:00-14:00 UT
2. Abstract Deadline Extension: UK Sp. W. & Sp. Env. 2024 [deadline 14 June]
3. SESSION: GEM 2024 Focus Group Sessions “Understanding the causes of geomagnetic disturbances in geospace for hazard analysis on geomagnetically induced currents”
4. SESSION: GEM 2024 Focus Group Sessions on “The Impact of the Cold Plasma in Magnetospheric Physics”
5. SESSION: GEM 2024 Focus Group Sessions on "Self-Consistent Inner Magnetospheric Modeling (SCIMM)"
6. SESSION: ESWW 2024 Session "Building Capacity in International Space Weather"
7. SESSION: ESWW 2024 100% Community Driven Session "Solar and lightning forcing of the ionospheric D-layer: recent developments & results"
8. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Researcher in Ionosphere at RISH, Kyoto University, Japan
9. Solar Orbiter Science Nuggets (May Releases)
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Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g
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SCOSTEP Fellow Award Ceremony and the 22th SCOSTEP/PRESTO Online Seminar by Dr. Nat Gopalswamy on July 30, 2024, 13:00-14:00 UT
From: Kazuo Shiokawa (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp)
We are pleased to announce that the SCOSTEP Fellow Award Ceremony and the 22th SCOSTEP/PRESTO Online Seminar will be held via online as below. To join the seminar, please register via the following zoom address.
* SCOSTEP Fellow Award Ceremony and the 22th SCOSTEP/PRESTO Online Seminar *
Title: Space Weather Consequences of a Weak Heliospheric State
Speaker: Dr. Nat Gopalswamy
Affiliation: Heliosphysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Date/time: July 30, 2024 (Tue), 13:00-14:00 UT (09:00-10:00 EDT)
Zoom Registration URL (Register in advance for this webinar):
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4mbHNgKCQm6DXcWzJYr0Bw
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Abstract Deadline Extension: UK Sp. W. & Sp. Env. 2024 [deadline 14 June]
From: Oliver Allanson (o.d.allanson at bham.ac.uk)
Dear Colleagues,
Abstracts are warmly invited from all national and international colleagues for
UK Space Weather & Space Environment Meeting II: Celebrating 10-years of 24/7 space-weather operational forecasting in the UK, https://iop.eventsair.com/ukswse2024 , 9-12 September 2024, Sandy Park, Exeter, UK
Abstracts can be submitted here https://iop.eventsair.com/ukswse2024/abstract-submission . It is possible to submit more than one abstract and on any of the below themes
1. Research to Operations and Operations to Research (R2O2R)
2. Instrumentation
3. Industry and Users
4. Policy and Strategy
5. Space Weather Science
6. Space Weather Forecasting
7. Space Sustainability
8. Space Domain Awareness (Space Surveillance & Tracking; Space Situational Awareness; Space Environment)
9. Education and Outreach
10. Other
If you have an idea for something “slightly out of the box”, then please let us know and explain/describe in the abstract submission (you can submit more than one abstract after all). In short, please do not let there be any obstacle to communicating an idea or discussion etc.
Abstract deadline and other key dates are currently as follows:
Extended Abstract submission deadline: 14th June (no further extensions will be granted)
Programme release: 3 July 2024
Early registration deadline: 21 July 2024
Standard registration deadline: 13 August 2024
Final registration deadline: 25 August 2024
Accommodation deadline: TBC
For questions regarding the running of the conference (logistics etc) please get in touch with contacts as described according to this page https://iop.eventsair.com/ukswse2024/contacts
For questions regarding the scientific programme please contact the Science Organising Committee (https://iop.eventsair.com/ukswse2024/committee , o.d.allanson at bham.ac.uk cc jasmine.sandhu at leicester.ac.uk )
For context please see the 2023 iteration here https://iop.eventsair.com/ukswse2023/
We look forward to the conference!
With kind regards,
Oliver Allanson
On behalf of SOC
Oliver Allanson, University of Birmingham and University of Exeter, UK
Francois-Xavier Bocquet, Met Office, UK
Claire Foullon, University of Exeter, UK
Ishita Gulati, Met Office, UK
Sophie Murray, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland
Jonathan Rae, Northumbria University, UK
Jasmine Kaur Sandhu, University of Leicester, UK
Maria Walach, Lancaster University, UK
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SESSION: GEM 2024 Focus Group Sessions “Understanding the causes of geomagnetic disturbances in geospace for hazard analysis on geomagnetically induced currents”
From: Xueling Shi (xueling7 at vt.edu)
Dear Colleagues,
We cordially invite you to participate in the GIC Focus Group Sessions at the 2024 GEM Workshop in Fort Collins, Colorado. Please take note of the scheduled GIC stand-alone and joint sessions:
1. GIC stand-alone sessions:
Monday, 24 June 2024,10:30-12:00 MDT
Monday, 24 June 2024,13:30-15:00 MDT
2. MESO-MPEC-GIC joint session:
Wednesday, 26 June 2024,13:30-15:00 MDT
3. MMV-GIC joint session:
Thursday, 27 June 2024, 10:30-12:00 MDT
The stand-alone sessions will be organized based on their relevance to specific topics. If you would like to present in the GIC stand-alone sessions on Monday, please contact Xueling Shi (xueling7 at vt.edu) and Dogacan Ozturk (dsozturk at alaska.edu) with the title of your presentation and any accommodations you might require by June 14.
The MESO-MPEC-GIC joint session on “How can the upcoming GDC mission serve the GEM community?” will focus on learning about the GDC mission, and we welcome data and modeling presentations on MIT coupling that can contribute to this topic and can generate discussion. If you are interested in presenting, please contact Bea Gallardo-Lacourt (bea.gallardolacourt at nasa.gov), Katelynn Greer (katelynn.greer at lasp.colorado.edu), and Dogacan Ozturk (dsozturk at alaska.edu) with the title of your presentation and any accommodations you might require by June 14.
The MMV-GIC joint session will be co-hosted by GEM's GIC focus group and the modeling methods and validation (MMV) resource group. This session will focus on discussion to plan and execute a modern modeling challenge for ground magnetic disturbance (GMD) and geomagnetically induced currents (GICs). We will have 3-4 invited, very brief "scene-setting" talks to review past efforts, available resources, and science motivations. This will be followed by an open and lively discussion to determine the best challenge design to track the evolution of modeling capabilities and provide feedback for model improvements, with an emphasis on ground magnetic measurements. If you have a model that can produce ground magnetic perturbations (regional or globally), a specific dataset for model validation, a challenge event candidate, or any relevant ideas (e.g., validation metrics/methods), you are encouraged to attend the session (with 1 slide or none) for an open discussion.
This is an in-person meeting, but virtual participation will also be supported, with remote connection details to be provided prior to GEM. For more and up-to-date information about the schedule, please visit the GEM Wiki Page: https://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php/FG:_Understanding_the_causes_of_geomagnetic_disturbances_in_geospace_for_hazard_analysis_on_geomagnetically_induced_currents.
We look forward to your active participation in GEM 2024!
Thank you,
Xueling Shi, Dogacan Ozturk, Erin Josh Rigler, Zhonghua Xu, and Mark Engebretson
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SESSION: GEM 2024 Focus Group Sessions on “The Impact of the Cold Plasma in Magnetospheric Physics”
From: Gian Luca Delzanno (delzanno at lanl.gov)
Dear colleagues,
please mark your calendar for the sessions of the ‘Impact of the cold plasma in magnetospheric physics’ Focus Group at the GEM workshop in Fort Collins, Colorado, June 23rd-28th 2024.
The first session, on Monday 6/24 1:30-3:00 pm Mountain time, is devoted to recent progress in cold plasma research. Note that we will use the beginning of the session to introduce the cold plasma posters at GEM, and for students, postdocs and early-career researchers who want to introduce themselves to the community.
The second session, on Monday 6/24 3:30-5:00 pm Mountain time, will be mainly a discussion of future research needs and collaborations.
The third session, on Thursday 6/27 1:30-3:00 pm Mountain time, will focus on cold plasma processes that are either not well understood or missing and that will need to be included in the modeling of the magnetospheric environment (including inner and outer magnetosphere). This session is in collaboration with the ‘Self-consistent inner magnetospheric modeling’ and ‘System Understanding of Radiation Belt Particle Dynamics through Multi-spacecraft and Ground-based Observations and Modeling’ Focus Groups.
The fourth session, led by the ‘Machine Learning as it pertains in the Geospace Environment’ Resource Group, will focus on how we can use machine learning techniques to make progress in inner magnetospheric research. The session is on Thursday 6/27 3:30-5:00 pm Mountain time.
The last session, on Friday 6/28 10:30 AM- 12:00 PM Mountain time, will discuss the connections between the cold plasma and the aurora. Eric Donovan and Shasha Zou will kick-off the session with two scene setting talks. The session is joint with the ‘Mesoscale drivers of the nightside transition region: ionospheric and magnetotail evaluations’ and ‘Magnetospheric Sources of Particle Precipitation and Their Role on Electrodynamic Coupling of MagnetosphereIonosphere-Thermosphere Systems’ Focus Groups.
Researchers interested in contributing to these sessions and being formally on the agenda can contact Gian Luca Delzanno (delzanno at lanl.gov). The format of each session is different and details can be found at
https://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php/FG:_The_Impact_of_the_Cold_Plasma_in_Magnetospheric_Physics
We hope to see you at GEM!
Sincerely,
Gian Luca Delzanno
On behalf of the CP Focus Group Leaders
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SESSION: GEM 2024 Focus Group Sessions on "Self-Consistent Inner Magnetospheric Modeling (SCIMM)"
From: Cristian Ferradas, Qianli Ma, Chao Yue, Jacob Bortnik (qma at bu.edu)
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to participate in the SCIMM (Self-Consistent Inner Magnetospheric Modeling) Focus Group sessions at this year's GEM Summer Workshop (https://gemworkshop.org). We will have three sessions as follows:
1. SCIMM stand-alone session: Monday, June 24, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Mountain Time;
2. SCIMM-CP joint session: Thursday June 27, 1:30 pm — 3:00 pm Mountain Time;
3. MLGEM-RB-SCIMM-CP joint session: Thursday June 27, 3:30 pm — 5:00 pm Mountain Time.
We solicit presentations about the recent research advances in ring current dynamics, wave-particle interactions, and inner magnetosphere modeling in general. In addition, we invite presentations about the observation or modeling during our challenge events: the May 27-30 2017, September 6-12 2017, and August 25-30 2018 geomagnetic storms.
Please contact Cristian Ferradas (cristian.ferradasalva at nasa.gov) and Qianli Ma (qma at bu.edu) to submit contributed talks.
In the MLGEM-RB-SCIMM-CP joint session, we will have a discussion about how ML can contribute to the open questions in inner magnetospheric physics. We invite short (5 min max) presentations of ML studies of the inner magnetosphere. For the discussion purpose, we suggest including a slide on how the ML effort can benefit other models and/or advance inner magnetospheric physics. Please send contributed talks for this session to Matthew Argall (matthew.argall at unh.edu).
We will list the contributed talks and details of the sessions on the FG website at https://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php/FG:_Self-Consistent_Inner_Magnetospheric_Modeling.
Kind regards,
The SCIMM FG conveners (Cristian Ferradas, Qianli Ma, Chao Yue, and Jacob Bortnik)
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SESSION: ESWW 2024 Session "Building Capacity in International Space Weather"
From: Chantale Damas, Antti Pulkkinen, Chigomezyo Ngwira (antti.a.pulkkinen at nasa.gov)
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to bring your attention to the Plenary session on Building Capacity in International Space Weather that will take place at the upcoming ESWW2024 (https://esww2024.org/) from 4 - 8 November 2024 in Coimbra, Portugal. This topic is new to ESWW, and we encourage you to submit an abstract.
Session information:
P4 - Building Capacity in International Space Weather
Space weather is a natural hazard that threatens critical technology assets globally, and mitigating its impacts is an urgent need for social and economic well-being, and global security. Therefore, accelerating our knowledge of space weather is imperative, and hinges on building capacities of individuals, organizations, and society as a whole. As an emerging field, space weather is changing rapidly, and will therefore require new skills, abilities, and resources that must be sustained over time. As ESWW celebrates 20 years of “expanding horizons, from fundamental science to protecting society,” capacity building is a topic that is relevant to the international space weather community. Building capacity through training, research, and innovation can transform the emerging field of space weather. In this session, we welcome contributions describing ongoing and new capacity building activities from the global space weather community (educators, institutions, and organizations), especially those from developing countries.
We look forward to contributions on:
Training of undergraduate and post graduate students
Capacity building using instruments such as CubeSats, balloons, etc.
Capacity building through partnerships (universities, industry, organizations and government entities)
Capacity building in developing and emerging countries
Abstract submission: https://esww2024.org/info-guidelines/call-for-abstracts/
Deadline for oral submissions: June 6, 2024.
Past this date, all submissions will only be considered for poster presentation
Thank you in advance for your time and attention!
Chantale Damas, Antti A. Pulkkinen, Chigomezyo Ngwira
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SESSION: ESWW 2024 100% Community Driven Session "Solar and lightning forcing of the ionospheric D-layer: recent developments & results"
From: Liliana Macotela (elmc23 at bath.ac.uk)
Dear Colleagues, we would like to bring to your attention and encourage you to submit an abstract for the100% Community Driven session scheduled for the ESWW 2024, November 4-8, Coimbra, Portugal.
Abstract submission: https://esww2024.org/home/abstracts/ (the deadline for oral abstract submissions is Thursday, 6th June 2024. Past this date, all submissions will be considered for poster presentation only)
Session: Solar and lightning forcing of the ionospheric D-layer: recent developments & results
Convenors: Carine Briand, Mark Clilverd, Tamal Basak, Liliana Macotela
The ionospheric D layer is one of the most misunderstood regions of Earth's environment, although it controls the absorption of certain radio waves and connects the neutral atmosphere to the magnetosphere and radiation belts. Disturbances to its electron density can lead to HF communication disruptions, a threat considered by the International Civil Aviation Organization. The session focuses on two types of natural forcing: solar flares and lightning. Solar flares produce the largest perturbations in D-layer electron density of all transient events. Lightning induces precipitation of electrons in the D layer, either by direct heating of the lower ionosphere or by wave-particle coupling in the radiation belts. The discovery of Transient Luminous Events (TLEs, such as sprites, elves, and gigantic jets) above thunderstorm areas has heightened interest in studies of the relationships between thunderstorms and the lower ionosphere.
Speakers are invited to present analysis of recent solar flares, as the solar maximum is approaching, and lightning events. The focus will be given to scientific results but also to new techniques for real-time processing and post-processing, particularly for detection of the weak signals due to sprites/elves. The second aim of the session is to discuss the impact of the D-layer disturbances on HF absorption. HF users are thus invited to present their needs and operational constraints.
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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Researcher in Ionosphere at RISH, Kyoto University, Japan
From: Tatsuhiro Yokoyama (yokoyama at rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Japan is hiring one or two postdoctoral researchers in the field of ionospheric research, supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for International Leading Research entitled "International joint research of geospace variability by combining multi-point ground and satellite observations and modeling", or PBASE program (https://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/dimr/PBASE/en/).
The candidates should possess a PhD in space physics or related field. Experience in radar observations, data analysis, numerical simulations, or machine learning is expected. Applicants shall send an e-mail with a CV, research plan, publication list, and references (at least two) to yokoyama at rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp. The position will remain open until filled, with priority for applications received before the end of June. Feel free to contact regarding the positions to yokoyama at rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp .
Job title: Program-specific researcher
Location: Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Japan. Remote work at home may be possible.
Job description: Research related to JSPS Grant-in-Aid for International Leading Research entitled "International joint research of geospace variability by combining multi-point ground and satellite observations and modeling", or PBASE program (https://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/dimr/PBASE/en/).
Contract term: From August 1, 2024, or the earliest possible date to March 31, 2025 with a possibility of renewal until up to the end of the project. No probation period. The renewal will be decided based on the research progress and funding situation.
Business hours: Discretionary labor system, based on 7 hours, 45 minutes (8:30-17:15 work schedule with a one-hour break) per day, 38 hours 45 minutes per week. Overtime work may be required. Days off: Saturdays, Sundays, National holidays, Year-end and New Year holidays, Foundation Day.
Monthly Salary: 400K JPY. 1,000K JPY annual research budget is provided. Any allowance such as commuting expenses, housing expenses, bonuses, etc. is not provided.
Social insurance: (1) National Public Service Mutual Aid Associations (2) Employee's pension insurance (3) Unemployment insurance (4) Worker's accident insurance
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Solar Orbiter Science Nuggets (May Releases)
From: Miho Janvier (miho.janvier at esa.int)
It is our pleasure to share new Solar Orbiter science nuggets (May releases): https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/solar-orbiter/science-nuggets
SO Nugget #28 "Hard X-ray and microwave pulsations: a signature of the flare energy release process" (H. Collier, L. A. Hayes, S. Yu, et al.)
SO Nugget #29 "Real time space weather prediction with Solar Orbiter" (R. Laker, T.S. Horbury, H. O'Brien, et al.)
SO Nugget #30 "SoloHI's viewpoint advantage: Tracking the first major geo-effective coronal mass ejection of the current solar cycle" (E. Paouris, A. Vourlidas, P. Hess, 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 Miho Janvier (miho.janvier at esa.int) and Yannis Zouganelis (ioannis.zouganelis at esa.int).
— The ESA Solar Orbiter team
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