[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXXI, Issue 37

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXXI, Issue 37
Jun.26,2024

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Table of Contents

1. Ask us Anything about H-FORT

2. MEETING: 5th Jack Eddy Interdisciplinary Symposium “Star-Planet Interactions in the Solar System and Beyond”

3. MEETING: VERSIM Second Announcement and Abstract Deadline Extension

4. CIRBE/REPTile-2 L1 Data Product Publicly Available 

5. Special Issue of Advances in Space Research on the May 2024 Solar Terrestrial and Space Weather Events

6. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate Opens a Topical Issue on Severe Space Weather Events of May 2024 and Their Impacts: Deadline 28th February 2025

7. JOB OPEING: Multiple Faculty Openings at Georgia Tech

8. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational/Theoretical Plasma Physics 

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


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Ask us Anything about H-FORT

From: Amy Winebarger (amy.winebarger at nasa.gov)

On July 12 at 1 PM Eastern Time, the NASA HQ Heliophysics Flight Opportunities for Research and Technology (H-FORT) team will host a “Ask us Anything” session.  We will review the changes to H-FORT this year and be ready to field your questions.  Connection information is available in HFORT Webinar Connection Information under other documents on the NSPIRES page for B.11 H-FORT.

You can also send questions to Amy Winebarger at amy.winebarger at nasa.gov before the webinar. 


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MEETING: 5th Jack Eddy Interdisciplinary Symposium “Star-Planet Interactions in the Solar System and Beyond”

From: Vladimir Airapetian (vladimir.airapetian at nasa.gov)

We are pleased to invite you to attend 5th Jack Eddy Interdisciplinary Symposium “Star-Planet Interactions in the Solar System and Beyond” to be held in Nainital, India, Nov 17-22, 2024 hosted by UCAR, CPAESS, NASA’s LWS and the Aryabhatta Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES).  

The main theme of the meeting will be examined through lenses utilized by three working groups:
*The interconnection of Sun, Climate, and Society
*Risk and Resiliency to Space Weather Disruption
*(Exo)Planetary Atmosphere: the impact of the Sun and stars on Habitability & Life

We welcome contributions from the community.  Please visit the meeting’s site at https://cpaess.ucar.edu/meetings/nasa-5th-eddy-cross-disciplinary-symposium for more details and contact information.


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MEETING: VERSIM Second Announcement and Abstract Deadline Extension

From: Bob Marshall (robert.marshall at colorado.edu)

NOTE: The abstract deadline for VERSIM 2024 has been extended to June 31, 2024.

The 11th VERSIM Workshop will be held September 30 - October 4, 2024, in Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. Paper are solicited discussing recent results and ongoing research related to:

i) VLF and ELF wave propagation in the ionosphere and magnetosphere; 
ii) wave-particle interactions; 
iii) wave-induced particle precipitation;
iv) results of recent space missions;
v) simulations, data assimilation and machine learning applications;
vi) waves in other magnetospheres; and
vii) active experiments in space and laboratory plasmas.

Contributions in other related areas are also more than welcome. Abstracts are now due June 31, 2024.

Details on the conference organization, location, travel, and more are available at https://ccar.colorado.edu/versim2024/. Registration is open, and the early bird registration rates are valid until August 15, 2024. 

The workshop will be held at the Village at Breckenridge, and a group rate has been secured for the hotel. You can book your accommodation through a link on the conference website, which will automatically apply the group rate. 

We hope to see you in Breckenridge!

VERSIM 2024 quasi-Local Organizing Committee
Robert A. Marshall, University of Colorado Boulder
Allison Jaynes, University of Iowa
Mark Golkowski, University of Colorado Denver
Poorya Hosseini, West Virginia University


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CIRBE/REPTile-2 L1 Data Product Publicly Available 

From: Xinlin Li (lix at lasp.colorado.edu)

CIRBE/REPTile-2 L1 Data Product is now Publicly Available. 

The Data Products page on the CIRBE website (https://lasp.colorado.edu/cirbe/data-products/) contains links to a Dropbox folder containing the L1 data for each day in 2023 that science data was collected. The data is formatted into netCDF files and was packaged via MATLAB but can be restored in any environment that supports netCDF. The code used to package the data can be accessed via GitHub (https://github.com/CIRBE-REPTile-2/REPTile-2-Data-Release).

For a description of the variables in the netCDF files, see the Level 1 Science Data Description page on the CIRBE website (https://lasp.colorado.edu/cirbe/l1_description/).

For information about REPTile-2’s energy channels, including the GdE of each channel, see the Instrument Description page on the CIRBE website (https://lasp.colorado.edu/cirbe/instrument-description/).


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Special Issue of Advances in Space Research on the May 2024 Solar Terrestrial and Space Weather Events

From: Peggy Ann Shea (sssrc at msn.com)

The editors of Advances in Space Research announce a special issue on “The Powerful Solar-Terrestrial and Space Weather Event in May 2024 – Observations, Data and Preliminary Analysis”.  

This special publication aims to present the preliminary analysis of the data and observations recorded during this event.  Manuscripts are solicited on the following topics:

* Solar and interplanetary phenomena, 
* Magnetospheric, ionospheric and atmospheric phenomena, 
* Radiation measurements particularly in the polar regions and aircraft altitudes,
* Operational system irregularities, 
* Space Weather predictions, forecasts and/or alerts, and 
* Comparison of this event with the 24-25 March 2024 activity and other past events including the 1859 Carrington event.

Reports of auroral sightings are separately requested, particularly observations in the mid and equatorward latitudes.  Visual observations including location, date and time together with descriptions (e.g. color, rays, etc.) should be sent directly to the editor (sssrc at msn.com) with a subject heading on the e-mail message of May 2024 Auroral Observations.  These reports will be compiled in a single document similar to the Loomis reports of the aurora observed during the Carrington event.  

Papers must be submitted electronically to https://www.editorialmanager.com/aisr/. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, authors must select “SI: May 2024 STP and SW Event” when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process.  The general format for submission of papers can be found on the ASR Elsevier web site at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/advances-in-space-research/

While the deadline for submissions is 15 January 2025, papers will be published electronically as soon as they are accepted.  If a large number of papers are submitted, two issues may be printed with the first issue containing the earliest accepted papers.  Additional information is available at https://cosparhq.cnes.fr/publications/advances-in-space-research-asr/


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Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate Opens a Topical Issue on Severe Space Weather Events of May 2024 and Their Impacts: Deadline 28th February 2025

From: Jaroslav Urbář (urbar at ufa.cas.cz)

We are pleased to announce that the Topical Issue (TI) on "Severe Space Weather Events of May 2024 and Their Impacts" is now available and open for submissions at the Journal of
Space Weather and Space Climate (JSWSC) site:
https://www.swsc-journal.org/topical-issues-open-for-submission.

This topical issue welcomes submissions focusing on these events, across various domains which include, but are not limited to, observations, simulations/modeling, and impacts, that cover all aspects of these severe space weather events throughout the first half of May 2024.

Accepted papers are published upon review and acceptance, without waiting for the other papers, and are freely available to everyone via the JSWSC website.


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JOB OPEING: Multiple Faculty Openings at Georgia Tech

From: Morris Cohen (mcohen at gatech.edu)

The Georgia Institute of Technology invites applications for multiple tenure-track faculty positions in the field of solar-terrestrial science and/or space weather. Areas of interest include but are not limited to the Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere, space weather forecasting and resilience. One position will be supported by the National Science Foundation under the Faculty Development in geoSpace Science program. The departmental home of the hired candidates will be determined based on best fit and may be anywhere within the College of Engineering or College of Sciences.

The Georgia Tech College of Engineering is ranked #3 and #4 for undergraduate and graduate engineering by US News and World Report. The College is the #1 producer of PhDs in engineering, and also #1 in degrees awarded to minority, female students, and African American students. Georgia Tech's College of Engineering is cited as one of the best values in American higher education by publications such as the Fiske Guide to Colleges, the Princeton Review, and the Kiplinger Business Magazine.

The Georgia Tech College of Sciences cultivates curiosity, encourages exploration, and fosters innovation to develop scientific solutions for a better world. Six internationally ranked schools include the brightest young minds in our fields. The College is led by Dean Susan Lozier, Immediate Past President of the American Geophysical Union.
Georgia Tech has the highest research expenditures in the US amongst institutions without a medical school, and is preparing to launch an space-focused interdisciplinary research institute that will further energize the campus ecosystem around space science, technology and policy.

Candidates can find further details and an application at https://tinyurl.com/GeorgiaTechFDSS

Questions for the search committee can be directed to fdss at cos.gatech.edu

Questions about the application process can be directed to tavia at cos.gatech.edu


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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational/Theoretical Plasma Physics 

From: Paul Cassak (Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu)

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at West Virginia University is seeking applicants for a Postdoctoral Fellow in computational and theoretical plasma physics. The project has a focus on out of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) energy conversion during collisionless magnetic reconnection through the pressure-strain interaction term, the structure and evolution of kinetic entropy in reconnection and turbulence in weakly collisional plasmas, and/or kinetic simulations of the WVU PHAse Space MApping (PHASMA) laboratory experiment. The researcher will use particle-in-cell simulations and closely collaborate with observers from NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission and/or experimenters with PHASMA.

Minimum qualifications include a PhD in Physics, Plasma Physics, Space Physics, or related discipline and two years previous research experience in theoretical and computational plasma physics and has expertise in kinetic plasmas computing approaches, preferably the particle-in-cell technique. A full list of qualifications and instructions for how to apply are available at https://wvu.taleo.net/careersection/wvu_research/jobdetail.ftl?job=24531. The online application requires a cover letter, a CV, and names and contact information of three references. The offer includes a competitive salary in a location with reasonable cost of living and benefits. Review of applications will begin July 15, 2024, and continue until the position is filled. The preferred start date is immediate.

The WVU plasma/space group is described at https://physics.wvu.edu/research/plasma-and-space-physics. The department supports diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as described at https://physics.wvu.edu/about/diversity-equity-and-inclusivity. WVU is a land grant university enrolling approximately 25,000 students on the main Morgantown campus. WVU’s Carnegie Classification is R1 (“Doctoral Universities - Very High Research Activity”). Morgantown is centrally located and regularly makes “Best Place to Live” lists because of its good schools, excellent health care, low unemployment rate, low crime rate, and abundant recreational opportunities. WVU Research Corporation is an AA/EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability/E-Verify Compliant Employer. Please contact Paul Cassak (Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu) with questions.


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