[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXXI, Issue 18

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXXI, Issue 18
Mar.08,2024

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Table of Contents

1. Deadline Approaching for SPA Section Award Nominations 

2. NSF CEDAR Solicitation and Virtual Office Hour

3. NSF Reviewers Sought for DASI Solicitation

4. MEETING: 2024 Software for the NASA Science Mission Directorate Workshop

5. MEETING: Kletzing Celebration & Symposium – Summer 2024

6. MEETING: 2024 Annual Heliophysics Technology Symposium -- Save the Date!

7. RBSP Online Seminar 15 March 12:00 ET US

8. SHIELD Webinar: Panel Discussion on “Raising awareness on mental health in the heliophysics community”

9. HAARP/SAGO | 2024 PARS Summer School Announcement (August 6-15, 2024)

10. JOB OPENING: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Space Physics at University of Southampton, UK

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


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Deadline Approaching for SPA Section Award Nominations 

From: Therese Moretto Jorgensen (Therese.moretto at gmail.com)

There's still time to get your AGU Section Award and Fellows nominations in.

The deadline to submit nominations for Section Awards, Scholarships and Grants, and the Union Fellows Program is 27 March at 11:59 PM ET. 

In recent years, the number of nominations to almost all of our Section awards have declined drastically.   For this year, the award system so far has received no completed submissions for several of our awards, including the SPARC, Basu US, and Basu International awards, and only a single submission to the Scarf award.   

Please consider showing your appreciation for your students and colleagues by nominating them for recognition by the SPA community.   

Visit the AGU Honors Explorer (https://www.agu.org/honors/honors-explorer ) to browse the full catalogue of opportunities and review submission requirements for each.    Use the Section filter to list only SPA awards.   

Therese Moretto Jorgensen (SPA President)
Kathy Reeves (SPA President Elect)
Geoffrey Reeves (SPA Past President)


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NSF CEDAR Solicitation and Virtual Office Hour

From: Shikha Raizada, Tai-Yin Huang (sraizada at nsf.gov)

Dear Colleagues,

This serves as a polite reminder for an upcoming Cedar solicitation with a target date of May 3, 2024. This opportunity seeks proposals with a focus on the Earth’s upper atmospheric regions that cover a variety of topics, for example, coupling, energetics, chemistry, and dynamics on regional and global scales. Submissions relevant to investigations about Earth’s aeronomy that include but are not limited to mesosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere, magnetosphere areas and their interactions are welcome.  The program will fund research activities that utilize ground-based, or satellite observations as well as theoretical and modelling efforts. The proposals need to follow guidelines as mentioned in the NSF proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG). 

We will hold a virtual office hour (VOH) at 2 – 3 PM (EST) on next Friday, March 15th 2024. for researchers interested in this funding opportunity. We strongly encourage early career scientists or first time PIs to attend this VOH. Here is the registration link:
https://nsf.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJItdOmqrD4uHp4dfrridcZ9CvdhxQFzRa8
Once you register, a confirmation email with a zoom meeting link will be sent to you.

In case of any questions, please contact Drs. Shikha Raizada (sraizada at naf.gov) or Tai-Yin Huang (thuang at nsf.gov) for more details.

Sincerely,

Shikha and Tai-Yin


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NSF Reviewers Sought for DASI Solicitation

From: Roman Makarevich (rmakarev at nsf.gov)

Dear Colleagues,

The quality of the awards selected for support by the National Science Foundation depends greatly on the critical judgments of expert reviewers.  For our upcoming DASI solicitation (NSF 24-538), we are looking for potential reviewers to either be ad-hoc reviewers or panel reviewers.  We’d like to have a diverse group of reviewers to help us identify proposals worthy of NSF investment.  If you are interested and do not plan to submit or are not involved in any DASI proposal for this year’s competition, please send the following information to me (rmakarev at nsf.gov) by April 15, 2024 for consideration. 

Name: 
Affiliation:
Current position/career stage:
Research areas (keep it brief or use keywords):

Note that expressing your interest in serving as a reviewer does not imply that you will be requested for the service.

Thank you,

Dr. Roman Makarevich 
Program Director, Geospace Facilities AGS/GEO
Email: rmakarev at nsf.gov


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MEETING: 2024 Software for the NASA Science Mission Directorate Workshop

From: Rebecca Ringuette (rebecca.ringuette at nasa.gov)

Dear Colleagues, 

The executive and planning committees of the 2024 Software for the NASA Science Mission Directorate Workshop invite the NASA software community to register for the workshop and submit your abstracts. In the spirit of Open Science, the planning committee would also like to receive your input on the topics to be prioritized at the workshop. Please provide your input through the form on the website by March 29.  

We welcome abstracts for talks, discussions sessions, and posters at the link.  As part of the event, we plan for opportunities for people to share their work, so please consider submitting an abstract to share the exciting projects that you are developing! 

Please note that registration and abstract submission are performed using the same form. Please see the form for details.  Registration for virtual attendance will remain open after March 29, but in-person attendance and abstract submissions will only be fully considered if submitted prior to this date. As the target audience for this event, priority for selection of abstracts and in-person attendance will be given to NASA employees and contractors.   

The 2024 Software for the NASA Science Mission Directorate Workshop will be hosted at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., USA from Tuesday, May 7 to Thursday, May 9 of 2024. The workshop aims to explore what the current opportunities and challenges are for the various categories and lifecycle stages of software that are relevant for activities funded by the NASA Science Mission Directorate. This includes increasing the visibility of software being developed and to ignite wider collaborations on those challenges between centers, missions, data repositories, and sciences.  

We invite the community to this virtual workshop with an in-person option to discuss these topics, identify opportunities and challenges in each, and set priorities for paths forward as possible. There will be no registration fee and the meeting will be virtual with an option for in-person attendance. In-person attendance will be limited by venue capacity. Please visit the website for more information. We look forward to seeing you soon!

Rebecca Ringuette on behalf of the executive and planning committees.
https://science.data.nasa.gov/news/software-workshop-2024/ 


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MEETING: Kletzing Celebration & Symposium – Summer 2024

From: Allison Jaynes (allison-n-jaynes at uiowa.edu)

Craig Kletzing, professor, researcher, husband, and friend passed away on August 10th, 2023. Craig made major contributions to various fields of study in space plasma experimental physics over the years and has left a lasting impact on so many students and coworkers. For these accomplishments, we are planning to have a celebration of his years at the University of Iowa in June 2024.

Please mark your calendars for Saturday, June 15th at the University of Iowa for a symposium and evening reception at Old Brick here in Iowa City. There will be more details to follow very soon including registration information at the below website.

https://physics.uiowa.edu/about/craig-kletzing-symposium


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MEETING: 2024 Annual Heliophysics Technology Symposium -- Save the Date!

From: Steven Christe, Kyle McAllen, Roshanak Hakimzadeh (steven.christe at nasa.gov)

The Heliophysics Strategic Technology Office (HESTO) is pleased to announce that it will host its 2024 Annual Heliophysics Technology Symposium on September 18th and 19th at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Symposium will be hybrid for those who cannot attend in person. More information will be posted on our website: https://hesto.smce.nasa.gov/community-events/.


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RBSP Online Seminar 15 March 12:00 ET US

From: Sasha Ukhorskiy  (ukhorskiy at jhuapl.edu)

Next BSP online seminar will be held on 15 March 2024, 12:00 ET US. The seminar will be dedicated to the overview of new science results from the Electron Losses and Fields Investigation (ELFIN) mission: Xiaojia Zhang and Anton Artemyev will discuss EFIN studies dedicated to the inner magnetospheric and near-Earth plasma sheet processes.  

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


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SHIELD Webinar: Panel Discussion on “Raising awareness on mental health in the heliophysics community”

From: Nick Gross (gross at bu.edu)

Join us for the next SHIELD Webinar: A Panel Discussion on 
“Raising awareness on mental health in the heliophysics community”
Friday, March 22nd at 2pm ET

Panelist:
Romina Nikoukar, JHU APL
Edward Gonzales, NASA/GSFC
Kostas Dialynas, Academy of Athens

This panel discussion will be based on a paper of the same title, 
Nikoukar et. al., Front. Phys., 27 July 2023Sec. Space Physics
Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2023.1237166 

Register at 
https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kMKYmNpRQG-bEyZuBlfIhg 


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HAARP/SAGO | 2024 PARS Summer School Announcement (August 6-15, 2024)

From: Jessica Matthews (jamatthews02 at alaska.edu)

Dear SPA community,

A gentle reminder that the deadline for PARS 2024 applications is March 31, 2024.

The 2024 Polar Aeronomy and Radio Science (PARS) summer school will be held in person at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) between August 6-15, 2024.  The summer school provides faculty, graduate, and advanced undergraduate students with exposure to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Subauroral Geophysical Observatory (SAGO) for Space Physics and Radio Science and the HAARP research site in Gakona, Alaska.

The summer school’s goal is to provide student and advisor mentor pairs an opportunity to study the upper atmosphere and ionosphere at polar latitudes, with practical experience built into the learning process.  

The deadline for application submission is March 31, 2024.  Notice of acceptance will be sent to participants by April 14, 2024.

For more information about the school, contact Evans Callis, Lead, HAARP Research Support Services at ehcallis at alaska.edu or 907-474-2641.

On behalf of the HAARP Science Advisory Committee,

Jessica Matthews, HAARP Director
Robb Moore, Chair, HAARP Science Advisory Committee
Paul Bernhardt, HAARP Chief Scientist


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JOB OPENING: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Space Physics at University of Southampton, UK

From: Daniel Whiter (d.whiter at soton.ac.uk)

A 3-year post-doc position is available at the University of Southampton, UK, to study geomagnetic substorms and magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling using a combination of space-based radio observations of auroral kilometric radiation (AKR) and ground-based optical observations of the aurora. The project involves close collaboration with Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (DIAS) and Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL, University College London). More details and the application form are available at https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=2611924WF.

Informal enquires are very welcome and can be made to Dan Whiter (d.whiter at soton.ac.uk). The closing date for applications is Thursday 21st March 2024.


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