Heliosphere News - April 17, 2017
http://heliospherenews.unh.edu/
A newsletter devoted to Heliospheric Science.
Editor: Nathan Schwadron (nschwadron at unh.edu)
Co-Editor: Mihir Desai (mdesai at swri.edu)
Co-Editor: Eric Zirnstein (ejz at princeton.edu)
Co-Editor: Merav Opher (mopher at bu.edu)
Co-Editor: Adele Corona (icnsmeetings at gmail.com)
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Announcements
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1. Draft Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for Solar Terrestrial Probes
#5 Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) Mission Released
for Community Comment
2. ROSES 2017 Review Panels - Call for Volunteers
3. The Department of Space Science at the University of Alabama in
Huntsville is accepting applications to its MS and PhD programs for the
Fall 2017 semester.
4. JOB OPENING: Applications are invited for two PhD positions (Early
Stage Researchers, ESR) at the Politecnico di Torino
5. New SPA Editors for GRL
6. POLONEZ Funding Program
7. MEETING: MMS Science Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, June 5-9, 2017
8. MEETING: 2017 GEM Summer Workshop, Portsmouth, Virginia, June 18-23,
2017
9. MEETING: Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts,
IAU Symposium 335 - July 17-21, 2017 - University of Exeter, UK
10. MEETING: GOOD HOPE FOR EARTH SCIENCES: IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA, 27 August
to 1 September 2017, Cape Town, South Africa
11. MEETING: 12th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of
Space Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM-2017), Saint Malo, France, 26-30 June,
2017
12. New Paper:
The Twist of the Draped Interstellar Magnetic Field Ahead of the Heliopause: A Magnetic Reconnection Driven Rotational Discontinuity,
Opher, M., Drake, J., Swisdak, M., Zieger, B., Toth, G. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 839, Issue 1, article id. L12, 6 pp.
(2017).
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1. Draft Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for Solar Terrestrial Probes
#5 Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) Mission Released
for Community Comment
Release Date:
April 7, 2017
Comments Due:
May 4, 2017
Identification Number:
NNH17ZDA005J (Draft 2017 IMAP AO)
On April 7, 2017, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is releasing a Draft
solicitation for community review and comment entitled the Draft 2017
Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe Announcement of Opportunity
(IMAP AO). Upon the release date, the full text the draft solicitation
will be available at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/.
The Solar Terrestrial Probes Program conducts a Principal Investigator
(PI)-led mission that addresses a critical science target that
systematically advances understanding of the heliophysics system. IMAP
investigations must address a preponderance of the IMAP science
objectives that are stated in the Draft 2017 IMAP AO.
Participation is open to all categories of organizations or
institutions, U.S. or non-U.S., including educational, industrial, and
not-for-profit institutions, Federally Funded Research and Development
Centers (FFRDCs), University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), NASA
Centers, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and other Government
agencies.
The comment period for the Draft 2017 IMAP AO ends on May 4, 2017.
The issuance of the Draft 2017 Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration
Probe AO does not obligate NASA to issue the 2017 Interstellar Mapping
and Acceleration Probe AO and solicit proposals. Any costs incurred by
prospective investigators in preparing submissions in response to the
draft solicitation are incurred completely at the submitter's own risk.
Comments on the draft may be addressed in writing or by e-mail to the
IMAP Program Scientist: Dr. Arik Posner, Heliophysics Division, Mail
Suite 3M81, Science Mission Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, Washington, DC 20546-0001, e-mail: Arik.Posner@nasa.gov
(subject line to read "IMAP AO"). Responses to all inquiries will be
answered by e-mail and also posted weekly at the Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQ) location of the IMAP Program Acquisition website at
https://soma.larc.nasa.gov/STP/IMAP; anonymity of persons/institutions
who submit questions will be preserved.
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2. ROSES 2017 Review Panels - Call for Volunteers
The 2017 ROSES competition of Heliophysics programs encourages
volunteers for review panels to sign up on the NASA web site for
researchers. Sign-up is now open for several of the Heliophysics
solicitations (see list below). Please make sure you sign up before
April 30, 2017.
Signing up does not commit you to serve, nor will NASA be obligated to
invite you to serve on a review panel. Instead, the availability of
panel volunteers will aid the program officers to more efficiently fill
panel vacancies, and it will enhance the quality of the peer review
process with the identification of additional expertise. An additional
goal is to shorten the time between proposal submission and
selection/notification. The community benefits through broadening the
peer review panel as well as broadening their own personal experience.
If you are an active researcher in the field of Heliophysics, Postdoc
level and beyond, you are encouraged to sign up. We understand that your
schedules fill up quickly, and therefore we ask you to identify which
weeks of the review windows you would be available to serve. Typical
review duration is 3-4 days.
The following programs currently solicit review panel volunteers for
in-person (or virtual) reviews starting in late July 2017 through April
2018:
H-SR (ROSES17 Appendix B.2 Heliophysics Supporting Research)
H-TIDeS (ROSES17 Appendix B.3 Heliophysics Technology and Instrument
Development for Science)
H-GI Open (ROSES17 Appendix B.4 Heliophysics Guest Investigators – Open
Element)
H-LWS (ROSES17 Appendix B.6 Heliophysics Living With a Star Science)
H-DEE (ROSES17 Appendix B.7 Heliophysics Data Environment Enhancements)
H-MMS-GI (ROSES17 Appendix B.8 Magnetospheric Multiscale Guest
Investigators 2)
H-GCR SC (ROSES17 Appendix B.9 Heliophysics Grand Challenges Research –
Science Centers)
You will not be eligible to participate in panel reviews of those
programs that you submit to as a PI, Co-I or Collaborator/Consultant.
Therefore, you will be asked to self-select the program(s) for which you
expect to be available.
The sign-up process is simple, fast and confidential. You can sign up
under the following URL:
https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/volunteer-review-panels/roses-heliophysics-programs
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3. The Department of Space Science at the University of Alabama in
Huntsville is accepting applications to its MS and PhD programs for the
Fall 2017 semester.
http://www.uah.edu/science/departments/space-science
We have a number of GRA fellowships to award incoming students, which
provide tuition and a competitive stipend, and allow motivated students
to begin working on a research project from the day they arrive on
campus. We are a small research-focused department that aims to produce
proficient and self-reliant scientists through our MS and PhD programs.
Students have the opportunity to not only work with our world-renowned
faculty, but also with adjunct faculty from the Center for Space Plasma
and Aeronomic Research and NASA's Marshal Space Flight Center.
Scientists from both centers share office space on the UAH campus with
faculty from the department. Our research projects cover topics
including: the Sun, solar atmosphere, inner heliosphere and space
weather, the solar wind and its interaction with the interstellar
medium, solar energetic particles and cosmic rays, high energy
astrophysics. Our students graduate with a broad range of professional
scientific skills including: analytic methods for solving physics
problems, computational physics, data analysis, presentation of
scientific ideas in both written and oral formats. UAH is an anchor
tenant of the second largest research park in the country, in a city
with a rich history of space science that dates back to Werner von Braun
and the birth of the US space program.
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4. JOB OPENING: Applications are invited for two PhD positions (Early
Stage Researchers, ESR) at the Politecnico di Torino.
Applications are invited for two PhD positions ("Early Stage
Researchers", ESR) at the Politecnico di Torino, funded by the
Marie-Sklodowska- Curie Innovative Training Network COMPLETE -
Cloud-MicroPhysics-Turbulence-Telemetry: an inter-multidisciplinary
training network for enhancing the understanding and modeling of
atmospheric clouds within the Horizon 2020 Program of the European
Commission. The objectives are the numerical analysis of the transport
of energy, water vapor and droplets across the warm cloud/clear air
interface, the Lagrangian analysis of water droplets (1 - 100
micrometre) in suspension, the analysis of the data produced by
innovative expendable radio-probes released in warm clouds and their
comparison with numerical simulations.
Contact persons:
Prof. Daniela Tordella, Department of Applied Science and Technology |
Politecnico di Torino 10129 Torino Italy, Tel (+39) 011 090 6812|,
daniela.tordella at polito.it; complete-network at polito.it
Dr. Michele Iovieno, Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering |
Politecnico di Torino 10129 Torino Italy Tel (+39) 011 090 6853,|
michele.iovieno at polito.it; complete-network at polito.it
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5. New SPA Editors for GRL
From: Bill.Peterson (Bill.Peterson at lasp.colorado.edu)
Bill Peterson and Benoit Lavraud have completed their terms as SPA
editors for Geophysical Research Letters
Andrew Yau and Merav Opher have replaced them effective January 1,
2017.
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6. POLONEZ is a funding program addressed to incoming researchers who
may apply for 12- or 24-month fellowships in host institutions in
Poland.
Applicant: a researcher with a PhD degree or at least four years of
full-time equivalent research experience who has not resided or carried
out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Poland for more than 12
months in the 3 years immediately prior to the call announcement
Fellowship duration: 12 or 24 months Researcher receives:
1. Salary (incl. mobility allowance): $ 4,350 gross/month (full time
contract),
2. Family allowance: $ 300 gross/month (for fellows whose families stay
in Poland for at least 3 months),
3. Research grant,
4. Opportunity to participate in research and non-research training
programmes organised by the NCN.
Host Institution receives overheads at a rate of 20%.
Proposals must be submitted in English via OSF submission system.
More information on the website:
https://www.ncn.gov.pl/polonez?language=en
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7. MEETING: MMS Science Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, June 5-9, 2017
The next MMS Science Workshop, to be held this June in Boulder, Colorado
in the beautiful foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
All members of the science community are welcome and encouraged to
attend this meeting, which is hosted by the Laboratory for Atmospheric
and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado.
The MMS Science Workshop will convene June 6-8 including an evening
poster session and reception on Wednesday June 7. The main science
sessions will be hosted in the Jennie Smoly Caruthers
BiotechnologyBuilding (https://jscbb.colorado.edu/) adjacent to LASP
with poster sessions to be held in the LASP SPSC facility
(http://lasp.colorado.edu).
MMS Instrument Team-only splinter meetings will be held at LASP SPSC on
Monday June 5 and Friday June 9 (as needed).
Abstracts will be solicited on MMS observations and numerical
simulations with an emphasis on the six major science topics below:
1) Magnetic Reconnection of the Ion and Electron Diffusion Regions
2) Magnetopause
3) Magnetotail
4) Shock Physics
5) Plasma Turbulence
6) Energetic Particles
Registration details and abstract submissions will be announced in
AGU/SPA this February with final meeting registration deadlines expected
in May.
The Local Scientific Organizing Committee:
Narges Ahmadi, Bob Ergun, Stefan Eriksson, Allison Jaynes, Karlheinz
Trattner, and Rick Wilder
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8. The GEM 2017 Summer Workshop will be held during June 18-23, 2017 at
the Renaissance Portsmouth-Norfolk Waterfront Hotel - Portsmouth,
Virginia.
Please see more at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html
Student support is open for application now
(http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/students.html). A high priority will be given
to the following groups: graduate students engaged in their thesis or
dissertation research, first time attendees and students from small
institutions, and students having specific GEM-related duties. We urge
those of you who qualify and are planning to attend the 2017 GEM
Workshop to act quickly and send applications to Zhonghua Xu
(zxu77@vt.edu) by Friday, March 17, 2017. Applications or adviser
recommendations received after this date will be on the waiting list.
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9. MEETING: Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecast
IAU
Symposium 335 - July 17-21, 2017 - University of Exeter, UK
Space weather is increasingly recognised as an international challenge
faced by several communities. The ability to understand, monitor and
forecast the space weather of the Earth and the heliosphere is of
paramount importance for our high-technology society and for the current
rapid developments in knowledge and exploration within our Solar
System.
The symposium is planned over 5 days from Monday through Friday
(including half-day excursion on the Wednesday afternoon). Key Topics of
the scientific program are the following: Solar drivers and activity
levels; Solar wind and heliosphere; Impact of solar wind, structures and
radiation on and within terrestrial and planetary environments
(including magnetospheres, ionospheres and atmospheres); Long-term
trends and predictions for space weather; Challenges and strategy plans
for Earth and the heliosphere; Forecasting models; Space weather
monitoring, instrumentation, data and services. The Symposium aims to
further knowledge on space weather by linking various aspects of
research in solar, heliospheric and planetary physics, and by putting
great emphasis on cross-disciplinary developments, merging different
communities, learning from interplanetary comparisons and linking to
atmospheric and meteorological research for the first time at the
international level.
http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/iaus335/
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10. MEETING: GOOD HOPE FOR EARTH SCIENCES: IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA, 27Aug-1Sep,
2017, Cape Town, South Africa
The Local Organizing Committee is thrilled to welcome you to the 2017
Joint IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Assembly in Cape Town, South Africa. The Joint
Assembly, endorsed by the University of Cape Town and the South African
Department of Science and Technology, will take place from 27 August to
1 September 2017 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre
(CTICC).
IAGA Lead Sessions
1. SPACE WEATHER FROM SUN TO EARTH: BRINGING DATA AND MODELS TOGETHER
(IAGA, IAMAS), Convenor - Sarah Gibson
2. THE REFERENCING OF GEOPHYSICAL DATA PRODUCTS: THE ROLE OF DOIs
(IAGA, IAMAS, IAPSO), Convenor - Masahito Nose
3. FRONTIER CHALLENGES IN DATA ASSIMILATION AND ENSEMBLE FORECASTING
FOR THE ATMOSPHERE, OCEAN AND SOLID EARTH. (IAGA, IAMAS, IAPSO),
Convenor - Weijia Kuang, Craig Bishop
4. SOLAR RELATED VARIABILITY OF THE ATMOSPHERE (IAGA, IAMAS),
Convenor, Christoph Jacobi
Early Bird Deadline: 5 May 2017
Online Registration Closes: 22 August 2017
http://www.iapso-iamas-iaga2017.com/
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11. MEETING: ASTRONUM 2017 - the 12th International Conference on
Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Saint Malo, France, 26-30
June, 2017.
Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research at the University of
Alabama in Huntsville and Maison de la Simulation (CEA/CNRS/UPS/UVSQ),
France will organize ASTRONUM-2017. The conference will cover the
following topics:
(1) Advanced numerical methods for space, astrophysical and geophysical
flows;
(2) Large-scale fluid-based, kinetic, and hybrid simulations;
(3) Turbulence and cosmic ray transport;
(4) Magnetohydrodynamics
(5) Software packages for modeling and analyzing plasma
flows /Visualisation with the application to
(1) Physics of the Sun-Heliosphere-Magnetosphere;
(2) Interstellar medium and star formation;
(3) Cosmology and galaxy formation;
(4) Dynamo effect;
(5) Stellar Physics.
The purpose of the conference is to bring together leading experts in
applied mathematics, space physics, astrophysics, and geophysics to
discuss the application of novel numerical algorithms and petascale
parallelization strategies to computationally challenging problems.
The conference will be structured around invited, 40-minute keynote and
25-minute regular talks, and a limited number of contributed talks, with
the attempt to have no parallel sessions. The conference web site will
be established in a few days and provide the information about the
conference venue, registration, and means of transportation. E-mail
inquiries about the meeting should be directed to Nikolai.Pogorelov at
uah.edu and Edouard.Audit at cea.fr.
The conference website is: http://irfu.cea.fr/ASTRONUM2017/
Program Committee: Tahar Amari (CNRS Ecole Polytechnique), Edouard Audit
(CEA, Maison de la Simulation, co-chair), Amitava Bhattacharjee
(Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Phillip Colella (Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory), Anthony Mezzacappa (University of
Tennessee, Knoxville), Nikolai Pogorelov (University of Alabama in
Huntsville, chair), Kazunari Shibata (Kyoto University), James Stone
(Princeton University), Jon Linker (Predictive Science Inc.), and Gary
P. Zank (University of Alabama in Huntsville).
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12. New Paper:
The Twist of the Draped Interstellar Magnetic Field Ahead of the Heliopause: A Magnetic Reconnection Driven Rotational Discontinuity,
Opher, M., Drake, J., Swisdak, M., Zieger, B., Toth, G. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 839, Issue 1, article id. L12, 6 pp.
(2017).
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017ApJ...839L..12O