[HeliosphereNews] Heliosphere News - March 31, 2020
Nikolai Pogorelov
np0002 at uah.edu
Tue Mar 31 22:14:40 EDT 2020
Heliosphere News - March 31, 2020
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******************* Announcements *******************
1. NASA Heliophysics Mission Design School Pilot Application, DUE DATE
EXTENDED to April 13, 2020
2. MEETING: Heliophysics 2050 Workshop Community Announcement
3. MEETING: CANCELLATION of the Physical EGU General Assembly 2020 in
Vienna, Austria
4. MEETING: Workshop on space plasma physics and complexity (distributions,
turbulence, plasma processes, etc.), within the tri-annual general
conference in statistical physics Sigma-Phi-2020, which will be held in
Crete, Greece, July 13-17, 2020.
5. WORKSHOP: Observatory for the Outer Heliosphere, Heliosheath, and
Interstellar Space will be held in Boulder, Colorado, May 21-22, 2020
6. MEETING: 15-th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space
Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM-2020), Pasadena, CA, July 20-24, 2020. Registration
is now open. Housing is available.
7. MEETING: COSPAR Scientific Assembly, NEW DATES: 28 January - 4 February,
2021.
8. MEETING: The SHINE Conference, 13-17 July, 2020, Honolulu, HI
9. MEETING: MUAN 2020: Upper Atmospheres and Ionospheres in the Inner Solar
System, September 9-11, 2020, New York, New York.
10. MEETING: 16th European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM-16), Turin (Italy),
postponed till September 2021
11. MEETING: 2020 AGU Fall Meeting - Invitation to Propose a Session (New
Submission Deadline)
12. JOB OPPORTUNITY: NSF Supported Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Solar
Physics and Astro-informatics at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
13. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral, Early-Career Staff, and Mid-Career Staff
Positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory
14. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Research Chair in Space Weather at South African
National Space Agency (SANSA) in South Africa
15. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Position in the Department of Astronomy at
the University of Maryland, College Park
16. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Research Position in Space Physics at
Florida Institute of Technology
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1. NASA Heliophysics Mission Design School Pilot Application Due Date
Extended to April 13, 2020
NASA Science Mission Design Schools
Now through April 13, 2020, NASA is encouraging applications for the
Heliophysics Mission Design School (HMDS), an early-career development pilot
opportunity to help prepare the next generation of heliophysics science and
engineering mission leaders. This experience is an adaptation of the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory?s long-running Planetary Science Summer School,
focused on high-priority heliophysics content and mission design.
Participants learn the process of developing a hypothesis-driven robotic
space mission in a concurrent engineering environment while getting an
in-depth, first-hand look at mission design, life cycle, costs, schedule and
the trade-offs inherent in each.
Science and engineering doctoral candidates, recent Ph.D.s, postdocs, junior
faculty, and certain master?s degree students, who are U.S. Citizens or
legal permanent residents (and a very limited number of Foreign Nationals
from non-designated counties), are eligible. Applicants from diverse
backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply. Partial financial support
is available for a limited number of individuals.
Session 1: Preparatory Sessions Jun 22-Aug 28. Culminating Week at JPL Aug
31-Sep 4
Session 2: Preparatory Sessions Sep 7-Nov 6. Culminating Week at JPL Nov
9-13
Roughly equivalent in workload to a rigorous 3-hour graduate-level course,
participants spend the first 10 weeks in preparatory webinars acting as a
science mission team, prior to spending the final culminating week at JPL
being mentored by JPL?s Advance Project Design Team, or ?Team X? to refine
their heliophysics mission concept design, then present it to a mock expert
review board.
To apply and learn more about the NASA Science Mission Design Schools:
http://go.nasa.gov/missiondesignschools
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2. Heliophysics 2050 Workshop Community Announcement
NASA, NSF, and NOAA are pleased to announce the Heliophysics 2050 Workshop.
This workshop will be an agency-enabled, community-driven event to examine
long-term goals as well as helping the community prepare for the next Solar
and Space Physics Decadal Survey.
The workshop is being planned for an in-person venue, with on-line
participation options, the week of August 3, 2020. Due to the current
situation and travel restrictions, secondary options of an all-virtual
workshop and a meeting delay are also being considered.
This workshop will focus on discussing a strategic, multi-decadal science
framework for solar and space physics. It is anticipated that conference
proceedings will be published for community members to leverage in framing
their own white papers to the Decadal Survey process. The community will
create a cohesive science strategy that will enable the ability to:
1. Identify essential science investigations necessary for major
advancements in solar and space physics.
2. Use the desired investigations to identify the research and capability
development needed to meet the requirements of these missions.
3. Recognize research needed in the next decade to prepare for the
long-term research goals.
4. Recognize work needed to ensure a pipeline from basic research to
pre-application research and then into operational needs, including the
operations-to-research loop that strengthens forecasting and other
predictive capabilities.
A Science Organizing Committee (SOC) will be formed from community members
to help manage the workshop. The SOC will help organize the workshop
schedule, including planning the sessions, sorting the abstracts, and
managing the workshop discussions. These individuals will also serve as
editors for the proceedings document resulting from the workshop.
As part of workshop preparation, short community white papers will be
solicited. Those white papers will be used by the SOC to plan the workshop
sessions and focus those discussions.
Further information will be released via community announcements over the
next few weeks.
Please contact Jared Leisner (jared.s.leisner at nasa.gov) with any questions.
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3. MEETING: Cancellation of the Physical EGU General Assembly 2020 in
Vienna, Austria
(From the EGU 2020 Meeting website)
The EGU is officially announcing the cancellation of the physical EGU
General Assembly 2020 in Vienna, Austria. Because the Union is committed to
minimizing the impact of COVID-19 on scientific research and collaboration,
we believe EGU has a responsibility and a duty to ensure these activities
continue despite the current, extreme circumstances. We have therefore
decided to host EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online (#shareEGU20), a
week-long series of online activities held during the first week of May that
support our community by fostering scientific communication.
EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online will allow abstract authors to share
presentation materials and open these for live discussion as well as
participate in a selection of online networking events. We are also planning
additional activities that will extend into the rest of the year and will
provide more information about all of these events in the coming weeks.
We would like to personally thank our members and other attendees for their
patience as the Union has navigated this difficult situation. We would also
like to extend our sincere thanks to the hundreds of volunteers around the
globe who have worked so hard to shape such an exciting programme, and
especially the Programme Committee for their tireless efforts to make
EGU2020 as inclusive, environmentally friendly, and progressive as possible.
For answers to pressing logistical questions regarding the cancellation,
please refer to the list of frequently asked questions below. We look
forward to virtually meeting during the online activities of EGU2020 and
welcoming you in person to Vienna from 25-30 April 2021 at the next
face-to-face General Assembly!
Alberto Montanari, EGU President
Susanne Buiter, EGU Programme Committee Chair
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4. MEETING: Workshop on space plasma physics and complexity (distributions,
turbulence, plasma processes, etc.), within the tri-annual general
conference in statistical physics Sigma-Phi-2020, which will be held in
Crete, Greece, July 13-17, 2020.
Workshop organized by: G. Livadiotis, M. Leubner, H. Elliott, K. Dialynas:
Kappa Distributions and nonextensive Statistical Mechanics
Theory and Applications in Space Plasma Physics & Complexity Science
We welcome abstracts reporting on the progress of the following three broad
subject areas:
- Theory of Kappa Distributions and Statistical Framework:
Non-extensive statistical mechanics; Superstatistics; Connection with
thermodynamics; Entropy; Information measure; Temperature and zero-th law of
thermodynamics; Anisotropy of velocity space; Distributions with potential
energy.
- Applications in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas:
Solar/Stellar atmospheres; Inner/Outer Heliosphere; Flares/CMEs; Solar wind;
Energetic Particles; Pick-up Ions; Terrestrial, Planetary, and Cometary
Magnetospheres; Inner/Outer Heliosheath; Interstellar plasmas; Nebular,
galactic and intergalactic plasmas.
- Effects on Plasma Processes, Dynamics, and Complexity:
Particle acceleration; Transport and diffusion; Plasma linear/nonlinear
waves and instabilities; Shocks and Rankine-Hugoniot conditions; Polytropic
relations; Plasma interactions; Correlations and coupling phenomena;
Turbulence; Chaos; Mechanisms generating kappa distributions.
Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/workshop-kappa-distributions-2/home
Sigma-Phi, Main Conference:
http://www.sigmaphi.polito.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1
90&Itemid=320
Abstract Submission is due on April 1st.
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5. WORKSHOP: Observatory for the Outer Heliosphere, Heliosheath, and
Interstellar Space
Thursday, Friday 21-22 May 2020
LASP-SPSC, University of Colorado, Boulder
With both Voyager spacecraft in interstellar space, the IBEX and the
upcoming IMAP missions imaging the outer boundaries of the heliosphere, and
New Horizons in the outer heliosphere, it is an ideal time to combine
resources from these missions and modeling efforts. This workshop seeks
input aimed at developing plans to maximize the use of these observations
and their comparison to models, plus plan any operational changes that can
maximize the return from these missions.
Further information ? and please register ? here:
http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/mop/resources/hosted-meetings/outer-heliospher
e-workshop/
LOC Fran Bagenal (CU-LASP), bagenal at lasp.colorado.edu
SOC Co-Chairs Heather Elliott (SwRI) helliott at swri.edu, Ralph McNutt, Jr
(JHUAPL) Ralph.McNutt at jhuapl.edu
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6. MEETING: 15-th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space
Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM-2020), Pasadena, CA, July 20-24, 2020.
Maison de la Simulation (CEA/CNRS/UPS/UVSQ), France will organize
ASTRONUM-2020 the 15th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of
Space Plasma Flows in Pasadena, CA, USA, on 20?24 July, 2020.
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 soon be
established to provide you with useful information about the conference
venue, registration, and means of transportation, etc. E-mail inquiries
about the meeting should be directed to Nikolai dot Pogorelov at uah dot edu
and Edouard dot Audit at cea dot fr.
Program Committee: Tahar Amari (CNRS Ecole Polytechnique, France), Edouard
Audit (CEA, Maison de la Simulation, France, co-chair), Amitava
Bhattacharjee (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA), Phillip Colella
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA), Jon Linker (Predictive Science
Inc., USA), Anthony Mezzacappa (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA),
Ewald M?ller (Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany),
Nikolai Pogorelov (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA, chair),
Kazunari Shibata (Kyoto University, Japan), James Stone (Princeton
University, USA), and Gary P. Zank (University of Alabama in Huntsville,
USA).
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7. MEETING: COSPAR Scientific Assembly, NEW DATES: 28 January - 4 February,
2021.
43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly will take place on 28 January - 4 February
at the International Convention Center in Sydney, Australia.
The 2021 Assembly will combine the latest in space research findings with
activities designed to enrich the global space research community -
including helping equip our future leaders, and workshopping with space
industry - and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. You
will have the opportunity of a lifetime to interact directly with everything
that Australia has to offer - our science and innovation, our people, our
heritage, and our beautiful environment. The Assembly website is
https://www.cospar2020.org.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
Early Bird Registration Deadline 31 October 2020
Speaker Registration Deadline 31 October 2020
Accommodation Booking Deadline 15 December 2020
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8. MEETING: The SHINE Conference, 13-17 July, 2020, Honolulu, HI
SHINE-2020 Conference will take place on 13-17 July, 2020 in Honolulu,
Hawaii. The conference website is https://shinecon.org.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Workshop Dates: July 13th - 17th, 2020
(Student Day July 12th, 2020; Joint SHINE-GEM day following the completion
of the SHINE workshop)
Registration Fee: $475 early bird, $525 late registration, $550 onsite
Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 8th, 2020 by midnight at the end of
the day
Late Registration Starts: May 9th, 2020
Cancelations/reimbursements subject to $100 admin fee + PayPal fees.
Deadline for student support: April 24th, 2020
Deadline for abstract submission: June 11th, 2020
Hotel Reservation Deadline: June 11th, 2020
***NEW Registration Deadline: June 11th, 2020
ONSITE PAYMENT ALLOWED, BUT ATTENDEES MUST REGISTER ON THE WEBSITE BY THE
REGISTRATION DEADLINE OF JUNE 11th, 2020.
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9. MEETING: MUAN 2020: Upper Atmospheres and Ionospheres in the Inner Solar
System, September 9-11, 2020, New York, New York
This three-day workshop will bring together scientists interested in the
general dynamics of, and coupling between, ionized and neutral atmospheric
constituents of three key inner Solar System planets: Mars, Earth, and
Venus. Other bodies, such as comets and moons are also welcome. The
objective is to embrace comparative studies between different planetary
bodies in addition to the usual Mars aeronomy and plasma physics
discussions, as this will lead to a better understanding of the role of
upper atmospheres on planetary evolution and habitability at Mars and in the
Solar System.
The main topics for discussion are:
? Planetary aeronomy - past, present and future.
? Thermosphere-ionosphere-magnetosphere-exosphere (TIME) coupling.
? Lower-upper atmosphere connections.
A significant part of the workshop will be devoted to brainstorming and
opportunities to discuss different science aspects, and to help establish
fruitful collaborations.
Our workshop will be hosted by Columbia University in New York City, with
opportunities to present posters or talks. The workshop will be limited to
100 attendees, so to aid us in planning, we encourage all those interested
to please indicate your interest here: https://bit.ly/37Obwp9
SOC:
Beatriz Sanchez-Cano (University of Leicester)
David Andrews (Swedish Institute of Space Physics)
Mark Lester (University of Leicester)
Robert Lillis (UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory)
Hermann Opgenoorth (Umea University)
Dmitri Titov (ESA)
Michael J. Way (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies)
Olivier Witasse (ESA)
Email inquiries about this meeting can be directed to Linda Sohl (LOC) at
linda.sohl at columbia.edu.
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10. MEETING: 16th European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM-16), Turin (Italy),
POSTPONED till September, 2021
The scientific program of ESPM-16 includes the following sessions:
Session 1 - Solar Interior, Dynamo, Large-Scale Flows and the Solar Cycle
Session 2 - The Solar Atmosphere: Heating, Dynamics and Coupling
Session 3 - Fundamental Plasma Processes in the Solar Atmosphere: Magnetic
Reconnection, Waves, Emission, Particle Acceleration
Session 4 - From Radio to Gamma Rays: Near-Sun Manifestations and Triggering
of Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections
Session 5 - Solar-Terrestrial Relations, Solar Wind, Space Weather and Space
Climate
The meeting will start on the morning of September 7, and will finish around
noon on September 11. The registration desk will open on September 6
afternoon. The afternoon of September 9 will be dedicated to social
excursions, and the conference dinner will be held on September 10. A
welcome reception will be held on Monday 7 afternoon.
Early registration and abstract submission are now open, with deadline April
13. Submissions are accepted for oral and poster contributions. Abstracts
focusing on new instruments or observatories should be submitted in the
corresponding scientific session. The meeting will feature poster sessions
with ample time to discuss results and new collaborations. The posters will
be displayed in a large room next to coffee area.
Limited financial support (registration fee waiver and/or
travel/accommodation expenses) is available only for graduate/Ph.D. students
or young researchers. Applicants for such support should request this as
indicated in the registration form (deadline April 13, successful applicants
will be notified within May 25). Reduced registration fees are offered to
students and individual members of the European Physical Society (EPS).
The ESPM-16 website can be found at https://indico.ict.inaf.it/e/ESPM-16 .
We look forward to welcoming you to Turin.
The ESPM-16 LOC.
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11. MEETING: 2020 AGU Fall Meeting - Invitation to Propose a Session (New
Submission Deadline)
We invite you to submit your scientific session proposals for the 2020 Fall
AGU Meeting at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. This is your
opportunity to bring together a group of your colleagues to present the
latest results in an area of interest to you.
We especially encourage session proposals from first-time session planners,
early career researchers (including students!) and those under-represented
in our field. Conveners who are well-established in the field should
consider helping students and/or early career scientists to gain more
experience in this role by inviting them to be your co-conveners. Note that
to be a primary convener of a session, you must be a current member of the
American Geophysical Union (https://membership.agu.org/join-renew/).
Before submitting your proposal, please check to see if a session on a
similar theme has already been submitted. If so, please consider contacting
the other session proposers to discuss a merger or rework your session
proposal to focus on a unique topic. Proposals with significant overlap may
be merged or rejected. You can view existing SPA session submissions here
(on the left select the Program of interest, e.g., SPA-Solar and
Heliospheric Physics):
Existing SPA-Aeronomy Session Submissions:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/Program/2842
Existing SPA-Magnetospheric Physics Session Submissions:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/Program/2850
Existing SPA-Solar & Heliospheric Physics Session Submissions:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/Program/2846
In additional to the traditional oral- and poster-session formats, we
encourage proposal sessions that use alternate session formats such as
panels, short talks, and eLightning sessions.
If you have any questions, please contact one of your SPA secretaries (SH:
Christina Lee, SM: Elizabeth MacDonald, SA: Romina Nikoukar).
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12. JOB OPPORTUNITY: NSF Supported Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Solar
Physics and Astro-informatics at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University (GSU) is
seeking to fill a tenure-track faculty position by Fall 2020 at the
assistant professor level. We are looking for a solar physicist with
significant expertise in both the MHD of the solar corona and flares and in
Big Data and Machine Learning, along with a desire to enhance GSU's solar
physics and big data curriculum, with a focus on minority and female
education and mentoring. The new hire will join our Astro-informatics
Cluster, a close collaboration between the solar/stellar physics and remote
sensing for space sciences groups in the Department of Physics and
Astronomy, and the Computer Science department at GSU. Our Cluster is
currently focused on space weather forecasting and is looking to merge two
techniques (numerical simulations (SIM) and Machine Learning (ML)) into a
fully integrated approach for data-driven solar physics research and space
weather prediction. With our new hire the Cluster will achieve the critical
mass needed to succeed in this initiative.
This position is funded for the first five years through NSF's prestigious
Faculty Development in the Space Sciences (FDSS) program. NSF support
includes summer salary, travel, publications, and graduate student support.
Upon the awarding of tenure in the fifth year GSU further supports the
faculty line.
Georgia State University, an enterprising R-1 university is located in the
heart of downtown Atlanta, a vibrant international city in the Southeast.
GSU enrolls and graduates one of the most diverse student bodies in the
nation and advances innovative research by building a diverse faculty. We
encourage applications from women and members of underrepresented groups in
the physical sciences.
Applicants should have the following basic qualifications: 1) Ph.D. in
astronomy, physics, or closely related field, 2) postdoctoral research
experience, 3) evidence of the ability to establish and maintain a
successful research program, 4) evidence of the motivation and ability to
teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels with a diverse student body,
5) evidence of the ability and clear desire to work in a large,
collaborative effort (i.e. the Cluster).
Applications should include 1) a CV, including a publication and grant list,
2) a statement of the candidate's research interests and how the research
fits into the above program, 3) a statement of teaching experience and
philosophy, and 4) contact information for at least three references. All
materials should be sent via email to martens at astro.edu. Questions
regarding the position can be addressed to Dr. Piet Martens at the same
email address. Applications received by December 15, 2019, will receive full
consideration. An offer of employment will be conditional on background
verification. Georgia State University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and
does not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender,
veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or
local protected class.
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13. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral, Early-Career Staff, and Mid-Career Staff
Positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory
The Space Science and Applications (ISR-1) Group at Los Alamos National
Laboratory is hiring postdocs and staff scientists at the early- and
mid-career level to support our research programs in magnetospheric and
heliospheric science and our national security mission focused on
space-based verification of the Limited Test Ban Treaty.
Positions are available for candidates with expertise in modeling &
simulation, data analysis, and/or instrumentation. We particularly seek
strong candidates with expertise in our core research areas including inner
magnetospheres, natural and man-made radiation belts, space weather, and
plasma, energetic particle, and neutral particle sensors. Candidates are
also sought who can contribute to developing topic areas including
ionospheric physics and magnetosphere-ionospheric coupling, GICs, EMP, and
heliospheric and planetary science.
For the staff scientist positions, candidates are sought who have the
flexibility and interest in contributing to both basic science research and
our national security mission. Staff scientist positions require the ability
to obtain a Q clearance, which normally requires U.S. citizenship.
For the postdoc positions, candidates are expected to contribute to our
basic science research. Postdoc positions are open to all citizenships. The
ability to obtain a Q clearance, which normally requires U.S. citizenship,
is desirable but not required.
Los Alamos has been named a "Top 10" small town to live in, with its
abundant outdoor recreation, highly ranked public school system, and
available community facilities and activities.
Two-body problem? Maybe we can help! LANL has recently launched an
aggressive hiring campaign to meet future staffing needs across many
disciplines, including a new system to promote dual-career hires into
strategic areas.
Interested candidates should contact Daniel Reisenfeld or Vania Jordanova .
More about the ISR Division and the ISR-1 group can be found at . The ISR-1
postdoc and staff scientist (Scientist 2, 3, and 4) job ads can be found by
clicking on "Space Science and Applications" on the right menu.
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14. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Research Chair in Space Weather at South African
National Space Agency (SANSA) in South Africa
The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) is searching for a Research
Chair in Space Weather, preferably specializing in Solar Physics. The
Research Chair would be mainly responsible for undertaking research within
the specialized area, providing guidance to the operational space weather
center, and supervising postgraduate students.
The successful candidate will: ? have an extensive research track record
within an area of Space Weather (preferably Solar Physics) ? high and
sustained publication record in reputable research journals ? international
collaborations ? lead large projects ? raise and manage research funds ?
lead research groups and postgraduate student supervision and training.
The position is based in Hermanus in South Africa, and would be for an
initial 5 year period renewable for an additional 5 years based on
performance. The applicants do not have to be South African ? this is a
global recruit initiative for a specialized scarce skill area.
You can find out more about SANSA at the following links:
http://www.sansa.org.za http://spaceweather.sansa.org.za
http://research.sansa.org.za
SANSA has 3 campus locations. The position is to be based at the Hermanus
Campus within the Western Cape province of South Africa. Here is a link to
more information on Hermanus https://www.whalecoast.info/
https://hermanus-tourism.co.za/
More information including full requirements and application process can be
found at:
https://www.sansa.org.za/2019/07/29/sansa-sarchi-chair-in-space-weather/
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15. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Position in the Department of Astronomy at
the University of Maryland, College Park
Applicants are invited to apply for a postdoctoral position in the
Department of Astronomy at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP).
The successful candidate will work on theoretical/computational studies of
magnetic reconnection in the Earth's magnetosphere and shocks, by means of
3D particle-in-cell simulations, in collaboration with Dr. Naoki Bessho, Dr.
Shan Wang, and Dr. Li-Jen Chen. Opportunities to analyze data from NASA?s
Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will be provided. The position will
start in January 2020 with an initial appointment for one year (renewal for
the second year is subject to funding and satisfactory performance).
The successful candidate will be appointed at UMCP, but will conduct
research at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center located in Greenbelt, MD
(except for citizens from designated countries under NASA rules).
Applications from US citizens, lawful permanent residents of the United
States, and foreign nationals in an F1-OPT status (with an effective EAD
card) will be accepted.
Required qualifications: Ph.D. or equivalent degree in physics, astronomy,
or related fields. Experience in computational research on space plasma
physics, or related fields
Preferred qualifications: Experience in particle-in-cell simulations,
parallel computing, and code development. Strong interest (or experience) in
space data analysis
Applicants should send their applications electronically, including a cover
letter, CV with a publication list, a summary of past research achievements,
and contact information for two references. Applications should be submitted
by email to Naoki Bessho (nbessho at umd.edu). Applications will be reviewed
on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
The University of Maryland, College Park, an equal opportunity/affirmative
action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws and
regulations regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action; all
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. The
University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and
does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national
origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, age, gender
identity or expression, sexual orientation, creed, marital status, political
affiliation, personal appearance, or on the basis of rights secured by the
First Amendment, in all aspects of employment, educational programs and
activities, and admissions.
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16. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Research Position in Space Physics at
Florida Institute of Technology
The Space Physics Group in the Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space
Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, is offering one or more
postdoctoral positions in space physics. Department website is
https://www.fit.edu/engineering-and-science/academics-and-learning/aerospace
-physics-and-space-sciences/research/. The Space Physics Group researches in
several areas of heliospheric physics. These positions focus on studying
cosmic rays and solar energetic particle radiation for space weather
forecasts. Preferred qualifications of the candidate include having prior
experience in numerical computer modeling, machine learning, and analyzing
plasma, particle, and magnetic field data from spacecraft. The applicant
should have a Ph.D. degree in space physics or closely related disciplines.
Send application to mzhang at fit.edu in a single PDF file along with names
and contact information for recommendation letters.
Nikolai V Pogorelov
Distinguished Professor
Department of Space Science
University of Alabama in Huntsville
320 Sparkman Dr.
Huntsville, AL 35805
Tel. 256-961-7617
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