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7. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: Graduate Student Opportunities at the University of
Alabama, Huntsville
The Department of Space Science at The University of Alabama in
Huntsville is accepting applications to its M.S. and Ph.D. programs for
the Fall 2018 semester. We are a graduate-only, student and research
focused department that aims to produce proficient and self-reliant
scientists through our M.S. and Ph.D. 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 including gamma- ray bursts and
gravitational waves. 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 Wernher von
Braun and the birth of the US space program. Contact person is Dr. Jacob
Heerikhuisen, e-mail:
jh0004@uah.edu.
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8. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: The Department of Physics at the University of New
Hampshire is accepting applications (to its MS and PhD programs for the
Fall 2018 semester)
http://physics.unh.edu/content/graduate-program
We have a number of graduate research fellowships to award to incoming
students. The Department of Physics is linked to the Space Science
Center (SSC), part of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and
Space. Faculty and students are members of the Department of Physics
(
http://physics.unh.edu) with a graduate degree program specializing in
Space Physics/Astrophysics. The Space Science Center fosters research
and graduate education in all of the space sciences with studies ranging
from the ionosphere to the Earth's magnetosphere, the local solar
system, and out to the farthest reaches of the universe. Investigations
of the Earth's environment in the solar system look at space as a
laboratory for plasma physics. We conduct theoretical, computational,
data analysis, and instrument development projects focused on the
solar-terrestrial radiation environment involving both satellite and
suborbital missions. High energy astrophysics investigations involve the
sensing of energetic astrophysical objects with ground, balloon, and
satellite detectors. Satellites from NASA missions are still providing
data for ongoing analysis. Students have opportunities to participate in
recent missions that are carrying SSC-associated instruments including
STEREO (launched 2006), IBEX (launched 2008), LRO (launched 2009), Van
Allen Probes (launched 2012), Firebird (launched in Dec. 2013), MMS
(launched in 2015), FIREBIRD II (launched in 2015), and GOES-R (launched
in 2016). Upcoming missions in which the SSC is involved include Solar
Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe. The SSC is also a Center of Excellence in theoretical Solar-terrestrial
research.
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9. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: Graduate Studies in Solar and Heliospheric Physics
at the University of Arizona
The Department of Planetary Sciences, and Lunar & Planetary Laboratory,
at the University of Arizona seeks prospective graduate students
interested in pursuing research in heliophysics and space physics.
Successful candidates will (nominally) enter the program in the fall
2018 semester. The deadline for application is December 8, 2017;
prospective students should apply at
https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/graduate/admission. Research assistantships
in solar and heliospheric physics are available.
The Solar and Heliospheric research group
(
https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/research/heliophysics), consists of eight
faculty and researchers, whose broad research interests include: cosmic
ray acceleration and transport in the solar system, the nature of the
heliosphere, the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field, space
weather and the space radiation environment, and fundamental topics in
space plasma physics and astrophysics. We are involved in existing NASA
spacecraft missions, including Voyager and the Advanced Composition
Explorer, and future NASA missions such as the Parker Solar Probe – a
mission to ‘touch’ the Sun – launching next summer.
Students admitted to our program will take courses covering broad
aspects of planetary sciences, including physics, chemistry, and geology
of the solar system, in addition to research in solar and heliospheric
physics. Further details can be found at
https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/graduate
Questions about the program, application process, research projects, or
other general questions, should be directed to either Prof. Joe
Giacalone (
giacalon@lpl.arizona.edu) or Prof. Kristopher Klein
(
kgklein@lpl.arizona.edu).
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10. AWARD OPPORTUNITY: AGU SPA “Nonlinear Waves” prize of ~$10,000
We call attention to an AGU SPA “Nonlinear Waves” prize of ~$10,000 to
be given out by the AGU in 2018
(
https://honors.agu.org/sfg-award-lecture/space-weather-and-nonlinear-waves-and-processes-prize/).
The deadline for submission is at the beginning of 2018. All of the pertinent information can be found
of the AGU or any of the four of us. This prize will be given out every other year (alternating with a prize for