Heliosphere News - May 5, 2020

 

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: Matina Gkioulidou

(matina.gkioulidou at jhuapl.edu) Co-Editor: Nick Pogorelov (np0002 at uah.edu)

 

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1. SPA Bowie Lecture Nominations deadline June 1

 

2. MEETING: Heliophysics 2050 Workshop Community Announcement

 

3. POSTPONEMENT of Workshop on space plasma physics and complexity (distributions,

turbulence, plasma processes, etc.), within the tri-annual general conference

in statistical physics Sigma-Phi-2020

4. POSTPONEMENT of Workshop: Observatory for the Outer Heliosphere, Heliosheath, and

Interstellar Space will be held in Boulder, Colorado.

5. MEETING: COSPAR Scientific Assembly, NEW DATES: 28 January - 4 February,

2021

6. MEETING: MUAN 2020: Upper Atmospheres and Ionospheres in the Inner Solar

System, September 9-11, 2020, New York, New York

7. MEETING: 16th European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM-16), Turin (Italy),

postponed till September 2021

8. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral, Early-Career Staff, and Mid-Career Staff

Positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory

9. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Position in the Department of Astronomy at

the University of Maryland, College Park

10. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Research Position in Space Physics at

Florida Institute of Technology

 

11. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Civil Servant Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Space

Flight Center

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1. SPA Bowie Lecture Nominations deadline June 1

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

The deadline for submitting nominations for this year's SPA Bowie lectures is June 1.  At the 2020 Fall Meeting, the Van Allen lecture and the Nicolet

lecture will be given which honor Space Scientists who have made significant contributions in the fields of Magnetospheric science and Aeronomy,

respectively.

Please draft a one page (or less) nomination letter supporting a deserving colleague, briefly describing their accomplishments, contributions to our

community and why they would deliver an exciting lecture to the broad SPA audience.  The letter should be sent to either Christina Cohen (cohen at

srl.caltech.edu) or Geoff Reeves (geoff at reevesresearch.org) by Monday, June 1, 2020.

 

Thank you for your contributions,

Christina and Geoff

 

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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. POSTPONEMENT of Workshop on space plasma physics and complexity (distributions,

turbulence, plasma processes, etc.), within the tri-annual general conference

in statistical physics Sigma-Phi-2020

 

Workshop Organizers: G. Livadiotis, M. Leubner, H. Elliott, K. Dialynas:

Kappa Distributions and nonextensive Statistical Mechanics

Theory and Applications in Space Plasma Physics & Complexity Science

 

The meeting has been postponed until Jul 12-16, 2021, and will still be held

in Crete, Greece. Please mark your calendars, updated information will be

provided closer to the meeting date.

 

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4. POSTPONEMENT of Workshop: Observatory for the Outer Heliosphere, Heliosheath, and

Interstellar Space

 

Outer Heliosphere Workshop - Boulder

 

We are glad you are interested in our Observatory for the Outer Heliosphere,

Heliosheath, and Interstellar Space Workshop; we are as well.

We believe it is important to hold this workshop in person to make discussion

easier and the meeting more productive. Discussion online is very challenging.

Given the COVID-19 pandemic we will reschedule this workshop for a later date,

when it is clear that it is safe to travel. We will keep registrants on our

mailing list and get back to you with more details about holding this meeting later.

 

Organizers: Heather Elliott (helliott@swri.edu) and Ralph McNutt (Ralph.McNutt@jhuapl.edu)

 

Host: Fran Bagenal (bagenal@lasp.colorado.edu)

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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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.

 

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11. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Civil Servant Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Space

Flight Center

 

The Energetic Particle Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is looking

to hire a scientist with experience in designing, building and analyzing data from

instruments that measure ionized and neutral high-energy particles in the heliosphere

and magnetosphere.  The laboratory currently has instruments in development for

the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission (launch in 2024),

several cubesats for Low-Earth Orbit and interplanetary space, and the Lunar Gateway.

The Energetic Particle Laboratory is in the Heliospheric Science Laboratory (Code 672)

of Goddard's Heliophysics Science Division.  This is a US Government Civil Servant

position, therefore applicants are required to be either US citizens or currently

holding a green card and are expected to have a PhD in a related field and several

years of experience beyond completion of their PhD.  Interested individuals should

send a current CV to Adam Szabo (adam.szabo@nasa.gov), Code 672 Lab Chief, and Eric

Christian (eric.r.christian@nasa.gov), Code 672 Associate Lab Chief and head of the

Energetic Particle Laboratory.

 

Nikolai V Pogorelov

Distinguished Professor

Department of Space Science

University of Alabama in Huntsville

320 Sparkman Dr.

Huntsville, AL 35805

Tel. 256-961-7617