Heliosphere News - August 25, 2020

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: Jamie Rankin (jsrankin at princeton.edu)

Coordinator: Liz Wilber (Elizabeth.Wilber at unh.edu)

Web site editor: Ken Fairchild (Ken.Fairchild at unh.edu)

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1. MEETING: 3rd Annual Interstellar Probe Exploration Workshop, November 17-19, 2020, Silver Spring, Maryland

2. MEETING: COSPAR Scientific Assembly, NEW DATES: 28 January - 4 February, 2021

3. MEETING: MUAN 2020: Upper Atmospheres and Ionospheres in the Inner Solar System, September 9-11, 2020, New York, New York

4. ANNOUNCEMENT: Solar Orbiter In-situ Working Groups

5. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Civil Servant Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

6. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Research Associate position in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at CU Boulder supporting NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

7. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Space Weather Forecast Applications Scientist Position in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)at CU Boulder supporting NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)

8. ANNOUNCEMENT: Special Issue on Dynamical Processes in Space Plasmas in Applied Sciences Journal

9. ANNOUNCEMENT: The NASA Heliophysics Division Seeks Community Members to Serve on a NASA Space Weather Council

10. ANNOUNCEMENT: Heliophysics 2050 Workshop and Call for White Papers

11. ANNOUNCEMENT: Access to Solar Orbiter Low Latency Data

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1. MEETING: 3rd Annual Interstellar Probe Exploration Workshop November 17-19, 2020 Silver Spring, Maryland

The 3rd Annual Interstellar Probe Exploration Workshop is scheduled for November 17-19, 2020 at the Tommy Douglas Conference Center in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The workshop is being organized for heliophysicists, planetary scientists,astrophysicists, and engineers from all over the world. The purpose of the workshop is to gather together and discuss the objectives, design, and operations for a near-term, pragmatic interstellar probe mission.

The workshop is organized by a team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory studying such a mission for the Heliophysics Division in NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

Visit the JHU APL Interstellar Probe website for detailed information about the ongoing study.

IMPORTANT: To be added to the mailing list to receive pertinent information about this workshop and to indicate your interest in participating, please submit an Indication of Interest.

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/interstellarprobe2020/

#interstellarprobe2020

For more information, contact:

Meeting and Publication Services

USRA/Lunar and Planetary Institute

meetinginfo at hou.usra.edu

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2. 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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3. 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://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVgrQ8cIQx8mOgF5rVV76Re6hh6u1_xwtK4XXhKSpVSOU2_A/viewform

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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4. ANNOUNCEMENT: Solar Orbiter In-situ Working Groups

The Solar Orbiter In-situ Working Groups are now ready for you to sign up!

The goals of these community-driven Working Groups are to form

collaborations, to avoid overlap in research activities, to make the community aware of ongoing work with Solar Orbiter data, and to guarantee the delivery on the Solar Orbiter Science Activity Plan (SAP).

Membership in the Working Groups is open for interested researchers on all career levels and without restrictions. We recommend, however, that you only sign up to the Working Groups that you want to actively participate in.

You can find more detailed information about the Working Groups,

including short summaries of the groups' objectives and the instructions to sign up, on this website that Andrew Dimmock has set up: https://sites.google.com/view/soloiswg/

We also have created a shared Google Calendar with the information about all meetings. You can subscribe to the calendar to stay up to date about the ongoing meetings.

The Working Groups will start their work in early September.

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5. 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 at nasa.gov), Code 672 Lab Chief, and Eric Christian (eric.r.christian at nasa.gov), Code 672 Associate Lab Chief and head of the Energetic Particle Laboratory.

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The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado at Boulder has an immediate opening for a Research Associate supporting NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). This position is for an Energetic Particle Space Scientist in NCEI's Solar and Terrestrial Physics (STP) Group. A team of dedicated scientists within STP works to ensure that current and future space weather sensors on NOAA satellites provide effective operational products for use by the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Space Weather

Prediction Center (SWPC).

STP's overall responsibilities also include providing access to these environmental data by spacecraft engineers and the

scientific community. The Energetic Particle Space Scientist will be primarily responsible for ensuring the quality and availability of data from the Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS), operated on-board NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R series system.

SEISS measures the local charged particle environment across a broad energy range at multiple pitch angles. The GOES-R series is NOAA's newest generation of GOES spacecraft. The first GOES-R satellite, GOES-16, was launched in November 2016. The fourth and last GOES-R satellite is expected to launch in 2024. SEISS calibration and validation activities are ongoing.

Required:

- This position involves handling export-controlled documents and data, thus only applications from US citizens or permanent residents (green card holders) can be considered.

- If hired, you will need to pass a National Agency Check with Inquiries(NACI, Federal background check).

- Ph.D. in Physical Science, Engineering or similar technical discipline.

- Four years of experience at the post-bachelor's level in satellite sensor design, algorithm development, and/or scientific research with space environmental data.

What We Would Like You to Have:

- Ph.D. in Space Plasma Physics.

- 1-2 years postdoctoral experience working with space plasma

instrumentation and instrument data.

- Familiarity with NOAA's satellite programs, particularly GOES.

- Willingness to pursue independent funding for research.

For additional information and application instructions go to

https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail?jobId=23539

Please direct questions about this position to Brian Kress (brian.kress at noaa.gov).

* Note, this position was originally posted on 09-Jan-2020, but the hiring process has been on hold due to rapidly changing hiring policy at CU Boulder during the coronavirus pandemic. We are restarting the search for this position.

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7. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Space Weather Forecast Applications Scientist Position in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at CU Boulder supporting NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)

The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) encourages applications to fill a Research Associate position resident at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration?s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)! SWPC is the nation?s official source of space weather alerts and warnings. SWPC forecasts and products support a wide range of customers, including power grid operators, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), aviation, satellite operators, and emergency managers.

Our Research Associate will work within the SWPC Testbed section of the Space Weather Prediction Center, working with the wider Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), Space Weather Follow On - L1 (SWFO-L1), and Compact Coronagraph teams. Specifically, this position will initially support the DSCOVR mission, with the expectation the candidate will take a lead in developing experimental space weather forecasting applications for the benefit of forecasters and customers. In addition to data from DSCOVR, the successful applicant is encouraged to investigate future missions including the SWFO-L1 and Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) for their use in crafting new space weather applications. Together, these missions are important to ensuring the highest quality space weather forecasts and it is encouraged that the applications developed using these missions will be used to improve and enhance SWPC?s geomagnetic and radiation storm forecasts. Through this role, the successful candidate will participate in preparing these missions, ground systems, and forecast products for post-launch, real-time operations!

For Additional Information and to Apply:

https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=26121

For Direct Questions Regarding the Position,

Please Contact Eric Adamson: eric.adamson at noaa.gov

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8. ANNOUNCEMENT: Special Issue on Dynamical Processes in Space Plasmas in Applied Sciences Journal

From: Georgios Nicolaou

We are happy to announce our special Issue on Dynamical Processes in Space Plasmas in Applied Sciences Journal by mdpi.

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Dynamical_Processes_Space_Plasmas

We welcome original papers with theoretical, modelling and/or data-analysis research on dynamical mechanisms in collisionless space plasmas. We strongly encourage papers demonstrating new methods, measurement and analysis techniques to resolve physical processes in space plasmas.

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9. ANNOUNCEMENT: The NASA Heliophysics Division Seeks Community Members to Serve on a NASA Space Weather Council

The NASA Heliophysics Division is establishing a NASA Space Weather Council (SWC), a subcommittee to the Heliophysics Advisory Committee (HPAC). The SWC is established as a means to secure the counsel of community experts across diverse areas, on matters relevant to space weather in support of the NASA Heliophysics Division (HPD). The SWC serves as a community-based, interdisciplinary forum for soliciting and coordinating community analysis and input and providing advice.

The mission of the NASA HPD space weather strategy is to establish a preeminent space weather capability that supports human and robotic space exploration and meets national, international, and societal needs. This is done by advancing measurement and analysis techniques and expanding knowledge and understanding that improves space weather forecasts and nowcasts.

Ultimately, the HPD enables the space weather forecasting capability that the Agency and Nation require, in partnership with NASA’s Artemis Program and other Federal agencies, and international partners. This includes the development and launch of missions/instruments that advance our knowledge of space weather and improve its prediction, and the transitioning of technology, tools, models, data, and knowledge from research to operational environments.

NASA HPD openly solicits nominations of individuals who are affiliated with U.S. institutions for membership on the SWC. Members shall be approved by the HPD Director for up to a three-year term.

Interested community members are asked to complete and submit the form using the link below by Friday, August 28, 2020.

https://science.nasa.gov/heliophysics/space-weather-council

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10. ANNOUNCEMENT: Heliophysics 2050 Workshop and Call for White Papers

The Heliophysics 2050 Workshop is an agency-enabled, community-driven event to help the science community better prepare for the next Decadal Survey.It will be held in May 2021. The event is intended to be an in-person meeting with a strong virtual attendance option. Organizers are monitoring the COVID-19 situation, and contingency plans for a fully virtual meeting will be made should they be necessary.

The workshop will focus on discussing a strategic, multi-decadal science framework for solar and space physics. The community will create a cohesive science strategy to identify:

(1) Essential science investigations necessary for major science advancements.

(2) Research and capability development needed to meet science investigation requirements.

(3) Research needed in the next decade to prepare for long-term research goals.

(4) 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.

The workshop discussions will be based on the science needs identified in community white papers. Submissions are encouraged to advance and expand the field of solar and space physics.

Submission details can be found on the workshop website: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/helio2050/.

Community members are encouraged to proactively involve colleagues who may be experiencing significant time constraints due to the COVID-19 situation that would allow participation in but prevent the leading of white papers.

Create a profile and submit white papers via the USRA meeting portal: https://bit.ly/Helio2050.

White papers are due September 2, 2020, 5:00 p.m. U.S. Central Daylight Time (GMT -5). Questions about the Heliophysics 2050 Workshop or its rescheduling should be directed to Jared Leisner (jared.s.leisner@nasa.gov). Questions regarding the white paper submission process should be directed to USRA Meetings (publish@hou.usra.edu).

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11. ANNOUNCEMENT: Access to Solar Orbiter Low Latency Data

The Solar Orbiter teams are making public the Low Latency data from the four in-situ instruments (EPD, MAG, RPW, SWA), available via the ESA Solar Orbiter Archive.

Low Latency data are a limited subset of each instrument's data, downlinked in full during every communications pass. They are primarily an operational product, designed to provide situational awareness to the Solar Orbiter team, while the spacecraft is far from Earth, and it takes several weeks to months for science data to be returned to Earth. Within the team, low latency data will be used to perform high-level instrument health checks, to help choose the best targets for the high-resolution imagers, and, for some instruments, to help us select the most interesting events to downlink at the best resolution.

These data will be immediately available to the whole community from now on and for the entire duration of the mission. However they should be used with caution: they are not of a sufficient quality to undertake science analysis and results derived from them should not be submitted for publication. Full science-quality level 2 data products will be released later this year.

More details on how to access these data, together with a list of caveats are provided in this link: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/solar-orbiter/access-to-solar-orbiter-low-latency-data

For more information, feel free to contact the instruments' Principal Investigators:

EPD (Energetic Particle Detector) PI: Javier Rodríguez-Pacheco, University of Alcalá, Spain, fsrodriguez@uah.es

MAG (Magnetometer) PI: Tim Horbury, Imperial College London, UK, t.horbury@imperial.ac.uk

RPW (Radio and Plasma Waves) PI: Milan Maksimovic, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, France, milan.maksimovic@obspm.fr

SWA (Solar Wind Analyser) PI: Chris Owen, MSSL, University College London, UK, c.owen@ucl.ac.uk

For mission-level questions, please contact the ESA Project Scientists:

Daniel Müller: daniel.mueller@esa.int

Yannis Zouganelis: yannis.zouganelis@esa.int

For questions about the Solar Orbiter Archive, please contact the Archive Scientist, Pedro Osuna (Pedro.Osuna@sciops.esa.int).

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Cheers,

Nathan