Heliosphere News - October 13, 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)

If you are interested in being added to the list, being removed from the list, or posting an announcement, please send information to Nathan, Mihir, Eric, Matina, or Jamie. Posts are limited to ascii text.

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http://heliospherenews.unh.edu/.

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1. Meeting: ISP Study Exploratory Workshop, November 17-19, 2020

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

3. ANNOUNCEMENT: Solar Orbiter In-situ Working Groups

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

5. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Space Physics at JHU/APL

6. ANNOUNCEMENT: NSF AST Solicitation Deadlines

7. ANNOUNCEMENT: Access to Solar Orbiter Low Latency Data

8. ANNOUNCEMENT: The Solar Orbiter Mission A&A Special Issue

9. ANNOUNCEMENT: Solar Orbiter First Data Release

10. ANNOUNCEMENT: New AGU SPA Student Committee - Join us!

11. ANNOUNCEMENT: SPA Registration Waivers for Fall AGU Meeting 2020

12. ANNOUNCEMENT: SHIELD Science Center Webinar: "A Path to Improving Writing Skills: Things I Didn't Learn In School"

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1. MEETING: ISP Study Exploratory Workshop, November 17-19, 2020

Interstellar Probe Study Community,

We are less than two months away from the third annual ISP Study Exploratory Workshop, and we can’t wait to see you there! As a reminder, this event will be held remotely via Zoom.

We have two important announcements for you.

FIRST: Please register to participate! Registration is now open on the website (link below).

SECOND: Please submit your abstracts! We’re looking for everyone to share their ideas that further the workshop’s goal, namely, gathering together and discussing the objectives, design, and operations for a near-term, pragmatic interstellar probe mission. Please follow the instructions on the event page to submit your abstract (link below).

You can both register and submit your abstracts at the event website here: http://interstellarprobe.jhuapl.edu/Resources/Meetings/agenda.php?id=112

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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. 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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4. 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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5. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Space Physics at JHU/APL

The Space Physics Group at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) is seeking a Post-Doctoral Researcher to conduct basic scientific research on energetic particle processes in the inner heliosphere through the use of observations from the Parker Solar Probe mission and the Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph (SIS) instrument on Solar Orbiter. Efforts will include data processing, instrument operation, science trade analyses in support of both missions, as well as in-depth original scientific research on solar wind, energetic particle acceleration, coronal mass ejections, and related fundamental physical processes.

The successful applicant must have completed a PhD in Physics or a related field by the start of the position, and demonstrated experience in a scientific field applicable to space physics. The applicant should have an in-depth knowledge of space plasma and/or solar physics, preferably including acceleration and transport processes of energetic particles in the corona and the solar wind. The applicant should have experience with the analysis of in-situ and/or remote sensing datasets, and the ability to utilize models, either empirical or physics-based, to aid the interpretation of spacecraft observations.

For more details and to apply, please see: https://prdtss.jhuapl.edu/jobs/post-doctoral-fellow-solar-space-physics-573

For questions, please contact Dr. Robert Allen (Robert.Allen@jhuapl.edu)

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6. ANNOUNCEMENT: NSF AST Solicitation Deadlines

NSF’s Division of Astronomical Sciences is accepting solar physics and observations related proposals to two programs - the Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants (AAG) and the Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI) Programs.

The deadlines are November 16, 2020. For both solicitations, proposals must demonstrate the astronomical context of the work. It is highly recommended that proposers reach out to points of contact with any questions, as proposals that do not adequately demonstrate the astronomical context may be returned without review.

For ATI see https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505586&org=AST&from=home

Contact Zoran Ninkov at zninkov@nsf.gov with any questions.

For AAG see https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13630&org=AST&from=home

Contact Hans Krimm (hkrimm@nsf.gov), Luke Sollitt (lsollitt@nsf.gov), or Carrie Black (cblack@nsf.gov) with any questions.

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7. 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 Rodriguez-Pacheco, University of Alcala, 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 Mueller: 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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8. ANNOUNCEMENT: The Solar Orbiter Mission A&A Special Issue

The Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) journal has published a special issue featuring a series of 17 papers on the Solar Orbiter mission and its instruments.

The entire issue is open access and all papers can be downloaded following this link:

https://www.aanda.org/component/toc/?task=topic&id=1082

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9. ANNOUNCEMENT: Solar Orbiter First Data Release

On September 30, ESA released the first science data from the Solar Orbiter mission launched on 10 February 2020. This release concerns data from the in-situ payload that entered its science phase on 15 June 2020, when the spacecraft was at its first perihelion at 0.51 astronomical units. Calibrated data from the instruments EPD (Energetic Particle Detector), MAG (Magnetometer) and RPW (Radio and Plasma Waves) are publicly available, while data from the SWA instrument (Solar Wind Analyser) will become public later this year. The remote-sensing payload will start its science phase in November 2021.

All data are available via the ESA Solar Orbiter Archive: http://soar.esac.esa.int/soar/

In the future, new calibrated science data will be made available at the latest three months after their reception on the ground, following the open-data philosophy of the mission.

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

EPD (Energetic Particle Detector) PI: Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco, University of Alcala, 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:

Daniel Mueller (ESA Project Scientist): daniel.mueller@esa.int

Yannis Zouganelis (ESA Deputy Project Scientist): 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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10. ANNOUNCEMENT: New AGU SPA Student Committee - Join us!

Greetings to all students and early career scientists!

Are you interested in making the upcoming Virtual AGU Fall meeting more accessible and inclusive? Do you have ideas about things that the SPA Section could be doing to serve our community in general? Then come join me in the new AGU SPA student committee!

My name is Gilly, and I am your student representative on the SPA Executive Committee. Last month, the student representatives from all of the AGU sections had a meeting where we talked about what each section was doing to support their communities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/163sbXaCpzzsy67I0X-wVXckjfw1r1a2Tf1eArI_2U5I/edit

In response to that meeting, our section has decided to form our own SPA Student Committee. This committee will be responsible for communicating the needs of the students at AGU meetings (and throughout the rest of the year too!) to the executive committee, and will be well positioned to spearhead initiatives that serve our community. And because this is a new committee, there is a lot of room for the role of the committee to evolve to best meet our needs. If you are interested in volunteering, please fill this brief form (full link below). Open to anyone who wants to improve the student experience at AGU, including high schoolers, undergraduates, grad students, postdocs, and EC scientists. Feel free to email me directly at chris.gilly@colorado.edu if you have any comments, questions, or concerns.

I hope to hear from you soon!

Chris Gilly (he/him)

AGU SPA Student Representative

PhD Candidate, Heliophysics

University of Colorado Boulder, APS Dept.

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

Public Talk Facilitator, Fiske Planetarium

www.gilly.space

Student Rep Meeting Minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/163sbXaCpzzsy67I0X-wVXckjfw1r1a2Tf1eArI_2U5I/edit?usp=sharing

Interest in Joining Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdElI8G3qjZURc9qjpr7whN7qaLQHXhaCbFvb7eGTfeczUXxg/viewform

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11. ANNOUNCEMENT: SPA Registration Waivers for Fall AGU Meeting 2020

Is the registration cost for the Fall AGU meeting a barrier for your participation (or for someone you know)? We are happy to announce several opportunities that could help.

Since the meeting is all virtual and travel is not required, the Fall 2020 meeting provides a unique opportunity for more scientists with limited means to participate. In order to promote more participation, AGU has reduced or waived registration fees for some students, teachers, and scientists. Registration rates for undergraduates and for K12 educators who are AGU members is $0. Graduate students and retirees are $100. [Please notice that it is the same cost or cheaper to become a member and pay the member rate than it is to pay the non-member rate!]

AGU is also waiving registration fees for any participant (member or non-member) from Low Income or Lower-Middle Income countries. A list of eligible countries can be found here:

https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519#Low_income

The SPA leadership team recognizes that there may be other scientists who do not qualify for AGUÕs registration waivers but would still have difficulty participating due to financial limitations. Therefore we are accepting applications for registration waivers for participants in need (members and non-members). Priority will be given to first-time attendees and those from Minority Serving Institutions. Anyone is eligible but priority will also be given to graduate students and early career scientists (<10 beyond PhD).

Applications are currently being accepted for SPA registration waivers. Selections will be made on or before October 15. The application for registration waiver can be found here:

https://forms.gle/WnEaDsgtFJDiurgC7

We encourage you to forward this email and application link to those you believe would benefit from attending the fall AGU meeting an are in need of financial support to do so.

Sincerely,

The SPA leadership team

Christina Cohen

Geoff Reeves

Larry Paxton

Liz MacDonald

Romina Nikoukar

Christina Lee

Ale Pacini

Chris R. Gilly

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12. ANNOUNCEMENT: SHIELD Science Center Webinar: "A Path to Improving Writing Skills: Things I Didn't Learn In School"

Speaker: Heather Elliott, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio TX, and University of Texas-San Antonio, helliott@swri.edu<mailto:helliott@swri.edu>

Date: October 16, 2020; 2pm EST, 1pm Central

Registration Link: https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtc--vrDorH9f-gQbPXkkYXS_uP5EkKcno

The SHIELD DRIVE Science Center (http://sites.bu.edu/shield-drive/) is a collaborative research center developing a predictive global model of the heliosphere: the immense shield protecting the solar system from the harsh galactic radiation which affects both life on Earth and human space exploration.

We are starting to have a webinar series.

Our first webinar entitled "A Path to Improving Writing Skills: Things I Didn't Learn In School" is by Heather Elliott from Southwest Research Institute This webinar is designed to provide some techniques you can put to use right away to improve your writing skills, and to create a customized path towards improving your writing skills based on your specific needs.

In this webinar, you will learn about:

- Psychology that hinders writing skills, and ways to overcome it.

- How to identify problematic aspects of your writing

- How to write concisely for paged limited writing such as proposals.

- Ways to organize your material while reducing repetition and having

coherence, precision, and cohesion.

- Key references for low-cost books that focus on improving writing and editing.

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Best Regards,

Mihir