Heliosphere News - November 3, 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.

Newsletters are archived on the following website:

http://heliospherenews.unh.edu/.

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1. MEETING: ISP Study Exploration Workshop, November 16-20, 2020

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

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

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

5. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Space Physics at UAH

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: Upcoming SHIELD Webinar - Nov 20, 1:30 PM ET

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1. MEETING: ISP Study Exploration Workshop, November 16-20, 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. 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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4. 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 at jhuapl.edu)

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5. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Space Physics at UAH

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Assistant III to conduct research in Space Physics. The Postdoctoral Research Assistant will work with researchers at UAH on numerical modeling of the helium atom transport from the local interstellar medium into the inner heliosphere and participate in the comparison of simulated energetic neutral helium fluxes with the Interstellar Boundary Explorer measurements.

A successful candidate must have Ph.D. in Physics, Astronomy, or Engineering, or related field with 2-3 years of full-time verifiable work experience (GRA experience counts). Candidates with 1 to 3 years of postdoctoral research in numerical modeling of space plasma flows are especially encouraged to apply.

The approximate starting salary is $52,216 to $60,000 with an excellent benefits package (www.uah.edu/hr/benefits). To ensure full consideration, applicants should submit a complete CV, a cover letter detailing experience and three references. Qualified applicants should apply online for the Postdoctoral Research Assistant III at https://careers.uah.edu/cw/en-us/job/493633/postdoctoral-research-assistant-iii

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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 at 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 at nsf.gov), Luke Sollitt (lsollitt at nsf.gov), or Carrie Black (cblack at 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 at uah.es

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

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

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

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

Daniel Mueller: daniel.mueller at esa.int

Yannis Zouganelis: yannis.zouganelis at esa.int

For questions about the Solar Orbiter Archive, please contact the Archive Scientist, Pedro Osuna (Pedro.Osuna at 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 at uah.es

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

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

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

For mission-level questions, please contact:

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

Yannis Zouganelis (ESA Deputy Project Scientist): yannis.zouganelis at esa.int

For questions about the Solar Orbiter Archive, please contact the Archive Scientist, Pedro Osuna (Pedro.Osuna at 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 at 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: Upcoming SHIELD Webinar

Fri Nov 20^th 1:30 PM EST

Please come listen to these two rock stars talk about their careers and challenges!

Prof. Margaret Galland Kivelson

Margaret Galland Kivelson is a Distinguished Research Professor of Space Physics at UCLA and a Research Professor at the University of Michigan. She received multiple degrees (A.B., M.A., and Ph.D.) from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, where her dissertation in Quantum Electrodynamics was supervised by Julian Schwinger. After a decade as a Consultant to the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, CA, she redirected her interests to Space Physics, joining an active group at UCLA. She has contributed to the field as a theorist, as the author of a widely used textbook, and as an instrument Principal Investigator, most recently having joined the Europa Clipper mission as Team Leader for the Magnetometer investigation. Her honors include being an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, recipient of the Alfvén and the Cassini medals of the European Geophysical Union, the Fleming medal of the American Geophysical Union, the Kuiper medal of the American Astronomical Society, and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Dr. Nicola Fox

Nicola Fox is the Heliophysics Division Director in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Heliophysics is not only vital to understanding Earth's most important and life-sustaining star, but the study of key space phenomena and processes supports situational awareness to better protect astronauts, satellites, and robotic missions exploring the solar system and beyond. Until August 2018, Fox worked at the Applied Physics Lab at the Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland, where she was the chief scientist for Heliophysics and the project scientist for NASA's Parker Solar Probe - humanity's first mission to a star. Fox is a proven leader with an extensive project, program, and supervisory experience, having served as the deputy project scientist for the Van Allen Probes, and the operations scientist for the International Solar Terrestrial Physics program. She has authored numerous scientific articles and papers in addition to delivering science presentations worldwide. In addition to her research, she is also keenly involved with science education and outreach activities. Fox was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England. She graduated from The Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine in London with a BS in Physics. She received an MS in Telematics and Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey. She then returned to Imperial College to complete a Ph.D. in Space and Atmospheric Physics. She has also previously worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, receiving a number of agency awards for outstanding performance.

Friday, November 20

1:30pm EST, 12:30pm Central

Registration link:

https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvf--trjIrE9IJK05tlmhqy7XiR-iw9leFÿ

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Cheers,

Nathan