[Shine-participants] SHINE Newsletter May 2018

Wed May 16 09:21:33 EDT 2018

SHINE Newsletter May 2018

Dear SHINE Community,

The 2018 SHINE workshop is soon approaching! Please visit our website to register and for details.  SHINE will take place from July 30th to August 3rd (student day July 29th) in Cocoa Beach, FL jointly at the Courtyard Marriott (posters) and Hilton (oral sessions).

Given the tremendous participation in this year’s workshop (27 sessions and two Town Halls), there will be some significant changes to the usual SHINE venue — please take the time to read about the changes in this Newsletter (or visit our website: www.shinecon.gov<http://www.shinecon.gov>).  Information about viewing the Parker Solar Probe launch is also provided upon registration.

Looking forward to seeing you in Florida in July!

Sincerely,
Georgia A. de Nolfo
SHINE Steering Committee Chair

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Contents:

  1.  SHINE 2018 Workshop Details and PSP Launch
  2.  A Request for Information (RFI) for the National Space Weather Strategy [NOTE IMMINENT deadline for comments]
  3.  Community input to Living with a Star Targeted Research and Technology (LWS TR&T) Focused Science Topics for ROSES 2019 and beyond
  4.  TESS Town Hall: Community input to Living with a Star Targeted Research and Technology (LWS TR&T) Focused Science Topics for ROSES 2019 and beyond
  5.  Call For Abstract to Session 3 at the Fifteenth European Space Weather Workshop, November 5-9, 2018 in Leuven, Belgium
  6.  Community Survey of Python Users
  7.  Call for Abstract for European Space Weather Week

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1.  SHINE 2018 Workshop Details and PSP Launch

Changes to the SHINE Schedule:
Given the large number of sessions this year, we will not have our usual 4-minute session descriptions on Monday.  There will be an opportunity to show session descriptions as a one-slide electronic display. Session organizers may want to consider taking advantage of this and submit their slides to either me or Noé Lugaz.  After Monday’s sessions, all sessions will begin at  10:30/10:45, depending on the day, given that the PSP launch is during the late evening. Finally, unlike past SHINE sessions, we will have an afternoon session on Friday until 3:30 pm.

Workshop details:
The scientific program (27 sessions) and details about the registration and abstract submission processes are listed in the SHINE website ( shinecon.org/CurrentMeeting.php<http://shinecon.org/CurrentMeeting.php> ).  Rooms are available at both hotels at the rate of $169 (Courtyard Marriott) and $159 (Hilton). Researchers who are required to pay the per diem rate should contact Noé Lugaz or Umbe Cantu directly.  The registration fee includes one poster per person; this year, no additional posters are allowed. Please consider acting as a student poster judge at this year’s workshop.

Important deadlines:
—Early-bird registration ($450) deadline: May 18th - extra fee of $50 afterwards. Participants who have completed their registration, including payment, by the early-bird deadline will have the opportunity to apply to attend the PSP launch at KSC. Details on this are forthcoming.
—Hotel Reservation deadline: June 22nd (link and conference code provided on the SHINE website)

SHINE Town Halls

  1.  “What’s Next for Space & Heliospheric Physics? “ (Tuesday/July 31/16:35 )           Organizers: Don Hassler, Sarah Gibson, Todd Hoeksema, Scott McIntosh, Jeff Newmark

Description: Solar and Heliospheric physics has experienced a golden age of discovery over the past 20+ years with such successful missions as SOHO, YOHKOH, RHESSI, ACE, TRACE, HINODE, IBEX, STEREO, SDO, etc. We are now preparing for the commissioning of DKIST and the launches of Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, and IMAP that will take Solar Physics to new frontiers. These projects promise exciting new observations and insights into the interfaces of the photosphere, corona, solar wind, and heliosphere.
But what is next -- after Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, and IMAP? We are halfway between Decadal Surveys. The Space Studies Board of the National Academies is preparing to begin a mid-term assessment, and it is time for the community as a whole to start thinking about this process again. Given the long time scales associated with realizing space missions, and the rapid advances in technology, as well as our changing needs and understanding, it is healthy for the community to start thinking seriously about what comes next, both for ground-based and space-based observations.
• What are the burning questions for understanding the solar & heliospheric system?
• What are the important unexplored places and domains of the Sun & heliosphere?
• What new technologies that enable exploration of these new domains can be exploited or need to be developed?
• How do we incorporate and prioritize the urgent practical goals of Space Weather in the community discussion, and how do we balance applied and pure science?
• What type of future missions should we be thinking about, and how should they be structured and organized?
Many ideas and mission concepts are out there...for example…
• Solar Polar Mission concepts
• Far-side & Heliospheric Constellation concepts (L1, L4, L5, etc.)
• High-Resolution “Microscope” Concepts
• Co-manifested Space Weather missions
• High-energy Observation missions
• Synoptic ground-based networks

Format & How to Contribute: This Town Hall is intended to stimulate this dialogue within the community, and to start to articulate and discuss arguments and advocacy for our next potential future missions and programs.
The Town Hall will begin with a ~10 minute Scene Setting Introduction followed by a series of short (3-5 min) “Flash or Lightning” talks (1-2 slides) contributed by members of the community to stimulate discussion.
If you would like to contribute or give a short Flash talk, please email 1-2 slides to shinetownhall at gmail.com<mailto:shinetownhall at gmail.com> by Friday, July 27.

  1.  A Living with a Star Town Hall (Friday/August 3/9:15): Community input to Living with a Star Targeted Research and Technology (LWS TR&T) Focused Science Topics for ROSES 2019 and beyond.  The main purpose of the Town Hall at SHINE would be to discuss and get comments on a new short list of about 15 LWS Targeted Research Topics. Some time after the SHINE Meeting, NASA will down-select from the short list to 4 or so Targeted Research Topics for the 2019 call for proposals.

2. A Request for Information (RFI) for the National Space Weather Strategy.

[NOTE IMMINENT deadline for comments]

The National Science and Technology Council has announced its intent to update the National Space Weather Strategy. A Request for Information (RFI) has been published in the Federal Register that seeks input from the public on ways to improve Federal government coordination of programs and activities to enhance national preparedness to space weather events. SWPC encourages all interested parties to review the RFI and provide feedback. The RFI can be accessed at:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/04/20/2018-08336/developing-an-update-to-the-national-space-weather-strategy

Comments are due by May 16, 2018.
3.  Community input to Living with a Star Targeted Research and Technology (LWS TR&T) Focused Science Topics for ROSES 2019 and beyond

The 2018 NASA Living with a Star Targeted Research and Technology (LWS TR&T) Program Analysis Group (LPAG https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/lpag) executive committee (EC) will soon begin developing the next round of LWS focused science topics for ROSES 2019 and beyond. It is vital for the success of the LWS TR&T program that there be active community engagement in the development of annual TR&T science topics. We are therefore asking the Heliophysics community to provide input by July 2, 2018 for these topics.

Suggested science topics should be organized around achieving the goals set out in the strategic
science areas (SSA’s) articulated in the LWS Ten Year Vision:
https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/pdf/LWS_10YrVision_Oct2015_Final.pdf

Physics-based Understanding to Enable Forecasting of:
• SSA-0, Solar Electromagnetic, Energetic Particle, and Plasma Outputs Driving the Solar
System Environment and Inputs to Earth’s Atmosphere
(note, Sun-Climate topics fall under SSA-0)
• SSA-1, Geomagnetic Variability
• SSA-2, Satellite Drag
• SSA-3, Solar Energetic Particle
• SSA-4, Total Electron Content
• SSA-5, Ionospheric Scintillation
• SSA-6, Radiation Environment

Input may be entered through the LWS TR&T website at: https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/input/

To view and comment on input which has been submitted in response to this call, please go to: https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/viewinput/2018/

To view the topics which were developed from community input by the previous TR&T
committee in 2016, see the final report of that committee at:
https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/pdf/LWSTRT-Report-2016-Final.pdf

And the original community input and comments at: https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/viewinput/2016/

Any topics in this 2016 report which were not selected by NASA for the ROSES 2017 TR&T call, or which are not selected by NASA for the upcoming ROSES 2018 TR&T call will be reviewed by the LPAG EC. Community input regarding updates to those topics is welcome.

We greatly look forward to your input and to continuing on the path of innovation and scientific exploration in the LWS program.

LPAG Executive Committee Members: Anthea Coster (Co-Chair), Mark Linton (Co-Chair), Joe Borovsky, Richard Collins, Seebany Datta-Barua, Matina Gkioulidou, Fan Guo, Jorg-Micha Jahn, Enrico Landi, John Leibacher, Sabrina Savage, Brian Walsh

LPAG Ex Officio Members: Jeff Morrill, Janet Kozyra, Shing Fung

4. TESS Town Hall: Community input to Living with a Star Targeted Research and Technology (LWS TR&T) Focused Science Topics for ROSES 2019 and beyond
The Town Hall will be held at the TESS meeting on Monday, May 21 at 12:30pm in the Faulkner room. The purpose of the Town Hall is  to present the call for community input to Living with a Star Targeted Research and Technology (LWS TR&T)  Focused Science Topics for ROSES 2019 and beyond, and to solicit discussion regarding this input process and regarding potential topics.

Mark Linton, LPAG co-chair

5. Call For Abstract to Session 3 at the Fifteenth European Space Weather Workshop, November 5-9, 2018 in Leuven, Belgium

Dear Members,

We invite you to submit a short abstract to Session 3 at the Fifteenth European Space Weather Workshop, November 5-9, 2018 in Leuven, Belgium.  This Session will focus on identifying advancements and opportunities toward improved national and global resilience for space weather events.  The Session also provides the opportunity for presenters to showcase advances in research, observations, or analyses that can inform and enhance actions to improve resilience to the effects of space weather events. We are also interested in national level efforts to improve capacity, coordination and resilience as well as those that seek to strengthen international partnerships and frameworks.  Examples include national strategies, legislative developments, risk registers, coordinated research programs, and policy-level discussions in the UN and elsewhere. It is also a chance for presenters to identify opportunities for additional research and collaboration to enhance resilience to the effects of space weather events.

Deadline for submissions is 18 May, 2018.
Additional background and submission details are available here: http://www.stce.be/esww15/program/sessions.php

Thank you for your consideration,
Seth and Chris.

6.  Community Survey of Python Users

In preparation for the Snakes on a Spaceship: The Return of the Python, the next in an ongoing series of CEDAR sessions focused on python and python packages developed by the wider space physics community, we would like to learn a bit more about who in the space physics community is using python and how they do so.  Please take a moment to fill out our survey, so we can better direct our efforts for community organization.  It should only take about 2 minutes.
 https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/4288516/Python-in-Space-Science

Thank you!
Angeline Burrell, Russell Stoneback, Jeff Klenzing
Alexa J. Halford
Space Sciences Department
The Aerospace Corporation
Chantilly, VA
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work e-mail: Alexa.J.Halford at aero.org<mailto:Alexa.J.Halford at aero.org>
work Phone: 571-304-7441

8. Call for Abstract for European Space Weather Week

Dear colleagues,

We warmly invite abstract submissions to an exciting session at this year’s European Space Weather Week entitled: “Unveiling Current Challenges in Space Weather Forecasting”. (http://www.stce.be/esww15/program/session_details.php?nr=6). A brief description is provided below for your consideration.

The European Space Weather Week (ESWW15 http://www.stce.be/esww15/) will take place between 5 - 9 November in Leuven, Belgium and the deadline for abstract submission is May 18, 2018.

Kind regards,
Ryan McGranaghan

On behalf of
Anastasios Anastasiadis, Enrico Camporeale, and Manolis K. Georgoulis

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UNVEILING CURRENT CHALLENGES IN SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING

Anastasios Anastasiadis (National Observatory of Athens, IAASARS)
Enrico Camporeale (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, CWI)
Manolis K. Georgoulis (Academy of Athens, RCAAM)
Ryan McGranaghan (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Session Abstract:
Predicting the conditions of our space environment is a true challenge, due to the large size of the system and the complex interplay of physical mechanisms. Nowadays, forecasting techniques range from physics-based to data driven statistical models. Massively expanded data availability and sophisticated means to analyze voluminous and complex information open new possibilities to innovative methodologies. This session is devoted to the broad spectrum of advanced forecasting techniques, including physical models, statistical methods, data assimilation, information theory, and machine learning. The goal of this session is to provide a forum for new and ongoing efforts that connect the dots between space weather research and future operational forecasting applications. We invite abstracts covering observations, models, and their combinations. Methods that use innovative and multidisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome.
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Ryan McGranaghan | Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Research Fellow
          University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
          Jet Propulsion Laboratory
          4800 Oak Grove, M/S 138-314  |  Pasadena, CA 91109
          818.354.0926  |  rymc1012 at ucar.edu<mailto:rymc1012 at ucar.edu>

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