[Shine-participants] SHINE December Newsletter - SHINE session proposals

[Lugaz, Noe]

Dear SHINE community,

See various announcements below, including request for session proposals for the 2020 SHINE meeting
For reference, the 2020 SHINE workshop is currently planned for the week of 2020 July 12-17 in the Hawaiian islands (currently planned for Honolulu). We will let the community know about the exact location once the hotel contract is signed.

Sincerely,

Noé Lugaz
SHINE Steering Committee Chair


1. Call for Session Proposals for the 2020 SHINE Workshop (Deadline: Jan 17)
2. Informational Meeting at AGU on December 12 about Dual-Anonymous Review for ROSES 2020
3. Next Generation Software for Data-driven Models of Space Weather with Quantified Uncertainties (SWQU)
4. Los Alamos Space Weather Summer School Application Open
5. Access2Space - Second Announcement
6. 2020 Heliophysics Summer School, Boulder, CO
7. SAVE THE DATE - June 8-12, 2020 - 2nd Eddy Cross Disciplinary Symposium
8. MEETING: Parker One  First Annual Parker Solar Probe Conference



1. Call for Session Proposals for the 2020 SHINE Workshop (Deadline: Jan 17)
This year, we are requesting session proposal through an online google form. The deadline is 2020 January 17. Note that we will have a joint day with GEM following the SHINE workshop completion. We are not presently requesting session proposals for this joint day.

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2. Informational Meeting at AGU on December 12 about Dual-Anonymous Review for ROSES 2020
The Heliophysics Guest Investigators Open Program and the cross-cutting Habitable Worlds Program will be implementing dual-anonymous review as a pilot program in ROSES 2020. Potential proposers are invited to an informational meeting at the fall AGU meeting in San Francisco on how to write anonymized proposals. The meeting will be held on December 12, 2019, at the Parc 55 Hotel Cyril Magnin I/II at 12:30 pm. There will be a short presentation followed by Q&A.
Motivated by a successful study conducted for the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate is conducting the pilot program in ROSES-2020 to evaluate proposals using dual-anonymous peer review. Under this system, not only are proposers unaware of the identity of the members on the review panel, but the reviewers do not have explicit knowledge of the identities of the proposing team. Step-1 and Step-2 proposals will continue to be submitted via NSPIRES. Proposers must fill in all required information on the cover pages: any identifying information will be automatically redacted by NASA in the copy provided to reviewers. Both the Step-1 abstract and the Step-2 proposal will need to be anonymized.
SMD is strongly committed to ensuring that the review of proposals is performed in an equitable and fair manner that reduces the impacts of any unconscious biases.
For questions please contact Mona Kessel at nasa.gov<http://nasa.gov>

3. Next Generation Software for Data-driven Models of Space Weather with Quantified Uncertainties (SWQU)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) expect to make a small number of awards for developing next generation software for data-driven models of space weather with quantified uncertainties.  Improvements in predictive modeling capabilities of space weather require an integrative approach to address the complete Sun-to-Earth geospace environment, including disturbances generated by the Sun, the solar wind, and the magnetosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere system. NSF and NASA recognize that there are research needs that can only be met appropriately by teams of researchers. The advantages of pooled insights, complementary expertise, diverse points of view, and shared tasks make a successful research team more than the sum of its parts. A dedicated mode of support for such scientifically-focused multi-investigator projects with an emphasis on early career research support is provided by this activity.

Full solicitation at

HTML - https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20519/nsf20519.htm

PDF - https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20519/nsf20519.pdf


4. Los Alamos Space Weather Summer School Application Open
The Los Alamos Space Weather Summer School is accepting applications for its 2020 session to be held (June 1 - July 31, 2020). Sponsored by the Center for Space and Earth Sciences at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), this summer school brings together top space science graduate students and LANL space scientists to work on challenging space weather research. Students receive a prestigious Vela Fellowship (worth $10,000 to cover travel and living expenses), technical training, and opportunities for professional development.

Lectures:
The lectures will be composed of three main themes.  The first part will be an overview of basic space physics concepts geared towards understanding how the magnetosphere works and how it is driven. The second part will use modeling tools to explore the same concepts in a more quantitative way, exposing the strengths and weaknesses of available models. The final part of the lectures will bring these concepts together to explore how new space missions could be devised to help resolve longstanding scientific questions. Lectures will be coordinated with "labs" to get more hands-on experience. Space data analysis and modeling will be the main themes of the labs.

Research projects:
The unique aspect of the Los Alamos Space Weather Summer School is its emphasis on scientific research projects. Students team up with LANL mentors to work on unresolved scientific problems in space physics. LANL is engaged in a wide variety of space-physics activities and offers a host of exciting research projects (see webpage for a list of current and past projects.) Students are also encouraged to propose their own ideas, which might include topics from their PhD thesis. In the past, many of the Summer School projects have led to presentations at major international conferences and, in some cases, to publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Students:
Open to U.S. and foreign graduate students currently enrolled in PhD programs in space physics, planetary science, aerospace engineering, or related fields.

See website at http://swx-school.lanl.gov for more details.


5. Access2Space - Second Announcement
The workshop will be two and a half days long and all sessions will be held at the Kossiakoff Center at the JHUAPL Laurel, Maryland campus. We will lead off the workshop with keynote speakers then move into splinter meetings in the afternoon organized according to science disciplines and/or regions of operation.  In the morning of the second day, we will continue the splinter and working group sessions. In each splinter session, the group will receive community presentations of possible applications and discuss the relevant topics listed below. In the afternoon of the second day, speed dating sessions between entities and the Science Mission Directorate divisions will be arranged based on abstracts submitted.  On the final day, the results of these activities will be discussed and summarized and a report will be produced.
The Workshop plenary session will include presentations on:

•          Goals of the meeting
•          SMD Rideshare policy
•          Committee on Solar & Space Physics short report
•          Small Satellite Coordination Group (SSCG) and Small Satellite Working Group

The Workshop agenda will include discussions on the following questions:
1.         What science can be enabled be rideshare?
2.         How do we populate the technology pipeline?
3.         How quickly can a secondary payload be produced?
4.         Which instruments can be developed, and what is the level of maturity for target instruments?
5.         Which instruments require technology infusion?

Logistics information can be found on the website. This is an excellent opportunity to provide community feedback in order to allow the realization of the novel opportunities provided by exciting new access to space capabilities. Community members may submit abstracts for very short presentations related to possible applications and commercial providers may submit poster abstracts to inform the community of opportunities. We encourage wide community participation and look forward to an exciting and productive workshop.

For More Info:  Access2Space Registration (http://www.cvent.com/d/pyqybf/4W)
Email: Access2Space Email (mailto:access2space at jhuapl.edu)

Where
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, Laurel, Maryland, 20723, USA


6. 2020 Heliophysics Summer School, Boulder, CO
Explosive Space Weather Events and their Impacts
NASA’s Living with a Star Heliophysics Summer School

July 14 - 21, 2020

Boulder, CO

Application Deadline: February 21, 2020

We welcome you to apply for the 2020 Heliophysics Summer School to be held in beautiful Boulder, CO. We are seeking advanced graduate students, as well as post doctoral students, who have completed some research in the area of space physics or related fields. You will learn about the exciting science of heliophysics as a broad, coherent discipline that reaches in space from the Earth?s troposphere to the depths of the Sun, and in time from the formation of the solar system to the distant future.

The 2020 Summer School will focus on the foundations of Heliophysics with particular focus on transient energetic events such as solar flares,coronal mass ejections, and geomagnetic storms.  The lecture series will include a core set of lectures covering the fundamentals of heliophysics and lectures devoted to the physics underlying explosive events. Additional lectures will cover the impacts these events have on life and technology, how these effects might be mitigated, and how the events might be forecast.  The lectures will be supplemented with hands-on laboratory exercises that explore the fundamentals Sun-Earth system. Both lectures and laboratories will draw on a set of 5 textbooks developed over previous years of the summer school. The aim of the summer school is to provide students with the background and understanding they need to do research and make discoveries about the interconnected Heliophysics system in their professional careers.
For more information please visit: https://cpaess.ucar.edu/heliophysics/summer-school


7. SAVE THE DATE - June 8-12, 2020 - 2nd Eddy Cross Disciplinary Symposium
As our planet becomes one among many thousands of known worlds, our needs to understand how Earth’s space and climate react to our variable star grow
in urgency.

Please join us in Vail, CO for the 2nd Eddy Cross Disciplinary Symposium. The aim of the Symposium is to bring scientists (both early-career and more senior) together, from diverse disciplines, to help define the next decade of helio-physical research, including its implications for planetary and astrophysical objects.

This Eddy Symposium will focus upon techniques for optimizing scientific return to broad questions such as:

   - How do we tackle the diversity of physical conditions and multi-scale   science needed to arrive at a more holistic understanding of heliophysics?
   - What new threats does solar variability bring within a changed climate?

*Agenda*
Monday, June 8 - Wednesday, June 10: General session open to all attendees. Will include talks, discussions, posters, and more.

Thursday, June 11 - Friday, June 12 By invitation only.

For more information please visit the 2nd Eddy Symposium Website
<https://cpaess.ucar.edu/meetings/2019/symposium-2020>.

For more information, please contact Kendra Greb <kgreb at ucar.edu<mailto:kgreb at ucar.edu>>
(UCAR/CPAESS). Limited travel funding may be available for early career scientists - please contact Kendra for more information.

Funding for the Symposium is provided by NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).



8.MEETING: Parker One First Annual Parker Solar Probe Conference
Parker One First Annual Parker Solar Probe Conference (http://parkerseries.jhuapl.edu)
March 23-27, 2020
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Laurel, Maryland USA

NASA Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission, which launched on August 12, 2018, has completed the first three of its 24 scheduled orbits about the Sun (perihelia on November 5, 2018, April 4, 2019, and September 1, 2019). All three orbits had roughly the same perihelion distance of 35.7 Rsun from the Sun center. In December, 2019, the spacecraft will fly by Venus for the second time since launch. This maneuver will reduce perihelion to 27.8 Rsun. The main science objectives of the PSP mission are to: (1) Trace the flow of energy that heats and accelerates the solar corona and solar wind; (2) Determine the structure and dynamics of the plasma and magnetic fields at the sources of the solar wind; and (3) Explore mechanisms that accelerate and transport energetic particles.


Data from the first two orbits will be released to the public on November 12, 2019, and from the third orbit in January 2020. The data returned so far is a treasure trove that holds potential for breakthrough discoveries. PSP is crossing new boundaries of space exploration.
The first annual Parker Solar Probe conference will be held from March 23 to 27, 2020 in Laurel, Maryland at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. The meeting will highlight the first results from the first four Parker Solar Probe solar encounters. The conference will be open to the entire heliophysics community. Abstracts involving relevant theory, simulations, data analysis, and coordinated observations are encouraged. There will be space for both oral and poster presentations, as well as splinter sessions. Early registration will open November 12, 2019. Abstracts will be due January 15, 2020.
Registration Costs $375 early, $425 after January 31, 2020.

For further information, visit http://parkerseries.jhuapl.edu






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