[Shine-participants] SHINE August newsletter

Mon Aug 10 13:54:34 EDT 2020

Dear all,

I hope all of you have kept safe and sane during this summer of remote work and continuous infections. Please find below a few announcements.

Sincerely,

Noé Lugaz
SHINE Steering Committee Chair
University of New Hampshire

1- Employment Opportunity in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at CU Boulder and located at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)
2- JOB OPENING: Space Physics Research Scientist at Predictive Science Inc.
3- Postdoctoral Researcher in Heliophysics at the University of New Hampshire
4- Call for Science Organizing Committee, Heliophysics 2050 Workshop
5- AGU SPA Nomination Task Force
6- The Solar Orbiter In-situ Working Groups are now ready for you to sign up!
7- 17th European Space Weather Week in Glasgow
8- SCOSTEP/PRESTO Newsletter

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1- Employment Opportunity in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at CU Boulder and located at 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 Specific Questions Regarding the Position, Contact Eric Adamson: eric.adamson at noaa.gov<http://noaa.gov>

2- JOB OPENING: Space Physics Research Scientist at Predictive Science Inc.

Space Physics Research Scientist at Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA.

Predictive Science invites applications for an early career (0-5 years since Ph.D.) research scientist position in space plasma physics, with a focus on  solar and/or heliospheric physics.  Present/soon-to-be awarded projects at PSI include studies of coronal magnetic structure, origin/evolution of the solar wind, solar/ interplanetary coronal mass ejections, and modelling/analysis applied to Heliophyisics System Observatory missions, including Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter.  A review of applications will begin August 1, 2020, and will continue until the position is filled.

Salary and an extensive benefits package are competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Required Qualifications: (i) Ph.D. in solar/heliospheric physics, space physics, or a related field — (ii) Strong programming expertise and numerical analysis skills

Preferred Qualifications: (i) Experience in data-constrained modeling, forward modeling and/or data analysis (ii) Experience with the application of computational fluid or MHD algorithms (iii) Experience running massively parallel computations on supercomputers

Duties: (i) Help support the activities of the solar physics group, including model and tool development (ii) Pursue team and individual research in key areas of solar and heliospheric physics (iii)Presentation of activities at conferences and in peer-reviewed scientific publications

All applications must include a cover letter, CV, statement of research interests, and the names of three references.  Send applications and/or inquiries to Meaghan Marsh at mmarsh at predsci.com<mailto:mmarsh at predsci.com>.

Given the current situation with COVID-19, we anticipate that the successful candidate may need to work remotely, at least in the near term; however, the candidate must be currently eligible to work in the USA.

Predictive Science Inc. is committed to diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.

3- Postdoctoral Researcher in Heliophysics at the University of New Hampshire
Dear SHINE Community,

Applications are invited for one postdoctoral research scholar position to work in collaboration with Profs. Réka Winslow and Noé Lugaz at the University of New Hampshire on the evolution of coronal mass ejections in the inner heliosphere.

We seek an individual with space physics training to undertake research on investigating the evolution and interaction of transients (such as coronal mass ejections, small flux ropes, and corotating interaction regions) as well as their effects on galactic cosmic rays in the inner heliosphere. The successful candidate will work with data from the following space missions: Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, MESSENGER, Venus Express, Wind, ACE, STEREO, LRO, MAVEN, and MSL. Strong data analysis skills are preferred. The successful candidate will also be encouraged to pursue research of their own interest and professional development in preparation for seeking a permanent position after their postdoctoral position. The initial appointment will be for 2 years with possible renewal for one additional year.

Review of complete applications will begin September 25, 2020 and will continue until the position is filled. Having a PhD at the time of application is required. For more information, please contact Prof. Réka Winslow (reka.winslow at unh.edu<mailto:reka.winslow at unh.edu>).

3- Call for Science Organizing Committee, Heliophysics 2050 Workshop
Earlier this year, NASA, NSF, and NOAA announced the Heliophysics 2050 Workshop.  This workshop will be an agency-enabled, community-driven event to help the community prepare for the next Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey.

This workshop will focus on a strategic, multi-decadal science framework for solar and space physics. We anticipate that community members will leverage workshop results to provide context for their individual white papers to the Decadal Survey process. In preparation for and as input to the Workshop, NASA will support community members in forming a Science Organizing Committee (SOC) to:
   1. Organize community white papers into a strategic science web that identifies science dependencies and flow of science investigations.
   2. Organize Workshop sessions.
   3. Serve as editors for the workshop's proceedings document.

Workshop Philosophy: The workshop will examine current scientific understanding and what near-term investigations can enable and inform future investigations. From this scientific progression, the Workshop will create a "Science Web" that maps current understanding to the next set of compelling science investigations which, in turn, lead to still later studies. These investigations will cover the range of work from basic research to operational efforts and would be agnostic to their mode of execution (e.g. theory, observations, spaceflight missions). This will enable the next Decadal Survey to lay out a long-term science strategy: What does Heliophysics look like in 2050, and what do we do in the next decade to help us get there?

Applications are welcome from any heliophysics community member. Applicants should be aware that a reasonable time commitment will be needed from summer 2020 through spring 2021. Ideally, the SOC will be a diverse group of researchers able to identify the intra- and inter-discipline connections of investigations that advance and expand the field of heliophysics.

Submission Instructions:

Email Jared Leisner (jared.s.leisner at nasa.gov<mailto:jared.s.leisner at nasa.gov>) with the subject line "Heliophysics 2050 SOC" and include:
   1. A statement of interest, including any vision for the Workshop and Decadal Survey preparation, and summarizing relevant expertise. Limit of two (2) pages.
   2. A CV documenting 1) the breadth and depth of scientific and/or technical expertise, 2) any relevant organizing experience, and 3) any experience with multi-/interdisciplinary scientific endeavors.

4- AGU SPA Nomination Task Force
Dear Colleagues,

The AGU SPA Nomination Task Force is looking for volunteers who are interested in helping increase the number of nominations for individuals from under-represented groups (URGs) to AGU awards and honors. Over the past 3 years, we nominated many individuals that fit this criteria, with several successful high-impact awards. You can read more about the process and results in a short EoS article: https://bit.ly/2X2QIZR

We are particularly looking for committee members in the SA and SH sections of SPA in order to have a fair representation across the disciplines. And you need not be part of an URG to help out! If you?d like to learn more or join the NTF to help nominate deserving individuals from URGs for prestigious AGU awards and honors, please fill out the NTF sign-up form: https://bit.ly/2F74QHa . Thank you in advance for your support in helping to fairly recognize all the members of our community.

5- 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/<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fsoloiswg%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cnoe.lugaz%40unh.edu%7C2b8a97cff1504612604408d8356f41f0%7Cd6241893512d46dc8d2bbe47e25f5666%7C0%7C0%7C637318099252161359&sdata=qwvXwjNfi%2FA4yN4V9%2FnZl3%2B4uzGLnA30ZQuVMSUwuNk%3D&reserved=0>

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.

6- 17th European Space Weather Week in Glasgow
Dear Colleagues.

Having re-arranged the dates for the 17th European Space Weather Week in Glasgow twice already, firstly because of the COP 26 Climate Change Meeting and then as a result of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, we have to change the dates again because of the re-arranged COP 26 Climate Change Meeting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-52814996<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-scotland-glasgow-west-52814996&data=02%7C01%7Cnoe.lugaz%40unh.edu%7Ce44504c0c3014abb1e2808d81823e7f6%7Cd6241893512d46dc8d2bbe47e25f5666%7C0%7C0%7C637285889800585363&sdata=76KkjbsVdnJqgWmlJbZWU9eIfd2PITzFi64cGJv0bG0%3D&reserved=0>.

Therefore, the 17th European Space Weather Week (ESWW2021) is now scheduled for 25th-29th October 2021:http://esww17.iopconfs.org/<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fesww17.iopconfs.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cnoe.lugaz%40unh.edu%7Ce44504c0c3014abb1e2808d81823e7f6%7Cd6241893512d46dc8d2bbe47e25f5666%7C0%7C0%7C637285889800595361&sdata=9tMdLJlNCG9J90lKyyw1BERP3foln2aYK3NBW%2BbYuoQ%3D&reserved=0>

We continue to look forward to welcoming you to Glasgow in 2021 for ESWW2021.

7- SCOSTEP/PRESTO Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
The Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) is pleased to announce that its latest SCOSTEP/PRESTO Newsletter is now available.  Click on the following link to access the SCOSTEP/PRESTO Newsletter 24, July 2020.
https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/bc1/offices/ISR/SCOSTEP/Multimedia/newsletterarchive/SCOSTEP_PRESTO_Newsletter_Vol24_high_reso.pdf

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