[Shine-participants] SHINE virtual post-doc application workshop and other announcements

[Lugaz, Noe]

Dear SHINE community,

See 4 announcements below including our student-organized virtual postdoctoral application workshop which will take place this upcoming Monday.

Sincerely,

Noé Lugaz, on behalf of the organizing committee.


1- SHINE Virtual Post-doctoral application workshop

Dear SHINE Community,

We (Samantha and Chris, the SHINE Student Representatives) are holding a Virtual Postdoc Application Workshop on Monday!!! If you know a graduate student who may want to attend, please have them reach out to us (shine.student.reps at gmail.com<mailto:shine.student.reps at gmail.com>) for the login info.

Sincerely,
- Samantha and Chris

Event Description: We have recruited administrative representatives from major postdoctoral programs relevant to our field, and have asked them to provide insight into the application process and advice on submitting a successful application package. The primary focus is not the specific scientific content of proposals, but rather navigating the potentially daunting task of seeking a postdoc position in a shifting environment. As moderators, Samantha and I will solicit questions via the Zoom chat and, though participants will be muted as a default, we may be able to let students ask their questions themselves if time allows.

Date - Monday, August 31st, 2020
Time - 1:00 PM EDT
Duration - 90 minutes (30 minutes of panel member presentations + 60 minutes Q&A)
Platform - Zoom
Panel - Representatives of major postdoctoral opportunities relevant to Helio/Space

  *   Jack Eddy Fellowship
  *   NASA Post-doctoral Program (NPP)
  *   NRC Research Associateship Programs
  *   NSF Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (AGS PRF)

2- NASA Space Weather Council Announcement

The NASA Heliophysics Division Seeks Community Members to Serve on a NASA Space Weather Council

The NASA Heliophysics Division is establishing a NASA Space Weather Council (SWC), a subcommittee to the Heliophysics Advisory Committee (HPAC). The SWC is established as a means to secure the counsel of community experts across diverse areas, on matters relevant to space weather in support of the NASA Heliophysics Division (HPD). The SWC serves as a community-based, interdisciplinary forum for soliciting and coordinating community analysis and input and providing advice.

The mission of the NASA HPD space weather strategy is to establish a preeminent space weather capability that supports human and robotic space exploration and meets national, international, and societal needs. This is done by advancing measurement and analysis techniques and expanding knowledge and understanding that improves space weather forecasts and nowcasts.

Ultimately, the HPD enables the space weather forecasting capability that the Agency and Nation require, in partnership with NASA's Artemis Program and other Federal agencies, and international partners. This includes the development and launch of missions/instruments that advance our knowledge of space weather and improve its prediction, and the transitioning of technology, tools, models, data, and knowledge from research to operational environments.

NASA HPD openly solicits nominations of individuals who are affiliated with U.S. institutions for membership on the SWC. Members shall be approved by the HPD Director for up to a three-year term.

Interested community members are asked to complete and submit the form using the link below by Friday, August 28, 2020.

https://science.nasa.gov/heliophysics/space-weather-council

Kate Petersen
Booz Allen Hamilton
Heliophysics Division | NASA Headquarters
Mobile: (301) 639-3831

3- Extension of Heliophysics 2050 Workshop White Paper Deadline

Earlier this year, the Heliophysics 2050 Workshop was moved to April 2021. This workshop is envisioned as an agency-enabled, community-driven event to help the science community better prepare for the next Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey.

In order to mitigate some of the impact of COVID-19 on the community, the deadline for the submission of white papers to be used for planning the Heliophysics 2050 Workshop has been extended to September 11, 2020.

The agency understands the difficulties experienced by many community members in the current public health situation. Community members are strongly encouraged to proactively involve colleagues who may be experiencing significant time constraints due to the COVID-19 situation that would allow participation in but prevent the leading of white papers.

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 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).

The white papers invited are to be short (no more than 3 pages) documents that succinctly identify a progression of linked scientific investigations starting from the current state-of-the-art and leading toward the desired state-of-the-art in 2050. There will be no limit on the number of white papers that an individual may submit, but the ideal white paper would contain as much of the links between and progression of related science investigations as possible.

The original call for white papers and links for submission can be found at https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/helio2050/whitepapers/. Information about the purpose and philosophy of the workshop itself can also be found on that webpage.

Any questions about the Heliophysics 2050 Workshop or white papers should be directed to Jared Leisner (jared.s.leisner at nasa.gov<mailto:jared.s.leisner at nasa.gov><mailto:jared.s.leisner at nasa.gov>).


4- COSPAR Smallsat Town Hall Webinar American Region
When: 2 September 2020 10:00-11:30 am MT / 12:00-1:30 pm ET

REGISTER HERE<https://cuboulder.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IeSKSSmeQEy0GUDdsZTtdA> (Free registration)

COSPAR International Constellation of Small Spacecraft

The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) in 2019 established a new Task Group to develop an "actionable" plan for an international constellation of small satellites.  As a background for taking such an approach, COSPAR quoted from its March 2019 Strategic Plan:

"As a demonstration of COSPAR's value to its Members, and its importance in space research, COSPAR should explore the possibility of assembling an international consortium that will develop, launch, and acquire data from a constellation of small satellites. As always with COSPAR activities, participation in the consortium would be voluntary. The small satellites with instruments would need to be provided by member nations, and there will need to be a major space agency(s) that facilitates launches and data collection. It will be important that the constellation yields useful and important data, so that each contributing nation can state that it is assisting in the solution of an important scientific problem. A particularly useful constellation would be one that measures the plasma conditions in the ionosphere, with sufficient measurement density to substantially improve space weather forecasts."

Those community members interested in this smallsat initiative should look at an article [Baker et al., 2020] in the August 2020 issue of Space Research Today<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fpii%2FS1752929820300384&data=02%7C01%7CNoe.Lugaz%40unh.edu%7Cc321c992c9be4ccd59f808d8453f13d6%7Cd6241893512d46dc8d2bbe47e25f5666%7C0%7C0%7C637335484945336158&sdata=1R71UY45uOemVijgcztoKIljfEXCYqrPh962fWy4bDc%3D&reserved=0>. Also, please feel free to contact the COSPAR Headquarters office<mailto:cospar at cosparhq.cnes.fr> to get more information and to express interest in this effort. We hope to have a set of regional (Europe, Asia, American sector) “town hall” meetings to explore this concept. The first of these will be the American sector webinar to be held on 2 September at 12:00 noon EDT. The European/Mid-East/Africa sector will follow about 2 weeks later and the Asia/Oceania sector will follow about 2 weeks after that. To anticipate attendance levels, we ask those wishing to join the webinar to register with COSPAR.

For the Western Hemisphere webinar please register (free) athttps://cuboulder.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IeSKSSmeQEy0GUDdsZTtdA<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcuboulder.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2FWN_IeSKSSmeQEy0GUDdsZTtdA&data=02%7C01%7CNoe.Lugaz%40unh.edu%7Cc321c992c9be4ccd59f808d8453f13d6%7Cd6241893512d46dc8d2bbe47e25f5666%7C0%7C0%7C637335484945336158&sdata=Mj7OXPe%2BIJsbytl052ig5LDjrJPhM1F1SJQSyjjC9Cg%3D&reserved=0>
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