[Shine-participants] SHINE mid-May Newsletter

[Lugaz, Noe]

Dear SHINE community,

Please see some attachments below.

Stay safe and see you all soon virtually or in person:

1- SWORM Historical Data Set Request
2- SPA SPARC Award Nominations Due June 1st
3- Call for Papers for "Solar and Heliospheric Plasma Structures: Waves, Turbulence, and Dissipation" in JGR-Space Physics
4- Call for Papers for "Heliophysics and Space Weather Studies from the Sun-Earth Lagrange Points”" in Space Weather
5- Invitation to Participate in Frontiers Research Topic "New Challenges in Space Plasma Physics”
6- Dear Colleague Letter from Living With a Star
7- JOB OPPORTUNITY: Civil Servant Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
8- Opportunities for cosmic ray related solar physics

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1- SWORM Historical Data Set Request
The Space Weather Operations, Research, and Mitigation (SWORM) Interagency Working Group is requesting input to identify historical data NOT currently available in the public domain that would benefit research efforts and have the potential to improve models for characterizing and forecasting space weather events.

The 2019 National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan (NSW-SAP) identifies space weather as having the potential to adversely affect national critical infrastructure, defense and intelligence systems, and military operations. Existing space weather operational modeling and forecasting capabilities fall short of what is required to meet the Nation?s needs for space weather services. To fully realize the benefits of its research investments, the Nation should develop improved research models targeted to operational needs, transition these research models to operational models, and incorporate them into operational forecasts. Developing forecasting capabilities with increased accuracy, lead-time, and geographic resolution will enable more effective mitigation approaches and further national preparedness for space weather events. Greater access to existing data sets would advance the development, validation, and testing of models used for characterizing and forecasting space weather events and improve the quality of space weather products and services.

Complete the form at the below link for EACH data set that you recommend be made available in the public domain. Please provide specific information on the data and how it could be used.

https://forms.gle/96WbbNPcciPzgb3o7

Submit responses no later than 1 June 2020. Direct any inquiries about this data call to Jennifer Meehan at jennifer.meehan at noaa.gov<mailto:jennifer.meehan at noaa.gov>.

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2- SPA SPARC Award Nominations Due June 1st
Dear SHINE Community,

There is a relatively new SPA award that we wanted to bring to your attention: the Space Physics and Aeronomy Richard Carrington Education and Public Outreach (SPARC) award. Please consider nominating your colleagues. The deadline is June 1st. Information on nomination requirements and past recipients can be found here:

https://www.agu.org/Honor-and-Recognize/Honors/Section-Awards/SPARC-Award

The Space Physics & Aeronomy Richard Carrington (SPARC) Education & Public Outreach Award is presented annually to a senior scientist for significant impact on the public?s understanding of space physics and aeronomy through their education or outreach activities. It is named for Richard Carrington, an English amateur astronomer who was the first person to observe a large solar flare in 1859. Recipients of the SPARC Award go above and beyond their job title in their education and outreach endeavors.

Nicholeen Viall, Toshi Nishimura, and Aaron Ridley

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3-Call for Papers for "Solar and Heliospheric Plasma Structures: Waves, Turbulence, and Dissipation" in JGR-Space Physics

Submission Open: 20 April 2020
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2020

Special Section Organizers:
Leon Ofman, Catholic University of America/NASA GSFC
Shreekrishna Tripathi, UCLA

The aim of the special section is to present an overview of the current
status of the field of waves, turbulence, and dissipation in solar and
heliospheric plasma structures, that combines, theory, modeling,
spacecraft observations (such as STEREO, Wind, ACE, Helios, Parker Solar
Probe, Solar Orbiter), ground based observations, and laboratory plasma
experiments. Leading experts in the field have convened at AGU meetings
and presented invited and contributed talks to the broad AGU community
reflecting the current status and progress of knowledge in the field.
The special section will contain contributions from a number of these
experts, each in individual review paper, thus providing invaluable new
reference on this topic in the field.

Papers on related topics are solicited from the general research
community. Manuscripts should be submitted through the GEMS site for
JGR-Space Physics
(https://jgr-spacephysics-submit.agu.org/cgi-bin/main.plex). The
collection?s title should be selected from the drop down menu in the
Special Sections field of the submission form. For additional
information please contact the Journal at collections at agu.org or
organizers of this special section.

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4-Call for Papers for "Heliophysics and Space Weather Studies from the Sun-Earth Lagrange Points”" in Space Weather
Submission Open: 15 February 2020
Submission Deadline: 01 December 2021

Special Section Organizers:
Nat Gopalswamy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Jackie Davies, RAL Space, UK
Ying Liu, National Space Science Center, CAS, China
Angelos Vourlidas, JHU Applied Physics Lab, USA

It has long been recognized that earthward propagating solar disturbances can be better investigated from a viewpoint away from the Sun-Earth line. In particular, the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) demonstrated that these disturbances can be measured best from the neighborhood of Sun-Earth Lagrange points L5 and L4 during its transit through these points. Unfortunately, STEREO did not carry a magnetograph, so it was not able to make measurement of photospheric magnetic fields and motions, a deficiency that was also felt when the Ulysses mission did not carry a remote-sensing instrument to observe solar poles. Observations from off the Sun-Earth line views are important to provide a three-dimensional view of the Sun and solar eruptions that are key to make rapid progress in understanding solar variability and its impact on Earth and the heliosphere. The papers in this special issue of Space Weather provide information on current efforts in building assets at locations away from the Sun Earth line and how they address the needs for the development of heliophysical science and space weather prediction. These articles also cover developments in the techniques, modeling, and understanding to ensure effective exploitation of the data from off the Sun-Earth line missions such as Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter.

Papers on related topics are solicited from the general research community. Manuscripts should be submitted through the GEMS site for
Space Weather (http://spaceweather-submit.agu.org). Space Weather is a gold open access journal since 2020 January 1st.

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5-Invitation to Participate in Frontiers Research Topic "New Challenges in Space Plasma Physics:  Open Questions and Future Mission Concepts
Dear SHINE Community,

We would like to draw your attention to the new Research Topic "New Challenges in Space Plasma Physics: Open Questions and Future Mission Concepts” in the journals Frontiers in Physics and Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences (website: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13935/new-challenges-in-space-plasma-physics-open-questions-and-future-mission-concepts).
We would greatly appreciate if you would consider submitting an article to this series.

Our Research Topic is designed to capture the state of space plasma physics, both in terms of the important open questions and the mission concepts that are being considered to address those questions. So far, several authors of white papers submitted to ESA's Voyage 2050 strategic planning exercise have expressed their interest in participating, and our aim is to make this Research Topic broad to cover the full international community. Our hope is to have a collection of articles that show our field as a vibrant and active area of physics with an exciting future ahead.

As you may know, Frontiers is a community-driven, fully open-access, online journal with an emphasis on responsible collaborative peer-review, accountability, and editorial independence. The journal is relatively new in our field, but growing well. Articles are in principle subject to a publication fee, but a discount/waiver can be applied for if you do not have access to sufficient funds for this type of publication.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 21 June 2020, and the deadline for the manuscript submission is 19 October 2020.

If you have any questions about the Research Topic, please contact the editors.

Best wishes,
—Daniel
on behalf of the topic editors: Luca Sorriso-Valvo (lucasorriso at gmail.com), Alessandro Retinò (alessandro.retino at lpp.polytechnique.fr), Christopher Chen (christopher.chen at qmul.ac.uk), Daniel Verscharen (d.verscharen at ucl.ac.uk)

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6- Dear Colleague Letter from Living With a Star
The LWS Program Analysis Group Executive Committee would like to disseminate the attached Dear Colleague Letter to the SHINE community.  We are soliciting input to update the current set of focused science topics available to choose from for future ROSES proposal calls.

See attachment

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7- 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<mailto:adam.szabo at nasa.gov>), Code 672 Lab Chief, and Eric Christian (eric.r.christian at nasa.gov<mailto:eric.r.christian at nasa.gov>), Code 672 Associate Lab Chief and head of the Energetic Particle Laboratory.


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8- Opportunities for cosmic ray related solar physics
There are some opportunities available for the cosmic ray related
solar physics.  Hope the information provides help for the colleagues
who are searching for positions in this difficult time.

Shandong Institute of Advanced Technology is a new international
research institute established by the Government of Shandong Province,
China. The goal is to provide a facility for scientists and engineers
to carry out advanced research and development in science and
technology. The Institute will be located in Jinan, Shandong Province
on a 150,000 m2 campus with infrastructure to support 1,200 staff in
the initial phase. The Institute will provide the opportunity for
scientists and engineers to carry out their research and for young
scientists and engineers, in particular, to ultimately take a
leadership role in the activities of the Institute.  It is anticipated
that the Institute will become a world class research facility in the
near future.

       The Particle Physics Research Center is established to perform
large scale experimental research on particle physics and
astro-particle physics. Currently, the main mission is to continue the
long-term participation in the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment
(AMS) on the International Space Station searching for dark matter,
antimatter, the origin of cosmic rays, and the measurements of cosmic
radiation in outer space as well as solar physics.  We are
establishing a new laboratory to develop advanced particle physics
detector instrumentation for ground and space applications. In the
long term, we plan to propose new experiments to further explore the
fundamental structures of matter and the origin of the universe.

1. Open Positions

Several positions of Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Research
Associates. We focus on studying cosmic ray related solar physics,
such as cosmic ray solar modulation, solar energetic particles
transport, Forbush decrease, solar rotation recurrence of galactic
cosmic rays, et al. We also plan to develop software to numerically
model the cosmic rays introduced space radiation environment, and to
analyze its effect on spacecraft.

2. Requirements

The candidates should have a Ph.D degree in one of the following
disciplines: space physics, heliophysics, particle physics, nuclear
physics, astroparticle physics, or other related ones.

3. Salary

Annual salary between 300k and 600k RMB, depending on candidate?s
research ability, education background and academic experience. The
institute provides support on the housing, medical insurance,
childcare, and children?s education.

4. Contact

Interested candidates should provide their resumes, a brief
introduction of their research achievements and interests, and contact
information for at least three letters of recommendation. Please send
the above material to:

Professor Weiwei Xu,     Weiwei.Xu at CERN.CH<mailto:Weiwei.Xu at cern.ch>
Dr. Xi Luo,                        Xi.Luo at iat.cn<mailto:Xi.Luo at iat.cn>



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