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.
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.
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
(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
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.