From emery at ucar.edu Tue Nov 17 11:56:31 2009 From: emery at ucar.edu (Barbara Emery) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:56:31 -0700 Subject: This is a generic mailing to the CEDAR community. These email messages, jobs and meetings are also listed at http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu. test message #1 Message-ID: <4B02F1DF.8090403@ucar.edu> This is a test to myself - the single member of cedar_email at this time. - Barbara From emery at ucar.edu Tue Nov 17 16:57:21 2009 From: emery at ucar.edu (Barbara Emery) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:57:21 -0700 Subject: CEDAR email: postdoc and job openings in CO and NY Message-ID: <4B033861.7070103@ucar.edu> This is a generic mailing to the CEDAR community sent Nov 17, 2009. Meetings and jobs are listed at http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu under 'Community' as 'Calendar of Meetings' and 'CEDAR related opportunities'. CEDAR email messages are under 'Community' as 'CEDAR email Newsletters'. All are in 'Quick Links' on the main page. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) HAO post-doc fellowship applications due 4 Jan 2010. Reply to Travis Metcalfe (travis at ucar.edu). See also http://www.hao.ucar.edu/people/visitors/postdoc.php. (2) Siena College Job Opening - applications due 31 Dec. Reply to Allan Weatherwax (aweatherwax at siena.edu). Send applications to Dr. Mark Rosenberry (mrosenberry at siena.edu). See also http://www.sos.siena.edu/physics. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) HAO post-doc fellowship applications due 4 Jan 2010. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Travis Metcalfe (travis at ucar.edu). The High Altitude Observatory (HAO) in Boulder, Colorado announces its 2010 postdoctoral fellowship program. Scientists at HAO conduct research related to solar/stellar interiors and variability (including asteroseismology and the solar-stellar connection), the lower solar atmosphere, corona and heliosphere, and terrestrial and planetary atmospheres, ionospheres and magnetospheres. Projects involving radiative transfer, hydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, radiation hydrodynamics, plasma physics and other topics are pursued both out of fundamental physical interest and for their application to the above areas of research. Successful applicants will be expected to pursue research in collaboration with members of the scientific staff and other long-term visitors in these and related areas. Postdoctoral Fellows are appointed for a maximum of 2 years beginning in September or October; a degree of flexibility is possible on the specific times of arrival and departure. Fellows are expected to work at HAO in Boulder, Colorado, with the exception of time spent participating in field research and observing programs. Fellows will have access to the HAO Linux/Unix computers, NCAR supercomputer systems, and the HAO and NCAR libraries and data archives from Mauna Loa Solar Observatory and other facilities. Fellows will receive a salary commensurate with NCAR postdoctoral rates. The current annual rate is $55,000 in the first year and $57,500 in the second year. A scientific travel budget of up to $2,000 per year is also normally available. Relocation expenses to NCAR will be reimbursed up to a maximum of $1000 for the fellow and his or her family. Fellows living abroad will have round-trip travel for themselves and their families paid up to a maximum of $2,500. An allowance of $750 for moving and storing personal belongings is provided. In accordance with NCAR policy, benefits include health insurance, vacation time and retirement contributions, and NCAR will provide assistance in finding Boulder accommodations. For complete application details, please see the associated URL at http://www.hao.ucar.edu/people/visitors/postdoc.php. The deadline for applications is January 4, 2010. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2) Siena College Job Opening - applications due 31 Dec. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Allan Weatherwax (aweatherwax at siena.edu). Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Siena College. The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Siena College invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor position starting Fall, 2010. A PhD in physics or a closely related field is required, and postdoctoral and teaching experience are desirable. The successful candidate will be expected to teach enthusiastically and effectively in introductory and non-majors' courses, as well as in courses for physics majors. He or she will also be expected to develop an active research program involving undergraduate students. A facility for obtaining external funding is considered desirable. The ability to teach courses in Solid State or Nano physics is a plus. The department consists of seven full-time faculty, and currently there are active research programs in astronomy, atomic physics, biophysics, computational physics, elementary particle physics and space physics. Further information about the Department is available at http://www.sos.siena.edu/physics. Siena College is located in the Capital District of New York State, a region with many vibrant and growing institutions engaged in science and R & D. Interested candidates should submit a pdf document including cover letter, statements expressing thoughts on teaching and research, a complete curriculum vita, and the names and contact information (including email addresses) of three references. At least one of the references should be able to address the candidate's teaching ability. Send applications to Dr. Mark Rosenberry, Siena College, 515 Loudon Road, Loudonville, NY 12211, (mrosenberry at siena.edu). Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, but they should be received by December 31, 2009 to guarantee full consideration. Siena College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From emery at ucar.edu Wed Nov 25 14:35:37 2009 From: emery at ucar.edu (Barbara Emery) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:35:37 -0700 Subject: CEDAR email: CEDAR Post on-line, IGNSS in Australia, Dewan scholarship, jobs in FL and UK Message-ID: <4B0DA329.1040302@ucar.edu> This is a generic mailing to the CEDAR community sent Nov 25, 2009. Meetings and jobs are listed at http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu under 'Community' as 'Calendar of Meetings' and 'CEDAR related opportunities'. CEDAR email messages are under 'Community' as 'CEDAR email Newsletters'. All are in 'Quick Links' on the main page. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Fall 2009 CEDAR Post on-line and via email. Submitted by Jeff Thayer (jeff.thayer at colorado.edu). See also http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu (click on Post). (2) International Global Navigation Satellite Systems (IGNSS) Society meeting 30 November-03 December 2009 in Queensland, Australia. From URSI Commission G mailing on 21 Nov by Mike Rietveld (mike at eiscat.uit.no). See also http://www.ignss.org. (3) Edmond Dewan Young Scientist Scholarship at AGU. From Jeremy Winick (jeremy.winick at verizon.net). See also https://www.agu.org/givingtoagu/making_your_gift.php. (4) Post-Doc at Space Physics Research Lab at Embry Riddle in Florida. From Abas Sivjee (sivjee at erau.edu). See also http://www.sprl.db.erau.edu/site/. (5) Job at University of Nottingham, UK with Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) - application due 7 December. Submitted by Fabiano Rodrigues (frodrigues at astraspace.net). Inquiries to Marcio Aquino (Marcio.Aquino at Nottingham.ac.uk). See also http://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancies.aspx?cat=160#j6385. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Fall 2009 CEDAR Post on-line and via email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Jeff Thayer (jeff.thayer at colorado.edu) and Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu). The Fall 2009 CEDAR Post #56 is online at http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu (click on Post) as a good quality 14.1 MB file and a lower resolution 1.2 MB file for email purposes. This Post will be mailed out to the community as usual, but the CEDAR Post will go completely electronic by 2010. A list of 50 who replied they prefer a printed Post to web or email versions in the 2009 CEDAR Workshop registration survey is on-line on the Post page. This list can be added to or revised by those with CEDAR wiki or database logins. Alternatively, please email Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu) to get on this paper mailing list. Starting with this issue, a low-resolution (1.2 MB this issue) form of the CEDAR Post will be emailed to the community via the CEDAR email list. Those who prefer a paper copy can delete their email copies which will arrive much earlier in time than the printed copy. Since some emailer locations may not be able to accept the relatively small .pdf Post because of its size, it will go out separately from other community announcements. Those who prefer the better quality pictures in the web version can make their personal copy from the web. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2) International Global Navigation Satellite Systems (IGNSS) Society meeting 30 November-03 December 2009 in Queensland, Australia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From URSI Commission G mailing on 21 Nov by Mike Rietveld (mike at eiscat.uit.no). Please see the web page of the International Global Navigation Satellite Systems (IGNSS) Society at http://www.ignss.org for their mission and for details of the 2009 IGNSS meeting in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia from 30 November to 3 December, 2009. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (3) Edmond Dewan Young Scientist Scholarship at AGU. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Jeremy Winick (jeremy.winick at verizon.net). Dear Friends and Colleagues of Dr. Edmond M. Dewan, If you don't know the sad story of the last few years, I will briefly summarize it here. Otherwise skip the next paragraph. Edmond Dewan suffered a stroke at the end of July in 2007. He had a slow rehabilitation over the next two years and this spring was starting to get back to work a day or so a week. His stroke affected his body, with weakness and inability to move one side, and he was confined to a wheelchair. His mind was not affected and he could still take part in active conversation on matters of science. He did have trouble reading and of course writing. His progress was slow, but the times colleagues would visit him, and during his unfortunately brief returns to his office were the highlights of his past year. Unfortunately over this past July 4 weekend he suffered a massive stroke and passed away about a week later. Edmond Dewan worked for the Air Force for 52 years at Hanscom Air Force Base. Edmond was a longtime member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). With this in mind, the Dewan family has created the Dr. Edmond M. Dewan Young Scientist Scholarship through AGU to honor Edmond's career as a physicist, inventor, and explorer of a wide range of subjects. The fund will provide financial assistance to deserving graduate students of atmospheric sciences or space physics. If you would like to contribute to the Dr. Edmond M. Dewan Young Scientist Scholarship, you can do it in a number of ways. Send a check payable to "AGU" with a note in the memo portion or in a cover letter indicating that the funds should be directed to the "Dr. Edmond M. Dewan Young Scientist Scholarship." The address is: American Geophysical Union, Accounting Department, 2000 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009 The scholarship fund is also accessible online at: https://www.agu.org/givingtoagu/making_your_gift.php If you are an AGU member, donations can be made at the AGU web site as part of your membership renewal. Please Select the Student Grants, Scholarships, Activities and click on the Dr. Edmond M. Dewan Scholarship. Please feel free to pass this information on to any other colleagues that might be interested. I apologize if you have already received this information from some other source. -- Jeremy Winick (jeremy.winick at verizon.net) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (4) Post-Doc at Space Physics Research Lab at Embry Riddle in Florida. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Abas Sivjee (sivjee at erau.edu). A Post Doctoral Fellow (PDF) position is available in the Space Physics Research Laboratory (SPRL) of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). Initial appointment will be for a one year period, with a possibility (upon satisfactory performance) of a renewal for the second year. The successful candidate will be involved in electro-optical research systems development, calibration, field operation at six globally distributed stations and in data analyses. Research in SPRL focuses on joint Radar and Electro-Optical Remote-Sensing of Auroral processes, Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interactions, Radio Heating of the Polar Ionosphere, and Upper Atmospheric Disturbances as well as Dynamics in both the Arctic and the Antarctic regions. Candidates for this position must have completed a Ph.D. in Physics, Electrical Engineering or allied Sciences and Engineering fields. Annual stipend will depend on the successful candidate's research experience. Applications for this PDF position should be sent to: Dr. G. G. Sivjee (sivjee at erau.edu), Director, Space Physics Research Laboratory, Professor of Engineering Physics, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, 600 South Clyde Morris Boulevard, Daytona Beach, FL 32114-3966. See also http://www.sprl.db.erau.edu/site/. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (5) Job at University of Nottingham, UK with Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) - application due 7 December. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Fabiano Rodrigues (frodrigues at astraspace.net). Research Associate/Fellow in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Ionospheric Research Reference : ENG362X1, Closing Date : 07 December 2009, Salary : #24,152 to #35,469 per annum, depending on qualifications and experience (salary can progress to #38,757 per annum, subject to performance) - (#26,391 maximum without PhD) This post is available from early in 2010 and will be offered on a fixed-term contract for a period of three years Division of Infrastructure & Geomatics, Institute of Engineering Surveying & Space Geodesy (IESSG) Applications are invited for the above post in the Faculty of Engineering (Division of Infrastructure and Geomatics) Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy (IESSG), based on the University of Nottingham Innovation Park, UK. This is an exciting opportunity to join the IESSG, which is internationally recognised for excellence in research in the field of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). This is an area where major developments are currently taking place, including the completion of Europe's own system, Galileo. Although existing GNSS systems, such as the US Global Positioning System (GPS), underpin a significant part of modern infrastructure, including financial markets, telecoms, power generation and distribution as well as transport and emergency services, they suffer from a number of known vulnerabilities. One such shortcoming relates to an ionospheric disturbance known as scintillation, which causes amplitude and phase variations on the satellites signals as they cross the ionosphere. GNSS receivers are not robust against scintillation and effects range from degradation of positioning accuracy to the complete loss of signal tracking. In January 2010, the IESSG will start a four year co-ordinated research programme with the Universities of Bath and Leeds entitled 'GNSS Scintillation: Detection, Forecasting and Mitigation', funded by a grant awarded by the EPSRC. The project benefits from industrial partnerships with several prominent collaborators, including the Belgian GNSS receiver manufacturers Septentrio, world leaders in multi-GNSS receivers. The project aims are to quantify GNSS positioning errors and vulnerabilities over the next solar maximum, improve the UK's modeling of GNSS scintillation and develop corresponding mitigation tools. The project will include the deployment of GPS scintillation receivers and the setting up of a data collection/distribution system. The person appointed will take overall responsibility for the implementation of the data logging, storage, transmission and sharing strategies, and will be required to travel to the remote sites. They will also implement the project's data flow and collaborate strongly with their counterparts based at Bath and Leeds in research on scintillation prediction, ionospheric mapping and combined hardware and software development for scintillation mitigation. The IESSG lead a Work Package dedicated to the impact of scintillation on GNSS users and the development of mitigation strategies, in which the person appointed will liaise with the user community to incorporate their technical/operational issues in the tools that the project aims to develop. Candidates should have (or be about to complete) a PhD in a numerate subject such as mathematics, physics, engineering or a closely related subject, and an interest in radio propagation. Ideal expertise includes the areas of geodesy and surveying, with experience in GNSS signals and error modeling. Evidence of the ability to publish research papers and to present work at conferences is required. Experience in IT and computer programming, as well as a willingness to undertake occasional fieldwork are essential for this post. Excellent communication and team work skills are fundamental to the success of this project. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr M Aquino, Email:Marcio.Aquino at Nottingham.ac.uk. Please note that applications sent directly to this Email address will not be accepted. http://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancies.aspx?cat=160#j6385 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From emery at ucar.edu Wed Nov 25 14:37:44 2009 From: emery at ucar.edu (Barbara Emery) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:37:44 -0700 Subject: CEDAR email: Fall 2009 CEDAR Post email (1.2MB .pdf) Message-ID: <4B0DA3A8.5010807@ucar.edu> This is a generic mailing to the CEDAR community sent Nov 25, 2009. Meetings and jobs are listed at http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu under 'Community' as 'Calendar of Meetings' and 'CEDAR related opportunities'. CEDAR email messages are under 'Community' as 'CEDAR email Newsletters'. All are in 'Quick Links' on the main page. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Email version (1.2 MB) of the Fall 2009 CEDAR Post - the 14.1 MB version with better pictures is at http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Jeff Thayer (jeff.thayer at colorado.edu) and Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu). The Fall 2009 CEDAR Post #56 is online at http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu (click on Post) as a good quality 14.1 MB file and a lower resolution 1.2 MB file for email purposes. This Post will be mailed out to the community as usual, but the CEDAR Post will go completely electronic by 2010. A list of 50 who replied they prefer a printed Post to web or email versions in the 2009 CEDAR Workshop registration survey is on-line on the Post page. This list can be added to or revised by those with CEDAR wiki or database logins. Alternatively, please email Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu) to get on this paper mailing list. The .pdf attachment is the low-resolution (1.2 MB) form of the Fall 2009 CEDAR Post. Those who prefer better quality pictures are welcome to download the 14.1 MB version from the URL above. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CEDARPost56_112509finalsmall.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1300619 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/cedar_email/attachments/20091125/12278dbb/attachment-0001.pdf