CEDAR email: Nominations for the Basu Award and Space Weather Summer Schools with funding in MA and AL

[Barbara Emery]

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(1) Call for Nominations for the 2010 Sunanda and Santimay Basu Award, due 1 June.
 From Jonathan Makela (jmakela at illinois.edu).
See also http://www.agu.org/about/honors/section_fg/spa/.

(2) 19-30 July, 2010 CISM Space Weather Summer School, Boston
University, funding applications due 1 May from advanced
undergraduate and early graduate students.
 From Jeff Hughes (hughes at bu.edu) and the 3 March SPA Newsletter.
See also http://www.bu.edu/CISM/.

(3) 23-30 June 2010 Space Weather Summer School at the University of
Alabama in Huntsville, funding applications due 20 April from advanced
undergraduate, graduate, and new postdoctoral researchers.
 From Gang (Larry) Li (gang.li at uah.edu) and the 3 March SPA Newsletter.
See also http://uahswss.pbworks.com.

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(1) Call for Nominations for the 2010 Sunanda and Santimay Basu Award, due 1 June.
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 From Jonathan Makela (jmakela at illinois.edu).

The Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section of the American
Geophysical Union (AGU) is seeking nominations for the 2010 Sunanda
and Santimay Basu Award. This award is presented annually to honor an
individual young scientist from a developing nation for making
outstanding contributions to research in Sun-Earth Systems Science
that further the understanding of both plasma physical processes and
their applications for the benefit of society. The award is open to
scientists who received their Ph.D. degree after June 1, 2003 and
currently live and work in developing nations. Consideration is to be
given to candidates who have overcome obstacles in attaining their
research objectives.

The Space Physics and Aeronomy Section will invite the recipient to
present a paper at AGU’s Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California.
Travel funds and living expenses will be provided to attend the
meeting, where the recipient will also receive a certificate of
appreciation and three years’ membership to AGU. The award will be
presented at the SPA dinner, for which the awardee will receive a
complimentary ticket. The awardee will also be announced in Eos.

Nominations should be prepared by an AGU member or other geoscientist
who is knowledgeable of the candidate’s qualifications and include the
following information:
• nominator’s name and title, address and contact numbers;
• nominee’s name and title, institutional affiliation, and address;
• a statement (not to exceed 2 pages) of the action(s)
   or achievement(s) for which the candidate is nominated;
• two letters of support from AGU members or from other recognized
geoscientists belonging to institutions other than that of the
nominee;
• a curriculum vitae (not to exceed 3 pages).

A list of previous recipients of the award can be found at:
http://www.agu.org/about/honors/section_fg/spa/

The deadline for receipt of the nomination package is 1 June 2010.

Send nominations to:
American Geophysical Union
Attn: Leadership
2000 Florida Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20009 USA
Tel: +1-202-777-7502
E-mail: leadership at agu.org
You can also contact the Chair of the Sunanda and Santimay Basu Award
Committee with questions: Professor Jonathan Makela
(jmakela at illinois.edu)

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(2) 19-30 July, 2010 CISM Space Weather Summer School, Boston
University, funding applications due 1 May from advanced
undergraduate and early graduate students.
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 From Jeff Hughes (hughes at bu.edu).

Space Weather Phenomena, Consequences, and Modeling
or Reality, Harsh Reality, and Virtual Reality

July 19 - 30, 2010, Boston University

The Tenth Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM) Space
Weather Summer School will be held at Boston University July 19 - 30,
2010. The two-week school will closely follow the model of the previous
successful Summer Schools, which comprehensively immersed students in
the subject of space weather, what it is, what it does, and what can be
done about it. The CISM summer school supplements standard curricula
relating to the physics, meteorology, and climatology of space with
integrated overviews of the solar-terrestrial weather system from the
Sun to the earth, its effects and consequences, and the state of the art
in modeling it.  A unique feature of the school is a series of
three-hour computer labs to learn how to use models being developed by
CISM to understand the space environment and to make space weather
predictions. The team of instructors will be led by Jeffrey Hughes,
Nicholas Gross, and John Lyon.

The school is intended primarily for students about to enter graduate
school in the space sciences or early in their graduate careers. We
encourage supervisors to recommend the school to their prospective or
current students. However others with a professional interest in space
weather have also attended and benefited from earlier schools. Further
details and the application form, including a request for financial
support, can be found under Summer School on the CISM web site at
http://www.bu.edu/CISM/  Applications are open and are due by May 1.
CISM is an NSF Science and Technology Center.

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(3) 23-30 June 2010 Space Weather Summer School at the University of
Alabama in Huntsville, funding applications due 20 April from advanced
undergraduate, graduate, and new postdoctoral researchers.
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 From Gang (Larry) Li (gang.li at uah.edu).

Applications are invited for the 2010 Space Weather Summer School, to
be held at the University of Alabama in Huntsville during June 23-30,
2010. The summer school will offer an intensive one-week course in
topics related to Space Weather studies. The school is appropriate to
graduate and advanced undergraduate students interested in solar and
space physics, and who may wish to pursue a career in space physics,
solar physics or related fields. New postdoctoral researchers are also
welcome to apply.

Active scientists working in relevant fields will give approximately
15-20 lectures. Topics to be covered include chromospheric and
photospheric magnetic fields, physics of the corona and solar wind,
structures in the solar wind (shocks, coronal mass ejections, and
discontinuities), solar energetic particle events, and the interaction
of the solar wind, shocks, and energetic particles with the earth's
magnetosphere.

The summer school is supported in part by The National Science
Foundation (NSF) and The Center of Space Plasma and Aeromic Research
(CSPAR) at UAHuntsville. Approximately 25 students will be selected.
Each student will receive a stipend to partially cover travel and
local expenses.

Application and further information can be found at
http://uahswss.pbworks.com

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