CEDAR email: Knipp book; Jicamarca summer program; GEOScan

Tue Oct 11 13:21:48 MDT 2011

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(1) New Space Weather Book by Delores Knipp, "Space Weather and the
Physics Behind It" (published by McGraw Hill) Is Available.
From: Darlene Bahr <darlene_bahr at mcgraw-hill.com>.
Copied from SPA Newsletter 4 October 2011.
See also http://astrobooks.com/search.aspx?find=knipp.

(2) Jicamarca International Research Experience Program JIREP 2012 (10 weeks in 
summer) - Applications due 15 January 2012.
 From Jorge Chau and Angela Calle (jirep at jro.igp.gob.pe).
See also http://jro.igp.gob.pe/jirep/.

(3) GEOScan Update and Call For Community Support.
From: Jonathan Fentzke <Jonathan.Fentzke at jhuapl.edu>.
See also http://geoscan.jhuapl.edu/communitysupport.html.

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(1) New Space Weather Book by Delores Knipp, "Space Weather and the
Physics Behind It" (published by McGraw Hill) Is Available.
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From: Darlene Bahr <darlene_bahr at mcgraw-hill.com>.

Dr. Delores Knipp, Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado and
Senior Research Associate with the High Altitude Observatory at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research has published a space weather textbook in the
McGraw Hill Learning Solutions Series.  The text is appropriate for courses at
the advanced undergraduate level, and/or as support for beginning graduate courses.

Entitled "Space Weather and the Physics Behind It," the book is a
broad introduction to space weather and space environment phenomena. In
addition  to an introductory chapter, the text contains three chapters on the
basic physics  of the space environment, four chapters each, on the quiescent
and active components of the Sun and geospace system, and two chapters on space
weather effects on signals/systems and humans/hardware.

Each chapter contains learning objectives, short Pause-for-Inquiry questions
and worked examples with follow-on questions.  The text contains over 500 color
images and illustrations.

The print version of the book (soft cover) is available from astrobooks.com,
http://astrobooks.com/search.aspx?find=knipp.  An abbreviated Table of Contents
can be downloaded from the site.

McGraw Hill offers an electronic form of the book at the McGraw Hill Create site,
mcgrawhillcreate.com.  (Account creation is required.) Customer Service 800.339.3987

Primary funding for the book was provided by the Department of Defense and
NASA Headquarters.

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(2) Jicamarca International Research Experience Program JIREP 2012 (10 weeks in 
summer) - Applications due 15 January 2012.
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 From Jorge Chau and Angela Calle (jirep at jro.igp.gob.pe).

The students will work with staff engineers and scientists on projects related 
to ongoing research or instrumentation development programs. Research may be 
conducted in neutral atmospheric and ionospheric science as well as radar/radio 
instrumentation and software development. Given its location, frequency of 
operation, and array system, most of the Jicamarca Radio Observatory's research 
capabilities are unique. Besides the unique research capabilities where students 
are welcomed to propose and run their own experiments, Jicamarca offers a good 
opportunity to get hands-on-experience on different aspects of radar systems, 
from changing the antenna connections, improving RF components of the system, to 
develop sophisticated acquisition and processing programs. A side benefit of the 
program is that students will get to know Peru, heir to ancient cultures and 
rich colonial tradition.

This program is offered to junior/senior undergraduate and/or first and second 
year graduate students and will cover the travel expenses (to and from Lima) as 
well as a reasonable stipend. Given that the Observatory is located outside Lima 
city, transportation will be provided.

Application and recommendation forms are available at http://jro.igp.gob.pe/jirep/

* Application deadline: January 15th, 2012
* Decision: February 15th, 2012
* Starting date: Anytime between May 10th and June 30th
* Duration: 10 weeks

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(3) GEOScan Update and Call For Community Support.
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From: Jonathan Fentzke <Jonathan.Fentzke at jhuapl.edu>.

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to provide you with an update on the GEOScan effort and invite you 
to show your support by signing an open letter to the community.

Currently, the final draft of the GEOScan feasibility report is being compiled 
and we expect its completion in the coming weeks. Thank you to all who provided 
thoughtful feedback, comments and text following the successful planning 
workshop. In addition, Lars and colleagues continue to engage potential sponsors 
and promote the GEOScan concept to the broader community.

The next step is to complete the final proposal to NSF, which we intend to 
finish by mid-December.

There are a number of active efforts underway to raise community awareness and 
further the GEOScan concept including a Fall AGU session on commercial space 
applications titled: New Opportunities Through Low Cost Access to Geospace as 
well as graduate students at MIT under the direction of Dr. Kerri Cahoy 
addressing system engineering challenges related to GEOScan.

We invite you to show your support for GEOScan by signing a community support 
letter available on the GEOScan website 
http://geoscan.jhuapl.edu/communitysupport.html.   We kindly ask that you 
forward this link to colleagues who may be interested.

We also intend to further engage the broader community through an upcoming EOS 
article on GEOScan.

With kindest regards,

Dr. Lars Dyrud and the GEOScan team

*Planning workshop registrants we automatically transferred to the community 
support letter, if you would like your information removed or modified please 
contact Dr. Fentzke at APL (jonathan.fentzke at jhuapl.edu).

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