CEDAR email: meetings in Boulder, Netherlands, Singapore, and Ethiopia; NASA HQ job; CAWSES II newsletter

Tue Jan 24 16:32:30 MST 2012

This is a generic mailing to the CEDAR community sent 23 January 2012.
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.
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(1) April 24-27, 2012 Space Weather Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA.
 From Terry Onsager <terry.onsager at noaa.gov>.
See also http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sww.

(2) 25-29 June 2012, ESLAB Symposium on “Formation and Evolution of Moons”, 
ESTEC, The Netherlands - abstracts due 2 April.
 From Olivier Witasse <owitasse at rssd.esa.int>.
See also http://www.sciops.esa.int/index.php?project=CONF2011&page=MOONS

(3) 13-17 August 2012, AGOS-AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly, Singapore.
Abstracts due 12 March at http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2012
* ST18 Recent Advances in the understanding and Investigation of Wave Phenomena 
in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Region.
 From convener Tai-Yin Huang <tuh4 at psu.edu>.

(4) 9-12 October, 2012, 4th international HEPPA (High Energy Particle 
Precipitation in the Atmosphere) meeting, Boulder, CO, USA.
 From Cora Randall <Cora.Randall at lasp.colorado.edu>.
See als http://www2.acd.ucar.edu/heppasolaris.

(5) 12-16 November 2012, International AGU Chapman Conference on: "Hemispheric 
and Longitude Dependence of Space Weather", Addis Ababa , Ethiopia.
 From Tim Fuller-Rowell <tim.fuller-rowell at noaa.gov>.
See also http://www.agu.org/meetings/chapman/.

(6) Job as Chief of the Space Weather Laboratory, Heliophysics Science
Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - applications due 2 February.\
 From Judy Karpen <judy.karpen at nasa.gov>.
See also http://usajobs.gov, search for vacancy GS12B0016.

(7) Seventh issue of the CAWSES-II TG4 newsletter online at 
http://www.cawses.org/wiki/images/6/6d/TG4_Newsletter_issue7.pdf.
 From Michi Nishioka (nishioka at nict.go.jp).

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(1) April 24-27, 2012 Space Weather Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA.
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 From Terry Onsager <terry.onsager at noaa.gov>.

The 2012 Space Weather Workshop will be held April 24 - 27, in Boulder, 
Colorado.  This meeting will bring together the customer, forecaster, vendor, 
and research communities to focus on the impacts of space weather, on 
forecasting techniques, and on recent scientific advances in predicting 
conditions in the space environment. The program will highlight space weather 
impacts in several areas, including ionospheric disturbances, geomagnetic storms 
and their solar drivers, radiation belts, and solar energetic particles. 
Representatives from industries impacted by space weather will be invited to 
attend, including those from commercial airline, electric power, satellite 
operations, and navigation/communication industries. Space Weather Workshop 2012 
is co-sponsored by the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, the NSF Division of 
Atmospheric Sciences, the NASA Heliophysics Division, and the NASA Space 
Radiation Analysis Group. Further details regarding the meeting agenda and 
travel will be posted on our web site:  http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sww

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(2) 25-29 June 2012, ESLAB Symposium on “Formation and Evolution of Moons”, 
ESTEC, The Netherlands - abstracts due 2 April.
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 From Olivier Witasse <owitasse at rssd.esa.int>.

Understanding the formation and evolution of the natural satellites
of the planets is important, as a piece of the wider puzzle concerning
the formation and evolution of the solar system as a whole. Significant
progress has been achieved recently on the formation of the Moon and of
the regular satellites of the giant planets. However, many questions
regarding the different formation mechanisms are still unanswered.
The goal of the symposium is to review all possible scientific
mechanisms for forming the moons, and for driving their subsequent
evolutions, and their consequences on our current understanding of
solar system formation and evolution.

URL: http://www.sciops.esa.int/index.php?project=CONF2011&page=MOONS

Deadline for abstract: 2nd April 2012

Contact: Olivier Witasse, European Space Agency, owitasse at rssd.esa.int

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(3) 13-17 August 2012, AGOS-AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly, Singapore.
Abstracts due 12 March at http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2012
* ST18 Recent Advances in the understanding and Investigation of Wave Phenomena 
in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Region
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 From convener Tai-Yin Huang <tuh4 at psu.edu>.

The 2012 AGOS-AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly will be held from 13-17 August 2012 in 
Singapore.  This is a call for papers to be submitted to the Solar &Terrestrial 
Sciences Program ST18 Session.  Abstract submission will open on Jan 15 2012 and 
end on March 12 2012.  More info can be found on the meeting website 
http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2012

ST18 Session Description:

This session aims to provide a platform for the scientific community to share 
their recent findings on various wave phenomena (gravity waves, tides or 
planetary waves), occurring in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT) 
region.  There have been new advances in the understanding and investigation of 
these wave phenomena and related processes from both observational and numerical 
modeling perspectives in recent years.  Topics of interests include, but are not 
limited to,  short-term (day-to-day) or long-term variability induced by waves, 
coupled chemical and dynamical processes, wave energy budgets, wave-driven 
airglow variations, special wave-like events such as atmospheric bores, and 
processes coupling the lower and upper atmospheres caused by tsunamis, 
earthquakes, and sudden stratospheric warmings.  We welcome experimentalists and 
theorists to share their research findings for stimulating discussions.

Main Convener: Tai-Yin Huang (tuh4 at psu.edu, Penn State University-Lehigh Valley)

Co-Conveners: Alan Liu (Alan.Liu at erau.edu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) and
Michael Hickey (Michael.Hickey at erau.edu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)

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(4) 9-12 October, 2012, 4th international HEPPA (High Energy Particle 
Precipitation in the Atmosphere) meeting, Boulder, CO, USA.
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 From Cora Randall <Cora.Randall at lasp.colorado.edu>.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the 4th international HEPPA (High Energy Particle 
Precipitation in the Atmosphere) meeting, which will be held jointly with 
SPARC/SOLARIS (Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate / SOLAR 
Influences for SPARC).

Please join us in Boulder, Colorado, USA on 9-12 October, 2012, for a lively and 
stimulating workshop to discuss the newest advances in understanding the 
influences of solar radiation and energetic particle precipitation on space 
weather, the atmosphere, and climate.

The HEPPA/SOLARIS 2012 web page is at http://www2.acd.ucar.edu/heppasolaris. 
Information currently posted is still preliminary, but it will be updated as 
plans solidify. In the meantime, we encourage you to save the date and stay 
tuned for more updates.

Please let me know if you have any questions, or if you would like to be removed 
from this distribution list. Also, please forward this announcement to 
colleagues who might be interested.

All the best,
Cora Randall

On behalf of the HEPPA/SOLARIS science and local organizing committees:

Scientific Committee – Scott Bailey, Bernd Funke, Manuel López-Puertas, Katja 
Matthes, Cora Randall (chair), Aaron Ridley, Craig Rodger, Gabriele Stiller, Esa 
Turunen, Pekka Verronen

Local Organizing Committee –  Lynn Harvey, Dan Marsh, Cora Randall, Stan Solomon

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(5) 12-16 November 2012, International AGU Chapman Conference on: "Hemispheric 
and Longitude Dependence of Space Weather", Addis Ababa , Ethiopia.
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 From Tim Fuller-Rowell <tim.fuller-rowell at noaa.gov>.

The International AGU Chapman Conference on "Longitude and Hemispheric 
Dependence of Space Weather" will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 
12-16, 2012. The conference will focus on two overarching themes: A) How does 
the ionospheric response to major solar events depend on hemisphere and 
longitude; and B) Expand the study of space weather to include day-to-day 
ionospheric variability, i.e., to those times when solar and geomagnetic 
activities are moderate, and forcing from the lower atmosphere drives a lot of 
the variability. The latter will include examining the cause of longitude and 
hemispheric dependence in total electron content (TEC) and occurrence of plasma 
density irregularities. The conference will include six main science topics (1) 
Hemispherical Dependence of Magnetospheric Energy Injection, (2) Longitude and 
Hemispheric Dependence of Storm-Enhanced Densities (SED), (3) Response to New 
Time-History of Solar Flares, (4) Quiet-Time Longitude Spatial Structure, (5) 
Temporal Response to the Lower-Atmosphere Disturbances, and (6) Climatology of 
TEC and Scintillation in Different Longitude Sectors. Further information will 
be published on the AGU Chapman Conference website 
http://www.agu.org/meetings/chapman/.

Conveners: Tim Fuller-Rowell (tim.fuller-rowell at noaa.gov), Patricia Doherty 
(patricia.doherty at bc.edu), Endawoke Yizengaw (endawoke.kassie at bc.edu)

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(6) Job as Chief of the Space Weather Laboratory, Heliophysics Science
Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - applications due 2 February.
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 From Judy Karpen <judy.karpen at nasa.gov>.

A civil service position is available in the Heliophysics Science Division,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, for a supervisory astrophysicist to serve
as Chief of the Space Weather Laboratory. The mission of the Space Weather
Laboratory is to perform fundamental research and modeling of the coupled
Sun-Earth system, with particular emphasis on the space weather effects
important to NASA and the nation. The Chief develops and maintains the
Laboratory's strategic vision, provides supervisory and administrative
oversight of civil service personnel, resources, and tasks, and provides
scientific and technical guidance. The Chief also carries out peer-reviewed
scientific research in Heliophysics, and leads in the development of new
missions, instruments, and theoretical investigations to achieve NASA goals.
Evidence of management experience and leadership in the scientific community
is highly desirable.

This appointment will be at the GS-15 level. U.S. citizenship is required.
Please direct technical inquiries to michael.hesse-1 at nasa.gov (301-286-6418)
and procedural inquiries to GSFC-TAO at mail.nasa.gov (301-286-3691).

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION, YOU MUST APPLY THROUGH USAJOBS. Please
visit http://usajobs.gov, search for vacancy GS12B0016, and submit your
resume. Note that the closing date is 2/2/2012.

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(7) Seventh issue of the CAWSES-II TG4 newsletter online at 
http://www.cawses.org/wiki/images/6/6d/TG4_Newsletter_issue7.pdf.
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 From Michi Nishioka (nishioka at nict.go.jp).

The seventh CAWSES-II TG4 newsletter is issued. It can be downloaded
from the CAWSES-II Wiki page at
http://www.cawses.org/wiki/images/6/6d/TG4_Newsletter_issue7.pdf

The purpose of this newsletter is to make more communications among
scientists related to the CAWSES-II Task Group 4 (particularly between
those of the atmosphere and the ionosphere). The editors would like to
invite you to submit the following articles to the TG4 newsletter. Our
newsletter has four categories of the articles:
# Articles: ~500 words and four figures (maximum)-----on campaign, ground 
observations, satellite observations, modeling, workshop/conference/symposium 
report, etc
# Highlights on young scientists:  ~200 words and two figures-----on his/her own 
work related to CAWSES-TG4
# Short news: ~100 words-----announcements of campaign, workshop, etc
# List of planned workshop

Category 2 (Highlights on young scientists) helps both young scientists
and TG4 members to know each other. Please contact the editors for
recommendation of young scientists who are willing to write an article
on this category. Your suggestions and comments on this newsletter are
also very welcome.

Editor of CAWSES-II TG4 newsletter, Michi Nishioka (nishioka at nict.go.jp)

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