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Issue 37, May 22, 2013

1. Two New Geospace Program Directors at NSF
2. EISCAT international symposium 12-16 August 2013 – early bird deadline 31 May 2013
3. 6th Isradynamics Conference: Dynamical Processes in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas; Israel, Dead Sea, March 16-22, 2014
4. STFC Introductory Summer School in Solar and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 2013; 26 – 30 August 2013
5. STEREO/WAVES & WIND/WAVES workshop on Solar Radio Emissions; 7-11 Oct 2013 Santorini (Greece)
6. MEETING: The Third International Conference on Storms, Substorms, and Space Weather (ICSSSW); Shenzhen, China, November 3-8, 2013
7. Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Internships Autumn 2013

1. Solar Flare Prediction: Progress and Challenges Plenary, European Space Weather Week ESWW10: Abstract submission deadline 31 May 2013
2. Announcing two new RHESSI Science Nuggets

1. Call for Nominations for (1) Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career Award; (2) Sunanda and Santimay Basu United States Early Career Award (New Deadline: May 25, 2013)
2. Special issue on "Solar variability, solar forcing and coupling mechanisms in the terrestrial atmosphere"
3. The Reconnexion Physics Forum
4. Monday Science Telecon

1. AGU Publication Input
2. A Novel Technique for Calculating L* (UBKL*) Publicly Available
3. Deferral of Measurement Techniques in Solar and Space Physics Workshop
4. Heliophysics Textbook Survey
5. Monday Science Telecon

1. Santimay Basu (1933-2013)

1. Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career Award (Deadline: May 15, 2013)
2. SPA Richard Carrington (SPARC) Education and Public Outreach award (Deadline: May 25, 2013)

1. Call for nominations for the Sunanda and Santimay Basu United States Early Career Award (Deadline: May 15, 2013)
2. May 1 - Application Deadline for CISM Space Weather Summer School
3. JOB OPENING: Post-doctoral scientist positions available at the Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University, China
4. JOB OPENING: Two Ph.D. student positions in Atmospheric Physics at Stockholm University
5. JOB OPENING: Post-doctoral position in Magnetospheric Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa
6. Two Research Associate Opportunities in Space Physics at Imperial College London

1. IAU Symposium #300: Nature of solar prominences and their role in Space Weather; Poster Abstract deadline: April 27, 2013
2. Monday Science Telecon
3. JOB OPENING: Permanent Position available at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
4. JOB OPENING: Post-doctoral position at IRF in Uppsala – research on ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling

1. 2013 GEM Summer Workshop Registration Open
2. Coronal Loops Workshop VI, Abstract submission deadline: April 30 2013
3. Call for abstracts: "Solar Activity and its Manifestations in the Whole Heliosphere," Symposium S1 of EWASS 2013, 8-9 July 2013, Turku, Finland
4. Second UK-Ukraine meeting on Solar Physics and Space Science (UKU SPSS) Kiev, Ukraine, Monday 16th September – Friday 20th September 2013

1. REMINDER: AGU 2013 Fall Meeting Special Session Proposals due April 19th
2. IAGA Abstract Deadline Extended to April 21
3. Deadline Reminder: 2013 ILWS Workshop on Space Weather Research with Space and Ground-based Observations, June 2013, Irkutsk, Russia
4. Call for abstracts: "Mechanics of the Magnetospheric System and Effects on the Polar Regions," Torres del Paine, Patagonia, October 27 - November 1, 2013
5. EISCAT International Symposium 12-16 August 2013 - Registration Open
6. Monday Science Telecon
7. JOB OPENING: Postdoc and PhD student positions at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
8. JOB OPENING: Vacancy for Space Weather Scientist at RAL Space
9. JOB OPENING: Thermosphere-Ionosphere Space Weather, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Postdoctoral Scholars Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

1. IAGA XIIth Scientific Assembly August 26-31, 2013, Merida Yucatan, Mexico
2. List of Sessions of Interest to SPA Community
3. Detailed Description of Division II Sessions
4. Detailed Description of Division III Sessions
5. Detailed Description of Division IV Sessions
6. Detailed Description of Selective Joint Sessions and Division V Sessions

1. SuperDARN Workshop Early Registration Deadline: Friday, April 5
2. International Science and Application Conference - POLAR 2013 "Polar Geophysics of Yamal: observations, instruments, data bases and information systems related to the Oil and Gas industry" October 21-25, 2013, Nadym, RUSSIA
3. Flux Rope CDAW Data Available Online
4. Announcement: CAWSES-II TG4 newsletter, Issue 11
5. Monday Science Telecon

1. Monday Science Telecon
2. 23rd Cluster Workshop Tromsø, Norway, 16-20 September 2013
3. JOB OPENINGS: Two Permanent Academic Positions - Department of Physics & Electrical Engineering - Northumbria University (UK) - Deadline 19 April 2013

1. ROSES 2013 Heliophysics Call for Panel Volunteers

1. IAGA XIIth Scientific Assembly August 26-31, 2013, Merida Yucatan, Mexico
2. List of Sessions of Interest to SPA Community
3. Detailed Description of Division II Sessions
4. Detailed Description of Division III Sessions
5. Detailed Description of Division IV Sessions
6. Detailed Description of Selective Joint Sessions and Division V Sessions

1. Last Call for 2013 AGU Union Honors Nominations! Deadline: 31 March 2013
2. Santorini Radiation Belts Workshop: Comprehending, Specifying and Forecasting their Dynamics, Santorini, Greece, June 30 - July 4, 2013
3. Abstract Deadline Extended: UK National Astronomy Meeting 'Turbulence, Instabilities and Heating in Astrophysical Plasmas,' University of St. Andrews, UK, 1-5 July 2013
4. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Solar Physics at Sansa in South Africa
5. JOB OPENING: Max Planck Research Group Leader in Cometary Science

1. CALL FOR PAPERS: Special issue of Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics on Nonlinear Waves and Chaos in Space Plasmas
2. Online Registration Open: SuperDARN Workshop, Canada, May 26-31, 2013
3. SESSION: UK National Astronomy Meeting Session "Turbulence, Instabilities and Heating in Astrophysical Plasmas," University of St. Andrews, UK, 1-5 July 2013
4. JOB OPENING: Lecturer in Space Physics, Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, UK

1. AGU 2013 Fall Meeting Special Session Proposals due April 19th
2. Second UK-Ukraine meeting on Solar Physics and Space Science (UKU SPSS), Kiev, Ukraine, Monday 16 September – Friday 20 September 2013
3. Second Announcement: International Study for Earth-Affecting Solar Transients (ISEST) Workshop in Hvar, Croatia, June 17-20, 2013
4. Registration Open for 2013 SPD meeting in Bozeman, MT

1. Summer School: 2013 NASA Planetary Science Summer School-Application Deadline Approaching!
2. Summer School: Announcement of Summer Course "Molecules in Space", Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden, 25 June – 2 July 2013
3. Professor Karl Rawer's 100th Anniversary, Special Session at the German URSI National Meeting, Kleinheubacher Tagung 2013, September 23-25
4. Job Opening: Postdoc - Boston University - Venus and Mars ionospheres
5. Job Opening: Postdoctoral position at the National University of Mexico (UNAM)
6. Job Opening: Scientific Assistant in Magnetospheric Studies, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany

1. RFII Workshop, April 21-24, 2013, Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico
2. Second Announcement: Coronal Loops Workshop VI, Floréal Club, La Roche-en- Ardenne, Belgium, 25-27 June 2013
3. Special Issue of JASTP on “Sun-Earth System Exploration: Moderate and Extreme Disturbances”
4. Novel Postdoc Research Project at Univ. of Oslo

1. FINAL REMINDER - Call for Nominations for the 2013 Fred L. Scarf Award
2. Ulysses Final Archive at ESA Now On-line
3. IAGA 2013 Abstract Submission Now Open
4. Second UK-Ukraine meeting on Solar Physics and Space Science (UKU SPSS) Kiev, Ukraine, 16-20 September 2013
5. PhD Scholarship on Polar Electrojets at the Technical University of Denmark, Applications due 17 March
6. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position in Space Plasma Physics, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz

1. 40th Anniversary of the Greenland Magnetometer Array and IMAGE 2013 Meeting, May 15-16, 2013, DTU Campus, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
2. SPENVIS User Workshop 2013
3. Second Announcement: Space Climate 5 Symposium, “Under the Midnight Sun,” Oulu, Finland, 15-19 June 2013
4. Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Summer Workshop, Snowmass, Colorado, June 16 - 21, 2013
5. Announcement: Abstract Submission Now Open for International CAWSES-II Symposium, November 18-22, 2013, Nagoya, Japan
6. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Positions, Equatorial and low latitude Ionosphere, Mesosphere and thermosphere, Physics and Astronomy, Universidade do Vale do Paraiba (UNIVAP), Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1. Last Call! AGU Award and Medal Nominations Due 15 March 2013
2. First call for 6th VERSIM workshop, Dunedin, New Zealand, 20-23 Jan. 2014
3. Solicit for Participation in the H2 session of AP-RASC'13: Observations of Plasma Waves in Space Plasma Environments
4. Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC) 2013, Broomfield, Colorado, 3-5 June, 2013
5. Ph.D Student Position, Engineering Physics available Fall 2013, Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University

1. George H. Ludwig, 1927-2013

1. NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowships March 1 Proposal Due Date
2. Student travel support - Study of MIT coupling with PFISR in March 2013
3. Solar Wind Turbulence Meeting, Nonantum Resort, Kennebunkport Maine, June 4-7, 2013

1. Request for participation: GEM-CEDAR workshop 2013
2. Announcement: 2013 SHINE Workshop
3. SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: 2013 ILWS Workshop, “Space Weather Research with Space and Ground-based Observations,” 24–28 June 2013, Irkutsk, Russia
4. Extreme Space Weather – a report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering
5. Update to OMNI Data Set
6. Professorship/Readership in Applied Mathematics/Physics/Astrophysics - Northumbria University (UK) - deadline 5 March 2013
7. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Positions, Space Plasmas, The School of Physics and Astronomy, Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary, University London
8. SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT - JOB OPENING: Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Experimental Plasma Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
9. JOB OPENING: PhD Position in Space Physics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

1. MiniMax24: SCOSTEP’s Focus on the Weakness of the Current Solar Cycle
2. The Third Annual Space Weather Community Operations Workshop, March 28-29, Park City, Utah
3. IRI Workshop at the University of Warmia and Mazury (UWM) in Olsztyn, Poland, June 24 to 28, 2013
4. JOB OPENING: Tenure-Track Solar Astronomer, National Solar Observatory
5. JOB OPENING: Space Physics Lectureship Position, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland
6. JOB OPENING: Faculty Position in Space Physics, University of California, Los Angeles

1. Call for IGPPS Proposals, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2. JOB OPENING: PhD Position at the Institute for Astro-and Particle-Physics at Innsbruck University

1. Call for papers for a virtual special issue of Geophysical Research Letters on: “Early Results from the Van Allen Probes”
2. 11th Layered Phenomena in the Mesopause Region (LPMR) workshop, University of Leeds, July 29 - August 2, 2013
3. 2013 ISR Summer School, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, Massachusetts, July 29 - August 2, 2013

1. Call for Nominations for the 2013 Fred L. Scarf Award
2. NASA Geospace Management Operations Working Group (G/MOWG): Fall 2012 Findings
3. NSF INSPIRE Webcast, Tuesday, January 29, 4:00-5:30 PM EST
4. Call for Proposals 2013 for International Teams in Space and Earth Sciences, International Space Science Institute (ISSI), Bern, Switzerland
5. 12th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, "Outstanding problems in Heliosphysics: from coronal heating to the edge of the heliosphere," April 15-19, 2013, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
6. Summer School: 2013 Space Weather Summer School, University of Alabama in Huntsville, May 29-Jun 7, 2013
7. JOB OPPORTUNITY: CIRES/NGDC Professional Research Assistant, Satellite Sensor Systems Engineer, The Solar and Terrestrial Physics (STP), NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), Boulder, Colorado

1. Deadlines: LWS/SDO 2013 Workshop, March 3-8, 2013 in Cambridge MD
2. Second Announcement: Beacon Satellite Symposium, 8-12 July 2013, Abstract Deadline: 31 January 2013
3. ISEST Workshop First Announcement: SCOSTEP Workshop: International Study for Earth-Affecting Solar Transients (ISEST) in Hvar, Croatia, June 17-20, 2013
4. First Solar Probe Plus Workshop, Pasadena, CA, March 26 to 29, 2013/li>
5. NSO workshop # 27: 50 Years of the Seismology of the Sun and Stars, 6-10 May 2013
6. Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting 2013 - May 19 - 24, 2013, Tokyo Bay area, Japan (Abstract deadline: February 15, 2013)
7. 2013 Spring THEMIS/ARTEMIS Science Working Group Meeting Registration Deadline: 24 February 2013
8. IAGA 2013, The 12th Scientific Assembly, August 16-31, Merida,Yucatan Peninsula
9. Summer School: CISM Space Weather Summer School July 22–August 2, 2013, NCAR, Boulder, CO, Application Deadline: May 1, 2013
10. Summer School: Heliophysics of Solar Systems: Summer School: 12-19 July 2013 - Boulder, CO
11. NASA Planetary Science Summer School Applications
12. Los Alamos Space Weather Summer School, June 3 - July 26, 2013
13. 2013 Space Weather Summer School, University of Alabama, Huntsville, June 23-30, 2013
14. International Reference Ionosphere (IRI): IRIWeb updated to newest version

1. AGU Meeting of the Americas: General Information
2. List of SPA Sponsored and Co-sponsored Sessions
3. SPA Solar and Heliospheric Physics (SH) Sessions - Detailed Descriptions
4. SPA Magnetospheric Physics (SM) Sessions - Detailed Descriptions
5. SPA Aeronomy (SA) Sessions - Detailed Descriptions
6. SPA Co-sponsored Sessions - Detailed Descriptions

1. MEETING: Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 2013 Meeting June 24-28, Brisbane, Australia
2. List of SPA-related Sessions
3. Detailed Description of Solar Terrestrial (ST) Sessions
4. Detailed Description of Planetary Science (PS) Session

1. Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) Released
2. MEETING: International Science and Application Conference - Polar 2013 "Polar Geophysics of Yamal: Observations, instruments, data bases and information systems related to the Oil and Gas industry" Nadym, Russia, October 21-25, 2013
3. MEETING: The Third International Conference on Storms, Substorms, and Space Weather (ICSSSW) Shenzhen, China, November 3-8, 2013
4. Alouette and ISIS Topside Ionogram 35-mm Films to be Discarded
5. JOB OPENING: Post-Doctoral Geomagnetic Field Researcher, British Antarctic Survey
6. JOB OPENING: Coordinator of the "Solar System School" at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
7. PUBLICATION: Recent Articles in Space Weather

1. State of the Union
2. Heliophysics Research Program: Changes in ROSES 2013
3. MEETING: C/NOFS Results and Equatorial Dynamics Meeting - Second Announcement (Abstract Deadline: 25 January 2013)
4. JOB OPENING: Faculty Position in Solar Physics, Director of Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO), New Jersey Institute of Technology
5. JOB OPENING: Research Astrophysicist – Princeton University
6. JOB OPENING: Two Postdoctoral Research Positions in Solar Magnetohydrodynamics at the University of Dundee (UK)
7. 2013 AFRL Space Scholars Program: Summer Graduate Student Research Opportunities

1. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013 - General Information April 7-12, 2013, Vienna, Austria
2. List of Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (ST) and Other Sessions of Interest to SPA Community
3. Detailed Description of Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (ST) and Other Sessions of Interest to SPA Community

1. Chapman Conference on Solar Minimum abstract deadline: 8 January 2013
2. SCOSTEP’s 13th Quadrennial Symposium on Solar Terrestrial Physics (STP13) October 12 – 17, 2014, Xi’An, China
3. JOB OPENING: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Cornell University