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Issue 30, May 16, 2012

1. Possible Joint SPA-SPD Meeting
2. DAP-2012 Meeting
3. JOB OPENING: Scientist in kinetic space plasma simulations at FMI, Helsinki, Finland
4. JOB OPENING: Research Associate (Post-doctoral Research) at CU Boulder
5. JOB OPENING: Research Scientist position at Prairie View Solar Observatory of Prairie View, A&M University
6. JOB OPENING: Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Northumbria University (Newcastle, United Kingdom)
7. JOB OPENING: Senior Research Assistant (Fixed for two years), Northumbria University (Newcastle, United Kingdom)

1. Second In-Situ Heliospheric Science Symposium, September 18-20, 2012, Applied Physics Laboratory, Maryland, MD
2. SHINE Outer Heliosphere session, Friday, June 28 and 29
3. PostDoc Fellowship at KU Leuven in Space Modeling and Exploration

1. Changed Responsibilities in Archiving NASA Heliophysics Data
2. OMNI Data Set Adds Magnetosonic Mach Numbers
3. SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: Chapman Conference on Fundamental Properties and Processes of Magnetotails, Reykjavik, Iceland, March 10-15, 2013
4. Job Opening: Post-Doctoral Position in Space Physics, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden

1. Call for Nominations for the 2012 Sunanda and Santimay Basu Award
2. Call for papers: JASTP special issue - Layered Phenomena in the Mesopause Region
3. Job Opening: Lectureship Position, Space Plasmas Group, UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory

1. Final Announcement: CAWSES-2 Task 2 Workshop: Modeling Polar Mesospheric Cloud Trends, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, May 2-3, 2012
2. Solar Wind 13, Thirteenth International Solar Wind Conference, June 18-22, 2012, Big Island of Hawaii, USA

1. Call for Input to LWS TR&T Focused Science Topics for 2012 AO
2. Final Announcement: Extreme Space Weather Events Workshop, Location: NCAR Foothills Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, May 14-17, 2012
3. 2012 Summer School in Plasma Processes, August 5-11, 2012, Boston University
4. JOB OPENINGS: Experimentalist post-doctoral positions available at Los Alamos National Laboratory

1. SmallSat Request for Proposal
2. JOB OPENING: Position Announcement for Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at University of New Mexico (UNM)
3. JOB OPENINGS: Post-Doctoral Positions Available, The Hellenic National Space Weather Research (HNSWR) network

1. Announcement: CAWSES-II TG4 newsletter, Issue 8
2. Notice Regarding JAXA International Top Young Fellowship Program
3. Job Announcement - Chief of the Geospace Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Revised)

1. Author Loyalty Program Unveiled

1. Solar and Heliospheric Management Operations Working Group (SH-MOWG) Findings
2. EGU Townhall Meeting on the Kuafu Mission April 25, 2012, Vienna, Austria
3. MEETING: Tracing the Connections in Solar Eruptive Events - Second Announcement November 27 - December 2, 2012, Petaluma, CA, USA
4. 2012 NASA Planetary Science Summer School - Application Deadline Extended to Tuesday, April 3, 2012
5. JOB: AURA Solicits Applications and Nominations for the Director NSO

1. Passing of Raghaviyengar (Sardi) Parthasarathy 1929 - 2012

1. Reminder of Fall meeting special session proposals with UPDATED Meeting dates
2. SHINE Workshop 2012
3. Leaving Los Alamos

1. MEETING: 'Dust, Atmosphere, and Plasma: Moon and Small Bodies' (DAP-2012) meeting, Boulder, Colorado, June 6-8, 2012
2. Job Announcement - Chief of the Geospace Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

1. Submission of proposals for special sessions at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 6-10, 2012 now open
2. JOB OPENING: Visiting Young Scientist position available at Dartmouth College

1. February 2012 Findings of the Geospace MOWG
2. Solar Wind 13, Thirteenth International Solar Wind Conference, June 18-22, 2012, Big Island of Hawaii, USA
3. AOGS-AGU (WPGM) Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to 21 Mar 2012

1. AGU SPA Section Seeks Nominations for Sunanda and Santimay Basu Award in Sun-Earth Systems Science
2. Additional SPA-related planetary session for AOGS-WPGM Joint Assembly August 13-17, 2012, Singapore (Abstracts Due March 12)
3. MEETING: Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) summer Workshop June 17-22, 2012, Snowmass, Colorado
4. Shine Turbulence Challenge
5. NASA Planetary Science Summer School Applications, Deadline March 28

1. The Journal "Earth, Planets and Space (EPS)" Opens Access to Articles Up to December 2010
2. MEETING: Extreme Space Weather Events Workshop - Second Announcement May 14-17, 2012, NCAR Foothills Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado
3. MEETING: International Conference on Radiation Belts and Space Weather - New Horizon from RBSP (Radiation Belt Storm Probes) Mission May 29 - June 1, 2012, Daejeon, Korea
4. MEETING: Chapman Conference on Fundamental Properties and Processes of Magnetotails - First Announcement March 10-15, 2013, Reykjavik, Iceland
5. The Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling Summer School 2012
6. PUBLICATION: Recent Articles in Space Weather

1. SuperDARN Workshop (Second Announcement), May 27-June 1, 2012, Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China
2. Solar Wind 13, Thirteenth International Solar Wind Conference, June 18-22, 2012, Big Island of Hawaii, USA
3. FIRST Announcement on the International Symposium on Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISSTP), Nov 6 - Nov 9 2012, Pune, India
4. International AGU Chapman Conference on: "Hemispheric and Longitude Dependence of Space Weather" When and Where: 12-16 November 2012, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
5. JOB OPENING: Max-Planck Research Center for Plasma Physics Postdoc positions in Solar Physics
6. JOB OPENING: JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral position in magnetospheric physics at Umeå University, Sweden

1. AOGS-AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly, August 13-17, 2012, Singapore
2. List of SPA-related Sessions
3. Detailed Description of Solar Terrestrial (ST) Sessions
4. Detailed Description of Planetary Science (PS) Session

1. Significant Changes in ROSES 2012 Heliophysics SR&T Program Elements
2. New Multi-Source Spectral Plot Interface at GSFC/SPDF – Full Announcement

1. COSPAR Abstract Deadline Extended to February 17
2. New Multi-Source Spectral Plot Interface at GSFC/SPDF
3. Deadline: March 26, Large university requests for computing resources at NCAR
4. SHINE Workshop 2012
5. First Announcement: International Conference on Radiation Belts and Space Weather: New Horizon from RBSP (Radiation Belt Storm Probes) Mission, May 29 – June 1, 2012, Daejeon, Korea
6. JOB OPENING: Summer intern opportunity for undergraduates, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
7. JOB OPENING: PhD Candidate in Physics (Space Physics/EISCAT) at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Physics and Technology
8. JOB OPENING: PLASMON Postdoc in Hermanus/Durban (South Africa)

1. John Samson, professor emeritus in space physics at University of Alberta, died February 7, 2012

1. Heliosphysics Geospace Management Operations Working Group (MOWG) looking
for new members
2. Second Announcement: The faint Early Sun: Problem, paradox, or distraction? Workshop, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore MD, April 9-10, 2012
3. 2012 Space Weather Workshop – Student Travel Support
4. Job Opening: Post-Doctoral Position in Space Physics for research in space plasma physics at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden

1. Call for Nominations for the 2012 Fred L. Scarf Award
2. Solar Physics Topical Issue "The Sun-Earth Connection near Solar Minimum"
3. MEETING: Final call for abstracts for GEMSIS international workshop: Current status and future perspectives in space weather researches, 12-14 March 2012, Japan
4. 2012 Space Weather Workshop – April 24-27, 2012
5. Solar Information Processing Workshop VI, August 13-16, 2012, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
6. CISM Space Weather Summer School, Space Weather Phenomena, Consequences, and Modeling or Reality, Harsh Reality, and Virtual Reality, July 16-27, 2012, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder
7. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Associate, SANSA Space Science, a Directorate of the South African National Space Agency (SANSA)
8. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Space Physics Group, Department of Physics, University of Otago, New Zealand
9. JOB OPENING: JOB OPENING: NOAA/SWPC and University of Colorado/CIRES Postdoctoral Position
10. JOB OPENING: Scientist in ionospheric tomography at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

1. 39th COSPAR Assembly: General Information
2. List of SPA-related Sessions
3. Detailed Description of SPA-related Sessions

1. CAWSES-II TG4 newsletter, Issue 7
2. Space Weather Effects on Humans: in Space and on Earth, 4-8 June 2012, Space Research Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
3. Solar Wind 13, Thirteenth International Solar Wind Conference, June 18-22, 2012, Big Island of Hawaii, USA
4. JOB OPENING: Post-doctoral position in the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College London

1. First Announcement: SuperDARN Workshop 2012: May 27-June 1, 2012, Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China
2. Dust, Atmosphere and Plasma environment of the Moon and Small Bodies (DAP- 2012) workshop, June 6-8, 2012, Boulder, Colorado
3. JOB OPENING: Chief of the Space Weather Laboratory, Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

1. Special JASTP Issue "Dynamics of the Complex Geospace System" (ISROSES-II)
2. EXTENDED DEADLINE: 25 January Abstract and Registration Deadline for Inner Magnetosphere Coupling II (IMC II), UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA, 19-22 March 2012
3. First Announcement: The Fifth Solar Orbiter Workshop, September 10-14, 2012, Brugge, Belgium
4. Call for Proposals 2012 for International Teams in Space and Earth Sciences International Space Science Institute (ISSI), Bern, Switzerland
5. JOB OPENING: EISCAT Scientific Association is looking for a DIRECTOR

1. Memorial Service for Dr. Davies Sentman
2. First Announcement: International AGU Chapman Conference on: "Hemispheric and Longitude Dependence of Space Weather" 12-16 November 2012, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
3. First Announcement of the Fifth Conference Earth-Sun Systems Exploration, Kona, Hawai’i January 13-19, 2013
4. Call for Abstracts: Special Session on LOFAR (INS4) at the upcoming NAM/GAG/UKSP/MIST 2012 Conference at The University of Manchester, England, UK, 27-30 March 2012
5. CUA Space Sciences & Space Weather Graduate Program
6. PUBLICATION: Recent Articles in Space Weather
7. REMINDER: EGU 2012 – Abstracts Due January 17; List of Sessions of Interest to SPA Community

1. AGU Fleming Medal Nominations for 2012
2. 2012 Summer School in Plasma Processes August 5-11, 2012, Boston University
3. JOB OPENING: Tenure Track Faculty Position in Space Weather at George Mason University (extended deadline)
4. JOB OPENING: Two Research Fellowships in Atmospheric Chemistry at University of Leeds, School of Chemistry
5. Summer Graduate Student Opportunities: 2012 AFRL Space Scholars Program

1. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012 - General Information April 22-27, 2012, 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