---

AGU SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER

---

Vol. I 1994	Vol. II 1995	Vol. III 1996	Vol. IV 1997	Vol. V 1998	Vol. VI 1999	Vol. VII 2000
Vol. VIII 2001	Vol. IX 2002	Vol. X 2003	Vol. XI 2004	Vol. XII 2005	Vol. XIII 2006	Vol. XIV 2007

Issue 37, May 1, 2008

1. MEETING: Inner Magnetosphere Coupling (IMC) Workshop, July 28 . August 1, 2008, Espoo, Finland, Registration Deadline May 15, 2008
2. MEETING: Second Announcement of the 2008 Huntsville Workshop: "The Physical Processes for Energy and Plasma Transport across Magnetic Boundaries", October 26-31, 2008, Huntsville, Alabama
3. MEETING: Third International Riometer Workshop June 22, 2008, Midway, Utah
4. Summer School in Alaska
5. STFC Introductory Summer School in Solar and Solar-Terrestrial Physics "Theory and Observations of the Solar-Terrestrial System", September 15-19, 2008, University of Sheffield
6. Autumn 2008 Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Internship at the National Research Council's Space Studies Board
7. CALENDAR: Upcoming SPA Meetings

1. Joint Assembly Registration and Housing Reminder
2. University of Arizona and National Solar Observatory's 2008 Summer School in Solar Physics, June 16-20, 2008, Sacramento Peak Observatory, Sunspot, NM
3. MEETING: 14th International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP2008) - Abstract Deadline Extended to May 10, September 8-12, 2008, Fukuoka, Japan
4. MEETING: 3rd VERSIM Workshop, September 15-20, 2008, Tihany, Hungary
5. Call for Proposals for Subsessions in D1 Heliosphere Subcommission for COSPAR 2010 Assembly
6. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Associate at George Mason University
7. JOB OPENING: Post-Doctoral Research Position in Space Plasma Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology
8. JOB OPENING: Atmospheric Modeller-Postdoctoral Research Position at British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge

1. 2nd Space Weather Enterprise Forum (SWEF), May 21, 2008, Washington, D.C., at the National Press Club, Registration Deadline: May 9, 2008
2. MEETING: 5th IAGA/ICMA/CAWSES Workshop "Long-Term Changes and Trends in the Atmosphere", September 8-13, 2008, St. Petersburg, Russia, New Abstract Deadline: May 15, 2008
3. MEETING: Third CAWSES Global Tidal Campaign Workshop - First Announcement, August 19-22, 2008, Fredericton, Canada
4. ILWS Newsletter for April 2008 Now Available
5. JOB OPENING: Post-Doctoral Research Position in Solar-Heliospheric and Magnetospheric Science at Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley
6. JOB OPENING: Post-Doctoral Research Scientist in Sun-Earth Connection Science at University College London, UK
7. JOB OPENING: Post-Doctoral Research Scientist in Magnetospheric and Space Plasma Physics Research at University College London, UK

1. Abstracts for Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting Due April 16
2. MEETING: 2008 GEM Workshop - Website and Online Registration, June 22-27, 2008, Midway, Utah
3. GemWiki: A New GEM Web Site
4. New Cluster Data Available to the Public
5. JOB OPENING: Research Scientist Position in Magnetospheric Physics at The University of New Hampshire
6. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Position in the Upper Atmosphere and Space Group of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA

1. Dinner-Cruise at Joint Assembly
2. JGR-Space Physics Special Issue on "Great Magnetospheric Observatory: THEMIS and Ancillary Observations" - Deadline Extended to May 31, 2008
3. MEETING: 3rd VERSIM workshop at Tihany, Hungary, September 15-20, 2008, Tihany, Hungary
4. Call for Participation for a New Science Outreach Event at the AGU/Ft. Lauderdale, 26 May 08, Deadline: 25 April 2008
5. Lunch-time Meeting at the May 2008 SPD/AGU: Solar Ground-based Observing over the Next Decade
6. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Position in Space/Astrophysical Plasma Theory

1. Call for Nominations for the 2008 Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career Award in Sun-Earth Systems Science
2. MEETING: First Electric Sailing Workshop for Space Industry and Scientists, May 19-20, 2008, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
3. MEETING: SHINE Workshop 2008, June 23-27, 2008, Midway, Utah
4. MEETING: Inner Magnetospheric Coupling Workshop (IMC), July 28 - August 1, 2008, Espoo, Finland
5. Two More Electronic Comic Books Available Online

Special Issue: 2008 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting (Final Verson)

1. 2008 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting -- General Information Cairns, Australia, July 29 - August 1, 2008
2. List of SPA (SP) Sessions
3. Detailed Description of SPA (SP) Sessions
4. Other Sessions of Interest to the SPA Community

1. MEETING: Space Weather Workshop - Final Notice Registration Is Open up to the Workshop - Poster Abstracts Accepted up to April 14
2. MEETING: International Workshop on "Solar Variability, Earth's Climate and the Space Environment", Bozeman, Montana, June 1-6, 2008
3. MEETING: 14th International Congress on Plasma Physics - Call for Papers September 8-12, 2008, Fukuoka, Japan
4. MEETING: IAGA 11th Scientific Assembly - Conference Web Site Open
5. Taiwan Ascii and Idl_save Data Archives (AIDA) for THEMIS
6. Space Cultural Event during the 2008 EGU General Assembly
7. JOB OPENING: Research Scientist - Space Physics, Physics Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada

1. CALL FOR PAPERS: JGR Special Section "Entropy Properties, Constraints, and Transitions Related to Plasma Transport, Turbulence, and Information Flow throughout the Heliosphere, Magnetosphere, and Boundaries"
2. MEETING: Community Models Workshop, June 22, 2008, and Pre-workshop Discussion May 1, 2008
3. MEETING: CSSE Meeting on High Speed Solar Wind Streams and Geospace Interactions, July 23-25, 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
4. MEETING: International Astronomical Union (IAU) Symposium 257 on "Universal Heliophysical Processes" - Deadline Reminder, September 15-19, 2008, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
5. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Magnetospheric Physics, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Code 673, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
6. PUBLICATION: Recent Articles in Space Weather

1. Heliophysics Mission Planning Working Group Formed
2. The Report of NASA's Living with a Star/Solar Probe, Plus Mission's Science and Technology Definition Team (STDT) Is Now Available
3. MEETING: "Workshop on Coupling of Thunderstorms and Lightning Discharges to Near-Earth Space" -- Extended Abstract Deadline, June 23-27, 2008, University of Corsica, Corte, France
4. JOB OPENING: MIT Haystack Observatory, Post-Doctoral Position in Solar and Heliospheric Research

Special Issue: 2008 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting

1. 2008 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting -- General Information Cairns, Australia, July 29 - August 1, 2008
2. List of SPA (SP) Sessions 3. Detailed Description of SPA (SP) Sessions

1. Funding Problems within the UK - To Our International Colleagues
2. CALENDAR: Upcoming SPA Meetings

1. SPA Sessions at the Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting (WPGM08)
2. MEETING: International Workshop on "Solar Variability, Earth's Climate and the Space Environment" - Third Announcement, June 1-6, 2008, Bozeman, Montana
3. Heliophysics Summer School 2008, 23-30 July 2008, Boulder, CO
4. The First Korean Winter School on Space Physics 5. JOB OPENING: Postdoc Fellowship in Space Physics 6. PUBLICATIONS: Recent SPA-related Articles in Reviews of Geophysics

1. Upcoming Whole Heliosphere Interval (WHI) 2. MEETING: Laboratory Astrophysics at the June AAS Meeting, Abstracts Due 19 March 2008
2. MEETING: Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets Conference, MOP 2009, July 27-31, 2009, Cologne, Germany
3. JOB OPENING: Space Plasma Experimentalist at NASA Goddard
4. JOB OPENING: Space Physics: US Geological Survey Research Geophysicist Geomagnetism Program
5. Research Fellowship in Space Physics, University of Tromso, Norway

1. Abstract Submission Deadline for Joint Assembly Extended to March 11 at 0959 UT
2. Town Hall Meeting: Heliophysics Missions 2009-2034
3. MEETING: First Electric Sailing Workshop for Space Industry and Scientists, May 19-20, 2008, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
4. MEETING: Second AMISR Science Planning Workshop, June 20-21, 2008, Midway, Utah (with CEDAR/GEM Workshops), See Also http://www.amisr.com/meetings/2008/ and http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki (click on 'Workshops' and 2008)
5. MEETING: International Symposium: Fifty Years after IGY -Modern Information Technologies and Earth and Solar Sciences- November 10-13, 2008, Tsukuba, Japan
6. SESSION: SPIE Europe Remote Sensing 2008 Middle and Upper Atmosphere Remote Sensing Sessions, September 15-18, 2008, Cardiff, UK
7. NASA Planetary Science Summer School
8. JOB OPENING: Post-Doctoral or Research Scientist Position at NASA Langley

1. AGU Joint Assembly Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to 7 March at 0959 UT
2. CALL FOR PAPERS: JASTP Special Issue on "Toward an Integrated View of Inner Magnetosphere and Radiation Belts", Deadline for Submissions: April 4, 2008
3. MEETING: Second Heliospheric Network Workshop - Meeting Website Now Available, May 6-9, 2008, Lixouri, Kefalonia, Greece
4. MEETING: XIIIth IAGA Workshop on Geomagnetic Observatory Instruments, Data Acquisition and Processing, June 9-18, 2008, Golden and Boulder, Colorado, USA
5. The Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling Summer School 2008, July 21 - August 1, 2008, Boston University
6. BOOK: Calibration of Particle Instruments in Space Physics 7. PUBLICATION: Recent Articles in Space Weather

Special Issue: 2008 Joint Assembly (Final Version)

1. 2008 Joint Assembly -- General Information, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 27-30, 2008
2. List of Sessions Sponsored or Co-sponsored by SPA
3. Detailed Description of SA Sessions
4. Detailed Description of SH Sessions
5. Detailed Description of SM Sessions
6. Detailed Description of Sessions Co-sponsored by SPA

1. NSF CubeSat Program
2. JGR-Space Physics Call for Papers: Special Section "GEOMAG1 - Large Geomagnetic Storms", Submission Deadline Extended to March 31, 2008
3. JGR-Space Physics Special Issue on: "Great Magnetospheric Observatory: Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms and Ancillary Observations"
4. MEETING: Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar (PFISR) Student Workshop, July 7-11, 2008, MIT Haystack Observatory
5. MEETING: Conference on "Solar Activity during the Onset of Solar Cycle 24", December 7-12, 2008, Napa, California
6. JOB OPENING: Middle Atmosphere/Microwave Scientist Position at BAS
7. JOB OPENING: Senior Research Associate in Space Research / Planetary Sciences at University of Bern

1. 2008 Joint Assembly Sessions Co-sponsored by SPA
2. MEETING: Community Alert for "The Local Bubble and Beyond II" Meeting, April 21-24, 2008, Philadelphia, PA
3. MEETING: Saturn Book Symposium: Imperial College London, July 28 - August 1, 2008, London, UK
4. MEETING: 14th International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP2008), September 8-12, 2008, Fukuoka, Japan
5. U.S. Travel Grant Opportunity for SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference
6. BOOK: Radio Sounding and Plasma Physics

Special Issue: 2008 Joint Assembly

1. 2008 Joint Assembly -- General Information, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 27-30, 2008
2. List of SPA Sessions
3. Detailed Description of SA Sessions
4. Detailed Description of SH Sessions
5. Detailed Description of SM Sessions

1. State of Our Section of the Union

1. Parker Lecture and Celebration
2. Deadline Extended: Nominations for Heliophysics Mission Planning Working Group (Charged with Updating the 2005 Roadmap)
3. CALL FOR PAPERS: JASTP Special Issue on "The Equatorial and Low Latitude Ionosphere/Thermosphere in Quiet and Disturbed Times"
4. A New Version of the GEOPACK Software Available from a New Modeling Website
5. JOB OPENING: Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position at New Mexico State University
6. JOB OPENING: Post-doctoral Research Position at Penn State

1. COSPAR 2008 Accepts Abstracts through February 24
2. Bibliography of Wave Distribution Function Analysis
3. Space Weather Workshop Student Support
4. MEETING: Workshop on Coupling of Thunderstorms and Lightning Discharges to Near-Earth Space -- Second Announcement, June 23-27, 2008, Corte, France
5. CALENDAR: Upcoming SPA Meetings

1. SPA Election Results
2. COSPAR Abstracts Due February 17
3. MEETING: 5th IAGA/ICMA/CAWSES Workshop "Long-Term Changes and Trends in the Atmosphere", September 8-13, 2008, AARI (Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute), St. Petersburg, Russia
4. IUGG 2007 Abstracts Available On-line

1. Nominations for Heliophysics Mission Planning Working Group
2. MEETING: NASA SMD Proposers Lessons Learned Workshop, February 28-29, 2008
3. URSI General Assembly Abstract Deadline Extended to February 15
4. Educational Space Weather Video on YouTube: Link Correction

SPECIAL ISSUE ON 37TH COSPAR ASSEMBLY

1. 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly - Abstracts Due February 17, July 13-20, 2008, Montreal, Canada
2. Sessions in "C. Space Studies of the Upper Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets including Reference Atmospheres"
3. Sessions in "D. Space Plasmas in the Solar System, including Planetary Magnetospheres"
4. More SPA-related Sessions
5. List of Selective Sessions in Other Sections

1. Bowie Lectures Online
2. Inputs to LWS TR&T Steering Committee on Next Focus Topics
3. MEETING: AOGS 5th Annual General Meeting - Abstracts Due February 7
4. STUDENT OPPORTUNITY: Visiting Fellowships for Early Stage Researchers at University of Leicester, UK
5. PUBLICATION: Recent Articles in Space Weather

1. 2008 AGU Fellows
2. PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT: The SPD's 2008 George E. Hale Prize and 2008 Karen Harvey Prize
3. Announcement Relating to Focused Opportunity for Solar Orbiter (FOSO)
4. NSF-supported University Research with Large Computational Requirements Requests Due March 3, 2008
5. MEETING: 2008 SHINE Workshop - June 23 - 27, 2008, Zermatt Resort, Utah
6. Space Weather Enterprise Forum 2008, May 21, 2008, Washington, D.C.
7. Educational Space Weather Video on YouTube: Additional Information

1. MEETING: 9th International Conference on Substorms (ICS 9), Deadlines of Hotel Reservation, Registration, and Abstract Submission, May 5-9, 2008, Seggau Castle, Austria
2. MEETING: Isradynamics 2008 - Dynamical Processes in Space Plasmas, May 11-19, 2008, Israel, Dead Sea
3. University of Arizona and National Solar Observatory's, 2008 Summer School in Solar Physics, June 16-20, 2008, Sacramento Peak Observatory, Sunspot, NM
4. SESSION: 2008 URSI Meeting Session G1, "Open Session and Latest Results - IPY and IHY"
5. SESSION: 2008 URSI Meeting Session H02 "Observations of Waves and Coherent Structures in Space Plasmas"
6. Educational Space Weather Video on YouTube
7. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Solar Physics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Special Issue: AOGS 2008 Meeting

1. MEETING: Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 2008 Meeting, June 16-20, 2008, Busan, Korea, New Abstract Deadline: February 7
2. AOGS 2008 Solar Terrestrial (ST) Sessions
3. AOGS 2008 Planetary Science (PS) Sessions

1. OBITUARY: Death of Dr. Jean-Paul Villain: French SuperDARN P.I.
2. SESSION: 2008 URSI Meeting Session G03 "Ionospheric Irregularities and Scintillation"
3. SESSION: 2008 URSI Meeting Session HG1 "Wave Particle Interactions and Radiation Belt Remediation"
4. SESSION: 2008 SCAR/IASC Conference Session 2.3 "The Sun's Interactions with the Earth's Atmosphere and Electromagnetic Environment"
5. JOB OPENING: Solar & Heliospheric Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Astronomy
6. JOB OPENING: Research Associate Position at Imperial College London, UK

1. SESSION: Joint IEEE/USNC/URSI Meeting Session "Ionospheric Remote Sensing by GPS" -- Abstract Submission Due January 15
2. SESSION: 2008 URSI Meeting Session G4a/b "Assimilation and Imaging of the Ionosphere and Plasmasphere"
3. Summer Opportunities for Students in AFRL Space Scholar Program
4. CALENDAR: Upcoming SPA Meetings

Special Issue: EGU General Assembly 2008

1. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2008 - General Information - April 13-18, 2007, Vienna, Austria
2. Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (ST) Sessions
3. Planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS) Sessions of Interest to SPA Community
4. Other Relevant Sessions

1. MEETING: SDO - HMI/AIA/EVE Science Teams Meeting, March 25-28, 2008, Napa, California
2. MEETING: Polar Research - Arctic and Antarctic Perspectives in the International Polar Year, July 8-11, 2008, St. Petersburg, Russia
3. SPD范PS Summer School, July 7-11, 2008, Maui, Hawai'i
4. Deadline Extension from January 15 to March 3 for Submissions to JGR Special Section "Studies in Comparative Heliophysics"
5. Course on Geomagnetism and Ionosphere
6. Application Deadline Extented for 2008 Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Internship Program
7. JOB OPENING: Astrophysicist at Naval Research Laboratory
8. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Position at MPS, Germany

1. NASA Offers Principal Investigator Training Course
2. MEETING: 2008 Space Weather Workshop, April 29 - May 2, 2008, Boulder Colorado
3. MEETING: IAU Symposium 257 "Universal Heliophysical Processes" - First Announcement - September 15-19, 2008, Ioannina, Greece
4. SESSION: 2008 URSI Meeting Session GF: "Radio Occultation"
5. SESSION: 2008 URSI Meeting Session G02 "Density Profiling and Models"
6. SESSION: 2008 URSI Meeting Session GH "Radio Sounding Techniques for the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere"
7. SESSION: 2008 URSI Meeting Session H01 "Dynamics of the Plasmasphere Using Wave Techniques"
8. CORRECTION: URL for Volunteering Reviews for NSF Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation Proposals

1. NSF Needs Reviewers for Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation Proposals
2. JGR Special Section on Large Geomagnetic Storms: Submission Deadline Extended to February 29, 2008
3. Call for Nominations for the 2008 Fred L. Scarf Award - Reminder

1. MEETING: Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 2008 Meeting, June 16-20, 2008, Busan, Korea, Abstracts Due January 24
2. A New Homepage Has Been Opened at STEL to Browse Pc1, PiB, Pi2, and Pc3 Pulsations Observed in Japan, Russia, and Canada
3. PUBLICATION: Recent Articles in Space Weather
4. PUBLICATION: Recent SPA-related Articles in Reviews of Geophysics
5. List of ST and PS Sessions at AOGS 2008 Meeting