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3. Job Announcement - Group Leader, Space and Atmospheric Sciences 
   Group (NIS-1) at Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From: Jack Gosling <jgosling@lanl.gov>

Group Leader, Space and Atmospheric Sciences Group (NIS-1),
Nonproliferation and International Security Division, 
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

NIS-1 consists of about 80 personnel with an annual budget of approximately
$12M and comprises Los Alamos' primary expertise in the areas of
ionospheric, radio, space physics, and planetary science.  These capabilities
are used to support the laboratory's mission to verify nuclear test ban
treaties by developing satellite-borne particle and radio-frequency (RF)
detectors capable of detecting clandestine nuclear tests and monitoring
nuclear weapons proliferation activities.  NIS-1 has an active program of
basic research and participates vigorously in a variety of NASA programs.
The group designs, builds, tests, and integrates a variety of types of
space-based sensors and over several decades has established a world class
reputation in ionospheric and space plasma physics.  More recently the group
has been branching out into a variety of planetary studies.  Present
space-borne systems include the FORTE small-satellite, developed in-house
by Los Alamos researchers, the solar wind plasma experiments on the
Ulysses, ACE, and IMP spacecraft, solar wind plasma and plasma composition
sensors on the Cassini mission to Saturn, the neutron, gamma ray, and alpha
monitors on Lunar Prospector, and a series of Magnetospheric Plasma
Analyzers (MPAs) at geosynchronous orbit.  Major space projects under
development include energetic neutral atom imagers for the NASA's IMAGE and
TWINS missions, the solar wind electron and ion monitors and concentrator
for the Genesis Discovery mission, neutron and gamma ray detectors for the
Mars Global Surveyor 2001 mission, a plasma composition experiment for the
New Millenium DS1 mission, and the next-generation RF payload for a series
of DoD spacecraft.

The group leader has the primary management responsibility for the group
and reports to the NIS Division director.  The division seeks an individual
for this position with demonstrated leadership and management capabilities
and who has a record of outstanding scientific accomplishment in one of the
group's primary technical and scientific areas.

More information about NIS Division and NIS-1 can be found at

   http://www.lanl.gov/Internal/divisions/nis/welcome.html

or by contacting J. C. Giles at jgiles@lanl.gov.

The complete job description can be found at:

   http://www.hr.lanl.gov/scripts/jobs/Single.idc?ReqNumber=984103

Application instructions can be found at:

   http://www.hr.lanl.gov/html/jobs/apply_external.html