Workshop Dates: June 27 to July 1, 2022 (back-to-back with GEM)
Joint GEM-SHINE Day: Saturday-Sunday, June 25-26
The GEM-SHINE joint meeting will be held Saturday and Sunday June 25 and 26 at the Alohilani Resort, before SHINE and after GEM. Tentative times for the GEM-SHINE sessions will be 8:30 am – 12:15 pm with the Saturday and Sunday afternoons free. Session topics will be announced as they are developed.
The GEM-SHINE team is Yihua Zheng, Lynn Wilson, Sarah Vines, Nicky Viall, Gang Li, Alex Glocer, and Joe Borovsky
Student Day: June 26, 2022
Location: Alohilani Resort Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, HI
SHINE Registration Fee: $600
Deadline for abstract submission: June 3, 2022
2. NSF/AGS Update – $160M NSF Engines opportunity
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to alert you to a new program, the NSF Regional Innovation Engines. Please see the Dear Colleague Letter and the Broad Agency Announcement. The NSF Engines Program is housed in the new Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP). The intent of the program is to expand domestic innovation capacity through the prioritization of geographic regions that do not currently have well-established innovation ecosystems or where the innovation activities are only loosely connected. The terminology “innovation” is broadly-defined, and a scientific area example from the FAQ document (.pdf download) is Climate Change Resilience. Information about upcoming webinars are available here. The first is Tuesday, May 17th. There are also “regional roadshows” and office hours available to prospective PIs to learn more about the program.
AGS highly recommends that our community pays attention to, and participates in, programs that are in the new TIP directorate. It is clear from the FY22 and FY23 Budget Requests that TIP is a priority area for the agency.
Other updates:
- The Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) is holding their Quarterly Webinar at 2pm eastern on Thursday, May 12th. The focus of the webinar will be on the HBCU EiR solicitation and GEO Innovation Hub activities.
- GEO also released a new Dear Colleague Letter on supplemental funding opportunities for Post-Baccalaureate students who want to pursue a career in STEM but did not have access to opportunities to begin or complete a research experience as an undergraduate student due to pandemic-related interruptions.
- AGS is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Program Director in the Aeronomy Program. The position is available either as a permanent federal employee or a temporary (rotator) appointment. The full position announcement is available on USAJobs at https://www.usajobs.gov/job/644692400 for permanent and https://www.usajobs.gov/job/644694000 for temporary rotator. The position will remain open until May 20, 2022. Questions about the position can be directed to: Alan Liu, Section Head for Geospace Science, email: zhualiu@nsf.gov.
Thank you and best regards,
Alan Liu, PhD
Section Head, Geospace
Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
National Science Foundation
(703) 292-7051 | zhualiu@nsf.gov
3. White Papers??? Special Issue of Frontiers.
Space-Physics community members are putting substantial efforts and ideas into white papers for the U.S. Heliophysics Decadal Survey process and community members in Europe and the U.S. have recently put substantial efforts and ideas into white papers for Vision 2050 and Heliophysics 2050. There are also other ideas in the international community about the needs of future Space Physics research efforts.
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences has a special issue now open “The Future of Space Physics 2022”
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/39204/
to provide a format for a reference-able, archived, accessible collection of these ideas from around the world.
A variety of publication formats are available in this special issue: Opinion articles, Perspective articles, Original Research articles, Reviews and Mini-Reviews, Hypothesis and Theory articles, Commentary articles, Technology and Code articles, ….. Please join this collection and make the ideas about the future of space physics available to the community. As soon as they are accepted for publication, the individual articles are published. Upon completion of the special issue an open-access e-book collection of all articles will be available for download.
The special-issue editors are Phil Erickson, Joe Borovsky, Benoit Lavraud, Gian Luca Delzanno, Alexa Halford, and Sabrina Savage.
4. 2nd SmallSats for Space Weather Research and Forecasting (SSWRF II) workshop – Save the date!
Save the date! The second SmallSats for Space Weather Research and Forecasting (SSWRF II) workshop will be held October 3–7, 2022! We are planning a hybrid meeting. The in-person component will be at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, MD.
This workshop follows from the first SSWRF in May 2017 and brings together academia, government, and industry partners to discuss recent and upcoming advances in space weather-related research from small satellites, including CubeSats. Themes will include current status of research and forecasting with SmallSats; data exploitation and modeling (including “big data” from constellations); new instrumentation, enabling technologies, and mission concepts; and programmatic issues including policy, international collaboration, and workforce development.
The workshop website, https://sswrf.boulder.swri.edu, will be updated in real time over the coming weeks. The full Science Organizing Committee and detailed topics, along with a call for abstracts and registration, will be announced in late June 2022.
Please save the dates of October 3–7, 2022 for SSWRF II in Laurel, MD – we look forward to seeing you there!
On behalf of the SSWRF II lead organizers:
Amir Caspi (chair)
James P. Mason (LOC chair)
Therese Moretto Jørgensen
Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla
Linda Neergaard Parker
Bob Robinson
Vadim Uritsky
5. Solar Physics High Energy Research (SPHERE) workshop, July 11-15, 2022.
Solar Physics High Energy Research (SPHERE) Workshop — 11–15 July 2022 — Boulder, CO, USA + Windisch, CH + online
The Solar Physics High Energy Research (SPHERE) Workshop — formerly known as the RHESSI workshop, and now motivated by SolO/STIX, MinXSS, EOVSA, and many other current and upcoming missions — will be held 11–15 July 2022. The workshop will be a hybrid format with online access and two in-person locations: Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, USA and Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW) in Windisch, Switzerland.
The workshop agenda will include plenary topical sessions, held jointly between all locations, featuring invited talks and facilitated, open discussions on targeted science questions. This interactive format is intended to foster both broader and deeper collaboration and understanding amongst our community, to propel progress and enhance success by breaking down silos both within the high-energy solar physics and among solar and space physics in general. Additional independent morning (EU) and afternoon (US) sessions will feature tutorials, posters, early-career talks, and open collaboration.
Registration is required, and U.S. hotel accommodations (for the contract hotel) will be handled through the registration form. Abstracts for posters and early-career presentations, and suggestions for open topical discussions, will be solicited soon.
The workshop website at https://sphere.boulder.swri.edu/ is operational with preliminary information, including travel information, and will be updated soon with registration information and deadlines.
We hope to see you soon in Boulder, Windisch, or online!
– Amir Caspi & Säm Krucker, on behalf of the organizing committee