SolarNews
                    The Electronic Newsletter of the
                         Solar Physics Division
                     American Astronomical Society
                         Volume 2013 Number 10

                         Yuhong Fan, editor
                              15 May 2013

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New EIS Nugget
SPD Public Policy Updates
Two new RHESSI Science Nuggets
Basu Award - Call for nominations
Special issue on "Solar variability, solar forcing and coupling mechanisms
     in the terrestrial atmosphere"
2013 SPD Elections: reminder
Employment Opportunities
     Research Associate Position in Solar Physics at the BBSO/NJIT
Meeting Announcements
     Extension of deadlines: 1st SOLARNET workshop, 3rd EAST/ATST meeting: "Synergies
     between ground- and space-based solar research", Oslo August 5-8 2013
     "Solar Flare Prediction: Progress and Challenges" Plenary at European Space
     Weather Week (ESWW10)
     Second Announcement of the Conference "Atomic physics, plasma spectroscopy,
     and solar physics from space: Celebrating the achievements of Alan Gabriel
     "
     Session on strategic solar datasets for Space Weather at the next European
     Space Weather Week
Editor's Notes


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New EIS Nugget
     Deb Baker
     14 May 2013
We are pleased to announce the release of a new EIS nugget by David Long 
(UCL/MSSL), David Williams (UCL/MSSL), Stéphane Régnier (UCLan),  and Louise
Harra (UCL/MSSL).  This month we look at measuring the coronal magnetic 
field using EIS.

Please visit the nugget here:
http://solarb.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/SolarB/nuggets/nugget_2013may.jsp

We welcome nugget contributions from the community. Please contact Deb Baker
or Lucie Green if you are interested.

SPD Public Policy Updates
     SPD Public Policy Committee
     13 May 2013
This is the May installment in the semi-regular update of public policy issues
affecting our field. The intent is to keep SPD members aware of key policy
actions and decisions that can impact their research, and to help elicit
and coordinate responses to the relevant policy makers in Washington, DC.

<h3> SPD Public Policy Committee members visit Congress</h3>
On May 3, 2013, AAS Director for Public Policy Joel Parriot and AAS/SPD Public
Policy and Advocacy Committee Members Carrie Black and Rebekah Evans visited
several congressional representatives in Washington, DC. The purpose of 
the visit was to inform congressional offices of the <a href="http://www.nasa.gov
/pdf/740512main_FY2014%20CJ%20for%20Online.pdf"> President’s Budget </a> 
for NASA Heliophysics and how it could affect the plans set forth in the 
Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey. 

Of specific concern were the implications to the DRIVE initiative, which 
is the organizing theme of the Decadal Survey recommendations. The President
’s Budget does not allow for growth of the Heliophysics Explorer program 
(“D”), a key requirement for solar physics mission development given that
there are no flagship solar missions in the Decadal Survey. Additionally,
what is labeled as the Research and Analysis budget (130 million) contains
many items that are not support for research (“R”). Finally, the budget 
zeros out education and public outreach (EPO) funding from missions (“E”),
which comprise only about 1% of mission budgets but have been among the 
most productive and successful EPO programs in any agency. The AAS released
an <a href="http://aas.org/media/press-releases/aas-issues-statement-proposed-fy
-2014-budget"> official statement on the President's proposed FY 2014 budget
</a> in late April.  

Additional topics of concern for the Solar and Space Physics community include
the effort in the House to dissolve the NSF peer review process in favor
of Congressional direction of science and the centralization of EPO programs
across the federal government. 

Regarding congressional contacts and visits, it is often difficult to get
a hearing with a member of congress or their staff if you are not one of
their constituents. One of the keys to successful advocacy is to contact
representatives who chair key committees in the House or Senate. We are 
therefore seeking volunteer SPD members from the following states and districts
that are willing to make an effort to visit their representatives who chair
one of the key committees:

<b>* Texas, </b> district 21 (Austin & San Antonio), represented by Lamar
Smith (R-TX), House Science Space and Technology Committee Chair.

<b> * Mississippi, </b> district 4 (Gulfport, Biloxi, Hattiesburg), represented
by Steven Palazzo (R-MS), Chairman of the Space subcommittee of the House
Science Space and Technology Committee.

<b> * Kentucky, </b> district 5 (Eastern Kentucky), represented by Harold
Rogers (R-KY), House Appropriations Committee Chair.

<b> * West Virginia, </b> represented by Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), 
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chair.

<b> * Maryland, </b> represented by Senator Barabara Milkulski (D-MD), Senate
Appropriations Committee Chair

If you live in one of the states and/or districts listed above and are willing
to help, please contact Tom Berger (tberger@nso.edu) and the SPD Public 
Policy committee will help you arrange visits to your representatives if/
when you travel to Washington DC.

Finally, we encourage anyone interested in learning more about science advocacy
to attend the SPD business meeting on Sunday July 7 at 3pm at the upcoming
AAS/SPD meeting in Bozeman, Montana, where the Public Policy committee will
give a briefing.


To contact your elected officials:  http://aas.org/contacting-congress

The new SPD "leave-behind" flyer for policy makers:  http://spd.aas.org/docs
/SPD_2013_onepage.pdf

Two new RHESSI Science Nuggets
     Hugh Hudson
     13 May 2013
No. 199, "A huge gamma-ray burst": RHESSI detects a wonderfully bright supernova
explosion at Z ~0.34. See http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php
/A_huge_gamma-ray_burst .

No. 200, "Too few? Too many?": RHESSI counts the accelerated electrons in
the footpoints and tops of flaring loops. See
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Too_few%3F_Too_many%3F
.

Basu Award - Call for nominations
     Fabiano Rodrigues
     9 May 2013
Dear all,

I would like to invite you to nominate young colleagues for the International
Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career Awards. The deadline for nominations
has been extended to May 25, 2013. Below you will find information about
the award and nomination. Please, feel free to contact the committee chair
(Fabiano Rodrigues, fabiano@utdallas.edu) if you have any questions.

Fabiano Rodrigues

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1. Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career Award (New Deadline: May 25, 2013
)
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Established in 2008, the Sunanda and Santimay Basu Award in Sun Earth 
Systems Science is presented annually to honor an individual young scientist 
from a developing nation for making outstanding contributions to research
in 
Sun-Earth Systems Science that further the understanding of both plasma 
physical processes and their applications for the benefit of society. The 
award is open to scientists who received their Ph.D. degree after 15 May 
2006 and currently live and work in developing nations. Consideration is 
to 
be given to candidates who have overcome obstacles in attaining their 
research objectives.

The awardee will receive three years' membership in AGU; an award 
certificate; one complimentary ticket for the SPA section dinner; meeting 
registration, air travel, and living expenses (i.e., air travel and hotel 
room) will be provided to attend the Fall Meeting during the award 
presentation year; the opportunity to deliver an invited paper on the 
dissertation topic in an appropriate SPA session at the AGU Fall Meeting; 
and an Eos announcement.

Nominations should be prepared by an AGU member or other geoscientist who
is 
knowledgeable of the candidate's qualifications. Nominations should include
:

- Nominator's name and title, address, and contact numbers;
- Nominee's name and title, institutional affiliation, and address;
- A statement - not to exceed two pages - of the action(s) or achievement
(s) 
for which the candidate is nominated;
- Two (2) letters of support from AGU members or from other recognized 
geoscientists belonging to institutions other than that of the nominee; and
- The nominee's curriculum vitae (not to exceed 3 pages).

To view a list of previous Basu Award recipients, please visit:

<http://www.agu.org/honorsprogram/section_fg/spa/>

Nominations must be submitted by deadline in electronic form (preferred as 
one combined PDF file) to Danica Williams (dwilliams@agu.org)

or in hard copy to:

American Geophysical Union

Attn: Danica Williams
Science Department
2000 Florida Avenue
NW Washington, DC, 20009, USA
Telephone: +1.202.777.7513

You can also contact the Chair of the Sunanda and Santimay Basu Award 
Committee with questions:
Dr. Fabiano Rodrigues (fabiano@utdallas.edu)

DEADLINE: May 25, 2013

Special issue on "Solar variability, solar forcing and coupling mechanisms
in the terrestrial atmosphere"
     Thierry Dudok de Wit
     6 May 2013
At the recent general assembly of the EGU several sessions were addressing
solar variability, its impact on the Earth's climate and coupling mechanisms
in the terrestrial atmosphere. We invite conference participants, but also
scientists who did not attend the EGU, to submit their work for publication
in a special issue on these topics in the Journal of Space Weather and Space
Climate (SWSC). SWSC is a peer-reviewed and open-access journal that was
created two years ago by our community, see

   http://www.swsc-journal.org

Each paper will go through a regular blind review process. Declarations of
intent, with preliminary title & list of authors, should be sent before 
31 May 2013 to Thierry Dudok de Wit (ddwit@cnrs-orleans.fr). Your final manuscript
should be submitted directly to the journal before 15 September 2013.

G. Cessateur - M. Kretzschmar - T. Dudok de Wit

2013 SPD Elections: reminder
     Yuhong Fan
     1 May 2013
It is time to elect two new SPD committee members. For these two positions,
the nominated candidates are: Sarbani Basu (Yale University), Giuliana de
Toma (NCAR/HAO), Brian T. Welsch (Space Sciences Laboratory, UC-Berkeley
), Stephen White (Air Force Research Laboratory). The election will be conducted
using the AAS election website,
http://aas.org/vote
where you can also find detailed information about the candidates. Only those
SPD members who are members of the AAS are eligible to vote. The voting 
site will open until May 24, 2013. Please go to
http://aas.org/vote
You will need to log in using your AAS member logon to vote.

Employment Opportunities
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Research Associate Position in Solar Physics at the BBSO/NJIT
     Christine Oertel
     14 May 2013
Applications are invited for a full-time position to work at the Big Bear
Solar Observatory operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (http
://bbso.njit.edu). The successful candidate will participate in observational
and data analysis projects at the 1.6m New Solar Telescope, and focus on
analysis and interpretation of high-resolution spectro-polarimetric observations
of the solar atmosphere. Candidates are required to have completed a Ph.
D. in Physics, Solar Physics, Astrophysics or related discipline.
Experience in solar physics, MHD, and data analysis techniques is required.
The position is initially for one year, but may be renewed for up to two
years contingent upon performance and funding.
Applicants should send by email a current curriculum vitae and list of publications,
statement of research interests, and the names of three references to Ms.
Christine Oertel (Oertel@adm.njit.edu) before June 1, 2013. The anticipated
starting date is September 1, 2013. The New Jersey Institute of Technology
is an equal opportunity employer.

Meeting Announcements
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Extension of deadlines: 1st SOLARNET workshop, 3rd EAST/ATST meeting: "Synergies
between ground- and space-based solar research", Oslo August 5-8 2013
     Mats Carlsson
     14 May 2013
The deadline for early registration and abstract submission has been extended
to May 31. See http://folk.uio.no/matsc/oslo-13 for more information.

"Solar Flare Prediction: Progress and Challenges" Plenary at European Space
Weather Week (ESWW10)
     D. Shaun Bloomfield
     14 May 2013
*** NOTE: Abstract submission deadline of 31 May 2013 ***

We are pleased to announce the plenary session "Solar Flare Prediction: 
Progress and Challenges" at this year's European Space Weather Week 
(ESWW10) taking place over 18-22 November 2013 in Antwerp, Belgium 
(http://www.stce.be/esww10/sessions/flareprediction.php).

The "Solar Flare Prediction" plenary aims to critically review, discuss 
and highlight the most innovative aspects of existing flare prediction 
techniques. Our objective is to clearly outline the current state-of-
the-art and to identify and promote possible research avenues that may 
lead to future breakthroughs. While flare prediction will form the core 
of this session, presentations about CME- and SEP-prediction will also 
be accommodated in the understanding that they promote the connection 
of these phenomena to flares.

Confirmed invited speakers currently includes Dr. KD Leka of CoRA/NWRA, 
Co-Chair of several recent NASA-funded flare forecasting workshops.

Please register and submit oral and poster abstracts for this session 
at http://www.stce.be/esww10/abstract.php .

We hope to see as many of you as possible in Antwerp later this year.

Best regards,

 Manolis K. Georgoulis, D. Shaun Bloomfield, and Peter T. Gallagher

Second Announcement of the Conference "Atomic physics, plasma spectroscopy,
and solar physics from space: Celebrating the achievements of Alan Gabriel
"
     Jean-Claude Vial
     14 May 2013
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Session on strategic solar datasets for Space Weather at the next European
Space Weather Week
     Matthieu Kretzschmar
     7 May 2013
Dear colleagues,

you are kindly invited to submit an abstract to the following session on 
strategic solar datasets for Space Weather, that will occur during the next
European Space Weather Week in Antwerp (Belgium) from November 18 to November
22, 2013.


STRATEGIC DATA SETS SUPPORTING AWARENESS OF THE SOLAR SOURCE OF SPACE WEATHER
Conveners: David Berghmans - Matthieu Kretzschmar 

Previous space weather weeks have concentrated on user groups, on products,
on services, on models, ... but rarely a session has focussed on space weather
data sets. Any space weather awareness that we might have or any service
that we might provide depends however crucially on core data sets. In this
session we propose to dig to the starting point and discuss the core data
sets characterizing the ultimate driver of space weather, the Sun. 

We seek to attract speakers from different sub-comunities of solar observers
: imaging, radio spectra, indices and radiometers, solar wind parameters,
both from the ground and from space. Since the requirements for space weather
observations from space can be different from those of strictly scientific
missions (e.g., different instrument performances, data accessibility requirement,
or technological constrains from the platform), we also welcome contributions
on the conception and development of space instrument and missions dedicated
to space weather. 

We encourage speakers to go beyond the presentation of their own data set
only and to act as representative for an observation network or observation
type. Speakers are furthermore encouraged to address the following points
relevant for space weather services:
Which space weather user community depends on these data ?
What are the technical difficulties (for the instrument in itself but also
with respect to realtime/latency and accessibility issues) and how can we
overcome them ?
How redundant is the data provision service (over Europe, over the world,
...) ?

-- Important deadlines: 
* Abstract and Splinter submission: May 31, 2013
* Registration early bird: Oct 1, 2013
* Fair registration: Nov 1, 2013

-- Conference website: <http://www.stce.be/esww10/index.php>

Editor's Notes
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     Yuhong Fan
     1 Feb 2013
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