Solar Physics Division (SPD)
The purpose of the Solar Physics Division (SPD) is the advancement of the study of the Sun and the coordination of such research with other branches of science. The SPD holds annual scientific meetings, awards several different prizes, and supports students in various ways.
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2022 Thomas Metcalf SPD Travel Awards – Call for Applications from Meeting Organizers
Posted by Maria D. Kazachenko | November 15, 2021 | General
The Solar Physics Division (SPD) hereby announces the Thomas Metcalf SPD Travel Award Program for 2022. The Thomas Metcalf Travel Fund was established in 2007 with generous contributions from his family and many others to help early-career scientists attend meetings relevant to solar physics. For this year, two or three meetings will be selected by the Metcalf Travel Award Committee (MTAC) on the basis of brief applications from Meeting Organizers. The total amount available this year is expected to be about $10,000. See the Thomas Metcalf SPD Travel Award page for more details.
Nominations for the SPD Hale and Harvey Prizes
It is time for the submission of nominations for the SPD Hale and Harvey prizes. The deadline for submission of nominations is November 15, 2021. Starting from this year, nominations will be submitted through the AAS portal. Please read carefully the following instructions and note the changes of the nomination procedure. Questions regarding nominations should be addressed to Jiong Qiu (qiu@montana.edu). Technical issues about the web submissions should be addressed to Neelab Yousafzai (Neelab.Yousafzai@aas.org).
Winner of the SPD Popular Media Awards, 2021
The SPD is pleased to announce the winners of the SPD Popular Media Awards 2021, including the new student category award.
- Journalist: Monica Young: To Touch the Sun: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is on a record-breaking journey to study our nearest star Sky and Telescope, November 2020. Terri Dube is also recognized for graphical design and layout of the article.
- Scientist: Monica Bobra: Crossing the Edge of Our Solar System Sky & Telescope, September 2020. Nicholle Fuller is also recognized for realization of the visualization.
- Student: Cosima Breu: You Spin Me Right Round: A Magnetic Avalanche in the Solar Corona Astrobites, 2020 March 30.
Sky and Telescope have a nice writeup on the what went into creating the articles by the two Monicas!
2022 SPD Meeting (53rd)
The 53nd meeting will be a Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) joint meeting of the Space Physics and Aeronomy Section of the American Geophysical Union and the AAS Solar Physics Division, and will be held in Bellevue/Seattle, Washington, 8-12 August 2022.
TESS welcomes participation by the entire Heliophysics community, including all four traditional sub-disciplines devoted to studies of the Sun, Heliosphere, Magnetosphere, and Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere. TESS not only promotes greater interaction and unity within Heliophysics, but also connections to astrophysics and planetary physics.
2021 HALE PRIZE: RUSSELL HOWARD
For his seminal contributions to the discovery, measurement, and understanding of Coronal Mass Ejections and their role in Space Weather and for his outstanding leadership in innovative space instrumentation that forms the foundation of much current Heliophysics research.
2021 HARVEY PRIZE: LUCIA KLEINT
In recognition of her broad contributions to solar polarimetry, radiative transfer modeling, and leadership in next-generation solar instrumentation.
SOLARNEWS
Submissions for SolarNews should now be submitted via a new form on the NSO Website.
Details can be found on our links page.
The latest edition of SolarNews is available here.
Solar Physics Grad Programs
The SPD committee has put together a list of institutions offering Solar Physics Graduate Programs. For any additions, corrections, or additional information, please contact Georgios Chintzoglou.