POWRE - Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education (NSF
97-91.)
The NSF POWRE program addresses the need to develop full use of the
nation's human resources for science and engineering. The objectives of
the program are as follows:
Proposals to the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) for the following
categories of activities will be supported:
Please consult the POWRE program announcement on the WWW go to the NSF Home
Page (http://www.nsf.gov). Click on Crosscutting Programs and under
Program Information click on the second listing which is the POWRE program
announcement (NSF 97-91.)
If you have any questions about the POWRE program please speak to your
disciplinary program manager or contact Julie Palais who is the OPP
representative to the NSF-wide POWRE Coordinating Committee (PCC.)
Julie M. Palais, Antarctic Glaciology Program, Office of Polar Programs,
National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Va. 22230
Phone: (703)-306-1033; Fax: (703)-306-0139
Prof. P. S. Liss, Chairman, Scientific Committee IGBP, has written to
Presidents and Scientific Secretaries of ICSU bodies to invite increased
productive communications between IGBP scientists and those in the rest of
the extended ICSU family. He expresses the desire that these interactions
should minimize extra work and bureaucracy.
The three main relationships between IGBP and other ICSU bodies described
by Prof. Liss are:
A fourth potential mode of interaction where ICSU unions nominate an IGBP
point of contact has not been very productive of results. Prof. Liss
invites personal responses and future participation at SAC-V from
interested representatives.
Note: Either this letter was prepared before the IGBP-DIS/Panel on WDCs
Workshop in Boulder, CO during the first week of April, or it does not
speak to interactions between the DIS side of IGBP and other ICSU bodies.
We would like to invite interested members of the solar physics and
heliospheric communities to become involved with the on-going analysis of a
coordinated set of observations taken during the "Whole Sun Month" (WSM)
campaign, August 10 - September 8, 1996. This campaign involved many
ground and space-based instruments (including most of those on board the
SOHO satellite), and was coordinated with the IACG Campaign IV. The goal
of the campaign was to gather and model coronal observations of the
large-scale, stable solar minimum corona, and to link these observations to
in situ observations of the solar wind. Details of the observations taken
during the campaign are available at the WSM home page, http://serts.gsfc.
nasa.gov/whole_sun. Also available at this site are the results of the
first WSM workshop, held February 10 - 11, 1997, at which specific modeling
efforts were proposed.
The WSM observations and preliminary results of the modeling will be
presented at the Spring AGU meeting in Baltimore, MD, (May 27-30) and at
the 5th SOHO workshop in Oslo, Norway (June 17-20). Abstracts for work to
be presented at the AGU can be viewed from the WSM web-site. The data that
have been gathered are excellent and compre-hensive, and we would like to
encourage anyone who wishes to become involved with the modeling of these
data to send mail to gibson@serts.gsfc.nasa.gov in order to be added to the
WSM mailing list. We will be having short meetings at both the Spring AGU
and the SOHO workshop to discuss and coordinate the modeling working
groups. Moreover, we plan a second WSM workshop in September 1997, in
order to focus the work into a coordinated publication.
The Geophysics Directorate of the USAF Phillips Laboratory and the National
Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak announce the availability of GIF and
PostScript files of several Sacramento Peak solar coronal data products,
which are published in Solar Geophysical Data monthly, over the World Wide
Web. These files may be accessed at
http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/CORONA/index.html.
In addition to a description of the data, images will be found of
Real-time regional maps of ionospheric total electron content (TEC) are now
available at http://sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov:80/gpsiono.
The online TEC maps are produced at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for each
5-minute interval, using dual-frequency radio observables of the Global
Positioning System (GPS) collected from a number of ground-based stations.
The maps provide the snapshots of TEC over the entire continental USA and
adjacent regions. The maps on the Web site are updated every 15 minutes,
and the latest 60 maps (5 hours) are kept online.
In March 1997 the Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) and
Committee on Solar & Space Physics (CSSP) met at the US National Academy of
Sciences. The principal NASA liaison to these Committees was Dr. George
Withbroe. His presentation about future STP satellite programs of NASA
would have been excellent to share at a SCOSTEP meeting.
During his talk, copies were distributed of the new publication "SUN-EARTH
CONNECTION ROADMAP: Strategic Planning for the Years 2000-2020." This
impressive 100-page color document is the result of the Sun-Earth
Connection Roadmap Integration Team, Chaired by J. L. Burch and R. Vondrak.
Their team was assisted by the Sun-Earth Connections Advisory Subcommittee
(SECAS), Chaired by G. Mason. Many people across the space physics
community helped in developing materials, providing input, and critiquing
the "Roadmap."
The cover of this roadmap shows a large active Sun as imaged in X-rays by
YOHKOH, a smaller Earth as imaged by a geostationary meteorological
satellite, and inset panels depicting major themes: The Plasma Universe;
Comparative Environments (planetary); Magnetospheres; Humans in Space;
Satellite Operations; Power and Communications; and Climate Change. It
also displays a sub-text: "Tracing the flow of energy and matter from the
Sun and determining its effects on the solar system and on society."
The introduction includes a particularly effective figure showing the Sun
as imaged by YOHKOH in progression from years of highest activity to the
present almost inactive Sun. The figures are arranged in a superposed
"U"-shaped collage that should convey the impression of the variable solar
cycle very effectively, even to non-scientific administrators. Another
figure reproduces pages from the newspapers "Washington Post" and "USA
Today." They describe the eruptive CME tracked from its beginning on 7
January 1997, until arrival of the plasma cloud at Earth on 10 January. It
was during the geoeffective period associated with the arrival of this
cloud that the AT&T communications satellite TELSTAR-401 failed in orbit.
Days before, the relatively new NOAA meteorological satellite GOES-8 failed
and was only restored to operation by switching to a backup power supply to
operate the Automatic Onboard Pointing Control (AOPC.)
I was particularly impressed to see so current an item integrated into a
timely printed report that could be distributed to US NAS committees within
a few weeks after the events.
Sun-Earth Connections is one of four major themes around which the Space
Science Division is organized. Each theme area has a Science Director;
together, they are:
Three "Quests", each having several "Science Themes", comprise the
elements of the Sun-Earth Connection program area; they are:
On 1997 April 7 a solar flare occurred with an associated coronal mass
ejection and a "coronal Moreton wave." These phenomena were seen in new
and spectacular ways by instruments aboard the NASA/ESA SOHO spacecraft.
NASA, ESA, and NRL scientists queried by the media were excited, and their
excitement about the new observations led to media reports that a massive
ejection had left the Sun (true), it would hit the Earth (highly probable),
at a certain time (wrong), and cause damage and outages to technical
systems (highly unlikely.) Meantime, NOAA's Space Environment Center
(SEC), utilizing primarily the same types of data with which we have become
familiar over the last several solar cycles, regarded the flare (C6 in soft
x-rays and 3N in H-alpha) to be ordinary, the coronal mass ejection to be
the expected garden variety, time of transit to Earth through slow solar
wind to be long, and the terrestrial effects likely to be unremarkable.
The unprecedented media saturation and attention given to this event, and
the "NASA predictions" (which NASA scientists did not make) appearing as an
official government warning, caused many systems operators to be severely
shaken. As one example, NOAA's Space Environment Center had a call asking
if 747s scheduled to fly across the Atlantic should be kept on the ground
at the predicted time of arrival of the storm.
It is perhaps useful to let the community know some of what we learned from
this event:
URGENT: PROPOSALS DUE JULY 1 FOR
NSF POWRE PROGRAM
Supplements to existing grants will also be considered - $50,000 maximum/12
month maximum.
e-mail: jpalais@nsf.gov
Odile de la Beaujardiere
(odelabe@nsf.gov)
INVITATION FOR INCREASED COMMUNICATION WITH IGBP
JHA
INVITATION TO BECOME INVOLVED IN
"WHOLE SUN MONTH" ANALYSIS
Douglas Biesecker
Sarah Gibson
gibson@serts.gsfc.nasa.gov
SACRAMENTO PEAK CORONAL DATA AVAILABLE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
(i) current Carrington synoptic maps of Fe XIV 530.3 nm and Fe X 637.4 nm (and,
when solar activity picks up, Ca XV 569.4 nm),
(ii) a line plot of the current daily intensities in Fe XIV, Fe X and Ca XV
at 1.15 solar radii,
(iii) a "full-disk" synoptic plot of the Fe XIV (and eventually Ca XV)
corona as it would appear projected against the solar disk currently and
forecast two weeks into the future, and
(iv) multi-height images of the Fe XIV and Fe X corona as currently seen
above the limb. The availability of each of these products on any given
day, is, of course, dependent on observing conditions. Comments and/or
questions are welcomed.
Dick Altrock
altrock@sunspot.noao.edu.
REAL-TIME IONOSPHERIC TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT AVAILABLE ONLINE
Xiaoqing Pi
xqp@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov
SUN-EARTH CONNECTIONS ROADMAP -- ONLY FROM NASA
(Review of a recent NASA publication.)
A fifth theme cutting across all four thematic areas has been identified,
but does not yet have a director. It is: Origin & Distribution of Life in
the Universe.
Each Quest science theme is to be elucidated by seeking answers to
questions explained in the "Roadmap." Future satellite missions are
described in some detail. It is great reading and impressive coffee table
material to have around the house or office.
JHA
SPACE WEATHER MEDIA BLITZ:
LESSONS LEARNED
) for its assessment.
Incidentally this site took 142,000 hits on April 9, and includes
verification statistics on how skillful are the Center's predictions. Both
the NOAA and NASA public affairs officers will be engaged from the
beginning of the media interest in future events.
Dr. B. N. Andersen, (new addition) Norwegian Space Centre, P.O. Box 113
Skoyen, N-0212, Oslo, Norway, Tel: 47 22 51 18 00, Fax: 47 22 51 18 01,
e-mail: bo@admin.nsc.no
Uppsala, Sweden, 3-15 August 1997
Both events will have important environmental components. Therefore, WDCs
are encouraged to join the demonstration and the Workshop to present their
products to potential CIS countries.
For additional information, please contact Alexei Gvishiani atgvi@wdcb.rssi.ru.
STACCIS aims to strengthen cooperation in telematics applications in the
areas of education, scientific and technological research, and
environmental decision-making between the European countries of the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and their counterparts in the
European Union. The objectives of the project are:
(Editor's note: Detailed information on the workshop is available on WWW at
http://www.npi.msu.su/workshop/. Also see International STEP Newsletter,
Vol. 3, No. 1, March 1997.)
The Workshop will be hosted by the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics
of Moscow State University under the auspices of Moscow State University,
Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Space Agency.
Congeners for the Workshop are: M. Panasyuk (Russia); J. Lemaire
(Belgium); and D. Baker (USA)
Important Dates:
Local Organizing Committee Address:
Scientific Program:
Registration:
(This Conference was first announced in the December 1996 issue of
International STEP Newsletter. Additional information is given below.)
The Fourth International Conference on Substorms, ICS-4 or ICS-Japan, will
be held at Lake Hamana (Hamanako), Japan, from March 9 to 13, 1998. The
purpose of this conference series is to provide a forum for focused
discussion of all facets of magnetospheric substorms, from reviewing
outstanding problems in solar wind/magnetosphere interactions to modeling
magnetospheric/ionospheric processes associated with sub-storms. The
Conference will take place at the Hamanako Royal Hotel (tel.
+81-53-592-2222, fax +81-53-592-5522), where most of the attendants will
stay, visiting the beautiful gardens and historic sites in the region and
enjoying gourmet meals (all you can eat at every meal!), swimming, and
boating.
Lake Hamana is one of the premiere resort areas of Japan, easily accessible
from the Narita, Nagoya, or Kansai (Osaka) international airport. If you
travel from Tokyo to Kyoto by Shinkansen (bullet train), you will see Lake
Hamana on the right-hand side and the Pacific Ocean on the left-hand side
six minutes after Hamamatsu and seven minutes before Toyohashi. Few people
are aware that Nagoya Airport is served by a number of major airlines
including BA, CP, DL, LH, and NW with direct service from the US and
several European countries.
Abstract Deadline : December 1, 1997 The abstract format will be
announced at a later date.
Registration : The registration fee for the conference is 25,000 yen, if
payment is made before January 15, 1998. After that date the late
registration fee is 30,000 yen. The spouse/guest fee is 10,000 yen.
Hotel Reservation Deadline : January 15, 1998
We will use e-mail as appropriate to keep you informed of, for example,
abstract submissions, hotel accommodations, the preliminary program, paper
submissions for the proceedings, schedules of fun events, and weather
conditions. We are currently using the e-mail list the ICS-3 organizing
committee constructed. If your name is not on that list but you are
interested in receiving further information on this Conference, please send
a simple message along with your e-mail account to:
ics4@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp.
ICS-4 relevant information is also available on the Web at:
http://www.stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp/omosaic/conf/ics4.html
Conveners: S. Kokubun and Y. Kamide
The International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory will be organized by
URSI Commission B (Fields and Waves.) Online information is available
through the Commission B web site at: http://www.ursicommb.eng.clemson.edu.
A limited number of URSI Young Scientists awards are
available.
Papers on all aspects of electromagnetics are within the purview of the
Symposium. Synopses are due by no later than 26 September 1997. Submit
synopses electronically or on paper to the Chairman of the Symposium, Prof.
C. M. Butler, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 102 Riggs
Hall, Box 340915, Clemson University, Clemson, SC. Telephone:
864-656-5922; Fax: 864-656-7220; email: cbutler@eng.clemson.edu.
Local arrangement and venue questions should be directed to: Prof. E. E.
Kriezis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006, Thessaloniki,
GREECE. Telephone: +3031)996311; FAX: +3031)996312; e-mail:
kriezis@eng.auth.gr.
Anyone wishing details about preparation and submission of synopses is
invited to contact Prof. Butler.
This special session provides an international forum on scientific research
and program development associated with space weather, and its modeling and
forecasting.
Space weather and its impact on space and ground technology systems and
humans in space has drawn increasing attention in recent years. Countries
and regions in the Western Pacific have started developing their own space
weather programs. The scientific exploration and knowledge accumulated in
the past decades have laid the foundation for such programs and provided
them with building blocks. A new generation of space and ground-based
monitoring systems is increasing our capability to provide real-time
descriptions of the conditions on the sun, in the interplanetary space,
magnetosphere and ionosphere, and on the ground. Rapidly advancing
computing and communication technologies are reducing the time for data
collection and model calculation, leading to timely meaningful nowcasting
and forecasting.
With the strong support and involvement of our scientific community,
several proto-type space weather nowcasting and forecasting models have
emerged or are being constructed. The scientific soundness and validity and
further physical understanding of these models are of great interest to our
scientific community. This special session will provide an opportunity for
us to share our knowledge, experience, excitement and frustration, to
debate the issues that concern us, and to assess the progress we have made.
The session will feature a suite of invited talks as well as contributions
on the Space Weather Programs of each Country/region, User and Forecaster's
Perspectives, Backbone Global Models, Upstream Modeling and Forecasts,
Boundary Layer and Cusp Modeling and Forecasts, Ring Current and Energetic
Particle Modeling and Forecasts, Storm and Substorm Modeling and Forecasts,
and Ionosphere and Upper Atmosphere Modeling and Forecasts.
Deadline for Abstracts is April 1, 1998. Information about the 1998 Western
Pacific Geophysical Meeting and Taiwan can be found on the WWW
(http://www.agu.org.)
Convener:
Co-Conveners:
June 23-27: Eighth EISCAT International Workshop, Leicester, UK. Contact:
K. Bowers (kathleen@ion.le.ac.uk)
March 9-13: Fourth International Conference on Substorms, Lake Hamana,
Japan. Contact: S. Kokubun (kokubun@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
Prof. S. W. H. Cowley, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Leicester
University, Leicester LEl 7RH, United Kingdom, E-mail: swhcl@ion.le.ac.uk
Tel: 44-116-223-1331, Fax: 44-116-252-3555.
Claus Frohlich: cfrohlich@obsun.pmodwrc.ch.
Dr. J. Pap: pap@astro.ucla.edu.
Dr. A. Prigancova: Fax #(42 7) 37 52 78, geofpria@savba.sk.
Dr. J. Sykora: sykora@ta3.savba.sk.
Dr. M. A. Van Zele: avanzele@tango.gl.fcen.uba.ar.
WISE TO BOOK IAGA/SCOSTEP/STEP/
S-RAMP/UPPSALA FLIGHTS NOW
For those traveling to the IAGA/SCOSTEP meetings in Uppsala in August,
please be aware that newspapers have reported that this summer is going to
be a heavier than usual season for trans-Atlantic travel and that popular
dates are already fully booked. Members of our group have confirmed this
when they tried to book their flights. Thus, it is wise to book your flight
very soon and on the day of flight arrive at the airport well ahead of
departure so that you are not one of those who are bumped.
Chris Russell
(ctrussell@igpp.ucla.edu)
SUPPORT FOR TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS COOPERATION
WITH THE COMMONWEALTH OF
INDEPENDENT STATES
(STACCIS) WORKSHOP
Moscow, Russia, 2-6 October 1997
and
EAST-WEST CONSENSUS WORKSHOP
Moscow, Russia, 7-8 October 1997
Anne Linn
Secretary, ICSU Panel on World Data Centers
WORKSHOP ON SPACE RADIATION ENVIRONMENT MODELING:
NEW PHENOMENA AND APPROACHES
Moscow, Russia, October 7-9, 1997
May 19, 1997: Abstract Deadline
June 19, 1997: Notification of acceptance of paper. Third announcement.
Preliminary program.
August 1, 1997: Visa Form Deadline (for non-Russian citizens)
September 1, 1997: Accommodation Form Deadline
October 7-9, 1997: Workshop
December, 1997: Refereeing of the manuscripts
February, 1998: Proceedings: Selected papers to be published
Office #302, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics,
Moscow State University, Moscow, 119899, Russia
Telephone: (7-095) 939-5034; Fax: (7-095) 939-5034
Email: colloq@srdlan.npi.msu.su
WWW: http://www.npi.msu.su/workshop
-Physical Radiation Belt Modeling
-Empirical Radiation Belt Modeling
-Galactic and Solar Cosmic Rays Modeling
-Radiation Environment Impact on Spacecraft
-Magnetospheric Magnetic Field Modeling
The registration fee for participants is 300 USD: for accompanying persons
80 USD. The only method of payment we can accept is cash (USD) (at the
time of registration.)
Jim Adams
(adams@crs2.nrl.navy.mil)
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON SUBSTORMS
Lake Hamana, Japan, March 9 - 13, 1998
Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory (STEL)
Nagoya University
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY
Thessaloniki, Greece, 25-29 May 1998
SPECIAL SESSION ON SPACE WEATHER:
1998 WESTERN PACIFIC GEOPHYSICAL MEETING
Taipei, Taiwan, July 21-24, 1998
Paul Song, Space Physics Research Laboratory
The University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143
psong@engin.umich.edu
313-764-8327(o) 313-647-3083(f)
Robert Carovillano (NASA Headquarters, USA) email:rcarovil@hq.nasa.gov
Jerry Chao (National Central U., Taiwan) email:jkchao@jupiter.ss.ncu.edu.tw
Ron Lepping (Goddard Space Flight Center, USA) email:u5rpl@lepvax.span.nasa.gov
Janet Luhmann (UC Berkeley, USA) email:jgluhman@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu
Hiro Nishida (ISAS, Japan) email:nishida@newslan.isas.ac.jp
1997
1997
July 13-18: North American URSI Meeting, Session G2: Modeling of
Thermospheric-Ionospheric Feedbacks, Montreal, Canada. Contact: C. G.
Fesen (fesen@tides.utdallas.edu)
July 31 & August 2, SCOSTEP Bureau. Contact for this and the following
SCOSTEP meetings and STP Symposium in Uppsala: J. H. Allen, SCOSTEP
Secretariat (jallen@ngdc.noaa.gov)
August 3: S-RAMP Steering Committee, Uppsala, Sweden
August 4-5: IAGA Session 2.12/3.11/4.06/5.06: Space Weather Models, near
Real-Time Monitoring and Pre-dictions, Uppsala, Sweden. Contact: T.
Pulkkinen (tuija@kitron.colorado.edu)
August 4-8: Ninth STP Symposium, Uppsala, Sweden
August 4-8: IAMAS Middle Atmosphere Symposium, Uppsala, Sweden
August 4-14: Conference on Global Change and History of Geomagnetism,
Geophysics and Aeronomy, during IAGA Scientific Assembly, Uppsala, Sweden.
Contact: Dr. Wilfried Schroder, Geophysical Station, Hechelstrasse 8,
D-2877 Bremen-Roennebeck, Germany.
August 4-15: IAGA Assembly, Uppsala, Sweden. Contact: IAGA Secretariat
(iaga@irfu.se)
August 9: SCOSTEP Bureau Meeting.
August 9: IAGA Symposium 4.05: Foreshock, Bow Shock and Magnetosheath: The
Multi-Spacecraft Perspective, Uppsala, Sweden. Contact: S. J. Schwartz
(s.j.schwartz@qmw.ac.uk)
August 9: IAGA Session 3.07: Generation and Propagation of ULF Waves,
Uppsala, Sweden. Contact: A. A. Chan (anthony-chan@rice.edu)
August 10: SCOSTEP General Council, Uppsala, Sweden.
August 11: IAGA Division IV Working Group IV.2 Meeting Turbulence and Shock
Waves in the Heliosphere., Uppsala, Sweden. Contact: I. S. Veselovsky
(veselov@dec1.npi.msu.su)
August 11-15: ICMA, Uppsala, Sweden
August 12: IAGA Session 3.10 Physics and Microphysics of the Discrete
Aurora, Uppsala, Sweden. Contact: S. Derr (sarah@space.ualberta.ca)
August 14-15: IAGA Symposium 2.10/3.01/411 Planetary Magnetospheres,
Ionospheres, and Atmospheres, Uppsala, Sweden. Contact: A. F. Nagy
(anagy@umich.edu)
August 14-15: IAGA Session 7.02 Geomagnetism and Aeronomy in Developing
Countries, Uppsala, Sweden. Contact: L. M. Barreto (barreto@obsn.on.br)
August 15: IAGA Session 4.03: From Pick-up Ions to Energetic Particles:
The Acceleration of Anomalous Cosmic Rays, Uppsala, Sweden. Contact: A. C.
Cummings (ace@citsrl.srl.caltech.edu)
August 18-22: IAGA/ICMA Workshop on Solar Activity Effects on the Middle
Atmosphere, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact: J. Lastovicka
(jla@ufa.cas.cz)
October 2-6: Support for Telematics Applications Cooperation with the
Commonwealth of Independent States (STACCIS) Workshop, Moscow, Russia.
Contact: Alexei Gvishiani (atgvi@wdcb.rssi.ru)
October 7-8: East-West Consensus Workshop, Moscow, Russia. Contact:
Alexei Gvishiani (atgvi@wdcb.rssi.ru)
October 7-9: Workshop on Space Radiation Environment Modeling: New
Phenomena and Approaches. Contact: M. Panasyuk
(panasyuk@srdlan.npi.msu.su)
December 10-13: School on Atmospheric Radar (SAR), Bangalore, India.
Contact: S. C. Chakravarty (scc@isro.ernet.in)
December 15-20: Eighth Workshop on Technical and Scientific Aspects of MST
Radar (MST8), Bangalore, India. Contact: S. C. Chakravarty
(scc@isro.ernet.in)
1998
May 25-29: International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory,
Thessaloniki, Greece. Contact: C. M. Butler cbutler@eng.clemson.edu.
July 21-24: Special Session on Space Weather: 1998 Western Pacific
Geophysical Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan. Contact: psong@engin.umich.edu.