SHINE Newsletter for January 2008

SHINE Newsletter, Jan 8 2008

Hi Everyone,

Happy New Year to you all! We hope 2008 is looking to be a productive and exciting year for everyone. Several items in this newsletter are bound to help with that goal.

The SHINE steering committee is currently discussing topics for this year’s workshop. Although it appears we have many interesting topics to explore, we are still interested in hearing from you if there is a topic you feel would make a good focused SHINE session with lots of discussion.

Best,

Christina Cohen and the SHINE steering committee

shine-committee@dopey.caltech.edu

Items:

1. SHINE 2008 Workshop

2. GEM-SHINE Committee Request

3. Community Model Workshop

4. Heliosphysics Summer School 2008

1. SHINE 2008 Workshop

This year’s SHINE Workshop will be held at the Zermatt Resort in Utah (http://zermatt.dolce.com) from June 23 to June 27. Guided by the responses from the SHINE 2007 survey and input from the session leaders, the SHINE steering committee is current developing the session topics. Some of you have expressed interest in new topics and well as twists on previous ones and we welcome and appreciate all your suggestions (particularly those accompanied by offers to lead sessions). Although the schedule is quickly filling up we still value any input from the SHINE participants.

In an effort to foster collaborative science, the GEM and SHINE steering committees have decided to run parallel meetings at Zermatt. In addition to the opportunity for SHINE participants to attend GEM sessions, there will also be sessions within the SHINE workshop devoted to topics of interest to both the GEM and SHINE communities. These sessions will be run like typical SHINE working group sessions (with lots of discussion and collaboration) in parallel with other SHINE sessions.

More details regarding the workshop and session topics will be available in the coming months. We are looking forward to another successful workshop and hope you can join us!

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2. GEM-SHINE Committee Request

The committee to organize a joint GEM-SHINE program at the upcoming GEM and SHINE Meetings June 23-27, 2008 is collecting ideas for joint GEM-SHINE sessions (workshops, discussions, event studies, etc.).

Please send your ideas to Joe Borovsky (jborovsky@lanl.gov), or to another committee member, as soon as possible.

The committee is:

     Terry Forbes terry.forbes@unh.edu

     Mary Hudson mary.hudson@dartmouth.edu

     Nick Arge Nick.Arge@Kirtland.af.mil

     Ian Richardson ianr@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov

     Mike Shay shay@udel.edu

     Joe Borovsky (chair) jborovsky@lanl.gov

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3. Community Models Workshop

On the Sunday prior to the start of the SHINE workshop there will be a 1-day Community Models workshop. The purpose of this workshop is to explore the needs for community models and to explore what it would take to establish and maintain a community modeling system. The workshop will serve to raise issues, reveal pros and cons of previous and current community modeling activities, and have a broad discussion of what people think is needed and how we might get there.

Terry Onsager (terry.onsager@noaa.gov) is the chair of the organizing committee for this workshop.

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4. Heliophysics Summer School 2008

HELIOPHYSICS Summer School 2008

28 July through 2 August 2008, · Boulder, CO

The second of a three-year NASA-sponsored Heliophysics Summer School will be hosted by UCAR in Boulder, CO, 28 July through 2 August 2008. The summer school is sponsored by NASA’s Living With a Star (LWS) program. It has three principal goals: 1) To deepen the appreciation of the basic science of heliophysics for a select group of students as teachers take them through highly interactive seminars and hands-on working groups and lab exercises, 2) To analyze new measurements with the goal of identifying global processes and drivers of the Sun-heliosphere system outward to the heliopause, and the responses of planetary magnetospheres, ionospheres and atmospheres, and 3) To produce a series of textbooks from which heliophysics may be taught at universities worldwide. The three-year program comprises three thematic clusters that together cover the scientific basis of the physical processes that play a role in coupling the Sun’s interior to the planetary environments and atmospheres through the vast heliosphere.

The second 6-day summer school in 2008 will cover “explosive energy conversions and energetic particles.” The three-year “heliophysics school” will encompass the entire scientific discipline now called heliophysics.

Approximately 30 students (including senior undergraduate students and graduate students with a strong background in physics, and beginning postdocs in a field of heliophysics) will be selected each year through a competitive process to participate in the 2008 summer school. Each participant will receive air travel, lodging and a per diem.

The UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs (VSP) office will administer the summer school. The deadline for application submission by students will be announced soon on the VSP website; late applications will be considered until all available student positions are filled. Please see www.vsp.ucar.edu, call 303-497-8649 or email vsp@ucar.edu for updated information.

Application materials should include:

• A cover letter briefly stating motivation for application.

• Curriculum Vitae with a list of publications, technical reports and professional presentations.

• Names and addresses of three references (one must be advisor).

• Graduate school transcripts.

• One to two page statement of interest and relevance to summer school goals.

Send e-mail or electronic applications to: vsp@ucar.edu.

If you are unable to submit electronically, please mail your application materials to:

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Visiting Scientist Programs · Heliophysics Summer School

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder, CO 80307-3000 USA

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