On 2 July 2019, a total solar eclipse will pass over Chile, with the NSF’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) located in the path of totality. AURA and CTIO have reserved observing space for four teams of up to four people each for this event.  The sites will be allocated through a merit-based proposal process.

Each successful team will receive the following:

• Accommodation on site for up to four people between 30 June and 4 July. Fees apply.
• A 10 x 10 ft “observing pad” with unobstructed view of the Sun
• Internet connection [one 100Mbps connection to the observatory network backbone]
• Electrical supply [one 110V 60Hz 15 Amp extension supplied to the pad]

There is no monetary support provided with this solicitation, and standard observatory costs associated with food and accommodation will apply. In addition, teams are expected to cover the cost of project development, shipping, travel to and from the observatory, and all other costs incurred. More information about observing at the CTIO site can be found at www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/content/Planning-Executing-Wrapping-your-run-CTIO

Evaluation criteria will include:

• Scientific merit and originality: Please discuss in reasonable detail the scientific basis, objectives, and relevance of your observing program.
• Technical feasibility: To allow the reviewers to understand and evaluate your requirements, you must provide a detailed description of the experiment and methodology to be used.  Please highlight if your equipment needs any special support on site beyond the provided internet and 110V electric outlet.  Note that AURA may be able to assist in bringing advanced equipment into Chile if needed.
     o  Groups needing additional time to prepare their equipment ahead of the eclipse should clearly describe and carefully justify this need in the resources required section of the proposal. CTIO will endeavor to meet such requests on a space available basis; this may involve use of off-site accommodation and shuttle transport to/from the mountain for the period prior to 30 June.
     o  AURA has long experience with, and can assist in, the logistics of shipping to/from Chile and the import/export of instruments and can store equipment before and after the eclipse in order to facilitate coordination with shippers.  Proposals should clearly define what instrumentation will need to be shipped separately from travel baggage.
• Broader impact: Please describe any aspects of or interest in interactions with either local Chilean outreach or international public engagement, including potential classroom use of the products of the observations.  Also include student participation, either in the observations or data analysis.  Teams with demonstrated interest in conducting or participating in Chilean outreach around this event will be viewed favorably.

To apply to this solicitation, please complete the following by 15 August 2018. Proposals should be submitted via email to vmpillet@nso.edu with cc to sheathcote@ctio.noao.edu. Successful teams will be notified by 1 September 2018.

• Principal Investigator, Name & email:
• Additional team members, names & emails [Max 3 excluding PI]:
• Title:
• Scientific Objective/Abstract [Max 100 words]:
• Research Summary [Max 2 pages]:
• Technical Details [Max 2 pages]:
• Public Outreach and/or Engagement Plan [Max 2 pages]:
• Resources required:
• Additional comments:

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This announcement reflects recent increases to the NPP annual base stipend and the annual travel allowance provided to fellows.
The NASA Postdoctoral Program offers US and international scientists the opportunity to advance their research while contributing to NASA’s scientific goals.  The NPP supports fundamental science; explores the undiscovered; promotes intellectual growth; and encourages scientific connections.

Selected by a competitive peer-review process, NPP Fellows complete one- to three-year Fellowship appointments that advance NASA’s missions in earth science, heliophysics, planetary science, astrophysics, space bioscience, aeronautics and engineering, human exploration and space operations, and astrobiology.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in hand before beginning the fellowship, but may apply while completing the degree requirements. U.S. citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents, and foreign nationals eligible for J-1 status as a Research Scholar may apply.

UPDATED! Stipends now start at $60,000 per year, with supplements for high cost-of-living areas and for certain academic specialties. Financial assistance is available for relocation and health insurance, and $10,000 per year is provided for professional travel.

Applications are accepted three times each year: March 1, July 1, and November 1.

To learn more about specific opportunities and to apply, visit npp.usra.edu/opportunities/

For further information and to apply, visit:  npp.usra.edu/

Questions: npphelp@usra.edu

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The PMOD/WRC in Davos invites applications for

Director of PMOD/WRC.

The PMOD/WRC is a renowned reference laboratory and research institution. It is active in research and development ranging from the terrestrial radiation balance, solar physics, and climate modelling to the international standardization of irradiance measurements and the design and manufacturing of radiometers for space experiments. In particular, the institute contributed hardware to the experiments SPICE and EUI on Solar Orbiter.

An outstanding successful candidate can be nominated as Affiliated Professor at ETH Zurich in the Department of Physics. This would ensure full access to all technical, research and ICT infrastructure at ETH, participation in teaching activities and in recruiting Master and PhD students.

The full call for applications is published on the PMOD/WRC website /www.pmodwrc.ch

Applications are invited until 31 July 2018, addressed to the President of SFI, Dr. Walter Ammann (sent by email to: walter.ammann@grforum.org).

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The European Space Agency awards several postdoctoral fellowships each year.

The aim of these fellowships is to provide scientists in their early career, holding a PhD or the equivalent degree, with the means of performing research in fields related to the ESA Science Programme.

Areas of research include planetary science, astronomy and astrophysics, solar and solar-terrestrial science, plasma physics and fundamental physics. The fellowships have a duration of two years, with the possible extension to three years, and are tenable at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Netherlands, or at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid, Spain.

Applications are now solicited for fellowships in space science to begin in the fall of 2019. Preference will be given to applications submitted by candidates in an early stage of their career. Candidates not holding a PhD yet are encouraged to apply, but they must provide evidence of receiving their degree before starting the fellowship.

ESA fellows are enrolled in ESA’s Social Security Scheme, which covers medical expenses. A monthly deduction covers these short-term and long-term risks.

The deadline for applications is 1 October 2018.

More information on the ESA Research Fellowship programme in Space Science, on the conditions and eligibility, as well as the application form can retrieved from cosmos.esa.int/fellowship

Questions on the scientific aspects of the ESA Fellowship in Space Science not answered in the above pages can be sent by e-mail to the fellowship coordinators, Dr. Oliver Jennrich or Dr. Bruno Altieri at the address fellowship@cosmos.esa.int

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Abstracts are invited to the session, “Empirical and Physics-Based Approaches for Predicting Solar Wind Speed” at the AGU Fall Meeting, Washington D.C.,  10 – 14 December 2018.

The abstract submission site will open on Wednesday, 13 June. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, 1 August 23:59 EDT. Please note that AGU will not accept any late abstracts.

Session ID#: 50545 Session Description: State-of-the-art space weather prediction relies on empirical tools like the Wang/Sheeley (WS) relationship between the coronal magnetic flux expansion and observed solar wind speed, and on additional parameters such as the angular distance of the inferred footpoint to the nearest coronal hole.  There are also physics-based models that attempt to explain the connections between coronal magnetic topology and solar-wind acceleration.  However, there is still much unknown about why these relationships sometimes fail (e.g., for pseudostreamers).

This session focuses on a reevaluation of successes and failures of existing methods of solar wind-speed prediction.  We welcome contributions addressing issues discussed above, and questions such as:  Is the WS relationship causal?  Are there other observables that outperform existing empirical tools?  What role does magnetic topology play in determining wind speed from regions of non-steady field (e.g., coronal-hole boundaries)? Contributions presenting new observational data, or new results from theory/simulations, are particularly welcome.

Conveners: Bala Poduval, Steve Cranmer and Nick Arge

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We cordially invite you to submit abstracts to Session SH005 of the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting. The abstract submission deadline is August 1, 2018.

SH005: Eruption Onset in the Solar Corona

Session Description:
Solar eruptions, from coronal jets to CMEs, represent an explosive release of stored coronal magnetic energy.  Recent observations have shed light on the important role of filaments in jets, hinting at common physics underpinning eruptive phenomena across a range of spatiotemporal scales. Determining the physical mechanisms of eruption onset is also vital for predicting their impact on the heliospheric environment. Eruption models have coalesced into two general categories: ideal processes such as the torus instability and resistive processes such as the breakout model. A keen understanding of the drivers of coronal energy storage, the structural features of stressed magnetic fields, and their observational signatures is key to distinguishing between physical mechanisms.

This session invites contributions that explore the present state of observations and theory regarding the energy buildup and triggers for solar eruptions, and aims to focus research efforts ahead of the upcoming Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter missions.

Conveners:
Joel Dahlin, Cooper Downs, Tibor Török

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This is the second announcement for the “Third meeting of the Italian Solar and Heliospheric Community - SOHE3” that will take place in Turin (Italy), from 29 to 31 October 2018, and will be organized by the INAF-Turin Astrophysical Observatory and the Turin University - Physics Department. The meeting will be hosted in the modern Great Hall of the “Cavallerizza Reale” (located in the historical city center, via Verdi 9, Turin).

Confirmed invited speakers: Luca Belluzzi, Catia Grimani, Enrico Landi, Gianni Lapenta, Lorenzo Matteini, Giuseppina Nigro, Susanna Parenti, Mirko Piersanti, Paolo Romano, Paola Testa. A preliminary version of the scientific program is now available on the meeting website.

Abstract submission and conference registration: now open, with deadline August 31st. Financial support request for students and post-docs: now open, also with deadline August 31st.

Conference proceedings: the SOHE3 conference proceedings will be published on the “Il Nuovo Cimento” Journal; all oral speakers and those selected for poster presentation in the program will be invited to publish a paper on the conference proceedings book.

Please refer to the meeting website for further details on all of the above arguments, or alternatively send an email to the meeting LOC or SOC at the email addresses given below.

WEBSITE: sohe3.oato.inaf.it/

SOC (soc.sohe3@oato.inaf.it):

Alessandro Bemporad – INAF Osservatorio di Torino Serena Criscuoli – NSO, National Solar Observatory, Boulder, CO Dario Del Moro – Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Dip. di Fisica Salvo Guglielmino – Università degli Studi di Catania Simone Landi – Università di Firenze & INAF Osservatorio di Arcetri Monica Laurenza – INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma Fabio Reale – Università di Palermo & INAF Osservatorio di Palermo Thomas Straus – INAF Osservatorio di Capodimonte Antonio Vecchio – LESIA-Observatoire de Paris- France / Dept. of Astrophysics/IMAPP - Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherland

LOC (loc.sohe3@oato.inaf.it):

Alessandro Bemporad (Chair) Lucia Abbo Carlo Benna Tullia Carriero Alberto Cora Annalisa Deliperi Silvano Fineschi Federica Frassati Silvio Giordano Salvatore Mancuso Silvano Massaglia Gianalfredo Nicolini Stefania Rasetti Roberto Susino Luca Zangrilli

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The registration for the 2018 SHINE workshop will close on June 22nd. SHINE will take place from July 30th to August 3rd (student day July 29th) in Cocoa Beach, FL jointly at the Courtyard Marriott (posters) and Hilton (oral sessions). The scientific program (27 sessions) and details about the registration and abstract submission processes are listed in the SHINE website (shinecon.org/CurrentMeeting.php).
The abstract submission deadline is also on June 22nd.
The registration fee includes one poster per person; this year, no additional posters are allowed.

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We are organizing a workshop entitled "22 Years of GOLF and VIRGO: 2 Sunspot Cycles Seen by Seismology". It will be held at the Hotel Saint Paul in Nice, France (lesaintpaul-hotel.fr), 27–29 November 2018.

2018 marks the 22nd anniversary of the SOHO spacecraft's observing the Sun, which has completed two sunspot cycles. The GOLF and VIRGO instruments onboard have collected an impressive dataset of simultaneous radial velocities and photometry. These unique long-term, almost continuous, Sun-as-a-star measurements contribute greatly to the revolution of our knowledge of the Sun by helioseismology.

The occasion of this 22nd anniversary is the right moment to meet and discuss this unique mission and progress made in helioseismology during the last two decades. The workshop will be dedicated to the main topics of the mission: solar activity and the study of the structure and dynamics of the solar interior. In particular, we will take stock of our knowledge on solar dynamo modeling, irradiance, and theory of magnetic effects on p modes. The workshop will also be the opportunity to discuss the recent claim of g-mode detection using GOLF data. This workshop will also provide a good opportunity to acknowledge and to honour people who played a key role in the preparation and development of the mission. Prospects in solar physics and future instrumentation, solar-SONG, and the links between Sun-as-a-star observations of VIRGO with Kepler/K2, TESS, and PLATO will be also discussed.

The number of participants is limited to 50. There is no registration fee.

Website: soho2018.sciencesconf.org (which will be active shortly)

SOC : Lionel Bigot (chair), Thierry Appourchaux, Patrick Boumier, Allan Sacha Brun, Thierry Corbard, Claus Fröhlich, Rafael A. Garcia, John Leibacher, Pere L. Pallé, Sylvaine Turck-Chièze.

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The 2018 Solar Dynamics Observatory Workshop: Catalyzing Solar Connections, will be held October 29 – November 2, 2018, at Thagaste, in Ghent, Belgium (www.thagaste.be).

The abstract submission website is now open at register-as.oma.be/sdo2018/abstract.php Abstracts must be submitted by Friday, August 17, 2018.

It has been eight years since the launch of SDO. We have seen a blizzard of papers and science results from this mission. As Solar Cycle 24 fades, we will get together to discuss what we learned about the Sun and anticipate what Solar Cycle 25 will look like.

This workshop will include invited and contributed oral and poster presentations in 8 themed sessions spanning SDO‘s wide range of research topics and one day of parallel mini-workshops. We encourage your participation and hope that you will share this announcement with colleagues.

The registration deadline for the 350 EUR registration fee is Friday, September 15, 2018, 23:59 UTC. After that date, the registration fee is 450 EUR.

Registration, abstract submission, and other information about SDO 2018: Catalyzing Solar Connections is available at register-as.oma.be/sdo2018/

Dean Pesnell
Chair, SDO 2018 Science Organizing Committee

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Solar Physics Webinar of Global Reach (SPW-GR) was launched on 2018 April 18 under support of the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) at NJIT (connection and coordination support) and Laboratory for Experimental Astrophysics, Ioffe Institute (web site support). The presentations, recording of the talks and the follow ups are made available online at the webinar web page (www.ioffe.ru/LEA/SF_AR/webinar.html) for free access.

NEXT TALK:
The next talk in the series, entitled “Solar flare energetics and X-ray diagnostics,” will be given by Dr. Eduard Kontar (Glasgow); Wednesday, 2018 July 11 at 14:00 UT.

FOLLOWING SUMMER TALKS
Dr. Martin Laming: First Ionization Potential (FIP) effect; Wed, 2018 Aug 08 at 14:00 UT.
Dr. Lou Lanzerotti: Space Weather; Wed, 2018 Sept. 05 at 14:00 UT.

HOW TO CONNECT
The Webinar uses the Cisco Webex service available at NJIT (link to connect: njit.webex.com/njit/j.php?MTID=mcb6f3cb75b5e6b62bbbcbba16d36e963; meeting # 924 797 400) and is coordinated by Dr. Gregory Fleishman.

WHEN:
The next talk is scheduled on Wednesday, 2018 June 13 at 14:00 UT.

FORMAT:
For details, see the SPW-GR web page www.ioffe.ru/LEA/SF_AR/webinar_about.html

SCHEDULE:
Visit the SPW-GR web page www.ioffe.ru/LEA/SF_AR/webinar.html

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