Space Weather Euro News -- SWEN
Vol. 18, Issue 7 (15 December 2014)

  1. URSI AT-RASC 2015 Conference, May 18-22, 205, GranCanaria, Spain
  2. PhD Studentships in Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
  3. Open ESA Invitations to Tender (ITTs)

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1. URSI AT-RASC 2015 Conference, GranCanaria, Spain, 18-22 May, 2015

From: Michael Rietveld <mike@eiscat.uit.no>

URSI AT-RASC 2015 will be the first edition of the newly-established triennial URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference as one of the URSI Flagship Conferences. The conference will take place on Gran Canaria from 18-12 May, 2015. It is the 3rd URSI flagship conference alongside the triennial URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium and the triennial AP-RASC conference (AsiaPacific Radio Science Conference).

This 1st URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference will have an open scientific program composed of
submitted papers within the domains covered by all ten Commissions of URSI:
Commission A: Electromagnetic Metrology
Commission B: Fields and Waves
Commission C: Radiocommunication and Signal Processing Systems
Commission D: Electronics and Photonics
Commission E: Electromagnetic Environment and Interference
Commission F: Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing
Commission G: Ionospheric Radio and Propagation
Commission H: Waves in Plasmas
Commission J: Radio Astronomy
Commission K: Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine

AT-RASC 2015 will have an open scientific program composed of submitted papers within the domains covered by all ten Commissions of URSI. The technical programme will become available as soon as the paper selection has been finalised.

The submission deadline for papers is 15th December 2014, for more details see:
http://www.at-rasc.com/

Technical Programme Committee: Prof. P.L.E. Uslenghi, Chair; Prof. P.S. Cannon, Vice-Chair;
Dr. W.R. Stone, Publications
Organizing Committee: Prof. P. Lagasse, Chair, Prof. P. Van Daele, Vice-Chair

2. PhD Studentships in Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

From: Claire Foullon <C.Foullon@exeter.ac.uk>

The Centre for Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics at Exeter is one of the leading research groups of its kind in the UK. Research encompasses the Fluid Dynamics of Weather and Climate, Theoretical Fluid Dynamics, Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, Solar-Terrestrial Plasmas and Space Weather. Applications to study for a PhD starting in September 2015 are hereby invited.

A) Three fully-funded PhD projects are available in the following areas:

Multi-spacecraft investigations of solar and heliospheric plasmas - Supervisor: Dr Claire Foullon;
Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence and Dynamos - Supervisor: Dr Joanne Mason;
Modelling of Planetary Atmospheres - Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Vallis.

The deadline for applications is: 27 January 2015.

B) Four projects in the NERC GW4+ DTP competition are available in the following areas:

Regional Response to Global Warming - Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Vallis;
Sub-grid models for high-resolution numerical weather prediction - Supervisor: Dr Bob Beare;
Statistical post-processing of ensemble forecasts of extreme weather events - Supervisor: Dr Frank Kwasniok;
Understanding and modeling the Northwest Corner of the Gulf Stream - Supervisor: Professor Beth Wingate.

The deadline for applications is: 15 January 2015.

Interested applicants are encouraged to browse webpages for details of our wide-ranging research activities and further details on how to apply via the following link:
http:/tiny.cc/gafd-phd

3. Open ESA Invitations to Tender (ITTs)

From: ESA/ESTEC

Open invitations to tender:

AO8151: IMPROVED MODELING OF SHORT AND LONG TERM CHARACTERISTICS OF IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES DURING ACTIVE YEARS OF THE SOLAR CYCLE (PTRP) - EXPRO PLUS
(From 13/11/2014 to 08/01/2015, Act.Ref.: 13.1EE.10)

AO7935: GSTP-6 ELEMENT 2: PERMANENT OPEN ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY (AO) FOR MARKET-ORIENTED ACTIVITIES
(From 10/06/2014 to 31/12/2015, Act.Ref.: 14.136.01)

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