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2003 Workshop Agenda

15 - 20 June 2003
Longmont, Colorado

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Sunday 15 June 2003

 

 

CEDAR Student Workshop (Non-students Welcome)

Unsolved Problems in Aeronomy

Front Range Amphitheatre

Co-Chairs Lars Dyrud (BU)

and Pamela Loughmiller (Cornell)

(CEDAR student reps)

10:00-10:15 Greetings and Introduction Dyrud/Loughmiller
10:15-10:45 Ice Breaker  
10:45-11:30 Transient luminous events between thunderstorm tops and the lower ionosphere Victor Pasko (PSU)
11:30-12:15 Investigating the origin of 2-day oscillations in the lower ionosphere Gilbert Lichstein (U CO)
12:15-01:30 Lunch on own  
01:30-02:15 Modelling the topside ionosphere and plasmasphere Chris Wilford (U Sheff, UK)
02:15-03:00 Data assimilation problems in the upper atmosphere Tomoko Matsuo (NCAR)
03:00-03:15 --- Break ---  
03:15-04:00 ISR and Meteors Craig J. Heinselman (SRI)
04:00-05:00 Keynote: The Middle and Low Latitude Ionosphere: Future Challenges Bela Fejer (USU)
05:00 Adjourn  
05:00-06:00 Raintree van shuttle from outside Raintree front door to Hover Acres Park  
06:00-09:00 Student Social for students, recent graduates and invited guests. Volleyball, dinner and drinks will be provided (NO ALCOHOL) Hover Acres Park
07:00-09:00 Raintree van shuttle from Hover Acres Park to Raintree  

 

 

Monday 16 June 2003

08:30-08:55 Opening Addresses (South Summit) R. Smith (CSSC)

R. Behnke (NSF)

T. Killeen (NCAR)
08:55-09:05 Report on Student Workshop L. Dyrud (BU)
08:55-09:05 Introduction of Students by Institution L. Dyrud (BU)
09:05-09:50 CEDAR Prize Lecture: Climatology and variability in the mesopause region over Colorado: Sodium lidar observation of temperature and winds (1.5 MB .pdf file) C-Y She (CSU)
09:50-10:05 CANOPUS International LWS R. Smith/I. Mann
10:05-10:30 --- Break ---  
10:30-11:00 Living With a Storm P. Kintner (NASA)
11:00-11:15 CEDAR Database Update B. Emery (NCAR)
11:15-11:30 Cyber Infrastructure Update J. Holt (MIT)
11:30-01:00 --- Lunch on own ---  
01:00-03:00 Global Change Across the Mesopause (Front Range Theatre)

High Latitude Plasma Structures (HLPS) (Silverthorne)

Jicamarca Radio Observatory Workshop (Apache Group)
Akmaev/She

Sojka/Zhu/Valladares

Farley
03:00-03:30 --- Break ---  
03:30-05:30 Global Change Across the Mesopause (Front Range Theatre)

Middle and Low Latitude Ionospheric Disturbances (MLID) (MI Coupling) (Apache Group)

Student Professional Development (Silverthorne)
Akmaev/She

Huang/Fejer/Chau

Loughmiller
06:00-09:00 CSSC Dinner Meeting at Hunter's (Nelson and Airport Rd)  

 

Tuesday 17 June 2003

08:30-09:30 Tutorial #1: Errors in Airglow and Auroral Emission Measurements (0.7 MB .pdf file) D. Pallamraju (BU)
09:30-10:00 NSF (general, lidar evaluation) R. Behnke/R. Robinson
10:00-10:30 --- Break ---  
10:30-10:45 CEDAR Post Doc 1: Recent observations of metal layer enhancements and temperatures with the Arecibo Potassium Lidar R. Wilson (PSU)
10:45-11:15 Science Highlight 1: TIMED-CEDAR highlights J-H Yee (APL/JHU)
11:15-11:35 CEDAR issues R. Smith (CSSC)
11:35-01:00 --- Lunch on own ---  
01:00-03:00 TIMED/CEDAR Coordinated Observations of the MLTI (validation) (Summit South)

Topside Workshop (Front Range Theatre)
Paxton/Azeem/Palo/Russell/Wu

Noto/Gonzalez/Kerr
03:00-03:30 --- Break ---  
03:30-05:30 TIMED/CEDAR Coordinated Observations of the MLTI (corroborative science) (Summit South)

Using The Data Transport Network For Remote Data Retrieval and Distribution (Sonde) (Apache Group)

AMISR at Jicamarca (Front Range Theatre, 4:30-5:30)
Paxton/Azeem/Palo/Russell/Wu

Valentic

Chau/Kelly/Farley
06:00-09:00 Poster Session #1 (MLT) and dinner North Summit and Fairview

 

Wednesday 18 June 2003

08:30-09:30 Tutorial #2: Ionospheric Scintillations: A Tutorial (2.8 MB .pdf file) and abstract Sa. Basu (AFRL)
09:30-09:40 CEDAR Post Doc 2: Experimental Investigations of Oxygen Atom Reactions on Surfaces Characteristic of Mesospheric Particles J. Boulter (SRI)
09:40-10:00 CEDAR Post Doc 3: An Arecibo/EISCAT Observational Investigation of the Effects of the Meteor Mass Flux on the 80-120 km Atmosphere/Ionosphere D. Janches (Arecibo)
10:00-10:30 --- Break ---  
10:30-11:00 Science Highlight 2: Equatorial Imaging J. Makela (NRL)
11:00-11:15 NASA Update P. Richards (NASA)
11:15-11:30 Climate And Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES) Su. Basu (SCOSTEP)
11:30-01:00 --- Lunch on own ---  
01:00-03:00 Transient Optical Emissions in the Upper Atmosphere (Apache Group)

Global Ionospheric Forecasting Techniques (GIFT) (Summit South)

Alaska Project (Front Range Theatre)
Pasko/Taylor/Stanley

Anderson/Fuller-Rowell/Sojka

Murayama/Smith
03:00-03:30 --- Break ---  
03:30-05:30 Electric Field Variability in the High-Latitude Ionosphere and Joule Heating (Front Range Theatre)

Equatorial Ionospheric Imaging (Summit South)

Revolutionizing CEDAR Science through Cyber Infrastructure (Apache Group)
S. Shepherd/Ruohoniemi/Codrescu

Immel/Makela/Paxton/Straus

Holt
06:00-09:00 Poster Session #2 (non-MLT) and dinner Silverthorne and Fairview

 

Thursday 19 June 2003

08:30-09:30 Tutorial #3: Errors in Incoherent Scatter Measurements (5.6 MB .pdf file) M. Sulzer (Arecibo)
09:30-10:00 AMISR Update J. Kelly (SRI)
10:00-10:30 --- Break ---  
10:30-10:40 CEDAR Post Doc 4: Investigating OH and O2 Mesospheric Temperature Variability at Low and Mid-Latitudes A. Taori (USU)
10:40-11:10 Science Highlight 3: HEX Mission M. Conde (U AK)
11:10-11:25 Student Poster Prize Winners P. Erickson (MIT)
11:25-11:30 Announce new CSSC Members NSF
11:30-01:00 --- Lunch on own (CSSC lunch, Navaho-Pawnee) ---  
01:00-03:00 Arecibo Friends (Front Range Theatre)

Maui-MALT: First Results Workshop (Apache Group)

Plasma Kinetics, Structures and Turbulence (PKSAT) (Silverthorne)
Gonzalez

Taylor/Swenson

Mishin
03:00-03:30 --- Break ---  
03:30-05:30 CSU Lidar Tours (for all, 30 min tours from 4:00-7:30 PM)

Arecibo Friends (Front Range Theatre)

CNOFS Collaborative Measurements and Campaigns (part 1) (Silverthorne)

The Antarctic Stratospheric Major Warming of September 2002: Impact on the Polar MLT (Apache Group)

TIMED Data System and CEDAR Ground-Based Data Support (Fairview North)
Leave around 3:05, 4:15, 5:40 PM

Gonzalez

de La Beaujardiere/Hysell/Kelley/B. Basu

Vincent

Fox/Yee/Emery/Nylund
07:30-09:30 "Tartuffe" by Moliere at Lincoln Center in Fort Collins Leave 5:40 PM with lidar tour, or 6:15 PM

 

Friday 20 June 2003

08:30-09:30 Tutorial #4: Simulating Ionospheric Plasma Physics Using Millions and Millions of Particles (1.2 MB .pdf file) M. Oppenheim (BU)
09:30-10:00 CSEM (Comprehensive Space Environment Model) Update A. Ridley (U MI)
10:00-10:30 --- Break ---  
10:30-11:00 CISM Update M. Wiltberger (NCAR)
11:00-11:30 Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements (GAIM) R. Schunk (USU)
11:30-11:35 Windup R. Smith (CSSC)
11:35-01:00 --- Lunch on own ---  
01:00-03:00 Fabry-Perot Interferometers (Front Range Theatre)

CNOFS Collaborative Measurements and Campaigns (part 2) (Silverthorne)

Incoherent Scatter Radar Contributions to CEDAR Science (Apache Group)
Meriwether/Conde

de La Beaujardiere/Hysell/Kelley/B. Basu

Erickson/Lind
03:00-03:30 --- Break ---  
03:30-05:30 Fabry-Perot Interferometers (Front Range Theatre)

Scheduling the Upper Atmospheric Facilities for World Day Coordinated Experiments (Apache Group)
Meriwether/Conde

Swartz