2004 Workshop Agenda

09:00-10:00

Registration, Sign Travel Vouchers

at registration desk

10:00-10:10

Introductions

Stan Briczinski (PSU)

10:10-10:30

--- Break (Ice-Breaker) ---

10:30-11:30

LIDAR for dummies

Alexander Hassiotis (PSU)

11:30-12:00

The CEDAR lidar report, thoughts for students

Richard Collins (U AK)

12:00-01:30

Lunch on own

01:30-02:30

Design Considerations for Monochromatic Imagers and Imaging Spectrographs

Jeff Baumgardner (BU)

02:30-03:00

Basic imaging techniques for ionospheric studies

Jon Makela (NRL)

03:00-03:15

--- Break ---

03:15-03:45

Shop at the Sondrestrom Facility -- Quality Arctic Gear for Your Thesis

Mary McCready (SRI)

03:45-04:45

Keynote: Incoherent and Coherent Scatter Radars: Jicamarca examples (pdf)

Ronald Woodman (Jicamarca)

05:00-06:30

Reception for Students and Non-Students

Sunset/Court

06:30-07:00

Bus from Eldorado to Fort Marcy to Eldorado to Student Social

07:00-09:30

Student Social for students, recent graduates and invited guests

Free Bowling and Karaoke at Silva Lanes

~08:15-08:30

Bus from Student Social to Eldorado and Fort Marcy Suites

~09:30-09:45

Bus from Student Social to Eldorado and Fort Marcy Suites

08:00-08:15

Opening Addresses (Anasazi)

Sixto Gonzalez (CSSC)

Rich Behnke (NSF)

Maura Hagan (NCAR)

08:15-08:20

Report on Student Workshop

Stan Briczinski (PSU)

08:20-08:30

Introduction of Students by Institution

Stan Briczinski (PSU)

08:30-09:15

CEDAR Prize Lecture: Tidal Coupling in the Earth's Atmosphere (pdf)

Maura Hagan (NCAR)

09:15-09:30

NSF General Update

Rich Behnke (NSF)

09:30-10:00

--- Break ---

10:00-11:00

Tutorial #1: The AMISR / ISR Capabilities (pdf)

Craig Heinselman (SRI)

11:00-01:30

2.5 hr Lunch on own (CSSC lunch at O'Keefe Cafe)

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01:30-03:30

(ISR4) High Latitude Plasma Structure (HLPS) Workshop (A)

(LDS2) Application for GPS in Multi-Instrument Investigations (S)

(OL4) Transient Optical Emissions in the Atmosphere (Zia)

J.J. Sojka, C. Valladares, L. Zhu

P. Doherty and A. Coster

M. Taylor and M. Stanley

03:30-04:00

--- Break ---

04:00-06:00

(ISR5) Polar Aeronomy: Current initiatives and future plans (A)

(LDS3) Effects of geomagnetic storms in the lower thermosphere and mesosphere (S)

(OL3) New Advances in Observations, Theory and Modeling of Atmospheric Gravity Waves and Mesospheric Bores (Zia)

J. Semeter, C. Heinselman, P. Erickson

L. Goncharenko

M. Hickey, M. Taylor, S. Smith

12:30-06:00

Bus (or private car) trip to Bandelier (Indian ruins) and to the Bradbury Museum at Los Alamos (~1 hour away) (sign up with Santa Fe Destinations)

extra fee

08:00-09:00

Tutorial #2: Middle Atmosphere Wind and Temperature Lidars: Current Capabilities and Future Challenges (pdf)

Chet Gardner (U IL)

09:00-09:15

NSF Lidar Evaluation

Rich Collins (U AK)

09:15-09:30

NSF Passive Optical Evaluation

Bob Kerr (NSF) and John Meriwether (Clemson)

09:30-09:45

NSF Upper Atmosphere Facilities Review

Susan Avery (U CO)

09:45-10:00

--- Break ---

10:00-10:05

A Word from our SPA President

Michael Mendillo (BU)

10:05-10:15

Post-Doc #1: The Influence of Solar Variability on the Ionospheres of Earth and Mars

Paul Withers (BU)

10:15-10:30

Post-Doc #2: Investigating Polar Mesospheric Clouds at Sondrestrom, Greenland

Weilin Pan (SRI)

10:30-10:50

Post-Doc #3: Observational studies of dynamical forcing on Polar Mesospheric Clouds

Aimee Merkel (NCAR)

10:50-11:05

CAWSES Update

Sunanda Basu (BU)

11:05-11:20

NASA Update

Phil Richards (NASA)

11:20-11:35

IHY 2007 Overview

Jan Sojka (USU)

11:35-01:00

--- Lunch on own ---

01:00-03:00

(CA1) Comparative Aeronomy on Earth and Mars (A)

(LDS6) First CAWSES Campaign Results (S)

(ISR1) Distributed Radio Instrumentation (Zia)

M. Mendillo and P. Withers

J. Kozyra, J. Sojka, M. Mlynczak

F.D. Lind

03:00-03:30

--- Break ---

Pavilion with posters

03:30-06:30

Poster Session #1 (non-MLT session)

Pavilion (free beer, maybe wine)

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03:30-07:30

Bus trip to La Sena Gia (Indian petroglyphs) (sign up with Santa Fe Destinations)

08:00-09:00

Tutorial #3: AMISR Contributions to Equatorial Aeronomy (pdf)

Dave Hysell (Cornell)

09:00-09:15

AMISR Update

Bob Robinson (NSF)

09:15-09:30

--- Break ---

09:30-11:30

(ISR2) Low- and mid-latitude aeronomy and stormtime disturbance (4hr) (A)

(OL1) Design Tips for Optical Instrumentation in Aeronomy (S)

(LDS5) Comparative studies of the polar MLT from ground and space (Zia)

D. Hysell, M. Sulzer, H. Kil, J. Makela, M. Codrescu

J. Baumgardner, J. Semeter

B. Vincent, S. Avery, S. Palo

11:30-01:00

--- Lunch on own ---

01:00-03:00

(ISR2) Low- and mid-latitude aeronomy and stormtime disturbance (4hr) (A)

(OL2) Optical Calibration Techniques and Issues (Zia)

D. Hysell, M. Sulzer, H. Kil, J. Makela, M. Codrescu

S. Nossal, M. Taylor, T. Slanger

03:00-03:30

--- Break ---

Pavilion with posters

03:30-06:30

Poster Session #2 (MLT session)

Pavilion (free beer, maybe wine)

--- OR ---

03:30-07:30

Bus trip to La Sena Gia (Indian petroglyphs) (sign up with Santa Fe Destinations)

extra fee

09:00-09:30

(Remove all posters - any left are taken down at 11PM)

Pavilion

08:00-09:00

Tutorial #4: Chemical Release Applications, Observations and Modeling (pdf)

Paul Bernhardt (NRL)

09:00-09:10

Poster Prize Winners Announced (winning posters to be posted)

Farzad Kamalabadi (U IL)

09:10-09:15

New CSSC Members Announced

NSF

09:15-09:45

--- Break ---

09:45-11:45

(S2) CNOFS forecast -Collaborative measurements and campaigns (A)

(OL5) Science Challenges for the CEDAR (Lidar) Observing Community (S)

(ISR6) Scheduling the Upper Atmospheric Facilities for World Day Coordinated Experiments (Zia)

O. de La Beaujardiere, D. Hysell, M. Kelley, V. Eccles, R. Pfaff, J. Chau

R. Collins and H. Liu

W. Swartz

11:45-01:15

--- Lunch on own (CSSC lunch at O'Keefe Cafe) ---

01:15-01:30

Post-Doc #4: Investigation of Ionospheric Coupling to Atlantic Hurricanes and Tropical Depressions

Rebecca Bishop (Clemson)

01:30-01:50

Post-Doc #5: Effects of Atomic Oxygen on the Morphology and Growth Rate of Water Ice Films under Simulated Mesopause Conditions

James Boulter (SWRI)

01:50-02:05

Post-Doc #6: Scales and Variabilities in Mesospheric OH and O2 temperatures

Alok Taori (USU)

02:05-02:20

CEDAR Database Update

Barbara Emery (NCAR)

02:20-02:35

Cyber Infrastructure Update

John Holt (MIT Haystack Obs.)

02:35-02:50

DASI Update

John Foster (MIT Haystack Obs.)

02:50-03:00

Final Words from the CSSC

Sixto Gonzalez (Arecibo)

03:00-03:30

--- Break ---

03:30-05:30

(ISR3) Mid-latitude plasma structuring (MLPS) (A)

(OL6) Lidar Technologies to meet CEDAR Goals (S)

(LDS1) Collaborative optical measurements-climatological study (Zia)

Mike Ruohoniemi, Ray Greenwald, J. Foster

J. Friedman

Rick Niciejewski and John Noto

--- OR ---

01:00-06:30

Bus (or private car) trip to Bandelier (Indian ruins) and to the Bradbury Museum at Los Alamos (~1 hour away) (sign up with Santa Fe Destinations)

extra fee

08:00-10:00

(S1) TIMED/CEDAR Coordinated Studies (A)

(LDS7) Implementations of Middle and Upper Atmospheric Forecasts (S)

(ISR7) Meteors and the upper atmosphere (Zia)

S. Yee, E. Talaat, L. Paxton, J. Russell, T. Woods, Q. Wu

A.J. Gerrard, R.W. Schunk

L. Dyrud and D. Janches

10:00-10:15

--- Break ---

10:15-12:15

(LDS4) Storms and Superstorms: Observations, Analysis and Modeling of Large Geomagnetic Disturbances (A)

(LDS8) Towards an Integrated Data Environment (Zia)

L. Paxton, J. Kozyra, L. Goncharenko, G. Crowley, A. Burns, W. Wang

M. Weiss, S. Nylund, J. Holt

12:15

--- ADJOURN ---

--- OR ---

01:45-06:45

Bus (or private car) trip to Bandelier (Indian ruins) and to the Bradbury Museum at Los Alamos (~1 hour away) (sign up with Santa Fe Destinations)