2006 Workshop Summary
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The CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) Workshop for 2006 was held at the Eldorado Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A total of 312 participants, 91 coming to CEDAR for the first time, came from 67 institutions, 9 outside the United States and Puerto Rico. There were 42 universities, 18 laboratories, and 7 small businesses. Of the 124 CEDAR students and post-docs, 18 were undergraduate students, and 11 came from universities or labs in Taiwan (4), Japan (3), Peru (2) and Brazil (2). There were fewer foreign universities this year compared to previous years.
The Student Workshop was held on Monday instead of on Sunday, so three times the normal number of non-students came or about about 40% of the audience. The coordinator of the Student Workshop was the first year CEDAR student representative Michael Nicolls of Cornell University, who just graduated last May, but who still has a second year on the CEDAR Science Steering Committee (CSSC). The theme of the Student Workshop was 'Introduction to Incoherent Scatter Theory, Techniques, and Coordinated Science' because the panels from the Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR) are close to being ready for general use at Jicamarca in Peru, and at Poker Flat and Gakona in Alaska. The keynote tutorial was given by John Sahr of the University of Washington on 'Introduction to Ionospheric Radar Remote Sensing'. Everyone enjoyed a quick sandwich for lunch before talks were resumed in the afternoon. After 4 PM, the students had free time for soccor in the park, or swimming and volleyball at the Fort Marcy Recreation Center under the direction of Carlos Martinis of Boston University, who was the second year student on the CSSC. Carlos also organized a salsa dance party Tuesday night, where Ilgin Seker of the Pennsylvania University gave dancing lessons to students and non-students alike. The new student representative joining Michael is Romina Nikoukar of the University of Illinois.
The plenary sessions started on Tuesday, with introductions and the CEDAR Prize Lecture by Erhan Kudeki of the University of Illinois on 'Inchoherent Scatter Radar Perpendicular to B'. Three tutorials were presented on the following days by Michael Mendillo of Boston University ('Comparative Aeronomy: Thermosphseres and Ionospheres in the Solar System'), Larry Paxton of the Applied Physics Laboratory at the John Hopkins University on 'UV Remote Sensing', and Robert Schunk of Utah State University on the 'Ionosphere: Past, Present and Future Problems'. All these talks are available as PDFs. Also on the online agenda page is the science report on the Low-latitude Ionospheric Sensor Network (LISN) by Ceasar Valladares of Boston College and 5 of the 6 CEDAR Post-Doc reports by Josef Drexler of Cornell, Lars Dyrud of Center for Remote Sensing, Mitsum Eijiri of Utah State, Lara Waldrop of the University of Illinois, Paul Withers of Boston University, and Tao (Titus) Yuan of the Colorado State University. Peter Fox of HAO/NCAR also updated the community on 'The CEDAR Database and Virtual Observatory Efforts'. All the tutorials, student keynote and CEDAR Prize lecture are on video tape. Please contact Barbara Emery (HAO/NCAR, PO Box 3000, Boulder CO 80307) if interested in obtaining hard copies and/or videos.
A special plenary workshop coordinated by Richard Collins of the University of Alaska and Eric Donovan of the University of Calgary was on 'Frontiers in CEDAR Science: A workshop to develop campaigns that advance the frontiers in CEDAR Science'. A follow-up session during a pizza lunch on Friday opened the floor to comments from the audience. Including the Student and Frontiers Workshops, there were 28 workshops total, the same number as last year.
There were 136 posters at the Wednesday and Thursday poster sessions, including 88 student posters (4 more than the record from last year), of which 63 took part in the student poster competition. Prizes were a certificate and a selection of new and classic books collected by the poster chairman, Rick Doe of SRI. (Thanks to the community for the selection of books!) The judges picked first place winners from each session, Michael Nicolls of Cornell University who chose a book by Gurevich, and Kim Nielsen of Utah State University who chose a book by Hines. The second place ties were Alessandro Cerruti of Cornell (Schunk and Nagy book), Romina Nikoukar of the University of Illinois (Rishbeth and Garriott book), Luke Moore of Boston University (Chamberlain book), and Jeremy Riousset of the Pennsylvania State University (Landau and Liftshitz book). A special undergraduate award was also given to Tanya Rae Phillips of the University of Texas at Dallas (Schunk and Nagy book).
Santa Fe Destinations arranged most of the extra-curricular activities for the 2006 CEDAR Workshop. We took a 52-passenger bus from Boulder, Colorado to Santa Fe and back with 9 students and 2 non-students. This bus was then used for trips and to take students back and forth between Fort Marcy Suites and the Eldorado Hotel. Santa Fe Destinations offered extra fee cooking classes and tours of Tsankawi Indian ruins, Tent Rocks, and the Pecos National Monument. We also took the bus for a shopping expedition at Tin-Nee-Ann's Trading Company.
The 2009 CEDAR Workshop will return to the Eldorado Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico from Sunday June 28 (Student Workshop) to Thursday July 2. The site of the 2010 CEDAR Workshop is the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. We meet with GEM in 2011.