CEDAR
Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions Program
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2012 Workshop Agenda

CEDAR 2012

24-29 June 2012
Sante Fe, New Mexico

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Sunday 

Anasazi Ballroom

CEDAR Student Workshop (Non-students Welcome)

Theme - Waves and Tides

 Co-Chairs Katelynn Greer (U CO) and Roger Varney (Cornell) (CEDAR student reps)
08:00-09:00 Breakfast, Registration, Sign Travel Vouchers in concourses; Student Workshop in Sunset  
09:00-09:10 Student welcome from NSF Anja Stromme (NSF)
09:10-09:30 Student welcome from CSSC, "What is CEDAR?" John Foster (CSSC chair, MIT)
09:30-09:40 Agenda information and organizational details Katelynn Greer and Roger Varney (CSSC student reps)
09:40-10:10 What should a student do at a conference? (pdf) Jonathan Snively (ERAU)
10:10-10:30 Introduction to waves and tides (pdf) Loren Chang (NCU/TW)
10:30-10:45 --- Break ---  
10:45-11:15 Mini-Tutorial #1: Gravity Waves Mehta, Teti, Gerrard (NJIT)
11:15-11:45 Mini-Tutorial #2: Rossby Waves (pdf) Scott Palo (U CO)
11:45-12:00 Mini-Tutorial #3: Making your way around the CEDAR science world (pdf) Jonathan Fentzke (JHU/APL)
12:00-13:15 Student Lunch in Pavilion  
13:15-13:45 Mini-Tutorial #4: Non-migrating tides from the ground and from space (pdf) Jeffrey Forbes (U CO)
13:45-14:15 Mini-Tutorial #5: Magnetized Rossby waves and mean flow generation in the lower thermosphere (pdf) Miguel Larsen (Clemson)
14:15-14:45 Mini-Tutorial #6: Radio Waves in the Ionosphere (pdf) Ethan Miller (JHU/APL)
14:45-15:00 --- Break ---  
15:00-15:45 PhD Panel (Career Development) various (Heinselman/SRI, etc)
15:45 Adjourn  
16:00-19:00 Annual CEDAR Soccer Game, Ultimate Frisbee; 16:30-17:30 Magers Field
  and/or  
18:00-20:00 CSSC Dinner Meeting Osteria D'Assisi Restaurant
  and/or  
19:30-21:00 Reception Buffet for all participants in Pavilion  

 

Monday

0730-0815 Breakfast/registration Anasazi concourse
0815-0825 Welcome from NSF/CSSC Behnke (NSF)/Foster(CSSC)
0825-0835 Introduction of students by institution R Varney (Cornell)
0835-0920 CEDAR Prize Lecture #23: Stratospheric warmings and their Effects in the Ionosphere (pdf) Larisa Goncharenko (MIT)
0920-0930 Report of student workshop K Greer (U CO)
0930-1000 Break  
1000-1020 Update from NSF Rich Behnke (NSF)
1020-1040 Science Highlight #1: Large-scale View of Mid-latitude Plasma Convection (pdf) Simon Shepherd (Dartmouth)
1040-1100 Science Highlight #2: Nonlinear Dynamics of Deep Gravity Waves in the Thermosphere (pdf) Dave Fritts (GATS)
1100-1120 Science Highlight #3: Stormtime O+ Redistribution: a Connection to Storm Strength? (pdf) Tom Immel (UCB)
1120-1135 Programmatic #1: Meridian Space Weather Monitoring Project (Meridian Project) and the International Collaboration (pdf) Guotao Yang (NSSC of China)
1135-1150 Programmatic #2: Working with the new CEDAR Madrigal Archive Database (pdf) Bill Rideout (MIT)
1150-1200 Programmatic #3: Jicamarca: 50 years of scientific contributions, carreer developments, international collaboration and more (pdf) Jorge (Koki) Chau (ROJ Peru)
1200-1330 lunch on own  
1330-1530

#1 AnS Geospace system response at mid to high latitudes during recent geomagnetic storms

  • Sun Lightning Effects in the Middle and Upper Atmosphere
  • Zia Hands-On iSWA and CCMC
  • AnN Calibration and analysis techniques for optical observations
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1530-1600 networking break (coffee only if posters follow)  
1600-1800

#2 AnS Middle latitude Ionosphere-Atmosphere-Magnetosphere Coupling

  • Sun Neutral Hydrogen in the Earth's Thermosphere, Exosphere, and Plasmasphere
  • Zia CEDAR Electrodynamics Thermosphere Ionosphere (ETI) Modeling Challenge
  • AnN In situ measurements (60-120km) of the mesosphere-lower thermosphere (MLT) by commercial suborbital spacecraft
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Tuesday 

0730-0815 Breakfast Anasazi concourse
0815-0915 Tutorial #1: Comparative Aeronomy (pdf) Andy Nagy (U MI)
0915-0930 CEDAR Postdoc Report #1: Origin and Development of Medium-Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (pdf) Ethan Miller (JHU/APL)
0930-1000 break  
1000-1200

#3 AnS+N Gravity Wave Propagation, Dissipation, and Effects in the MLT, Thermosphere, and Ionosphere from Tropospheric, MLT, and Thermospheric Sources

  • Sun Can we build an InFO strawman plan for the future development and deployment of existing and new Incoherent Scatter Radars?
  • Zia FPI Measurements of Neutral Winds and Temperatures in the Upper Atmosphere
  • DeV Geospace system response at mid to high latitudes during recent geomagnetic storms
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1200-1330 lunch on own  
1330-1530

#4 AnS MLT and thermosphere response to large-scale wave activity

  • Sun Planetary Aeronomy & Comparative Upper Atmospheres
  • Zia PINOT - PFISR Ion Neutral Observations in the Thermosphere
  • AnN Low latitude thermosphere-ionosphere coupling and the development of irregularities
  • DeV Technique and Applications of Radio Occultation
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1530-1600 networking break (coffee only)  
1600-1900 Poster session #1 for IT Pavilion

Wednesday

0730-0815 Breakfast Anasazi concourse
  or  
0700-0815 Breakfast Discussion of Fulfilling the Potential Women in Aeronomy Sunset
0815-0915 Tutorial #2: Creating a Future for Aeronomy Larry Paxton (JHU/APL)
0915-0930 CEDAR Postdoc Report #2: Mesospheric bore evaluation characteristics (pdf) Brian Laughman (CoRA/NWRA)
0930-1000 break  
1000-1200

#5 AnS+N New studies of gravity waves, instabilities and other unusual phenomena observed in the MLT region

  • Sun Equatorial-PRIMO (Problems Related to Ionospheric Models and Observations)
  • Zia World Day planning
  • DeV Calibration and analysis techniques for optical observations
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1200-1330 lunch on own  
1330-1530

#6 AnS Wave Dynamics in the Polar Regions

  • Sun The equatorial ionospheric response to coupling from the atmosphere and the magnetosphere and its longitudinal dependence
  • Zia CESM/WACCM-X: A Tutorial (will be filmed)
  • AnN Swarm Electric Field Instrument Validation Using Incoherent Scatter Radars
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1530-1600 networking break (coffee only)  
1600-1900 Poster session #2 for MLT Pavilion

Thursday 

0700-0815 Breakfast Anasazi concourse
  or  
0700-0815 Student Breakfast with NSF Sunset
0815-0915 #2 CEDAR Distinguished Lecture: Incoherent Scatter Radar: Some Early History and Further Thoughts (pdf) Don Farley (Cornell)
0915-0925 Announcement of poster prize winners (pdf) Mark Conde (CSSC)
0925-0955 break  
0955-1015 Science Highlight #4: Concentric gravity waves generated by deep convection on the Great Plains (pdf) Jia Yue (NCAR)
1015-1035 Science Highlight #5: Imaging the Ionosphere Using Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (pdf) Xiaoqing Pi (JPL)
1035-1055 Science Highlight #6: Mesoscale Ionospheric Sensing Using Modern Radio Interferometers (pdf) Ken Dymond (NRL)
1055-1110 CEDAR Postdoc Report #3: Meteoric Smoke Studies at High Latitude using the Poker Flat ISR (pdf) Jonathan Fentzke (JHU/APL)
1110-1125 Programmatic #4: Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Mission Objectives and Science Studies (pdf) Geoff Reeves (LANL)
1125-1140 Programmatic #5: Exploring the Interaction of Earth's Atmosphere with Space: An Observatory for the Study of Universal Processes in Planetary Atmospheres (pdf) Chet Gardner (U IL)
1140-1150 Programmatic #6: 50 Years of Science, Technology and Innovations at Millstone Hill (pdf) Phil Erickson (MIT)
1150-1330 lunch on own  
  or  
1150-1330 CSSC lunch Il Piatto Restaurant
1330-1530

#7 AnS LISN: to develop a strategy to forecast ESF

  • Sun Thermosphere and Ionosphere Climate
  • Zia Impacts of Meteoroids and Debris
  • AnN New Discoveries and Advances by Lidar from Polar to Tropical Regions
  • DeV U.S./Norway Collaborative Rocket Science
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1530-1600 networking break  
1600-1800

#8 AnS High Latitude GPS Scintillations and Forward Modeling

  • Sun Thermosphere and Ionosphere Climate
  • Zia Making loading data and accessing data easy with Madrigal and the CEDAR Madrigal archive
  • AnN New Discoveries and Advances by Lidar from Polar to Tropical Regions
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Friday 

0730-0815 Breakfast Anasazi concourse
0815-0915 Tutorial #3: Inferring Limitations of Numerical Models (pdf) Jan Sojka (USU)
0915-0930 CEDAR Postdoc Report #4: Aeronomical and Spectroscopic Studies of Iron Oxide Emission (pdf) Deepali Saran (SRI)
0930-1000 Break  
1000-1200

#9 AnS+N CUBESAT Synergies

  • Sun Arecibo Friends
  • Zia Low latitude thermosphere-ionosphere coupling and the development of irregularities
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