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2014 Workshop Agenda

CEDAR 2014

22-26 June 2014
Seattle, Washington

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Agenda for 2014 June 22 - 26 (Sunday-Thursday)

Sunday 22 June 2014

 

 

Student Workshop Theme - Aeronomy Instrumentation: Where Does the Data Come From?

Kane Hall Room 110
08:00-09:00 Breakfast/Registration/Sign Travel Vouchers  
09:00-09:10 Student Welcome from NSF (pdf) Rich Behnke (NSF)
09:10-09:30 Student Welcome from CSSC David Hysell (CSSC chair, Cornell)
09:30-09:40 Agenda information and organizational details Leda Sox (Utah State) and Timothy Duly (U IL) (CSSC Student Reps)
09:40-10:15 Measuring upper atmospheric winds and temperatures by optical Doppler spectroscopy with Fabry-Perot interferometers (pdf) Mark Conde (U AK)
10:15-10:30 Break  
10:30-11:05 MLT observations by Rayleigh and resonance lidar: Some insights (pdf) Michael Gerding (IAP)
11:05-11:40 Incoherent Scatter Radar: Remote Sensing of Earth's Upper Atmosphere (pdf) Phil Erickson (MIT)
11:40-13:15 Student Pizza Lunch Cascade Ballroom
13:15-13:55 Instruments for NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (pdf) Thomas Immel (UCB)
13:55-14:30 GNSS Multi-scale studies of the ionosphere and plasmasphere (pdf) Gary Bust (APL/JHU)
14:30-15:05 The Complementary Role of Modeling in Experimental and Observational Science (pdf) Jonathan Snively (ERAU)
15:05-15:20 Break  
15:20-16:00 Student MREFC (Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction, an NSF award) Presentations  
~16:00 Adjourn  
 
16:30-17:30 Student Soccer Game Sponsored by the USU Physics Dept and Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS) Denny Field
 
~18:30-20:30 Dinner with Speaker Aaron Ridley on "Up, Up and Away! Adventures in Ballooning at UM!" Cascade Ballroom, Haggett Hall
 

Monday 23 June 2014

08:15-08:30 Plenary Kane 130: Welcome by CSSC, NSF, U WA Dr David Hysell (Cornell, CSSC chair), Rich Behnke (NSF), Dean Lisa Graumlich (College of the Environment)
08:30-08:40 Report of Student Workshop Leda Sox (USU, CSSC year 1 student representative)
08:40-08:45 Introduction of Students by Institution Tim Duly (U IL, CSSC year 2 student representative)
08:45-09:30 CEDAR Prize #25: Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling by Tides and Planetary Waves (view video) Jeffrey Forbes (U CO)
09:30-09:55 Break  
09:55-10:15 Science Highlight #1: Recent Science Results from AMPERE and Applications to Advancing our Understanding of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling (view video) Brian Anderson (JHU/APL)
10:15-10:35 Student MREFC (Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction) reports Student MREFC reporters
10:35-10:50 Geospace at NSF Rich Behnke (NSF)
10:50-11:05 The NSF Aeronomy Program Anne-Marie Schmoltner (NSF)
11:05-11:20 Status and News from NASA's Heliophysics Division of SMD (pdf) Elsayed Talaat (NASA HQ) with Jeffrey Newmark available remotely
11:20-12:00 Future NASA ITM Programs: GOLD, ICON, GDC, DYNAMIC moderator Aaron Ridley (U MI),
Richard Eastes (UCF) for GOLD,
Thomas Immel (UCB) for ICON,
Rob Pfaff (GSFC) for GDC,
Jeff Forbes (U CO) for DYNAMIC
12:05-13:30 Lunch  
13:30-15:30

Kane 130: Geospace system science during storms and substorms (remotely accessible workshop)
Kane 110: Observations, Modeling, and Forecast of Equatorial Spread F Irregularities and Scintillation
Kane 210: Case study of atmospheric-ionospheric effects caused by forcing from below and above
Kane 220: Synergistic investigations using in situ neutral and ion composition data from the NSF EXOCUBE mission

 

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15:30-16:00 Break  
16:00-18:00 Kane 130: Storm/substorm-time subauroral Geospace
Kane 110: Thermospheric composition variations and their impact on the ionosphere
Kane 210: PINOT - The PFISR Ion-Neutral Observations in the Thermosphere Campaign
Kane 220: Meteoroids and Space Debris
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18:30-21:00 CSSC Dinner (invitation only) Hotel Deca, President's Room
 

Tuesday 24 June 2014

08:15-08:17 Welcome by U WA Dean Michael Bragg (College of Engineering)
08:17-09:15 GC Tutorial #1: Challenges in high-latitude geospace science (view video) Herb Carlson (USU)
09:15-09:30 NSF Geospace -- Opportunities and Priorities Rich Behnke (NSF)
09:30-10:00 Break  
10:00-12:00

Kane 130: GC#1a The high latitude geospace system(remotely accessible workshop)

Kane 110: CEDAR-GEM Modeling Challenge

Kane 210: Thermosphere-Ionosphere Climate

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12:00-13:30 Lunch  
13:30-15:30

Kane 130: GC#1b The high latitude geospace system(remotely accessible workshop)

Kane 110: CubeSats: Lessons Learned

Kane 210: Thermospheric wind variations and their interaction with the ionosphere

Kane 220: Coordinated ISR Observation Days for 2015

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15:30-16:00 Break  
16:00-19:00 Poster #1: IT Cascade Ballroom, Haggett Hall
 

Wednesday 25 June 2014

07:15-08:15 Student Breakfast with NSF 120 Kane Hall (Walker Ames Room)
08:15-09:15 GC Tutorial #2: Impact of lower atmosphere waves sources on the thermosphere and ionosphere (view video) Tim Fuller-Rowell (CIRES/NOAA)
09:15-09:35 Science Highlight #2: Sun-to-Atmosphere... Sure, Yet Still One Link Short: Results from the NSF Frontiers of Earth System Dynamics 'Sun-to-Ice' Project (view video) Harlan Spence (U NH)
09:35-10:00 Break  
10:00-12:00 Kane 130: GC#2a Coupling and Transport Processes from the Upper Mesosphere through the Middle Thermosphere (80-200 km)
Kane 110: The Dynamic Polar Cap
Kane 210: Distributed instrumentation for ionospheric measurements over South America
Kane 220: ITM Key Science Challenges during the Van Allen Probes / Great Observatory Era(remotely accessible workshop)
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12:00-13:30 Lunch  
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12:00-13:30 CSSC Lunch (invitation only) 120 Kane Hall (Walker Ames Room)
13:30-15:30 Kane 130: GC#2b Coupling and Transport Processes from the Upper Mesosphere through the Middle Thermosphere (80-200 km)
Kane 110: Equatorial-PRIMO (Problems Related to Ionospheric Models and Observations)
Kane 210: Using a new resource for CEDAR Science: SSUSI images of the ionosphere and aurora and GUVI spectrograph mode data
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15:30-16:00 Break  
16:00-19:00 Poster #2: MLT Cascade Ballroom, Haggett Hall
 

Thursday 26 June 2014

08:15-09:15 CEDAR Distinguished Lecture #4: From Discovery to System Science (view video) Rod Heelis (UTD)
09:15-09:30 Programmatic #9: CEDAR Graduate and Undergraduate Student Poster Prize Winners (pdfs) Greg Earle (CSSC)
09:30-10:00 Break  
10:00-12:00 Kane 130: MEGI - Multi-element Earth and Geospace Investigation
Kane 110: Lidar Workshop: Neutral-Plasma Coupling and Dynamics with Lidar Technology Transformation
Kane 210: Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems for High-Latitude Electrodynamics
Kane 220: Exploring the Daytime Dynamo -- A new look at the Sq Current System and Mid- and Low-latitude Daytime Electrodynamics
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12:00-13:30 Lunch  
13:30-15:30 Kane 130: Addressing CEDAR Science goals with Combined Space and Ground-Based Observations
Kane 110: Magnetically conjugate studies of ionospheric processes from low to auroral latitudes
Kane 210: Planning Observing System Configurations for Answering Geospace System Science by Utilizing Simulation and Data Assimilation
Kane 220: Calibration and analysis techniques for passive optical and lidar observations
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15:30-16:00 Break  
16:00-18:00 Kane 130: Scientific discovery enabled by networked instrumentation; current state-of-the-art and future opportunities
Kane 110: Arecibo Initiative in Dynamics of the Atmosphere (AIDA 2)
Kane 210: Severe Events During Non-SuperStorm Times
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18:00 Adjourn