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19-24 June 2016
Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Agenda for 2016 June 19 - 24 (Sunday-Friday)

Sunday 19 June 2016

 

Student Workshop Theme - "The Basics of CEDAR/GEM Science" 

Non-students welcome starting 1055 AM with the Faculty Tutorials

08:00 - 09:00

Student Registration

 

09:00 - 09:20

Introduction to GEM (pdf) (Robert Allen and Anthony Saikin)

 

09:20 - 09:40

Introduction to CEDAR (pdf) (Victoriya Forsythe and Lindsay Goodwin)

 

09:40 - 09:55

Student Tutorial: Magnetospheric Geography (pdf)  (Narges Ahmadi)

 

09:55 - 10:10

Student Tutorial: Ionospheric Geography (pdf) (Bea Gallardo-Lacourt)

 

10:10 - 10:25

Break - Ice Breaker

 

10:25 - 10:40

Student Tutorial: Storms and Substorms (Katie Raymer)

 

10:40 - 10:55

Student Tutorial: MI coupling (pdf)  (Anthony Saikin)

 

10:55 - 11:25

Faculty Tutorial: Winds in the Thermosphere (pdf) (Astrid Maute)

 

11:25 - 11:55

Faculty Tutorial: Particle Acceleration (Christine Gabrielse)

 

11:55 - 12:55

GEM Student Lunch (Zia, Eldorado), CEDAR lunch (on own)

 

12:55 - 13:25

Faculty Tutorial: Currents, Electrojets, and Instabilities  (pdf) (John Sahr)

 

13:25 - 13:55

Faculty Tutorial: The Tale of Magnetic Reconnection (pdf) (Paul Cassak)

 

13:55 - 14:25

Faculty Tutorial: Aurora and the Ionosphere  (pdf) (Jean-Pierre St-Maurice)

 

14:25 - 14:45

Break

 

14:45 - 15:15

Faculty Tutorial: Space Weather (plus HAARP) (pdf) (Bill Bristow)

 

15:15 - 15:30

Student Tutorial: CCMC Models and Other Tools  (pdf) (Maulik Patel)

 

15:30 - 16:00

Faculty Tutorial: Large Scale Modeling (Alex Glocer)

 

16:00 - 16:30

Faculty Tutorial: Ground and Space Instruments to Study the Ionosphere (Anja Stromme)

 

16:30 - 18:00

Annual STUDENT soccer match

 

18:00 - onward

Joint CEDAR-GEM Reception

 
 

Monday 20 June 2016

08:15 - 09:15

Welcome

Josh Semeter (BU) and Mike Wiltberger (NCAR), Student Report, Student Institutions introduced, Therese Moretto NSF

09:15 - 10:00

Geospace Electrodynamics (view video)

Roger Varney (SRI)

10:00 - 10:30

Break  

10:30 - 11:30

How can we investigate global Magnetosphere-Ionosphere coupling? (view video)

Jesper Gjerloev (JHU APL)

11:30 - 12:00

Upcoming session info

 

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch on own

 

13:30 - 15:30

Breakout 1 Joint Merged Modeling and Ionospheric Plasma

Breakout 2 Joint Modeling Challenge

Breakout 3 GEM Magnetic Reconnection

Breakout 5 GEM Inner Magnetosphere

Breakout 6 Joint Particle precipitation

Breakout 7 Cedar Gravity Waves

Breakout 8 Joint Data integration

Breakout 9 Joint High latitude geospace system 

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15:30 - 16:00

Break

 

16:00 - 18:00

Breakout 1: Joint Merged Modeling and Ionospheric Plasma

Breakout 2 Joint Modeling Challenge 

Breakout 3 GEM Reconnection/Substorm/Aurora & Polar Cap Dynamics 

Breakout 4 Joint Decadal Survey Missions and CEDAR/GEM 

Breakout 5 Joint Lidar workshop 

Breakout 6 Joint Exosphere/Impact 

Breakout 7 Joint Python 

Breakout 8 GEM ULF waves 

Breakout 9 Joint High Latitude Geospace System 

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18:30 - 21:00

Student dinner and career focus panel

 

 

Tuesday 21 June 2016

08:15 - 09:15

Agency Updates

NSF (Complete Meriwether NSF Facilities Talk) (pdf)

NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Current Activities Update (pdf)

NASA
John Meriwether, Carrie Black, Therese Jorgensen, Janet Kozyra, Ruth Lieberman (NSF)

Tom Berger (NOAA)

Dan Moses (NASA)

09:15 - 10:00

Science Highlight 1 Van Allen Probes  (pdf)

Science Highlight 2 Electrical Connections and Consequences Within the Earth System

2a. Project Overview  (pdf)

2b. A quasi-static Global Electric Circuit (GEC) Model in WACCM  (pdf)
S. Ukhorskiy (JHU/APL)



Forbes (CU Boulder)

Thayer (CU Boulder)

10:00 - 10:30

Break

 

10:30 - 11:30

Portfolio Review reportQuo VadisNSF MREFC (pdfs) Bill Lotko, Dave Hysell, John Meriwether

11:30 - 12:00

Upcoming session Info

 

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch on own (and student pizza w panel at Anasazi, Eldorado Hotel)  

13:30 - 15:30

Breakout 1 CEDAR GC Coupling MLT 

Breakout 2 Joint Modeling Challenge 

Breakout 3 CEDAR Lightning/Thunderstorms 

Breakout 4 Joint Crowd 2 Cloud 

Breakout 5 GEM Radiation Belt 

Breakout 6 GEM Magnetopause,Reconnection/Kinetic Processes 

Breakout 7 Joint Geospace Science 

Breakout 8 Joint MIT coupling/drivers 

Breakout 9 Joint Quo Vadis? 

Breakout 10 Joint "Grand Challenge Initiative — Cusp” Community Engagement Workshop

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15:30 - 16:00 Break  
16:00 - 19:00 Poster Session  
 

Wednesday 22 June 2016

08:15 - 09:10 GEM

GEM tutorial #1: System Science Tutorial

James P. Smith
08:15 - 09:15 CEDAR CEDAR Tutorial #1: Impact! When Particles and Satellites Collide (view video) Sigrid Close (Stanford)

09:10 - 10:05 GEM

GEM tutorial#2: Aurora and ionosphere/thermosphere coupling (pdf) Marc Lessard
09:15 - 10:00 CEDAR CEDAR Prize Lecture #27: Simulating the Ionosphere, one electron at a time (view video) Meers Oppenheim (BU)

10:00 - 10:30

Break  
10:30 - 11:30 GEM GEM Tutorial #3: Student invited tutorial Maria Usanov

10:30 - 11:30 CEDAR

CEDAR Tutorial #2: Expanded Understanding of Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Processes Using MAVEN's Mars Discoveries (view video) Joe Grebowsky (GSFC)
11:30 - 12:00 GEM Upcoming session Info  

11:30 - 12:00 CEDAR

CEDAR Science Highlight #1: Capturing acoustic energy input into the upper atmosphere using free flying sensor arrays  (pdf)

Science Highlight 2c: Efficient Representation of Lightning and Other Transient Processes in the GEC  (pdf)
Daniel Bowman

V. Pasko (PSU)

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch on own  
13:30 - 15:30 GEM Breakout 1 GEM Tail Environment/Modeling 

Breakout 2 GEM Radiation belt 

Breakout 3 Joint Geospace Science 

Breakout 4 Joint MIT coupling/driver 

Breakout 5 GEM 

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13:30 - 15:30 CEDAR

Breakout 1 CEDAR GC Coupling MLT 

Breakout 2 Joint SW observations/campaigns 

Breakout 3 CEDAR TIEGCM 

Breakout 4 Joint Particle precipitation 

Breakout 5 CEDAR Distrubuted Networks 

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15:30 - 16:00 Break  
16:00 - 19:00 Poster Session  
 

Thursday 23 June 2016

08:15 - 09:15

Cold Plasma: Dynamics and Consequences in Geospace  (view video) Phil Erickson (MIT)

09:15 - 10:00

Science Highlight 4 A Summary of Results from Year 1 of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission  (pdf)

Science Highlight 5 Reconnection and the Role of the Magnetosphere/Ionosphere  (pdf)

Science Highlight 6 LWS TR&T
P. Cassak (WVU)

B. Walsh (BU)

A. Halford (NASA GSFC)

10:00 - 10:30

Break  

10:30 - 11:30

Dynamic ionospheric convection: Drivers and effects (view video) Shasha Zou (U. Michigan)

11:30 - 12:00

2016 CEDAR Poster Prize (pdf)

GEM Poster Prize announcement

Upcoming session Info
A. Maute & E. Mieriewicz

R. Allen & A. Saikin

conveners

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch on own(CSSC lunch separate)  

13:30 - 15:30

Breakout 1 Joint Substorm/Aurora/Polar Cap 

Breakout 2 CEDAR T-I Interaction 

Breakout 3 Joint Superthermal particles 

Breakout 4 Joint Data Assimilation for Space Weather 

Breakout 5 CEDAR Meteorological effects on TI 

Breakout 6 GEM Dayside Kinetic Processes/Modleing/Validation 

Breakout 7 Joint Empirical Models 

Breakout 8 CEDAR HAARP 

Breakout 9 Joint GC Storms w/o Borders 

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15:30 - 16:00 Break  
16:00 - 18:00 Breakout 1 Joint Substorm/Aurora/Polar Cap 

Breakout 2 CEDAR Gravity Waves 

Breakout 3 CEDAR Frontier equatorial aeronomy 

Breakout 4 GEM Tail Environment 

Breakout 5 Joint Data fusion & DA 

Breakout 6 GEM ULF Waves/Modeling/Validation 

Breakout 7 Joint EPP coupling 

Breakout 8 CEDAR Network instrument 

Breakout 9 Joint GC Storms w/o Borders 

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18:30 - 21:00

Joint Banquet and "Simple Speak" presentations  

Friday 24 June 2016

08:15 - 09:10 GEM

GEM Tutorial #4: On ULF wave modeling (pdf) Bob Lysak
08:00 - 09:15 CEDAR Breakout 1 CEDAR Thermospheric heating/cooling 

Breakout 2 CEDAR TI-Interactions 

Breakout 3 CEDAR Frontier equatorial Aeronomy 

Breakout 4 CEDAR Meteroids & Debris 

Breakout 5 CEDAR ISR World Day Planning 

Breakout 6 Joint Optical & Lidar observations 

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09:10 - 10:05 GEM

GEM tutorial #5: On ULF wave observations (pdf) Mike Hartinger
09:15 - 10:00 CEDAR continued Breakout 1 CEDAR Thermospheric heating/cooling 

continued Breakout 2 CEDAR TI-Interactions 

continued Breakout 3 CEDAR Frontier equatorial Aeronomy 

continued Breakout 4 CEDAR Meteroids & Debris 

continued Breakout 5 CEDAR ISR World Day Planning 

continued Breakout 6 Joint Optical & Lidar observations 

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10:00 - 10:30

Break  
10:30 - 11:30 GEM GEM Tutorial #6: On SWMI (pdf) Hui Zhang

10:30 - 11:30 CEDAR

CEDAR Science Highlight #2 First results from two new Fabry-Perot instruments for mapping thermospheric winds above Antarctica 

CEDAR Science Highlight #3 GNSS for Remote Sensing of Ionosphere  (pdf)

CEDAR Science Highlight #4 Future of the HAARP facility  (pdf)
M. Conde (UoA, Fairbanks)

J. Morton (CSU)

Bob McCoy (U. of Alaska)
11:30 - 12:00 GEM Upcoming session Info  

11:30 - 12:00 CEDAR

CEDAR Science Highlight #5 Opportunities created for the CEDAR community by the 3 upcoming science missions - COSMIC-2, ICON, GOLD (pdf) (including Community discussion) S. England (Berkeley)
12:00 - 13:30 GEM GEM Lunch  

12:00

CEDAR is Adjourned  
13:30 - 15:30 GEM Breakout 1 GEM Merged Modeling and Ionospheric Plasma 

Breakout 2 GEM Radiation Belt/ULF Waves 

Breakout 3 GEM Inner Magnetosphere 

Breakout 4 GEM Tail-Inner-Magnetosphere 

Breakout 5 GEM Magnetic Reconnection 

Breakout 6 GEM SPEDAS Tutorials MMS data

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15:30 - 16:00 Break  
16:00 - 18:00 GEM Breakout 1 GEM Merged Modeling and Ionospheric Plasma

Breakout 2 GEM Radiation Belt 

Breakout 3 GEM Inner Magnetosphere 

Breakout 4 GEM Substorm/Aurora/Polar Cap 

Breakout 5 GEM Magnetopause/Bow Shock/Dayside Kinetic Processes 

Breakout 6 GEM SPEDAS Tutorial updates

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18:00 - 19:00

TBD  
Science Steering Committee
Bob Clauer (GEM organizer)
Yue Deng (CSSC)
Barbara Emery (ex-officio CSSC and UCAR)
Philip Erickson (CEDAR)
Matina Gkioulidou (GEM)
Kendra Greb (UCAR for CEDAR organization)
Elizabeth MacDonald (GEM)
Astrid Maute (CSSC and CEDAR organizer)
Shin Ohtani (GEM)
Josh Semeter (chair CSSC)
Mike Wiltberger (chair GEM)
Zhonghua Xu (GEM organizer)