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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)