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2017 Workshop Agenda

CEDAR 2017

18-23 June 2017
Keystone Resort, Colorado

 

 

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Agenda for 2017 June 18 - 23 (Sunday - Friday)

Sunday 18 June 2017

 

Student Workshop Theme - "Modeling and Data Analysis Synergy"

Non-students are welcome!

08:00 - 09:00

Student Registration

room

09:00 - 09:15

Student Welcome from CSSC (pdf)

Seebany Datta-Barua (CSSC member, IIT)

09:15 - 09:30

Agenda information and organizational details

Meghan Burleigh (ERAU), Victoriya Forsythe (UAF), and Lindsay Goodwin (U of Sask) (CSSC Student Reps)

09:30 - 10:00

Modeling philosophy and an introduction to the different types of models

Jonathan Snively (ERAU)

10:00 - 10:15

Break

 

10:15 - 10:45

HWM, MSIS (Empirical models)

Douglas Drob (NRL)

10:45 - 11:15

GITM (pdf)

Aaron Ridley (UMich)

11:15 - 11:45

Data Assimilation - How to combine a model and observations optimally

Tomoko Matsuo (CU)

11:45 - 13:15

Lunch

 

13:15 - 13:45

FPI

Mark Conde (UAF)

13:45 - 14:15

SuperDARN radars in space science research (pdf)

Muhammad Rafiq (VT) and Shibaji Chakraborty (VT)

14:15 - 14:45

Visiting the aurora with sounding rockets

Kristina Lynch (Dartmouth)

14:45 - 15:00

Break

 

15:00 - 15:30

CubeSats

Jeff Klenzing (GSFC)

15:30 - 16:00

Effective presentations: communicating efficiently with your scientific peers

Bea Gallardo-Lacourt (UCalgary), Bill Archer (UCalgary), and Jo-Anne Brown (UCalgary)

16:00

Adjourn

 

16:30 - 17:30

Student Soccer Game

 

18:00 - 19:30

CEDAR Reception

Belvedere Patio
 

Monday 19 June 2017

07:00 - 08:15

Registration/Check-in

Keystone Conference Center Lobby

08:15 - 09:10

Welcome

Jonathan Makela (CSSC, Univ. Illinois), Student Report, Student Institutions introduced, NSF

09:10 - 9:30

Science Highlight #1: Using a Constellation of Cubesats to Conduct Thermospheric Science: The QB50 mission (pdf)

Scott Palo (CU Boulder)

9:30 - 10:00

Break  

10:00 - 10:45

Tutorial #1: The Geoscience Paper of the Future: Practical Guidelines for Adopting Digital Scholarship, Reproducible Research, and Open Science (view video)

Yolanda Gil (U. Southern California)

10:45 - 11:00

Recognition of B. Emery (view video)

J. Forbes, J. Thayer, D. Hysell, K. Greb

11:00 - 11:20

Science Highlight #2: Lagrangian coherent structures in the thermosphere (pdf)

S. Datta-Barua (IIT)

11:20 - 11:23

Introduction of CEDAR Prize recipient

Jeff Forbes (CU Boulder)

11:23 - 12:05

CEDAR Prize lecture Nitric Oxide: How the thermosphere 'fights back' during intense storms (view video)

D. Knipp (CU Boulder)

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch on own

2017 Geospace Hackathon (Crestone I)

 

 

M. Hirsch

13:30 - 15:30

A: Gravity waves in MTI

A: Radar and optical observations

A: Digital Geospace

High Latitude Electrodynamics

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15:30 - 16:00

Break

 

16:00 - 18:00

Low latitude CEDAR science

CEDAR-GEM Modeling Challenge

Polar Workshop

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18:30 - 21:00

Students Dine with a Scientist/ CSSC dinner

 

 

Tuesday 20 June 2017

08:15 - 09:00

Agency Updates NSF & NASA R. Lieberman, J. Meriwether, I. Azeem (NSF), TBD (NASA)

09:00 - 9:30

NRL-MSIS 2.0: New formulation, new data John Emmert, Doug Drob (NRL)

9:30 - 10:00

Break

 

10:00 - 12:00

GC-A: Storms and Substorms Without Borders (SSWB)

Ionospheric Electrodynamics

Optical calibration and analysis

Next generation systems science

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12:00 - 13:30

Lunch on own  

13:30 - 15:30

GC: High Latitude System Frontiers

Education and Outreach

Thermosphere and ionosphere

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15:30 - 16:00 Break  
16:00 - 19:00 Poster Session (MLT, Coupling, Instrumentation and Techniques) Castle Peak
 

Wednesday 21 June 2017

08:15 - 08:35

Science Highlight #3 Waves and Turbulence Dynamics above the Andes (pdf) Alan Liu (Embry-Riddle)

08:35 : 08:50

Post Doc report #1 Secondary Gravity Waves and Gravity Wave Coupling from the Lower Atmosphere to the MLT (pdf) Katrina Bossert (GATS)

08:50 - 09:10

Science Highlight #4: Solar Eclipse 2017 (pdf) Phil Erickson (MIT Haystack)

09:10 - 09:30

Science highlight #5: Thermosphere data from acceleration measurements by Swarm and other satellites (pdf) Eelco Doornbos (TU Delft)

09:30 - 10:00

Break

 

10:00 - 12:00

GC-B: Storms and Substorms Without Borders (SSWB)

A: Python for Space Science

RF and chemical ionospheric modification

Low latitude CEDAR science

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12:00 - 13:30

Lunch on own  

13:30 - 15:30

Redcloud & Shavano: GC-B: High latitude IT coupling

Crestone III&IV: Python for Space Science

Torreys I&II: Collaborative investigations of MLT

Torreys III&IV: Physics and Sensor Models

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15:30 - 16:00 Break  
16:00 - 19:00 IT Poster Session Castle Peak
19:00 - 20:00 Torreys I&II: ISR World Day Planning R. Varney (SRI)
 

Thursday 22 June 2017

08:15 - 08:18

Introduction of CEDAR Distinguished lecturer Maura Hagan (USU)

08:18 - 09:10

CEDAR Distinguished lecture: Perspectives on Ionospheric Electrodynamics (view video) Art Richmond (HAO/NCAR)

09:10 - 09:25

CEDAR poster prize announcement head judges: Lynn Harvey, Ethan Miller

09:25 - 09:30

Jicamarca status after "El NiƱo" (pdf) Marco Milla (JRO)

09:30 - 10:00

Break

 

10:00 - 12:00

Whole Atmosphere Variability

B: Polar Workshop

Distributed Networks

Thunderstorm Coupling and Effects

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12:00 - 13:30

Lunch on own  

13:30 - 15:30

Ionosphere and thermosphere storm

Meteoroids and Space Debris

B: Gravity waves in MTI

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15:30 - 16:00 Break  
15:30 - 16:00 Crestone II: Supporting CEDAR science goals with NASA missions Rob Pfaff, Holly Gilbert (NASA)

16:00 - 18:00

Geospace Science and Public Policy

Assimilating auroral observations

WACCM X Users Group

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18:30 - 21:00 Banquet (Speaker: Nathaniel Frissell/Phil Erickson) Keystone Lodge Ballroom

Friday 23 June 2017

08:15 - 08:35

Science Highlight #6 Medium Range Thermosphere Ionosphere Storm Forecasts (pdf) Tony Mannucci (JPL/Caltech)

08:35 - 08:50

PostDoc report #2 A novel data assimilation model for the plasmasphere (pdf) Romina Nikoukar (JHU/APL)

08:50 - 09:30

Tutorial #2: Plasma-Neutral Interactions in the MLT-X (80-200 km altitude range)(view video) Jeff Thayer (CU Boulder)

09:30 - 10:00

Break

 

10:00 - 12:00

GC: MLTX Frontiers

Hydrogen

2017 Solar Eclipse

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12:00

Adjourn