2022 CEDAR Workshop Agenda
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The CEDAR workshop is in-person. The Student Day & all plenary sessions (8:00-9:30) will be available via live stream.
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| Time CDT | Agenda | Presenter / Convener | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 17:05 | Student day (in-person & streamed) | ||
| View the recording of the student workshop - part one | |||
| 8:00 - 8:15 | Student Day theme/schedule, volunteer, newsletter, sli.do, student rep nomination, student events, feedback |
student reps: Meghan LeMay (BU), Zishun Qiao (ERAU) |
Onyx Ballroom |
| 8:15 - 8:35 | Introduction of Cedar, CSSC, opportunities (webpage / slack) | Larisa Goncharenko (CSSC chair, MIT Haystack), | |
| 8:35 - 9:00 | Connections between DoD and CEDAR | Diana C. Loucks (West Point) | |
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Lightning Round 1: Back to Basics (15 min talks) |
Onyx Ballroom | ||
| 9:15 - 9:30 | L1.1 Long-Term Variability in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere (ITM) System | Federico Gasperini (Orion Space Solutions) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | L1.2 Planetary waves and Tides | McArthur Jones Jr. (NRL) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | L1.3 Gravity waves and turbulence | Corwin Wright (University of Bath, UK) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | L1.4 Atmospheric vertical coupling | Yosuke Yamazaki (IAP, Germany) virtual | Onyx Ballroom |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | L1.5 High latitude and polar processes | Leslie Lamarche (SRI International) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | L1.6 Effect of Storms/Substorms on T-I-M system | Ying Zou (UAH) virtual | Onyx Ballroom |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | L1 Joint Q/As, Slido will be utilized to submit questions and comments | Onyx Ballroom | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Break | ||
| 11:15 - 11:45 |
Sounding Rockets w/ students participation (30 mins include Q/A) |
Robert Pfaff (NASA Goddard) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 11:45 - 13:45 | Lunch break on your own | ||
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Lightning Round 2: Hands-On Tutorials of Instrument/Model Data (15 mins) |
Onyx Ballroom | ||
| 13:45 - 14:00 | L2.1 SuperDARN tutorial | Evan Thomas (Dartmouth College) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | L2.2 Meteor radar & optical (FPI, imager) tutorial | Brian Harding (UC Berkeley) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | L2.3 ICON & Swarm Data Tutorial (hands-on tutorial github access) | Brian Harding (UC Berkeley) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | L2.4 GDC tutorial | Doug Rowland (NASA Goddard) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | L2.5 Global model and data assimilation (hands-on tutorial) | Chih-Ting Hsu (HAO/NCAR) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | L2.6 Ionospheric dynamics modeling at local scales and beyond | Michael Hirsch (BU; virtual) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | L2 Joint Q/As, Slido will be utilized to submit questions and comments | Onyx Ballroom | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Break | ||
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Lightning Round 3: Communicate your science (20 mins, include Q/A) |
Onyx Ballroom | ||
| 15:45 - 16:05 |
Mack Jones Jr (NRL) Aaron Piña (NASA) |
Onyx Ballroom | |
| 16:05 - 16:25 | How to make a nice poster presentation | Qingyu Zhu (HAO/NCAR) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 16:25 - 16:45 | How to give award winning presentations and impress your friends and family (or at least some good tips to help you out) | Lindsay Goodwin (NJIT) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 16:45 - 17:05 | Scientific writing notes & tips | Gang Lu (HAO/NCAR) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 17:05 - 19:00 | Dinner break (on your own) | ||
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Reception (all CEDAR participants) | Onyx Lobby | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Student DEI happy hour | Topaz 1 | |
| Time CDT | Agenda | Presenter / Convener | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 9:35 |
Plenary (in-person & streamed) (rotating slides) |
Chair: Endawoke Yizengaw | Onyx Ballroom |
| 8:00 - 8:10 |
Welcome |
Larisa Goncharenko (CSSC chair, MIT) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 8:10 - 8:55 | CEDAR Prize lecture: Reading the Aurora: A tool for Interconnections | Larry Lyons (UCLA) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 8:55 - 9:15 | Equal Opportunity? The legal inequality of public education & its relationship to the STEM fields | Tehama Lopez Bunyasi (George Mason University) virtual | Onyx Ballroom |
| 9:15 - 9:35 | Science Highlight I: Regulation of ionospheric plasma velocities by thermospheric winds | Thomas Immel (U. California, Berkeley) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 9:35 - 10:00 | Break | ||
| 10:00 - 12:00 |
New capabilities for studying equatorial aeronomy and space weather |
David Hysell (Cornell) | Topaz 2 |
| CEDAR and Climate Change (in-person & virtual option) | Susan Nossal (U. Wisconsin, Madison) | Topaz 1 | |
| Katelynn Greer (LASP) | Onyx Ballroom | ||
| Dynamics of the Thermosphere-ionosphere System During Geomagnetic Storms and Non-storms | Qian Wu (HAO/NCAR) | Topaz 3 | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch on your own |
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| 12:10 - 13:15 | Student lunch | Onyx Ballroom | |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Current Status and Needs For 21st Century Thermospheric Dynamics and Chemistry Measurements: The 2019-2022 Thermospheric Winds SWOT Analysis | Patrick Dandenault (Johns Hopkins U.) | Topaz 2 |
| Katelynn Greer (LASP) | Onyx Ballroom | ||
| Data Science and Open Science in CEDAR: Data Science and Open Science in action in CEDAR | Ryan McGranaghan (Orion Space Solutions) | Topaz 3 | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break | ||
| 15:30 - 18:00 |
Community Science Enabled by the upcoming GDC mission (in-person & virtual option) |
Jeff Thayer (U Colorado, Boulder) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Mesosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere-atmosphere dynamic coupling during geomagnetically active periods | Romina Nikoukar (Johns Hopkins U./ Applied Physics Laboratory) | Topaz 2 |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | GEM-CEDAR Joint Workshop - Mesoscale drivers of the nightside transition region: ionospheric and magnetotail evaluations | Gareth Perry (New Jersey Institute of Technology) | Topaz 3 |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | CSSC dinner (by invitation only) | Travertine room |
| Time CDT | Agenda | Presenter / Convener | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 9:30 |
Plenary (in-person & streamed) rotating slides |
Chair: Julio Urbina | Onyx Ballroom |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | NSF update | Alan Liu, Roman Makarevich, Tai-Yin Huang (NSF) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 8:30-8:45 | NASA Heliophysics Division Update | John McCormack (NASA HQ) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 8:45-9:00 | AFOSR update | Julie Moses (AFOSR/RTB) - remote | Onyx Ballroom |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | NOAA's Space Weather Observations Program | Irfan Azeem (Chief of Research to Operations and Project Planning Division) - remote | Onyx Ballroom |
| 9:15-9:30 | LWS Program Analysis Group (LPAG) report | Anthea Coster (MIT, LPAG Co-Chair) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Break | ||
| 10:00 - 12:00 |
Grand Challenge-A: Understanding the Electromagnetic Energy Input to Earth's Atmosphere |
Alex Chartier (Johns Hopkins U./ Applied Physics Laboratory) | Onyx Ballroom |
| Upper Atmospheric Response to Geological and Atmospheric Hazards | Sovit Khadka (New Jersey Institute of Technology) | Topaz 3 | |
| Tools and methods for improving space weather nowcast and forecast | Tzu-Wei Fang (Space Weather Prediction Center, NOAA) | Topaz 2 | |
| Understanding Solar eclipse's effects in geospace | Saurav Aryal (LASP) | Topaz 1 | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch on your own/ poster judge lunch (Travertine room) | ||
| 12:30 - 13:15 |
Townhall: ESA-NASA Lower Thermosphere-Ionosphere (EN-LoTIS) Working Group |
John McCormack (NASA HQ) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 13:30 - 15:30 |
Grand Challenge-B: Understanding the Electromagnetic Energy Input to Earth's Atmosphere |
Alex Chartier (Johns Hopkins U./ Applied Physics Laboratory) | Onyx Ballroom |
| Dynamics of atmospheric regions as viewed through the recent Eruption at Tonga | Katelynn Greer (LASP) | Topaz 2 | |
| Meteoroids and Space Debris | Sigrid Close (Stanford) | Topaz 1 | |
| Equatorial Ionization Anomaly (EIA) and ionospheric irregularities low and mid latitudes using ground and satellite measurements and modelling studies | Deepak Kumar Karan (LASP) | Topaz 3 | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break | ||
| 15:30 - 18:30 | Poster Session | Topaz Lobby |
| Time CDT | Agenda | Presenter / Convener | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 9:30 |
Plenary (in-person & streamed) (rotating slides) |
Chair: Asti Bhatt | Onyx Ballroom |
| 8:00 - 8:15 | Early Career Highlight I: 3-D Ionosphere Imaging and SED Reconstruction With a New TEC-Based Ionospheric Data Assimilation System (TIDAS) | Ercha Aa (MIT, Haystack) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 8:15 - 9:00 | Grand Challenge Tutorial "Interhemispheric asymmetries" | Yue Deng (UTA), Qingyu Zhu (NCAR), Astrid Maute (NCAR) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 9:00 - 9:20 | Science Highlight II: Insights from the NSF FIREBIRD II CubeSats into Energetic Electron Precipitation | Katharine Duderstadt (U. New Hampshire) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 9:20 - 9:35 | Grand Challenge report "Poynting Flux" | Alex Chartier (JHU/APL) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Break | ||
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Yue Deng (U. Texas, Arlington) | Onyx Ballroom | |
| Recent progress of lidar science and technology CEDAR workshop | Titus Yuan (Utah State University) | Topaz 2 | |
| Eswaraiah Sunkara (Pusan National University, Korea) | Topaz 3 | ||
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch on our own/ poster judge lunch (Travertine room) | ||
| 12:00 - 12:45 |
Townhall: Decadal Survey and the Future of CEDAR Instrumentation. Working list of Decadal white papers on ground-based observations Presentations: Josh Semeter, Alan Liu (NSF), Roman Makarevich (NSF) |
Led by Josh Semeter & Larisa Goncharenko | Onyx Ballroom |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Astrid Maute (HAO/NCAR) | Onyx Ballroom | |
| Bharat Kunduri (Virginia Tech) | Topaz 2 | ||
| Russell Stoneback (Stoneris) | Topaz 1 | ||
| Xinzhao Chu (U. Colorado, Boulder) | Topaz 3 | ||
| 15:30 -16:00 | Break | ||
| 15:30 - 18:30 | Poster Session | Topaz Lobby |
| Time CDT | Agenda | Presenter / Convener | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 9:30 |
Plenary (in-person & streamed) |
Chair: Lindsay Goodwin | Onyx Ballroom |
| 8:00 - 8:15 | Early Career Science Highlight II: Ionosphere TEC and Disturbances Observation Using Spaceborne GNSS Reflected Signal Measurements | Yang Wang (U. Colorado, Boulder) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 8:15 - 9:15 |
Introduction CEDAR Distinguished Lecture: System Science from Above and Below: Past, Present, Future |
Jens Oberheide (Clemson) Anthea Coster (MIT Haystack) |
Onyx Ballroom |
| 9:15 - 9:30 | Early Career Science Highlight III: Dayside Plasma Flows and Ion Heating in the Polar Cap | Leslie Lamarche (SRI International) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Break | ||
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Bill Bristow (Penn State University) | Topaz 2 | |
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Acoustic and Gravity Wave Modeling and Observations throughout the MTI system |
Christopher Heale (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) | Onyx Ballroom | |
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Discussions to better facilitate SmallSat mission information and data distribution |
Lindsay Goodwin (New Jersey Institute of Technology) | Topaz 3 | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch on your own / CSSC lunch (by invitation only, Travertine room) | ||
| 13:30 - 15:30 |
Cross-scale electrodynamics in MIT processes: data analysis and modeling |
Yue Deng (U. Texas Arlington) | Topaz 2 |
| Paul Bernhardt (U. Alaska, Fairbanks) | Topaz 3 | ||
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Continuing to evolve: DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in CEDAR (in-person and virtual option) |
Katrina Bossert (Arizona State University) | Onyx Ballroom | |
| Science as Art: Making the Invisible Wonders of Space Science Accessible | Russell Stoneback (Stoneris) | Topaz 1 | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break | ||
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Pedrina Terra (Arecibo Observatory) | Topaz 1 | |
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Composition, Temperature, and Winds in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Region |
Liying Qian (HAO/NCAR) | Topaz 3 | |
| Gareth Perry (New Jersey Institute of Technology) | Topaz 2 | ||
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Banquet with "Exploring the Universe using Science as Art" | Russell Stonebeck |
| Time CDT | Agenda | Presenter / Convener | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 9:30 |
Plenary (in-person & streamed) |
Chair: Jia Yue | Onyx Ballroom |
| 8:00 - 8:15 | Poster Prize announcement | Head judges: Lindsay Goodwin, Jia Yue, Endawoke Yizengaw, Matt Zettergren | Onyx Ballroom |
| 8:15 - 8:30 | GC report: Coordinated Ground and Space-based Observations of the Ionosphere-Thermosphere System: Report & Lessons Learned | Katelynn Greer (LASP) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 8:30 - 8:50 | Science Highlight III: Surface-to-space atmospheric waves from the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption | Corwin Wright (University of Bath, UK) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 8:50 - 9:10 | Grand Challenge final report "Multi-scale IT Systems Dynamics" | Aaron Ridley (U Michigan) / Toshi Nishimura (Boston University) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 9:10 - 9:20 | Closing remarks | Larisa Goncharenko (CSSC chair, MIT) | Onyx Ballroom |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Break | ||
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Jack Wang (CCMC/NASA) | Onyx Ballroom | |
| Auroral system science enabled by heterogeneous distributed data and model fusion | Kristina Lynch (Dartmouth College) | Topaz 2 | |
| Low- and Mid-Latitude Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere (ITM) Physics | Xinzhao Chu (U. Colorado, Boulder) | Topaz 3 | |
| Adjourn |