2022 Workshop Agenda
19 - 24 June 2022
Austin, TX
All times are in Central Daylight Time (UTC -5)
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) | |
|
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 | ||
|
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 | ||
|
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 | ||
| 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 | |
| Advances in Vertical and Lateral Coupling Studies of Middle and Upper Atmospheres during Sudden Stratosphere Warmings | 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 | |
| New Results in Subauroral Science | Bharat Kunduri (Virginia Tech) | Topaz 2 | |
| Snakes on a Spaceship: The Code Awakens | Russell Stoneback (Stoneris) | Topaz 1 | |
| High-Latitude Space-Atmosphere Coupling and Wave Dynamics | 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 | Cross-Scale Electrodynamics in M-I-T Processes: Observational requirements and instrumentation strategies | Bill Bristow (Penn State University) | Topaz 2 |
|
Acoustic and Gravity Wave Modeling and Observations throughout the MTI system |
Christopher Heale (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) | Onyx Ballroom | |
| 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 |
| Active Experiments for IT Forcing | Paul Bernhardt (U. Alaska, Fairbanks) | Topaz 3 | |
|
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 | Advances in atmosphere vertical coupling and its relationship with ionosphere-thermosphere oscillatory phenomena (TAD/TID/MSTIDs) | Pedrina Terra (Arecibo Observatory) | Topaz 1 |
| Composition, Temperature, and Winds in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Region | Liying Qian (HAO/NCAR) | Topaz 3 | |
| GEM-CEDAR Joint Workshop - Polar-cap science | 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 |
Deadlines
| March 19 | Workshop proposals deadline (individual and GC) |
| March 25 | CEDAR Prize and Distinguished Lecture nomination due |
| April 4 | Student workshop attendance support deadline (via registration) & required poster abstract submission |
| April 11 | Notification to student recipients on travel support |
| May 13 | Poster abstract submission deadline |
| May 20 | Early registration ends |
| June 10 | Dependent care grant deadline (June 10 or till reached limit of available grants) |
Science Steering Committee
Larisa Goncharenko (chair)
Meghan LeMay (student representative)
Jens Oberheide
McArthur Jones Jr.
Asti Bhatt
Julio Urbina
Endawoke Yizengaw
Huixin Liu
Zishun Qiao (student representative)
Ying Zou (GEM liaison)
Tzu-Wei Fang
Matthew Zettergren
Jia Yue
Lindsay Goodwin
Tai-Yin Huang (NSF aeronomy ex-officio representative)
Alan Liu (NSF aeronomy ex-officio representative)
Astrid Maute (CEDAR liaison, ex-officio representative)
Meghan LeMay (student representative)
Jens Oberheide
McArthur Jones Jr.
Asti Bhatt
Julio Urbina
Endawoke Yizengaw
Huixin Liu
Zishun Qiao (student representative)
Ying Zou (GEM liaison)
Tzu-Wei Fang
Matthew Zettergren
Jia Yue
Lindsay Goodwin
Tai-Yin Huang (NSF aeronomy ex-officio representative)
Alan Liu (NSF aeronomy ex-officio representative)
Astrid Maute (CEDAR liaison, ex-officio representative)