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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