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2014 Workshop Agenda

CEDAR 2014

22-26 June 2014
Seattle, Washington

 

 

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Agenda for 2014 June 22 - 26 (Sunday-Thursday)

Sunday 22 June 2014

 

 

Student Workshop Theme - Aeronomy Instrumentation: Where Does the Data Come From?

Kane Hall Room 110

08:00-09:00

Breakfast/Registration/Sign Travel Vouchers

 

09:00-09:10

Student Welcome from NSF (pdf)

Rich Behnke (NSF)

09:10-09:30

Student Welcome from CSSC

David Hysell (CSSC chair, Cornell)

09:30-09:40

Agenda information and organizational details

Leda Sox (Utah State) and Timothy Duly (U IL) (CSSC Student Reps)

09:40-10:15

Measuring upper atmospheric winds and temperatures by optical Doppler spectroscopy with Fabry-Perot interferometers (pdf)

Mark Conde (U AK)

10:15-10:30

Break

 

10:30-11:05

MLT observations by Rayleigh and resonance lidar: Some insights (pdf)

Michael Gerding (IAP)

11:05-11:40

Incoherent Scatter Radar: Remote Sensing of Earth's Upper Atmosphere (pdf)

Phil Erickson (MIT)

11:40-13:15

Student Pizza Lunch

Cascade Ballroom

13:15-13:55

Instruments for NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (pdf)

Thomas Immel (UCB)

13:55-14:30

GNSS Multi-scale studies of the ionosphere and plasmasphere (pdf)

Gary Bust (APL/JHU)

14:30-15:05

The Complementary Role of Modeling in Experimental and Observational Science (pdf)

Jonathan Snively (ERAU)

15:05-15:20

Break

 

15:20-16:00

Student MREFC (Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction, an NSF award) Presentations

 

~16:00

Adjourn

 

 

16:30-17:30

Student Soccer Game Sponsored by the USU Physics Dept and Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS)

Denny Field

 

~18:30-20:30

Dinner with Speaker Aaron Ridley on "Up, Up and Away! Adventures in Ballooning at UM!"

Cascade Ballroom, Haggett Hall

 

Monday 23 June 2014

08:15-08:30

Plenary Kane 130: Welcome by CSSC, NSF, U WA

Dr David Hysell (Cornell, CSSC chair), Rich Behnke (NSF), Dean Lisa Graumlich (College of the Environment)

08:30-08:40

Report of Student Workshop

Leda Sox (USU, CSSC year 1 student representative)

08:40-08:45

Introduction of Students by Institution

Tim Duly (U IL, CSSC year 2 student representative)

08:45-09:30

CEDAR Prize #25: Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling by Tides and Planetary Waves (view video)

Jeffrey Forbes (U CO)

09:30-09:55

Break

 

09:55-10:15

Science Highlight #1: Recent Science Results from AMPERE and Applications to Advancing our Understanding of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling (view video)

Brian Anderson (JHU/APL)

10:15-10:35

Student MREFC (Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction) reports

Student MREFC reporters

10:35-10:50

Geospace at NSF

Rich Behnke (NSF)

10:50-11:05

The NSF Aeronomy Program

Anne-Marie Schmoltner (NSF)

11:05-11:20

Status and News from NASA's Heliophysics Division of SMD (pdf)

Elsayed Talaat (NASA HQ) with Jeffrey Newmark available remotely

11:20-12:00

Future NASA ITM Programs: GOLD, ICON, GDC, DYNAMIC

moderator Aaron Ridley (U MI),

Richard Eastes (UCF) for GOLD,

Thomas Immel (UCB) for ICON,

Rob Pfaff (GSFC) for GDC,

Jeff Forbes (U CO) for DYNAMIC

12:05-13:30

Lunch

 

13:30-15:30

Kane 130: Geospace system science during storms and substorms (remotely accessible workshop)

Kane 110: Observations, Modeling, and Forecast of Equatorial Spread F Irregularities and Scintillation

Kane 210: Case study of atmospheric-ionospheric effects caused by forcing from below and above

Kane 220: Synergistic investigations using in situ neutral and ion composition data from the NSF EXOCUBE mission

 

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15:30-16:00

Break

 

16:00-18:00

Kane 130: Storm/substorm-time subauroral Geospace

Kane 110: Thermospheric composition variations and their impact on the ionosphere

Kane 210: PINOT - The PFISR Ion-Neutral Observations in the Thermosphere Campaign

Kane 220: Meteoroids and Space Debris

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18:30-21:00

CSSC Dinner (invitation only)

Hotel Deca, President's Room

 

Tuesday 24 June 2014

08:15-08:17

Welcome by U WA

Dean Michael Bragg (College of Engineering)

08:17-09:15

GC Tutorial #1: Challenges in high-latitude geospace science (view video)

Herb Carlson (USU)

09:15-09:30

NSF Geospace -- Opportunities and Priorities

Rich Behnke (NSF)

09:30-10:00

Break

 

10:00-12:00

Kane 130: GC#1a The high latitude geospace system(remotely accessible workshop)

Kane 110: CEDAR-GEM Modeling Challenge

Kane 210: Thermosphere-Ionosphere Climate

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12:00-13:30

Lunch

 

13:30-15:30

Kane 130: GC#1b The high latitude geospace system(remotely accessible workshop)

Kane 110: CubeSats: Lessons Learned

Kane 210: Thermospheric wind variations and their interaction with the ionosphere

Kane 220: Coordinated ISR Observation Days for 2015

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15:30-16:00

Break

 

16:00-19:00

Poster #1: IT

Cascade Ballroom, Haggett Hall

 

Wednesday 25 June 2014

07:15-08:15

Student Breakfast with NSF

120 Kane Hall (Walker Ames Room)

08:15-09:15

GC Tutorial #2: Impact of lower atmosphere waves sources on the thermosphere and ionosphere (view video)

Tim Fuller-Rowell (CIRES/NOAA)

09:15-09:35

Science Highlight #2: Sun-to-Atmosphere... Sure, Yet Still One Link Short: Results from the NSF Frontiers of Earth System Dynamics 'Sun-to-Ice' Project (view video)

Harlan Spence (U NH)

09:35-10:00

Break

 

10:00-12:00

Kane 130: GC#2a Coupling and Transport Processes from the Upper Mesosphere through the Middle Thermosphere (80-200 km)

Kane 110: The Dynamic Polar Cap

Kane 210: Distributed instrumentation for ionospheric measurements over South America

Kane 220: ITM Key Science Challenges during the Van Allen Probes / Great Observatory Era(remotely accessible workshop)

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12:00-13:30

Lunch

 

 

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12:00-13:30

CSSC Lunch (invitation only)

120 Kane Hall (Walker Ames Room)

13:30-15:30

Kane 130: GC#2b Coupling and Transport Processes from the Upper Mesosphere through the Middle Thermosphere (80-200 km)

Kane 110: Equatorial-PRIMO (Problems Related to Ionospheric Models and Observations)

Kane 210: Using a new resource for CEDAR Science: SSUSI images of the ionosphere and aurora and GUVI spectrograph mode data

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15:30-16:00

Break

 

16:00-19:00

Poster #2: MLT

Cascade Ballroom, Haggett Hall

 

Thursday 26 June 2014

08:15-09:15

CEDAR Distinguished Lecture #4: From Discovery to System Science (view video)

Rod Heelis (UTD)

09:15-09:30

Programmatic #9: CEDAR Graduate and Undergraduate Student Poster Prize Winners (pdfs)

Greg Earle (CSSC)

09:30-10:00

Break

 

10:00-12:00

Kane 130: MEGI - Multi-element Earth and Geospace Investigation

Kane 110: Lidar Workshop: Neutral-Plasma Coupling and Dynamics with Lidar Technology Transformation

Kane 210: Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems for High-Latitude Electrodynamics

Kane 220: Exploring the Daytime Dynamo -- A new look at the Sq Current System and Mid- and Low-latitude Daytime Electrodynamics

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12:00-13:30

Lunch

 

13:30-15:30

Kane 130: Addressing CEDAR Science goals with Combined Space and Ground-Based Observations

Kane 110: Magnetically conjugate studies of ionospheric processes from low to auroral latitudes

Kane 210: Planning Observing System Configurations for Answering Geospace System Science by Utilizing Simulation and Data Assimilation

Kane 220: Calibration and analysis techniques for passive optical and lidar observations

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15:30-16:00

Break

 

16:00-18:00

Kane 130: Scientific discovery enabled by networked instrumentation; current state-of-the-art and future opportunities

Kane 110: Arecibo Initiative in Dynamics of the Atmosphere (AIDA 2)

Kane 210: Severe Events During Non-SuperStorm Times

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18:00

Adjourn