CEDAR email: CEDAR Workshops due 5 Mar; student funding for meetings in MA and Taiwan; AGU Meeting of Americas

Mon Mar 1 17:16:07 MST 2010

This is a generic mailing to the CEDAR community sent Mar 01, 2010.
Meetings and jobs are listed at http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu under
'Community' as 'Calendar of Meetings' and 'CEDAR related opportunities'.
CEDAR email messages are under 'Community' as 'CEDAR email Newsletters'.
All are in 'Quick Links' on the main page.
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(1) Workshops Solicited by 05 March for CEDAR Workshop, 20-25 June, Boulder, CO.
Submitted by Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu).
Reply to Joe Huba (huba at ppd.nrl.navy.mil).
Submit via http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu ('Workshops','2010 Workshop',
under 'Individual Workshops' 'Submit Descriptions', using a cedar login
and also look at 'Guidelines for Conveners').

(2) 26-30 July 2010 student workshop for experiments using PFISR and RISR,
MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, funding applications due 31 March.
From: Anthea Coster (ajc at haystack.mit.edu).
Apply at http://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/workshop/.

(3) Student travel support still available for 8-10 April 2010, WORKSHOP ON
THE AURORAL SUBSTORM AND ITS IMPORTANCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL
RESEARCH, NCU, Taiwan, abstracts due 5 March.
Contact Jesper Gjerloev (Jesper.Gjerloev at jhuapl.edu) for student support.
See also http://www.ss.ncu.edu.tw/~Aurora/.

(4) 8-13 August 2010, AGU Meeting of the Americas, Foz do Iguazu, Brazil.
Abstracts due 31 March at http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja10/.
(a) A11 Session: "Gravity Waves".
From: Joan Alexander (alexand at cora.nwra.com).

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1) Workshops Solicited by 05 March for CEDAR Workshop, 20-25 June, Boulder, CO.
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 From Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu) and Joe Huba (huba at ppd.nrl.navy.mil).

CEDAR workshops are a unique venue for bringing together experts on a
particular science topic, reviewing recent results from an ongoing experimental
campaign, planning a new project, or increasing visibility and awareness of a
given area of research.  Suggestions and guidelines for workshop conveners,
including a detailed description of various workshop formats, can be found at
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu ('Workshops','2010 Workshop', 'Guidelines for
Conveners'.

This year's meeting will be held at the University of Colorado in Boulder,
CO from Sunday June 20 (student workshop) to Friday June 25.  In order to
propose a workshop, potential conveners should submit the following
information by Friday March 5 at the CEDAR site at
	http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu
Click on 'Workshops', then on '2010 Workshop', then on 'Submit Descriptions',
to fill out information on your proposed workshop.  You must have a login
to submit a proposed workshop.  All CEDAR Database users have logins, and
additionally, most participants at the 2007-2009 CEDAR Workshops have logins
which are listed under 'Toolbox', 'Special Pages', and 'User List' under
'Users and Rights'.

A web page will be made from your initial description that is linked to
the '2010 Workshop List'.  Try to write this description so that it is
geared towards the students, with a general description of the context
and importance of the topic while avoiding specialized jargon.
Your workshop page can be edited later to revise the description
(including a different student description if desired) before it is
printed (by Friday 28 May), or to add an agenda.  Before, during, or after
the workshop, .pdfs of the .ppt talks during the workshop can be added to
your workshop page along with a final report to remain as a permanent
on-line archive record of your workshop.

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(2) 26-30 July 2010 student workshop for experiments using PFISR and RISR,
MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, funding applications due 31 March.
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From: Anthea Coster (ajc at haystack.mit.edu).

A student workshop aimed at providing students with hands-on experience in 
designing and running experiments at the Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar 
(PFISR) and the Resolute Bay Incoherent Scatter Radar (RISR) will be held at MIT 
Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, July 26-30, 2010. This workshop is the third 
of several student workshops aimed at teaching the new generation of scientists 
how to request and analyze incoherent scatter radar (ISR) experiments 
<http://www.haystack.mit.edu/atm/mho/instruments/isr/index.html>. All students 
will have the opportunity to work one-on-one with experienced scientists. The 
workshop will be structured to provide presentations in the morning, and 
hands-on experience in experiment design and analysis in the afternoons. The 
morning lectures will include an introduction to the theory of incoherent 
scatter, radar operations, ISR analysis techniques, and the Madrigal data base 
<http://madrigal.haystack.mit.edu/madrigal>. The afternoon exercises will 
involve working closely with Upper Atmospheric Facility (UAF) staff in the topic 
areas of: proposal design, experiment execution, and data analysis.

SRI International, under a grant from the National Science Foundation, developed 
the AMISR <http://www.amisr.com/>, a modular, relocatable radar. SRI is leading 
an NSF-funded collaborative effort in maximizing the utilization of the AMISR 
facilities by scientists and students from around the world to conduct studies 
of the upper atmosphere and to observe space weather events.

This workshop is suitable for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. The 
workshop is sponsored by the National Science Foundation <http://www.nsf.gov/> 
through its Upper Atmospheric Facility Program within the Geosciences Directorate.

Attendance is limited to 20 students. For students within the U.S. and Canada, 
travel, housing and most meals will be provided. For post-docs and students 
outside of the U.S. and Canada, funding is not guaranteed and will be considered 
on a case-by-case basis.   Professors are welcome to sit-in provided there is space.
The deadline (strict) for application submission is 31 March 2010.  The 
application can be found at http://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/workshop/.

Questions or comments can be addressed to:
Elizabeth Kendall elizabeth.kendall at sri.com <mailto:elizabeth.kendall at sri.com>
Anthea Coster   781-981-5753  ajc at haystack.mit.edu <mailto:ajc at haystack.mit.edu>
Philip Erickson pje at haystack.mit.edu <mailto:pje at haystack.mit.edu>
Anthea J. Coster, PhD,
MIT Haystack Observatory,
Off Route 40,
Westford, MA 01886-1299,

phone:    781-981-5753,
fax:          781-981-5766,
email:      ajc at haystack.mit.edu,
web:        www.haystack.mit.edu/~ajc

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(3) Student travel support still available for 8-10 April 2010, WORKSHOP ON
THE AURORAL SUBSTORM AND ITS IMPORTANCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL
RESEARCH, NCU, Taiwan, abstracts due 5 March.
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From: Jesper Gjerloev (Jesper.Gjerloev at jhuapl.edu).

Commemorating the Birth of the Concept of the Auroral Substorm

An extensive array of all-sky cameras operated during the International 
Geophysical Year (IGY) made it possible to study simultaneous auroral activities 
over the entire arctic region for the first time in the history of auroral 
science. On the basis of this data set, Syun Akasofu recognized a global feature 
of the temporal evolution of auroral displays and developed a global 
phenomenological model and proposed the concept of the auroral substorm in 1964. 
Subsequently, in the search of the cause of the auroral substorm, researchers, 
both observational and theoretical, have worked on a complex plasma system in 
space around the Earth, a system consisting of the magnetosphere, ionosphere and 
the upper atmosphere.  It has been found that this system responds dynamically 
to various solar wind disturbances on a global scale.  Thus, the concept of the 
magnetospheric substorm has been developed.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:

In this workshop, we shall examine how our perspective of space plasmas has 
evolved from a focus on discrete processes to the study of complex global plasma 
systems.  We do this recognizing the fact that Akasofu's pioneering work in 1964 
has provided the impetus to look at space plasma from a global perspective. We 
shall also discuss the evolution of networks of ground-based and space-based 
instrumentation and the increased integration of ground and space-based 
observations. Finally, we shall discuss the evolution of coupled global 
physics-based models to explain the observations and predict the impact of solar 
wind disturbances on the near-Earth space environment.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:

Besides the invited talks, the Workshop Program Committee strongly encourages 
the submission of contributed talks and posters relevant to the themes of this 
workshop.  If you are interested in submitting a paper, please contact the 
workshop website http://www.ss.ncu.edu.tw/~Aurora/.

Abstract submission deadline:  March 5, 2010

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

The workshop will be hosted by the Institute of Space Science, National Central 
University, Taiwan.  Sessions will be held in the morning and afternoon. The 
workshop will be concluded with a reception and a banquet at the South Garden 
Hotels and Resorts:

http://www.southgarden.com.tw/html/index.asp

This workshop may provide some financial supports to the needed participants. 
Please check the workshop website for more information.  NOTE: Deadline for 
local organizing committee financial support is January 31, 2010, BUT financial 
support for students
is still available until it runs out.

For further information please contact Jesper W Gjerloev 
(jesper.gjerloev at jhuapl.edu) or Workshop website: http://www.ss.ncu.edu.tw/~Aurora/

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Jerry Chao, Jesper W Gjerloev, Tony Lui and Kiyo Yumoto

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Raymond Greenwald, Lou-Chuang Lee, Yohsuke Kamide, Ching Meng and Hermann Opgenoorth

LOCAL COMMITTEE:
Ling-Hsiao Lyu, Y. H. Chu, C. J. Pan, C. Z. Cheng, J. H. Shue, H.C. Yeh, M. Q. 
Chen, C. M. Huang, L. N. Hau and S. Y. Su

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(4) 8-13 August 2010, AGU Meeting of the Americas, Foz do Iguazu, Brazil.
Abstracts due 31 March at http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja10/.
(a) A11 Session: "Gravity Waves".
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From: Joan Alexander (alexand at cora.nwra.com).

We would like to invite you to the session on 'Gravity waves' (session A11) to 
be held during the 2010 The Meeting of the Americas of the American Geophysical 
Union, August 8th-13th, 2010 Foz do Iguazu, Brazil.

This session will be devoted to all aspects of gravity waves. A detailed 
description of the session is given below.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 March 2010.

Information of the meeting is available at
http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja10/

Regards,

Conveners: Manuel Pulido,
Peter Preusse,
Hye-Yeong Chun,
M Joan Alexander

Description:     There are key aspects on atmospheric gravity waves (GWs) that 
are still unknown such as relevant source mechanisms, the details of GW 
propagation and wave breaking and the interaction with other atmospheric waves 
and the global mean background. A proper knowledge of these aspects is important 
to represent the effects of unresolved gravity waves in climate models e.g. by 
GW parameterization. Given the number of tunable parameters in these GW 
parameterizations a global climatology of gravity waves is in urgent need. This 
session invites theoretical, numerical and observational studies on GWs as well 
as their impact on global modeling.

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