CEDAR email: CEDAR hotel block to Fri 8 June and 2 CEDAR workshops

[Barbara Emery]

This is a generic mailing to the CEDAR community sent 06 June 2012.
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) Deadline for CEDAR Eldorado hotel block on Friday June 8
 From Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu).
See also http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2012_Workshop:Accommodations

(2) Call for participation in individual CEDAR workshops
*(a) Monday 25 June 130-330PM: Hands-On CCMC Models and Tools for the Ionosphere 
- a workshop for students and others interested in space weather models and 
tools - please bring your laptops!
 From Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu).
See also http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php?title=2012_Workshop:iswa_ccmc
*(b) Tuesday 26 June 130-330PM: Planetary Aeronomy & Comparative Upper Atmospheres.
 From Edwin Mierkiewicz <emierk at astro.wisc.edu>.
See also 
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2012_Workshop:Planetary_Aeronomy

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(1) Deadline for CEDAR Eldorado hotel block on Friday June 8
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 From Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu).

The hotel block at the Eldorado for rooms at $139/night plus tax are
available until Friday June 8 for the annual CEDAR Workshop in Santa Fe,
New Mexico, June 24-29 at
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2012_Workshop:Accommodations

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(2a) CEDAR Workshop Monday 25 June 130-330PM: Hands-On CCMC Models and Tools for 
the Ionosphere - a workshop for students and others interested in space weather 
models and tools - please bring your laptops!
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 From Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu).

This will be a very active, hands-on (bring your laptops) 2-hour workshop on 
using the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) models and tools such as 
the resources at the Integrated Space Weather Awareness (ISWA).  This workshop 
is especially targeted for students, but non-students also are encouraged to 
come.  The relevant URLs are http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ and 
http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html.  We will go over parts of the CCMC's 
ionosphere tutorial/primer created by Tim Fuller-Rowell using the CTIPe model 
and Masha Kuznetsova which is located at 
http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/support/HSS_2011/ionosphere.php.  Another primer made 
for the Heliophysics Summer School 2012 (May 31 to June 6) is located at
http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/support/HSS_2012.php.  We anticipate pairing up 
disparate partners (so you don't sit with your 'buds'), so that all those 
without laptops have a partner with a laptop.  <b>We encourage participants to 
look at these links in advance</b>, and to also use these space weather tools 
for their own education and projects, including theses.  We especially encourage 
CEDAR students to use these tools for a project in the next 12 months to be a 
part of the CCMC Student Research Contest.  Winners get funding for CEDAR 
(better than the regular funding!) and time to present their results at the 
individual CCMC workshop.  Past student winners for GEM and SHINE at 
http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/support/contest-winners.php present their results this 
summer.

<b>Agenda:</b>

# 1330-1430    Nick Gross (BU)   Getting acquainted with the 
ionosphere/thermosphere with CCMC resources and tools (tutorial/primer at 
http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/support/HSS_2011/ionosphere.php)
# 1430-1440    Ja Soon Shim (CCMC/U MD)  'Instant runs' such as the Weimer ion 
convection, MSIS, IRI, ABBYNormal
# 1440-1515    David Berrios (CCMC/NASA) and Nick Gross (BU)  iSWA at 
http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html)
# 1515-1525    Masha Kuznetsova (CCMC/NASA)   Putting in an ionospheric model 
'Run on Request'
# 1525-1530    Wrap-up (can look at your output from 'Runs on Request' on 
Tuesday at our 'CCMC help desk' near the registration table during the breaks)

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(2b) CEDAR Workshop Tuesday 26 June 130-330PM: Planetary Aeronomy & Comparative 
Upper Atmospheres.
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 From Edwin Mierkiewicz <emierk at astro.wisc.edu>.

Dear Colleagues,

The CEDAR New Dimension document states “comparative planetary aeronomy remains 
a fertile research path to the development and validation of dynamic and 
chemical models." Are you engaged in planetary aeronomy efforts (or simply 
curious)? If so, I solicit your participation in the Planetary Aeronomy & 
Comparative Upper Atmospheres Workshop to be held at CEDAR on Tuesday, June 26 
from 1:30 -- 3:30. (See: 
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2012_Workshop:Planetary_Aeronomy)

Please let me know if you would like to show some of your work in this workshop; 
both formal presentations and general suggestions for discussions topics are 
welcome.

Hope to see you there!

Ed Mierkiewicz
(emierk at astro.wisc.edu)

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