CEDAR email: Support Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; CEDAR Workshop DVDs ready; meetings in CO, Austria, and Australia
Barbara Emery
emery at ucar.edu
Fri Dec 3 15:19:49 MST 2010
This is a generic mailing to the CEDAR community sent 03 Dec 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) Appeal for immediate support for the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
From Katya Georgieva (kgeorg at bas.bg).
Please support us by signing the petition at
http://www.science.nauka2010.com/
(2) DVDs ($25 each) of CEDAR Workshop and its 25th Celebration available and
on-line.
From Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu).
See also http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/Workshop:CEDAR_Videos
(3) 2011 Space Weather Workshop - April 26-29, 2011.
From Terry Onsager (Terry.Onsager at noaa.gov).
See also http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sww
(4) 03-08 April 2011, European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2011,
Vienna, Austria, abstracts due 10 January. See also
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2011/.
(a) Session CL2.12 Solar and Geomagnetic Activity and Their Influences on the
Earth's Weather and Climate.
From: jean Lilensten (jean.lilensten at obs.ujf-grenoble.fr).
See also http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/session/7131
(5) IUGG 2011 General Assembly, 28 June - 7 July 2011, Melbourne, Australia -
abstracts due 1 February.
From: Peter Dyson (p.dyson at latrobe.edu.au).
See also http://www.iugg2011.com/.
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(1) Appeal for immediate support for the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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From Katya Georgieva (kgeorg at bas.bg).
Dear colleagues,
The future of the biggest scientific center in Bulgaria, the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences, is endangered. After the last parliamentary elections
in 2009, the new administration announced their intention to close the
Academy. Its budget in 2010 and the proposed budget for 2011 are
drastically cut and now money is not enough even for the already miserable
salaries of the scientists. Various projects for legislative changes are
being advertised, all reducing to scattering the academic institutes among
universities and/or ministries with their eventual subsequent closing.
Many scientists, especially young ones, have already been forced to leave
the Academy or are planning to leave it looking for better and more
reliable means to make a living. Similar is the situation in many
universities, especially in Sofia University, the leading educational
center in Bulgaria, so the attack is not only against the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences but against science in Bulgaria in general.
We the Bulgarian scientists have been protesting for months against the
destruction of science in Bulgaria. Now it is critical for us to get
international support because next week both the new law for the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences, and the budget for 2011 will be voted in the
Parliament.
Please support us by signing the petition at
http://www.science.nauka2010.com/
Thanks,
Katya Georgieva,
Space and Solar-Terrestrial Research Institute
at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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(2) DVDS ($25 each) of CEDAR Workshop and its 25th Celebration available and
on-line.
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From Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu).
The web .pdf files and DVDs of the CEDAR Workshop plenary talks and science
highlights, the 25th anniversary celebration, and talks from the WACCM (Whole
Atmosphere Community Climate Model) and the CEDAR Mini LIDAR School are
available. There are 5 DVDs with 11.5 hours. Tutorial, Keynote, Prize, and
Distinguished lecturers receive complimentary copies of these DVDs each year.
The set of 5 DVDs is $100, while separate DVDs are $25 each. Several groups
have ordered these DVDs each CEDAR Workshop, and copies of DVDs or VHS tapes are
available from Brian Day (brian at daylightav.com) back to 1987.
All available .pdf files of talks are linked at the 2010 Workshop site at
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2010_Workshop:Main via the agenda,
individual workshop pages, or under the 25th anniversary section. In addition,
all the DVD talks are linked at
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/Workshop:CEDAR_Videos. In addition
to the .pdf files, for the first time ever, on-line video .mpeg version 4 (.mp4)
files are also linked at this site for most of the talks. We hope to obtain
releases for all the talks soon to make all the .mp4 links active to be read
with QuickTime Player or something similar.
We realize that with free internet access to the on-line videos, many
institutions will not be interested in buying the DVDs. However, DVDs are still
useful in some circumstances such as low bandwidth, low memory,
and when the professor needs a lecture for their class while he/she is on
travel. The DVDs for the 2010 CEDAR Workshop cover:
1) DVD 1 of 5 (60+23+30=113 min)
*25th anniversary celebration (62 min plus 23 min of photos over 25 years)
*Memorial Talks (15 min each or 30 min total) on Henry Rishbeth and Bill Gordon
2) DVD 2 of 5 (61+70+28=159 min)
*CEDAR Distinguished Lecture #1 by Ray Roble (61 min)
*WACCM Workshop Talks by Brian Kauffman (70 min) and Michael Mills (28 min)
3) DVD 3 of 5 (55+67=122 min)
*Student Keynote Lecture #1 by Dave Hysell (55 min)
*Student Keynote Lecture #2 by Odile de la Beaujardière (67 min)
4) DVD 4 of 5 (45+53+81=179 min)
*CEDAR Prize Lecture #21 by Paul Bernhardt (45 min)
*CEDAR Tutorial by Edwin Mierkiewicz (53 min)
*Science Highlight Talks (18+24+17+22=81 min) by Phil Erickson (18 min), JaSoon
Shim (24 min), Liying Qian (17 min), and Joshua Semeter (22 min)
5) DVD 5 of 5 (CEDAR Mini LIDAR School 6+35+32+24+23=120 min)
* Introduction (6 min) and talks by Xinzhao Chu (35 min), Joe She (32 min), Andy
Gerrard (24 min), and Shikha Raizada (23 min)
To purchase 1 DVD ($25 each) or more for 2010 ($100 for set of 5) or previous
years, please contact Brian Day (brian at daylightav.com) at
<br>Daylight Productions and Rentals
<br>4700 Sterling Drive, Suite I
<br>Boulder, CO 80301
<br>phone: (303) 440-3334
<br>FAX: (303) 442-8180
Brian can make PAL versions of the DVDs as well as NTSC versions.
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(3) 2011 Space Weather Workshop - April 26-29, 2011.
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From Terry Onsager (Terry.Onsager at noaa.gov).
The 2011 Space Weather Workshop will be held April 26 - 29, in Boulder,
Colorado. This meeting will bring together the customer, forecaster, vendor,
and research communities to focus on the impacts of space weather, on
forecasting techniques, and on recent scientific advances in specifying and
predicting conditions in the space environment. The program will highlight space
weather impacts in several areas, including ionospheric disturbances,
geomagnetic storms and their solar drivers, radiation belts, and solar energetic
particles. Representatives from industries impacted by space weather will be
invited to attend, including those from commercial airline, electric power,
satellite operations, and navigation/communication industries. Space Weather
Workshop 2011 is co-sponsored by the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, the
NSF Division of Atmospheric Sciences, the NASA Heliophysics Division, and the
NASA Space Radiation Analysis Group. Further details regarding the meeting
agenda and travel will be posted on our web site: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sww
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(4) 03-08 April 2011, European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2011,
Vienna, Austria, abstracts due 10 January. See also
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2011/.
(a) Session CL2.12 Solar and Geomagnetic Activity and Their Influences on the
Earth's Weather and Climate.
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From: jean Lilensten (jean.lilensten at obs.ujf-grenoble.fr).
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2011 meets in Vienna,
Austria from 03-08 April. Abstracts are due 10 January via the website at
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2011/.
We invite you to submit a contribution to the following session at the
next EGU meeting: "Solar and Geomagnetic Activity and Their Influences
on the Earth's Weather and Climate"
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/session/7131
This interdisciplinary session focuses on the multiple impacts of solar
and geomagnetic variability (including galactic cosmic rays) on the
terrestrial weather and climate. This includes solar radiative
variability, solar energetic particles, galactic cosmic rays, and
electron precipitations from radiation belts. Both short transients such
as solar flares and geomagnetic storms, and long-term trends will be
considered. Special attention will be paid to their impacts on the
upper, middle and lower atmosphere.
Jean Lilensten (IPAG), Thierry Dudok de Wit, (LPCEE), Sergei Avakyan, (ARSC)
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(5) IUGG 2011 General Assembly, 28 June - 7 July 2011, Melbourne, Australia -
abstracts due 1 February.
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From: Peter Dyson (p.dyson at latrobe.edu.au).
The first circular for the IUGG 2011 General Assembly is available at
http://www.iugg2011.com/newsletter/IUGGNewsletter_Oct10.pdf for first circular
(5 pages). The IUGG 2011 General Assembly takes place 28 June - 7 July 2011 in
Melbourne, Australia. Registration is now open and abstracts are due by 1
February 2011. The main websit is at http://www.iugg2011.com/.
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