CEDAR email: CEDAR-GEM posters and student registrations due 13 May; IRI Workshop and articles

Tue May 3 16:22:36 MDT 2011

This is a generic mailing to the CEDAR community sent 03 May 2011.
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) 26 June - 01 July 2011, Santa Fe, NM CEDAR-GEM registrations for students 
and poster abstracts are due Friday 13 May.
 From Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu).
See also http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2011_Workshop:Main or 
http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/

(2) International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) workshop 10-14 October 2011 in 
Hermanus, South Africa.
From: Dieter Bilitza (dbilitza at gmu.edu).
See also http://iri2011.hmo.ac.za

(3) International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) special issue of "Advances in Space 
Research".
From: Dieter Bilitza (dbilitza at gmu.edu).
See also http://ees.elsevier.com/asr

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(1) 26 June - 01 July 2011, Santa Fe, NM CEDAR-GEM registrations for students 
and poster abstracts are due Friday 13 May.
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 From Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu).

Student registrations for the joint GEM-CEDAR Workshop to be held from
Sunday June 26 through Friday July 2 in Santa Fe, NM are due on Friday
13 May.  Student registration fees are $100, but a late fee of $75 will
be imposed starting Monday 16 May.  CEDAR students should register at

http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2011_Workshop:Main
(or http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2011_Workshop:Register)

while GEM students should register at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/.

The late fee for non-students will take effect on Monday 6 June, but
non-students who get the same funding as students should register by
13 May.  (Please do not register at both sites!)

Sunday 26 June is the student workshop day, which this year is only open
to student attendees.  The Workshop ends around noon on Friday July 2 for
CEDAR and ~130 Friday July 2 for GEM.  Students (or their institutions)
should make their plane reservations by Friday 3 June.  Most students
should be able to return Friday 1 July, but can elect to stay until
Saturday 2 July.  All students need to mark on their registration form
if they plan to use the student housing, which are double and triple
rooms in the three hotels (La Fonda, Hilton, and Eldorado).  Please
revise your lodging dates to correspond to your flight dates.

Colorado students should be aware that the air fare from Denver to
Albuquerque by Frontier Airlines is ~$220 this year at this time.
Colorado students should think about flying instead of driving or
taking the bus.  Indeed, we will NOT have a CEDAR bus coming from
Colorado this year because of the cheap air fares.

Poster abstracts submitted through the CEDAR registration site and at
the GEM poster subscription site (title only) are also due on Friday 13 May.
Posters are all 4ft by 4ft (1.2m by 1.2m) so there are 2 posters side-by-side
on each poster board, with 2 other posters on the back side.  Poster
sessions are from 4-7PM with light snacks on Tuesday and Wednesday
June 28-29.  CEDAR students are encouraged to enter the annual CEDAR
student poster competition.

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(2) International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) workshop 10-14 October 2011 in 
Hermanus, South Africa.
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From: Dieter Bilitza (dbilitza at gmu.edu).

The 2011 URSI/COSPAR International Reference Ionosphere (IRI)
Workshop will be held in Hermanus, South Africa during the period 10 - 14 
October 2011. It will be Hosted by the Space Science Directorate of the South 
African National Space Agency (SANSA), SANSA Space Science, formally Hermanus 
Magnetic Observatory (HMO). The special emphasis of this workshop will be on 
improving IRI over the African Region, however, all contributions related to 
shortcomings and improvements of the IRI model as well as applications of the 
IRI are welcome. Presentations are also encouraged that introduce new data 
sources and measurement techniques that could benefit the IRI effort. This 
workshop will also provide an opportunity to continue discussions related to a 
real-time IRI model. Selected papers from this workshop will be published in 
Advances in Space Research. The official IRI 2011 website can be found at 
http://iri2011.hmo.ac.za and enquiries can be sent to iri2011 at hmo.ac.za

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(3) International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) special issue of "Advances in Space 
Research".
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From: Dieter Bilitza (dbilitza at gmu.edu).

Papers are invited for a special topical issue of Advances in Space Research 
(ASR) entitled "Representation of the Auroral and Polar Ionosphere in the 
International Reference Ionosphere (IRI)". This special issue is open to all 
scientists who may have an appropriate scientific paper related to the 
representation of the high latitude ionosphere in the International Reference 
Ionosphere (IRI). The core issue will be based on papers presented during the 
38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Bremen, Germany, however, all contributions 
related to the improvements of the IRI models as well as its applications are 
welcome. Papers are submitted electronically at http://ees.elsevier.com/asr. 
(please select Article Type: "Special Issue: Auroral Ionosphere in IRI"). There 
are no page limits although the length of the paper should be appropriate for 
the material being presented.  While the deadline for submissions is 30 June 
2011, papers will be published electronically as soon as they are
accepted.  The printed issue will be assembled within a reasonable time with 
late papers being printed in regular issues of ASR. All articles will be typeset 
at no cost to the author; there is a nominal charge for printing color figures 
although there is no charge for color figures on the electronic version. 
Questions should be directed to the Guest Editors Prof. Bodo Reinisch 
(bodo.reinisch at digisonde.com) and Dr. Dieter Bilitza (dbilitza at gmu.edu). Author 
instructions can be found at 
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/644/authorinstructions.

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