CEDAR email: CEDAR Workshops; ISR Student workshop; Arecibo use proposals; AOGS-AGU; CEDAR madrigal archive DB
Barbara Emery
emery at ucar.edu
Wed Feb 15 14:24:10 MST 2012
This is a generic mailing to the CEDAR community sent 03 February 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) 2012 CEDAR Summer Individual Workshop Proposals are due Friday March 9.
From Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu).
See also http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2012_Workshop:Main
(2) Incoherent Scatter Radar Student Workshop, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, July
29 - August 5, 2012 - applications due 15 March.
From: Anthea Coster <ajc at haystack.mit.edu>.
See also http://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/workshop/
(3) Arecibo Telescope Use Proposals due Thursday March 1.
From: Sixto Gonzalez <sixto at naic.edu>.
See also http://www.naic.edu/~astro/call_mar12.shtml,
http://www.naic.edu/~astro/call_mar12_tech.shtml and
http://www.naic.edu/~astro/proposals/cover.html
(4) 13-17 August 2012, AOGS-AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly, Singapore. Abstracts due
12 March at http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2012
(a) ST05: Multi-scale Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interactions.
From Anatoly V. Streltsov <anatoly.v.streltsov at dartmouth.edu>.
(5) CORRECTION: New CEDAR Madrigal archive database now available at
http://cedar.openmadrigal.org
From: Bill Rideout <brideout at haystack.mit.edu>.
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(1) 2012 CEDAR Summer Individual Workshop Proposals are due Friday March 9.
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From Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu).
Proposals for individual workshops at the 2012 summer CEDAR workshop
in Santa Fe, NM from June 24-29, 2012 are
due Friday March 9. The main workshop page is at
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2012_Workshop:Main
where the on-line workshop form is under 'Individual Workshops'. New
this year is a required Justification for workshops where proposers are
asked to define what and how the CEDAR Strategic Plan at
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/images/e/eb/CEDAR_October_V9.2.pdf
applies to their topic area. This may or may not include how
System Science applies to their topic. This and other suggestions for
workshop proposers are listed in the Workshop Guidelines at
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/Workshop:Guidelines
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(2) Incoherent Scatter Radar Student Workshop, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, July
29 - August 5, 2012 - applications due 15 March.
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From: Anthea Coster <ajc at haystack.mit.edu>.
A workshop aimed at providing students with hands-on experience in designing and
running experiments at incoherent scatter radar facilities will be held at the
Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada (http://www.banff.ca/). The workshop is
being held in Canada for the first time in celebration of the brand new
southward-looking Canadian Resolute Incoherent Scatter Radar (RISR-C). During
this workshop, students will have the opportunity to run experiments and use
data from multiple incoherent scatter radar observatories, such as Poker Flat
(PFISR), Millstone Hill, Resolute Bay (RISR), Sondrestrom, Jicamarca and
Arecibo. This is the fifth student workshop organized with the aim of teaching
the new generation of scientists how to request and analyze incoherent scatter
radar (ISR) experiments. 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. The afternoon exercises will involve
working closely with ISR facility staff in the topic areas of: proposal design,
experiment execution, and data analysis.
This workshop is suitable for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. It
is sponsored by the US National Science Foundation through its Geospace
Facilities Program within the Geosciences Directorate and hosted in partnership
with the Canadian RISR-C team.
Attendance is limited to 30 students. For most students within the U.S. and
Canada, travel, housing and meals will be provided. For post-docs and students
outside of the U.S. and Canada, funding will be considered on a case-by-case
basis. Providing there is space, professors and other professionals are welcome
to observe. Please contact Anthea Coster orElizabeth Kendall if you are
interested in this option.
The deadline for application submission is 15 March 2012. Please see
(http://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/workshop/) for more information.
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(3) Arecibo Telescope Use Proposals due Thursday March 1.
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From: Sixto Gonzalez <sixto at naic.edu>.
The new management of Arecibo Observatory have recently sanctioned a
move to a semester schedule for telescope proposal deadlines. In future
these deadlines will be on or about March 1st and September 1st each year.
Proposals will still be evaluated during a 4-month period following
each deadline. Approved proposals will remain active and eligible for
scheduling under the same rules as currently, (i.e. A-graded proposals
indefinitely, B-graded for the next 8 months).
Due to the transition to a semester cycle, the proposal call for
submissions due March 1, 2012, presents a special case. To avoid any
shortage of active observing programs of high merit during the month of
July 2012, the evaluation period for the March 1, 2012, deadline will
be accelerated and completed in three months rather than four; B-graded
proposals from this will be active for nine months instead of eight
(i.e. until March 1, 2013). We hence remind Mar 1, 2012, proposers of
the need, should it be relevant, to plan for an extra month of potential
observing.
The new semester-based schedule offers several advantages including
reduced burden on the Observatory staff and alignment (with a one-month
delay) with the new semester-based cycle at NRAO.
ARECIBO CALL FOR PROPOSALS
We invite Arecibo telescope proposals for the Thursday, 1st March 2012,
(23:59 EST), deadline. These requests should be for telescope usage
within the nine months beginning 1st June 2012.
Latest news with relevance to the above deadline can be found at;
http://www.naic.edu/~astro/call_mar12.shtml
For the March 1st deadline, we particularly note the availability
of the new Arecibo PUPPI (Puerto Rico Ultimate Pulsar Processing
Instrument) pulsar backend. This will be available in shared risk mode
to expert users of the GUPPI backend at the GBT. We expect that by the
following (September 1st) deadline, PUPPI will be fully integrated into
the Arecibo observing software, and non-expert users will be encouraged
to apply.
Technical information (including for PUPPI) that could be of use to
prospective Arecibo proposers can be found at;
http://www.naic.edu/~astro/call_mar12_tech.shtml
The Web Coversheet Form can be found at;
http://www.naic.edu/~astro/proposals/cover.html
Remember to also separately email a PDF of the main body of your
proposal to proposal at naic.edu
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(4) 13-17 August 2012, AOGS-AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly, Singapore. Abstracts due
12 March at http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2012
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(a) ST05: Multi-scale Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interactions.
From Anatoly V. Streltsov <anatoly.v.streltsov at dartmouth.edu>.
Main Convener: Prof. Evgeny Mishin (AFRL, United States),
evgeny.mishin at kirtland.af.mil
Co-convener: Prof. Anatoly Streltsov (ERAU, United States), streltsa at erau.edu
Numerous ground-based and satellite observations show that intense electric
fields and currents in the Earth’s magnetosphere and ionosphere are usually
associated with ion outflows, elevated plasma temperature, density cavities, and
other phenomena related to plasma redistribution. Overall, these observations
suggest that plasma structures and intense electromagnetic waves at auroral and
subauroral latitudes are dynamically coupled in a more complicated way than has
been previously appreciated. In particular, wave and plasma processes should be
studied considering the ionosphere and the magnetosphere as coupled system. The
objective of this session is to bring together current state-of-the-art in
theory, modeling, and observations of intense multi-scale electromagnetic and
plasma disturbances in the Earth‘s ionosphere and magnetosphere. Presentations
containing theory/numerical modeling/observations of plasma and wave structures
and field-aligned currents in the auroral and sub-auroral regions are
particularly relevant to the theme of this session.
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(5) CORRECTION: New CEDAR Madrigal archive database now available at
http://cedar.openmadrigal.org
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From: Bill Rideout <brideout at haystack.mit.edu>
The new CEDAR Madrigal archive database is now available at
http://cedar.openmadrigal.org. This new central database serves two purposes:
# it automatically archives all data from all Madrigal sites on a weekly basis, and
# like the old CEDAR database, it serves as a permanent primary repository for
data not hosted at other Madrigal sites. (Note: The old CEDAR database linked
at http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu is still available and supported BY NCAR during
a transition time of a year or more, and is still the site of the CEDAR
community wiki. (ADDED BY EDITOR Barbara Emery, emery at ucar.edu)).
As a user, you can search all Madrigal databases, including data only on the new
CEDAR Madrigal archive, from any individual Madrigal site.
There are a few reasons why a user might want to go directly to the CEDAR
Madrigal archive site at http://cedar.openmadrigal.org. Madrigal has a simple
web interface that only searches for Madrigal data local to a particular site.
If you use the simple web interface at the CEDAR Madrigal archive site, you have
access to all Madrigal data across all Madrigal sites, including CEDAR. Also,
in some cases, response times might be faster at the CEDAR Madrigal archive site.
The Madrigal database is an open source project, and all code is available at
the web site http://www.openmadrigal.org. While Millstone Hill is the primary
developer, the latest release of Madrigal (2.6) was developed in partnership
with Jicamarca Radio Observatory. Community feedback and contributions
regarding this project are strongly encouraged. Please contact Bill Rideout at
brideout at haystack.mit.edu for more information. The CEDAR Madrigal archive site
is supported by NSF grant AGS-1025467.
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