CEDAR email: MTSSP Conference call for papers

[Philip Erickson]

For immediate release: 

Call for Papers at the Conference on Measurement Techniques for Solar and Space Physics — April 20-24, 2015 — Boulder, Colorado: https://mtssp.msfc.nasa.gov 

Abstracts are due by midnight, 3 February, 2015, at the link above. 

The meeting flyer/poster can be downloaded from the link above for local advertisement purposes. 

The NASA-NSF-sponsored Conference on Measurement Techniques for Solar and Space Physics (MTSSP) will take place at the UCAR/HAO Center Green campus in Boulder, Colorado from April 20-24, 2015. 

The MTSSP conference was born out of the desire to collect in one place the latest experiment technologies required for advancement of scientific knowledge in the discipline of Solar and Space Physics. There are two goals for this conference and the associated publication of its content: (a) to describe measurement techniques and technology developments needed to advance high priority science in the fields of solar and space physics, and (b) to provide a survey or reference of techniques for in situ measurement and remote sensing of space plasmas. 

Towards this end, it is recognized that the two 1998 volumes entitled, "Measurement Techniques in Space Plasmas" (Particles and Fields) have been a valuable reference and resource for advanced students, engineers, and scientists who wish to know the fundamentals of measurement techniques and technology in this field. Those monographs were the product of an AGU Chapman Conference that took place in Santa Fe in 1995: “Measurement Techniques in Space Plasmas -- What works, what doesn’t.” At this time, 20 years later, we believe it is appropriate to re-visit this subject, in light of recent advances in technology, research platforms, and analysis techniques, with the addition of direct measurements of gases in the upper atmosphere, optical imaging techniques, and remote observations in space and on the ground. 

Accordingly, the present workshop will be organized into four areas of measurement techniques: particles, fields, photons, and ground-based remote sensing. Particular attention will be given to those techniques and technologies that demonstrate promise of significant advancement in measurements that will enable the highest priority science as described in the 2012 NRC Heliophysics Decadal Survey. A broad survey of the current technologies with tutorials will be included to serve as reference material and as a basis from which advanced and innovative ideas can be discussed. Instrumentation and techniques to observe the solar environment from its interior to its outer atmosphere, the heliosphere out to the interstellar regions, geospace and planetary magnetospheres and atmospheres are included. As with the 1995 conference, it is incumbent on the community to identify those measurements which are particularly challenging and still require new techniques to be identified and tested to enable the necessary accuracy and resolution of certain parameters to be achieved. 

Additional details may be found at the link above. The following is brief summary of the meeting organization: 
Particles: Thermal plasma to cosmic rays, neutral gas properties including winds, density, temperature, and composition, and enhanced neutral atom imaging (ENA). 
Fields: DC electric and magnetic fields, plasma waves, current probes, and electron drift instruments from which the plasma velocity information provides a measure of the DC electric field. 
Photons: Instruments sensitive from the near infrared to x-rays. Contributions of techniques and technology for optical design, optical components, sensors, material selection for cameras, telescopes, and spectrographs are encouraged. 
Ground-Based: Remote sensing methods for solar and geospace activity and space weather. The focus includes solar observatories, all-sky cameras, lidars, and ITM observatory systems such as radars, ionosondes, GPS receivers, and magnetometers; conjugate observations and airborne campaigns. 
We encourage researchers throughout Solar and Space Physics to submit abstracts and participate in this exciting conference regarding cutting edge experiment and mission technologies. 

Conveners: J F Spann, Lead, NASA/MSFC; T E Moore, Co-Lead, NASA/GSFC; B J Anderson, JHU/APL; J H Clemmons, Aerospace; S D Christe, NASA/GSFC; J Davila, NASA/GSFC; P J Erickson, MIT; A Pevtsov, NSO; R F Pfaff, NASA/GSFC; Sabrina Savage, NASA/MSFC; M J Wiltberger, UCAR/HAO; E Zesta, NASA/GSFC 

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Philip Erickson, Ph.D.
Atmospheric Sciences Group
MIT Haystack Observatory
Westford, MA  01886  USA

email: pje at haystack.mit.edu
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