Preliminary Schedule, April 6

   
Sunday, May 18
 
9:00-5:00
ISES Meeting, DSRC 2C-406
Monday, May 19
 
8:00
Registration
8:30 - 12:00
Space Weather Agency Activities  (Session chair: E. Hildner)
8:30
The State of Space Environment Center- Ernest Hildner, Director, NOAA/Space Environment Center
8:50
NOAA and Space Weather Services - VADM Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr. Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, NOAA Administrator
9:10
Mainstreaming Space Weather: Progress, OIF and Tomorrow - Brigadier General David L. Johnson, Air Force Director of Weather
9:30
Impact of Space Weather on Naval Operations - RDML Donaldson, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command
9:50
NRC Decadal Survey on Solar and Space Physics - Louis Lanzerotti, Lucent Technologies and Center for Solar Terrestrial Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology
10:10 - 10:30
Break
10:30
NSF Space Weather Activities - Bob Robinson, NSF Atmospheric Sciences Division
10:50
NASA Sun-Earth Connection Program - Richard Fisher, NASA Office of Space Science
11:10
Federal Interagency Coordination: The National Space Weather Program, An Example of Successes - Samuel P. Williamson, Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research
11:30
International Living With a Star , A New Collaborative Space Program in Solar, Heliospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics - Madhulika Guhathakurta, NASA
11:50
Colorado in the Space Business- Jane Norton, Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
12:10 - 1:30
Catered Box Lunch
1:30 - 3:00
Posters - Ionospheric Research and Applications
2:30 - 3:00
What's New on SEC's Website - Mike Husler, NOAA/Space Environment Center
2:45 - 3:00
Refreshment break
3:00 - 4:40
Precision GPS and Communications (Session chair: J. Kunches)
3:00
A Geodesist's View of the Ionosphere - Gerald L. Mader, NOAA NOS National Geodetic Survey
3:20
High Precision GPS Processing in Support of the Absolute Gravity Water Flood Monitoring Program in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska - John Brown, Micro-G Solutions Inc, and J.L. Brady, BP Exploration, Alaska
3:40
Scintillation Effects on GPS signals - Maj William Joy, Air Force Research Laboratory
4:00
The Impact of an Active Solar Cycle on DGPS Positioning Performance - Richard Barker, Fugro Chance
4:20
A new method of studying the relation between ionization rates and radiowave absorption in polar-cap absorption events -John Hargreaves, University of Lancaster, England
4:40 - 5:00
Preview of Tomorrow
4:40
What Particle Data Do Satellite Manufacturers Want? - Mike Bodeau, Boeing
Tuesday, May 20
 
8:30-9:10
Satellite Drag   (Session chair: K. Doser)
8:30
F10.7 and the Future of Solar Radio Monitoring - Ken Tapping, Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory
8:50
High Accuracy Satellite Drag Model (HASDM) Review - Bruce R. Bowman, Air Force Space Command, Space Analysis Center
9:10 -10:20
Electric Power Grids (Session chair: C. Balch)
9:10
Monitoring Geomagnetically-Induced Currents and Their Impact on the Electric Power Grid - Dave W. Fugate, Electric Research & Management, Inc.
9:30
Space Weather and the Electricity Market: An Initial Assessment - Kevin F. Forbes, Department of Business and Economics, The Catholic University of America
9:50
U.S. Power Grid Vulnerability to Geomagnetic Storms - John Kappenman, Metatech Corporation
10:10 - 10:40
Break
10:40 - 12:00
Trapped Radiation and Magnetospheric Plasma (Session chair: T. Onsager)
10:40
Space Environmental Effects Working Group Conference: Space Environmental Effects on Large Imaging Systems - Dennis Brown, National Reconnaissance Office
11:00
The Space Environment and Spacecraft Environmental Hazards - Joe Fennell, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
11:20
Chandra Radiation Environment Modeling - Joseph Minow, Jacobs Sverdrup, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
11:40
CRRES Electric Field Power Spectra and Radial Diffusion Coefficients - Don Brautigam, Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
1:30 - 3:00
Posters - Magnetospheric Research and Applications
2:45 - 3:00
Refreshment break
3:00 - 5:00
Solar Radiation Storms (Session chair: Ron Zwickl)
3:00
FAA: Solar Particle Warnings - Paul Armbruster, Federal Aviation Administration
3:20
The Effect of Forbush Decreases and Solar Particle Events on the Cosmic Radiation Dose Received on Commercial Flights - Roger Iles, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Surrey
3:40
Real-Time Evaluation of Crew Exposures During Solar Proton Events - Steve Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Houston
4:00
The Stardust Comet Sample Return Mission: Its experience with a Powerful Solar Flare 9 November 2000 - Don Brownlee, Dept of Astronomy, University of Washington
4:20
Energetic Ion Impacts and Measurement Requirements - Joe Mazur, The Aerospace Corp.
4:40
New Insights on Drivers of Solar Energetic Particle Spectral and Compositional Variability - Alan Tylka, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
6:00 - 9:00
Reception at the NOAA David Skaggs Research Center
Wednesday, May 21
 
8:30 - 12:00
Modeling, Metrics, and Transition (Session chair: Greg Ginet)
8:30
CAWSES: Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System - A. Richmond, Nat. Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory
8:50
Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements (GAIM) - Robert W. Schunk, Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Utah State University
9:10
Status and Future Plans for Space Weather Model Development at the University of Michigan - Robert Clauer, Center for Space Environment Modeling
9:30
Modeling the Sun and the Heliosphere - George Fisher, Space Sciences Lab, Univ. California, Berkeley
9:50
Modeling the Sun-Earth Connection - W. Jeffrey Hughes, Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling, Boston University
10:10 - 10:40
Break
10:40
Targeted Research and Technology Program Within NASA's Living With a Star Program - Jack Gosling, Los Alamos National Laboratory
11:00
Space Weather Modeling at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center - Michael Hesse, CCMC, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
11:20
Verification and Transition at NOAA Space Weather Operations: Creating Valuable Space Weather Products - Kent Doggett, NOAA/Space Environment Center
11:40
Validation of Operational Space Weather Models and Products - Gregory Bishop, Air Force Research Laboratory
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
1:30 - 2:45
Posters - Solar and Interplanetary Research and Applications
2:25 - 2:45
Paal Brekke, Showing SOLARMAX (in grand ballroom)
2:30 - 2:45
Refreshment break
2:45 - 3:50
Service Providers  (Session chair: B. Poppe)
2:45
International Space Environment Service: The International Dimension of Space Weather Forecasting - David Boteler, National Resources Canada
3:00
The ESA Space Weather Applications Pilot Project - Alexi Glover, European Space Agency, ESTEC
3:15
Space Weather Operational Airline Risks Service (SOARS): Development of a Virtual Airline Space Weather Service Model through Operational Risk Modeling of Space Weather Impacts - Bryn Jones, SolarMetrics Ltd. and Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd.
3:30
Air Force Space Weather Operations - Capt. Herb Keyser, Air Force Weather Agency
3:40
The Commercial Space Weather Interest Group: A Space Weather Vendors Association - John G. Kappenman, Metatech Corporation
3:50 - 5:05
Telling the Story of Space Weather (Session chair: B. Murtagh)
3:50
AGU Space Weather: The International Journal of Research and Applications - Louis Lanzerotti, Lucent Technologies and Center for Solar Terrestrial Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology
4:05
What's Up With Space Weather? A Journalist's View - Leonard David, Senior Space Writer, Space.com and Space News newspaper
4:20
K-12 Education and Outreach in Space Weather, Cherilynn Morrow, Space Science Institute
4:35
SEC’s Efforts in Outreach and Education - Larry Combs, NOAA Space Environment Center
4:50
Windows to the Universe: A Web-Based Resource for Space Weather Education - Randy M. Russell, PhD., University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Education and Outreach
6:00-9:00
Vendor Meeting and Dinner (invited)
Thursday, May 22
 
8:30 - 10:25
Space Climate (Session chair: R. Akmaev)
8:30
Solar Cycle 23: In Perspective - Bill Murtagh NOAA Space Environment Center
8:50
The Effect of the 11-Year Solar Cycle in Stratosphere and in the Tropical Troposphere in July-August - H. van Loon, Colorado Research Associates, NWRA, Boulder
9:15
Detection of Long-term Thermospheric Density Decline: A Possible Anthropogenic Effect - Gerald Keating, George Washington University
9:40
Detecting trends in environmental data - Elizabeth Weatherhead, CIRES, University of Colorado
10:05 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 12:00
Solar Observations and Data  (Session chair: R. Viereck)
10:30
Recent Insights into CMEs and Flares using RHESSI - Peter Gallagher, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
10:50
SXI Data and What We See - Steve Hill, NOAA Space Environment Center
11:10
The NASA Stereo Mission - Doug Biesecker, NOAA Space Environment Center
11:30
Wrap-up - Bill Murtagh and Terry Onsager, NOAA Space Environment Center
12:00
Conference Ends. Please give us your evaluations before departing. Thanks for Coming!