Conference Agenda

 

Sunday, April 3  
9-5 ISES meeting (CLOSED)
Monday, April 4  
8:30-12:30 Airline Meeting (CLOSED)
2:00-05:00

Tutorial on Space Weather Effects

2:00 An Overview of the Space Environment – Rodney Viereck
2:20 Space Weather Cycles and their Impacts – Bill Murtagh
2:40 Solar Drivers of Space Weather – Steve Hill
3:00 The Space Radiation Environment and its Effects – Ron Zwickl
3:20

Break

3:40 The Radiation Belts and Killer Electrons – Terry Onsager
4:00 The Ionosphere and its Impact on Communications and Navigation – Tim Fuller-Rowell
4:20 SEC and Space Weather Products – Larry Combs
4:40 Introduction to the New SEC Web Site – Vi Raben
5:00 End
Tuesday, April 5  

8:00

Registration

8:30

Welcome - Barbara Poppe

8:35

What's new with SEC - Ernie Hildner, NOAA Space Environment Center (SEC)

9:00

The Year in Review - Space Weather Storms of 2004 and early 2005 - Bill Murtagh, NOAA, SEC
9:20 - 12:00

Airline Issues - Joe Kunches, NOAA, SEC, Chair

9:20

Union Perspective on Space Weather and Aviation - Joyce May, Allied Pilots Association /American Airlines

9:50

Break

10:20

Measurement and Modeling of High Latitude Flights in the Antarctic and Sourhtern Hemiphere - Ian L. Getley, Department of Aviation, Univ. of New South Wales

10:40

Space Weather Initiatives for Airline Industry: - (uncertain)

11:00

Continental Airlines and the Jan 05 Radiation Storm - Greg Dale, Continental Airlines

11:20

Space Weather Effects on United's Polar Operations - Mike Stills, United Airlines

11:40

Organization of Radiation Protection for Aircrew in Germany - Matthias Meier, DLR/Lufthansa
12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

1:00 - 3:00

Poster Session

2:45 - 3:00

Break

3:00 - 5:00

Space Exploration and Space Weather Support - Janet Barth, NASA/GSFC, Chair

3:00 What's Envisioned; Aldridge Report - (uncertain), NASA HQ Exploration Group
3:20 Space Weather Observations at Mars- Cary Zeitlin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
3:40 Radiation Protection for Humans in Deep Space - Larry Townsend, University of Tennessee
4:00 Operational Support Issues for the New NASA Exploration Initiative - Joe Kunches, NOAA,SEC
4:20 Solar Wind Forecasting for Space Exploration, Current Capabilities and Challenges - Ghee Fry, EXPI
4:40 National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) - Christopher Fox, Director, NGDC
  NGDC constituent meeting
Wednesday, April 6  
8:30 - 11:00

Radiation Environment Near Earth - Terry Onsager, NOAA SEC, Chair

8:30

Operational Space Radiation Analysis on ISS and Monitoring Update- Mark Weyland, NASA/JSFC

8:50

New Standard Radiation Belt and Space Plasma Models- Janet Barth, NASA/GSFC

9:10

Forecasting Radiation Hazards with Space Imaging - Jerry Goldstein, SWRI
9:30

Break

10:00

Cygnus: Exploring the MEO Regime - Greg Ginet, AFRL

10:20

Geosynchronous Environment and Satellite Anomalies - Harry Koons, Space Science Applications Laboratory, The Aerospace Corporation

10:40

Boeing Commercial Satellite Performance During the Perfect (Space Weather) Storm of Oct-Nov 2003 - Mike Bodeau, Boeing

11:00

Commercial Space Transportation: Where We Are and Where We Are Going - Karen Shelton-Mur, FAA AST

11:20

International Heliophysical Year (IHY) - Howard Singer, NOAA/SEC
12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

1:00 - 3:00

Poster Session

2:45 - 3:00

Break

3:00 - 5:00

Agency Activities - Kelly Doser, USAF HQ AFWA/OL-P, Chair

3:00

NOAA Space Weather Program - Louis Uccellini, Director, NWS National Center for Environmental Prediction

3:20

Air Force Space Weather: Air Force Weather's Commitment, Capability, and Way Ahead - Col. Harold A. Elkins, Headquarters USAF, Director of Weather, Chief, Weather Plans Division

3:40

NASA - Richard Fisher, Deputy Director of Earth-Sun Systems Division

4:00

Space Weather Research at the NSF and the new NSWP Self-assessment Plan - Richard Behnke, NSF

4:20

International Space Environment Service (ISES) - Joe Kunches, NOAA/SEC

4:40

ESA Space Weather Applications Activities - Alexi Glover, Space Environments and Effects Analysis Section, European Space Agency

5:00

SPACE WEATHER: The Journal - Louis Lanzerotti, New Jersey Institute of Technology
6:00 - 8:30

Reception at the DSRC NOAA Building

Thursday, April 7  
8:30 - 12:00

Research to Operations - Chair

8:30

STEREO and the Solar Dynamics Observatory, Aren't they FABulous? - Doug Biesecker, NOAA SEC

8:50

The Solar MURI effort: Progress Toward a Solar and Heliospheric Data-Driven Model of Space Weather Events - George Fisher, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley

9:10

The Space Weather Modeling Framework: A New Community Tool - Tamas Gombosi, University of Michigan

9:30

Towards Physics-based Operational Space Weather Forecast Models: CISM Progress and Plans - Jeff Hughes, Boston University
9:50

Break

10:20

USC/JPL GAIM: A Real-Time Global Ionospheric Data Assimilation Model - Brian Wilson, JPL

10:40

USU GAIM: An Operational Data Assimilation Model of the Ionosphere - Bob Schunk, Utah State University

11:00

Transition to Operations Support at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center - Michael Hesse, NASA/GSFC

11:20

Battlespace Environments Institute - Jerry Wegiel, AFWA

11:40

Space Weather Extension of the Earth System Modeling Framework - Cecelia DeLuca, UCAR
12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

1:00 - 3:00

Poster Session

2:45 - 3:00

Break

3:00 - 5:00

Navigation and Communications - Tim Fuller-Rowell, NOAA SEC, Chair

3:00

Ionosphere Model Development at the National Geodetic Survey - Dru Smith, NGS

3:20

The Space Environment Sensor Suite for NPOESS - Thomas E. Christensen, Northrop Grumman Space Technology

3:40

Predicting Ionospheric Densities and Scintillation with the Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) Mission - Odile de La Beaujardiere, Air Force Research Lab

4:00

The Impact of Inospheric Storms on WAAS and LAAS - Todd Walter and Seebany Datta-Barua, Stanford University

4:20

Solar Radio Bursts and Their Potential Effects on Microwave Radio Systems - Dale Gary, NJIT

4:40

Accuracy Assessment of Long-Range RTK GPS as a Function of Ionospheric Conditions and Ionospheric Models Used - Derota Grejner-Brzezinska, Ohio State University

5:00

Special Meeting: A Modeling Framework for Space Weather
[posters down]  
6:00 - 9:00 Vendor Dinner and Meeting (by invitation)
Friday, April 8  
8:30 - 9:40

Geomagnetically Induced Currents - Mike Weaver, NOAA SEC, Chair

8:30

South African Transformer problems in the Wake of the October 2003 Activity - Chris Balch, NOAA SEC

8:50

Predicting Ground-Induced Currents Using ACE Data - Dennis S Bernstein, University of Michigan Aerospace Engineering Department

9:10

Intermagnet and USGS Magnetic Observatory Operations- Jeffrey Love, USGS

9:30

Ground Level Assimilative Model (GLAM) for Geomagnetic Storm Conditions. A System for Nowcasting and Forensic Analysis of Geomagnetic Storms and their Impacts on Electric Power Grids - John Kappenman, Metatech Corp.
9:50 - 12:00

Space Weather - Atmosphere Connection - Dolores Knipp, USAF Academy, Chair

9:50

The Influence of Solar Proton Events on Ozone and Other Constituents in the Stratosphere and Mesosphere - Charles Jackman, NASA/GSFC
10:10 Break

10:40

Indirect Effects of Energetic Particle Precipitation on the Stratsophere- Cora Randall, Univ. of Colorado/LASP

11:00

Observation and Modeling of Mid-latitude Ionospheric Dynamics during solar x-ray Flares- Chris Smithtro, AFIT

11:20

Evidence for Space Weather Affecting Tropospheric Weather and Climate - Brian Tinsley, Univ. of Texas

11:40

Solar Forcing of Climate: An Overview and Update - Rodney Viereck
12:00

Conference ends