Monday, April 28 |
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1:00 - 5:00 |
Aviation and Space Weather Workshop | ||
| 5:00 | End of Session | ||
Tuesday, April 29 |
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8:15 |
Conference Welcome | LCDR Jim Illg | NOAA/NWS/SWPC |
8:20 |
Opening Remarks; Colorado Lieutenant Governor | Barbara O'Brien |
State of Colorado |
| 8:40 | State of the Space Weather Prediction Center | Thomas Bogdan | NOAA/NWS/SWPC |
| 9:00 - 11:00 | Aviation and Space Weather (Session Chair - Joe Kunches) | ||
| 9:00 | Defining Aviation Space Weather User Requirements: Cross-Polar Working Group Activities | Bryn Jones | Virgin Airlines and Solar Metrics |
| 9:20 | Space Weather Communications at the Edmonton ACC | Joel Morin | NAV Canada (Edmonton ACC) |
| 9:40 | International Airlines and Polar Flights | Mike Stills | United Airlines |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Break | ||
| 10:20 | Implementation of European Radiation Protection Legislation for Aircrew (Lufthansa Group) | Matthias Meier | German Aerospace Center |
| 10:40 | Highlights of Monday's Aviation Workshop: Mapping the Way Ahead | Joe Kunches | NOAA/NWS/SWPC |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Space Science Activities (Session Chair - Joseph Kunches) | ||
| 11:00 | NASA's Heliophysics Great Observatory | Charles P. Holmes | NASA HQ |
| 11:20 | Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) | Dean Pesnell | NASA/GSFC |
| 11:40 | Radiation Belt Tools and Climatology | Eric Kihn | NOAA/NGDC |
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 - 3:00 | Poster Session - Magnetospheric Research and Applications | ||
| 2:45 - 3:00 | Break | ||
| 3:00 - 4:20 | Space Science Activities (Session Chair - Stephen Guetersloh) | ||
| 3:00 | Real-Time Radiation Storm Forecasting with SOHO / COSTEP | Barbara Giles | NASA/HQ |
| 3:20 | Space Weather Support to NASA Operations | Ronald E. Turner | ANSER |
| 3:40 | DOSTEL Dosimetry Measurements Aboard ISS | Soenke Burmeister | IEAP, Kiel University |
| 4:00 | Space Radiation Protection, Space Weather, and Exploration | Neal Zapp | NASA/JSC/SRAG |
| 4:20 - 5:00 | Geomagnetic Storm Effects on Electric Utilities: Recent Activities (Session Chair - Chris Balch) | ||
| 4:20 | Economic Aspects of Space Weather on the Power Grid | Ben L. Damsky | EPRI |
| 4:40 | Solar Shield - Forecasting and Mitigating Solar Effects on Power Transmissions Systems | Antti Pulkkinen | UMBC/GEST GSFC |
| 5:00 | End of Session | ||
Wednesday, April 30 |
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| 8:30 - 10:00 | The Space Environment and Commercial Business Activities: Roundtable Session | Devrie S. Intriligator, Moderator | Carmel Research Center, Space Plasma Laboratory |
Speakers: Communication Alert and Prediction System (CAPS) - Realtime Space Weather for HF Operational Users - W. Kent Tobiska, President, Space Environment Technologies Personal View of the Future of Space Weather - Keith Strong, Senior Scientist, SP Systems |
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| 10:00 - 10:20 | Break | ||
| 10:20 - 11:40 | International Activities (Session Chair - Howard Singer) | ||
| 10:20 | Space Weather Activities at ESA | Alexi Glover | ESA |
| 10:40 | Norway's Role in the European Space Weather Program | Pål Brekke | Norwegian Space Center |
| 11:00 | The Potential of PROBA2 as a European Space Weather Satellite | David Berghmans | SIDC Belgium |
| 11:20 | Integrating Space Weather Data into GEOSS | Al Gasiewski | University of Colorado |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Special Presentation | ||
| 11:40 | Space Weather and Environment: A capstone for Meteorology students at Millersville University | Rich Clark | Millersville University |
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 - 2:40 | Poster Session - Solar and Interplanetary Research and Applications | ||
| 2:20 - 2:40 | Break | ||
| 2:40 - 4:40 | Agency Activities (Session Chair - Thomas Bogdan) | ||
| 2:40 | Air Force Weather | Fred Lewis | USAF/AFWA |
| 3:00 | NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center - A New Focus on Products and Services | Louis Uccellini | NOAA/NWS/NCEP |
| 3:20 | NASA's Flight Missions, Present to 2020 | Richard Fisher | NASA HQ |
| 3:40 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Richard Behnke | NSF |
| 4:00 | International and Space Policy Aspects of the National Space Weather Program | David A. Turner | Department of State |
| 4:20 | Office of Naval Research (ONR) | Robert P. McCoy | ONR |
| 4:40 | End of Session | ||
| 6:00 - 8:30 | Reception at UCAR: Special Guest Speaker: George Whitesides, Executive Director of the National Space Society & Senior Advisor to Virgin Galactic | ||
Thursday, May 1 |
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| 8:30 - 10:10 | Space Weather Prediction Modeling (Session I Chair - Ronald Zwickl) | ||
| 8:30 | Space Weather Prediction: Highest Priority Needs | Bill Murtagh and Terry Onsager | NOAA/NWS/SWPC |
| 8:50 | Real-time and Event-based Prediction Capabilities of Modern Space Science Models | Michael Hesse | NASA/GSFC |
| 9:10 | Validation Studies with the Space Weather Modeling Framework | Tamas Gombosi | University of Michigan |
| 9:30 | Predicting the Space Environment: Recent Results from CISM and Where Do We Go from Here | W. Jeffrey Hughes | Boston University |
| 9:50 | NRL Modeling of the Thermosphere - Ionosphere - Magnetosphere System | Joseph D. Huba | NRL |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Break | ||
| 10:40- 12:00 | Space Weather Prediction Modeling (Session II Chair - Terry Onsager) | ||
| 10:40 | Space Weather Modeling and Data Integration Research | Larry Zanetti | John Hopkins Univ./APL |
| 11:00 | Measuring, Understanding, and Using Flows in the Solar Atmosphere to Improve Space Weather Prediction | George H. Fisher | University of California, Berkeley |
| 11:20 | Forecasting of Solar Flares from Vector Magnetogram Data |
Graham Barnes | NWRA |
| 11:40 | GONG Measurements - Pre-eruptive Signatures | Frank Hill | NSO |
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 - 3:00 | Poster Session - Ionospheric Research and Applications | ||
| 2:45 - 3:00 | Break | ||
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Space Weather Prediction Modeling (Session II Continued) | ||
| 3:00 | Radiation Belt Forecasting for Space Situational Awareness: The Dynamic Radiation Environment Assimilation Model (DREAM) | Geoffrey D. Reeves | LANL |
| 3:20 - 5:00 | Space Weather Prediction Modeling (Session III Chair - Mihail Codrescu) | 3:20 | Data Assimilation Models for Ionospheric Specifications and Forecasts | Robert Schunk | Utah State University |
| 3:40 | JPL/USC GAIM: Using COSMIC Occultations To Estimate Ionospheric State and Drivers | Brian Wilson | JPL |
| 4:00 | New Ionospheric Products Proposed for SWPC | Tim Fuller-Rowell | NOAA/NWS/SWPC |
| 4:20 | Neutral Atmosphere Density Interdisciplinary (NADIR) MURI | Jeffrey M. Forbes | University of Colorado |
| 4:40 | Integrated Dynamics through Earth's Atmosphere (IDEA) | Rashid Akmaev | NOAA/NWS/SWPC |
| 5:00 | End of Session | ||
| 5:00 - 6:30 | Community Modeling Splinter Meeting | POC - Terry Onsager | NOAA/NWS/SWPC |
| 6:30 - 9:00 | Commercial Sector Dinner and Meeting (invitation only) | POC - John Kappenman | Metatech |
Friday, May 2 |
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| 8:30 - 9:50 | GPS/GNSS Session (Session Chair - Joe Kunches) | ||
| 8:30 | International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems | Jules McNeff | Department of Defense |
| 8:50 | Space Weather for Situational Awareness | Ted Driver | AGI |
| 9:10 | New Applications for Precision GPS: Seismology, Volcanic Eruptions, Ice Sheet Dynamics, and Soil Moisture | Kristine M. Larson | Univ. of Colorado |
| 9:30 | Formosat-3/COSMIC - The Ionosphere as Signal and as Noise | Christian Rocken | UCAR |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | Break | ||
| 10:10 - 11:50 | On The Horizon/Future Activities (Session Chair - Rodney Viereck) | ||
| 10:10 | International Heliophysical Year Contributions to Space Weather Research | Joseph M. Davila | NASA/GSFC/IHY |
| 10:30 | STEREO: Results from Solar Cycle 23 and Looking Ahead to Cycle 24 | Michael Kaiser | NASA/GSFC |
| 10:50 | The Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation | Michael J. Golightly | Boston University |
| 11:10 | Satellite Observations for Future Space Weather Operations | Howard J. Singer | NOAA/NWS/SWPC |
| 11:30 | Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Panel Update | Doug Biesecker | NOAA/NWS/SWPC |
| 11:50 | End of Conference | ||