2008 Space Weather Workshop Conference Schedule

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Monday, April 28

     
1:00 - 5:00
Aviation and Space Weather Workshop  
5:00 End of Session    
       

Tuesday, April 29

     
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

   
8:30 - 10:00 The Space Environment and Commercial Business Activities: Roundtable Session Devrie S. Intriligator, Moderator Carmel Research Center, Space Plasma Laboratory
 

Speakers:
Commercial Space Weather Missions: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects - Charles M. Chafer, CEO, Sentinel Satellite, Inc.

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

   
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

     
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

     
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    

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