Monday, April 23 |
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10:00 - 5:00 |
Workshop: Using Research Models and Data in Operations |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch |
Tuesday, April 24 |
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7:30 |
Registration - Sunshine Room |
8:15 |
Welcome - Grand Ballroom - Jim Illg, NOAA Space Environment Center |
8:20 |
The State of NOAA’s Space Environment Center – Thomas J. Bogdan, NOAA SEC |
| 8:40 | A Summary of the First Space Weather Enterprise Forum –
William Murtagh, NOAA SEC |
| 9:00 - 12:00 | Commercial Airline and Space Transportation Issues – Session Chair: Joe Kunches |
| 9:00 | Results from the Aviation and Space Weather Policy Workshop – Genene Fisher, American Meteorological Society |
| 9:20 | Developing an International Space Weather Service for Aviation Operations - David Boteler, Natural Resources Canada |
| 9:40 | Forecasts of Space Weather Integrated into the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS) – Bruce Carmichael, NCAR, Research Applications Laboratory |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:20 | Dose Rates at Aviation Altitudes Under Stable Space Weather Conditions - Matthias Meier, German Aerospace Center |
| 10:40 | WAAS Response to the Space Weather Events of 2003-2006 and Preparations for Solar Maximum - Patricia H. Doherty, Boston College |
| 11:00 | Commercial Space Transportation Status -- The Future is … Near – Stewart Jackson, Federal Aviation Administration |
| 11:20 | Space Weather Program in China – S. T. Wu, CSPAR, University of Alabama, Huntsville |
| 11:40 | Geomagnetically Induced Currents and Economic Fundamentals: The Case of Electricity Markets - Kevin F. Forbes, The Catholic University of America |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 3:00 | Poster Session: Magnetospheric Research and Applications
Century and Millennium Rooms |
| 2:45 | Break - Grand Ballroom |
| 3:00 | NASA's Heliophysics Great Observatory – Charles P. Holmes, NASA HQ |
| 3:20 - 5:00 | Radiation Models for Engineering and Operations – Session Chair: Paul O’Brien |
| 3:20 | The AE(P)-9 Radiation Belt Model: Requirements Definition and Architecture Gregory Ginet, AFRL |
| 3:40 | NOAA’s Real-Time Radiation Environment Products – Terrance Onsager, NOAA SEC |
| 4:00 | Space Weather, A Satellite Operator’s Perspective – John Evans, Telesat Canada |
| 4:20 | Space Environment Knowledge Needs: A Perspective from Lockheed Martin – David Chenette, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center |
| 4:40 | Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Architecture: A Vision For National Global Observing Environmental Satellite System (NGOESS) - Shyam N. Bajpai, NOAA NESDIS |
| 5:00 - 6:30 | Radiation Model Discussion Period (open to all) – Grand Ballroom |
Wednesday, April 25 |
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| 8:30 | The National Weather Service, BGEN David L. Johnson, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), Director, NOAA National Weather Service |
| 8:50 | Roundtable Session: The Space Environment
and Commercial Business Activities Moderator: Devrie Intriligator, Carmel Research Center Speakers: Space Weather and Space Commerce – Charles Chafer, Space Services Inc. Public Private Finance of NPT Systems – Robert Jutson, Jr., Griffin Capital Partners Stakeholder Involvement in Space Weather Model Integration – Steven McNew, Northrop Grumman Corporation Challenges and Opportunities for Commercializing Space Weather – Keith Strong, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center |
| 10:20 | Break |
| 10:40 - 12:00 | Solar Cycle 24 – Session Chair: Douglas Biesecker |
| 10:40 | The Solar Cycle 24 Consensus Prediction - Douglas Biesecker, NOAA, SEC |
| 10:50 | Societal and Economic Aspects of Space Weather – Dan Baker, LASP/University of Colorado |
| 11:00 | Meeting the Challenges of Nature: The Impact of Space Weather on Marine Positioning Services, Richard Barker, Furgo Chance Inc. |
| 11:20 | Why NASA Needs a Prediction of the Solar Cycle – William D. Pesnell, NASA GSFC |
| 11:40 | The Sun's Role in Past, Current and Future Climate Change– Caspar Ammann, NCAR CGD & HAO |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Commercial Activities Roundtable Speakers and Commercial Sector Members Lunch (Closed)– Ste. 331 |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Solar Cycle 24 Press Briefing |
| 1:00 - 2:45 | Poster Session: Solar and Interplanetary Research
and Applications Century and Millennium Rooms |
| 2:30 | Break - Grand Ballroom |
| 2:45 - 3:15 | Keynote Address: NOAA’s Role in Space Weather - VADM Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr. U.S. Navy (Ret.), Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| 3:15 - 5:00 | Agency Activities – Session Chair: Thomas J. Bogdan |
| 3:15 | Future NOAA Space Weather Observational Capabilities – Mary E. Kicza, Assistant Administrator for Satellite and Information Services, NOAA NESDIS |
| 3:30 | The National Science Foundation – Richard Behnke, National Science Foundation |
| 3:45 | NASA Heliophysics Division – Richard Fisher, NASA |
| 4:00 | Space Weather for the DOD Warfighter: AFWA's Current Operations and Planned Improvements - Colonel Patrick M. Condray, USAF, Air Force Weather Agency |
| 4:15 | Air Force Basic Space Weather Research Program – David L. Byers, Air Force Office of Scientific Research |
| 4:30 | New Space Weather Initiatives from the Office of Naval Research – Robert McCoy, ONR |
| 4:45 | European Space Agency – Alexi Glover, ESA ESTEC |
| 6:00 - 8:30 | Dinner at UCAR Center Green Campus, Bldg. 1 |
| Recognition of Mr. Phil Karn for his development of software for decoding real-time broadcast telemetry for both the ACE and STEREO missions. | |
| Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Clark Chapman, Southwest Research Institute,
Department of Space Studies – How Dangerous are Near-Earth Asteroids? |
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Thursday, April 26 |
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| 8:30 - 12:00 | Space Weather Modeling and Operational Applications – Session Chair: Howard Singer |
| 8:30 | Deriving Tools from Real-Time Runs: A New CCMC Support for SEC and AFWA – Michael Hesse, NASA GSFC |
| 8:50 | Forecasting CME All Clear from Magnetograms – David Falconer, NSSTC |
| 9:10 | Adventures with the Space Weather Modeling Framework – Tamas Gombosi, University of Michigan |
| 9:30 | Improvements in Modeling the Space Environment: Recent Results from CISM - Jeff Hughes, Boston University |
| 9:50 | Open GGCM Development and Applications - Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center |
| 10:10 | Break |
| 10:40 | JPL/USC GAIM 4DVAR: Using COSMIC Occultations to Estimate Ionospheric State and Drivers in Near Real-Time – Brian D. Wilson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| 11:00 | Operational Data Assimilation Models for Ionosphere Specifications and Forecasts –Robert W. Schunk, Utah State University, Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences |
| 11:20 | Towards Bridging the Gap Between Terrestrial and Space Weather – Tim Fuller-Rowell, NOAA SEC & University of Colorado/CIRES |
| 11:40 | Technology Transition: An AFWA Update – Matthew Sattler, AFWA |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 3:00 | Poster Session: Ionospheric Research and Applications
Century and Millennium Rooms |
| 2:45 | Break - Grand Ballroom |
| 3:00 | GPS and Solar Radio Bursts – Alesandro P. Cerruti, Cornell University |
| 3:20 - 5:00 | Impact of Upper Atmosphere and Drag – Session Chair: Tim Fuller-Rowell |
| 3:20 | GPS Reliability and Availability vs. Construction Costs - Charles Julian, GeoLogic Computer Systems |
| 3:40 | How Can Ionospheric Products Improve the Accuracy and Efficiency of GNSS Geodetic Positioning – Gerald Mader, NOAA, NGS |
| 4:00 | Improved GPS Positioning Using Ionospheric Models – Yehuda Bock and Peng Fang, University of California, San Diego, SOPAC |
| 4:20 | The Air Force Space Command’s Thermospheric Density Modeling for Accurate Satellite Tracking – Bruce R. Bowman, USAF, Space Command |
| 5:00 - 6:30 | RBSP Space Weather Beacon Discussion Period (open to all) - Grand Ballroom |
| 6:00 - 9:00 | Space Weather Commercial Sector Dinner and Meeting (closed) Boulder Creek Living Room |
Friday, April 27 |
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| 8:30 - 9:10 | Recent Developments in Space Monitoring Instrumentation – Session Chair: Rodney Viereck |
| 8:30 | STEREO: A New Source of Space Weather Data – Michael Kaiser, NASA, GSFC |
| 8:50 | FORMOSAT – 3/COSMIC: Results from One Year in Orbit - Stig Syndergaard, UCAR, COSMIC Project Office |
| 9:10 - 9:50 | Near-Term Developments in Space Monitoring Instrumentation – Session Chair: Rodney Viereck |
| 9:10 | Plans for Follow-On Solar Wind and Coronal Mass Ejection Data –
Patricia Mulligan, NOAA NESDIS |
| 9:30 | Radiation Belt Storm Probes Space Weather Beacon - Barbara L. Giles, NASA, HQ |
| 9:50 | Break |
| 10:20 | Solar Dynamics Observatory – William D. Pesnell, NASA GSFC |
| 10:40 | NPOESS – The Restructured Program – William F. Denig, NOAA NGDC |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Vision for Exploration – Session Chair: Ronald Zwickl |
| 11:00 | Space Radiation Protection, Space Weather and Exploration – Neal Zapp, SRAG, Johnson Space Center |
| 11:20 | Radiation Protection for Lunar Operations – Mary G. Van Baalen, NASA Johnson Space Center |
| 11:40 | End of Space Weather Workshop 2007 |