2011 Workshop Agenda and Presentations
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Tuesday, April 26 |
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7:30 |
Registration |
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8:30 |
Welcoming Remarks |
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8:40 |
State of the Space Weather Prediction Center |
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9:00 - 10:20 |
Ionospheric Impacts of Space Weather - Chairs, Joe Kunches/Jennifer Meehan |
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9:00 |
Is the GPS/GNSS Surveying and Mapping User Community Ready for Solar Cycle 24? |
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9:20 |
GPS & Space Weather: Understanding the Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience |
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9:40 |
Space Weather Monitoring and Prediction for Aviation Operations |
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10:00 |
Commercial Space Weather Products for Real-Time and Forecast Applications |
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10:10 |
Real Time Space Weather Forecasts Via ASTRA's Phone App |
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10:20 |
Break |
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10:40 - 12:00 |
Geomagnetically Induced Currents- Chairs, Chris Balch/William Murtagh |
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10:40 |
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Geomagnetic Disturbance Task Force (GMDTF) |
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11:00 |
Geomagnetic Storm Concerns at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
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11:20 |
An Insurance Perspective on Threats from Hazardous Solar Storms and Geomagnetic Storms |
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11:40 |
A UK Perspective on the Present Day Challenges in Understanding the Geomagnetic Hazard to National Power Grids |
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12:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00 - 3:00 |
Poster Session - Ionosphere and Thermosphere Research and Applications |
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2:45 |
Break |
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3:00 |
Aviation and Space Weather - Chair, Genene Fisher |
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3:00 |
Planes, Trains and Automobiles - Efforts to Mitigate the Super Storm |
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3:20 |
Real-time Atmospheric Radiation Exposure: NAIRAS Model Predictions and the ARMAS Measurement Program |
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3:40 - 5:00 |
Satellite Issues - Chair, Lt. Col. Chris Smithtro |
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3:40 |
Space Weather Impacts on Emergency Response |
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4:00 |
Space Weather Conditions at the Time of the Galaxy 15 Spacecraft Anomaly |
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4:20 |
The Timescale of Surface Charging Events/Space Weather Anomaly Assessments |
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4:40 |
The AE-9/AP-9 Radiation Specification Model: An Update |
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5:00 |
End of Sessions |
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Wednesday, April 27 |
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8:30 - 10:00 |
Commercial Space Weather Interest Group Roundtable Session: Growing the Space Weather Enterprise: Space Weather Events - Preparation and Mitigation Keynote Speaker: Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Vice President, Science Programs, CSC: "Growing the Space Weather Enterprise- Global Opportunities" Panelists: Moderator and Organizer: Devrie Intriligator, Director, Space Plasma Laboratory, Carmel Research Center, Inc. |
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10:00 |
Break |
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10:20 - 12:20 |
Agency Activities- Chair, Tom Bogdan |
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10:20 |
National Weather Service |
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10:40 |
Air Force Weather |
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11:00 |
NASA Heliophysics Division |
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11:20 |
National Science Foundation |
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11:40 |
NASA Space Radiation Analysis Group |
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12:00 |
Office of Naval Research |
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12:20 |
Lunch |
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1:20 - 3:20 |
Poster Session - Magnetosphere Research and Applications |
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3:00 |
Break |
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3:20 - 4:00 |
Space Weather Enterprise: Mapping the Future - Chair, Richard Behnke |
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3:20 |
The National Space Weather Program: 2010 and the Next Decade |
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3:40 |
The NRC Decadal Survey in Solar and Space Physics: Space Weather Goals and Objectives |
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4:00 - 5:00 |
International Coordination of Space Weather Activities- Chair, James Head |
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4:00 |
Expanding International Collaboration for Space Weather Services |
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4:20 |
ESA Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Space Weather Services: Status and Near Future Prospects |
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4:40 |
Space Weather in the World Meteorological Organization |
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5:00 |
End of Sessions |
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6:00 - 8:30 |
Reception and Dinner at UCAR |
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Thursday, April 28 |
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8:30 - 10:10 |
International Coordination of Space Weather Activities - Chair, Terry Onsager |
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8:30 |
Space Weather Services and R&D at the U.K. Met Office |
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8:50 |
Current Status and Future Plans for Space Weather Operations in KMA |
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9:10 |
Advance of Space Weather Service in the Space Environment Prediction Center (SEPC), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) |
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9:30 |
Space Weather Operations in China |
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9:50 |
Activities of Korea Space Weather Center |
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10:10 |
Break |
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10:40 - 12:00 |
Space Weather Prediction Modeling - Chair, Rodney Viereck |
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10:40 |
The Evaluation of Geospace Models for Transition to Operations |
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11:00 |
Space Weather Modeling Framework |
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11:20 |
Open Geospace General Circulation Model 4.0 |
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11:40 |
Space Weather Capabilities of the Coupled Magnetosphere Ionosphere Thermosphere Model |
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12:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00 - 3:00 |
Poster Session - Solar and Interplanetary Research and Applications |
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2:45 |
Break |
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3:00 - 5:00 |
Space Weather Prediction Modeling (continued) - Chair, David Jackson |
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3:00 |
Space Weather Services for NASA's Robotic Missions |
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3:20 |
Transition of the Wang-Sheeley-Arge Enlil Cone Model to Operations at the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center |
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3:40 |
Towards Numerical Space Weather Prediction with Whole Atmosphere Models |
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4:00 |
Lower and Upper Atmosphere Coupling and Implications for Upper Atmosphere Predictability |
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4:20 |
Possible Contribution of Ground-to-Topside Model of Atmosphere and Ionosphere for Aeronomy (GAIA) to Space Weather Applications |
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4:40 |
Recent Advances in Ionospheric Irregularity and Scintillation Forecasting |
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5:00 |
End of Sessions |
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6:00 - 9:00 |
SWPC / Commercial Space Weather Interest Group Dinner and Summit (by invitation) |
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Friday, April 29 |
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8:30 - 10:10 |
Satellite Observations and Data - Chairs, Bob Rutledge/Meghan Stockman |
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8:30 |
The First Year of Science From the Solar Dynamics Observatory |
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8:50 |
NASA's STEREO Mission |
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9:10 |
Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP): Research to Operations |
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9:30 |
GNSS Radio Occulation Constellations for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate: Status of the COSMIC and Planned COSMIC-2 Missions |
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9:50 |
Space Weather and the Active Magnetosphere Polar Electrodynamics Response (AMPERE) |
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10:10 |
Break |
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10:30 - 12:10 |
Solar Cycle and Long Term Trends in Space Weather - Chair, Ernie Hildner |
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10:30 |
Daily Tropical Cyclone Intensity Response to Solar Ultraviolet Radiation |
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10:50 |
Amplifying the Pacific Climate Response to a Small 11-Year Solar Cycle Forcing |
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11:10 |
The Unusually Deep and Long Solar Minimum: How Unusual Was IT? |
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11:30 |
The Unusual Minimum of Solar Cycle 23: Physical Cause and Space Weather Consequences |
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11:50 |
Update, or Lack Thereof, to the Solar Cycle 24 Prediction |
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12:10 |
End of Conference |