Workshop Agenda and Presentations
Tuesday, May 1
8:00 Registration
8:30 Welcome to Space Weather Week - Barbara Poppe, NOAA/SEC
8:40 Space Weather Agency Activities (Session Chair: Terry Onsager, NOAA/SEC)
8:40 Space Environment Center: Present and Future, Ernie Hildner, NOAA/SEC
9:00 U.S. Air Force Space Weather Operations Center-Maj. Jeff Cox
9:20 European Space Agency - Alain Hilgers, ESA
9:40 The Australian Space Weather Agency, Richard Thompson, IPS Radio and Space
Services
10:00-10:20 Break
10:20 Living With a Star Update -Dick Fisher, NASA Goddard, Larry Zanetti,
JHU/Applied Physics Lab
10:50 University Partnership for Operational Support - Ching Meng, JHU/Applied
Physics Lab
11:10 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative - Paul Bellaire, AFSOR, Robert McCoy, Naval Research Lab
11:20 Community Coordinated Modeling Center - Michael Hesse, NASA/Goddard
11:50 National Academy of Sciences Decadal Survey
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
Solar Maximum: Overview of Recent Solar and Geomagnetic Activity
1:30 Operational Timeline of Significant Events, May 2000-May 2001, Larry Combs, Bill Murtagh, NOAA/SEC
Research Overview and Timeline of Recent Events
2:10 Solar/Interplanetary
2:10 Solar Origins of Geoeffective Activity Since Early 1998, David Webb, Boston
College
2:30 Identifying geoeffective structures in the solar wind using ACE and WIND data:
1998 through 2000, Joan Burkpile, National Center for Atmospheric Research
2:50-3:15 Break
Magnetosphere
3:15 Geomagnetic Storm Variability During Solar Maximum, Janet Kozyra, University of Michigan
3:35 Solar Maximum Storms: GOES Observations and Outstanding Problems, Howard Singer, NOAA/SEC
3:55 NOAA Environmental Hero Award Presentation - Ernie Hildner, NOAA/SEC
Award Recipient: Rich Behnke, National Science Foundation
4:00 Ionosphere/Thermosphere
4:00 Space Weather Effects on the Low and Mid-Latitude Ionosphere, Rich Behnke,
National Science Foundation
4:20 Mid-Latitude Stormtime M-I Coupling: Space Weather Effects, John Foster, MIT
Haystack Observatory
4:40 Managing Financial Risks from Solar Storms, Andrew Hyman, PricewaterhouseCoopers
5:00 Session ends
6:00 Vendor Meeting and Dinner (NCAR on the Mesa)
For vendors of space weather services; you must contact Barbara Poppe in advance
Wednesday, May 2
8:30 NSWP Metrics Challenge - Magnetosphere - Michael Hesse, NASA/Goddard
8:50 NSWP Metrics Challenge - Solar - Vic Pizzo, NOAA/SEC
Ionospheric Environment and Effects on Navigation
(Session Chairs: Joseph Kunches and Odile de la Beaujardiere)
9:00 Space Weather Effects
9:00 Timeline and event(s) reviewed-Joseph Kunches, NOAA/SEC
9:05 Safety is in the Diversity: Navigation's Top-Five List, Bob Lilley, Illgen
Simulation Technologies
9:25 The Great Geomagnetic Storm of July 15, 2000: GPS TEC Measurements and
System Effects, Pat Doherty, Boston College
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 Research Advances and Needs
10:00 Effects of Penetration Electric Fields on Equatorial Communication and
Navigation Systems, Santimay Basu, Air Force Research Lab
10:20 Ionospheric Effects on Ground-Based Systems, A. J. Coster and R. Lambour,
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
10:40 Specification and Forecast of the Global Ionosphere, Chunming Wang,
University of Southern California
11:00 Directing Research to User Needs-Discussion
11:30-1:00 Lunch
Ionospheric Environment and Effects on Communication
(Session Chairs: Norm Cohen and Robert McCoy)
1:00 Space Weather Effects
1:00 Timeline and event(s) reviewed-Norm Cohen, NOAA/SEC
1:05 United Airlines Polar Operations, Gene Cameron, United Airlines
1:25 HF Communications in Aviation, Paty Makowski, ARINC
1:45 Research Advances and Needs
1:45 Forecasting equatorial plasma bubbles - an electrodynamics approach, Cheryl
Huang, Air Force Research Lab
2:05 New Products to Target HF Propagation, Tim Fuller-Rowell, NOAA/SEC and
University of Colorado
2:25 Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements (GAIM), Bob Shunk, Utah
State University
2:45 Directing Research to User Needs-Discussion
3:15 - 3:30 Break
Neutral Atmosphere and Effects on Satellites
(Session Chairs: Rod Viereck and Rich Behnke)
3:30 Space Weather Effects
3:30 Timeline and event(s) reviewed-Rod Viereck, NOAA/SEC
3:35 Operational solar irradiances and E10.7, Kent Tobiska, Logicon
3:55 Space Weather Affects for Satellite Operations, Cheryl Walker, TRW
4:15 Research Advances and Needs
4:15 High Accuracy Satellite Drag Model, Mark Storez, Headquarters Space Warfare
Center, USAF
4:35 Observing Atmospheric Airglow in the Ultraviolet to Monitor Space Weather
Variability, Stefan Thonnard, Naval Research Lab
4:55 Directing Research to User Needs-Discussion
5:30 Session ends
6:00 Reception for all at the David Skaggs Research Center
6:00-7:30 Tours of the Forecast Center
6:30-7:30 Excerpts from IMAX film Solar Max
7:30-8:30 Solar Variability and Climate Change, Rodney Viereck, NOAA/SEC
9:00 Reception ends
Thursday, May 3
Geomagnetic Environment and Effects on the Electric Power Industry
(Session Chairs: Chris Balch and Terry Onsager)
8:30 Space Weather Effects
8:30 Timeline and event(s) reviewed-Chris Balch, NOAA/SEC
8:35 Geomagnetic Effects on Ground Electrical Systems, David Boteler, International
Space Environment Service
8:55 Impact of GIC on Electric Power Systems, Jim Ingleson, New York Independent
System Operator, Inc.
9:15 Research Advances and Needs
9:15 Recent Advances in First-Principles Modeling of Ionospheric Currents and
Ground Perturbations, Jimmy Raeder, UCLA
9:35 Research Advances in Modeling and Predicting the Geospace Electrodynamic
Environment, Dan Weimer, Mission Research Corp.
9:55 Monitoring the Auroral Electrojets: Problems and Recent Progress, Theresa
Moretto, NASA/Goddard
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30 Directing Research to User Needs - Discussion
11:20 MURI Research Model review
11:20 Development of a "Plug-and-Play" Space Weather Model, Tamas Gombosi,
University of Michigan, and the Consortium for Space Environment Modeling
11:40 Understanding Magnetic Eruptions on the Sun and their Interplanetary
Consequences, George Fisher, University of California-Berkeley
12:00-6:00 Catered Lunch, Poster Session
2:00-5:00 Splinter sessions (places and times to be announced)
Q&A: SEC's Web site and data delivery
Decadal Survey on Solar and Space Physics: Panel on Education and Society
New Alerts considered (including radiation hazard for airlines)
ISO Space Weather Standards
Friday, May 4
Radiation Environment and Effects on Satellites and Humans
(Session Chairs: Kent Doggett and Greg Ginet)
8:30 Space Weather Effects
8:30 Timeline and event(s) reviewed-Kent Doggett, NOAA/SEC
8:35 John Evans, Telsat/Canada
8:55 Bertrand Huet, ALCATEL Space Industries
9:15 Effects of Last Years Big Proton Events on Satellites, Michael Bedeau, Boeing
Co.
9:35 Radiation Risk to Astronauts: The Tallest Pole, Dr. Julie Swain, Harvard
University/NASA
9:55-10:15 Break
10:15 Research Advances and Needs
10:15 Energetic Electron Observations During The Last Decade, J. Bernard Blake,
Aerospace Corporation
10:35 User Requirements for a New Generation of Radiation Belt Models, Daniel
Heynderickx, Belgisch Inst. Ruimte Aeronomie
10:55 An overview of recent solar energetic particle events: 1997-2001, Joe Mazur,
Aerospace Corporation
11:10 Directing Research to User Needs - Discussion
12:00 Conference Ends