2009 Workshop:UAF Coordination
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Upper Atmospheric Facilities - Integrating Management, Operations, and Science
Anasazi South, 1300-1500, 30 June 2009
Conveners
Tony van Eyken
John Foster
Asti Bhatt
Workshop Categories
Altitudes: IT - Latitudes: global - Inst/Model: radar - Other:
Format of the Workshop
Short Presentations
Estimated attendance
30+
Special technology requests
none
Description
Following discussions at the UAF Facilities Meeting at Millstone Hill last September, and at the National URSI Meeting in Boulder in January, we wish to involve the wider community in our planning and in the implementation of practical measures to coordinate the activities of the NSF’s Upper Atmosphere Facilities.
There are two main strands to this effort: first, the science strategy and programs and second, measures to develop and extend the application of techniques and skills at individual facilities across the whole program.
This Workshop will address both issues and contributions are welcome in either category.
The document: ‘The National Science Foundation’s Upper Atmospheric Facilities: Integrating Management, Operations, and Science, 2008’ provides a detailed base on which to build the future Science Strategy, but we need to develop a planned program and set ourselves goals for the next five and ten years (and beyond). This Workshop will provide an opportunity for broad community contribution to guide the preparation of this more detailed action plan.
We welcome contributions on all aspects of science planning, whether based on the NSF document or not, and we particularly welcome contributions proposing major scientific studies, and the rationale behind them. Contributions which address the integration of future facilities, including the Antarctic Radar and AMISR relocations, are also welcome.
In the second area, our goal is to enable the community to allow the efficient and rapid exploitation of skills and techniques at individual facilities everywhere.
For example, the advent of the AMISRs with their extreme flexibility offers all sorts of possibilities for the application of ideas and techniques developed at other facilities. Examples might include imaging algorithm developments and processes for deriving additional parameters.
The similarity of transmitter hardware at several facilities lends itself to an effective combined approach to maintenance, development, and eventual replacement. Are their other areas where similar cooperation can be beneficial?
We welcome contributions on all sorts of coordination opportunities ranging from cooperation on hardware issues through to specific experiment details.
The Workshop will take the form of a few formal presentations describing what has been done already and the outline of future plans, contributed presentations, followed by adequate time for community discussion and preparation of future plans.
Help lay the foundations of new scientific success in the future!
Student Description
The research world is changing: society demands that we should show that our work is relevant (maybe because it addresses some important societal problem, maybe because it exciting and challenging and something mankind should be proud to be attempting) and that we are spending the taxpayers’ money wisely.
On the other hand, the financial challenges facing the national and World economies provide important opportunities for our research since it involves not only large infrastructure projects but also capacity and expertise building for the future.
The Upper Atmosphere Facilities funded by the NSF are working to address these issues through a planned program of coordination covering both the scientific and technical aspects of their work.
This workshop represents the next steps in that process and will try to establish outline goals and programs as the first stage of a continuously evolving strategy for the future.
Student opportunities and participation in the technical and scientific aspects of the UAF program are major elements of the integrated UAF plan. Students are most welcome to attend and contribute to the discussion; the developing plans and strategies will form a framework for your work in the future too!
Workshop Summary
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D. Hysell and J. Chau Jicamarca Contributions
