Community:Announcement amisr09
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AMISR Student Workshop July 13-17, SRI Int'l Menlo Park CA - due 31 Mar
A student workshop (http://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/workshop/) aimed at providing students with hands-on experience in designing and running experiments at the Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar (PFISR) and the Resolute Bay Incoherent Scatter Radar (RISR) will be held at SRI International <http://sri.com> Menlo Park, CA, July 13 - 17, 2009. This workshop is the second of several student workshops aimed at teaching a new generation of scientists how to request and analyze incoherent scatter radar (ISR at http://www.haystack.mit.edu/atm/mho/instruments/isr/index.html) experiments. It is suitable for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. The morning lectures will include an introduction to the theory of incoherent scatter, radar operations, ISR analysis techniques, and the Madrigal data base. The afternoon exercises will involve working closely with Upper Atmospheric Facility (UAF) staff in the topic areas of: proposal design, experiment execution, and data analysis. The workshop is suitable for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.
Attendance is limited to 16 students. For students within the U.S., travel, housing and most meals will be provided. For students outside of the U.S., travel is not included. The deadline (strict) for application submission is 31 March 2009. The application can be found at http://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/workshop/. The workshop is sponsored by the National Science Foundation through its Upper Atmospheric Facility Program within the Geosciences Directorate.
Questions or comments can be addressed to: Anthea Coster (781-981-5753, ajc at haystack.mit.edu), Philip Erickson (pje at haystack.mit.edu), and Elizabeth Kendall (elizabeth.kendall at sri.edu).
