Upper Atmospheric Facilities Meeting IV

MIT/Haystack Observatory

September 24-26, 2008

UAF Meetings-a retrospective look

• UAF I: Held at NSF, notable for its free-for-all exchange of ideas that demonstrated the need for more frequent such get-togethers

• UAF II: At Ellicott City, MD, highlighted the need for improved efforts in diversity and education

• UAF III: At Berkeley Springs, WV, marked by heated debate over the need for an integrated plan and more well-integrated management of the facilities, inspired by the Avery committee report

• UAF IV: ??

UAF External Review Panels

• 1996: Meriwether (chair), Mendillo, Fejer, Vondrak, Heelis– Resulted in a list of community expectations for

facilities that have been used in establishing review criteria for facility proposals

• 2003: Avery (chair), Hagan, Clauer, Taylor, Sahr, Mathews– Recommended better scientific and technical

coordination among facilities and the need for an integrated science plan for the UAF program

• 2010: ??

Goals of this meeting

• To continue the discussions from UAF III on how to better coordinate among facilities.

• To discuss the next steps in developing an integrated facility plan.

• To address current and future budget stresses.

• To discuss other topics as necessary.• Omissions

September 24 Agenda

8:30 – 8:45 Welcome—Rich Behnke8:45 – 9:00 Introductory Remarks—Bob Robinson

Facility Presentations (Science highlights, facility status, personnel, issues, etc.)

9:00 – 9:30 SuperDARN—Ray Greenwald and Mike Ruohoniemi9:30 – 10:00 EISCAT—Tony Van Eyken

10:00 – 10:15 Break

10:15 – 10:45 CRRL—Jeff Thayer10:45 – 11:15 Sondrestrom—Craig Heinselman11:15 – 11:45 CCMC—Michael Hesse

11:45 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 1:15 Report on September 23-24 Facilities Workshop—Paul Bellaire

Facility Presentations (continued)

1:15 – 1:45 Millstone—John Foster1:45 – 2:15 Jicamarca—Dave Hysell2:15 – 2:45 PFISR and RISR—John Kelly2:45 – 3:15 Arecibo—Sixto Gonzalez

3:15 – 3:30 Break

3:30 – 4:00 UAF Program Planning and Budget (The UAF Plan)—Bob Robinson4:00 – 5:00 Discussion

5:00 – 7:00 BBQ and beer dinner at Haystack

September 25 Agenda

Collaborative approaches to facility science, operations, and planning

8:30 – 8:50 Consortium of Resonance and Rayleigh Lidars—Jeff Thayer8:50 – 9:10 SuperDARN—Mike Ruohoniemi9:10 – 10:00 Proposed consortium approach for upper atmospheric facilities

John Kelly and Tony Van Eyken10:00 – 10:15 Radar Facility Collaboration: A Future for Arecibo and Millstone Hill—Foster 10:15 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 12:15 Discussion

12:15 – 1:30 Lunch

Status reports and updates

1:30 – 1:50 PFISR science highlights—Craig Heinselman1:50 – 2:10 Antarctic AMISR Workshop report—Anja Stromme2:10 – 2:30 Argentine AMISR initiative status report—Diego Janches2:30 – 2:50 MARS—Frank Lind

2:50 – 3:10 Break

3:10 – 3:30 The Arecibo Heating Facility—Mike Sulzer3:30 – 3:50 A heating facility for Jicamarca—Dave Hysell

3:50 – 5:00 Discussion

6:00 Group Dinner at Scupper Jack’s

September 26

7:00 – 9:00 UAF Fun-Run and breakfast at Anthea’s10:00 – 12:00 Discussion of next steps.