Pictures, Blogs, and tools
Lecturers
Elizabeth Kendall - SRI - elizabeth.kendall@sri.com
Anita Aikio - University of Oulu - anita.aikio@oulu.fi
Mike Sulzer - Arecibo -sulzer@naic.edu
Anja Stromme - SRI - Anja.Stromme@sri.com
Antti Kero - SGO - kenttiaro@gmail.com
Anthea Coster - MIT - ajc@haystack.mit.edu
Craig Heinselman - EISCAT- craig.heinselman@eiscat.se
Mary McCready -SRI - mary.mccready@sri.com
Philip Erickson - MIT - pje@haystack.mit.edu
Ingemar Häggström - EISCAT - ingemar@eiscat.se
Michael Nicolls - SRI - michael.nicolls@sri.com
Bill Rideout - MIT - brideout@haystack.mit.edu
Thomas Ulich - SGO - thomas.ulich@sgo.fi
Ian McCrea - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory - ian.mccrea@stfc.ac.uk
Bob Kerr - Arecibo - robert.kerr@sri.com (extension 212 or 224)
Pdf's of all talks should be available in links below soon after the talk is given. If not, please email the speaker and ask them to send it to Bill Rideout (brideout@haystack.mit.edu).
Schedule
Sunday
Summer school staff will be at the observatory to answer questions
Hiking tours of Arecibo led by Mike Sulzer
Dinner Meeting for lecturers and organizers at the observatory
Pizza and salad available “continuously” for Participants, as arrivals are staggered
Monday
07:45 Breakfast
08:30 Welcome (Rich Behnke, Craig Heinselman, Bob Kerr, Elizabeth Kendall, Mary McCready)
Introduction of participants and instructors (Elizabeth Kendall)
Addressing computer needs and other logistics (Arun Venkataraman, Bill Rideout)
Group assignments (Elizabeth Kendall)
09:30 Introduction to the ionosphere 1 (Anita Aikio)
10:15 BREAK
10:45 Ionosphere – radar data examples (Michael Sulzer)
11:00 ISR as a black box (Bill Rideout)
11:45 Basic Radar 1 (Anthea Coster)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Incoherent scatter radar theory 1 (Anja Stromme)
15:00 Science question for each group (Anthea Coster)
15:15 Break
15:30 Madrigal database and group work (Bill Rideout)
18:30 BBQ Dinner by the pool
Tuesday
07:45 Breakfast
08:30 Ionosphere – radar data (Michael Sulzer)
08:45 Basic Radar 2 (Craig Heinselman)
09:30 Incoherent scatter radar theory 2 (part 3 also included) (Phil Erickson and Mike Sulzer)
10:15 BREAK
10:45 Incoherent scatter radar theory 3 - see part 2 for pdf (Phil Erickson and Anja Stromme)
11:30 Pulse coding and compression (Phil Erickson and Mike Sulzer)
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Experiment design, data analysis and fitting (Mike Sulzer and Anja Stromme)
14:15 AMISR, Millstone Hill, Sondrestrom and EISCAT modes during experiments (Mike Nicolls, Phil Erickson, Anja Stromme, Ingemar Häggström)
14:30 BREAK
15:00 Experiment Design (group work)
18:15 Deadline to submit group experiments
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Elective: MIT IAP Small Radar discussion and demonstration (Phil Erickson)
Wednesday
07:45 Day out to the beach (including lunch)
14:00 The NSF Upper Atmosphere Facilities program (TBD)
14:30 EISCAT scientific association (Craig Heinselman)
15:00 The Arecibo Observatory (Bob Kerr)
15:15 Retrieve radar data and start to work on group assignments
18:30 Dinner
Thursday
07:45 Breakfast
08:30 Pitfalls in geophysical data: dealing with errors (Thomas Ulich)
09:15 Data analysis and fitting 2 (Mike Nicolls)
10:00 Data analysis and fitting 3
‐IS fitting (Phil Erickson)
‐GUISDAP (Ingemar Häggström)
10:45 BREAK
11:15 Interpreting incoherent scatter radar data (Ian McCrea)
11:45 Arecibo Science (Mike Sulzer)
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Student science question presentations (Anthea Coster)
15:00 Work on assignment and presentation
18:30 Dinner
Friday
07:45 Breakfast
08:30 Arecibo history pdf or powerpoint with video (Bob Kerr)
09:15 Active ionospheric modification (Antti Kero)
10:00 Question and answer session
10:45 BREAK
11:15 Phased arrays (Mike Nicolls)
12:00 Phased array focussing (Craig Heinselman)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 EISCAT 3D (Craig Heinselman)
14:30 Work on assignments and presentations
18:30 Dinner
Saturday
07:45 Breakfast
08:30 Student presentations
10:30 BREAK
11:00 Student presentations
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Student presentations
14:30 Conclusions, Evaluations, and Closing Discussions
Student presentations