Pictures, Blogs, and tools
Phil's Smugmug page with ISR school photos
Lecturers
Marco Milla - Jicamarca - marco.milla@jro.igp.gob.pe
Danny Scipion - danny.scipion@jro.igp.gob.pe
Elizabeth Kendall - SRI - elizabeth.kendall@sri.com
Anja Stromme - SRI - Anja.Stromme@sri.com
Anthea Coster - MIT - ajc@haystack.mit.edu
Mary McCready -SRI - mary.mccready@sri.com
Dave Hysell - Cornell - david.hysell@cornell.edu
Philip Erickson - MIT - pje@haystack.mit.edu
Bill Rideout - MIT - brideout@haystack.mit.edu
Juha Vierinen - MIT - x@mit.edu
Ron Woodman - Jicamarca
Pdfs 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 in the lobby at Las Palmas hotel to answer questions in the afternoon
16:30 Meet in Las Palmas lobby for shuttle to San Blas
17:00 Registration and reception ice breaker at the San Blas Hotel
18:30 Dinner at San Blas Hotel (shuttle provided back to Las Palmas)
Monday
07:20 Shuttle from Las Palmas to San Blas for breakfast
08:00 Shuttle from Las Palmas to CONIDA
08:10 Walk from San Blas (breakfast) to CONIDA
08:30 Welcome (Marco Milla, Elizabeth Kendall, Mary McCready)
Introduction of participants and instructors (Elizabeth Kendall)
Addressing computer needs and other logistics (Marco Milla, Bill Rideout)
Group assignments (Elizabeth Kendall)
09:30 Introduction to the ionosphere (Elizabeth Kendall)
10:15 BREAK
10:45 The Equatorial Ionosphere – radar data examples (Dave Hysell)
11:30 Incoherent Scatter Radar as a black box (Bill Rideout)
12:15 Lunch (walk to San Blas and back to CONIDA)
13:45 Basic Radar 1 (Anthea Coster)
14:30 Incoherent scatter radar theory 1 (Anja Stromme)
15:30 BREAK
15:45 Madrigal database and group work (Bill Rideout)
18:30 Banquet dinner at Las Brujas de Cachiche (shuttle between CONIDA/banquet/hotel)
Tuesday
07:20 Shuttle from Las Palmas to San Blas for breakfast
08:00 Shuttle from Las Palmas to CONIDA
08:10 Walk from San Blas (breakfast) to CONIDA
08:30 Basic Radar 2 (Phil Erickson)
09:30 Incoherent scatter radar theory 2 (Dave Hysell)
10:15 BREAK
10:45 Incoherent scatter radar theory 3, including equatorial, coherent/incoherent (Erickson/Milla/Vierinen/Hysell)
11:30 Pulse coding and compression (Juha Vierinen)
12:15 Lunch (walk to San Blas and remain for the afternoon)
13:30 Experiment design, data analysis and fitting (Danny Scipion and Anja Stromme)
14:15 AMISR, Millstone Hill, Sondrestrom and Arecibo modes during experiments (Phil Erickson/Anja Stromme)
15:00 Experiment Design (group work)
Group 1 - QORIANKA (2nd Floor)
Group 2 - QORIANKA (2nd Floor)
Group 3 - SUMAQ (7th Floor)
Group 4 - ATIPANA (7th Floor)
Group 5 - QORIURPI (2nd Floor)
Group 6 - KUSIKUY (1st Floor)
15:30 BREAK
16:00 Continue experiment design group work
18:15 Deadline to submit group experiment requests
18:30 Dinner at San Blas
19:30 Van available all evening for transportation back to Las Palmas
20:00 Elective: MIT IAP Small Radar discussion/demonstration at San Blas (Phil Erickson)
22:00 Last shuttle to Las Palmas from San Blas
Wednesday
06:00 Bus to Jicamarca, breakfast at Observatory
08:00 The Jicamarca Radio Observatory (Marco Milla)
08:30 Control Room: Groups 1 and 2
Facility Tour: Groups 3 and 4
NSF Geospace Facility Lecture: Groups 5 and 6
09:30 Control Room: Groups 3 and 4
Facility Tour: Groups 5 and 6
NSF Geospace Facility Lecture: Groups 1 and 2
10:30 BREAK
11:00 Control Room: Groups 5 and 6
Facility Tour: Groups 1 and 2
NSF Geospace Facility Lecture: Groups 3 and 4
12:00 Sports Activity
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Receive data and begin analysis with groups
16:00 Bus back to Lima
18:30 Dinner at San Blas
19:30 Van available all evening for transportation
22:00 Last shuttle to Las Palmas from San Blas
Thursday
07:20 Shuttle from Las Palmas to San Blas for breakfast
08:00 Shuttle from Las Palmas to CONIDA
08:10 Walk from San Blas (breakfast) to CONIDA
08:30 The History of Jicamarca (Ron Woodman)
09:30 Data analysis and fitting 2 (Marco Milla)
10:30 BREAK
11:00 Data analysis and fitting 3, including IS fitting (Dave Hysell)
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Work on assignment and presentation with groups
Group 1 - QORIURPI (2nd Floor)
Group 2 - KUSIKUY (1st Floor)
Group 3 - QORIANKA (2nd Floor)
Group 4 - QORIANKA (2nd Floor)
Group 5 - SUMAQ (7th Floor)
Group 6 - ATIPANA (7th Floor)
18:30 Dinner at San Blas
19:30 Van available all evening for transportation back to Las Palmas
22:00 Last shuttle to Las Palmas from San Blas
Friday
07:20 Shuttle from Las Palmas to San Blas for breakfast
08:00 Shuttle from Las Palmas to CONIDA
08:10 Walk from San Blas (breakfast) to CONIDA
08:30 Interpreting incoherent scatter radar data (Juha Vierinen)
09:30 Question and answer session
10:30 BREAK
11:00 Question and answer session
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Work on presentation in groups
Group 1 - SUMAQ (7th Floor)
Group 2 - ATIPANA (7th Floor)
Group 3 - QORIURPI (2nd Floor)
Group 4 - KUSIKUY (1st Floor)
Group 5 - QORIANKA (2nd Floor)
Group 6 - QORIANKA (2nd Floor)
18:30 Dinner at San Blas
19:30 Van available all evening for transportation back to Las Palmas
22:00 Last shuttle to Las Palmas from San Blas
Saturday
07:20 Shuttle from Las Palmas to San Blas for breakfast
08:00 Shuttle from Las Palmas to CONIDA
08:10 Walk from San Blas (breakfast) to CONIDA
08:30 Group 1 Presentation
09:15 Group 2 Presentation
10:00 Group 3 Presentation
10:45 BREAK
11:00 Group 4 Presentation
11:45 Group 5 Presentation
12:30 Group 6 Presentation
13:15 Lunch (walk to San Blas and remain for the afternoon)
14:30 Conclusions, Evaluations, and Closing Discussions
Shuttles to Lima airport, as appropriate