Pictures, Blogs, and tools
Phil's Smugmug page with ISR school photos
Lecturers
- Elizabeth Kendall - SRI - elizabeth.kendall@sri.com
- Thomas Ulich - U Oulu/SGO - thomas.ulich@sgo.fi
- Anja Stromme - Norwegian Space Centre - anja.stromme@gmail.com
- Anthea Coster - MIT - ajc@haystack.mit.edu
- Craig Heinselman - EISCAT - craig.heinselman@eiscat.se
- Philip Erickson - MIT - pje@haystack.mit.edu
- Anita Aikio - U Oulu - Anita.Aikio@oulu.fi
- Antti Kero - U Oulu/SGO - antti.kero@sgo.fi
- Bill Rideout - MIT - brideout@haystack.mit.edu
- Ian McCrea - STFC - ian.mccrea@stfc.ac.uk
- Roger Varney - SRI - roger.varney@sri.com
- Mary McCready - SRI - mary.mccready@sri.com
- Esa Turunen - U Oulu/SGO - esa.turunen@sgo.fi
- Carl-Fredrik Enell - EISCAT - carl-fredrik.enell@eiscat.se
- John Meriwether - NSF - jmeriwet@nsf.gov
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
11:00 Shuttle from Rovaniemi train station to Sodankylä
13:00 Lunch
Free – possibly walking tour of Sodankylä for those interested.
19:00 Dinner (provisions available for participants, as arrivals are staggered)
Dinner Meeting for lecturers and organizers at LAO
- Summer school staff will be at LAO to answer questions
Monday
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Welcome (Thomas Ulich, Craig Heinselman, Elizabeth Kendall, Mary McCready)
Introduction of participants and instructors (Thomas Ulich)
Addressing computer needs and other logistics (Timo Rantala, Bill Rideout)
Group assignments (Elizabeth Kendall)
09:30 Introduction to the ionosphere 1 (Anita Aikio)
10:15 Break
10:45 Radar as a black box (Bill Rideout)
11:30 Basic Radar 1 (Anthea Coster)
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Shuttle to SGO followed by brief tour of SGO by bus
14:00 Incoherent scatter radar theory 1 (Anja Strømme)
15:00 Ionosphere – radar data examples (Anita Aikio)
15:15 Break
15:45 Madrigal database and group work (Bill Rideout)
Group Exercise 1 - Web interface
Demo python Madrigal ipython notebook
18:00 Shuttle to LAO
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Elective: MIT IAP Small Radar discussion and demonstration (Phil Erickson)
Tuesday
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Ionosphere – radar data (Anita Aikio)
08:45 Basic Radar 2 (Roger Varney)
09:30 Incoherent scatter radar theory 2 (Phil Erickson)
10:15 Break
10:45 Incoherent scatter radar theory 3 (Phil Erickson and Anja Strømme)
11:30 Pulse coding and compression (Phil Erickson)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Experiment design, data analysis and fitting as well as EISCAT modes (Anja Strømme and Carl-Fredrik Enell)
13:45 Millstone Hill, Sondrestrom and PFISR modes during experiments (Phil Erickson, Mary McCready and Roger Varney)
14:00 Experiment Design (group work)
15:00 Break
15:30 Experiment Design (cont)
17:00 Deadline to submit group experiments
17:30 Start of Experiment Night – see separate timetable
- Dinner (18:00 to 20:00), interleaved with experiments
- walking tours of SGO, interleaved with experiments
- shuttles between SGO and LAO as needed
Wednesday
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Excursion
13:00 Lunch
14:00 EISCAT Scientific Association (Craig Heinselman)
14:30 The NSF Upper Atmosphere Facilities program (John Meriwether)
15:00 History of Radar (including some facts about SGO; Thomas Ulich)
15:30 Retrieve radar data and start to work on group assignments (coffee available for break)
19:00 Banquet
Thursday
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Pitfalls in geophysical data: dealing with errors (Thomas Ulich)
09:15 Data analysis and fitting 2 (Roger Varney)
10:00 Break
10:30 Data analysis and fitting 3
- IS fitting (Phil Erickson)
- GUISDAP (Carl-Fredrik Enell)
11:15 EISCAT Science (Esa Turunen, Ian McCrea, and Anita Aikio)
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Interpreting incoherent scatter radar data (Ian McCrea)
14:00 Work on assignment and presentation (coffee available for break)
19:00 Dinner
Friday
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Question and answer session (all)
10:00 Break
10:30 Active ionospheric modification (Antti Kero)
11:15 Phased arrays (Craig Heinselman)
12:00 Lunch
13:30 AMISR (Roger Varney)
14:00 EISCAT_3D (Craig Heinselman)
14:30 Work on assignments and presentations (coffee available for break)
19:00 Dinner
Saturday
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Student presentations (3x30 min)
10:00 Break
10:30 Student presentations (3x30 min)
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Student presentation (1x30 min)
14:00 Conclusions, Evaluations, and Closing Discussions
15:00 Packing for departure
15:30 Shuttle from Sodankylä to Rovaniemi train station