McMurdo Ground Station Science Workshop

Agenda


Tuesday March 9, 2004

Session Chair: Jeff Key, NOAA/NESDIS 

 

9:00 am

Welcome

Berry Lyons, BPRC/OSU


9:10 am

Workshop Goals

Charles Stearns, SSEC/U.Wisconsin


9:20 am

Administrative Remarks

Lynn Everett, BPRC/OSU

Matthew Lazzara, SSEC/U.Wisconsin

9:30 am

McMurdo Ground Station Background and History

Ken Jezek, BPRC/OSU

 

9:50 am

McMurdo Ground Station Technical Specifications

Bill Watson, NASA


10:10 am

Other Relevant Satellite Reception Capbilities at McMurdo Station

Kathie Hill, RPSC

 

10:30 am

Break

 

10:50 am

Polar Satellite Data Usage and Survey Results

Dan Lubin, Scripps/UCSD


11:10 am

Joey Comiso, NASA

 

11:30 am

Long Durational Infrared Observations of Atmospheric Composition over Antarctica

Tom Hawat, Denver U.

 

11:50 am

Lunch  - Box Lunch at BRPC

 

1:20 pm

Workshop Remarks

Bernhard Lettau, NSF-OPP

 

1:30 pm

Real-time Generation of Winds and Sea Ice Motion from MODIS

Jeff Key, NOAA/NESDIS

 

1:50 pm

Issues Concerning Waves and Pancake Ice

Hayley Shen, Clarkson U.

 

2:10 pm

Impact Experiments on GMAO Data Assimilation and Forecast Systems with MODIS winds during MOWSAP

Yanqiu Zhu, NASA

2:30 pm

Break

 

2:50 pm

Why do we need a DORIS station at McMurdo?

Alexander Braun

OSU

 

3:10 pm

MGS Reception/Transmission Test

Matthew Lazzara, SSEC/U. Wisconsin

Mike Comberiate, NASA

 

3:30 pm

David Bromwich

OSU/BRPC

 

3:50 pm

Alaska Satellite Facility Support For McMurdo Ground Station

Don Atwood, ASF/U.Alaska

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner


Wednesday March 10, 2004

Session Chair: John Cassano, CIRIES/U. Colorado


9:00 am

Operational Applications of EOS to NPOESS Sensor Data

Art Cayette, SPAWAR

 

9:20 am

NPOESS Program Overview and System Performance

Scott Turek, Raytheon

 

9:40 am

NPOESS SafetyNet Architecture

James Valenti, IPO/NOAA

 

10:00 am

NPOESS Field Terminal Segment

John Overton, IPO/NOAA

 

10:20 am

Break

 

10:40 am

Current and Future Research at the National Ice Center Related to McMurdo Region

Towanda Street, NIC/NOAA

 

11:00 am

The meteorological and remote sensing operations of the British Antarctic Survey

Steve Colwell, BAS

 

11:20 am

Science applications of Rothera HRPT data at the British Antarctic Survey

Andrew Fleming , BAS

 

12:00

Lunch – Box Lunch at BRPC

 

1:30 pm

Group Discussion: Goals & Rough Outline of the Report of the Workshop.

2:30 pm

Break

 

2:50 pm

Small Group Discussion & Breakout Sessions on specific topics/sections

 

5:00 pm

End of Day Two of Workshop - Dinner on your own.


 


Thursday March 11, 2004

Session Chair: Matthew Lazzara, SSEC/U.Wisconsin


9:00 am

Group Discussion - Small Group Reports from Breakout Sessions

11:00 am

End of Workshop