Prabhakar Misra, Howard University, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Washington, DC, United States, William M. Farrell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Blanche W Meeson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Higher Education NASA GSFC Sciences and Exploration Directorate, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Susan Hoban, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), Baltimore, MD, United States, Belay Demoz, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics & JCET, Baltimore, United States and Ricardo Sakai, Howard University, Washington, DC, United States