SPA-Aeronomy



SA001
Advances in Equatorial Thermosphere and Ionosphere Studies
Primary Convener:  Elvira Astafyeva, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Conveners:  Chaosong Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Afb, NM, United States, Huixin Liu, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan and Endawoke Yizengaw, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elvira Astafyeva, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France


SA002
Advances in Observation, Modeling, and Forecasting of Ionospheric Plasma Irregularities
Primary Convener:  Aramesh Seif, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
Convener:  Chris Watson, University of New Brunswick, Physics Department, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Aramesh Seif, National University of Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia


SA003
Advances in Radio Frequency Propagation Modeling and Applications
Primary Convener:  Stephen Roland Kaeppler, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States
Conveners:  James C Jones, Northrop Grumman Corporation Bellevue, Bellevue, NE, United States, Jonah J Colman, Air Force Research Laboratory Kirtland AFB, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States and Ethan S Miller, JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Stephen Roland Kaeppler, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States


SA004
Aeronomy: General Contributions
Primary Convener:  Romina Nikoukar, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Christina O Lee, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Elizabeth MacDonald, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Romina Nikoukar, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States


SA005
Atmospheric Gravity Waves, from the Surface to the Edge of Space
Primary Convener:  Corwin Wright, University of Bath, Bath, BA2, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Katrina Bossert, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Stephen D Eckermann, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Neil Hindley, University of Bath, Bath, BA2, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Corwin Wright, University of Bath, Bath, BA2, United Kingdom


SA006
Composition and Temperature Variations in the Mesosphere, Thermosphere and Ionosphere
Primary Convener:  McArthur Jones Jr, US Naval Research Laboratory, Space Science Divsion, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Jia Yue, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States, Martin G Mlynczak, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States and Alan Geoffrey Burns, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  McArthur Jones Jr, University of Colorado at Boulder, Broomfield, CO, United States


SA007
Cross-scale Coupling and Energy Transfer in the mid and high-latitude Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere System
Primary Convener:  Toshi Nishimura, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Conveners:  Olga P Verkhoglyadova, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Larry R Lyons, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Toshi Nishimura, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States


SA008
Energetic Precipitation Effects in the Middle and Upper Atmosphere
Primary Convener:  Dong Lin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Conveners:  Wenbin Wang1, Harlan E. Spence2 and Chia-Lin Huang2, (1)NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States(2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dong Lin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States


SA009
Investigating the Behavior of Multiscale Processes in the ITM system
Primary Convener:  Larry J Paxton, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Yue Deng, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, Delores J Knipp, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Philip John Erickson, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Larry J Paxton, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States


SA010
New Frontiers in Space Weather Observations and Measurement Techniques
Primary Convener:  Aroh Barjatya, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Physics and Astronomy, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
Conveners:  Patrick Roddy, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Sarah Jones, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Marcin Pilinski, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Aroh Barjatya, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Physical Sciences Department, Daytona Beach, FL, United States


SA011
NEW TECHNIQUES FOR ACTIVE EXPERIMENTS
Primary Convener:  Louise C Gentile, Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
Conveners:  Christopher T. Fallen, Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/RVBXC, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, Kenneth Obenberger, Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States and Jeffrey Holmes
Primary Liaison:  Louise C Gentile, Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States


SA012
Next Generation Thermospheric Winds
Primary Convener:  Sovit Khadka, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Patrick Dandenault, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Andrew J Gerrard, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sovit Khadka, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States


SA013
Observed and Modeled Dynamics of the Thermosphere-Ionosphere System
Primary Convener:  Katelynn Greer, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CA, United States
Conveners:  Alan Geoffrey Burns, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States, Colin Charles Triplett, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Yongliang Zhang, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katelynn Greer, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


SA014
Pathways of Dynamic Magnetosphere Coupling to High-Latitude Ionosphere
Primary Convener:  Olga P Verkhoglyadova, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Cheryl Y Huang, USAF, Albuquerque, United States, Michael Hartinger, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Stephen Roland Kaeppler, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Olga P Verkhoglyadova, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States


SA015
Processes Driving Ionospheric Upflow and Outflow
Primary Convener:  Katherine Garcia-Sage, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Roger H Varney, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Shasha Zou, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katherine Garcia-Sage, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


SA016
Recent advances in MIT coupling science from high to mid-latitude using ground-based observations
Primary Convener:  Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Gareth William Perry, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States and Carlos R. Martinis, Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


SA017
Research and Applications Towards Space Weather Services for Aviation
Primary Convener:  Claudio Cesaroni, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Palermo, Italy
Conveners:  Ari-Matti Harri, Finnish Meteorological Inst, Helsinki, Finland, Robert A Steenburgh, NOAA/SWPC, Boulder, CO, United States and Stephanie Desbios, Meteo France, Toulouse, France
Primary Liaison:  Claudio Cesaroni, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Palermo, Italy


SA018
Resolving the Generation Mechanisms of Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs)
Primary Convener:  Kate Zawdie, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Jeffrey Klenzing, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Stephen Roland Kaeppler, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kate Zawdie, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States


SA019
R202R:  Standards, Metrics, and User Needs for Next-Generation Space Weather Programs.
Primary Convener:  Patrick Dandenault, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Robert K Schaefer, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Larisa P Goncharenko, MIT, Pepperell, MA, United States and Ja-Soon Shim, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Robert K Schaefer, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States


SA020
Science from an ITM CubeSat constellation
Primary Convener:  James F Spann, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Rebecca L Bishop, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Jeffrey Klenzing, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Charles Swenson, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
Primary Liaison:  James F Spann, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States


SA021
Space Weather Science and Operations through Public-Private Partnerships and Industry Contributions
Primary Convener:  Jennifer L Gannon, Computational Physics Inc. Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Terrance G Onsager, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States and W Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer L Gannon, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States


SA022
The Ionospheric Valley Region: Ionization from Above, Forcing from Below, and its Importance to Space Weather
Primary Convener:  Meers M Oppenheim, Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States
Conveners:  Jorge Luis Chau, Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Radar Remote Sensing, Kühlungsborn, Germany and Dr Claudia Stolle, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Nicholas M Pedatella, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States


SA023
The 2019 Marcel Nicolet Lecture
Primary Convener:  Christina Cohen, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Convener:  Geoffrey D Reeves, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christina Cohen, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States


SA024
Visions of Future Innovation Across Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA)
Primary Convener:  Alessandra Abe Pacini, Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, PR, United States
Conveners:  Allison N Jaynes, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, Barbara J Thompson, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Joshua L Semeter, Boston Univ, Boston, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alessandra Abe Pacini, NorthWest Research Associates Boulder, Puerto Rico, United States


ED028
Forum on University Curricula and Teaching Materials for Space Physics and Heliophysics
Primary Convener:  Nicholas A Gross, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Conveners:  Michael Warren Liemohn, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Steven R Cranmer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Madhulika Guhathakurta, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nicholas A Gross, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States


NG008
Machine Learning in Space Weather
Primary Convener:  Enrico Camporeale, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States; University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Jacob Bortnik, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Tomoko Matsuo, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Ryan Michael McGranaghan, Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates (ASTRA), Louisville, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Enrico Camporeale, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States; University of Colorado, Boulder, United States


NH018
Extreme Space Weather Benchmarks: The Next Steps
Primary Convener:  Tom Colvin, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Michael Wiltberger, NSF, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tom Colvin, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States


NH024
Ionospheric and Atmospheric Monitoring of Natural Hazards and Manmade Events
Primary Convener:  Xing Meng, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Elvira Astafyeva, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, Lucie Rolland, OCA - Géoazur - Université Côte d'Azur, Valbonne, France and Panagiotis Vergados, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Panagiotis Vergados, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States


P018
Impacts of Cosmic Dust in Planetary Atmospheres
Primary Convener:  John M C Plane, University of Leeds, School of Chemistry, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Andrew R Poppe, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Zoltan Sternovsky, Colorado Univ, Boulder, CO, United States and Matteo Michael James Crismani, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  John M C Plane, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom


SH007
Frontier Discovery from the Whole Heliosphere and Planetary Interactions (WHPI) Initiative
Primary Convener:  Ryan Michael McGranaghan, Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates (ASTRA), Louisville, CO, United States
Conveners:  Giuliana de Toma, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Gina A DiBraccio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Sarah E Gibson, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Giuliana de Toma, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States


SH012
Interstellar Probe: At the Intersection of Helio-, Planetary and Astrophysics
Primary Convener:  Pontus C. Brandt, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Kathleen Mandt, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration Sector, Laurel, MD, United States, Parisa Mostafavi, Princeton University, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Elena A Provornikova, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
Primary Liaison:  Pontus C. Brandt, Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States


SH017
Novel measurement techniques for space plasma in Heliophysics
Primary Convener:  Keiichi Ogasawara, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Conveners:  Jason A Gilbert, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, John W Bonnell, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Georgios Nicolaou, University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Keiichi Ogasawara, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States


SH023
Solar and Heliospheric Physics: General Contributions
Primary Convener:  Christina O Lee, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Elizabeth MacDonald, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Romina Nikoukar, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christina O Lee, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


SM001
Advances in Auroral Studies
Primary Convener:  Yongliang Zhang, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Larry J Paxton, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Robert M Robinson, Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, DC, United States and Elizabeth MacDonald, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elizabeth J Mitchell, JHU/APL, Odenton, MD, United States


SM004
A Global Network of International Action Teams Targeting Improvements of Resilience to Space Weather.
Primary Convener:  Maria M Kuznetsova, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and ISWAT Moderators
Conveners:  Sean Bruinsma, CNES, Toulouse, France, Dibyendu Nandy, Center for Excellence in Space Sciences and Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Kolkata, India, Hermann J Opgenoorth, Umea University, Umea, Sweden; Umeå University, Department of Physics, Umeå, Sweden and ISWAT Moderators
Primary Liaison:  Maria M Kuznetsova, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and ISWAT Moderators


SM007
Characterization of the radiation environment in Earth's magnetosphere and its impact on the atmospheric phenomena
Primary Convener:  Valeriy Tenishev, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Convener:  Natalia Y Ganushkina, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Natalia Y Ganushkina, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland


SM015
Inner magnetospheric waves and their impact on the ionosphere
Primary Convener:  Hyunju KIM Connor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Conveners:  Allison N Jaynes, University of Colorado at Boulder, LASP, Boulder, CO, United States and Michael Hartinger, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hyunju KIM Connor, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States


SM021
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Dynamics: Determining the Timings of the System's Response to Changes in Upstream Driving
Primary Convener:  Nathan Case, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Adrian Grocott, Lancaster University, Department of Physics, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Robert C Fear, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Stein Haaland, MPS/BCSS, IFT, Bergen, Norway
Primary Liaison:  Nathan Case, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom


SM025
Magnetospheric Modeling: State of the Art, Gaps, and Future Innovations
Primary Convener:  Gian Luca Delzanno, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Daniel T Welling, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Masha Kuznetsova, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Michael McKerns, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gian Luca Delzanno, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States


SM026
Magnetospheric Physics: General Contributions
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth MacDonald, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Romina Nikoukar, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Christina O Lee, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elizabeth MacDonald, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Minneapolis, MN, United States


SM033
Physics of Space Weather Interactions and Societal Impacts
Primary Convener:  Linda Neergaard Parker, Universities Space Research Association Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Shawn L Young, AFRL, Kirtland Afb, NM, United States, Michele D Cash, NOAA-Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States and Eric K Sutton, University of Colorado at Boulder, Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Linda Neergaard Parker, Universitites Space Research Association, Huntsville, AL, United States


SM034
Plasma Convection in the Subauroral Ionosphere and Coupled Inner Magnetosphere
Primary Convener:  J. Michael Ruohoniemi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Conveners:  Naomi Maruyama, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Solene Lejosne, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Bharat Kunduri, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  J. Michael Ruohoniemi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States


SM037
Recent Advances in ULF Wave Research: Sources and Impacts
Primary Convener:  Xueling Shi, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Conveners:  Joseph B. H. Baker1, Michael Hartinger1,2 and Kazue Takahashi3, (1)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States(2)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States(3)Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xueling Shi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States


SM039
Uncertainty Quantification and Statistical Best Practices for Space Weather
Primary Convener:  Sean Elvidge, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Steven Morley, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Sophie A. Murray, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Primary Liaison:  Sean Elvidge, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom