Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats

Program Chairs: Philip E. Ardanuy , INNOVIM ; Robert Bauer , NASA Earth Science Technology Office ; Michael Johnson , NASA ; Larry Kepko , GSFC ; Carl Schueler , Orbital Sciences Corporation

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Sunday, 6 January 2019

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8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Meet President Roger M. Wakimoto and Presidential Forum Speakers
Location: North Ballroom Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Plenary Session
Presidential Forum: Building Resilience to Extreme Political Weather: Advice for Unpredictable Times
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Forum and Annual Meeting Welcome; the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 16th Conference on Space Weather; the 17th History Symposium; the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference; the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Symposium on Education; the 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Phased Array Radar Symposium; the Special Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation; the Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; the 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Hydrology; the Richard Anthes Symposium; the Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection; the Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats; the Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Fourth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; and the Events )
Moderator: Michael Henry, American Institute of Physics
Presider: Roger Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Speakers: Dan Kahan, American Institute of Physics; David Goldston, MIT
4:00 PM
Presidential Forum: Building Resilience to Extreme Political Weather: Advice for Unpredictable Times

4:00 PM-6:30 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Presidential Forum and Annual Meeting Welcome
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Plenary Session
Annual Meeting Welcome
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Forum and Annual Meeting Welcome; the Fourth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the 16th Conference on Space Weather; the 17th History Symposium; the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference; the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Symposium on Education; the Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats; the Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection; and the Events )
Moderator: Roger Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

Monday, 7 January 2019

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7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


AMS Information Desk (Monday)
Location: North 100 Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Registration (Monday)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Speaker Ready Room (Monday)
Location: North 121A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 7 January 2019

Recording files available
Joint Session 1
Advances in CubeSats and SmallSats to Improve Earth Science, Weather Forecasting, Space Weather Prediction, Hydrology Studies, or Climate Monitoring—Part I
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats; and the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Cochairs: Martin Yapur, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis; Robert Bauer, NASA Earth Science Technology Office
8:30 AM
J1.1
NASA CYGNSS Mission Science Highlights
Derek J. Posselt, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and C. S. Ruf, R. Atlas, N. L. Baker, D. Burrage, J. A. Crespo, J. T. Johnson, T. J. Lang, M. Moghaddam, E. D. Maloney, D. McKague, M. Morris, Z. Pu, E. M. Riley Dellaripa, and D. E. Waliser
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
J1.2
IceCube’s 16-Month Spaceflight: Implication for Earth Decadal Survey Sciences
Dong L. Wu, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

9:00 AM
J1.3
RainCube, the First Spaceborne Precipitation Radar in a 6U CubeSat: From Concept to Mission
Simone Tanelli, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. Peral, T. Imken, S. Statham, J. Sauder, D. Price, N. Chahat, S. S. Joshi, and A. Williams
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
J1.4
Status of the CubeSat Radiometer Radio Frequency Interference Technology Validation (CubeRRT) Mission
Chris Ball, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and C. C. Chen, C. McKelvey, G. Smith, M. Andrews, A. O'Brien, L. Garry, J. Johnson, S. Misra, R. Jarnot, S. Brown, R. Bendig, C. Felten, J. Kocz, D. Bradley, P. Mohammed, J. Lucey, K. Horgan, Q. Bonds, C. Duran-Aviles, M. Solly, M. Fritts, J. R. Piepmeier, M. Pallas, E. Krauss, and D. Laczkowski
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
J1.5
Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems Technology Demonstration (TEMPEST-D) 6U CubeSat Mission: Initial Results and Potential for Earth Science
Steven C. Reising, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. C. Gaier, S. T. Brown, S. Padmanabhan, C. Kummerow, V. Chandrasekar, C. Heneghan, B. H. Lim, W. Berg, R. Schulte, C. Radhakrishnan, and M. Pallas
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
J1.6
Tropospheric Water and Cloud ICE (TWICE) 6U CubeSat Instrument to Enable Observations of Cloud Ice Particle Size and Water Vapor Sounding in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere
Steven C. Reising, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Ogut, Y. Goncharenko, B. Kilmer, P. Kangaslahti, E. Schlecht, X. Bosch-Lluis, J. Jiang, A. Skalare, R. Cofield, N. Chahat, S. Padmanabhan, S. T. Brown, W. Deal, A. Zamora, K. Leong, S. Shih, and G. Mei

9:00 AM-7:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Poster Hall (Monday)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:00 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Member Services Desk (Monday)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019

Recording files available
Joint Session 3
Advances in CubeSats and SmallSats to Improve Earth Science, Weather Forecasting, Space Weather Prediction, Hydrology Studies, or Climate Monitoring—Part II
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats )
Cochairs: Robert Bauer, NASA Earth Science Technology Office; Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis
10:30 AM
J3.1
MISTiC Winds, a Micro-Satellite Constellation Approach to High Resolution Observations of the Atmosphere Using Infrared Sounding and 3D Winds Measurements-Airborne Demonstration Observations
K. R. Maschhoff, BAE Systems, Nashua, NH; and J. J. Polizotti, H. H. Aumann, and J. Susskind
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
J3.2
Status of Grating Spectrometer IR Sounder Technology Development at NASA JPL
Thomas Pagano, JPL, Pasadena, CA
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
J3.3
Advances in Microwave Limb Sounding—An Update on the Compact AdaptableMicrowave Limb Sounder (CAMLS) Project
Nathaniel Livesey, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and G. Chattopadhyay, A. J. Tang, J. Kooi, R. Stachnik, and R. Jarnot

11:15 AM
J3.4
CubeSat-Based High-Resolution Hyperspectral Imagers for Atmospheric Trace Gas Monitoring
Steven P. Love, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and L. A. Ott, J. P. Theiler, B. R. Foy, C. L. Safi, M. E. Dale, C. G. Peterson, A. A. Guthrie, N. Dallmann, K. G. Boyd, P. Stein, J. A. Wren, M. C. Proicou, and M. Dubey
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
J3.5
Microwave Atmospheric Sounding CubeSats: From MicroMAS-2 to TROPICS and Beyond
William J. Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and R. V. Leslie, S. A. Braun, R. Bennartz, C. S. Velden, T. Greenwald, D. C. Herndon, M. DeMaria, G. Chirokova, R. Atlas, J. P. Dunion, F. D. Marks Jr., R. Rogers, H. Christophersen, B. Annane, and B. A. Dahl
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
J3.6
Assimilation of Simulated TROPICS Radiance Observations in a Regional OSSE
Brittany A. Dahl, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies/Univ. of Miami and NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and H. Christophersen, W. J. Blackwell, S. A. Braun, R. Atlas, R. Bennartz, R. F. Rogers, F. D. Marks Jr., and J. P. Dunion
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Lunch Break (Monday)

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Daily Weather Briefings (Monday)
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

2:00 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019

Recording files available
Joint Session 4
Advances in CubeSats and SmallSats to Improve Earth Science, Weather Forecasting, Space Weather Prediction, Hydrology Studies, or Climate Monitoring—Part III
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats )
Cochairs: Margaret Caulfield; Thomas Pagano, JPL/California Institute of Technology
2:00 PM
J4.1
The Compact TIM (CTIM) Instrument
Dave Harber, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and G. Drake, S. Van Dreser, K. Heuerman, J. Sprunck, C. Straatsma, I. Wanamaker, W. Zheng, G. Kopp, E. Richard, P. Pilewskie, N. Tomlin, M. Stephens, C. Yung, M. White, and J. Lehman
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
J4.2
Maintaining Continuity of the Solar Spectral Irradiance Data Record in the 21st Century: On-Orbit Validation of Future Observational Strategies
Erik Richard, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and D. Harber, G. Drake, O. Coddington, S. Beland, S. Mauceri, and P. Pilewskie

2:30 PM
J4.3
Modeling the 3-D Geomagnetic Field Using Satellite Scalar Field Observations
Morgan E. Schneider, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. Alken and A. Chulliat
Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM
J4.4
ReCON: Regional Coastal Oceanography with Nanosatellites
Sean McCarthy, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and M. Lewis, J. Jolliff, R. W. Gould, S. Ladner, and A. Lawson
Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM
J4.5
Vicarious Calibration of Earth Observing Nanosatellite Sensors
Mark Lewis, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and S. McCarthy, R. W. Gould, J. Jolliff, S. Ladner, A. Lawson, and P. Martinolich
Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM
J4.6
Optimization of Future SmallSats Constellations through OSSE: A Test Case of Assessing the Value of Deploying EON-MW in High- and Low-Inclination Orbits
Yan Zhou, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. A. Boukabara, K. Ide, N. Shahroudi, T. Zhu, R. N. Hoffman, R. Atlas, and F. Iturbide-Sanchez
Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM
J4.7
Deployable W-Band Antennas for CubeSats, NanoSats, and SmallSats
Tristen Hohman, Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, Boulder, CO; and J. Fay, C. Dunlap, and M. Klein
Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.5 MB)

3:45 PM
J4.8
Microwave Radiometer Sensors for Economical Satellite Constellations
Marian Klein, Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, Boulder, CO; and C. Dunlap, Z. Wang, T. Hohman, and K. Ramsdale
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Formal Poster Viewing Reception
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

6:00 PM-8:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Exhibits Opening and Reception
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Tuesday, 8 January 2019

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7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Quiet Room (Tuesday)
Location: West 206 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Guest Coffee (Tuesday)
Location: Hospitality Suite 428 (Sheraton Hotel )

9:00 AM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Sedona Red Rocks Tours

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Poster Hall (Tuesday)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


AM Coffee Break (Tuesday)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Women in Atmospheric Sciences Luncheon
Location: North Ballroom 120AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Exceptional Undergraduate Presentations
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 1
Operational SmallSats: Current Status and Near-Term Plans
Location: North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats
Chair: Philip Ardanuy, INNOVIM
1:30 PM
1.1
Calibration and Validation of the TEMPEST-D Radiometer
Wesley Berg, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. Brown, B. Lim, S. Padmanabhan, S. C. Reising, C. Kummerow, V. Chandrasekar, and T. Gaier
Recorded Presentation

1.2
Satellite Use of the Data Collection System Concept Validation

1:45 PM
1.2A
Achievement of Radio Occulation From Four GNSS Constellations
Alexander E. MacDonald, Spire Global, Inc., Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
1.3
Cloud Imaging and Environmental Monitoring Results from the CUbesat MULtispectral Observing System, CUMULOS
Dee W. Pack, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA; and J. Ostroy, C. M. Coffman, J. R. Santiago, and R. W. Russell
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
1.4
Toward Resolving the Temporal Evolution of Precipitation Processes over the Ocean: On-Orbit Evaluation of the TEMPEST-D Microwave Radiometer
Shannon T. Brown, JPL, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and W. Berg, T. C. Gaier, B. Lim, S. Padmanabhan, S. C. Reising, and C. Venkatachalam
Recorded Presentation

6:00 PM-10:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


University Night Receptions
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