Session 16 17th Conference on Space Weather

Program Chairs: Richard A. Behnke , Science Prime ; Barbara Thompson , NASA

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Monday, 13 January 2020

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 13 January 2020

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Session 1
Agency Efforts in Space Weather: Priorities and Opportunities. Part I
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Chairs: Richard A. Behnke, Science Prime; Sara Housseal, Millersville Univ.
8:30 AM
1.1
U.S. Air Force Space Weather Federal Agency Update (Invited Presentation)
Ralph O. Stoffler, U.S. Air Force, Washington, DC; and M. Farrar and J. V. Jenniges

8:45 AM
1.2
Space Weather Operations and Research Future Infrastructure Workshop
Lawrence Zanetti, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Talaat and A. Charo
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
1.3
The State and Vision for the Future of Heliophysics at NASA (Invited Presentation)
Nicola Fox, NASA, Washington, DC
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
1.4
NSF Support of Space Weather Research (Invited Presentation)
Michael Wiltberger, NSF, Alexandria, VA
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
1.5
NOAA's Current and Future Space Weather Observational Architecture
Elsayed R. Talaat, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
1.6
NASA GSFC Heliophysics Science Division and Space Weather
Holly Gilbert, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Pulkkinen
Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 13 January 2020


AM Coffee Break (Monday)
Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

10:30 AM-11:30 AM: Monday, 13 January 2020

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Session 2
Agency Efforts in Space Weather: Priorities and Opportunities. Part II
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Cochairs: Richard A. Behnke, Science Prime; Sara Housseal, Millersville Univ.
10:30 AM
2.1
The Heliophysics Space Weather Science and Applications Program (Invited Presentation)
James Spann, NASA, Washington, DC
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
2.2
International Community Coordination in Space Weather
Masha Kuznetsova, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Bisi, M. Temmer, S. Bruinsma, H. Opgenoorth, A. Belehaki, L. Mays, E. J. Semones, S. Murray, Y. Zheng, I. Mann, J. Linker, D. Nandi, M. Mendoza, D. Heynderickx, and A. Glover
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
2.3
A Roadmap to Ensure a Space Weather-Ready Nation (Invited Presentation)
Louis Uccellini, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 13 January 2020

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Session 3
Heliophysics and Space Weather in History. Part I
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Chairs: William B. Cade III, Baylor Univ.; Gregory Good, American Institute of Physics; Sara Housseal, Millersville Univ.
11:30 AM
3.1
NOAA Space Weather Support for NASA Human Spaceflight—A Storied Legacy (Invited Presentation)
William J. Murtagh, NOAA, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
3.2
The Emergence of Space Weather from the Roots of Space Physics (Invited Presentation)
D. N. Baker, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-2:00 PM: Monday, 13 January 2020


Lunch Break (Monday)

2:00 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 13 January 2020

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Session 4
Louis J. Lanzerotti Session on Heliophysics and Space Weather in History
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Cochairs: Gregory Good, AIP; William B. Cade III, AIP
2:00 PM
4.1
Space Weather History Keynote: Effects of Solar–Terrestrial Processes on Electrical Technologies
Louis J. Lanzerotti, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM
4.2
Extreme Space Weather: How Often Does It Occur? (Invited Presentation)
Delores J. Knipp, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and M. Hapgood
Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM
4.3
Simulating the Extreme Storm Sudden Commencement of 4 August 1972 (Invited Presentation)
Daniel Welling, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; and D. J. Knipp, C. Cid, S. Morley, A. Mukhopadhyay, and M. Liemohn
Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM
4.4
Human-Error Contributions to Observations of Thermospheric Dynamics and Chemistry
Patrick Dandenault, JHUAPL, Gaithersburg, MD
Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM
4.5
Oral History of Heliophysics/Space Weather: Something New under the Sun (Invited Presentation)
Gregory Good, AIP, College Park, MD
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Monday, 13 January 2020


Formal Poster Viewing Reception (Mon)
Location: Hall B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

Tuesday, 14 January 2020

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020

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Session 5
Handling Vulnerabilities and Risks: Power Grids, Aviation, and Communication Networks
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Chairs: William Bauman III, FAA NextGen Aviation Weather Division; Robert Rutledge, NWS/SWPC
8:30 AM
5.1
Federal Railroad Administration User Needs (Invited Presentation)
Sam Alibrahim, Federal Railroad Administration, Washington, DC

8:45 AM
5.2
Magnetic Storm Geoelectric Hazard Maps and the Induction of Voltages on Power Grids
Jeffrey J. Love, USGS, Denver, CO; and E. J. Rigler, G. Lucas, P. A. Bedrosian, and A. Kelbert

9:00 AM
5.3
Lessons Learned in Latin America from the WMO/ICAO Space Weather Services Initiative (Invited Presentation)
Joaquim E.R. Costa, INPE, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil; and J. E. R. Costa, C. M. D. Nardin, J. Valdivia, S. Dasso, J. A. Gonzalez-Esparza, A. Meza, M. P. Natali, and L. P. O. Mendoza
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
5.4
Challenges and Complexities of Space Weather Forecasting (Invited Presentation)
William J. Murtagh, NOAA, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
5.5
Exploratory Research on Defining Ionizing Radiation Effects on Flight Crews (Invited Presentation)
Sonia Alvidrez, FAA, Atlantic City, NJ

5.6
Space Weather Effects on Communications Systems (Invited Presentation)

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020


AM Coffee Break (Tuesday)
Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020

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Session 6
R2O2R: User Needs and Priorities. Part I
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Chair: Larisa Goncharenko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:30 AM
6.1
Applying NASA SPoRT's R2O/O2R Paradigm to Space Weather: MAG4 Applications and Assessment at SWPC
A. LeRoy, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and S. Dahl, D. A. Falconer, R. E. Allen, and C. D. Fry
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
6.2
Federal Aviation Administration User Needs: Space Weather R2O2R (Invited Presentation)
William H. Bauman III, FAA, Washington, DC
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
6.3
Transition of WAM-IPE to NOAA Operations: Current Capabilities and Future Potential (Invited Presentation)
Tim Fuller-Rowell, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and N. Maruyama, H. Wang, Z. Li, T. W. Fang, G. Millward, A. Kubaryk, M. Fedrizzi, V. A. Yudin, M. Codrescu, D. Fuller-Rowell, P. Richards, and A. D. Richmond
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
6.4
The Challenge of O2R and R2O for Space Weather and What We Are Doing about It (Invited Presentation)
James Spann, NASA, Washington, DC; and C. Wallace, M. Wiltberger, and J. V. Jenniges
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
6.5
U.S. Air Force Space Weather O2R Priorities (Invited Presentation)
Janelle V. Jenniges, U.S. Air Force, Washington, DC; and M. Farrar

11:45 AM
6.6
HamSCI: Space Weather Operational Resources and Needs of the Amateur Radio Community (Invited Presentation)
Nathaniel A. Frissell, Univ. of Scranton, Scranton, PA; and P. J. Erickson, E. S. Miller, W. Liles, H. W. Silver, R. C. Luetzelschwab, and T. Skov
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020


Lunch Break (Tuesday)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020

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Session 7
R2O2R: User Needs and Priorities. Part II
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
CoChair: Larisa Goncharenko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1:30 PM
7.1
Advancing Forecasting and Warning Services through a Space Weather Prediction Testbed (Invited Presentation)
Clinton Wallace, NOAA, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
7.2
Next Steps in Establishing Benchmarks for Extreme Space Weather Events (Invited Presentation)
Geoffrey D. Reeves, LANL, Los Alamos, NM
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
7.3
GPS Navigation Errors during Auroral-Induced Signal Disruptions
Meghan LeMay, Boston Univ., Boston, MA; and J. Semeter, S. Mrak, and A. Coster

2:15 PM
7.4
Preparing Professionals in Space Weather Science, Policy, and Communication: Minor and Graduate Certificate Programs at Millersville University
Richard D. Clark, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and T. Skov and M. Cook
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020


PM Coffee Break (Tuesday)
Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020

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Session 8
Space Weather at Solar Minimum and What's to Come: Solar Cycle 25 Predictions
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Chairs: Robert Rutledge, NWS/SWPC; Scott McIntosh, UCAR/NCAR
3:00 PM
8.1
Space Weather Effects on GPS Scintillation at Middle Latitudes
Sebastijan Mrak, Boston Univ., Boston, MA; and J. Semeter and T. Nishimura

3:15 PM
8.2
Timing Terminators: Forecasting Sunspot Cycle 25 Onset and Activity Levels (Invited Presentation)
Robert J. Leamon, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and S. McIntosh
Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM
8.3
As One Solar Cycle Fades, Another Begins (Invited Presentation)
W. Dean Pesnell, NASA, Greenbelt, MD
Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM
8.4
The Origin of Magnetic Flux Ropes Observed at 1 AU from the Sun
Tamitha Skov, Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA; and N. Nitta

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020


Formal Poster Viewing Reception (Tues)
Location: Hall B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

Poster Session 1
New Instruments, Platforms, and Initiatives for Space Weather: Posters
Location: Hall B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Chairs: Scott McIntosh, NCAR; Alexander Engell, NextGen Federal Systems
753
The Solar Polar Observing Constellation (SPOC) Mission: Combining Polar Exploration with Operational Space Weather Monitoring
Thomas Berger, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and N. Bosanac, T. Smith, N. Duncan, G. Wu, E. Turner, N. Hurlburt, and C. Korendyke

754
The CubeSat Mission for Studying Solar Particles (CuSP)
Mihir I Desai, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX

755
Analysis of High-Resolution Wind Fields of the Upper Atmosphere Observed with a Multistatic Meteor Radar Network
Samantha Carlson, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and R. Volz, J. Chau, J. M. Urco, and J. Vierinen

756
Imaging of Solar Photospheric Magnetic Fields Using Photonic Magnetographs

757
SWx TREC: An Emerging Community Resource for Integrative Space Weather Data Access and Model/Algorithm R2O Promotion
Christopher Pankratz, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and T. Baltzer, G. Lucas, J. Craft, T. E. Berger, J. Knuth, E. K. Sutton, D. Baker, and A. N. Jaynes

Handout (20.8 MB)

758
The University of Colorado's Space Weather Technology Research and Education Center Space Weather Portal—A Tool for Lowering the Barrier to Data Access
Thomas Baltzer, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. Knuth, D. Lindholm, C. Pankratz, and T. E. Berger

Handout (12.3 MB)

759
SWx TREC Testbed: Facilitating Model/Algorithm R2O and O2R Development within a Cloud Computing Environment
Greg Lucas, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. Craft, C. Pankratz, T. Baltzer, E. K. Sutton, and T. E. Berger

Handout (532.0 kB)

760
Calibration/Validation Efforts for Magnetospheric Plasma Sensor–Low Energy: The New Plasma Instrument Onboard NOAA’s GOES-16/-17 Satellites
Athanasios Boudouridis, NOAA-NCEI, Boulder, CO; CIRES, Boulder, CO; and B. Kress and J. Rodriguez

761
GPS: A Constellation Mission Measuring Solar Energetic Protons and the Electron Radiation Belts
Steven Morley, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. Carver and Y. Chen

762
New Space Weather Measurements from MACAWS: Monitors for Alaskan and Canadian Auroral Weather in Space (MACAWS)
Anthea Coster, MIT, Westford, MA; and S. Sazykin, A. N. Newheart, D. Hampton, S. Skone, R. Varney, A. Reimer, and K. Lynch

763
Using a Ground-Based Coronagraph as an Early Warning System for Solar Energetic Particle Events
Barbara J. Thompson, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and O. C. St. Cyr, M. D. Galloy, J. Burkepile, G. de Toma, W. T. Thompson, I. G. Richardson, and A. Posner

Poster 764 is also 16.2A.

765
Solar Cruiser and PELE–Getting ahead of the Space Weather Problem
Scott Mcintosh, NCAR, Boulder, CO

766
Leveraging Commercial Cubesat Constellations for Auroral Science: A Case Study
Jonathan Brent Parham, Boston Univ., Boston, MA; and J. Semeter

767
Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction CubeSat Experiment (CIRCE) Mission Update
Andrew Nicholas,


Poster Session 2
Space Weather Research and Technology:  Posters
Location: Hall B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Chairs: Barbara Thompson, NASA; Richard A. Behnke, Science Prime
768
Comparison of Van Allen Probes Energetic Electron Data with Corresponding GOES-15 Measurements: 2012–18
D. N. Baker, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and H. Zhao, X. Li, S. G. Kanekal, A. N. Jaynes, B. Kress, J. R. Rodriquez, H. J. Singer, S. G. Claudepierre, S. G. Claudepierre, and J. F. Fennell

769
Ensemble Data Assimilation for the RAM-SCB Model
Humberto C. Godinez, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and S. Morley, M. G. Henderson, and V. K. Jordanova

Strongly Coupled Data Assimilation Using Leading Averaged Coupled Covariance (LACC) for Real World Observation

770
A New Empirical Model for Ionospheric Total Electron Content
Cole A Tamburri, Boston College, Newton, MA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Westford, MA; and L. Goncharenko, W. Rideout, and A. Coster

771
Plasma Wave Observations during Geomagnetic Storms with MMS
Erin Radermacher, LASP, Boulder, CO; Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI; and M. E. Usanova and N. Ahmadi

772
The Space Weather Living History Program: Interviews with SWx Innovators
Carolyn Y. Ng, ADNET Systems Inc., Greenbelt, MD; and B. J. Thompson and T. D. Cline

773
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Solar Energetic Particle Event Forecast Skill
Noah A. Stitely, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and H. Bain and D. Biesecker

774
The Latest on the Reconstruction of the Sunspot Number
W. Dean Pesnell, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and F. Clette and L. Lefevre

775
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Services—Our Nation’s First Line of Defense against Space Weather Storms
Jennifer Meehan, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and W. J. Murtagh

776
Influence of Tropical Cyclones on Total Electron Content
Joanna Williams, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and B. Urbancic, R. C. Tournay, O. A. Nava, and H. R. Tseng

777
Physics-Informed Machine Learning with Autoencoders and LSTM for Probabilistic Space Weather Modeling and Forecasting
Richard Joseph Licata III, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV; and P. M. Mehta

778
Nowcasting of Auroral Electron Precipitation Using an Artificial Neural Network
Amin Taziny, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and E. Camporeale

779
On the Generation of Probabilistic Forecasts from Deterministic Models
Enrico Camporeale, CIRES, Boulder, CO; NOAA, Boulder, CO; and X. Chu, O. Agapitov, and J. Bortnik

780
Using Unsupervised Machine Learning to Explore New Classification of Sunspot Active Regions
Sara Housseal, Millersville Univ. of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA; and T. E. Berger and V. Deshmukh

Wednesday, 15 January 2020

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

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Session 9
Ensemble Modeling and Data Assimilation Improving Forecast Accuracy
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Chairs: Robert Robinson, Catholic University of America; Barbara J. Thompson, NASA
8:30 AM
9.1
"Ensemble Modeling" of the September 2017 CME Event Observed at Earth, STEREO-A, and Mars (Invited Presentation)
Christina O. Lee, Space Sciences Laboratory, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and J. G. Luhmann and M. L. Mays
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
9.2
Identifying Critical Input Parameters for Accurate Drag-Based Coronal Mass Ejection Arrival Time Predictions
Christina Kay, Catholic Univ. of America, Greenbelt, MD; GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Mays and C. Verbeke
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
9.3
Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Data Assimilation in High-Dimensional Space Weather Models
Piyush Mukesh Mehta, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV; and R. J. Licata III
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
9.4
Predictability and Observability of the Upper Atmosphere (Invited Presentation)
Tomoko Matsuo, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
9.5
Predicting Space Weather Impacts on the North American Power Grid Using Perturbed-Input Ensemble Modeling
Steven Morley, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and D. Welling, M. Engel, M. Rivera, and M. G. Henderson
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
9.6
Bayesian Parameter Estimation in Geospace Modeling (Invited Presentation)
Enrico Camporeale, NOAA, Boulder, CO; CIRES, Boulder, CO; and M. D. Cash and H. J. Singer

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020


AM Coffee Break (Wednesday)
Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

10:30 AM-11:45 AM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

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Session 10
Panel: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) for Space Weather
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Chair: James Spann, NASA
10:30 AM
10.1
NASA's SBIR Space Weather R2O/O2R Technology Development Opportunity (Invited Presentation)
Barbara L. Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Spann, G. Fowler, C. D. Fry, R. Hakimzadeh, A. J. Mannucci, C. J. Mertens, L. Parker, E. J. Semones, and Y. Zheng

10:45 AM
10.2
On the Doorstep of Global Aviation Radiation Environment Operational Monitoring through Agency and Industry Partnerships
W. Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, CA
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
10.3
Developing New Tools for Space Weather Science and Applications
Tibor Torok, Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA; and P. Riley
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
10.4
Enabling Real-Time Geoelectric Field Forecasts with Machine Learning
Jesse Richard Woodroffe, Quantiative Scientific Solutions, Arlington, VA

11:30 AM
10.5
Development of a Comprehensive Tool for Monitoring, Assessing, and Responding to Space Weather Impacts to Satellites
J. C. Green, Space Hazards Applications, LLC, Golden, CO; and R. A. Quinn, T. P. O'Brien III, Y. Shprits, J. Likar, A. Kellerman, S. Huston, P. P. Whelan, and N. Reker
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

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Session 11
New Instruments, Platforms, and Initiatives for Space Weather. Part I
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Chairs: Alexander Engell, NextGen Federal Systems; Scott McIntosh, UCAR/NCAR
11:45 AM
11.1
Formalizing Citizen Science: Creating a New Paradigm in Space Weather Policy
Michael Cook, Apogee Engineering, LLC, Bellevue, NE; and T. Skov, M. Dodge, P. de Leon, and M. Gilmore
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020


Lunch Break (Wednesday)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

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Session 12
New Instruments, Platforms, and Initiatives for Space Weather. Part II
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Cochairs: Alexander Engell, NextGen Federal Systems; Scott Mcintosh, NCAR
1:30 PM
12.1
ESA LAGRANGE Mission for Enhanced Space Weather Monitoring
Juha-Pekka Luntama, European Space Agency, Darmstadt, Germany; and S. Kraft and A. Glover
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
12.2
Joint Observations of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles by COSMIC-2 and GOLD
Qian Wu, NCAR/UCP/COSMIC, Boulder, CO; and W. S. Schreiner, A. Burns, S. Sokolovskiy, I. Cherniak, J. J. Braun, M. Y. Chou, N. Pedatella, S. C. Solomon, and R. Stoneback
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
12.3
The GOES Solar Ultraviolet Imager: Present Status and Unique Opportunities for the Future (Invited Presentation)
Daniel B. Seaton, CIRES, Boulder, CO; NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Darnel, C. Peck, S. Hill, J. M. Hughes, L. Krista, and T. C. Miller

2:15 PM
12.4
Sub-L1 Monitors: What Science Discoveries Do We Need before Operational Settings
Noé Lugaz, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; and C. O. Lee, R. Winslow, C. J. Farrugia, N. Al-Haddad, and A. B. Galvin

2:30 PM-3:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020


PM Coffee Break (Wednesday)
Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

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Session 13
Advances in Research and Modeling of Space Weather Drivers. Part I
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Chairs: Valbona Kunkel, NOAA/NWS/EMC via IMSG; Robert Robinson, Catholic University of America; Kelsey Doerksen, Univ. of Western Ontario
3:00 PM
13.1
Current Status and Path forward for Improving Short- to Medium-Range Forecasting of CME Space Weather Impacts (Invited Presentation)
Angelos Vourlidas, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD

3:15 PM
13.2
The Ground-Level Enhancement Event of September 2017 and Other Large Solar Energetic Particle Events of Cycle 24
C. M. S. Cohen, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and R. A. Mewaldt
Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM
13.3
New Insights into the Simultaneous Occurrence of Equatorial Counter Electrojet and Ionospheric Irregularities
Sovit Khadka, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ; and C. Valladares and A. Gerrard

3:45 PM
13.4
Observations of Pole-to-Pole, Stratosphere-to-Ionosphere Connection
Larisa Goncharenko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Westford, MA; and V. L. Harvey, C. Randall, A. Coster, S. Zhang, J. France, and A. Zalizovski
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020


Formal Poster Viewing Reception (Wed)
Location: Hall B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

6:30 PM-9:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020


Centennial Celebration (Centennial)
Location: Ballroom East (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

Thursday, 16 January 2020

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8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 16 January 2020

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Session 14
Space Weather at Other Planets and Solar Systems
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Chairs: Christina O. Lee, Space Sciences Laboratory, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Barbara J. Thompson, NASA
8:30 AM
14.1
Space Weather on Exoplanets (Invited Presentation)
Ofer Cohen, Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
14.2
Comparing the Effect of Coronal Mass Ejections on Earth's and Mercury's Magnetosphere
Noé Lugaz, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; and R. Winslow, C. J. Farrugia, and A. B. Galvin
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
14.3
Galactic Cosmic Ray Integral Flux Measurements in Lunar Orbit with CRaTER during the Deepest Solar Minimum of the Space Age
N. A. Schwadron, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; and C. Zeitlin, H. E. Spence, A. P. Jordan, M. D. Looper, J. Wilson, J. E. Mazur, and L. W. Townsend
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
14.4
Space Weather at Mercury and Mars: A Comparative Approach between an Unlikely Pair (Invited Presentation)
Gina A. DiBraccio, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. A. Brain, J. R. Espley, D. J. Gershman, J. R. Gruesbeck, J. S. Halekas, D. Heyner, B. M. Jakosky, X. Jia, C. O. Lee, J. Luhmann, J. M. Raines, N. Romanelli, N. M. Schneider, J. A. Slavin, E. M. B. Thiemann, and R. Winslow
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM-10:30 AM: Thursday, 16 January 2020


Exhibit Hall Breakfast
Location: Hall A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2020

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Session 15
Advances in Research and Modeling of Space Weather Drivers. Part II
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Cochairs: Valbona Kunkel, NOAA/NWS/EMC via IMSG; Robert Robinson, NOAA/NWS/EMC via IMSG; Kelsey Doerksen, Univ. of Western Ontario
10:30 AM
15.1
Global Impact of Far-Side Active Regions on Coronal and Solar Wind Model Predictions (Invited Presentation)
Charles N. Arge, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. L. Jones, C. J. Henney, and M. Kirk
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
15.2
Identifying Magnetic Energy "Hot Spots" in the Corona
Marcel F. Corchado-Albelo, Univ. of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Mayagüez, PR; and S. Gibson, K. Dalmasse, Y. Fan, and A. Malanushenko
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
15.3
A Study in Skill: Improving dB/dt Forecasts with Advanced Conductance Models
Agnit Mukhopadhyay, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and D. T. Welling, M. Liemohn, and A. Ridley
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
15.4
Improving Conductance Modeling in Global Magnetosphere–Ionosphere–Thermosphere Simulations during Geomagnetic Storms: An Important Element of Space Weather Modeling
Meers Oppenheim, Boston Univ., Boston, MA; and G. Khazanov, V. Merkin, W. Wang, and Y. Dimant
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
15.5
Open–Closed Boundaries (OCBs) Location Determination Using ULF Wave Observations from Antarctic AGOs, McMurdo Station, and South Pole Station
Rachel Frissell, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ; and A. Gerrard and H. Kim
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
15.6
Assessing Space Weather Predictions Using METplus—A Community Verification and Diagnostic Package
Tara Jensen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Vigh, T. G. Onsager, N. Maruyama, D. Fuller-Rowell, T. Fuller-Rowell, J. Wang, M. Codrescu, L. Mays, and L. Rastaetter
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2020


Lunch Break (Thursday)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2020

Recording files available
Joint Session 70
Machine Learning and AI for Space Weather
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 17th Conference on Space Weather; and the 19th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science )
Cochairs: Kelsey Doerksen, Univ. of Western Ontario; Alexander Engell, NextGen Federal Systems; David John Gagne II, Univ. of Oklahoma
1:30 PM
J70.1
Imputation of Geomagnetic Disturbance Fields with Nonlinear Regression Based on Synthetic Data
E. Joshua Rigler, USGS, Denver, CO; and D. Lin, K. Pham, and G. Lucas
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
J70.2
Machine Learning Classification of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections Using Satellite Accelerometers
Kelsey Doerksen, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
J70.3
Developing Deep Learning for Solar Feature Recognition in Satellite Images
Michael Kirk, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Attie, J. Stockton, M. Penn, D. Hall, B. Thompson, and J. Willert
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
J70.4
Tracking Equatorial Plasma Bubbles Based on an Artificial Neural Network Classifier
David DeBonis, AER, Albuquerque, NM; and B. Drummond

2:30 PM
J70.5
Leveraging Topological Data Analysis and Deep Learning for Solar Flare Prediction
Thomas Berger, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and V. Deshmukh, E. Bradley, J. Meiss, and N. Nishizuka
Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM
J70.6
Emerging Frontiers in Science and Exploration Enabled by AI and Public–Private Partnerships
Madhulika Guhathakurta, Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA
Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2020


PM Coffee Break (Thursday)
Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2020

Recording files available
Session 16
New Instruments, Platforms, and Initiatives for Space Weather. Part III
Location: 205A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 17th Conference on Space Weather
Cochairs: Alexander Engell, NextGen Federal Systems; Scott Mcintosh, NCAR
3:30 PM
16.1
3D Space Weather Imaging with PUNCH (NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) (Invited Presentation)
Craig E. DeForest, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Gibson, R. Killough, W. Kosmann, and T. PUNCH Team
Recorded Presentation

16.2
Fundamental Science with the DKIST

3:45 PM
16.2A
Combined Next-Generation X-ray and EUV Observations with the FIERCE Mission Concept
Albert Y. Shih, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Glesener, S. Christe, K. Reeves, S. Gburek, M. Alaoui, J. Allred, W. Baumgartner, A. Caspi, B. Dennis, J. Drake, L. Golub, K. Goetz, S. Guidoni, I. Hannah, L. Hayes, G. Holman, A. Inglis, J. Ireland, G. Kerr, J. Klimchuk, S. Krucker, D. McKenzie, C. Moore, S. Musset, J. Reep, D. Ryan, P. Saint-Hilaire, S. Savage, D. B. Seaton, M. Stęślicki, and T. Woods
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM
16.3
ngGONG (Next Generation GONG)—A Ground-Based Solar Observing Network Optimized for Space Weather Research and Operations
Frank Hill, National Solar Observatory, Boulder, CO; and V. M. Pillet, A. de Wijn, J. Burkepile, and S. McIntosh
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
16.4
Global Ionosphere Characterization: Observations from Spire's Growing CubeSat Constellation and Their Assimilation into the Spire Ionospheric Model
Vu Nguyen, Spire Global Inc., Boulder, CO; and M. Angling, T. Duly, O. Nogues-Correig, L. Tan, T. Yuasa, V. Irisov, G. Savastano, F. X. Bocquet, G. Pulido, K. Nordstrom, S. Vetra-Carvalho, D. Masters, R. Sikarin, and C. Rocken
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
16.5
The Coronal Solar Magnetism Observatory: Synoptic Solar Observations to Address the Space Weather Challenge
Steven Tomczyk, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
16.6
A Chapman Conference on Space Weather: Recommendations for the Community
Anthony J. Mannucci, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and D. J. Knipp, H. Liu, R. McGranaghan, X. Meng, A. S. Sharma, B. T. Tsurutani, and O. P. Verkhoglyadova

Handout (9.6 MB)

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