| Saturday, 10 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-10:00 AM, Saturday
Student Conference Badge Pick-up Only |
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| Sunday, 11 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Annual Meeting Registration Begins |
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| 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Northballroom A
Weatherfest
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| 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130
First-Time Attendee Briefing |
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| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130
Annual Meeting Review and Fellows Awards |
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| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Hall 5
Fellows Reception |
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| Monday, 12 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday
Registration Open |
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| 8:30 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, Ballroom ABC
Presidential Forum |
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| 10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday, Room 126BC
Coffee Break Reception - Sponsored by Ball Aerospace |
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| 10:45 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, Room 126BC
Session 1 Space Weather Agency Updates |
Cochairs: Robert McCoy, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA; Genene Fisher, AMS, Washington, DC
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| 10:45 AM | 1.1 | Status of NOAA's Space Weather Program 
Jack Hayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 11:00 AM | 1.2 | Air Force weather-presentation
Fred Lewis, AWS, Washington, DC |
| 11:15 AM | 1.3 | NSF and new opportunities in space weather
Timothy L. Killeen, NSF, Arlington, VA; and R. Behnke |
| 11:30 AM | 1.4 | New Viewpoints and Vantages from recent NASA Missions
Richard Fisher, NASA / ESS, Washington, DC |
| 11:45 AM | 1.5 | The National Space Weather Program 
Samuel P. Williamson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD; and M. R. Babcock |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, Room 126BC
Session 2 Economic and social impacts of space weather |
Chair: William J. Murtagh, NOAA/Space Environment Center, Boulder, CO
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| 1:30 PM | 2.1 | The economic and societal impacts of space weather
D. N. Baker, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| 1:45 PM | 2.2 | Moving towards space weather management
W. Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, CA |
| 2:00 PM | 2.3 | Geomagnetically Induced Currents and Inadvertent Electricity Flows: The Case of the PJM Power Grid
Kevin F. Forbes, Catholic Univ., Washington, DC; and C. St Cyr |
| 2:15 PM | 2.4 | The development of space weather displays for the Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS) website
Thomas Nelson Hillyer, Christopher Newport University, Hampton, VA; and A. Dumont, G. Thompson, C. J. Mertens, J. A. Haynes, and J. J. Murray |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Room 126BC
Session 3 Coupling between the lower and upper atmosphere |
Chair: Geoff Crowley, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, San Antonio, TX
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| 4:00 PM | 3.1 | Investigating Energy and Momentum Coupling in Earth's Atmosphere and Ionosphere with the Neutral-Ion Coupling Explorer: NICE
Thomas J. Immel, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and S. B. Mende, H. U. Frey, R. A. Heelis, G. R. Swenson, G. Crowley, S. L. England, J. M. Forbes, J. D. Huba, F. Kamalabadi, P. M. Kintner, J. J. Makela, and A. Stephan |
| 4:15 PM | 3.2 | Effect of waves from the lower atmosphere on the thermosphere and ionosphere
Robert W. Schunk, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and L. C. Gardner, L. Scherliess, D. C. Thompson, and J. J. Sojka |
| 4:30 PM | 3.3 | Coupling of meteorological disturbances up to the mesosphere and lower thermosphere
D. E. Siskind, NRL, Washington, DC; and S. Eckermann, L. Coy, and J. P. McCormack |
| 4:45 PM | 3.4 | Observations and model simulations of the thermospheric density daily variations
Wenbin Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO ; and J. Lei, A. Burns, H. Liu, Q. Wu, S. Solomon, T. Killeen, and I. Azeem |
| 5:00 PM | 3.5 | Thermosphere and Ionosphere Variability due to Quasi-Two-Day Wave
Han-Li Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Wang and A. D. Richmond |
| 5:15 PM | 3.6 | Coupling between the lower and upper atmosphere as simulated by the Whole Atmosphere Model (WAM)
Rashid A. Akmaev, NOAA / SWPC, Boulder, CO; and T. J. Fuller-Rowell, F. Wu, H. Wang, H. M. H. Juang, S. Moorthi, Y. T. Hou, and M. D. Iredell |
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| 5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions Adjourn for the Day |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Hall 4
Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception |
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| Tuesday, 13 January 2009 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 126B
Session 4 New developments with physics-based forecast models |
Chair: Richard Behnke, NSF, Arlington, VA
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| 8:30 AM | 4.1 | Demonstrating the space weather nowcasting and forecasting capabilities of the phenomena-based environmental effects predictor (PBEEP)
James M. Griffin, AER, Lexington, MA; and R. Aschbrenner, T. Connor, W. Gallery, and H. E. Snell |
| 8:45 AM | 4.2 | Development of a physics-based coupled Whole Atmosphere and Ionosphere Plasmasphere Model (WAM-GIP) for ionospheric forecasting
Timothy J. Fuller-Rowell, NOAA / SEC and CIRES / Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. A. Akmaev, F. Wu, N. Maruyama, H. Wang, M. V. Codrescu, M. Iredell, and G. Millward |
| 9:00 AM | 4.3 | A TIME-GCM CAM Multi-executable Coupled Model Using ESMF And InterComm
Robert Oehmke, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Wiltberger, A. Sussman, W. Wang, and N. Lo |
| 9:15 AM | 4.4 | A Statistical Comparison of Vertical TEC from Three Ionospheric Models
McArthur Jones Jr., SOARS, Boulder, CO; and M. Cordescu and J. Gannon |
| 9:30 AM | 4.5 | Simulating Zonal and Meridional Winds on Mars' using Mars-GRAM and Accelerometer Data from the MRO Mission
Kimberly A. Zoldak, California Univ., California, PA |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program) |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 126B
Session 5 Community Modeling and Data Assimilation |
Chair: Timothy J. Fuller-Rowell, NOAA / SEC and CIRES / Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
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| 11:00 AM | 5.1 | Lessons learned for a community space weather modeling program - The CISM experience
W. Jeffrey Hughes, Boston University, Boston, MA; and J. Quinn |
| 11:15 AM | 5.2 | Community Modeling Program for Space Weather: A CCMC Perspective
Michael Hesse, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
| 11:30 AM | 5.3 | The Challenges of Validating Global Assimilative Models of the Ionosphere
L. F. McNamara, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA; and G. J. Bishop, D. D. Decker, C. R. Baker, and J. A. Welsh |
| 11:45 AM | 5.4 | Ionosphere Data Assimilation Models for Specifications and Forecasts
Robert W. Schunk, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and L. Scherliess, J. J. Sojka, D. C. Thompson, and L. Zhu |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 126B
Session 6 New data sources and products |
Chair: W. Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, CA
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| 1:30 PM | 6.1 | Solar flares and subsurface vorticity measurements
Rudolf Komm, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ ; and F. Hill, R. Howe, R. Ferguson, G. Barnes, and K. D. Leka |
| 1:45 PM | 6.2 | Continual Solar Observations for Space Weather from GONG, a Ground-Based Network
Frank Hill, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ ; and R. Komm, G. Petrie, J. W. Harvey, and I. Gonzalez Hernandez |
| 2:00 PM | 6.3 | Comparisons of space-based GPS occultation ionospheric scintillation measurements with ground-based VHF measurements
Frank H. Ruggiero, Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA; and K. M. Groves, M. J. Starks, and T. L. Beach |
| 2:15 PM | 6.4 | Ionospheric TEC mapping from GPS orbit using VHF radio receivers
David Michael Suszcynsky, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and E. Lay, S. Close, and M. Pongratz |
| 2:30 PM | 6.5 | Understanding Ionospheric Effects for the LWA
Christopher Watts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; and M. Kuniyoshi and K. Dymond |
| 2:45 PM | 6.6 | Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD)
Richard W. Eastes, Florida Space Institute, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and W. E. McClintock, A. Aksnes, D. N. Anderson, L. Andersson, S. A. Budzien, A. G. Burns, M. V. Codrescu, R. E. Daniell, K. F. Dymond, S. L. England, F. G. Eparvier, J. E. Harvey, T. J. Immel, A. Krywonos, M. R. Lankton, J. D. Lumpe, A. D. Richmond, D. W. Rusch, O. H. Siegmund, S. C. Solomon, D. J. Strickland, and T. N. Woods |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Hall 4
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 4:00 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 126B
Session 7 General space weather contributions |
Chair: William J. Murtagh, NOAA/Space Environment Center, Boulder, CO
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| 4:00 PM | 7.1 | Impacts of Ionospheric Scintillation on GPS Positioning Accuracy
Charles S. Carrano, ISR, Chestnut Hill, MA; and C. T. Bridgwood and K. M. Groves |
| 4:15 PM | 7.2 | Space weather impacts on satellites: the near-Earth radiation environment
Richard A. Quinn, AER, Lexington, MA |
| 4:30 PM | 7.3 | Identifications and Climatology of Convective Sources for Generating Gravity Waves in the Ascent Rate Profiles in US High – Resolution Radiosonde Data
Jie Gong, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and M. Geller |
| 4:45 PM | 7.4 | Physics-Based Modeling of Space Weather in the Ionosphere and Thermosphere
Geoff Crowley, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, San Antonio, TX |
| 5:00 PM | 7.5 | Space Weather Applications of IDA4D
Gary S. Bust, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, San Antonio, TX; and G. Crowley |
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| 5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions Adjourn for the Day |
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| Wednesday, 14 January 2009 |
| 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Hall 4
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Northballroom
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 15 January 2009 |
| 5:15 PM-5:20 PM, Thursday
AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns |
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