EISCAT-CAWSES-Copernicus

The 15th EISCAT International Workshop will be held in Qingdao, China, 5-9 September 2011, hosted by the China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation (CRIRP). A ceremony for the 30th anniversary of the EISCAT measurements will highlight the Workshop. We welcome scientists and students all over the world to attend the workshop presenting the latest research achievements.Oral or poster contributions are both welcome. The abstract deadline is 31 May, 2011.

Please visit the workshop website for more information:

http://www.leme.ac.cn/the 15th eiscat international workshop.html

Ankündigung: International ISR workshop for students and new radar users

International ISR workshop for students and new radar users in Greenland 18-23 July, 2011.

This workshop aims at teaching the participants how to request, design and analyze ISR experiments. All participants will have the opportunity to work one-on-one with experienced scientists. The workshop is structured to provide lectures in the morning and hands-on experience in experiment design and analysis in the afternoons. The morning presentations will include an introduction to the theory of incoherent scatter, radar operations, ISR analysis techniques, and the Madrigal database. The afternoon exercises will involve working closely with school staff in the topic areas of proposal design, experiment execution, and data analysis. Participants will have the opportunity to work with data from globally distributed ISRs.

This workshop is suitable for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, as well as scientists new to the incoherent scatter radar technique.

The workshop is jointly sponsored by the EISCAT Scientific Association and the US National Science Foundation.

For more information, please see the workshop websites at:

http://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/workshop/

and

http://www.sgo.fi/Greenland2011/

Status Report No. 3

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Ankündigung: EGU General Assembly 2010 in Vienna

Date added: 13.12.2009

Dear colleagues,

Please consider presenting your exciting research results at the following session of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, to be held in Vienna, Austria, from 02 to 07 May 2010.

The assembly is open to the scientists of all nations.

Highlights of recent ionospheric and auroral research by incoherent scatter radars (EGU session ST3.3)

Incoherent scatter radar probing of the upper atmosphere is going through a major resurgence with several new generation radars being built and planned. The new generation radars will have radically improved spatial and temporal resolution and will provide volumetric imaging of our near-Earth environment. In the European sector, the EISCAT incoherent scatter radars and ionospheric heating facility are used for fundamental research of the upper atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere at auroral and polar cap latitudes. Papers will describe highlights from the present radar systems, especially those that emphasize questions to be addressed by the new facilities in the future.

Michael Rietveld (Convener)

Co-Conveners: Ingemar Häggström and Sixto Gonzales

The deadline for abstracts is 18 January 2010

Visit http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2010/home.html

Ankündigung: DPG-Frühjahrstagung 2010 in Bonn

Date added: 13.12.2009

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
vom 15.-19. März 2010 wird in Bonn die Frühjahrstagung des Fachverbands Extraterrestrische Physik der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft und der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Extraterrestrische Forschung e.V stattfinden.
Am Montag den 15. März soll in diesem Rahmen eine Sitzung zu Ergebnissen von Forschungsprojekten im Kontext des "Erdnahen Weltraums" stattfinden, wodurch insbesondere auch Beteiligte des deutschen CAWSES DFG-Schwerpunktprogrammes angesprochen sind. Alle daran Interessierten möchte ich hiermit zur Einreichung eines Beitrages zu dieser Sitzung ermuntern.
Die folgenden beiden Kollegen haben sich bereits zur Präsentation eines eingeladenen Hauptvortrages bereiterklärt:
Prof. Hermann Lühr, GFZ Potsdam "Das neue Bild der ionosphärisch-thermosphärischen Wechselwirkungen, Ergebnisse von CHAMP, Erwartungen an Swarm"
Prof. Franz-Josef Lübken, IAP Kühlungsborn "Herausragende Ergebnisse von CAWSES in Deutschland"
Die Tagung findet gemeinsam mit der Jahrestagung der Astronomischen Gesellschaft und der 74. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft statt und sollte damit auch in der fachlichen Breite sehr interessante Vorträge bieten. Weitere Details zur Tagung sowie zur Einreichung von Abstrakts finden Sie unter:
http://bonn10.dpg-tagungen.de/
Die Teilnahme von Diplomand(inn)en, Doktorand(inn)en wird dabei durch die WE-Heraeus-Stiftung finanziell unterstützt, zum Antrag:
http://bonn10.dpg-tagungen.de/anmeldung/weh.html
Antragschluss ist der 20. Januar 2010.
Die Deadline für Beitragseinreichungen ist der 15. Dezember 2009!
Ich würde mich freuen, möglichst viele von Ihnen in Bonn begrüßen zu können!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Markus Rapp
für den Vorstand des Arbeitskreises Extraterrestrische Forschung e.V.
http://www.aef-ev.de

Status Bericht

Date added: 09.10.2008

Topics:

• Some highlights of German EISCAT research in the past two years
• EISCAT Experimente mit deutscher Beteiligung
• Operating hours of German EISCAT experiments
• German EISCAT Experiments in 2008
• Contemporary expectations of the present German EISCAT user community of the EISCAT 3D upgrading project
• ISSI-Project “Bridging the gap between the middle and upper atmosphere: coupling processes due to winds and waves over an extended altitude range”
• Publikationen der deutschen EISCAT-Nutzer
• Vortrge w¨ahrend der Special EISCAT-Session der AEF/DPG-Tagung im März 2008
• EISCAT Flyer
• EISCAT Poster
• Verschiedene Zugriffe auf Plots bei EISCAT

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Newsletter Volume 1, October 2007

Date added: 29.10.2007

Topics:

• A report on the 13th International EISCAT Workshop Mariehamn, Åland, Finland, 6-10 August 2007
• Short Abstracts of papers presented by scientists of German institutes at the 13th International EISCAT Workshop, August 2007
• Some impressions on EISCAT Radar Schools
• The EISCAT Heating Facility
• ECOMA: Joint EISCAT/sounding rocket campaign in August 2007
• A report on the first meeting of the Science Oversight Committee (SOC) of EISCAT held 17-18 September 2007, Alexandra House, Swindon, UK
• EISCAT and the International Polar Year - IPY -

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