HamSCI @ AGU 2018

HamSCI @ AGU 2018

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 - 11:45

This week, many HamSCI members are presenting their research at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C. The AGU Fall meeting is one of the largest geoscience meetings in the world, and consists of about 24,000 attendees. The scientific program includes sessions pertaining to all areas of geophysics, including space weather, the solar wind, auroral activity, the ionosphere, and the neutral atmosphere. Below is a list of selected presentations and sessions being given by HamSCI members, or of general interest to ham radio operators. The complete scientific program is available here.

 

Selected Ham Radio AGU Presentations

Monday   December 10, 2018    
08:00-12:20 Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) SH11C-2880:  Ionospheric Effects of the August 2017 Eclipse: Empirically Guided Modeling with Comparisons to Data Magda Moses, KM4EGE (Virginia Tech) Solar Eclipse Effects
08:00-10:00 Marquis - Marquis 1-2 ED11B:  STEM Education and Outreach: Building Effective Research Collaboration Models I Laura Lukes, KK4FYT (George Mason)  
08:30-08:45 Convention Ctr–206  SH11B-03: EclipseMob 2020/2024 Bluetooth-Based Kit for Crowdsourced Ionospheric Measurements Laura Lukes, KK4FYT (George Mason) Solar Eclipse Effects
08:45 - 09:00 Convention Center - 206 SH11B-04:  Wave Motions in the Ionosphere Associated with the August 2017 Solar Eclipse Terry Bullett, N0ASP (U of Colorado) Solar Eclipse Effects
09:07-09:22 Convention Ctr–202B SA11A-05: Concurrent Solar Flare and Geomagnetic Storm Effects on the Thermosphere and Ionosphere During September 2017 Liying Qian (NCAR/UCAR) Solar Flares and Storm Effects
11:24-11:38 Convention Ctr–202B SA12A-05: Causes and Effects of Small-Scale Plasma Density Irregularities in the Mid-Latitude Ionosphere  J. Michael Ruohoniemi (Virginia Tech) Small-Scale Mid Latitude Irregularities
12:06-12:20 Convention Ctr–202B SA12A-08: High Frequency Communications Response to Solar Activity of September 2017 as Observed by Amateur Radio Networks Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF (NJIT) Solar Flares and Storm Effects
13:40-18:00 Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) SM13B-2858: Comparison of Diffusion Region Proxy Parameters in the Geomagnetic Tail Anthony Rogers, AD0EN (UNH)  
13:40-18:00 Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) SA13C-2786: Citizen Space Science: A Preliminary Systematic Study of HF Radio Propagation from a Source in the Subarctic Using HAARP and the Ham WSPR Network Christopher Fallen, KL3WX (UAF)  
Tuesday   December 11, 2018    
08:00-12:20 Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) SA21A-3145: Ionospheric sounding using signal of opportunity Alex Cushley, VA3CUS (Royal Military College of Canada)  
08:00-12:20 Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) SA21A-3165: New Daytime Thermosphere ionosphere observations during the HIWIND Flight in 2018 Qian Wu (NCAR)  
08:00-12:20 Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) SA21A-3167: In Sutu Ion Density and Composition Measurements with the Radio Receiver Instrument on e-POP Using Excitation of Plasma Waves by Photo Electrons Paul Bernhardt, KF4FOR (NRL)  
10:32-10:44 Marriott Marquis - Marquis 1-2 PA22B-02: Modeling Amateur Radio Soundings of the Ionospheric Response to the 2017 Great American Eclipse (Invited) Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF (NJIT) Solar Eclipse Effects
12:05-12:20 Convention Ctr–207B SH22B-08: Current and Future Community Integrative Science and Discovery Using Incoherent Scatter Radar Techniques (Invited) Phil Erickson, W1PJE (MIT Haystack)  
13:40-18:00 Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) SA23A-3178: Electron-electron collision effects on ISR temperature measurements William Longley (Boston University)  
13:40-18:00 Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) SA23A-3181: HF Propagation Experiments Through Ionospheric Heated Regions Using e-POP Stanley Briczinski (NRL)  
Wednesday   December 12, 2018    
13:40-18:00  Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) SA33C-3501: Horizontal and Vertical Structures of Large- Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances Observed with GNSS Receivers and Millstone Hill Incoherent Scatter Radar Shunrong Zhang (MIT Haystack) TIDs
13:40-18:00  Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) SA33C-3491: Observations of Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances at Midlatitudes during Geomagnetic Storm of 1–3 September 2016 Sergii Panasenko (Institute of the Ionosphere) TIDs
13:40-18:00  Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) SA33B-3470: Ionospheric Disturbances During the September 2017 Geomagnetic Storm Anastasia Newheart (Rice) Solar Flares and Storm Effects
13:40-18:00 Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) SA33C-3504 Millstone Hill incoherent scatter radar fine-scale observations of traveling ionospheric disturbances using Langmuir mode techniques Lilias Gasque (Dartmouth) TIDs
13:40-18:00 Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) SM33C-3586: Characteristics and Effects of Strong Subpacket Structure near 1/4 fce in VLF Chorus Risers John Foster (MIT Haystack)  
13:40-18:00 Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) SA33C-3500 Inter-Hemispheric Coupling of Large Scale Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances During Geomagnetic Storms Olusegun Jonah (MIT Haystack) TIDs
13:40-18:00 Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) SA33B-3479: Advances and Features of Meteor Radar Techniques for M-L-T Region Neutral Wind Characterization Phil Erickson, W1PJE (MIT Haystack)  
Thursday   December 13, 2018    
Friday   December 14, 2018    
08:00-12:20 Convention Ctr–Hall A-C (Poster Hall) ED51F: Citizen Science Showcase: Strategies to Engage Citizens and Students in Research I Posters Bill Liles, NQ6Z  
16:00-18:00 Marriott Marquis - Marquis 7-8 ED54A: Citizen Science Showcase: Strategies to Engage Citizens and Students in Research II Bill Liles, NQ6Z  

Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs)

Traveling ionospheric disturbances are space weather in nature and cause fluctuations in electron density that can have impacts on HF propagation.  Two techniques, GNSS based total electron content (integrated density through the ionosphere and plasmasphere), and incoherent scatter radar (direct altitude profiles of temperature, density, velocity), can provide spatial structure information on these disturbances.

Solar Flare and Storm Effects

Solar flares cause D region based HF blackouts, but have effects through the ionosphere and neutral atmosphere.  September 2017 was characterized by multiple solar flares as well as large geomagnetic storm perturbations.  Studying these helps understand the system's response to forcing.

Small-Scale Mid Latitude Irregularities

At mid-latitudes over North America, we have known for more than a decade that HF radars (SuperDARN) see almost constant backscatter from small-scale irregularities moving at slow ionospheric speeds.  The causes of these irregularities are still under investigation, but they are very useful as a remote diagnostic.  This will give updates on progress toward understanding the irregularity origins.  Their presence may cause short time period HF propagation path changes.