HamSCI 2021 Workshop Agenda

Main workshop page: http://hamsci.org/hamsci2021

 

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Friday, March 19, 2021

Eastern Daylight Time UTC Title Presenter Organization
Opening Remarks & Oral Session I
Personal Space Weather Station Engineering & Science
Chair: Dr. Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF; Zoom Moderators: Bill Liles NQ6Z & Diego Sanchez KD2RLM
9:30 AM 1330z Opening Remarks / Webinar Opens    
9:45 AM 1345z Overview of the Personal Space Weather Station and Project Update Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF The University of Scranton
10:00 AM 1400z TangerineSDR Data Engine and Overall Architecture Scotty Cowling WA2DFI TAPR
10:20 AM 1420z TangerineSDR Dual‐Receiver RF Module Design Tom McDermott N5EG TAPR
10:40 AM 1440z TangerineSDR Clock Module Design John Ackermann N8UR TAPR
11:00 AM 1500z TangerineSDR Database and Control System Architecture William D. Engelke AB4EJ University of Alabama
11:20 AM 1520z Magnetometer Support for the Personal Space Weather Station and Related Projects David M. Witten, III KD0EAG, Frances Bonte KE8HPA, & Hyomin Kim KD2MCR TAPR; DeSales High School, Columbus, OH; New Jersey Institute of Technology
11:40 AM 1540z Break    
Oral Session II
Personal Space Weather Station Engineering & Science
Chair: Dr. Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF; Zoom Moderators: Dr. Gareth Perry KD2SAK & Dr. David  Larsen KV0S
12:00 PM 1600z Update on the Low‐Cost Personal Space Weather Station Kristina Collins KD8OXT & David Kazdan AD8Y Case Western Reserve University
12:20 PM 1620z Synchronized Multiple Radio Telescope Microwave SETI  Skip Crilly K7ETI Green Bank Observatory
12:40 PM 1640z WWV Time Tick Arrival Time Study to Investigate Multiple Modes During Daily Dawn and Dusk Transitions Steve Cerwin WA5FRF HamSCI Community
1:00 PM 1700z

Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances Observed Using Doppler Measurements of Clear‐Channel AM Broadcast Transmitters

David McGaw N1HAC Dartmouth College
1:20 PM 1720z Amateur digital mode based remote sensing: FT8 use as a radar signal of opportunity for ionospheric characterization Phil Erickson W1PJE MIT Haystack Observatory
1:40 PM 1740z

Lunch Discussion (Open Webinar)
Chairs/Zoom Moderators: Carl Luetzelschwab K9LA​ & Dr. Declan Mulhall

Oral Session III
Eclipses and Citizen Science
Chair: Dr. Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF; Zoom Moderators: Dr. Laura Lukes KK4FYT & Dr. MD Maktoomi
2:50 PM 1850z Update on the Golden Ears Project Gareth Perry KD2SAK New Jersey Institute of Technology
3:10 PM 1910z Observations and Modeling Studies of the Effects of the 2017 Solar Eclipse on SuperDARN HF Propagation Magdalina Moses KM4EGE Dartmouth College
3:30 PM 1930z EclipseMob: Initial Planning for 2024 William Liles NQ6Z HamSCI Community
3:50 PM 1950z A new CHAIN site in New Brunswick: low‐cost HF and GNSS instruments for Solar Eclipse 2024 Aaron Farnham VE9CG, Anton Kashcheyev University of New Brunswick
4:10 PM 2010z Propagation Teepee: A High Frequency (HF) Radio Spectral Feature Identified by Citizen Scientists Shing F. Fung NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
4:30 PM 2030z Break    
Oral Session IV
Citizen and Professional Space Science Results
Chair: Dr. Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF; Zoom Moderators: Kristina Collins KD8OXT & Dr. Phil Erickson W1PJE
4:50 PM 2050z Using amateur radio to validate model‐based properties of earth's protective shield David A. Smith W6EY Utah State University
5:10 PM 2110z Statistical Study of Open Closed Boundaries (OCB) using ULF Wave Observations from Antarctic AGOs, McMurdo Station, and South Pole Station Rachel Frissell W2RUF New Jersey Institute of Technology
5:30 PM 2130z Temporal and Spatial Development of TEC Enhancements during Substorms James Weygand UCLA
5:50 PM 2150z Large Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances Observed using HamSCI Amateur Radio, SuperDARN, and GNSS TEC Diego Sanchez KD2RLM Essex County College
6:10 PM 2210z Let’s Push the Exploration of the Ionosphere to The Next Level (Invited) Tim Duffy, K3LR Team K3LR, World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF), and  DX Engineering
6:30 PM 2230z Closing Discussion and Remarks    

Saturday, March 20, 2021

Eastern Daylight Time UTC Title Presenter Organization
Invited Tutorials I
Auroral Connection: Optical and Radio Auroral Physics
Chair: Dr. Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF; Zoom Moderators: Laura Brandt & Dr. Phil Erickson W1PJE
9:30 AM 1330z Opening Remarks / Webinar Opens    
10:00 AM 1400z Aurorasaurus: Citizen Science Observations of the Aurora (Invited Tutorial) Elizabeth MacDonald NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, New Mexico Consortium
10:45 AM 1445z Observing Radio Signals of Auroral Origin (Invited Tutorial) James LaBelle Dartmouth College
11:30 AM 1530z

Break
 

   
Invited Tutorials II
Auroral Connection: Auroral Model Ham Radio and Ham Radio History
Chair: Dr. Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF; Zoom Moderators: Dr. Liz MacDonald & Carl Luetzelschwab K9LA
11:45 AM 1545z Operating Auroral Mode Ham Radio (Invited Tutorial) David Hallidy K2DH HamSCI Community
12:30 PM 1630z Nikola Tesla – The Pioneer who Paved the Road to the World and Ham Radio as We Know It (Invited Tutorial) Jim Breakall WA3FET Penn State University
1:00 PM 1700z

Lunch Discussion (Open Webinar)
Chairs/Zoom Moderators: Dr. David Larsen KV0S & Dr. MD Maktoomi

ePoster/eDemo Session I
Auroral Connection
Chair: Laura Brandt; Zoom Moderators: Dr. Liz MacDonald & Dr. Jim LaBelle

2:00 PM 1800z

Into the Ionosphere: Real-Time Aurora Mapping Through Citizen Science

Laura Brandt New Mexico Consortium, NASA
2:15 PM 1815z An Aurorasaurus Citizen Science Database of Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement (STEVE) Observations

Michael Hunnekuhl, presented by Elizabeth MacDonald

Aurorasaurus Community
2:30 PM 1830z Live Aurora Network Michael McCormack NQ1O Live Aurora Network
2:45 PM 1845z Construction of an Aurora Camera in North Dakota to Aid in Citizen Science and Space Weather Applications Vincent Ledvina University of North Dakota
3:00 PM 1900z Novel methods for characterizing ionospheric irregularities in the high-latitude ionosphere Lindsay V. Goodwin New Jersey Institute of Technology
3:15 PM 1915z Break    
ePoster/eDemo Session II
HamSCI Posters/Demos
Chair: Laura Brandt; Zoom Moderators: Carl Luetzelschwab K9LA & Dr. Gareth Perry KD2SAK
3:30 PM 1930z Patterns in Received Noise: Methods, Observations and Questions Gwyn Griffiths G3ZIL HamSCI Community
3:45 PM 1945z Neutral Winds in the Equatorial Thermosphere as Measured With the SOFDI Instrument Sovit Khadka New Jersey Institute of Technology
4:00 PM 2000z Using a PVC Pipe antenna and a Raspberry Pi to Detect VLF Natural Radio Jonathan Rizzo KC3EEY The University of Scranton
4:15 PM 2015z Electromechanical ELF Transmitters for Wireless Communications in Conductive Environments Jarred Glickstein & Soumyajit Mandal University of Florida
4:30 PM 2030z Visualizing the Electromagnetic Spectrum in the Time Domain Stephen Hamilton KJ5HY & Charles Suslowicz  KD2RQS West Point
4:45 PM 2045z Break    
ePoster/eDemo Session III
HamSCI Posters/Demos
Chair: Laura Brandt; Zoom Moderators: Kristina Collins KD8OXT & Dr. David Kazdan AD8Y
5:00 PM 2100z

Direction Finding: Analog and Digital Applications

Nolan Pearce KE8JCT West Point
5:15 PM 2115z
Jonathan M. Smith
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
5:30 PM 2130z Visualizations of HF Doppler Observations Aidan Montare KB3UMD
Case Western Reserve University
5:45 PM 2145z The Language of Amateur Radio David Vine WA1EAW
:Amateur Radio Club of Augusta
6:00 PM 2200z Closing Discussion and Remarks Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF The University of Scranton