POLAR Telecon Agenda for
Agenda:
0.
Upcoming Polar Telecon
1.
Operations:
2.
MFE Data Processing Status
3.
Senior Review Proposal
4.
Resident Archives
0. Upcoming Polar Telecons
4 pm ET, 3 pm CT, 2 pm MT, 1 pm PT
PIs
and their designated representatives will be telephoned at their usual numbers.
Other
participants may call in at: 1-888-810-3139, password POLAR TELECON
(Leader:
John Sigwarth)
The
web site for the final agenda will be:
http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/polar/telecons/2005Aug05/
Future Polar Telecons
Future
Telecon Science Discussion Schedule
[Errors/omissions/preferences
to: nicola.fox@jhuapl.edu
October
2005: PIXIE
November
2005: SEPS
January
2006: UVI
February
2005: MDI
March
2006: CAMMICE
April
2006: PWI
May
2006:
June
2006: EFI
July
2006: TIMAS
August
2006: Hydra
September
2006: MFE
1. Operations
If
you have any concerns about Polar operations, please contact Nicky Fox (nicola.fox@jhuapl.edu)
Eclipse
Operations
The
Fall eclipse season begins
In
addition, PIXIE, SEPS and CAMMICE/MICS will remain powered off throughout the
eclipse season as they are not operational.
Sun
Angle Maneuver
The
next Polar maneuver is tentatively
scheduled for
GTM
Upsets
At
UTC Instrument
action
On
August 1st the TIDE error flag was reset at
Polar
GTM Upset History:
GTM-1
Upset Events
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GTM
Switch
GTM-2
Upset Events
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2. MFE Data Processing
Status
3. The 2006 Senior
Review Proposal
The
PI teams should have received a copy of the third draft of the science section
from the proposal for comment.
WE ARE MAKING EVERY
EFFORT TO STAY ON SCHEDULE TO ENSURE THAT WE CAN DELIVER THE HIGHEST QUALITY
PRODUCT SO PLEASE RESPOND TO REQUESTS FOR INPUT IN A TIMELY FASHION.
There
are a number of holes in the document as it stands to date – these are detailed
below. These action items must be completed by August 12th.
The
next draft of the proposal will be the version sent to the Red Team so this is
your last chance to submit comments prior to that. Please note the deadline of August 12th – this is a firm deadline
and we will not be able to include material received after this date in the Red
Team version as this needs to be sent out by August 16th.
The
version presented to the Red Team will be typeset – this means that we need
high resolution versions of any figures sent in by August 12th. If you are having difficulties finding high resolution
figures, you must let us know immediately so that the printing schedule is not
affected.
Science
Sections:
Everyone
needs to review the future science sections and send comments nicola.fox@jhuapl.edu
and john.b.sigwarth@nasa.gov.
The auroral acceleration region still needs figures!!!
2.1
Polar radiation belt science in the 2005-2006 interval: A return to the heart
of the outer zone. Lead authors: Paul O’Brien & Bern Blake
Reviewers:
Reiner Friedel; Martin
Walt, Geoff Reeves
2.2
Microscale and macroscale
physics of magnetic reconnection. Lead author: Karlheinz
Trattner
Reviewers:
Ted Fritz; Bill Peterson; Jack Scudder
2.3
Auroral acceleration region. Lead author: Chris Russell
Reviewers:
Nelson Maynard; George Parks; Rob Pfaff
Accomplishments
section:
The
section needs figures
Please
take some time to read this section thoroughly and make sure that your team’s
accomplishments are accurately reflected. The section still needs some editing
but most of the material submitted should be included. Many thanks to the teams
who have responded with their recent accomplishments.
CEPPAD
and PIXIE are still outstanding
There
is not enough material in the Great Storms sub-section. We need to show that
Polar is playing its role in the S3C Great Observatory – the great storm
studies are one of the most high profile ways to do this. What did we see
during the Halloween storms for example?
Please
try to add text directly into the document (switch on track changes or at least
insert text in red) failing that, you may send paragraphs containing your team’s
achievements to Nicky (nicola.fox@jhuapl.edu).
We
also need to include information on how many other people use Polar data – how
many SR&T, TR&T and GI grants use Polar data. Please also send that
information to Nicky – so far only EFI and MDI have sent this material
Section 3: Technical and
Budget
Draft
3 contains some portion of the technical and budget section, including a
sub-section about the health of the instruments. Most teams have responded with
updates to their instrument status but CEPPAD and PIXIE are still outstanding –
please take a moment to email your status paragraphs to Nicky.
Section 4: Education and
Public Outreach
The
next draft will include the E/PO section. Please send in any E/PO activities
carried out by your team members since the last Senior Review (2003). We only
have information about the APL group so far.
Polar Senior Review
Development Schedule:
May
6: Polar PI telecon
May
6-May 13: Skeleton Draft
May
13-20: writing assignments, formation of Red Team
May
23-27: AGU meeting in
June
1-24: Draft 1 (circulated 23rd), Polar PI Telecon
24th)
June
27-July 1: GEM meeting in
July
5-11: Draft 2 (circulated 11th, Polar PI Telecon
15th)
July18-29:
IAGA meeting in
July
15-August 5: Draft 3 (circulated August 4th, Polar PI Telecon
5th)
August
8-14: Draft 4
August
16: Draft 4 sent to Red Team
August
25: Red Team Review
August
26: Polar PI Telecon
August
27-September 5: Draft 5 (circulated 5th)
September
12-19: Draft 6 to PI team for last review/editing, Polar telecon
(16th)
September
20-26: final formatting, proofing
September
27-30: Printing and delivery
4. Resident Archives
NASA/HQ
has indicated that there may be a small amount of funding available for after
the end of mission for the maintenance of Resident Archives of the data at the
PI institutions. This would provide a
small amount of money for maintaining the hardware that serves up data and a
fraction of an FTE to keep the hardware working. In this round of senior reviews, this applies
especially to Polar as it nears the end of its MODA life. Chuck Holmes will be asking for input from
the Polar mission in the form of a short white paper. Please give this some thought over the next
few weeks as I expect the turn around on the request to be quite short.
5. MFE Science Report
http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/polar/polartelecon/
