SEPTEMBER 20 PI TELECONFERENCE AGENDA AND LINKS

POLAR PI TELECONFERENCE: FRIDAY, Sep 20 at 4 p.m. Eastern
POLAR PI TELECONFERENCE: FRIDAY, Sep 20 at 3 p.m. Central
POLAR PI TELECONFERENCE: FRIDAY, Sep 20 at 2 p.m. Mountain
POLAR PI TELECONFERENCE: FRIDAY, Sep 20 at 1 p.m. Pacific


AUDIO ACCESS INFORMATION:

USA Toll Free Number: 888-625-1625
Passcode: POLAR TELECON
Leader: Robert Hoffman
Reservation confirmation #8325140:


AGENDA:

5 min: Misc. updates and announcements
- Several folks on travel this week, those sitting in please feel free to speak up
- Funding expectations for FY03
- Yosemite Meeting, January 27-31, 2003 or thereabouts
- Senior Review to be announced, planning meeting to be held at Fall AGU

10 min: Operations Update
- eclipse operations, including plans for next year
- spring flip
- Leonids
- A fall operations schedule is available

5 min: Polar magnetometer data access
- MFE processing status
- Spin period averages of the MFE magnetic field in GSM coordinates have been made available at an anonymous ftp site. Some cautions have been identified.

10 min: Polar, Wind and Geotail data processing changes

Instrument teams should have now completed the following:
Testing of the NRT interface
Verification email to project scientist that the NRT will suit your needs
Testing of the PWG ftp site and verification of availability of data types
Verification email to project scientist that the data distribution system will suit your needs
Started testing that KP files produced on the new system are correct

By the end of this week, instrument teams should have:
Switched their routine NRT operations over to the new system
Switched their routine data access operations over to the new system

Not due until October 1 is:
Verification email sent to project scientist that KP production suits your needs.

Teams have not been able to complete the following:
Receive or test a level zero CD produced by the new system.

- What verification emails do we have?
- Be sure to check the CD distribution
- Summary document available in .html and .pdf formats

5 min: Plans for the next Polar Science Team Meeting

30 min: Science Presentation: The Case for Component Reconnection
The presentation is also available as a Powerpoint file at: The Case for Component Reconnection

NEXT TELECON:
- October 25?
- EFI and CAMMICE science

Send additions/corrections to barbara.giles@gsfc.nasa.gov


The following numbers will be called and connected in:
GSFC/Hoffman/(301)286-5236
CAMMICE/Sullivan/(617)353-8664
CEPPAD/Reeves/(240)228-3529
HYDRA/Scudder/(319)335-0804
MDI/Newell/(240) 228-8402
MFE/Russell/(310)825-3188
PIXIE/Schulz/(650)424-2659
PWI/Gurnett/(319)335-1697
SEPS/Walt/(650)723-2690
TIDE/Moore/(301)286-5236
TIMAS/Peterson/(303)492-0686
UVI/Parks/(510)643-5512
VIS/Frank/(319)335-1695
VIS/Sigwarth/(319)335-1867
PWI/Menietti/(319)335-1919
Send corrections/additions to barbara.giles@gsfc.nasa.gov