STEREO/ Solar-B Science Planning Workshop

Turtle Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, November 15-18, 2005

Last edited September 1, 2005

Objectives of workshop: This meeting is focused on science planning for the STEREO and Solar-B missions, which will both be launched in 2006. The aim is to look at the possibility of complementary science operations and data analysis and interpretation activities in order to maximize the science outputs from these missions. Discussion on how to make mutually productive partnerships, both with coexisting solar and heliospheric missions including SOHO, ACE, WIND, and Ulysses, with ground based solar observatories, especially those including magnetographs, and with overlapping activities and campaigns such as VSO, VHO and IHY, will also be a primary goal. Both invited oral and contributed poster papers will make up the program, with ample time set aside for group exchanges toward a written plan. Suggestions for additional topics relevant to the exploitation of the expected opportunities and data are welcomed by the organizing committee.

STEREO, Solar-B, Turtle Bay

Meeting location

The meeting will take place at the hotel, The Turtle Bay Resort on the North Shore of Oahu, the Hawaiian island on which Honolulu is located. Room bookings should be done directly with the hotel, asking for the special rate ($150/night) we have arranged for the workshop. To get these special rates you can book online, by telephone or email. The group rate code to use is: STEREO 20790.

· our special web hotel registration link is: (click here)(please note that if you are using a UNIX machine browser you may have problems changing the arrival/departure dates. If so, please use the 800 number below or a PC browser)

or

· ph. 1-800-203-3650 (toll-free in US)

· email TBRreservations@benchmarkmanagement.com

or in Japan at:

· ph. 03-5652-4555

· email ty@jeiba.co.jp

before the deadline of August 31, 2005 . Mention "STEREO Workshop" and the group rate code above. This special rate applies for the meeting dates but is also available through the weekend before and/or after our meeting if one books early enough. Please be aware that a "resort fee" of an additional $14/night will be added to your hotel bill along with taxes. This covers: guest room internet access, incoming faxes, unlimited local phone calls, 800 & credit card calls, in-room newspaper Mon-Fri, and parking as well as additional facilities uses for your free time.

Please also note that there will be a reception from 6:00 pm Monday evening, November 14, at the hotel.

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Instructions for getting to Turtle Bay

Registration details

The meeting registration deadline is August 31, 2005. The registration fee of $250 (to cover the cost of conference room, coffee breaks, and a workshop dinner) must be paid at that time. Please Register using a credit card at our Registration/ePay page. Warning: You may need to use a PC to use the ePay page. Note: your browser must be set to allow cookies for this transaction to work. The fees can alternatively be paid by check sent via mail (see the instructions at this link)

Accompanying persons: We will need to charge an extra $65 for accompanying persons wishing to join the workshop dinner on Thursday, November 17.

Abstracts: of invited presentations or contributed posters can be submitted at this link at the time of your registration (or not later than the cutoff). In the case of contributed posters, you will be notified by email if your abstract is accepted for inclusion (poster space will be limited). Thus we ask that no more than one poster per registrant be submitted. Submission of a contributed poster is not required to register.

Provisional Program Contents (hourly agenda by day at this link)

Day 1-Tuesday, November 15

Solar-B/STEREO Coordination Planning

Presentations on the great science possible as a result of the Solar B and STEREO combination, lessons from TRACE and RHESSI, a look at Solar B and STEREO capabilities and how they can be most gainfully merged with advance planning to address the science and exploit the combination.

Day 2- Wednesday, November 16

STEREO/Solar-B/SOHO Imagers Coordination Planning

A focus on STEREO, SOHO and Solar-B as three viewpoint imaging measurements. What are the science possibilities given three viewpoints but some differences between the imagers? What should be/could be done to coordinate operations, if anything? How can these images best be provided to/shared with the larger scientific community and the public?

Day 3- Thursday, November 17

STEREO/ACE/WIND/ULYSSES Coordination Planning

A focus on merging in-situ and radio with imaging data. Lessons from Helios/SMM/Solwind. Lessons from ISTP campaigns. Lessons from WIND and Ulysses and SOHO. Models as the glue connecting solar/corona observations to interplanetary measurements. Relating ACE, WIND, ULYSSES measurements to STEREO radio and in-situ measurements and putting three or more multi-point measurements together as data sets WITH STEREO, SOHO and Solar-B images.

Day 4- Friday, November 18

Putting it all together

Identify and lay out plan for shared/common or merged data bases that are desirable, websites, browsers, as a "virtual solar observatory" model, as a Heliospheric Sentinels/SDO era model, as a space weather prediction arsenal/beacon. Plan coordination with the Living With a Star program and the Exploration Initiative, IHY, coordination with ground-based observatories, regular use of model results. Focus on the sharing of data resources, which may impact data product designs, on operations issues affecting science return, and assign responsibilities and get volunteers to lead various subefforts. Appoint a "working group" of interested people who keep the communications going between the missions and check on progress toward the agreed upon coordination efforts. Coordination with CCMC on modeling products.

Friday afternoon (time permitting): STEREO and Solar-B business meetings

Organizational links

Science Organizing Committee
List of registrants
Submitted Abstracts

Facilities

· Wireless internet will be available in the meeting room, but participants must use their own laptops to access it. A computer projector and overhead projector will be available for presentations. Posters will be hung on the meeting room walls using removable adhesive.

· Poster sizes should be no larger than AGU standard size, 1.2m high x 1.8m wide .

· At the present time we do not intend to have a printer available.

· The hotel rooms include internet hookups that are covered by the resort fee mentioned above.

eMail comments or questions on logistics to Sam Lam: at this link