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AN: C41C-0988    [PDF]
TI: Polar Experiment Network for Geospace Upper-atmosphere Investigations (PENGUIn): A Vision for Global Polar Studies and Education
AU: * Weatherwax, A T
EM: aweatherwax@siena.edu
AF: Siena College, Dept. of Physics, Loudonville, NY 12211 United States
AU: Lanzerotti, L J
AF: New Jersey Inst. of Tech., Dept. of Physics, Newark, NJ 07102 United States
AU: Rosenberg, T J
AF: Inst. for Physical Sci. and Tech., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 United States
AU: Detrick, D L
AF: Inst. for Physical Sci. and Tech., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 United States
AU: Clauer, C R
AF: Univ. of Michigan, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI 481091 United States
AU: Ridley, A
AF: Univ. of Michigan, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI 481091 United States
AU: Mende, S B
AF: Space Sciences Lab, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States
AU: Frey, H U
AF: Space Sciences Lab, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States
AU: Ostgaard, N
AF: Space Sciences Lab, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States
AU: Sterling, R W
AF: Space Sciences Lab, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States
AU: Inan, U S
AF: Stanford Univ., Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford, CA 94305 United States
AU: Engebretson, M J
AF: Augsburg College, 2211 Riverside Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55454 United States
AU: Petit, N
AF: Augsburg College, 2211 Riverside Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55454 United States
AU: LaBelle, J
AF: Dartmouth College, Dept. of Physics, Hanover, NH 03755
AU: Lynch, K
AF: Dartmouth College, Dept. of Physics, Hanover, NH 03755
AU: Lessard, M
AF: Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH 03755 United States
AU: Maclennan, C G
AF: Lucent Technologies, 700 Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NJ 07974 United States
AU: Doolittle, J H
AF: Lockheed Martin Advance Technology Center, 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304 United States
AU: Fukunishi, H
AF: Tohoku University, Dept. of Geophysics, Sendai, 980-8578 Japan
AB: The several decades since the advent of space flight have witnessed the ever growing importance and relevance of the Earth's space environment for understanding the functioning of Earth within the solar system and for understanding the effects of the Sun's influence on technological systems deployed on Earth and in space. Achieving a comprehensive understanding of Earth's geospace environment requires knowledge of the ionosphere and magnetosphere in both polar regions. Outlined in this talk is a broad, multi-national plan to investigate in depth, from Antarctica and nominally conjugate regions in the Arctic, the electrodynamic system that comprises the space environment of Planet Earth. Specifics include (a) the phased development of a new and comprehensive upper atmosphere geophysical measurement program based upon distributed instruments operating in an extreme polar environments; (b) real time data collection via satellites; (c) a methodology to build synergistic data sets from a global distribution of southern and northern hemisphere instrument arrays; and (d) an integration with all levels of education including high school, undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral.
DE: 2704 Auroral phenomena (2407)
DE: 2736 Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions
DE: 2794 Instruments and techniques
SC: Cryosphere [C]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting