(meteorobs) Fwd: SOFIA Upper Deck Space and Earth Sciences Opportunities workshop

Lewis J. Gramer lgramer at upstream.net
Fri May 7 13:06:31 EDT 2004


[Forwarded without Dr. J's explicit permission.  -Lew]

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Jenniskens [mailto:peter at max.arc.nasa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:47 PM
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SOFIA Upper Deck Space and Earth Sciences Opportunities workshop
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  FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

The "Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy" (SOFIA) is
currently being assembled. It is scheduled to perform 960 flight
hours/year for 20 years. The Upper Deck of this Boeing 747 aircraft
may in the future facilitate experiments for serendipitous research
during regular deployments, independent or in support of the regular
mid-IR and submm observations with the main telescope. Preferentially,
this research will support NASA's and DLR's mission goals.

In order to investigate the science questions that could be addressed
uniquely in potential future research experiments on the SOFIA Upper
Deck, NASA's Space Science APRA program and NASA's Earth Science
Enterprise are co-sponsoring a workshop:

           SOFIA Upper Deck Science Opportunities Workshop
                to be held on:  June 22-23, 2004.
          at: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

We are soliciting extended (2-5 page) abstracts that will be published
on-line prior to the meeting. From that library, the important science
questions will be summarized in a white paper, writing tasks for which
will be allocated at the workshop.

More information on the workshop and registration can be found at:

                 http://surf.arc.nasa.gov

Important dates:

    Registration deadline foreign nationals:  May 15
    Registration deadline for US citizens:    June 10
    Extended abstract submissions:            June 15
    Workshop:                                            June 22-23

Scientific Organizing Committee:

  Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute),
  Hansjuerg Jost (BAER Institute),
  Tim Castellano (NASA Ames Research Center),
  Leonard Pfister (NASA Ames Research Center),
  Frans Rietmeijer (University of New Mexico Albuquerque),
  Ray Russell (The Aerospace Corporation),
  Hans Stenbaek-Nielsen (University of Alaska Fairbanks),
  Mike Taylor (Utah State University)

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 Peter Jenniskens

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