Coordinated Investigation Programmes Overview of Status

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Coordinated Investigation ProgrammesOverview of
Status

• Richard Stamper
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
• UK

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Outline

• Introduction to Coordinated Investigation
  Programmes (CIPs)
• Motivation
• Process and infrastructure
• CIP Status
• Range
• Links between CIPs
• Links with other programmes
• Looking forward

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How to coordinate IHY Science?

• Decentralised
• Grassroots driven
• No central authority to direct the science
• Low bureaucracy
• Should be useful, not a red-tape exercise
• Cross-disciplinary
• Facilitate investigation of Universal Processes
• Enable researchers to use unfamiliar resources

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Coordinated Investigation Programmes

• Based on the SoHO Joint Observing Programme (JOP)
  model
• Typically drawing on multiple independent
  resources
• Investigations not just Observations
• Modelling, Retrospective Data Analysis, Theory
• Open access
• Anyone can propose a CIP
• All CIP proposals are public
• Autonomy
• IHY facilitates and advertises activities but
  does not run them
• The proposer retains control

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CIPs Why bother?

• It is the way of identifying that
• a science activity is part of IHY
• Advertising
• Provides a shop window for activities
• Encourage others to participate and collaborate
• Make connections between related activities
• Enabling
• Help establish contact with representatives of
  the facilities needed (instruments,
  observatories, databases, model codes)
• Reporting
• Links the programme with IHY reporting activities
  such as the Universal Process workshops and
  public outreach programmes

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CIP process

• CIP submission
• Register an interest in IHY
• Advertise ones intentions
• CIP co-ordination and support
• Discipline coordinators review CIPs
• Identify overlaps, synergies
• Help proposers gain access to instruments, data,
  models
• Universal process workshops
• Co-ordinated reviews of work undertaken as part
  of IHY

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Infrastructure CIP creation

• ihy2007.org.uk/CIPs.shtm
• Facilities to
• Create a CIP
• Edit your CIP
• Search for CIPs
• Browse all CIPs

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Infrastructure Search
Edit button for each CIP on the list page
Search page search on keywordand by
restricting to specific discipline
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Infrastructure Editing

• Clicking the button sends an e-mail to the Lead
  Proposer
• contains a CIP-specific web link allowing editing
  of the CIP
• Original form but with fields populated
• Lead proposer has control
• Can send the web link to others to allow them to
  edit
• Easy to maintain CIP description
• No usernames / passwords required
• Some potential for spamming
• No significant abuse

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Coordination Disciplines

• CIPs (self-)classified into one or more
  traditional disciplines
• Universal Processes would scare people away
• Easier to devolve coordination work
• 1 or 2 coordinators per discipline
• Active researchers in the discipline
• Notified automatically by e-mail when CIPs are
  created or edited

• Solar
• Heliosphere/Cosmic Rays
• Magnetospheres
• Ionized Atmospheres
• Neutral Atmospheres
• Climate
• Meteors/Meteoroids/Interplanetary Dust

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Discipline Coordinators Role

• Would
• Review CIPs in their discipline for overlaps,
  synergies
• Contact CIP leaders to offer help, give advice
• Could
• Assist in gaining access to resources because of
  IHY linke.g. letters of recommendation to
  support funding, access to data, observing time.
• Would not (could not)
• Decide what people must or must not do

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Discipline Coordinators
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CIPs submitted Disciplines
Total of 65 submitted, many spanning multiple
disciplines
See http//ihy2007.org.uk/CIP_browser.shtm
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CIPs Browsing
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CIPs Participation
Canada (6) Costa Rica Mexico (2) USA (22)
China (2) India (4) Japan (6) Korea Malaysia UAE
Argentina Brazil (5) Chile Peru
Australia (2) Indonesia
Antarctica (12)
gt30 nationalities in CIP proposals, gt16 more
involved in CIP implementation
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Other programmes UNBSS

• UN Basic Space Science programme
• Capacity building
• IHY focus for 2005-2009
• ESA / NASA / JAXA
• 9 CIPs involving 11 UNBSS instrument networks
• Magnetometers MAGDAS, AMBER, AGREES
• GPS GPS scintillation, SCINDA, SAMA
• VLF monitors AWESOME, SAVNET, VLF Direction
  Finding
• Particle detectors SEVAN, Muon Detector Network

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Other programmes IPY

• IHY submitted an EoI to IPY (Richard Harrison)
• ICESTAR (Allan Weatherwax and Kirsti Kauristie)
• Interhemispheric Conjugacy Effects in
  Solar-Terrestrial and Aeronomy Research
• Program endorsed by SCAR
• Also submitted an EoI
• ICESTAR IHY co-leading IPY endorsed Project63
• Heliosphere Impacts on Geospace
• 27 other EoIs included
• Kick-off meeting held in Helsinki, 5-9th February
  2007
• Substantial intersection between EoIs and CIPs
• 7 CIPs also part of ICESTAR/IHY project

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Thematic Groups Subject

• Cosmic Rays
• 14 CIPs
• Ranging from the heliosheath to the lower
  atmosphere
• Meeting held Bad Honnef, Germany, 19th May 2007
• Possible special session at EGU 2009?
• Contact Bernd Heber
• Filaments
• 5 CIPs
• Formation, structure, evolution, links with CMEs
• Instrumental in setting up Whole Heliosphere
  Interval (WHI) more from Sarah Gibson, next
  talk
• CME initiation and propagation
• 7 CIPs
• More from Richard Harrison, next talk but one

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Thematic Groups Techniques

• Incoherent scatter radars
• EISCAT Svalbard Radar has had long continuous
  runs, coordinated with other ISRs
• 5 CIPs (ISPAM) plus IPY EoIs
• All being coordinated by Ian McCrea
• Balloon-borne experiments
• 3 CIPs, both Arctic and Antarctic
• Work on-going NOBILE Arctic Long-distance
  balloon flight recently Russian project still
  seeking funds (Dr. Tsvetkov, IZMIRAN)
• VLF
• Ionospheric remote sensing
• Link to UNBSSI AWESOME , SAVNET

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What next?

• Science continues!
• CIPs are not constrained to end with IHY
• Updates to CIP descriptions are continuing as
  work proceeds
• Links to dedicated websites particularly useful
• Workshops/conferences held or planned
• AGU WHI Session, May 2008
• UNBSS Workshop, Sozopol, Bulgaria, June 2008
• This session
• WHI Workshop, August 2008
• IAU Symposium 257, Ioannina, Greece, Sep 2008
• EGU 2009 special sessions? Deadline September
  2008
• AGU 2009 special sessions? Deadline November
  2008
• CIP Infrastructure a useful resource?
• CIP database Freeze? Maintain actively past
  2009? Allow post-IHY CIPS?
• Discipline Planners continue role?