UAF Campus (T Paris, UAF)

NLC Display at Poker Flat (Z Marlow, UNC)

AIM Satellite (S Bailey, Virgina Tech.)

AMISR (R Collins, UAF)

See Schedule Page for Schedule and Answers to FAQs

Answers to questions about schedule, location, posters, parking, bus transport, meals etc.

28-year overview of SBUV PMC/NLC observations

Matthew DeLand has provided a 28-year overview of SBUV PMC/NLC observations. This is an update of DeLand et al. [2003]. Click on the "Science" Tab above.

AIM Launches

The AIM satellite was launched by NASA aboard a Pegusus rocket today from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 2026 GMT 24 April 2007 (4:26 p.m. EDT; 1:26 p.m. local). Mission progress can be followed at the Countdown Coverage Page of space.com.

First Announcement

The Eighth International Workshop on Layered Phenomena in the Mesopause Region will be held at the Geophysical Institute (GI) of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) on the UAF campus during 20-23 August 2007.

The goal of LPMR-8 meeting is to advance our understanding of mesospheric clouds and their environment in the upper mesosphere. The workshop provides a forum for presentation and discussion of new ground-based and satellite measurements of noctilucent/polar mesospheric clouds and their coupled dynamical, thermal, chemical, and plasma environment. The workshop brings together experts from around the world, engaged in research on noctilucent clouds (NLC), Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMC) and Polar Mesospheric Summertime Echoes (PMSE). LPMR-8 is a forum for the presentation of the results of recent research on mesospheric clouds and their environment, and to promote discussion of the current state of knowledge and future directions for international, inter–disciplinary cooperation in the fields.

The timing of the workshop coincides with the launch of the NASA Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite, the International Polar Year (IPY), and the deployment of the NSF Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR).

The workshop is presently sponsored by its parent organization the International Commission on the Middle Atmosphere (ICMA), the Geophysical Institute and the Center for Research Services and the College of Natural Resources and Matematics of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Heliophysics Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Division of Atmospheric Sciences of the National Science Foundation.

This website will be regularly updated (See "Schedule" tab for important dates).

Updated 5/31/2007, Richard Collins rlc@gi.alaska.edu

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