DASP Workshop 2024 (Division of Atmospheric and Space Physics)

DASP Workshop 2024

Tuesday, February 20–Friday, February 23 2024

8-207 Donadeo Innovation Centre for Engineering, Edmonton, Alberta

The 2024 workshop of the Division of Atmospheric and Space Physics of the Canadian Association of Physicists, DASP, was held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. This workshop brought together nearly 100 students and researchers from the Canadian solar-terrestrial physics community and beyond for a fascinating insight into the latest work in this exciting field. The meeting also hosted a student workshop teaching usable skills and knowledge to help boost the next generation of space physics researchers.

Thank you to all attendees for helping to make this a great meeting.

Student Workshop

Monday, February 19 2024

The theme of this years student workshop was Observational Space Physics in Canada. The workshop introduced students to the area of space physics through a combination of lectures from leading Canadian space physics researchers, coding workshops under the supervision of Python package creators, and networking opportunities with peers and mentors from leading Canadian institutions.

The morning session consisted of introductory presentations on space physics, instrumentation, and important data sets in the field. The data sets discussed included information about CARISMA (a magnetometer array), SuperDARN (an auroral radar network), and TREx (an auroral imaging facility).

The afternoon session was a coding workshop format, where students got to learn how to use and analyse the data sets discussed.

Note: Presentations have been converted to PDFs, as well as could be. Dynamic effect have been preserved, so please view full screen single slide, or presentation view.

Session	Speaker	Institution	Title - click/tap to view presentation where available
Morning: introductory presentations	Daniel Billett	University of Saskatchewan	Space Physics Introduction
	David Milling	University of Alberta	Magnetometer Introduction
	Emma Spanswick	University of Calgary	TREx and ASI Introduction
	Kathryn McWilliams	University of Saskatchewan	SuperDARN Introduction
Afternoon: coding workshop			Coding workshop resources can be found at https://github.com/kylermurphy/DASP_2024
	Kyle Murphy	CSA / Lakehead University	GMAG session
	Mike Shumko	JHU-APL	Aurora-asi-lib
	Josh Houghton, Eric Donovan, Darren Chaddock, and Emma Spanswick	University of Calgary	UofC ASI crib sheets

Schedule and Presentations

The following were presented at the DASP workshop 2024. Where available, the presentation has been included (where possible, archived in PDF format).

For more presentations, please see either the student workshop section, or the business meeting section.

Note: Presentations have been converted to PDFs, as well as could be. Dynamic effect have been preserved, so please view full screen single slide, or presentation view.

Tuesday, February 20 2024

Session	Speaker	Institution	Title - click/tap to view presentation where available
Precipitation and Radiation Belt	Jean-Francois Ripoll	CEA	Cold Electrons and Electromagnetic Waves in the Near-Earth Space
	Mike Shumko	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	The Loss Through Auroral Microburst Pulsations Satellite (LAMPsat) Flight Opportunity Study
	Louis Ozeke	University of Alberta	New Evidence Supporting a Natural Limit to the Flux of Energetic Electrons Injected into the Inner Magnetosphere
	Leonid Olifer	University of Alberta	Rapid Acceleration Bursts in the Van Allen Radiation Belt
	Ji Liu	University of Alberta	Dynamics of Energetic Electrons in Microinjection
	Christian Keenan	University of Calgary	Statistical Distributions and Properties of Energetic (> 30 keV) Electrons Precipitated from the Ring Current Region
Space Weather	Hannah Parry	University of Alberta	On the Role of Earth Impedance in Driving Geomagnetically Induced Currents: Three Examples on the Alberta Electric Power Network
	Darcy Cordell	University of Alberta	Modelling geomagnetically induced currents in the Alberta power network: Comparison and validation using Hall probe measurements during a magnetic storm
	Enci Wang	Athabasca University	Evaluating electric fields during geomagnetic events using magnetotelluric data: examples from western Canada
	Jennifer Peterson	University of Alberta	New Evidence for Modulation of Lightning Rates by Solar Wind Magnetic Sector Structures
	Daniel Billet	University of Saskatchewan	Thermospheric Densities and Ionospheric Conditions During the Starlink Destruction Event
	Kyle Murphy	Canadian Space Agency / Lakehead University	A Machine Learning Model for Atmospheric Density and Satellite Drag
	Anton Kashcheyev	University of New Brunswick	EclipseNB: A network of low-cost GNSS receivers to study ionospheric response to April 2024 solar eclipse
Ground-based Networks	Emma Spanswick	University of Calgary	Ground Infrastructure Upgrades in Advance of GDC
	Eric Donovan	University of Calgary	THEMIS-ASI
	Chris Watson	University of New Brunswick	Space Weather Ionospheric Network Canada
	Pasha Ponomarenko	University of Saskatchewan	Advanced imaging of ionospheric plasma structures with high temporal resolution by Borealis SuperDARN radar systems
	Reza.Ghoddousi-Fard	Natural Resources Canada	Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) serving atmospheric monitoring: A review
	Glen Hussey	University of Saskatchewan	ICEBEAR Meteor Trail Echoes Detections
	Magnus Fagernes Ivarsen	University of Saskatchewan	A Case for Turbulent Structure being Directly Embedded into the Ionosphere
	Reihaneh Ghaffari	University of Calgary	Classifying Riometer Absorption Events to Understand Underlying Precipitation Mechanisms
	Eric Donovan	University of Calgary	Hiding in Plain Sight: A New Dynamic Auroral Form
	Jun Liang	University of Calgary	Inversion of electron precipitation parameters from TREx
	Darren Chaddock	University of Calgary	Lowering Barriers of Usage: Advancements for UCalgary data
	Torsten Reuschel	University of New Brunswick	Improving Raw Data Quality in Ionosonde Design and Operation
	Oleksandr Koloskov	University of New Brunswick	Advanced plasma drift velocity calculation technique
	Basile Fayol	University of New Brunswick	Advancements in Field Widened Birefringent Interferometry: Thermally Compensated Designs and Wind Uncertainty Analysis

Wednesday, February 21 2024

Session	Speaker	Institution	Title - click/tap to view presentation where available
Lunar Gateway and Planetary	James Carpenter (invited)	ESA	Heliophysics at the Gateway and on the Moon
	Robert Fedosejevs	University of Alberta	The Canadian SWeeping Energetic Particle Telescope for the Lunar Gateway (G-SWEPT)
	Tayo Shonibare	AllSeeing	Diamond Experiment In the MagnetOSphere (DEIMOS): a Collision-less Shocks and Solar Wind Mission
	Richard Marchand	University of Alberta	Dusty lunar atmosphere interaction with infrastructure
	Suleiman Baraka	National Insitute of Aerospace	Plasma sheets impact lunar surface charging. PIC code kinetic simulation
	Abigail Azari	University of British Columbia	Disentangling the Solar Wind Interaction and Crustal Fields Influence at Mars with Implications at Earth
	Jari Swanson	University of Alberta	UAV-based vector magnetic surveying for mineral exploration: Technology spin-off arising from miniaturized cubesat fluxgate magnetometer development
RADICALS	Ian Mann	University of Alberta	The RADiation Impacts on Climate and Atmospheric Loss Satellite (RADICALS) Mission
	Greg Enno	University of Alberta	RADICALS Scientific Mission Update
	David Milling	University of Alberta	The Magnetometer Payload for the RADICALS mission
	Robert Fedosejevs	University of Alberta	The RADICALS High Energy Particle Telescope (RADHEPT) Instrument Suite
	Anant Kumar T. K.	University of Alberta	Design of the Microburst Detector (MBD) for the RADICALS mission: A novel miniaturized instrument to characterize electron microburst precipitation
	Christopher Cully	University of Calgary	The RADICALS X-Ray Imager: Science Targets and Development Status
Space Missions	Andrew Howarth	University of Calgary	Ten Years of CASSIOPE: A Canadian Space Science Success Story
	Andrew Yau	University of Calgary	CASSIOPE/Swarm-E Observation of Ion Composition and Small (Decameter) Scale Plasma Density Irregularities: Variability and Impact on MIT Coupling
	David Knudsen	University of Calgary	Ten Years of Observing Ionospheric Electrodynamics with Swarm - From Events to Statistics to Models
	David Miles (invited)	University of Iowa	The upcoming Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) Small Explorers Mission
	Robyn Milan (invited)	Dartmouth College	Upcoming Experiments for Studying Energetic Electron Precipitation
	Jesper Gjerloev (invited)	JHU-APL	Electojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE): An Innovative Cubesat Mission to Study The Electrojets
	Harlan Spence (invited)	University of New Hampshire	HelioSwarm: A Multipoint, Multiscale Mission to Characterize Turbulence
	Erik F Halliwell	University of Alberta	Payload for Energetic Particle Precipitation, Education, and Research - eXperiment (PEPPER- X): First Canadian Student Contribution to NASA's RockSat-X Program
Ground Missions	Johnathan Burchill	University of Calgary	On the validity of the Swarm SLIDEM product
	Levan Lomidze	University of Calgary	Modeling high-latitude ionosphere electric potential using Swarm satellite data and artificial neural networks
	Paul A. Bernhardt	University of Alaska Fairbanks	Swarm-E Detection of Ionospheric Amplification of HAARP Generated VLF Whistlers
	Hossein Ghadjari	University of Calgary	Probability distribution of integrated power of equatorial ionosphere plasma density fluctuations measured by the Swarm Langmuir probes
	Bizuayehu Addisie	University of Calgary	Unexpected Field-Aligned Structure in Equatorial Plasma Bubbles
	Chris Watson	University of New Brunswick	Swarm-E GPS Observations of the Ionosphere
	Alexei F. Kouznetsov	University of Calgary	Restoring High-Resolution Electron Spectra from the CASSIOPE/e-POP Suprathermal Electron Imager (SEI)

Thursday, February 22 2024

Session	Speaker	Institution	Title - click/tap to view presentation where available
Aurora	Megan Gillies	University of Calgary	Investigating Omega band Aurora using Multispectral Imaging
	Sneha Susan Babu	University of Alberta	Ground-satellite conjugate observations of late growth phase substorm dynamics
	Frances Fenrich	University of Alberta	Auroral Beads Associated with a Field Line Resonance
	Cassandra Mckenna	University of Alberta	Characterizing Poynting flux and associated Alfven waves in multiple discrete auroral arcs
	Jun Liang	University of Calgary	Proton auroras: observations and proton-hydrogen-electron transport modeling
	Ambareena Naeem	University of Calgary	Searching for the auroral signature of Alfvénic turbulence
	Magnus Fagernes Ivarsen	University of Saskatchewan	Plasma Turbulence Around Auroral Arcs
Ionosphere	Daniel Billet	University of Saskatchewan	High time resolution mapping of polar ionospheric flows with the SuperDARN Borealis systems
	Alexandre Koustov	University of Calgary	SuperDARN HF velocity correction for half-hop echoes
	Gareth Perry	New Jersey Institute of Technology	Evidence of HF multi-hop propagation in Antarctica
	Joshua Ruck	University of Birmingham	On the use of SuperDARN Ground Backscatter Measurements for Ionospheric Propagation Model Validation
	Mehdi Ghalamkarian	Nejad University of Saskatchewan	Validation of SuperDARN measurements of ExB ionospheric plasma drift velocity at over-the-horizon distances
	Pasha Ponomarenko	University of Saskatchewan	Climatology of ionospheric HF propagation at high latitudes from SuperDARN Canada observations
	David R. Themens	University of Birmingham / University of New Brunswick	Statistical modeling of high latitude sporadic-E climatology
	Devin Huyghebaert	UiT The Arctic University of Norway	Comparisons of E-region Coherent Scatter Statistics at 49.5 MHz and 32.55 MHz with ICEBEAR and SIMONe Norway
	E. Ceren Kalafatoglu Eyiguler	University of Saskatchewan	A multi-case study of the ellipticity polarization state of HF transionospheric radio waves
	E. Ceren Kalafatoglu Eyiguler	University of Saskatchewan	Mode Delays of Transionospheric Radio Waves
	Gareth Perry	New Jersey Institute of Technology	Searching for STEVE-like electron temperature spikes with Swarm
Modeling and Cosmic Rays	Dmytro Sydorenko	University of Alberta	Modeling of high-latitude ionosphere
	Wei Shen	University of Alberta	The Ionospheric Feedback Instability Revisited
	Robert Rankin	University of Alberta	Effect of geomagnetic field model on calculation of photoelectron flux
	Jose Arnal	University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies	Variational Data Assimilation for Three-Dimensional Global Ideal MHD Models
	Alexei F. Kouznetsov	University of Calgary	Satellite Instrument Shielding in the Strongly Coupled Plasmas
	Olakunle Ogunjobi	University of Calgary	Influence of solar wind stream interface on ground-level enhancement pulse shape
	Olakunle Ogunjobi	University of Calgary	The impact of coronal mass ejections on small-amplitude forbush events
	C. John Bland	University of Calgary	Enhanced Diurnal Variations in Neutron Monitor Count Rates at Northerly Locations in November 2022

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Student Presentation Competition Winners

Students presenting at DASP are encouraged to enter the best student presentation competition.

Student Competition 2024 winners:

1st : Jari Swanson
2nd : Erik Halliwell
3rd : Cassandra Mckenna

DASP/STSAC meeting

Friday, February 20 2024

The DASP business meeting took place during the morning session and covered the following topics.

Speaker	Institution	Title - click/tap to view presentation where available
William Archer	CSA	Canadian Space Agency Update
David R. Themens	UBham/UNB	Review of Action Items
David R. Themens	UBham/UNB	Website Overview and Feedback
Dan Billett	USask	DASP Mailing List Transition
Megan Gillies	UCalgary	Membership status, financial status, and division fees
Megan Gillies	UCalgary	Student Competition in Review
William Ward	UNB	Reports by national representatives - SCOSTEP
Richard Marchand	UAlberta	Reports by national representatives - CAP-NSERC liaison committee
David R. Themens	UBham/UNB	Reports by national representatives - URSI
David R. Themens	UBham/UNB	Reports by national representatives - IAGA/IUGG
John Manuel	CSA	Reports by national representatives - GEM
Jennifer Peterson	UAlberta	DASP Student Workshop in Review Jennifer Peterson
David R. Themens	UBham/UNB	DASP 2025/2026 workshop venue
David R. Themens	UBham/UNB	Solicitation of Interest for the ERC Representative
David R. Themens	UBham/UNB	Any other business

The Solar-Terrestrial Science Advisory Committee (STSAC) Workshop took place in the afternoon. The topic of discussion was to solicit input into the proposed update to the STSAC 2020 roadmap. Potential ideas on the focus direction of STSAC were then discussed.

Note: Presentations have been converted to PDFs, as well as could be. Dynamic effect have been preserved, so please view full screen single slide, or presentation view.