VT SuperDARN grad student Bharat Kunduri wins first prize in the 2013 CEDAR Workshop IT poster competition

By: miker on: Fri., June 28, 2013 01:12 PM EDT (11070 Reads)

The annual CEDAR Workshop was held this year at the Millennium Hotel in Boulder Colorado, June 22-28 and counted nearly 400 participants. More than 60 students competed in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere poster session held on Tuesday, June 25th. First prize was awarded to VT SuperDARN student Mr. Bharat Kunduri for his poster entitled 'Statistical characterization of sub-auroral polarization stream using large scale observations by mid-latitude SuperDARN radars.' Well done, Bharat!

Space@VT was well represented at this year's meeting by eight graduate students. Congratulations also to Space@VT graduate student Ms. Kshitijia Deshpande, who won honorable mention in the IT competition with her poster entitled 'Sensitivity study of a model of GPS scintillations used to characterize high latitude ionospheric irregularities'. Ms. Deshpande is supervised by Prof. Bob Clauer.

More information about CEDAR and its annual workshop can be found by clicking 'Read More'.

The 2013 CEDAR meeting web site can be found at http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2013_Workshop:Main

The Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Quoting from the NSF program announcement at
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5503:

'CEDAR is a broad-based, community-initiated, upper atmospheric research program. The goal is to understand the behavior of atmospheric regions from the middle atmosphere upward through the thermosphere and ionosphere into the exosphere in terms of coupling, energetics, chemistry, and dynamics on regional and global scales. These processes are related to the sources of perturbations that propagate upward from the lower atmosphere as well as to solar radiation and particle inputs from above. The activities within this program combine observations, theory and modeling.'

The program holds an annual competition for awards (deadline typically in May). It also sponsors the annual Workshop, typically held in late June, which brings together NSF program managers, leading researchers in the U.S., students, and visitors from abroad. The next two workshops will be held in Seattle, WA, June 22-27, 2014 and June 21-26, 2015.

Comprehensive information regarding CEDAR and related activities can be found at the web site hosted by the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR):

http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

VT SuperDARN grad student Bharat Kunduri wins first prize in the 2013 CEDAR Workshop IT poster competition

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