The Sixteenth Annual
RF Ionospheric Interactions Workshop
18 - 21 April 2010

Hilton Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico

sponsored by
National Science Foundation
in cooperation with
Air Force Research Laboratory, Office of Naval Research, and the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

Program Chairman: James Secan, NorthWest Research Associates

Steering Committee:  Asti Bhatt, Haystack Observatory; David Hysell, Cornell University; Brett Isham, Interamerican University; Elizabeth Kendall, SRI International; Edward Kennedy, NorthWest Research Associates; Robert Moore, University of Florida

Student Representative: Denys Piddyachiy, Stanford University

Ex Officio:  James Battis, Air Force Research Laboratory; Richard Behnke, National Science Foundation; Paul Bernhardt, Naval Research Laboratory; William Bristow, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Herbert Carlson, Air Force Office of Scientific Research; Lewis Duncan, Rollins College; William Gordon, Rice University; Keith Groves, Air Force Research Laboratory; Michael Kelley, Cornell University; Craig Selcher, Naval Research Laboratory; James Sheerin, Eastern Michigan University; Michael Sulzer, Arecibo Observatory


The sixteenth annual RF Ionospheric Interactions Workshop will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, beginning on Sunday, April 18, and ending on Wednesday, April 21, 2010. The focus of the workshop is on the interaction of high-power RF waves from ground-based transmitters with the ionospheric plasma and resultant phenomena such as the generation of ELF waves, ionospheric irregularities, and induced optical emissions.  The workshop begins on Sunday afternoon with a student tutorial session titled "Basic Physics of Ionospheric Heating."  In the other sessions invited presentations will be given on recent theoretical and experimental advances.  Submission of poster papers is encouraged for a session scheduled on Monday afternoon.  There also will be presentations on current capabilities of high-power RF ionospheric interaction facilities (Arecibo, HAARP, SURA and SPEAR). The workshop concludes on Wednesday morning with an open discussion on recent collaborative experiments and on the planning of future collaborative experiments.

Please see the following links for additional information.

If you have any questions, please contact the Program Chairman, Jim Secan, at jim@nwra.com or the Workshop Coordinator, Richard Brandt, at richard.brandt07@comcast.net.