08:00-09:00 On-site Registration ( Moffett Field Training and Conference Center)

Opening

09:00-09:05 Bonny P. Dalton (Dept. Director for Astrobiology and Space Research, NASA Ames Research Center) ** Welcome, Opening of the meeting

Session: The SOFIA observatory, the Upper Deck, and opportunities for Upper Deck enabled research
09:05-09:15 Peter Jenniskens ** Introduction: Towards a SOFIA Upper Deck Research Facility
09:15-09:25 Ed Schilling ** Multimedia show of SOFIA telescope integration and current state of upper deck
09:25-09:45 Jesse Bregman ** The capabilities, limitations and constraints of SOFIA
09:45-09:55 discussion (Steve Patterson - flight planning)

Science session on opportunities in Astronomy and Astrobiology
09:55-10:05 David Morrison ** NASA roadmap objectives in Astrobiology
10:05-10:25 Robert L. Hawkes ** Meteoroid Structure: Current Views, Astrophysical Importance and SOFIA Possibilities
10:25-10:45 Hans Stenbaek-Nielsen ** Results from airborne observations at 1000 frames/s

[coffee break]

Science session on opportunities in Astronomy and Astrobiology (cont.)
10:55-11:15 Jason P. Hatton ** Digital video imaging with small telescopes ÿý possible applications for research and education using the SOFIA Upper Deck Research Facility
11:15-11:35 Maria del Pilar Montaÿýÿýs Rodrÿýguez, ** Earthshine Observations from SOFIA
11:35-11:55 Tim Castellano ** Transitsearch: A Collaboration with Amateur Astronomers to Discover Transiting Extrasolar Planets
11:55-12:15 Laurence Doyle ** Science opportunities with optical interferometry.

Catered lunch at the site

12:30-14:00 - guided tour of SOFIA facilities at Ames

Science session on opportunities in Astronomy and Astrobiology (cont.)
14:00-14:25 Frans Rietmeijer ** What can be learned from long-term, frequent dust collection in the tropopause region?
14:25-14:30 discussion

Science session on opportunities in Aeronomy
14:30-14:50 Michael J. Taylor ** Airborne Investigations of Mesospheric Gravity Waves and their Sources
14:50-15:20 Armin Kleinboehl ** Radiometry of atmospheric chemical composition from SOFIA
15:20-15:30 discussion

[coffee break]

Science session on opportunities in Earth Sciences
15:45-15:50 Hansjuerg Jost ** SOFIA Upper Deck Science Opportunities in the Earth Sciences
15:50-16:10 R. Stephen Hipskind ** Earth Science Roadmap & Suborbital Platform Program
16:10-16:35 Laura Pan** Issues of Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange in the Middleworld
16:35-16:50 Mark A. Kritz ** A success story - fourteen years of piggybacking aboard NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory
16:50-17:00 discussion

17:00-18:00 Reception and poster viewing, sponsored by the Bay Area Environmental Research (BAER) Institute.

18:00-21:00 Poster session / Dinner catered at the site

Posters
Douglas S. Baer ** Novel instrumentation for trace gas measurements based on cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy
Albert Betz ** Thermospheric Oxygen Mapper (TOM)
Donald R. Blake ** Compact, autonomous whole air sampler for trace gas studies aboard the SOFIA aircraft
T.Paul Bui ** In situ meteorological and turbulent measurements for the SOFIA Upper Deck
Ronald Cohen ** Observing Trends in Nitrogen Oxides: A unique opportunity from SOFIA
Chris A. Hostetler ** Lidar applications on SOFIA
Peter Jenniskens ** Meteor research enabled by airborne AIM-IT rapid pointing technology (demonstration)
Michael J. Mahoney ** Where Is The Tropopause?
Howard Matis ** Using SOFIA to introduce teachers and students to cosmic ray science
Thomas J. McGee ** Compact Lidar for Stratospheric Ozone
David Nugent ** Near-real time meteor flux measurements from aircraft for satellite impact hazard mitigation and education (demonstration)
Colin Price ** Multi-spectral Optical Observations of Sprites from SOFIA
Ray W. Russell ** Open questions in mid-IR astronomy and aeronomy that may be addressed in observations from SOFIA's Upper Deck
Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez ** Detection of volatiles in cometary meteoroids using IR meteor spectroscopy
Jeremie Vaubaillon ** Meteoroid impact hazard mitigation and meteor shower activity forecasting

08:00-09:00 On-site Registration

09:00-09:05 Organizational remarks

Science session on opportunities in Earth Sciences (cont.)
09:05-09:25 Leonhard Pfister ** Air Masses Sampled by SOFIA in the lowermost stratosphere
09:25-09:45 Linnea Avallone ** Measurements from In-Service Aircraft: What are the Possibilities?
09:45-10:00 Jim Podolske ** In situ Water Vapor Measurements in the Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere from SOFIA
10:00-10:20 Pao K. Wang ** Transport of Chemical Species from the Troposphere to the Stratosphere by Deep Convective Clouds
10:20-10:30 discussion

[coffee break]

Science session on opportunities in Earth Sciences (cont.)
10:45-11:05 James W. Elkins ** Climate Change Studies of Important Trace Gases
11:05-11:20 Hansjuerg Jost ** SOFIA Upper Deck Science Opportunities in the Earth Sciences
11:20-11:45 Ross J. Salawitch ** Measurement Needs in the UT/LS
11:45-12:00 discussion

Catered lunch at the site

Science session on opportunities in Earth Sciences (cont.)
14:00-14:15 Pat Hamill ** An aerosol observatory on SURF
14:15-14:45 A. Gannet Hallar ** Measurements of Aerosol Optical Properties using Cavity Ring Down Technology
14:45-15:00 Laura T. Iraci ** Chemical Composition of Upper Tropospheric and Lower Stratospheric Aerosols
15:00-15:15 Robert Chatfield ** Science that SURF Can Advance: A Modeler's Thoughts about the Next Decades
15:15-15:20 discussion

[coffee break]

Science session on opportunities in Earth Sciences (cont.)
15:35-15:50 Fred K. Stroh ** Scientific Return from High Spatial Resolution Mid-IR Limb Emission Measurements of the UTLS Region
15:50-16:05 Kenneth W. Jucks ** FIRS-2 remote sensing from SOFIA
16:05-16:20 Marty Mlynczak ** Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere for SOFIA
16:20-16:25 discussion

Science session on opportunities in Astronomy and Astrobiology (cont.)
16:25-16:40 George S. Rossano ** MIRIS, its capabilities for meteor infrared astronomy, and how it might be configured for use on SOFIA's Upper Deck
16:40-16:55 S. Mani Tripathi ** A High Altitude Air Cherenkov Telescope
16:55-17:00 Closing remarks.

17:30-21:00 Dinner at downtown restaurant.