POLARIS PROJECT OFFICE EMAIL ARCHIVE FOR 970118

To: POLARIS Team
From: Steve Hipskind, Mike Craig
Re: POLARIS Planning

This note is to provide you planning information for the upcoming POLARIS Mission. It is intended as a brief overview; we will follow up with more detail on the individual issues. All of you should have received a copy from David Fahey of the selected PI's and the POLARIS schedule. Those items are repeated in this note. An important additional source of information regarding the POLARIS mission will be on the POLARIS web page which is located at: http://cloud1.arc.nasa.gov/polaris. There you will find background information on the mission as well as schedule and logistical plans.

The first announcement is that David Fahey and Paul Newman will share Project Scientist responsibilities. As in past missions, this arrangement provides needed flexibility over the course of a long mission. The issue of whether the integration and test flights would be staged from Ames or from Dryden has been resolved: all of the POLARIS missions will be staged from Ames. There are tentative plans to hold the first POLARIS Science Team meeting early in 1998.

David distributed the POLARIS calendar which we have repeated on the POLARIS web page. The one change to that schedule will concern the instruments that are new to the superpods or have been heavily modified. We will do an FRR and two hour check flight for those instruments separately, so that we can do a second, longer test flight before departing for Hawaii. The mission schedule is constrained on the front end by availability of the aircraft, but we will try to get the 2 hour check flight done as quickly as possible. This will dictate that the affected instrument teams travel to Ames two days earlier than indicated on the calendar (14 April instead of 16 April). Other instrument teams that would like to have the additional test flight are welcome to participate.

The web site contains lab layouts for Ames, Barber's Point and Ft. Wainwright. You should all be familiar with the first two and should have seen the layout for the latter. Remember that we will have a larger payload for POLARIS than we had for STRAT, so space at both Ames and Barber's Point will be tighter than in the past. The Hawaii lab will be particularly tight, but we will be there only a very short time to do the single southern survey flight. Because of the limited time and space at both Ames and Barber's Point, the theory team groups will be in the field only for the Fairbanks portion of the mission. If you have any comments or concerns about the lab layouts, feel free to let us know.

Regarding shipping: We will have a C-141 to support both Ames - Hawaii - Alaska legs in April and September and the return transit legs from Alaska to Ames in July and September. There are more instrument teams than in STRAT, so that space on the C-141 will be at a premium. Priority will be given to the instrument PI's and their equipment. We will likely have to limit the number of seats available to each team. Mike Craig will be following up with requests for detailed information on C-141 passengers. It is important that everyone take a careful look at their needs for the transit flights. We want to optimize the use of the C-141, so that we take only what is necessary to support the transit and survey flights. We want to avoid having to make large (and costly) overnight shipments to Hawaii and to Alaska. If you do foresee a need to ship equipment and/or material in addition to what you plan to load on the C-141, let us know and we will work with you to get that done.

The individual PI teams are responsible for any equipment and material that they want pre-positioned in Fairbanks. This is especially important for toxic and/or flammable materials, since those will not be allowed on the C-141. You are encouraged to pre- position as much equipment and material as is practical to lessen the load on the C-141. The shipping address for Ft. Wainwright is on the web page. We will not be doing an organized surface shipment to Alaska, but we do anticipate that we (the Ames Project Office) will air ship equipment direct to Fairbanks that is at Ames for the test flights (and which does not need to go to Hawaii). If you anticipate needing to ship any large items (such as ground carts) let Quincy Allison know. He will have to coordinate with Ames shipping, since space for large items going to Fairbanks may be limited.

Networking: we will have a direct 256Kbps link to Barber's Point (in place before we get there) and a direct T1 (1.5Mbps) link to the labs in Ft. Wainwright. Joe Goosby will be sending out a request for detailed information on your connection requirements. We will have phone and fax machines available at each location. Steve Gaines has set up the "polaris" account on cloud1 for data exchange. As in the past he has put the POLARIS email list on the top level (default) directory, filename "email.polaris". You can get the account password by contacting Steve, Joe Goosby or me via phone or email. Please take a look at the email file (just log on a do a "more"). Kathy Wolfe is maintaing the POLARIS participant (and email) list; please send additions or corrections to Kathy.

Don't forget that it is important to book your rooms for Alaska sooner rather than later. Please see Kathy Wolfe's emails regarding contact phone numbers (particularly her note of 970103). If you have any questions regarding the hotels, contact Kathy at wolfe@ember.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. sh

The following are lists of a) Instrument teams, b) Theory teams, and c) Mission Management

ER-2 INSTRUMENT TEAMS: 

J.  Anderson/Harvard
	P. Wennberg/Harvard		Hox
	E. Hintsa/Harvard		H2O
	R. Stimpfle/Harvard		ClO, BrO, ClONO2, NO2
	R. Cohen/UC Berkeley
E. Atlas/NCAR 				WAS
K. Boering, S. Wofsy/Harvard		CO2
P. Bui /NASA Ames			MMS
J. Elkins/NOAA CMDL			ACATS
B. Gandrud, D. Baumgardner/NCAR		MASP
R.-S. Gao/NOAA AL			NOy
B. Gary/JPL				MTP 
M. Loewenstein/NASA Ames 		ATLAS 
R. May /JPL				H2O
T. McElroy/AES Canada			CPFM
M. Proffitt/NOAA, J. Margitan/JPL	O3
R. Stachnik/JPL 			SLS
A. Strawa/NASA Ames		 	APS
C. Webster/JPL 				ALIAS 
J. Wilson/U. Denver			FCAS and CNC

The only payload conflict exists between the SLS and WAS 
instruments.  Both are expected to fly from Fairbanks over the 
course of the mission.


POLARIS THEORY TEAMS:

M. Hitchman/U.Wisc		Non-Hydrostatic Modeling of Summer 
				Stratospheric
				Mixing Processes for POLARIS
R. Kawa/NASA Goddard		POLARIS Radical and Ozone 
				Continuity Equation
				SimulationS (PROCESS)
M. Ko/AER			Contribution to Data Analysis Using AER 2-D 
				Assessment Model
S. Lloyd/Johns Hopkins		Radiative and Photochemical 
				Modeling During POLARIS
P. Newman/NASA Goddard		Meteorological Support for POLARIS
L. Pfister/NASA Ames		Meteorological Satellite Data Support for 
				POLARIS
R. Pierce/NASA Langley		HALOE Airmass Trajectory and 
				Photochemical Modeling
				Studies for the POLARIS Campaign
R. Salawitch/JPL		Photochemistry of Ozone During Polar 
				Summer
S. Solomon/NOAA AL		Interpretation of Observations of O3, 
				NOy, and other Trace
				Gases During the POLARIS campaign Using a 
				Two-Dimensional Chemical/Dynamical Model
S. Strahan/NASA Goddard		Flight Planning and Constituent 
				Modeling for the POLARIS
				Campaign Using the GEOS-1 
				Data Assimilation System
A. Tuck/NOAA AL			SAGE II and HALOE Data Analysis 
				and Modeling in 
				Support of the POLARIS Campaign
D. Waugh/CRC SHM		CRC-SHM Meteorological Support and 
				Chemical 	
				Modeling of the POLARIS Measurements
S. Wofsy/Harvard		Analysis of Ozone Changes During 
				POLARIS Using 
				SAGE II Data and Trajectory Calculations

Note to ER-2 instrument PIs: Please feel to contact these investigators 
to discuss potential collaborations that involve specific ER-2 data and 
the products and tools of the theory PI.


POLARIS MISSION MANAGEMENT:

Program Management
Michael Kurylo, Upper Atmosphere Research Program Manager 
(UARP), POLARIS Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters
Randy Kawa, Atmospheric Effects of Aviation Project Manager 
(AEAP), NASA Headquarters
Jack Kaye, Atmospheric Chemistry and Analysis Program Manager 
(ACMAP),  NASA Headquarters
Jim Huning, Airborne Science Office Program Manager, NASA 
Headquarters
Estelle Condon, Atmospheric Observations Manager, NASA Ames
Philip DeCola, Assistant UARP Manager, NASA Headquarters

Project Scientists
David Fahey, POLARIS Project Scientist, NOAA Aeronomy Lab
Paul Newman, POLARIS Co-Project Scientist, NASA Goddard

Project Management
Stephen Hipskind, POLARIS Project Manager, NASA Ames
Michael Craig,  Deputy POLARIS Project Manager / Instrument 
Coordinator, NASA Ames
Kathy Wolfe, POLARIS Project Coordinator, Computer Sciences 
Corporation
Steven Gaines, Data Exchange Manager, Sterling Software, NASA  Ames
Joe Goosby, Network Manager, Web Administrator, Sterling Software, 
NASA Ames
Quincy Allison, Logistics Coordinator, Simco, NASA Ames

ER-2 Operations
Warren Hall, Chief, Airborne Science and Flight Research Division
Earl Peterson, Deputy Chief, Airborne Science and Flight Research 
Division
John Arvesen, Branch Chief, High Altitude Missions Branch
James Barrilleaux, Assistant Branch Chief, High Altitude Missions 
Branch
Alan Cartledge, POLARIS Operations Project Manager
William Collette, ER-2 Chief Pilot, Lockheed

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