Bob Mccoy Director, Geophysical Institute University of Alaska Fairbanks

Bob Mccoy Director, Geophysical Institute University of Alaska Fairbanks

Arctic Space Weather Research in Alaska 11 Bob McCoy Director, Geophysical Institute www.gi.Alaska.edu University of Alaska Fairbanks [email protected] Major State-owned or University-owned Suborbital . Ionospheric Research Facilities PFRR Fairbanks HAARP PSC-A Suborbital & Orbital • Poker Flat Research Range (PFRR) • High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) • Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska (PSCA) 2 From Mark Conde Poker Flat Research Range Largest land-based rocket range Only rocket range owned by a university 35 miles from campus PF Incoherent Scatter Radar A regional, high-latitude ionospheric laboratory Cameras PFISR SuperDARN Rockets GNSS current status, green already installed, blue upcoming, gray are potential sites Don Hampton Anthea Coster Alaska Earthquake Center I,D • Report ~ 50,000 earthquakes/yr • 50 earthquakes > M5; 6 > M6; M7 (every other year) • Publishes Tsunami hazard maps for Alaska EarthScope in Alaska & Western Canada is complete – 193 stations Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Long Range Discrimination Radar LRDR Clear Air Force Station High-frequency Active Aurora Research Program (HAARP) Reaching Out & Touching the Ionosphere • Gakona AK - 62.39 deg, 145.15 deg (West) • 33 acre phased HF transmitter array; • 2.8 to 10 MHz; • Multiple beams & transmission to 30 elevation angle • 5 x 3600 hp diesel engines; 3.6 MW; • $290M (half Congressional earmarks + half AFRL, ONR & DARPA) HF Ionospheric Heating ULF, ELF, VLF wave injection Heating Duct creation Airglow Rotating Wave generation beams Currents Chemistry Multiple Plasma resonances beams Instabilities Turbulence Previous HAARP Results Bristow – Decay rates of scattered power related diffusion of the neutral atmosphere. Bernhardt – Triggered scintillation used to server space-to-ground UHF communication Chris Fallen Experiment: First simultaneous high-power HF radio aurora and SSTV broadcast, Sep 2017 Gakona, Alaska 05:44 UT HAARP 14 Mar 2013, 01:02 GMT 250 Natural 14 March 2013 01:30 to 04:00 GMT 200 km Extended Artificial Ionization Artificial 150 with 5.8 MHz Twisted Beam Altitude 100 2 Minutes Courtesy Paul Bernhardt 0 2 4 6 8 NRL Plasma Frequency MHz HAARP 14 Mar 2013, 01:30 GMT HAARP 14 Mar 2013, 01:56 GMT HAARP 14 Mar 2013, 02:30 GMT 250 250 250 200 200 200 km km km 150 150 150 Altitude Altitude Altitude 1 ½ Hour 100 ½ Hour 100 1 Hour 100 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 Plasma Frequency MHz Plasma Frequency MHz Plasma Frequency MHz HAARP 14 Mar 2013, 03:00 GMT HAARP 14 Mar 2013, 03:30 GMT HAARP 14 Mar 2013, 04:05 GMT 250 250 250 200 200 200 km km km 150 150 150 Altitude Altitude Altitude 100 2 Hours 100 2 ½ Hour 100 3 Hours 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 Plasma Frequency MHz Plasma Frequency MHz Plasma Frequency MHz Over the Horizon Radar D C C/H Offset of transmitter and receiver 8 MHz; Covers range of ~1100 km location; 2000 km range translates to to ~1800 km from radar about 80° latitude Bill Bristow UAF/GI Alaska’s “Railbelt” Grid A series of nested and interconnected microgrids Most of the state FTWWhas isolated microgrids Great potential for Clear FT nuclear microFS -reactors • 6 interconnected utilities • Battery / flywheel • Hydro JE • Natural Gas • Landfill syngas • Coal • Diesel George Roe Alaska Center for Energy & Power Opportunities: SAR as a Source of Ionospheric Information Continental-Scale information on average ionospheric behavior L-band NISAR 2022 Alaska Satellite Facility Ionospheric parameters from ~750,000 L-band images Franz J Meyer, UAF Cornell, 10/2017 - 1616 Alaska – Low-cost Gateway to Space PFRR Thanks, questions? 18.

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