AMISR in Africa Workshop Boston College, 1-3 March 2012 Objective: The prime objective of the workshop is to discuss and identify the scientific and societal benefits of developing a new international upper atmospheric facility, Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR), in Ethiopia. ORGANIZERS Endawoke Yizengaw, Boston College Anthea Coster, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology Mark Moldwin, University of Michigan SPONSORS National Science Foundation Boston College USA Mike Kelley Dave Hysell Bob Robinson Anja Stromme Craig Heinselman Jonathan Fentze Josh Semeter Pat Doherty Cesar Valladares Keith Groves Odile de la Beaujardiere John Retterer Cheryl Huang Charlie Carrano Eftyhia Zesta Willard Thorn Ron Caton Edgardo Pacheco Richard Parris Vadym Paznukhov Jim Labelle Eugene Dao Joseph Davila Arthur Weaver John Foster Joseph Sliker Phil Erickson Mark Moldwin Frank Lind Anthea Coster Esayas Shume Endawoke Yizengaw South America Jorge Chau, Peru Europe Esa Turunen, Finland Sandro Radicella, Italy Markku Lehtinen, Sweden Lassie Roininen, Sweden Africa Gizaw Mengistu, Ethiopia Baylie Damtie, Ethiopa Oliver Obrou, Ivory Cost Paul Baki, Kenya Jacob Adeniyi, Nigeria Babatunde Rabiu, Nigeria Lee Anne Mckinnell, S. Africa Florence D’ujanga, Uganda Patrick Sibanda, Zambia Participants’ Geographic Distribution Why Africa to host AMISR? PA AM Fall Fall Hei et al., 2005 Fall Adapted from S.Y. Su, 2005 AF IN Instrumentation in Africa Instruments Network: Five years ago Instruments Network: Present AMISR new home Targets of this workshop To discuss and identify the scientific and societal benefits of developing a new AMISR in Ethiopia; not about what the community has done, but what can be done with this facility, which will be the second equatorial ISR facility in the world. Is there any scientific need for placing an AMISR observatory in Africa? If so, demonstrating the wealth of scientific opportunities that AMISR in Africa would provide is the principal goal of this workshop. Are there any feasible technical and logistical issues that need to be addressed to satisfy the scientific need and successful deployment of AMISR? Is there any feasible international collaboration model that could lead a project to develop the facility? Does placing AMISR in Ethiopia will advance space science research in the Africa Continent? If so, how?