In October 2015, we launched our first conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Topics included solar activity, solar cycles, space weather, human health, and more. Attendees ranged from students, families, to retirees with a love of science...since then, we've held annual events in Phoenix, AZ and Albuquerque, NM.
THANK YOU for joining us this past February 2019 for our 5th Observing The Frontier Conference!

OBSERVING THE FRONTIER 2019
FEATURED SPEAKER


​Dr. Brian Tinsley

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Professor Emeritus, The University of Texas at Dallas
Brian Tinsley received his PhD from the University of Canterbury in 1963. He has dozens of publications, including many of the foundational works leading to modern understanding of solar forcing of terrestrial meteorology. He'll be discussing solar wind and its effect on the weather, one of the principal contributors to energy in the atmosphere and the global electric circuit.
SPEAKERS
Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille
The Ohio State University, Radiology
Dr Robitaille is the designer of the world's first Ultra High Field MRI Scanner and is a leading expert in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Dr. Michael Clarage
SAFIRE Project
A lead sci​dentist with the SAFIRE Project, a set of lab-based experiments to explore the role of electricity in stellar and planetary phenomena. He received his Ph.D in Physics from Brandeis University.
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Dr. Lisa Upton

Ben Davidson

Space Weather News
Founder of Space Weather News,The Mobile Observatory Project, Suspicious0bservers.org. Creator of the Suspicious0bservers YouTube channel, with over 100 million views, giving out daily updates since 2011.

Joan Burkepile
UCAR
Joan is a Project Scientist at the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and specializes in the evolution of the solar corona. She is the  Principle Investigator  for the COSMO K-Coronagraph.
UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research)
Lisa's strengths lies in understanding solar cycle variability, and the impact on the Sun-Earth environment. She received her Ph.D in Physics from Vanderbilt University in 2014. 
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Dr. August Dunning

CalTech
Dr. Dunning is visiting associate professor; his previous work history includes working for the NASA on the ISS as system engineer. He studied elemental particle physics/molecular physics at the University of Chicago.


​Eugene Bagashov

Joint Institute for Power and Nuclear Research 
Eugene is a PhD student and Researcher at one of the institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. His research is in theoretical physics: particle physics, quantum mechanics, quantum chromodynamics. 
​Special Guest:
Douglas Vogt, Diehold Foundation

GENERAL ADMISSION


​$129

Access to: 
- Breakfast Saturday & Sunday
​- Social Hour Friday and Saturday Night
- Access to all General Presentations, Weather Lab Tour & Social Events through Sunday
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VIP SPONSOR 


​Most science conferences are funded by industry - we are not. Our VIPs have made it possible to make these conferences happen - helping with speaker flights to facilities. We thank you for your support, and hope you enjoy the VIP events we have planned!
$500  SOLD OUT
General Admission PLUS:
- VIP Panels
- Lunch Saturday & Sunday, VIP Dinner Saturday
- Conference Gift Bag 

SCHEDULE
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SUBJECT TO CHANGE - SOME ITEMS ARE LINKS FOR MORE INFORMATION

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15
7A Registration
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8A Morning Volcano Walk - Petroglyph National Monument

10A Cosmology Course:
PART 1: Why Search
PART 2: Current Constraints
PART 3: ​Covert Matter and Current

10:30A Tour of The Weather Lab with NOAA: Anderson Abruzzo Balloon Museum

1:30P 0bservers Take the Stage: Community Presentations

​5P Meet & Greet/Social Hour
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16
7:30A Breakfast and Registration

8:30A Presentations:
Davidson | State of the Sun 2019
Burkepile | Interplanetary Magnetic Fields
Tinsley | Electric Solar Weather Forcing
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​11A VIP Lunch/Q&A

1P Presentations:
​Davidson​  | Natural Variability
Robitaille | Solar Chromosphere

​1:30P Student Session: Water Worlds

4P Displays/Exhibits/Chess
Live Art with Drew Brophy
5P Gong Session

6:30P VIP Dinner

7P Social Hour
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17
​8A Breakfast
Chess Semifinals

9A Presentations:
Bagashov | Electromagnetic Science
Clarage | Electric Universe (Radioastronomy)

11A VIP Lunch/Panel: Cake with Clarage and Bagashov

12P NOVA Panel: Vogt, Dunning, Davidson
1P Presentations:
Upton | Global Solar Perspective
Dunning | Magnetic Field, Mars vs. Earth
Davidson | Forcing of Weather/Earthquakes
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4P Chess Finals
5P Awards/Closing
5:15P Mobile Observatory Group Photo

LOCATION

Crowne Plaza Albuquerque
1901 University Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87102

Reservations will be telephone directly to the Hotel Reservation Line at 844-356-6178 - a special room rate has been reserved for conference attendees. Please identify yourself with ​Space Weather News/Observing The Frontier.

CLICK HERE to book your room online!
Group Code: OTF
Questions? Kat@ObservatoryProject.com
REFUND POLICY
Refund less $50 processing fee on/before 12/1/2018.
​NO REFUNDS after 12/1/2018.