An article using PFISR data, led by Prof Jan Sojka, has been featured in Space Weather Quarterly (Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2010) "Editor's Choice."

PFSR and RISR-N participate in first optical campaign to use all high-latitude ISRs, coordinated by Ph.D. candidate Magnar Johnsen of U. Tromsø (currently at Boston U.). PFSR and RISR-N also operate for 6-day WD run to study temporal and latitudinal behavior of electron density changes, particularly near the plasmaspheric boundary layer.

PFISR and RISR-N operate for 10-day WD run to study equinoctal neutral wind reversal. PFISR continues to operate in low-duty cycle mode when not in use for other runs.

RISR-N (the north-looking AMISR face at Resolute, Canada) completes engineering testing and calibration, and is fully operational with 128 panels. Data show interesting F-region structure during very quiet times.

Five-day AMISR Student Workshop was held at SRI, attended by 21 students. Final day guest lecturers include Sixto Gonzalez of Arecibo Observatory, and Michael Kelley and former AMISR workshop student Roger Varney, both of Cornell University.

Special issue of the J. Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (Vol. 71, Issue 6-7) with initial results from PFISR is published, edited by Dr. Diego Janches (NWRA CoRA Div.).  View articles here or in the Publications section of this website. 

Figure from Nicolls et al. 2009.

PFISR supports ACES and CASCADES rocket campaigns in addition to numerous optical campaigns.  See operations schedules for details and data availability.

Five-day AMISR Student Workshop held at Millstone Hill, attended by 21 students. PFISR staff also participates in PARS workshop held in Alaska.

The 2nd AMISR Science Planning Workshop was held to highlight results from first year PFISR operations, provide incoherent scatter basics and AMISR access tutorials, and discuss plans for future Resolute Bay AMISR operations. 

Link to archived website

PFISR completes year-long International Polar Year (IPY) run. When not running for other experiments, PFISR has operated almost continuously since 01 March 2007 in a low-duty cycle mode. The resulting large dataset, combined with that from the year-long full-power EISCAT Svalbard radar and the biweekly 30 hr runs of the EISCAT Tromsø, Sondrestrom and Millstone Hill radars, provides an unprecedented volume of high-latitude measurements during the IPY.