Academic requirements:

Satisfactory completion of 3rd year Honours Physics or Engineering
Physics.

Needed skills:

Programming, Web navigation, WFW3.11. Good experimental background a
plus.

Summer student tasks:

0. Finish routine processing and archiving of Polar Camera data from the
current winter (and previous winters). Learn how to assess cloud,
identify and characterize emission patterns, and determine whether data
are worth archiving. This activity can go on at a low duty cycle in
parallel with other activities.

1. Learn IDL by means of IDL Training Manuals (2 weeks)

2. Implement AACGM coordinate interface to IDL and develop routines to
access AACGM calculation from existing software, e.g., VIDEO.PRO (1+
week).

3. Modify SHOWRAY.PRO or SEQ.PRO to display a time sequence of processed
images from both cameras, using the *.RAY files stored on D: or on a CD.

4. Determine times/locations of DMSP and other satellite overflights of
Eureka during the past winter, with particular focus on Dec. 5-6/96 and
Jan. 10-11/97.

5. Locate promising cases for single-point auroral stereoscopy, develop
tools to extract needed data, and apply tools to selected cases.

6. Carry forward OH study, examining OH temperatures and full
correlation analysis results.

7. Finish LINEARIZ.PRO (rest of week above).

8. Investigate possibility of using scattered moonlight for Rayleigh
scattering assessment.

9. Improve dark-subtraction procedure by improving hot-spot suppression
and avoiding median smoothing before subtracting dark frame.

10. Develop code to investigate DMSP ion-drift data from Marc Hairston;
expand search if warranted.