PI Report

1. PI Report Mark Lester On behalf of the SuperDARNPIs

2. PIs agreement Development of software and hardware Modes – especially Common Mirroring of the APL web site Agenda/Outline

3. PIs agreement • Following an initial revision of the agreement, we carefully went through the draft identifying critical elements • Now in a position to complete the revision which will be made available soon after the workshop • Some critical elements of the agreement will be changed • Most important change will be the data policy which will become a fully open policy for Common time data • Also Discretionary and Special time data will be available to whole community after one year

4. Pis Agreement (contd) • Plan to introduce a new Guest Investigator programme for SuperDARN • This will enable wider users to access SuperDARN by proposing new radar modes, by provision of new technical developments, or by using the data in specific ways • Set up an Advisory Board to advise on directions and developments of the Network

5. Radar Hardware and software • Long discussion about how we as a community maintain our software and ensure that all radars produce compatable data products • Clearly important that we take advantage of technology developments to improve our radars • Last few years has seen significant changes in both hardware and software that have been difficult to track • The radar audit is a first step in making sure that we understand what is available and where • Introduce a small working party to look at the processes by which we introduce new radar hardware and also how this will impact on the software • Have asked Kile to chair this following his retirement later in the year • Two other members one of whom will be Tim Yeoman while the other is to be confirmed

6. Common Time • We discussed Common Time • Mike Ruohoniemi has drafted an initial suggestion with the aim of making the radar mode we operate as flexible as possible • Important to retain a minimum set of requirements, however, to ensure future compatibility across the network • This will be agreed as part of the final discussion on the PI agreement over the next few weeks

7. Mirroring of APL Web Site • We also discussed how we might make the data available more easily • Agreed that one way was to mirror the APL web site • Mechanisms for this will be investigated over the next 12 months

8. Future Meetings • No discussion at the PI meeting • Next year will be hosted by HongqaioHu in China • Following announcement, J-P has offered to host the 2013 meeting somewhere in Canada (not at a radar site!) • Ermannoalso offered but this was contingent on decisions about Dome-C • Suggest that we hold the 2013 meeting on Canada with Italy to host in 2014 if Dome-C radar(s) are deployed.

9. Summary • Thanks again to our Dartmouth hosts who have done a • wonderful job of organising the meeting • It has been an excellent meeting with good debate, • discussion and progress • See you all next year!