Block 1 (9-11a Central US Time)

• Session 1 - Overview (Chair: Timothy Lang, Co-chair: Shing Fung)

  • Introductions - Workshop Planning Committee (5 minutes)

  • Workshop Goals and Scope - Timothy Lang (10 minutes)

  • View from NASA Headquarters - Earth Science, Heliophysics, and Planetary Science Program Scientists (15 minutes)

  • Existing/Future Spaceborne and Suborbital Lightning Mapping Capabilities - Timothy Lang (10 minutes)

  • Plenary Discussion (20 minutes)

• Session 2 - Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) (Chair: Sarah Bang, Co-chair: Timothy Lang)

  • Brief Invited Talks (20 minutes)

    1. Joseph Dwyer (University of New Hampshire) - "Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs)"

    2. Rasha Abbasi (Loyola University Chicago) - "Observing downward-directed TGFs at the Telescope Array Detector"

    3. Nikolai Ostgaard & Martino Marisaldi (University of Bergen) - "Airborne Lighting Observatory for FEGS and TGFs Campaign (ALOFT)" + "Multi-Spacecraft Observation of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes" (team presentation)

  • Breakout Discussions (20 minutes)

  • Plenary Discussion (20 minutes)

Break (30 min)

Block 2 (11:30a-1:30p Central US Time)

• Session 3 - Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) (Chair: Burcu Kosar, Co-chair: Mason Quick)

  • Brief Invited Talks (20 minutes)

    1. Geoff McHarg (US Air Force Academy) - "Lightning-Related Science Transient Luminous Events—Implications for Lightning Initiation"

    2. Caitano da Silva (New Mexico Tech)

    3. Thomas Ashcraft (Observatory of Heliotown) - "The 'Ping' of a Sprite and Other Topics"

  • Breakout Discussions (20 minutes)

  • Plenary Discussion (20 minutes)

• Session 4 - Bolide Detection and Science with Lightning Mappers (Chair: Mason Quick, Co-chair: Sarah Bang)

  • Brief Invited Talks (20 minutes)

    1. Randy Longenbaugh (Sandia National Lab) - "Bolide Detection Using Space Based Remote Sensing: Potential bolide detection collaboration between NASA, DOE, and the US Space Force"

    2. Jeff Smith (SETI Institute) - "Detecting Bolides with GOES Geostationary Lightning Mappers"

    3. Park Hays (Sandia National Lab) - "Lightning Science for and from the US Nuclear Detonation Detection System (USNDS)"

  • Breakout Discussions (20 minutes)

  • Plenary Discussion (20 minutes)

Block 1 (9-11a Central US Time)

• Session 5 - Lightning's Effects on the Ionosphere and Beyond (Chair: Burcu Kosar, Co-chair: Sarah Bang)

  • Brief Invited Talks (25 minutes)

    1. Erin Lay (Los Alamos National Lab) - "Novel use of RF lightning signals to probe ionosphere"

    2. Morris Cohen (Georgia Tech) - "Lightning Impacts on the Ionosphere"

    3. Jacob Bortnik (UCLA) - "Lightning and the inner magnetosphere"

  • Breakout Discussions (15 minutes)

  • Plenary Discussion (20 minutes)

• Session 6 - Lightning on Other Planets (Chair: Mason Quick, Co-chair: Burcu Kosar)

  • Brief Invited Talks (25 minutes)

    1. Ivana Kolmasova (Charles University) - "Lightning on Jupiter being investigated by Juno"

    2. Jeremy Riousset (Florida Tech) - "Lightning on other planets"

    3. Ralph Lorenz (Tentative)

  • Breakout Discussions (15 minutes)

  • Plenary Discussion (20 minutes)

Break (30 min)

Block 2 (11:30a-1:30p Central US Time)

• Session 7 - Miscellaneous Topics (Chair: Shing Fung, Co-chair: Timothy Lang)

  • Brief Invited Talks (25 minutes)

    1. Austin Clark (University of Alabama in Huntsville) - "Observing the South Atlantic Anomaly with LIS"

    2. Vladimir Rakov (University of Florida) - "University of Florida Lightning Research of Potential Interest to NASA"

    3. Ashot Chilingarian (Yerevan Physics Institute) - "Ground-based facilities for the correlated study of particle bursts, lightning occurrences, and light glows"

  • Breakout Discussions (15 minutes)

  • Plenary Discussion (20 minutes)

• Session 8 - Workshop Wrap-Up (Chair: Timothy Lang, Co-chair: Shing Fung)

  • Spillover/Open Discussion - Plenary (50 minutes; will split time between multiple topics)

  • Closeout Discussion and Paths Forward (10 minutes)