EXPLORING ANTARCTICA		RESEARCH PROJECTS
		RMK8 - Polar Atmospheric Water Vapour and Ionospheric Sensing Using GPS RMK9 - Polar-Equatorial Geospace Ionospheric, Magnetic Storms, and Water Vapour Characterization For the Advancement of Space Weather Prediction – A Malaysian Participation in ICESTAR Programme Researchers Dr. Norbahiah Misran (Project Leader) - Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Prof. Datuk Dr. Baharudin Yatim – Institut Sains Angkasa Prof. Dr. Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali – Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Ir. Dr. Mardina Abdullah – Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Postgraduate Students Mohd Awad Hussien Almomani (PhD, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ) – Jordan Sumazly Sulaiman (PhD, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ) – Universiti Malaysia Terengganu Wayan Suparta (PhD, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ) – Bali , Indonesia Alina Marie Hasbie (PhD, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ) Farah Hani Abdul Rahim (PhD, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ) – UIA, Malaysia Somayeh Rezvani (Master of Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ) External Collaborators Antarctica New Zealand (ANZ) University of Canterbury New Zealand -Ionosonde Data and Polarimetric Data at Scott Base National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand – Surface Meteorological Data at Scott Base Space Environment Research Center , Kyushu University , Japan –MAGDAS University of Stanford , USA –AWESOME (Atmospheric Weather Electromagnetic System for Observation Modeling and Education) monitor using VLF (Very Low Frequency) receiver University of Texas , Coherent Ionospheric Doppler Receiver (CIDR)- future. International Collaboration Projects ICESTAR Project EOI#894 (Geospace Characterization) Interhemispheric Conjugacy in Geospace Phenomena and their Heliospheric Drivers MAGDAS Project (Magnetic Data Acquisition System) Grants   RMK 8 2002 – RM 93,296.00 2003 – RM 499,306.00 2004 – RM 200,000.00 2005 – RM 337,000.00 RMK 9 2006 - RM 134,000.00 Publications 1 Refereed journal papers 11 Papers in conference proceedings 21 Conference presentations 17 International conferences 4 Local conferences   Refereed Journals Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid, Mohammad Awad Momani, Sumazly Sulaiman, Mohamad Alauddin Mohd Ali, Baharudin Yatim, Grahame Fraser & Natsuo Sato. 2006. GPS ionospheric TEC measurement during the 23 rd November 2003 total solar eclipse at Scott Base Antarctica, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics . 68 :1219-1236.   Conference proceedings Mohd Awad Momani. 2003. Initial results of ionospheric scintillation during the period between 18 th to 24 th November 2002 at Scott Base station, Antarctica . Seminar Pelajar Siswazah Faculti Kejurutraan , NIOSH-Bangi , Malaysia 15-16 October 2003. Sumazly Sulaiman, Cuaca Angkasa – Kajian Variabiliti dan Ketidak Seragaman Taburan Jumlah Kandungan Elektron (TEC) di Garisan Kutub 2 dan Khatulistiwa dengan menggunakan Sistem Penentududukan Sejagat (GPS) dan Penderum ionosfera, Seminar Penyelidikan Siswazah (SPS'03), Fakulti Kejuruteraan 2003. Mohd Awad Momani, Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid & Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali. 2004 GPS ionospheric scintillation measurements at Scott Base Antarctica, 2 nd Malaysian International Seminar on Antarctica , Penang , Malaysia , 3-5 May. Sumazly Sulaiman, Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid, Mohd Alaudin Mohd Ali, Graeme Plank, Results of GPS Ionospheric TEC and Ionosonde Measurements at Scott Base, 2nd International Antarctic Seminar, Park Royal, Penang , 3-5 th May 2004 . Wayan Suparta, “ Estimation of Precipitable Water Vapour Using Ground-Based GPS for Polar – Equatorial Regions ”, Seminar Pelajar Siswazah, Esset KWSP, Bangi, Selangor , Malaysia , August 10 to 11, 2004 . Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid, Sumazly Sulaiman, Mohammad Awad Momani, Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali, Baharudin Yatim & Graeme Plank. 2005. GPS Ionospheric TEC measurements during the 2003 major storm events at Scott base Antarctica . 11 th International ionospheric effects symposium . Alexandria VA , USA , 3-5 May. Abdul Rashid, Z.A., Wayan Suparta , Mohd. Alauddin M.A., and Baharudin Y., “GPS Precipitable Water Vapour Measurement at Scott Base Station Antarctica”, to be presented at Seminar "Antarctic Research in The University of Malaya", Kuala Lumpur, 27 to 28 June 2005. Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid, Wayan Suparta, Mohd. Alauddin M.A., and Baharudin Y., “GPS Precipitable Water Vapour Measurement at Scott Base Station Antarctica during Major Storm 2003 and 2004”, presented at Seminar International Conference on Instrumentation, Communications and Information Technology , Bandung, Indonesia, 3 rd to 5 th August 2005. Z A Abdul Rashid, S Sulaiman, M A Mohd Ali, B Yatim, Analysis of GPS-TEC at Polar Conjugate Stations during 2003 Equinoxes, Ionospheric Radio Systems and Technique (IRST2006), 10 th International Conference, 18 th -21 st July 2006, Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK. Z. A. Abdul Rashid, W. Suparta, M. Othman, M. A. Mohd. Ali, and B. Yatim, “GPS Precipitable Water Vapour Measurement at Scott Base and McMurdo Station Antarctica during Major Storm of 2003”, Geophysical Research, Vol. 8, 00022, SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU06-A-00022, European Geosciences Union, 2006. Norbahiah Misran, Baharudin Yatim, Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali, Sumazly Sulaiman, Mardina Abdullah, Wayan Suparta, Mohd Awad Hussein Momani, Alina Marie Hasbie and Farah Hani Abdul Rahim, “Polar-Equatorial Geospace Ionospheric, Magnetic Storms and Water Vapour Characterization for the Advancement of Space Weather Prediction- A Malaysian Participation in ICESTAR programme”, proceedings of the International Symposium Asian Collaboration in IPY 2007-2008, Tokyo, 1 st March 2007, pp. 67-69. Sumazly Sulaiman, Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali, Baharudin Yatim, “Ionospheric GPS-TEC Variation During 2003 to 2004 Observations at Scott Base Antarctica”, presented at 3 rd Malaysian International Seminar on (MISA3), 21-23 March 2007, UMS Sabah. Conference Presentations Mohd Awad Momani. 2003. Initial results of ionospheric scintillation during the period between 18 th to 24 th November 2002 at Scott Base station, Antarctica . Seminar Pelajar Siswazah Faculti Kejurutraan , NIOSH-Bangi , Malaysia 15-16 October 2003. Sumazly Sulaiman, Cuaca Angkasa – Kajian Variabiliti dan Ketidak Seragaman Taburan Jumlah Kandungan Elektron (TEC) di Garisan Kutub 2 dan Khatulistiwa dengan menggunakan Sistem Penentududukan Sejagat (GPS) dan Penderum ionosfera, Seminar Penyelidikan Siswazah (SPS'03), Fakulti Kejuruteraan 2003. Mohd Awad Momani, Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid & Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali. 2004 GPS ionospheric scintillation measurements at Scott Base Antarctica, 2 nd Malaysian International Seminar on Antarctica , Penang , Malaysia , 3-5 May. Sumazly Sulaiman, Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid, Mohd Alaudin Mohd Ali, Graeme Plank, Results of GPS Ionospheric TEC and Ionosonde Measurements at Scott Base, 2nd International Antarctic Seminar, Park Royal, Penang , 3-5 th May 2004 . Abdul Rashid Z.A, Sulaiman. S, Mohd Ali M.A, Initial Results of GPS Ionospheric TEC and Ionosonde Measurement during a Minor to Major Storm Event on November 2002 at Scott Base Antarctica, XXVII SCAR Open Science Conference , Bremen , Germany 26-28 th July 2004 . Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid , Mohammad Awad Momani & Mohd Ali M. A. 2004. Initial Results of ionospheric scintillation measurements during a Minor to major storm event on November 2002 at Scott Base Antarctica. SCAR XXVII Open Science Conference , Bremen , Germany 26 th -28 th July 2004 . Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid, Sumazly Sulaiman, Mohammad Awad Momani, Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali, Baharudin Yatim & Graeme Plank. 2005. GPS Ionospheric TEC measurements during the 2003 major storm events at Scott base Antarctica . 11 th International ionospheric effects symposium . Alexandria VA , USA , 3-5 May. Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid, Mohammad Awad Momani, Sumazly Sulaiman, Mohamad Alauddin Mohd Ali, Baharudin Yatim, Grahame Fraser & Natsuo Sato. 2005. Ionospheric TEC measurements at Scott Base Antarctica during the solar eclipse of November 2003. 11 th international ionospheric effects symposium , Alexandria VA , USA , 3-5 May. Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid, Sumazly Sulaiman, Mohammad Awad Momani, Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali and Baharudin Yatim . 2005. GPS Ionospheric TEC Investigations during month of July 2003 at Scott Base Antarctica. International Conference on Instrumentation, Communication and Information Technology (ICICI) 2005 Proc., Bandung , Indonesia 3 rd -5 th August. Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid, Mohammad Awad Momani, Sumazly Sulaiman, Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali, Baharudin Yatim. 2005. Ionospheric TEC and scintillation measurements during the superstorm of October 2003 at Scott Base Antarctica, International Conference on Instrumentation, Communication and Information Technology (ICICI) 2005 Proc ., Bandung, Indonesia 3 rd -5 th August 2005. Wayan Suparta, “ Estimation of Precipitable Water Vapour Using Ground-Based GPS for Polar – Equatorial Regions ”, Seminar Pelajar Siswazah, Esset KWSP, Bangi, Selangor , Malaysia , August 10 to 11, 2004 . Abdul Rashid, Z.A., Wayan Suparta , Mohd. Alauddin M.A., and Baharudin Y., “GPS Precipitable Water Vapour Measurement at Scott Base Station Antarctica”, to be presented at Seminar "Antarctic Research in The University of Malaya", Kuala Lumpur, 27 to 28 June 2005. Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid, Wayan Suparta, Mohd. Alauddin M.A., and Baharudin Y., “GPS Precipitable Water Vapour Measurement at Scott Base Station Antarctica during Major Storm 2003 and 2004”, presented at Seminar International Conference on Instrumentation, Communications and Information Technology , Bandung, Indonesia, 3 rd to 5 th August 2005. Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid, Mohammad Awad Momani, Sumazly Sulaiman, Mazlan Othman, Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali & and Baharudin Yatim. 2005. Conjugacy effects of ionospheric TEC and irregularities at high latitude stations during the October 2003 super storm event. UN/NASA workshop on the international Heliophysical year IHY-2007 . ABU Dhabi , UAE 20 th -23 rd November 2005. Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid, Sumazly Sulaiman, Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali, Baharudin Yatim, Ionospheric TEC Measurements during the 2003 October/November Magnetic Storms at Scott Base Station Antarctica , First International Heliophysical Year SCINDA Workshop, July 10-14 2006, Cape Verde, South Africa. Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid, Wayan Suparta, Mohd. Alauddin M.A., and Baharudin Y., “Influence of Solar Energetic Phenomena on GPS PWV during the Major Storm of 2003 at Scott Base Station Antarctica”, presented at SCAR XXIX , Hobart , Tasmania , Australia , 17 – 19 July 2006 . Z A Abdul Rashid, S Sulaiman, M A Mohd Ali, B Yatim, Analysis of GPS-TEC at Polar Conjugate Stations during 2003 Equinoxes, Ionospheric Radio Systems and Technique (IRST2006), 10 th International Conference, 18 th -21 st July 2006, Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK. Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid, Mohammad Awad Momani, Mohd Alauddin Mohd ali & BaharudinYatim. 2006. A method to determine the storm movement using single GPS station- A case study of October 2003 geomagnetic torm, SCAR XXIX 2nd SCAR Open Science Conference , Hobart-Tasmania, 9-19 July. Z. A. Abdul Rashid, W. Suparta, M. Othman, M. A. Mohd. Ali, and B. Yatim, “GPS Precipitable Water Vapour Measurement at Scott Base and McMurdo Station Antarctica during Major Storm of 2003”, Geophysical Research, Vol. 8, 00022, SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU06-A-00022, European Geosciences Union, 2006. Norbahiah Misran, Baharudin Yatim, Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali, Sumazly Sulaiman, Mardina Abdullah, Wayan Suparta, Mohd Awad Hussein Momani, Alina Marie Hasbie and Farah Hani Abdul Rahim, “Polar-Equatorial Geospace Ionospheric, Magnetic Storms and Water Vapour Characterization for the Advancement of Space Weather Prediction- A Malaysian Participation in ICESTAR programme”, proceedings of the International Symposium Asian Collaboration in IPY 2007-2008, Tokyo, 1 st March 2007, pp. 67-69. Wayan Suparta, Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali, Norbahiah Misran, Baharudin Yatim, “A new method for correlating solar activity and terrestrial climate using GPS sensing at Antarctica”, presented at 3 rd Malaysian International Seminar on (MISA3), 21-23 March 2007, UMS Sabah. IPY Project Activity ICESTAR Project EOI#894 (Geospace Characterization) Interhemispheric Conjugacy in Geospace Phenomena and their Heliospheric Drivers A Seminar on Antarctica Research: Challenges an Experiences, Akademi Sains Malaysia , INTAN, Bukit Kiara, 2000. A Seminar on NeqO Satellite Constellation Project, Planeterium Negara, Kuala Lumpur , 2000. National Conference on Weather Modification, ARMADA Hotel, Petaling Jaya, 24-25 June 2002. Malaysian International Seminar on Antarctica “Opportunities for Research”, 5-6 August 2002 Kuala Lumpur . Weather Modification Technology- Technical Visit, Roshydromet, Moscow and Nalchik , Russia , November, 2002. National Seminar on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Application in Malaysia , Hotel Equatorial Bangi, March, 2004. 2 nd Malaysian International Seminar on Antarctica , “Global Laboratory for Scientific and International for Cooperation”, 3-5 May 2004, Pulau Pinang. XXVII SCAR Open Science Conference , Bremen , Germany 26-28 th July 2004 . 11 th International Ionospheric Effects Symposium (IES), Alexandria , Virginia , USA , 3 – 5 Mei, 2005. UN/ ESA/NASA Workshop on the International Heliophysical Year IHY 2007, Abu Dhabi and Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates, 20-23 November, 2005. SCAR XXIX 2nd SCAR Open Science Conference , Hobart-Tasmania, 9-19 July 2006. Malaysian Antarctica Research Programme ICESTAR-IPY-IHY Kick-Off Meeting 5-9 February 2007 ( Finland ). IPY International Symposium ASIAN Collaboration in IPY 2007-2008 organised by IPY National Committee, Science Council of Japan and Natioanl Institute of Polar Research (1 st March 2007, Tokyo, Japan)   IPY – Logistic Support National Science Foundation , USA International Heliophysical Year University NAVSTAR Consortium (UNAVCO) USA –GPS data National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) and World Data Centers (WDC), Japan   Expeditions under RMK8 Scott Base Antarctica (2000) Prof. Madya Dr. Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid Scott Base Antarctica (February 2002) Prime Minister Antarctica Working Visit Prof. Madya Dr. Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid Scott Base Antarctica (October 2002) Malaysian Antarctica Research Programme Prof. Madya Dr. Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid Sumazly Sulaiman Scott Base Antarctica (2004) Prof. Madya Dr. Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid Prof. Datuk Dr. Mazlan Othman Expeditions under RMK 9 & IPY Project Scott Base Antarctica (23 January – 11 February 2007 ) Dr. Norbahiah Misran ICESTAR-IPY-IHY Kick-Off Meeting 5-9 February 2007 ( Finland ). Ir. Dr. Mardina Abdullah Mrs. Alina Marie Hasbi   Training of students 4 PhD students (Ongoing) 1 PhD student (Almost Completed) 1 Master student by coursework (Completed)   Postgraduates Name Candidature Title of research project 1. Mohd Awad Hussien Almomani Doctor of Philosophy (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ) Analysis and Prediction of the Ionospheric Disturbances during Solar Eclipse and Geomagnetic Storms over the Polar Regions [Thesis Submitted to UKM]     2. Sumazly Sulaiman   Doctor of Philosophy (Universiti Malaysia Terengganu) Radio Investigation of Ionospheric Total Electron Content (TEC) and its Variability at Polar region [Writing-up]   3. Wayan Suparta   Doctor of Philosophy (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ) Quantifying and Investigation of Atmospheric Water Vapour using GPS Sensing in the Antarctic Regions [Writing-Up]   4. Alina Marie Hasbi Doctor of Philosophy ( Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ) Analysis and Investigation of Ionospheric Precursors of Earthquakes Over the Equatorial Region [Ongoing]   5. Farah Hani Abdul Rahim   Doctor of Philosophy ( International Islamic University Malaysia ) Polar-Equatorial Precitable Water Vapour (PWV) Variations and the Influence of Ocean-Currents for the Determination of the PWV Driving Factor [Ongoing] 6. Somayeh Rezvani Master of Engineering ( Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ) Ionospheric TEC and Slab Thickness Measurements at Scott Base Antarctica Using Ionosonde During January 2003 [Completed]     Award  Bronze Medal  Polar-Equatorial Ionospheric and Magnetic Storms Characterization for the Advancement of Space Weather Prediction (Geospace characterization), IPTA R&D EXPO 2005 , PWTC, Kuala Lumpur. Training Workshop Seminar Fizik Suria and Magdas Instrument Installation were held on 27-28 December 2006 at Langkawi , Malaysia . Pre-Budget & First Aid Workshop- Malaysian Antarctic Research Programme were held on 13-15 May at Fraser Hill, Pahang , Malaysia. Weather Modification Technology (Technical Visit, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), were held on 5-10 July 2004 at Boulder , Colorado .