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MEMO 

December 6, 1993

TO: Don Anderson, Dean
Natural Sciences

FROM: Sally K. Ride, Director
California Space Institute

SUBJECT: CalSpace Space Requirements for the Upper Campus

Over a year ago, Calspace developed a 5 year plan for space requirements on the upper campus and presented it to you and Dean Attiyeh (It is enclosed for your reference). Your response in providing space on the third floor of the Chemistry Research Building was most helpful in satisfying many of the immediate needs of the Space Grant Program. It also helped provide a much needed computational and scientific visualization capability for the Space Physics program.

With to these new facilities (Space Grant Scientific Visualization and Multimedia Laboratory and Staff/student offices), we are now able to provide a unique environment for students (graduate and undergraduate) and faculty from many departments to work together on interdisciplinary science and engineering projects. These initial collaborative efforts have spawned a set of new projects including the following:

• Space Plasma Physics Project -- Joint experimental/theoretical effort between UCSD (S. Ride, V. Shevchenko, V. Shapiro, P. Diamond, 2 graduate students) and JPL (B. Tsurutani). The scientific visualization and communications capabilities of the Space Grant Laboratory are essential to this effort.

• EarthRise Project -- Shuttle Imagery for Global Change Research and Education. This project involves student and faculty participation from UCSD, San Diego State, UC Santa Barbara along with researchers from JPL, NASA Johnson Space Center, and various industrial partners. (Project started in 1993 with Shuttle science mission in Spring, 1994);

• Scientific Visualization Project for Interplanetary Scintillation -- Team effort involving CASS, San Diego Supercomputer Center, GDE Systems, Inc., and the Space Grant Laboratory (Proposal submitted);

• Hands-on Space Missions for Students -- 1. USRA University-led Student Missions using Minuteman II launch vehicles. UCSD students with faculty and industry mentors would take the lead role including running a mission control center at UCSD. (Proposal being prepared); 2. NASA advanced technology missions with industry taking the lead and UCSD (students and faculty) as partners. (Proposal being prepared);

The success of the above projects are requiring immediate new space allocations for laboratories and offices. The present CRB space includes 400 sq. ft. of laboratory space and five 120 sq. ft.