<div dir="ltr"><h3><font size="4">Announcing the NASA Living With a Star Institute</font></h3>
<h3><font size="4">Call for Proposals</font></h3>
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<h2><span style="font-weight:normal"><font>2015 Topic Areas:</font></span></h2>
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<h2><span style="font-weight:normal"><font>Nowcasts of radiation storms (proton events) at energy levels that could create a radiation hazard for aircrew and passengers</font></span></h2>
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<h2><span style="font-weight:normal"><font>Now-casts of atmospheric drag for LEO spacecraft</font></span></h2>
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<h3><font>Proposal Deadline: 1 June 2015</font></h3>
<h2><strong><font>Purpose</font></strong></h2>
<p>The goal of the NASA Living With a Star program is to
“Develop the scientific understanding necessary to enable the U.S. to
effectively address those aspects of the connected Sun-Earth system that
directly affects life and society.” Thus, the LWS program with its
focus on the basic science underlying all aspects of space weather and
climate, acts as a catalyst to bring the many research disciplines and
applications communities together to deepen the understanding of the
system of systems created by the Sun Earth connection. To that end, the
LWS Institute Working Groups will provide an opportunity for research
and engineering community from academia and industry from all over the
world to contribute to the evolution of Heliophysics.</p>
<p>The LWS Institutes are designed to facilitate a bridge
between cutting-edge heliophysics research and a societally relevant
technology area that is affected by space weather. They are small
working group style meetings that focus on well defined problems that
demand intense, direct interactions between colleagues in neighboring
disciplines to encourage and facilitate a deeper understanding of the
variety of processes that link the Sun’s magnetic variability
(radiation, solar wind, energetic particles) to Earth’s environment and
atmosphere. Competitively selected working groups will define
cooperative new research that will make a critical difference to this
technology.</p>
<h2><strong><font>An LWS Institute Working Group (WG) proposal will:</font></strong></h2>
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<li><strong><em>Focus</em></strong> on a particular technology area that will be positively affected by space weather research advances, </li>
<li><strong><em>Identify</em></strong> a team that is
composed of members who perform heliophysics research that is relevant
to the affected technology, who forecast or model space weather for this
technology, and who use (or who will use) this technology (when it is
successfully improved),</li>
<li><strong><em>Describe</em></strong> how the team will
quantify and parameterize the magnitude and pathways of the impacts on
the affected technology and will scope the new ranges of targeted
research that accordingly will be needed, and</li>
<li><strong><em>Articulate</em></strong> the impacts of
this targeted research by envisioning the resulting, improved
operational capability that will make a positive difference to society.</li></ul><div><b><i><font size="4">Please visit the LWS website for full details and Proposal requirements.</font></i></b></div><div><ul><li><b><i><font size="4"><a href="http://www.vsp.ucar.edu/Heliophysics/lws-institute-apply.shtml">http://www.vsp.ucar.edu/Heliophysics/lws-institute-apply.shtml</a></font></i></b><br></li></ul><div>Thank you, Susanne</div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(12,52,61)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(12,52,61)">_______________________</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><em style="color:rgb(19,79,92)"><strong></strong></em></div><div><p><em><font color="#073763" face="georgia, serif"><b>Susanne Demaree</b></font></em></p><p><em><font color="#073763" face="georgia, serif">Web Developer | Marketing | Social Media</font></em></p><p><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:rgb(19,79,92)">P.O. Box 3000, </span><span style="color:rgb(19,79,92)">Boulder, CO 80307 <br></span>Phone: 303-497-8627</font></p><p><a href="http://www.vsp.ucar.edu" target="_blank"><b style="color:rgb(19,79,92);font-family:'times new roman',serif"> </b><b style="color:rgb(19,79,92);font-family:'times new roman',serif"><img src="http://www.vsp.ucar.edu/images/email/VSP_color_1-inch.png"></b></a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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