<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><div style="line-height: 19.5px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">CISM Space Weather Summer School </span></div><div style="line-height: 19.5px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://airmail.calendar/2016-07-11%2012:00:00%20MDT">July 11</a> - <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2016-07-22%2012:00:00%20MDT">July 22 2016</a></div><div style="line-height: 19.5px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">NCAR Boulder, CO </span></div><div style="line-height: 19.5px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Application Deadline: </span><a href="http://airmail.calendar/2014-03-01%2012:00:00%20MST" style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">March 1, 201</a><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue';"><a href="http://airmail.calendar/2014-03-01%2012:00:00%20MST">6</a></span></span><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;"> </span></div><div style="line-height: 19.5px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica;"><br></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 19.5px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">The CISM Space Weather Summer School is intended to give students a </span><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">comprehensive immersion in the subject of space weather: what it is, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">what it does, and what can be done about it. Space weather is many </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">things: beautiful when seen through the eyes of a sun-viewing </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">telescope, fascinating when studied for its alien worlds </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">of magnetic structures and phenomena, awesome when witnessed as a </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">solar eruption or auroral storm, and devastating to the users of </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">services it disrupts. Space weather links the Sun, the Earth, and the </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">space in between in a branching chain of consequences. Weather </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">systems on the Sun can spawn interplanetary storms of colossal size </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">and energy that envelop the whole planet in electrical hurricanes. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Such storms attack high-tech, complex, and expensive technological </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">systems that provide much of the infrastructure that allows modern </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">society to function. </span></div><div><br style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;"></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Applications are welcome from upper level undergraduates and beginning </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">graduate students interested in pursuing a career in solar and space </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">physics, as well as professionals interested in broadening their </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">understanding of the space environment. The school will provide </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">support for travel and housing expenses for all US student </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">participants. </span></div><div><br style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;"></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Course Overview </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">SW 101: Solar activity, solar wind, magnetosphere, and </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">ionosphere </span></div><div><br style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;"></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">SW 102: Effects on astronauts and spacecraft, radiation hazards, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">communication disruptions </span></div><div><br style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;"></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">SW 103: Assumptions and drivers of models, results and limitations </span></div><div><br style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;"></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">SW 104: Hands on activities exploring model results and data to </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">understand the space environment. </span></div><div><br style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;"></div></div><div style="line-height: 19.5px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; font-size: 13px;">For additional information on this program and instructions on how to </span></div><div style="line-height: 19.5px; font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica;">apply <a href="http://www2.hao.ucar.edu/CISM-Summer-School/"></a><a>http://www2.hao.ucar.edu/CISM-Summer-School/</a> </div><div><br></div></div><div class="bloop_container"><div class="bloop_frame"> </div></div><br><div id="bloop_sign_1452801648401616128" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Michael Wiltberger, Ph.D </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">NCAR/HAO </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">3080 Center Green </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Boulder, CO 80301 </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Ph: (303)497-1532 </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Fx: (303)497-2180 </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">email: </span><a href="mailto:wiltbemj@ucar.edu" target="_blank" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">wiltbemj@ucar.edu</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"> </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">There are only 10 types of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.</span></div></div></body></html>