<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word"><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><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">CISM Space Weather Summer School </span></div><div><div></div><div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">July 17-28 2017 </span></div><div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">NCAR Boulder, CO </span></div><div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">Application Deadline: March 1 2017</span></div><div>
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</div><div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">The CISM Space Weather Summer School is intended to give students a </span>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">comprehensive immersion in the subject of space weather: what it is, </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">what it does, and what can be done about it. Space weather is many </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">things: beautiful when seen through the eyes of a sun-viewing </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">telescope, fascinating when studied for its alien worlds </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">of magnetic structures and phenomena, awesome when witnessed as a </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">solar eruption or auroral storm, and devastating to the users of </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">services it disrupts. Space weather links the Sun, the Earth, and the </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">space in between in a branching chain of consequences. Weather </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">systems on the Sun can spawn interplanetary storms of colossal size </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">and energy that envelop the whole planet in electrical hurricanes. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">Such storms attack high-tech, complex, and expensive technological </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">systems that provide much of the infrastructure that allows modern </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">society to function. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">Applications are welcome from upper level undergraduates and beginning </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">graduate students interested in pursuing a career in solar and space </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">physics, as well as professionals interested in broadening their </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">understanding of the space environment. The school will provide </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">support for travel and housing expenses for all US student </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">participants. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">Course Overview </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">SW 101: Solar activity, solar wind, magnetosphere, and </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">ionosphere </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">SW 102: Effects on astronauts and spacecraft, radiation hazards, </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">communication disruptions </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">SW 103: Assumptions and drivers of models, results and limitations </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">SW 104: Hands on activities exploring model results and data to </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">understand the space environment. </span></div>
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</div><div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">For additional information on this program and instructions on how to </span></div></div><div><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">apply </span><a href="http://www2.hao.ucar.edu/CISM-Summer-School/"></a><a style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica">http://www2.hao.ucar.edu/CISM-Summer-School/</a></div></div><div class="bloop_container"><div class="bloop_frame"> </div></div><br><div id="bloop_sign_1482190402376879104" class="bloop_sign"><div>Michael Wiltberger, Ph.D<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>NCAR/HAO<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>3080 Center Green<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Boulder, CO 80301<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Ph: (303)497-1532<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Fx: (303)497-2180<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>email: <a href="mailto:wiltbemj@ucar.edu">wiltbemj@ucar.edu</a><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><br></div><div>There are only 10 types of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.</div></div></body></html>