CEDAR email: CISM Space Weather Summer School

[Michael Wiltberger]

CISM Space Weather Summer School
July 13 – July 24, 2015
NCAR Boulder, CO 
Application Deadline: March 1, 2014 
 
The CISM Space Weather Summer School is intended to give students a comprehensive  immersion in the subject of space weather: what it is, what it does, and what  can be  done about it. Space weather is many things: beautiful when seen through the eyes of a sun-viewing telescope, fascinating when studied for its alien worlds of  magnetic  structures and phenomena, awesome when witnessed as a solar eruption or  auroral storm,  and devastating to the users of services it disrupts. Space weather links the Sun, the  Earth, and the space in between in a branching chain of consequences. Weather systems  on the Sun can spawn interplanetary storms of colossal size and energy that  envelop  the whole planet in electrical hurricanes. Such storms attack high-tech, complex, and  expensive technological systems that provide much of the infrastructure that  allows  modern society to function. 
 
Applications are welcome from upper level undergraduates and beginning graduate  students interested in pursuing a career in solar and space physics, as well  as  professionals interested in broadening their understanding of the space  environment.  The school will provide support for travel and housing expenses for all US student participants. 
 
Course Overview
SW 101: Solar activity, solar wind, magnetosphere, and ionosphere                     
SW 102: Effects on astronauts and spacecraft, radiation hazards, communication disruptions              
SW 103: Assumptions and drivers of models, results and limitations
SW 104: Hands on activities exploring model results and data to understand the space environment. 
 
For additional information on this program and instructions on how to apply http://www2.hao.ucar.edu/Events/2015-CISM-Summer-School/


Michael Wiltberger, Ph.D    
NCAR/HAO            
3080 Center Green        
Boulder, CO 80301        
Ph: (303)497-1532        
Fx: (303)497-2180        
email: wiltbemj at ucar.edu    

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