<div dir="ltr">Greetings. <div><br></div><div>Please post the following announcement to the CEDAR newsletter:</div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-b03e94c3-7fff-a0a3-b28d-382b749246be"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Students Lead Solar Corona Forecast for the April 8, 2024 Eclipse </span></span><br clear="all"><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-e7a88031-7fff-8d34-b9bd-635900176082"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">University of Michigan’s Climate and Space Department, in collaboration with the University of Texas at Arlington, is undertaking a special student-led project to forecast the visible aurora during the upcoming solar eclipse.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The predictions use data-assimilative advanced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations using the U-M SWMF/AWSoM-R model incorporating the results of two independent solar flux transport models (one from Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory and the other from Predictive Science, Inc.). The results yield true forecasts of how the solar atmosphere will appear in multiple wavelengths during totality on April 8th, 2024. This work is made possible by the combined efforts of faculty at the partner R1 institutions (with UTA being a minority-serving institution) and realized by the leadership of the student team.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">In addition to the corona forecasts, the student team has planned a set of in-depth public outreach and education activities occurring the week leading up to the total eclipse. A special livestream broadcast on the day of the eclipse will showcase the forecasts, make comparisons to first-look eclipse data, and interview specialists to discuss the unique experience that is a total solar eclipse.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We are proud to share the result of the students’ efforts, including the current eclipse corona forecast and details on the public outreach events: </span><a href="https://clasp.engin.umich.edu/solar-eclipse-2024/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://clasp.engin.umich.edu/solar-eclipse-2024/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">An animation of the forecasted corona can be found here: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCXiv3aaZpM" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCXiv3aaZpM</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The student team includes Xianyu Liu, Kathryn Wilbanks, Amy Rewoldt, Weihao Liu, Connor DiMarco, Yu Hong, and Minjing Li. Three faculty members at U-M served as mentors: Ward Manchester, Judit Szente and Dan Welling. </span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signat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