Panel Discussion: Capacity building in space weather: Globally coordinated space weather education and outreach initiatives
Abstract
Panel 2: Capacity building in space weather: Globally coordinated space weather education and outreach initiatives12:20-13:00, Thursday, 19 July, Room: SR 29 (HH) -Santa Clara Convener: Dibyendu Nandi (CESSI / IISER Kolkata, India)Chair: Nat Gopalswamy (NASA, USA)This panel discussion will bring together diverse organizations involved in space weather education and outreach activities, provide brief summaries of ongoing activities and discuss opportunities for new initiatives of the COSPAR Space Weather Panel towards global coordination in space weather awareness, education and outreach. 12:20 - 12:40: Opening Statements (5 min)12:40 - 13:00: Q&A, Discussion PanelPanelists: Simonetta Di Pippo (UNOOSA), Anna Chulaki (CCMC, USA), Alexi Glover (ESA, COSPAR's Panel on Capacity Building)Suggested questions to panelists:What aspects of space weather education/outreach require special attention? What type of novel education initiatives should we undertake?Do we need a framework for coordinating international space weather educational initiatives?What should be the role of COSPAR PSW in space weather education? The scientific committee on solar terrestrial physics (SCOSTEP) is an interdisciplinary body of the International Council for Science (ICSU) collaborating with five scientific unions unions (IAMAS, IAU, IUGG/IAGA, IUPAP, URSI) and three interdisciplinary bodies (COSPAR, SCAR, and WDS). SCOSTEP is actively involved in the science, capacity building, and public outreach activities related to solar terrestrial physics. By design, space weather is a significant part of solar terrestrial physics dealing with the short-term variability of the Sun and how it affects Earth's space environment. The space weather activities of SCOSTEP are conducted via the scientific programs such as the current VarSITI (variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact). Of particular interest for space weather is the ISEST (International Study of Earth-affecting Solar Transients) project directly deals with the two sources of space weather at Earth, viz., coronal mass ejections and high speed solar wind and their consequences (geomagnetic storms and solar energetic particle events). As part of this project, daily alerts are issued whenever a space-weather causing feature such as a filament or a coronal hole appears near the disk center of the Sun. SCOSTEP also collaborates with COSPAR, URSI, and the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) to run Space Science Schools for PhD students and young postdocs. These capacity building activities enhances space weather literacy among researchers in developing countries. SCOSTEP also runs a visiting scholar program that provides short-term (1-3 months) training in solar terrestrial relationship in advanced laboratories for students from developing counties.
- Publication:
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42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly
- Pub Date:
- July 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018cosp...42E1249G