Five Minute Thesis Webinar on Space Weather

Описание: A webinar hosted by the NOAA Central Region Collaboration Team on Friday, July 31, 2020,, designed to share information about space weather…...

What’s a Five Minute Thesis Webinar? Borrowing from a format used by universities across the country, colleagues from NOAA as well as partners from NASA, United Airlines, and North American Electric Reliability Corporation each have two slides and five minutes to present on their topic. In addition, questions from the audience were addressed by the presenters.

Presentations include:

Space Weather: Understanding the Processes and the Effects on Near-Earth Space
Yaireska Collado-Vega (NASA Community Coordinated Modeling Center)

The Impact of Space Weather on Critical Infrastructure in Space and on Earth
Bill Murtagh (NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center)

How Space Weather Forecasts are Made
Bob Rutledge (NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center)

Space Weather Observations - The Backbone of NOAA’s Predictive Capabilities
Terry Onsager (NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center)


Developing and Advancing Space Weather Forecast Capabilities - A Sun-to-Earth Continuum
Michele Cash (NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center)

Space Weather Support for Air Safety
Nathan Polderman, United Airlines

Monitoring and Mitigating Geomagnetic Storm Effects on the Electric Power Grid
Mark Olsen (North American Electric Reliability Corporation)

Space Weather Support for the Conduct of Human Spaceflight Missions
Kerry Lee (NASA Space Radiation Analysis Group)

The Auroras - The Science Behind the Beauty
Bea Gallardo-Lacourt (NASA Ionosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere Physics Laboratory)

For more information on the NOAA Central Region Collaboration Team, or to view recordings of other webinars, visit www.regions.noaa.gov/central