HR: 13:30h
AN: SH13D-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Bringing Space Weather Down to Earth
AU: * Reiff, P H
EM: reiff@rice.edu
AF: Rice Space Institute, 6100 Main St. MS 108, Houston, TX 77005 United States
AU: Sumners, C
EM: csumners@hmns.org
AF: Houston Museum of Natural Science, One Herman Circle Dr., Houston, TX 77030 United States
AB: Most of the public has no idea what Space Weather is, but a number of innovative programs, web sites, magazine articles, TV shows and planetarium shows have taken space weather from an unknown quantity to a much more visible field. This paper reviews new developments, including the new Space Weather journal, the very popular spaceweather.com website, new immersive planetarium shows that can go "on the road", and well-publicized Sun-Earth Day activities. Real-time data and reasonably accurate spaceweather forecasts are available from several websites, with many subscribers. Even the renaissance of amateur radio because of Homeland Security brings a new generation of learners to wonder what is going on in the Sun today. The NSF Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling has a dedicated team to reach both the public and a greater diversity of new scientists.
UR: http://space.rice.edu/ISTP/dials.htm
DE: 2722 Forecasting
DE: 6605 Education
DE: 7513 Coronal mass ejections
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly