[Chaos-l] Recap of Decembers CHAOS meeting

[Tony Rice]

If it's the same program I'm thinking of, it was merged with something
else and is now named  Heliophysics Explorers and works with data from
a number of programs and is a joint effort between NASA and the
European Space Agency.

http://science.nasa.gov/about-us/smd-programs/heliophysics-explorers/

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:48 PM, MIKE AND BOBI GALLAGHER
<mikeandbobi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, it was a great meeting and the talk was a big wake up - I would put the
> chances and level of danger from an 1859 type solar event right up with
> (even ahead of) big meteor impact.
> I did look at a couple web sites to get more information, but darned if I
> could find anything about the NASA Sentinel (?) project which sounded
> promising as an early warning system, but which Professor Fortner said got
> cancelled. Anybody find anything on that?
> Thanks again Jaime, for a thought provoking meeting!
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:06 PM, walter fowler <walterfowler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> We haven't been following up our monthly meetings with
>> "summaries/critiques" on the Listserve and I kind of miss them.  Last
>> night's presentation by Dr. Brand Fortner is actually summarized pretty well
>> by the speaker himself in the attachment.  It was a great presentation and a
>> reminder that Jayme has been doing a great job filling the speaker slots
>> each month.  Thanks, Jayme.  Keep 'em coming!  Walter
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Jayme Hanzak <jhanzak at unctv.org>
>> Date: Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:24 AM
>> Subject: [Chaos-l] Decembers CHAOS meeting
>> To: "CHAOS ‎[chaos-l at rtpnet.org]‎" <chaos-l at rtpnet.org>
>>
>>
>> This month we have a astronomical meteorologist. Dr. Brand Fortner is a
>> professor at North Carolina State University.
>>
>> Here is a little info on his presentations.
>>
>> _______________
>>
>>
>>
>> Space Weather-Why it Matters
>>
>> The word 'weather' usually refers to what earth's atmosphere is doing
>> today, tomorrow, next week. Severe weather, such as hurricanes, can cause
>> havoc, as we all know. What is less well known is that not only the
>> atmosphere, but space conditions in our solar system can change today,
>> tomorrow, next week.  These rapid changes in the space environment are
>> referred to as 'space weather'. And in direct analogy to atmospheric
>> weather, there can be severe space storms, caused by solar coronal mass
>> ejections.
>>
>> "... last night the whole heavens were lighted by the aurora borealis,
>> more brilliant and beautiful than had been witnessed for years before….The
>> light streaks shot upwards from the horizon and varied in width and length,
>> and changed as long as the phenomenon was visible. It was a grand sight..."
>> -- The Baltimore Sun , 1859.
>>
>> If this 1859 "SuperStorm" happened today, most of the power grids on the
>> planet will be taken out for months or years, creating societal disruption
>> on an unimaginable scale. Smaller space storms cause changes in satellite
>> orbits, interfere or prevent communication, degrade or eliminate GPS-derived
>> location information, and destroy satellites in orbit.  The challenge is
>> that we have only the crudest ability to predict the behavior of the space
>> environment. Space weather research is an active area of interdisciplinary
>> research: it spans the range from the interior of the Sun to interplanetary
>> space and includes our own atmosphere; it includes fluid dynamics, plasma
>> physics, chemistry, radiative transfer, magnetohydrodynamics; its tools
>> include some of the most advanced first-principles models. The community of
>> practitioners covers the entire Earth.
>>
>> I will give an overview of space weather and space weather research,
>> describe current and future space missions that help monitor the solar
>> system space environment, and finish with the challenges to creating a true
>> space weather warning system, a project currently being worked on by
>> scientists at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
>>
>> Brand Fortner
>> Research Professor
>> North Carolina State University
>> ________________________
>>
>>
>>
>> Please come and join us at 7pm in the Carol Woods Retirement Community's
>> Assembly Hall.
>>
>> Carol Woods is located at 750 Weaver Dairy Rd., in Chapel Hill.
>>
>>
>>
>> We'll see you there.
>>
>> Jayme Hanzak
>> CHAOS President
>>
>> CHAOS
>> P.O. Box 3001
>> Chapel Hill, NC 27514-0842
>> http://www.rtpnet.org/chaos/
>>
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