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New center will lay groundwork for better space weather forecasts

Sept. 25, 2023

NASA announced that it had selected four Space Weather Centers of Excellence , including the Space Weather Operational Readiness Development (SWORD) center at CU Boulder. As its name suggests, the nearly $10 million center will offer some powerful protection for the planet: SWORD research will seek to help scientists develop...

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Knipp to give AFRL/AFOSR Chief Scientist Distinguished Lecture

Sept. 1, 2023

Delores Knipp will give the AFRL/AFOSR Chief Scientist Distinguished Lecture on Space Weather at 13 EDT / 11 MDT on 11 September. Registration is required: https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_UrSzsoCQQricAm_OB7Vj5g Talk Titled: Space Weather: Balancing an Unbalanced Threat Description: Space weather, like terrestrial weather, poses a multi-faceted challenge to DoD operations. However, space weather,...

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NASA Selects Space Weather Centers for Excellence

Aug. 16, 2023

The Space Weather Technology, Research & Education Center is leading a NASA Space Weather Center of Excellence, an integrated multi-agency initiative to advance the science and technology of space weather. NASA has selected three Space Weather Centers of Excellence (SWxC) and is partnering with the Department of Commerce (DoC) on...

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CU Boulder researcher earns NASA grant to study how space weather affects Earth

Aug. 1, 2023

Yang Wang is leading a unique study harnessing satellite data to study how solar activity affects a poorly understood region of Earth’s upper atmosphere. Wang, a visiting faculty member in the Ann and H. J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences working in the Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education...

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CU Boulder scientist advancing space weather research with major NASA grant

July 24, 2023

Luis Navarro is pushing the forefront of research in Earth’s extreme upper atmosphere to answer important and complex scientific questions. Navarro, a research scientist in the Space Weather Technology, Research and Education Center (SWx TREC) at the University of Colorado Boulder, has earned a four-year, $700,000 NASA Heliophysics grant to...

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