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Space weather refers to conditions on the sun and in the space environment that can influence the performance and reliability of space-borne and ground-based technological systems and can endanger human health. Space weather takes the form of episodic mass ejections from the sun, sporadic bursts of energetic particles and photons associated with solar flares, and intermittent high-speed streams of magnetized solar wind plasma that buffet Earth’s magnetosphere and induce geomagnetic storms and beautiful aurorae.

Dr. Thomas J. Bogdan will explain how our rapidly evolving high-tech global economy has become increasingly vulnerable to the disruptive impacts of space weather on satellite telecommunications, GPS-based navigation and timing, transpolar commercial aviation, and the human exploration and commercial utilization of space.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center, located in Boulder, Colorado, is the nation’s official source for space weather alerts, watches, and warnings. It operates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and is designated a National Critical System by the United States Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Bogdan has been the director of NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center since May of 2006. In this capacity he serves as the principal representative for civil space weather operations in the United States and is the national liaison to the World Meteorological Organization for space weather matters. He is also a co-chair of the multi-agency National Space Weather Program.

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