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2011

Heliophysics Summer School 2011
27 July - 03 August, Boulder, CO

Long-term solar activity and the climates of space and Earth

 

The 2011 school focused on long-term processes, from the Sun's modulated activity to its influences on the climate systems of the heliosphere, Earth's atmosphere and planetary environments.  This class drew material from the third volume of the textbook series, Heliophysics III: "Evolving solar activity and the climates of space and Earth" as well as basic material from the first volume: Heliophysics I: "Plasma physics of the local cosmos".

NASA Living with a Star sponsors the Heliophysics Summer Schools.   The UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs office administers the schools for NASA.  This series of summer schools, commencing in 2007, helps graduate students and scientists learn and develop the science of heliophysics as a broad, coherent discipline that reaches in space from the Earth's troposphere to the depths of the Sun, and in time from the formation of the solar system to the distant future.

The first three schools produced textbooks for use at universities worldwide. The continuation of the school program each summer will teach new generations of students and develop the complementary materials that support teaching of heliophysics at both graduate and undergraduate levels.

The Summer School has two principal aims:

1. Deepen the appreciation of the basic science of heliophysics for a select group of students, as teachers take them through highly interactive seminars and hands-on working groups, and
2. Expand the newly-published textbook series to include labs, problem sets, and background material, from which heliophysics may be taught at universities worldwide.

Approximately 30 students are selected through a competitive process organized by UCAR VSP. The school lasts for seven days, and each participant receives travel support for air travel, lodging and per diem costs.

 

Successful candidates are:

• Enrolled as a graduate student in any phase of training, or first or second year doctoral students.
• Majoring in physics with an emphasis on astrophysics, geophysics, plasma physics, and space physics, or experienced in at least one of these areas.
• Pursuing a career in heliophysics or astrophysics.

The Living With a Star program of the Heliophysics Division in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate sponsors the Summer Schools.

 

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