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Exploring Space Weather: Impact, Education, and Preparation

Learn about solar eruptions, their effects on Earth and technology, and how to prepare specialists through hands-on lessons on space weather, health, electricity, and more. Contact us for more info!

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Exploring Space Weather: Impact, Education, and Preparation

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  1. The Bad Guy Image courtesy of SOHO

  2. Solar Eruptions: Effects on Earth • Satellites • Power Stations • Pagers, Cell Phones • Pigeons Images courtesy of NOAA/SEC

  3. The Good Guy: Space Station Alpha Image courtesy of NASA

  4. Early Warning • Apollo 16 & 17 • Cycle 23: 2000-2001 Images courtesy of NOAA/SEC

  5. The Crisis: A Coronal Mass Ejection Images courtesy of NOAA/SEC

  6. The Curriculum • Application • Specialist Preparation: 4 Topics(see more) • Space Weather • Radiation Health • Electricity • Human Respiration Each topic includes 2-3 lessons, with hands-on component • Culminates in a LIVE Space Mission

  7. Mission Day • STORM Team- Space weather forecasting • Radiation Team- Astronaut health • Life Support- Environmental monitoring • Power Team- Electronics, power supply • Crisis Management Team

  8. Special Thanks to:

  9. For more information, contact Bruce Howard Challenger Learning Center Wheeling Jesuit University howard@cet.edu (304) 243-4325

  10. The Curriculum Specialist Preparation: 4 Topics Back

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