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IGPP 6th Annual Slichter Lecture
07 May 2001
"Space Weather –
Societal Impacts”
Dr. Howard J. Singer, Chief
Research and Development Division
NOAA Space Environment
Center
Dr. Singer has been with the NOAA
Space Environment
Center since 1993, where he is
Chief of the Research and Development Division, leading a group that conducts
solar-terrestrial research and develops products to improve the Nation’s
space weather services. He is
also the Project Leader for the current and future NOAA Space environment
Monitor instruments on the GOES Spacecraft magnetometers
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Dr. Howard J. Singer
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His
research is mostly in the area of solar-terrestrial interactions, ultra-low
frequency waves, geomagnetic disturbances, and storms and substorms,
and he is co-editor, with Paul Song and George Siscoe,
of the American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph Space Weather
published in 2001. Dr. Singer received his Ph.D. from UCLA, and he has had
experience teaching high school science, astronomy at Wellesley
College, and geophysics at Boston
University as an Assistant
Research Professor. He spent over
one year at South Pole Station Antarctica as the Deputy Station Scientific
Leader, and operating a gravimeter experiment. For this work he was awarded the
Antarctic Service Medal and has an Antarctic Geographic Feature named for
him.
In
this lecture, Dr. Singer will give an overview of “Space Weather”
and the processes on the sun, in the interplanetary medium, and in
Earth’s magnetosphere and ionosphere that affect human and
technological systems. He will
describe space environment effects from a historical perspective, as well as
the more recent effects on astronauts, airlines, power grids, and satellites. He will also describe recent activities
at the NOAA Space
Environment Center
and how space weather information is acquired and distributed to private
industry, government agencies, international organizations, and the public.
Lecture: 4:00 PM
Location: 1240B Knudsen Hall
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