HUNTSVILLE – The University of Alabama in Huntsville recently welcomed students from across the Southeast and Germany to the International Space Weather Camp, a two-week immersive program exploring space weather science and its global impacts.
The U.S. portion of the event was hosted by the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research and featured hands-on research projects on topics such as space plasma simulations, artificial intelligence tools for modeling electromagnetic waves, turbulence in space environment and cosmic ray modulation in the heliosphere.
The ISWC program was launched in 2011 for students to learn about space physics through lectures, hands-on projects, experiments and excursions. Seventeen students, eight from Germany and nine from the southeastern U.S., gathered on the UAH campus to take part in more than 20 expert-led lectures and four in-depth group projects organized by CSPAR.
The program is part of the Future Technologies & Enabling Plasma Processes initiative, a National Science Foundation-funded cooperative agreement led by Dr. Gary Zank, director of CSPAR and FTPP principal investigator…