NASA Invites Media to Space Weather Enterprise Forum

May 31, 2013

Steve Cole
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0918
stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov


MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-089

NASA INVITES MEDIA TO SPACE WEATHER ENTERPRISE FORUM

WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will deliver the
keynote address at the annual Space Weather Enterprise Forum Tuesday,
June 4, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Auditorium and Science Center, located at 1301 East-West Highway in
Silver Spring, Md.

Media representatives are invited to attend the forum, which will
focus on the impact of space weather events on communications,
navigation, and national security. The theme of this year's forum is
"Space Weather Impacts: They Happen All the Time." It will examine
the high-frequency, low-impact events that routinely occur, but
generally go unnoticed by the public. The meeting will take place
from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EDT. Bolden will speak at 8:30 a.m., and
several other NASA officials will make presentations.

Forum participants include researchers, policymakers, and forecasters
sharing information to raise awareness about space weather and its
effects. Space weather involves conditions and events on the sun and
in near-Earth space that can affect critical space-borne and
ground-based technological systems, such as electric power grids,
communications and navigation systems.

The NASA participants include:

-- Victoria Elsbernd, acting director, Heliophysics Division, Science
Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
-- Madhulika Guhathakurta, STEREO and Living with a Star program
scientist, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington

-- Michael Wargo, chief exploration scientist, Human Exploration and
Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
-- Lauri Newman, robotic conjunction assessment manager, NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
-- Neal Zapp, Office of the Chief Engineer, NASA Headquarters

The forum is sponsored by the Office of the Federal Coordinator for
Meteorology's National Space Weather Program Council in Washington.
Registration is required, but free of charge for journalists. For
additional information and to register online, visit:


http://www.nswp.gov/swef/swef_2013.html


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