The third episode of our epic series on space weather, produced in conjunction with MIT’s Haystack Observatory, just got posted on the SWFX web site. This is very timely, since I’m heading out to Los Angeles on Saturday for the American Astronomical Society meeting, where I’ll be giving a progress report on the whole SWFX project.
Each episode aims to present the basics of space weather in an approachable style in three minutes (although the first one came in a little longer because it was an overview).
Think of the episodes as bite-size tastes of the causes and effects of space weather. Some also focus on the many ways that atmospheric scientists study what happens to our planet — and our technology — when the Sun burps up a little space weather.
So, go check ’em out! I’ll write more about these episodes as the project progresses, and if you’re an educator, we’ll have some educational use feedback forms posted in a few weeks for your use. Happy viewing!
Mark and I have been working on a series of “vodcasts” (video podcasts) about space weather as part of a NASA-funded project with the folks over at MIT’s Haystack Observatory. Each episode covers a different aspect of space weather and the research that atmospheric scientists do about the causes and effects of space weather. When we finish filming and editing them all, there will be 8 episodes.
The first two are up now (you can find them here at Haystack’s web site and here and here on YouTube) and we just found out last week that they’re available (for free) on iTunes. If you’re an iTunes devotee, click here for a link to the first two shows (you’ll need to have iTunes installed on your computer for this to work).
The third episode goes up after Christmas sometime, and the rest are slated for release in the first half of 2009 along with an online survey for audience members to fill out.
We encourage you to watch them; if you’re a teacher, please feel free to point your students toward them. The Haystack web pages have some additional material for teachers, so if you’d like to use these in the classroom, point your browser there for more details. If you’re an AAS member and will be attending the Long Beach meeting, please stop by the poster paper our team is presenting on Wednesday, January 7 at the conference.
