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SPACE @ PPL: A lecture series for all!
Solar Storms & Space Weather
with Professor Antoinette Galvin, UNH
Monday July 15 | 6:30 PM
What are solar storms? How does space weather affect us here on Earth? What can solar wind teach us about the sun? Dr. Antoinette B. Galvin will discuss her research on solar wind, a continuous stream of charged particles, both ions and electrons (called a plasma), coming from the sun and filling interplanetary space; as well as solar energetic particles, intermittently released from the sun during solar eruptions like solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
Galvin is Director of the New Hampshire Space Grant Consortium and Research Professor at UNH's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space and the Department of Physics. Dr. Galvin's work includes design and development of instruments (as part of a team effort of course), the calibration of instruments, the commanding and operation of instruments in space (flight operations), the programming involved in the data reduction, and scientific analysis of that data. She has been involved with experiments on nine spacecraft!
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