NSWP-SG-04: Awareness

Raise national awareness of the impacts of space weather.

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The space weather enterprise requires proactive education and outreach efforts in an effort to ensure effective knowledge transfer at all levels. The national educational pipeline, from elementary through graduate school, needs to be surveyed and improved in an effort to ensure that no shortages of critical science, technology, engineering, and mathematics skills exist or will occur in the future. A well-informed general public that understands space weather concepts and the importance of space weather in addressing critical national needs is equally important. This can be achieved by the efficient use of far-reaching existing and emerging communications technologies. Effective transfer of space weather knowledge will require a better understanding of the impacts of space weather on technology and on commercial and military customers, to include the associated economic and political impacts on the Nation’s civil and military assets. The future will see increasing use of simulations and mitigation exercises to ensure operators of systems and the general public are better prepared for space weather events.

Stakeholder(s):

• National Space Weather Program Council


• Committee for Space Weather

Objective(s):

NSWP-SO-14: Educational Programs

NSWP-SO-15: Web Sites and Communications Technologies

NSWP-SO-16: Customer Impact Assessment

NSWP-SO-17: Economic Impacts

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