University of Colorado Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center (SWx TREC): An academic center of excellence to accelerate research to operations and operations to research transitions
Jeffrey P Thayer1, Thomas E Berger2, Daniel N Baker3, Delores J Knipp4, Christopher K Pankratz3, Steven R Cranmer4, Eric K Sutton1, Tom Baltzer5, Greg Lucas6, James Craft3, Natasha Bosanac7 and Thomas Raymond Smith8, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)University of Colorado, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, Boulder, United States