ED028
Forum on University Curricula and Teaching Materials for Space Physics and Heliophysics
Session ID#: 74022
Session Description:
The last decade has seen extensive development of curricula in space physics and heliophysics, covering topics in solar physics, the heliosphere, geospace, planetary magnetospheres, planetary ionosphere-thermospheres, and space weather. These curricula include intense workshops and summer schools, undergraduate majors or certifications, and curricula for graduate studies. Additionally, a number of resources have become available including books, websites, and computer simulations. Thus, we believe it is timely to hold a session to showcase these resources and current practices. The goals of this session include: (1) identifying populations that participate in space physics curricula and highlighting the learning goals for these populations, (2) sharing available teaching materials and best-practices, and (3) sharing evaluation results where appropriate. We seek abstracts related to all types of space physics (and space weather) curricula and resources, including undergraduate or graduate course materials, degree programs, summer schools, workshops, textbooks, and online resources.
Co-Organized:
Index Terms:
0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0820 Curriculum and laboratory design [EDUCATION]
7899 General or miscellaneous [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7999 General or miscellaneous [SPACE WEATHER]
Primary Convener: Nicholas A Gross, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Conveners: Michael Warren Liemohn, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Steven R Cranmer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Madhulika Guhathakurta, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison: Nicholas A Gross, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Undergraduate and Graduate Educational Initiatives in Space Weather at Millersville University: Addressing New Workforce Horizons (Invited) (500755)
Richard D Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA, United States, Tamitha M Skov, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Cook R Michael, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States
Space & Planetary Science-Focused PhD Curriculum at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Southwest Research Institute (507176)
Mihir Indrajit Desai1, Frederic Allegrini2, Maher A Dayeh2, Robert W Ebert1, Jerry Goldstein3, Heather Alison Elliott2, Stephen A Fuselier4, Stefano A Livi5, Randy Gladstone1, Jack H Waite Jr6, Kurt D Retherford3, Benjamin D Teolis2, Ujjwal Raut1, Joerg-Micha Jahn1, Mark Libardoni4, Amanda Bayless4 and Pete Roming4, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (5)SwRI, San Antonio, TX, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute, Space Sciences and Engineering, San Antonio, TX, United States
Education programs and curriculum element of Space Physics in University of Science and Technology of China (509751)
Jiuhou Lei1, Yuming Wang1, Quanming Lu2 and Chenglong Shen3, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)Univ. Sci. & Tech. of China, Hefei, China, (3)University Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
Learning by Immersion: Developing Virtual Reality Labs for Electricity and Magnetism Courses (Invited) (517787)
Raluca Ilie, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Eric Shaffer, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Computer Science, Champaign, IL, United States and Cynthia Marie D'Angelo, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, College of Education, Urbana, United States
Introduction of the space physics and heliophysics education at the University of Tokyo (526842)
Kanako Seki1, Masahiro Hoshino1, Satoshi Kasahara1, Takaaki Yokoyama1, Takanobu Amano1, Kunihiro Keika2, Masaki Fujimoto3, Yoshifumi Saito3, Toshifumi Shimizu3, Iku Shinohara4, Hiroshi Hasegawa4, Atsushi Yamazaki3, Ichiro Yoshikawa5, Takeshi Imamura5 and Kazuo Yoshioka5, (1)University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (3)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, (4)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, (5)University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Science, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Touching space: Space physics demonstrators at Aalto University (536749)
Esa Jukka Kallio1, Markku Alho1, Riku Jarvinen1,2, Tomi Kärkkäinen3, Cyril Simon Wedlund4 and Valtteri Harmainen5, (1)Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Espoo, Finland, (2)Finnish Meteorological Inst, Helsinki, Finland, (3)Reaktor Space Lab, Helsinki, Finland, (4)Institut für Weltraumforschung (IWF), Graz, Austria, (5)University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Boulder Solar Alliance REU Boot Camp (543068)
Martin A Snow, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Willow Mae Reed, Montana State University, Physics, Bozeman, MT, United States and Claire L Raftery, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Non-traditional Instructional Approaches and Assessment of Graduate Plasma Physics Courses at West Virginia University (545116)
Paul Cassak1, Fang Fang2, Adam Kobelski3, Mark E Koepke4, Earl escime@wvU.edu4 and Weichao Tu1, (1)West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, WV, United States, (2)West Virginia University, Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, WV, United States, (3)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (4)West Virginia Univ, Morgantown, WV, United States
Space Physics for a Small Program: What topics need to be covered? (547212)
Thomas Cravens1, Mikhail V Medvedev1 and Craig A McLaughlin2, (1)University of Kansas, Physics and Astronomy, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)Univ of KS-Aerospace Engrg, Lawrence, KS, United States
Equipping the Workforce with Space Weather Measurement and Interpretation Skills: The Incoherent Scatter Radar Summer School (548375)
Elizabeth A Kendall1, Anthea Coster2, Philip John Erickson2, Ashton Seth Reimer3, Bill Rideout2, Joshua L Semeter4 and Roger H Varney1, (1)SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (3)SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, United States, (4)Boston Univ, Boston, MA, United States
The Space Physics and Aeronomy Curricula in the Physics Department at Utah State University (552628)
Jan Josef Sojka1, Bela G Fejer2, Ludger Scherliess3, Robert Walter Schunk2, Michael J Taylor2, Tao Yuan4, Vincent B Wickwar3, Abdallah R Barakat3, Michael David2, Larry C Gardner5, Pierre-Dominique Pautet3, Yucheng Zhao6 and Lie Zhu2, (1)Utah State University, Dept. of Physics, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (3)Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States, (4)Utah State University, Physics, Logan, UT, United States, (5)Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (6)Ctr for Atmosp & Space Sci, Logan, UT, United States
Twenty Years of Space Weather Summer School (561613)
Stanley C Solomon1, Joan Burkepile2, Steven R Cranmer3, Nicholas A Gross4, W Jeffrey Hughes4, Delores J Knipp3, Susan E Lynds5, Mark S Miesch6, Howard J Singer7 and Michael James Wiltberger2, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (5)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)NOAA-Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States
CaNoRock STEP: The Canada-Norway Rocket Science Training and Educational Program (562000)
Kathryn A McWilliams1, Joran Moen2, Ian Robert Mann3, Johnathan K Burchill4, Lasse Boy Novock Clausen5, Stein Haaland6 and David J Knudsen4, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (3)Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (4)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (5)University of Oslo, Department of Physics, Oslo, Norway, (6)MPS/BCSS, IFT, Bergen, Norway
A Comprehensive Undergraduate Curriculum for Space Physics and Engineering (596923)
Joseph B. H. Baker1, Scott Martin Bailey1, Jonathan T Black2, C. Robert Clauer1,3, Gregory Duane Earle1, Scott England4, J. Michael Ruohoniemi1, Wayne Scales1 and Daniel R Weimer1,5, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, (3)National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, VA, United States, (5)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
The CaNoRock Undergraduate Student Rocket School (609195)
Ketil Røed1, Ian Robert Mann2,3, Kolbjorn Blix4, Allison N Jaynes5, David J Knudsen6, Kathryn A McWilliams7, David Miles5, Jøran Grande8, Joran Moen9 and Laureline Sangalli10, (1)University of Oslo, Department of Physics, Oslo, Norway, (2)Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (3)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (4)Andøya Space Center, Andenes, Norway, (5)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (6)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (7)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (8)Norwegian Centre for Space-related Education, Andenes, Norway, (9)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (10)Royal Military College of Cana, Kingston, ON, Canada
Space Weather REDI: using space weather analysis and forecasting tools and simulations in heliophysics education (612257)
Anna Chulaki, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Yaireska M Collado-Vega, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, M. Leila Mays, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Karin Muglach, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, M. Crawford, Baltimore City Community College, Baltimore, United States, Kevin Nhan, University of Texas Clear Lake, Houston, TX, United States and CCMC forecasting team
The International Space Mission, a Canada-Norway collaborative training program (612732)
Laureline Sangalli1, Kathryn A McWilliams2, Ronald Frank Vincent1 and Wenona Partridge3, (1)Royal Military College of Canada, Physics and Space Science, Kingston, ON, Canada, (2)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (3)University of Saskatchewan, Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Exploring space physics under the aurora borealis: The University of Alaska Fairbanks Space Physics graduate program (616561)
Peter A Delamere1, Hyunju KIM Connor1, Donald L Hampton1, Mark Conde1, Hui Zhang2, Chung-Sang Ng3 and Peter A Damiano1, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
LISIRD: An Online Resource for Making Solar Data More Accessible (621132)
Hunter Leise1, Tom Baltzer1, Anne Wilson1, Douglas M Lindholm1, Martin A Snow2, Donald Woodraska3, Stephane Beland1, Odele Coddington4, Christopher K Pankratz5 and the LASP Web Team, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)CU in Boulder--LASP, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Teaching Heliophysics from a Curriculum (625504)
Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Nicholas A Gross, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Dana W Longcope, Montana State University Bozeman, Bozeman, MT, United States, Kendra Greb, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Visiting Scientist Programs, Boulder, CO, United States and Madhulika Guhathakurta, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
The Space Weather TREC Space Weather Portal: A Tool for Enabling Research and Education (628466)
Tom Baltzer1, Thomas E Berger2, Steven R Cranmer3, Delores J Knipp3, Richard D Clark4, Jenny Knuth5, Christopher K Pankratz6 and The LASP Web Team, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Millersville University, Millersville, PA, United States, (5)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Moving Test Particles in an Empirical E & B Model as a Way to Develop a ‘Feel’ for the Magnetosphere (631687)
Eric Donovan1, Emma Spanswick1 and Wesley Ernst2, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)University of Calgary, Physics and Astronomy, Calgary, AB, Canada
