Friends,
I am copying this mail from
M. Cristina Rabello-Soares
IHY International Coordinator for Education and Public Outreach

Please copy this mail to other in your group too.

Thanks

Arvind Paranjpye


Dear IHY EPO National Coordinator,

You are invited to participate in a event promoted by the Center for
Science Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and the
Stanford Solar Center in partnership with the IHY EPO Program to
celebrate the World Space Week 2007.

The United Nations General Assembly declared in 1999 that World Space Week
will be held each year from October 4-10. It is the largest annual public
space event, celebrated in some 50 Nations every year. In 2007, it will be
celebrating 50 years in Space.

******* Join in a world wide community event featuring space! *****

There are 2 main web-based activities:
(1) "Determine the Magnetic Storminess of Earth's Magnetic Field" using
THEMIS data and
(2) "Track a Solar Flare to its Source" using SID data, both are state of
the art research quality data.

The website will provide a detailed guide to the activities and
background information on the science for the teachers.

Teachers/students will also be able to share their findings with each
other on a message board and post questions to scientists/educators.

We invite you to be a mentor on our message board and to engage the EPO
community in your country to participate.

The discussions and activities will be in English. You are welcome to
translate them to your language.

If you are interested in participating, please visit the website:
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/segway/WSW.html (at the moment, it is under
construction).

If you would like to be a moderator on the message board or if you have
questions, please send an email to wsw.ihy@....

Moderators will help to accept student and teacher posts to the message
board. We would like to have moderators from around the world so that
students in different time zones can post a message and then see their
message at the board near the same time that they send it.

The organizers plan to follow up and develop this initiative further next
year at World Space Week 2008.

Best regards,

Cristina


M. Cristina Rabello-Soares
IHY International Coordinator for Education and Public Outreach
Stanford University
HEPL Solar Physics
445 Via Palou
Stanford, CA 94305-4085
USA

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Additional Information on the activities:

THEMIS consists of 30 ground-stations in Canada and the Northern United
States together with 5 identical probes launched by NASA in February 2007
to investigate in detail what causes auroras in the Earth's
atmosphere. 12 of these ground stations are magnetometers housed in schools.

The Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance monitor (SIDs) are space weather
monitors capable of detecting solar flares and their affect on the Earth's
ionosphere. They are being distributed through the United
Nations Basic Space Science Initiative for the IHY.

The website is still being developed to make this happen, but you can
check out what we have so far:
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/segway/wsw.html. More details on the
activities will become available soon.

To learn more about the data and the type of activities that are being
planned see:

(1) To learn how to use SID space weather monitor data, along with
suggested research projects, students and teachers may begin with:
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/educators/ForTeachers.pdf

(2) "Space Weather" provides background knowledge for the THEMIS
magnetometers. It covers Earth's magnetosphere, a Sun-Earth connection
lecture, time zones and Universal Time, the evolution of auroras, and
space weather forecasting using geomagnetic indices.
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SEGwayed/lessons/exploring%
5Fmagnetism/space_weather/

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