The Sun Touches Everything, the January Theme of the Heliophysics Big Year

Speaker: Shea Hess-Webber (COFFIES), Amy Keesee (CGS) & Erick Powell (SHIELD)

Jan 9, 2024 11:00 PST

COFFIES invites you to our first COFFIES seminar in 2024 with speakers from all 3 NASA DRIVE Centers, focused on the theme “The Sun Touches Everything”, aligning with the Heliophysics Big Year’s January theme. Three speakers from COFFIES, CGS and SHIELD will be offering insights into the Sun’s profound influence from each Center’s research focus.

Theme: The Sun Touches Everything, the January Theme of the Heliophysics Big Year

Speaker 1 from COFFIES Dr. Shea Hess Webber, Stanford University Title: How the Sun Touches Everything Shea’s Slides

Speaker 2 from CGS Prof. Amy M Keesee, University of New Hampshire Title: The Sun Touches Everything: Dynamics in Earth’s Magnetotail During Geomagnetic Storms

Speaker 3 from SHIELD Erick Powell, Boston University Title: Our Habitable Astrosphere


COFFIES seminars are hosted monthly about COFFIES-related topics to the general solar physics community. If you would like to give a COFFIES seminar, or suggest a seminar speaker, please contact Ruizhu (rzchen@stanford.edu) or COFFIES CET for seminar coordination.


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