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Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society
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PREFACE
current state of efforts to develop a capability to predict harmful space weather events. The recommendations of the survey committee are presented in the Summary and in Chapter 4. These recommendations
were informed in part by the detailed analyses provided by the survey’s three discipline study panels,
whose work is summarized in Chapters 8, 9, and 10.
The work of the survey could not have been accomplished without the important help given by individuals too numerous to list, from a variety of public and private organizations, who made presentations at
committee meetings, hosted outreach seminars and town meetings, 3 drafted white papers, and participated
in mission studies. Finally, the committee acknowledges the exceptionally important contributions made
by the following individuals at the Aerospace Corporation: Randy Persinger, Robert C. Kellogg, Robert J.
Kinsey, Mark J. Barrera, David A. Bearden, Debra L. Emmons, Robert E. Bitten, and Matthew J. Hart.
3 During the initiation of the decadal survey, town hall meetings and outreach events were held at the University of California,
Los Angeles; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Maryland, College Park; the University of New Hampshire; the
University of Texas, Dallas; the University of Michigan; the National Center for Atmospheric Research; the National Astronomy and
Ionosphere Center (Arecibo Observatory); Southwest Research Institute; and at the National Science Foundation’s Upper Atmosphere
Facilities Fall 2010 meeting in Roanoke, Va.
Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society
xiv
PREFACE
current state of efforts to develop a capability to predict harmful space weather events. The recommendations of the survey committee are presented in the Summary and in Chapter 4. These recommendations
were informed in part by the detailed analyses provided by the survey’s three discipline study panels,
whose work is summarized in Chapters 8, 9, and 10.
The work of the survey could not have been accomplished without the important help given by individuals too numerous to list, from a variety of public and private organizations, who made presentations at
committee meetings, hosted outreach seminars and town meetings, 3 drafted white papers, and participated
in mission studies. Finally, the committee acknowledges the exceptionally important contributions made
by the following individuals at the Aerospace Corporation: Randy Persinger, Robert C. Kellogg, Robert J.
Kinsey, Mark J. Barrera, David A. Bearden, Debra L. Emmons, Robert E. Bitten, and Matthew J. Hart.
3 During the initiation of the decadal survey, town hall meetings and outreach events were held at the University of California,
Los Angeles; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Maryland, College Park; the University of New Hampshire; the
University of Texas, Dallas; the University of Michigan; the National Center for Atmospheric Research; the National Astronomy and
Ionosphere Center (Arecibo Observatory); Southwest Research Institute; and at the National Science Foundation’s Upper Atmosphere
Facilities Fall 2010 meeting in Roanoke, Va.