COST 724 10th MCM, 21-25 May 2007, Sofia, Bulgaria 1 COST 724 Multiple Efforts Towards Education (Final Report) Yurdanur Tulunay METU, Dept. of Aerospace

COST 724 10th MCM, 21-25 May 2007, Sofia, Bulgaria

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COST 724Multiple Efforts

Towards Education (Final Report)

Yurdanur TulunayMETU, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering

06531, Ankara


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Introduction

Since 1980 a paradigm emerged in geosciences, EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE (ESS)


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ESS views E+ as a synergistic physical syst. of

interrelated phenomena, processes

cycles...


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...which remain largely unexplored in traditional disciplinary ES course offerings


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Conceptually a pyramidal structure can illustrates relation of ESS and global change education to larger interests of society.


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NASA (1991) and USRA introduced college undergraduates to interdisciplinary challenges of an emerging ESS approach to understanding our planet(Johnson et al., 2000)


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ESSE challenges colleges and universities:

to develop and offer classroom courses which examine E+ as a system,

to share their progress, course materials and learning modules.(Johnson et al., 2000)


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Computer, i/net and other comm. tools are central resources for ESSE.(Johnson et al., 2000)


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Space Weather research and development activities are not acknowlegded widely...


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the lack of AWARENESS of the effects of Space Weather on terrestrial or E+ bound systems


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To optimize technical perform. of service operations,

To have reliable continuous services without causing health hazards and environmental EM pollution,SpW effects must be understood and appreciated


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need to set up EDUCATION and OUTREACH activities in Space Weather field.(Crosby et al., 2006 and references therein; Siscoe et al., 2000 and references therein)


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In Europe, this role has begun to be filled by the COST 724 Action (Lilensten et al., 2004)


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As ESS emerged a frmwork for addressing scientific dimensions of global change...


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...COST 724 has initiated scien. collab. towards education btween scientists of

univ.s, gov.tal indust.al bodies

in Europe, concerning SpW EDUCATION.


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University offers unique OPPORTUNITY to develop knowledge and understanding about SpW that can then be APPLIED as graduates enter main stream society.


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Summary and Conclusion

expected that initiative taken by COST 724 would create a univ. based cooperative effort in SpW under ESS curriculum development firmly.


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Basic users of a SpW Ed. Prm. may be summarized as:

communications satellite operations power grids manned spaceflight navigation, etc.


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Scientific and technological developments are achieved as results of research, observations, models and education...


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Forecasting and warning services use technology developed and disseminates results to basic users mentioned above


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“comments” of users are returned back to education program via feedback mechanisms


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quality and efficiency of education system sustained at satisfactory levels


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Case Studies

illustrate the beginning of such a task towards a coherent and concrete unifying SpW ed. for science and engineering curricula in Europe


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Case 1: The Books “Space Weather, Research towards Applications in Europe

Series”Lilensten, J. (Ed.), Astrophysics and Space Science Library”, Vol. 344, 2007, XII, 332 p., ISBN: 978-1-4020-5445-7

“Space Weather, Environment and Societies”Lilensten, Jean, Bornarel, Jean, 2006, XIII, 242 p., ISBN: 978-1-4020-4331-4

“From the Sun - Auroras, Magnetic Storms, Solar Flares, Cosmic Rays”S.T. Suees and B.T. Tsurutani eds., American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, USA, ISBN 0-87590-292-8, 1998

“Space Weather - Physics and Effects”Eds. Volker Bothmer and Ioannis A. Daglis, Praxis Publishing Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2007, ISBN 3-540-23907-3”

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Case 2: Formal Education

Dept. of Aerospace Eng., METU “AE453 – Intr. to Atmospheric Physics I”, “AE454 – Intr. to Atmospheric Physics II”, “AE551 – Intr. to Space Sciences”, “AE552 – Selected Topics on Space Sci.”, “AE552 – Applied Orbital Mechanics”.


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Case 3: Summer Schools

Under spirit of COST 724, a grad. course delivered in Turkey emphasizing “STP and Space Weather”.(Crosby et. al., 2006)


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Summarizing...

Enthusiasm of students has shown that there is a need for the next generation of scientists and engineers to appreciate the applicability of SpW on techn. and life on planet E+ that world relies upon in the 3rd mill.


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References Johnson D. R., M. Ruzek, M. Kalb, “Earth System Science

and the Internet”, Computers & Geosciences, 26, 669-676, 2000

NASA, 1988. “Earth System Science Advisory Committee Earth System Science: a closer view”. NASA, Washington, DC 208 pp.

Crosby N. B., M. J. Rycroft, Y. Tulunay, “Overview of a Graduate Course Delivered in Turkey, Emphasizing Solar Terrestrial Physics and Space Weather”, Surveys in Geophysics, Springer Netherlands, DOI: 10.1007/s10712-005-6204-3, 27 /3, pp. 319-364, 2006

Siscoe, G., “The space-weather enterprise: past, present, and future”, J. Atm & Solar-Terrestrial Phys, 62, 1223-1232, 2000.

Tulunay Y., E. Tulunay, “A Case Study of Curriculum Development Related to the Space Environment and Emerging Space Weather Markets”, Advances in Geosciences, 3, pp. 29-33, 2005

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