Greetings All and Happy 2018
New England Space
Science Consortium Meeting #26
http://nessc.unh.edu/NESSC_Spring_2018_Meeting.html
Friday May 4, 2018, 10 AM – 5 PM
Room 330/332 Memorial Union, University of New Hampshire
Local Organizers: Nathan Schwadron, Ken Fairchild, Noe
Lugaz, Maureen Rodgers, Chuck Smith, Sonya Smith
The Evolving Solar Wind During a Decade of Historically Low
Solar Activity: Preparing for Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter
Over more than a decade, Solar and Heliospheric Scientists
have observed behavior in the solar wind that is unprecedented through the
space age. Solar wind densities, magnetic field strengths and pressures have
been exceptionally low, while galactic cosmic ray fluxes have reached new the
highest levels in more than 80 years. Solar activity has also been extremely
weak during the mini solar maximum of cycle 24. Fundamental to Heliophysics is
connection between solar activity, the properties of the solar wind and
Heliospheric magnetic field, the nature and frequency of coronal mass
ejections, the properties of solar energetic particles and cosmic rays. The
physical relationships between these phenomena is a critical area in
Heliophysics with wide-reaching implications for space weather, and for
upcoming missions including Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, and the
Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe.
We invite you to come to the meeting. If you should decide
to come, please send an email to Maureen Rodgers (maureen.rodgers@unh.edu), and if you
would like to give a talk, please send a title along with the authors and
co-authors to Maureen.