NASA Hosts Media Teleconference on Solar Flare Characteristics

[NASA News <hqnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sept. 1, 2011

Steve Cole                                     
Headquarters, Washington                 
202-358-0918 
stephen.e.cole@xxxxxxxx 
MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-183

NASA HOSTS MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ON SOLAR FLARE CHARACTERISTICS

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on 
Wednesday, Sept. 7, to discuss new observations about solar flares 
that can impact communication and navigation systems. 

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is providing new data and 
images for scientists to better understand the sun's dynamic 
processes, which can affect Earth. The spacecraft launched in 
February 2010. 

Teleconference participants are: 
-- Madhulika Guhathakurta, SDO program scientist, NASA Headquarters 
-- Tom Woods, principal investigator, SDO Extreme Ultraviolet 
Variability Experiment (EVE), University of Colorado, Boulder 
-- Rodney Viereck, director, Space Weather Prediction Testbed, 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather 
Prediction Center, Boulder 
-- Karel Schrijver, principal investigator, SDO Atmospheric Imaging 
Assembly, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, 
Calif. 
-- Rachel Hock, EVE instrument scientist, University of Colorado, 
Boulder 

To participate in the teleconference, reporters must contact Steve 
Cole at 202-358-0918 or stephen.e.cole@xxxxxxxx by 9 a.m. EDT on 
Sept. 7 for dial-in instructions. 

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on the Web at: 



http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio 


Supporting information for the briefing will be posted at: 



http://www.nasa.gov/sunearth 

	
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