Space Weather Workshop 2016; Broomfield, Colorado; April 25-29, 2016

该提案将支持2016年4月26日至29日在科罗拉多州布鲁姆菲尔德的Omni Interlocken酒店举行的2016年空间天气研讨会。这个一年一度的研讨会汇集了工业界、学术界和政府的代表，发表论文并讨论与太空天气有关的问题。这是对太空天气感兴趣的广大社区聚集在一起的为数不多的机会之一。研讨会的重点是空间天气对技术的影响，包括通信、导航、航天器运行和电力。除了将三个对太空天气感兴趣的团体聚集在一起外，本次研讨会还邀请了本科生和研究生。这为学生提供了研究进展的信息，以及研究如何与业务相关。学生们还能够发展有价值的网络连接，跨越这些相关但非常独立的社区。由于研讨会的重点是讨论空间天气对技术的影响，并确定空间天气预报的业务需求，因此具有很高的社会价值。需要制定改进和加强的空间天气预报和减缓战略，现在是国家的一项优先事项。

This proposal will support the 2016 Space Weather Workshop to be held April 26-29, 2016 at the Omni Interlocken Hotel in Broomfield, Colorado. This annual workshop brings together representatives of industry, academia and government to present papers and discuss issues related to space weather. This is one of the few opportunities for the broad community interested in space weather to get together. Emphasis at the workshop is on the impacts of space weather on technology including communications, navigation, spacecraft operations and electric power. In addition to bringing the three communities interested in space weather together this workshop invites both undergraduate and graduate students. This provides the students with information on research developments and on how that research is relevant to operations. The students are also able to develop valuable networking connections that span these related but very separate communities. Because the emphasis of the workshop is to discuss the impacts of space weather on technology and identify the operational needs for space weather forecasting it has high societal value. The need to develop improved and enhanced space weather forecast and mitigation strategies is now a national priority.