American Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference on Scientific Challenges Pertaining to Forecasting Space Weather Including Extremes; Pasadena, California; February 11-15, 2019

这个为期一年的项目旨在使来自美国的学生和早期职业科学家能够参加美国地球物理联盟（AGU）赞助的查普曼会议，该会议将于2019年春季举行，主题是与预测包括极端事件在内的空间天气有关的科学挑战。 这次AGU查普曼会议将汇集太阳和地球空间界，审查和推进对日地关系的科学认识，因为它们与预测空间天气有关，从温和到极端条件。 近年来，空间天气研究在建模、观测和科学认识方面取得了新的进展，人们对空间天气极端事件的兴趣也重新燃起。尽管这是空间物理学和高层大气物理学（SPA）社区长期追求的目标，但预测空间天气仍然是一项挑战。本次AGU Chapman会议旨在创造新的社区视角，加速空间天气预报作为一门科学学科的发展，并解决其发展中目前存在的障碍。 目前，迫切需要开发预测空间气象极端事件的新方法。 这次会议的成果被设想为SPA社区在新的研究方向上的指导，以追求将产生重大的科学效益，以及为社会带来更广泛利益的潜力。 活动组织者强调来自美国的早期职业科学家积极参与和参与会议，这与NSF培养下一代STEM科学家的目标非常一致。 此外，本次AGU查普曼会议直接解决了国家空间气象行动计划的目标5：通过推进理解和预测来改善空间气象服务。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This one-year project is intended to enable the participation of students and early-career scientists from the U.S. at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) sponsored Chapman Conference on Scientific Challenges Pertaining to Forecasting Space Weather Including Extremes, which will be held in the Spring of 2019. This AGU Chapman Conference will bring together the solar and Geospace communities to review and advance scientific understanding of solar-terrestrial relationships as they relate to forecasting space weather, from moderate to extreme conditions. Recent years have brought new developments in modeling, observations, and scientific understanding to research that pertains to space weather, as well as renewed interest in space weather extremes. Despite its being a long-sought goal of the Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) community, forecasting space weather remains a challenge. This AGU Chapman Conference is aimed at creating new community perspectives that will accelerate space weather forecasting as a scientific discipline and address the barriers that currently exist in its development. At present, there is an urgent need to develop new approaches for predicting space weather extremes. The outcome of this Conference is envisioned as guidance for the SPA community on new research directions to pursue that will yield major scientific benefits, as well as the potential for broader benefits to society. The event organizers emphasize on the active participation and involvement of early-career scientists from the U.S. at the Conference, which is well aligned with the NSF's goal of developing the next generation of STEM scientists. Furthermore, this AGU Chapman Conference directly addresses Goal 5 of the National Space Weather Action Plan: improve space-weather services through advancing understanding and forecasting.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.