Research

Speaker: Dr. Marty Mlynczak

It is an incredibly exciting time to be working in Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere (ITM) science. The Sun is the most active it has been in two decades. Greenhouse cooling of the ITM system has been verified. Space Weather forecasting is transitioning to more physics-based models, which opens the door for new sensors to provide near-real time observations to drive those models. ITM science has become relevant to the development of the rapidly growing space economy and will almost certainly influence future space policy and law as well as the economic decisions of companies doing business in space. These factors will likely necessitate the development of a “Geospace Observing System (GeOS)” to measure and quantify long-term change in the ITM system. These topics will be presented and discussed in a “roundtable” format in which active participation of all attendees is anticipated.