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4 Workshops, Symposia, Meetings of Experts, and Other Special Projects
Pages 33-36

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... Naylor, Senior Program Assistant, Space Studies Board FORGING THE FUTURE OF SPACE SCIENCE The Forging the Future of Space Science international public seminar series commemorated the 50th anniversary of the International Geophysical Year and SSB, engaging the public and the scientific community about the advances that have been achieved over the past 50 years in space science, and the discoveries that await us in the next 50 years. In this context, "space science" incorporates space-based astrophysics, ­ heliophysics, Earth science, solar system exploration, and microgravity life and physical sciences.
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... Chamberlain, Program Associate, Space Studies Board ORGANIZATION OF A DECADAL SURVEY IN MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH A meeting of experts on the organization of a decadal survey in microgravity research was held on May 15-16, 2008, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Invited experts in physical and life sciences research heard presentations from NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate program on the agency's strategy for implementing its exploration program and on the history of NASA's space life and physical sciences research over the
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... Naylor, Senior Program Assistant, Space Studies Board SOCIETAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF SEVERE SPACE WEATHER EVENTS An ad hoc planning committee for the Societal and Economic Impacts of Severe Space Weather Events Workshop was formed in 2007 to organize a workshop to examine the nation's current and future ability to manage the effects of space weather events on a wide range of critical infrastructures, and their resulting societal and economic impacts. The planning committee's February 19-21, 2008, meeting at the National Academies' Keck Center in Washington, D.C., was devoted to data gathering and planning for the workshop.
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... Stansell, Stansell Consulting Leonard Strachan, Jr., Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Sandra J Graham, Senior Program Officer, Space Studies Board Theresa M
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