UNH Speakers Bureau

The Variable Sun and Its Impact on Earth

 

Program Description:

The subjects of this presentation are derived from work in the space science center on all the effects the sun can have on our technologically advanced society when it sends out cosmic rays, and delivers big punches to the Earth's magnetic field, up to the sun's impact on climate in history. Weather permitting this talk can also include an opportunity to view solar features through a small telescope.


Speaker:

Eberhard Moëbius

Eberhard Moëbius,is a professor of physics and Earth,oceans, and space at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include the acceleration of ions in the Earth's magnetosphere, in interplanetary space, and in solar flares, and the interaction of interstellar gas with the solar wind.

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