SWEETS Coordinator

Prof. Dr. Rainer Hippler
Institut für Physik
Universität Greifswald
Felix-Hausdorff-Str.6
17489 Greifswald
Germany

E-mail: Hippler@physik.uni-greifswald.de

Telephone: +49-3834-864780
Telefax: +49-3834-864701

Space Weather Poster

SWEETS has produced a space weather poster. Available in pdf format here (10 MB).

Space Weather Poster Panels

SWEETS has produced a space weather poster exhibition. The exhibition is composed of 13 bilingual poster panels which are available in English/French, English/German, and English/Portuguese. Translations in Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, and Slovak languages are also available. The contents covers important aspects of spaceweather, e.g., solar aspects, heliosphere and interplanetary space, space plasmas, cosmic rays, magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere, impacts of spaceweather on spacecraft, satellite communication, and navigation, telecommunication, radiation exposure to aviation, electronic failures, climate, and international space weather activities.

Poster Exhibition Panels (English-German, 50 MB)

Space Weather poster panels inside space weather-on-tour bus

The poster exhibition has been on permanent display in the space weather-on-tour bus and has traveled more than 23,000 km through Europe.

Additional copies of the exhibition have been on display in France and in Portugal.

Space weather poster panels in France

The SWEETS exhibition and "Du Soleil à la Terre" exhibition have been on display at the Observatoire de Paris from November 2007 to December 15 2007 in the Salle Cassini and in the low level room.

In order to organize these 6 weeks of exhibitions, the events was advertised by flyers, invitations, extra panels and modules. There have been about 5000 visitors during the various events.

The events include:

1. During the opening of the exhibition, IHY Gold certificate were received by 10 scientists who have worked for IGY 1957: Drs Y. Avignon, Blum, A. Boischot, J.F. Denisse, Lacroix, J. Legrand, M.J. Martres, M. Pick, P. Simon, J.L. Steinberg. The certificates were given by the IHY European Section responsible Jean Louis Bougeret in the presence of the President of the Observatoire de Paris and the IHY French representative Brigitte Schmieder. 200 persons (scientists, journalists and medias, members of the government and offices, agencies like the CNES and CNRS) were invited for visiting the exhibitions around a cocktail.

2. The visit by the Argentinean Ambassador in Paris and the Argentinean researchers in France working in Astrophysics.

3. The Amphitheater day on November 24, 2007.

4. Numerous schools visits of the exhibitions.

Space Weather poster panels in Portugal

In Portugal, the SWEETS Space Weather exhibition was on display in the Planetarium of Porto during November and December 2007, and 2 weeks on the Azores (University of Azores/CAUP). About 4000 visitors had a chance to see the exhibition.

The exhibition in Portugal is also available for schools or other public institutions.

Space Weather poster panels in Poland

In Poland, a tri-lingual (English, German and Polish) version of the SWEETS Space Weather poster panels were on display in an exhibition devoted to space weather organized in the national Museum in Szczecin.

Space Weather poster panels in Latvia

Full-scale posters in Russian and Latvian were alos produced and used during SWEETS bus stay in Riga on 4-5 September 2007. About 10 surplus posters were distributed among teachers, lecturers and astronomy amateurs. Some posters were distributed among astronomy amateurs during the especial bus tour to the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center on 15 December 2007.