IREDI

International Space Weather REDI (Research, Education, Development Initiative) is an international partnership to facilitate the establishment of space weather programs at universities worldwide, fostering the development of the next generation of researchers and forecasters.

Goals

• Facilitate establishment of space weather programs at universities worldwide as an important novel component of education.
• Create an engaging collaborative environment for students from different countries and backgrounds to study space weather together. Engage students around the globe in space weather monitoring, analysis, experimental research forecasting, and in developing next generation space weather capabilities.

Initiatives

IREDI web-based space weather educational material

• Course Components - a catalog of modular educational material:
  a resource for building space weather courses.
• Educational modules created by partner institutions

Space Weather Training Bootcamps

CCMC/GSFC two-week summer bootcamps are open to international participants (see Resources page).

• One- or two-day space weather schools attached to international workshops/conferences
• Traveling bootcamps (organized by participating educational institutions world-wide)

Space Weather at Planetariums World-Wide

Immersive data and model visualization of current and past space weather events from the Sun to Earth by collaborating with the OpenSpace team.

The OpenSpace project is a joint collaboration between the University of Linköping and the American Museum of Natural History, in partnership with the CCMC. OpenSpace provides a cross-platform multi-scale space environment that utilizes cutting-edge data visualization techniques to bring space sciences to the general public. OpenSpace's multi-scale features allow for the seamless exploration of scientific data sets spanning from planetary surfaces to heliospheric space weather models, local star clusters, and beyond. A cross-platform platenarium-enabled software, OpenSpace enables shared interactive experiences among audiences world-wide.

Resources

IREDI initiative is buiding upon and can be supplemented with past and current activities and resources provided by the CCMC and other partners. These include:

• educational events, such as space weather summer schools, bootcamps, internships, student research visits and exchanges, as well as heliophysics summer schools
• web-based tools and systems for space weather simulations, analysis, monitoring and experimental research forecasting accessible world-wide
• OpenSpace interactive visualization software (Linköping University, American Museum of Natural History) designed to visualize the entire known universe and to create opportunity for shared experiences among audiences worldwide

A comprehensive list of supplemental educational materials and activities can be found here.