Government Agencies

THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT CENTER

The official source of space weather alerts, warnings, and forecasts, The Space Environment Center, provides links to current space weather and data, as well as providing information on current projects concerning the space environment.

Learn about the Space Environment Center's projects and contributors.

NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

ISTP, the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Project and a branch project of NASA, shares their view of the "Mission to Geospace" in an exciting overview of Earth's space atmosphere.

Also a branch of NASA, the Photovoltaics and Space Environment Effects Branch does research in solar energy technology and works on designing suitable habitats for travelers in space.

NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

A branch of NOAA, the National Geophysical Data Center is a source to turn to for information on Solar-Terrestrial Physics.

Online Documents

The Sun, UV, and You: a guide to sunwise behavior, instructs on UV radiation science and health risks, and presents a UV illness preventative guide.

To learn more about the geophysical sphere and the sun, see the Preliminary Report and Forecast of Solar Geophysical Data, a product of Space Weather Operations.

General Links

EDUCATION

For materials to educate yourself, or someone else, see the Space Environment Center's page of links to general information, short topic papers, and materials for the classroom.

Learn all about the Sun-Earth Connection.

Find out how the "sun-earth connection" theme is a focus of NASA's Office of Space Science by viewing their list of missions.

SPACE WEATHER FORECASTS

For today's space weather from the Space Environment Center, click here.

The Space Environment Center also hosts a site for other current weather conditions, including solar wind speed, radiation levels, and even current pictures of the sun.

Have you ever wondered how often the Earth experiences major (and minor) solar events?  The NOAA Space Weather Scales give a description of solar storm ratings, in addition to giving their frequency per solar cycle.

MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES

Images:   The Space Environment Center has a great list of links to real-time and near real-time space images.  In addition, see the photo gallery at the National Space Science Data Center.

Audio:   Listen to a talk on National Public Radio concerning the melting of the polar caps.  The discussion includes input from two Space Environment Center researchers.  You will need RealPlayer for this.

NEWS

The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) put up a recent article on the sun's effect on our ozone.

For other space news links, see the GSFC's index of top stories from Spring to Fall 2001.

UV RADIATION

Learn all about the UV index at the Climate Prediction center's simple, informative site.

The NIH's "Consensus Statements" series, number 74: Sunlight, Ultraviolet radiation, and the Skin, provides access to a 1989 statement warning of the dangers of UV radiation to personal health.

Turn to the NASA Earth Observatory for current heat and energy images and data, highlighting UV radiation exposure.

The Center for Disease Control site contains an AT-A-GLANCE guide to preventing skin cancer.

SPACE WEATHER CENTER EXHIBIT in Chicago!

What luck that the new year long theme of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago is titled "The Sun-Earth Connection".  To kick off the year, the Space Environment Center is hosting a special exhibit to inform visitors about solar cycles, the solar maximum and Earth’s magnetic field changes associated with space weather.  This exhibit runs through December 31, 2001.  Click here for a press release from Adler.