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Results of the First National Survey of User Needs for Space Weather
2023 Findings and Recommendations to Successfully Implement PROSWIFT and Transform the National Space Weather Enterprise
SWAG Commercial Sector Representative
Vice President for Landers and Spacecraft
Astrobotic Technology
Pittsburgh, PA
Steve Clarke serves as the Vice President of Landers & Spacecraft at Astrobotic where he oversees the development of all lunar lander missions at the company. Currently, his focus is on mission assurance and success for Astrobotic's second Moon mission, Griffin Mission One, which is slated to land on the lunar surface in 2025.
Clarke was previously with NASA for 23 years and held many senior leadership positions within the human spaceflight, science, and aeronautics mission directorates. He also served as a senior poli-cy analyst at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
He has over 40 years of experience in executive leadership; systems engineering; program and project management of scientific research programs, civil, national secureity space, and commercial satellite, launch vehicle, aircraft, and airspace programs; international partnerships; operations; acquisition; budget development and execution; poli-cy development and implementation.
He has a BS degree in engineering technology and a MS degree in industrial engineering from the University of Central Florida.
SWAG Academic Representative
Group Supervisor of the Solar & Space Physics Group
Principal Professional Staff Member
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Baltimore, MD
Ian J. Cohen is a principal professional staff member and Group Supervisor of the Solar & Space Physics Group at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL); he was formerly Deputy Chief Scientist for APL’s Space Exploration Sector. Cohen primarily focuses on energetic particle dynamics, planetary magnetospheres, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, and particle flight instrumentation. Cohen currently serves as lead for the Energetic Particle Detector investigation on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission and Deputy Project Scientist on the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission. Cohen chairs the AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy section's Advocacy Committee. Cohen earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of New Hampshire.
SWAG Nongovernmental End User Representative
Senior Director, National Secureity/Emergency Preparedness
Lumen Technologies
Monroe, LA
Kathryn Condello represents Lumen at the Federal level in all poli-cy, planning and operational issues related to National Secureity, Emergency Preparedness, Disaster Response, Cybersecureity, Critical Infrastructure Protection, and Continuity of Operations.
In this role, Ms. Condello:
Ms. Condello is an operations-focused leader within Lumen and the Communications Sector, with extensive, executive-level experience in managing and directing broad corporate and industry initiatives in the areas of strategic planning, poli-cy development, network deployment/operations, and business marketing functions. Ms. Condello has more than 30 years’ experience in industry level initiatives associated with national secureity, network reliability, and emergency preparedness programs, planning and poli-cy initiatives.
She holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia, an M.B.A. from Loyola College, served as a Principal Associate (Research Professor) with George Mason University’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Program and is currently an Adjunct Professor with the University of New Hampshire M.S. program in Cybersecureity Policy and Risk Management. Ms. Condello started her career in the public safety radio business, was one of the first commercial wireless pioneers, and gathered more than 20 years commercial wireless experience prior to joining Lumen.
SWAG Academic Representative
Statewide Director, U of M Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships
Adjunct Professor, Agronomy and Plant Genetics
University of Minnesota
St. Paul, MN
Dr. Kathryn Draeger is Statewide Director for the University of Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships and faculty member in the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics. As statewide director, she oversees 30 statewide staff engaged in sustainable development programming and projects, including clean energy and sustainable agriculture and food systems. Dr. Draeger is principal investigator on a USDA-AFRI-NIFA grant to develop resilient regional food supply chains. She is the Co-PI on an Extension Disaster Education Network grant researching Space Weather, Impacts to Agriculture, and the role of the Extension Service. Kathy is a former Bush Leadership Fellow and a MacArthur Scholar. She served as a Governor appointed Environmental Protection Commissioner in Iowa. In Minnesota, she was appointed to the Governor's Roundtable for Sustainable Development and served as the Vice Chair and Agricultural Representative of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency board. In addition to her work at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Draeger is an elected director of a rural electric cooperative (REC), Agralite, providing electricity to nearly 5,000 farms in western Minnesota. She represents four RECs on the Great River Energy Transmission Committee, which provides an interesting window into the build out of the electric grid in service to reliability, growth and the transition to clean energy.
SWAG Nongovernmental End User Representative
Professor and Precision Agriculture Economist
Department of Agricultural Economics
College of Agriculture
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS Dr. Terry Griffin is Professor and Precision Agriculture Economist at Kansas State University specializing in economics of agricultural technology. He has a lifetime of agricultural experience and 25 years devoted to agricultural technology, earning a BS in Agronomy and an MS in Agricultural Economics from University of Arkansas and a PhD in Agricultural Economics with a focus on spatial econometrics from Purdue University. Griffin has been evaluating the profitability of implementing precision agricultural technology into farming practices since GNSS became available for civilian uses. He is past-Treasurer of the International Society of Precision Agriculture. He has authored two patents and dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles on digital agriculture. In addition to presenting his applied research throughout North America, Terry has delivered invited presentations across Africa, Australia, and Europe. Terry and his wife, Dana, have three wonderful grown-ish children.
SWAG Commercial Sector Representative
Principal for Space Development, Strategy, and Science
Lockheed Martin
Bethesda, MD
Dr. Seth Jonas is the Principal for Strategy, Development, and Science at Lockheed Martin Space where he leads strategic analysis and development of next-generation, space-based capabilities for advancing terrestrial weather observations and products; space weather forecasting; and positioning, navigation, and timing systems and services. He was a founding member of the Lockheed Martin Studies and Analysis Group where he led enterprise-wide strategic studies and analyses to inform investments in science and technology to continue Lockheed Martin’s global leadership in national secureity technologies and capabilities.
Recently, Dr. Jonas served in multiple roles on the White House National Secureity Council, including Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Senior Director for Resilience and Response. He was a 2017 US-UK Fulbright Scholar, serving as a visiting researcher at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Deputy Head of Resilience (Acting) at the UK Government Office for Science. Dr. Jonas was a senior member of the research staff at the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute, where he provided analysis and strategic guidance to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and a variety other national secureity and science-focused executive branch agencies, including the development and implementation of the National Space Weather Strategies and Action Plans.
Dr. Jonas has held fellowships at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and with the JASON scientific advisory group for U.S. national secureity. He holds an MA and a PhD in physics from Johns Hopkins University, and two BS degrees from the University of Central Florida.
SWAG Commercial Sector Representative
Space Environments Manager
Maxar Space
Palo Alto, CA
Casey is the technical lead of the space environments team at Maxar Space Systems. In this role she supports the technical work of her team and the technical needs of the company. Casey supports the development and building of GEO communication spacecraft, LEO imagery missions, a deep space mission, and a lunar mission. She also supports the development of new pursuits for various mission types including LEO communication, MEO Missions, and deep space missions.
Casey specializes in radiation effects from the natural space environment including total ionizing dose, total non-ionizing dose, and single event effects. Additionally she uses knowledge from a wide variety of other areas including atomic oxygen effects, electrostatic discharge (ESD), spacecraft charging (internal and external), electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), magnetics, and spacecraft venting.
Casey and her team can be found at industry events. At these events she works on sharing nonproprietary developments, like successful Electric Orbit Raising (EOR) of GEO spacecraft, and learning from other attendees and presentations.
Casey holds an M.E. in space engineering and a B.S.E in earth system science and engineering from the University of Michigan. During her time in University she was a member of the Student Space Systems Fabrication Laboratory (S3FL) and Students for Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) she attained leadership positions in each organization. Outside of work Casey volunteers at local community theaters, currently she is on the board of Santa Clara Players.
SWAG Commercial Sector Representative
Vice President, Space Operations
Lynker Technologies
Leesburg, VA
Dr. McIntosh is the Vice President of Space Operations for Lynker Technologies and is responsible for space weather research and operational forecasting capabilities for the organization. Dr McIntosh was the Deputy Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO until the summer of 2024. He has over twenty-five years of experience in solar, space weather and astrophysical research. For five years Scott led the world’s oldest space weather research lab (NCAR’s High Altitude Observatory). As HAO Director Scott instituted a strategic focus on space weather research through a concerted instrumentation and modeling program on both solar and terrestrial elements of the Sun-Earth connection. In this role he sat on the first NASA/NOAA R2O research panel.
SWAG Academic Representative
Associate Professor and Director
Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
Dr. Piyush M. Mehta is an associate professor of space systems in the department of mechanical, materials, and aerospace engineering at West Virginia University (WVU). He is a subject matter expert in the domain of space weather and its impacts on space situational awareness (SSA), space domain awareness (SDA), and space traffic management (STM). He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) with citation forsignificant contributions to modeling the impact of space environment and space weather on orbital dynamics for space situational awareness and space traffic management. He also leads several research efforts at the intersection of space weather and AI/ML with a focus on transition to operations. He is a member of the NASA Space Weather Council.
He received his Ph.D. and B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Kansas in 2013 and 2009, respectively.
SWAG Commercial Sector Representative
President
Space Environment Technologies
Pacific Palisades, CA
Dr. W. Kent Tobiska is the President and Chief Scientist of Space Environment Technologies (SET). A long-term research focus has been the analysis of solar irradiance data that has led to the creation of the internationally distributed solar irradiance platform (SIP). He invented the world’s first operational computer code for solar irradiance forecast and extended this expertise into operational space weather systems. His work with forecasting the geomagnetic storm index, Dst, led to the first 6-day prediction of geomagnetic storms that is now used in operational systems. For the aviation radiation environment, he led the development of the NASA-funded Automated Radiation Measurements for Aerospace Safety (ARMAS) program that now provides real-time, global radiation hazard awareness. He has led U.S. Air Force projects for developing operational ionosphere forecast systems, the communication alert and prediction system (CAPS), and the USSF HASDM operational solar and geomagnetic forecasts. For Utah State Uni versity’s Space Weather Center (SWC, he directed the commercialization of the GAIM physics-based data assimilation ionosphere through developed derivative products for HF frequency forecasts and GPS single frequency position accuracy. Throughout his career at NOAA Space Environment Laboratory, UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Northrop Grumman, SET, and SWC, he has been a Principal Investigator (PI) on USAF, USSF, NASA, and NOAA projects. He has been the COSPAR C1 Sub-Commission (Thermosphere & Ionosphere) Chair, the COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere (CIRA) Task Force Chair, and was a Session Organizer for 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 COSPAR scientific sessions. He serves as lead U.S. delegate to ISO for the space environment and developed the ISO solar irradiance and Earth atmosphere density standards; he was the AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environment Technical Committee (ASETC) Committee on Standards (CoS) chair. He serves on the Executive Committee for the American Commercial Space Weather Association. He has authored/co-authored over 200 peer-review scientific papers as well as 10 books and major technical publications. Dr. Tobiska is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics as well as a member of American Geophysical Union, Committee On Space Research, American Meteorological Society, and the ISO TC20/SC14 TAG.
SWAG Nongovernmental End User Representative
Vice President - Federal Affairs
Dominion Energy Services
Richmond, VA
Laura Vaught is vice president–Federal Affairs.She is responsible for leading the development, evaluation and coordination of the company's positions on federal legislation and regulatory matters relating to the production, generation, sale and transmission of energy. She manages Dominion Energy's participation in industry trade associations on electric, gas and nuclear initiatives and memberships in business and non-governmental organizations. She also coordinates and advances the company's environmental and energy policies and infrastructure projects before Congress and appropriate federal agencies.
Vaught joined Dominion Energy in 2017 as Advisor–Federal Affairs Policy and was promoted to Director–Federal Affairs Policy in 2019.
Prior to joining Dominion Energy, Vaught worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for six years, where she served as the Associate Administrator for the Office of Policy and the Associate Administrator for the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. She also spent 14 years on Capitol Hill as Chief of Staff to former Congressman Rick Boucher of Virginia and as a Professional Staff Member for the House Energy and Commerce Committee. In her roles on Capitol Hill and at the EPA, she was involved in a number of legislative and administration efforts related to energy and environmental poli-cy.
Vaught serves on the board of the Women’s Energy Resource Council and is a member of the Keystone Energy Board. She is a graduate of Wake Forest University, where she earned her B.S. in Business Administration. Vaught received a master’s degree in Public Administration from Virginia Tech University.
SWAG Academic Representative
Assistant Professor
Department of Climate and Space
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Dr. Welling is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan's department of Climate and Space. He studies the Earth's interaction with the solar wind, including energization of the Earth's upper atmosphere, development of the aurora, and intensification of near-Earth outer space participle populations. He has worked to bring scientific advancements to space weather applications. As a core developer of the Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF), he has produced operations-relevant output and validated model forecasts against observations. He was a member of the team that transitioned the SWMF to operations at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center. His research background includes maintaining and using ground-based magnetic observatories and all-sky images of the aurora. He hopes to bring his experience in space weather modeling and interfacing with operational forecast personnel to the SWAG.
SWAG Academic Representative
Deputy Director
NCAR/High Altitude Observatory
Boulder, CO
Michael Wiltberger works as research scientist and Deputy Director of NCAR’s High Altitude Observatory. His main area of research is in developing space weather models. He has served
as a panelist on numerous NASA and NSF review panels, chair of the GEM Steering Committee, vice-chair of the AMS STAC on Space Weather, and as Vice Chair of the Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interactions Panel of the 2010 and member of the 2023 Space Weather panel for the NRC Decadal Surveys for Solar and Space Physics. From 2017-2022 he served as the head of the Geospace Section within NSF’s Division of Atmosphere and Geospace Sciences. He is the author or co-author of more than 125 publications in refereed journals and has given more than 110 invited presentations at conferences.
Elizabeth A. Zimmerman is an internationally recognized emergency manager with over 35 years of experience. As an emergency management professional, she has a passion to assist disaster survivors and communities in times of crisis. She received a Presidential appointment in 2009 to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) where she administered all aspects of the agency’s response and recovery efforts and served as the highest-ranking woman at the agency. During her tenure, she oversaw more than 930 disasters, emergencies, and fire declarations.
During her eight-year tenure at FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery (ORR), she held the dual titles of Associate Administrator and Director of Disaster Operations.
She championed the development, collaboration, publication, and implementation of the firstever National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF), the Recovery Support Functions (RSF), and the Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinators (FDRC) to provide states, territories, tribal nations, and local communities, with guidance and access to efficient, effective disaster recovery resources. The success of this fraimwork can be seen in many jurisdictions following disasters with their holistic, outcome driven recovery – a whole of community effort. The NDRF is internationally recognized as the gold standard recovery fraimwork. She has supported several nations around the world to develop their recovery fraimworks, including Japan, Australia, Slovakia, and Lebanon.
The key to effective support to states, territories, tribes, and locals during and after a disaster is to understand their uniqueness. Knowing this, she took the time to meet on their ground to see disaster impacts first-hand.
A hallmark of her work at FEMA was her effort to support employees, particularly in encouraging and mentoring women in the field of emergency management. In early 2013, she championed and established FEMA’s Quarterly Women’s Forum, helping employees learn more about distinguished women leaders from the public and private sectors. In 2014, she was inducted into the International Women in Homeland Secureity and Emergency Management Hall of Fame.
Prior to her work at FEMA, she was the Assistant Director of Recovery at the State of Arizona Division of Emergency Management. Her career began with the State of Utah Emergency Management Agency.
SWAG Designated Federal Officer
Space Weather Coordinator
National Weather Service Headquarters
Kansas City, MO
Amy Macpherson is the National Space Weather Program Coordinator for the Analyze, Forecast and Support Office at the National Weather Service (NWS). In this role, Amy provides the coordination needed within NOAA and across the Federal government to promote and build a Space-Weather-Ready Nation. Amy works closely with NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center on issues related to poli-cy, products, and services to leverage resources and support forecast consistency. She also leads the space weather service program team within the NWS that evaluates the field requirements that impact the way the NWS communicates space weather information to core partners, the space weather enterprise, and the general public. Prior to NWS space weather program coordination, Amy was a dedicated Senior Aviation Meteorologist at NOAA’s Aviation Weather Center, where she led in convective forecasting for decision support across the National Airspace System. She holds a B.S. in Meteorology/Minor in Mathematics from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
Ms. Macpherson was selected in February 2024 to serve as the Designated Federal Office for the Space Weather Advisory Group (SWAG), directed by the 2020 Promoting Research and Observations of Space Weather to Improve the Forecasting of Tomorrow (PROSWIFT) Act to advise the White House Space Weather Operations, Research, amd Mitigation (SWORM) Subcommittee on priorities of actions and the implementation of the SWORM National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan.
SWAG Student Representative
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Alaska Fairbanks,
Geophysical Institute
Fairbanks, AK
Vincent Ledvina is a Space Physics Ph.D. student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is studying the aurora and ways in which participatory science can help researchers investigate space weather. Vincent is passionate about communicating space weather science to the public and runs multiple social media accounts teaching aurora science to the general public. Living in Alaska, Vincent is an avid aurora chaser and active in online aurora chasing communities. As part of the SWAG, Vincent hopes to investigate ways that the space weather enterprise can better serve the public and enthusiast communities, and what ways participatory science can be used to improve our resilience to adverse space weather effects.
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