Considering a career as a Solar Physicist? A strong physics background is essential. Experience NATIONAL with computer programming, engineering, math, SOLAR chemistry, astronomy, and astrophysics can also be very OBSERVATORY beneficial. To be a full researcher, a PhD is necessary. However, this is not the only way to work for NSO. We have engineers, masters level physicists, entry level positions, business managers, teachers, and people from many other backgrounds. NSO Headquarters DKIST Science The National Solar Observatory is located on the 3665 Discovery Dr Support Center University of Colorado, Boulder campus, and has FL 3 22 Ohi'a Ku St close ties and affiliations with faculty from multiple departments at the University. In addition, NSO co Boulder Makawao • hosts two joint faculty members with CU Boulder's 80303 Hl96768 Astrophysics and Planetary Science Department and co one within the Physics Department. As a result of these close ties, NSO staff are able to [email protected] mentor and supervise graduate students from CU Boulder in their research projects, both short term and thesis projects. Examples are listed below. www.facebook.com/ Nationa ISolarObservatory
Fast downflows observed in Dr. Friedrich Woeger high spatial resolution granu- www.twitter.com/NatSolarObs lation time series @NatSolarObs
Effects of numerical diffusion Dr. Serena Criscuoli on synthetic spectra using the short characteristic technique instagram.com/ nationalsolarobservatory/ Applying Big Data techniques Dr. Kevin Reardon to the solar data stream
youtube.com/ Flows and Magnetic Fields in Dr. Alexandra Tritschler nationalso larobservatory Sunspots
Relating geoeffective inter- Dr. Gordon Petrie planetary coronal mass ejec- www.nso.edu tions to erupting solar fields
Optical and ultraviolet contin- Dr. Adam Kowalski The National Solar Observatory (NSOJ ,s the na uum emission in stellar flares tional center for ground-based solar physics in the United States {www.nso.edu) and is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Variability of the global solar Dr. Luca Bertelle Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agree- "'. ent with the National .science Foundat1·on Div1- - - magnetic field s1on of Astronomical- Sciences. - - The_ National Science Foundatmn (NSF)- 1s an in Preparing for DKIST: Testing Dr. Han Uitenbroek dependent federal agency created by Congress m 1950 to promote the progress of science. NSF spectro-polarimetric inver- supports basic research and people to create sions of chromospheric lines knowledge that transforms the future. Physics More info at www.nso.edu/students/ Which is more intere$ting? Solar science is about to 1. get hotter : 11//1 High Et1ergr,Physics · ;i This is a very exciting time to enter the field of ,."' Solar Physics. In the next 3 - 5 years, the field ., . ;_,c�. . � of Solar Physics will get three cutting-edge •-..� �(ii, ,,.A observatories that together, will revolutionize "-1141,� o �,, � CH . "�-Sun. 00e LEI . l�E �� '(� l�RN/Nc �e - Sl- n '-' Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope DKIST \nstrurne t �(; _, Cc � (NSF/NSO) � O ve\oprnent (?� ��•,i· •· ·��� e i • Cutting-edge 4-meter ground-based observatory under construction in Hawai'i. 1 H�CTROMAGNE • Seven times more powerful than ANY solar \) � \'{ s \ s · TtM ;: 1\G •� "1ne� a· telescope currently available. _ • Will revolutionize how we study the Sun's ��� ... If you stu91ed �olar physics, magnetic field. • Start of operations in 2020. you wouldnJ ha'l.e to choose! • Focus on detailed observations of the Sun's ==----=---..�-::;;:,::=.�-==-�� magnetic field and dynamic behavior.
Parker Solar Probe StUd.Y•ihg the sij:rll'JS ini;po·rtant... (NASA) Understanding Climate. The energy we re The sun as a star. There is a lot we would like • Will fly to within 4 million miles of the Sun. ceive from the sun changes slightly on scales to know about all the stars in the universe and • Focus on the heating of the Solar Corona of milliseconds to billions of years. Under luckily, we have one in our own backyard. We and solar wind acceleration. standing the energy input from the sun is an already know the sun's age, radius and mass. • Launched in summer 2018 with important aspect of climate models and bet Combining this with measurements of surface increasingly closer perihelia every four ter information will help make these models processes, high energy events and seismolo months. accurate for greater spans of time. gy, we are able to know much more about dis tant stars than we could by measuring those Solar Orbiter Space weather. Humans increasingly rely on stars alone. (ESA) Earth-orbiting satellites and power systems The sun as a physical laboratory. It's not easy • Will fly to within 43 million km of the Sun. on the ground. Volatile space weather has to make and contain large amounts of plasma the capacity to damage satellites and disrupt in a laboratory setting. The sun acts as a nat • Focus on measuring local solar wind power systems. Predicting these events can ural laboratory for investigating the physics plasma, fields and waves close to the Sun. help reduce damage and prevent havoc. of plasmas, magnetic fields and nuclear reac • Launched in February 2020. tions.