The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center has forecasted a solar storm in the form of a coronal mass ejection headed toward Earth, which is predicted to have effects on Friday. High-energy protons from that flare are already entering our atmosphere.
Dr. Petrus Martens, an expert on solar flares and a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University, is available to discuss solar flares and their possible effect on the Earth's power grid, satellites and radio communications.
Dr. Martens was recently awarded a three-year, $1.2 million NASA Grand Challenge grant to develop a system to predict solar cycles and determine the long-term frequency of events such as solar flares, potentially more than a decade in advance.
He holds Cum Laude Ph.D. and master's degrees in Theoretical Astrophysics from Utrecht University in The Netherlands and a bachelor's degree in Astronomy from Utrecht University.
For more information about Martens' grant to study solar flares, visithttp://news.gsu.edu/2014/09/05/researcher-receives-1-2-million-system-predict-solar-cycles/.
To learn more about Martens’ expertise, visit http://solar.physics.montana.edu/martens/ and http://www.flareforecast.com/about-us/.
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