Open AccessMajor Leader of U.S. Space Weather Forecasting Retires
Author(s) -
Simpson Sarah
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
space weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.254
H-Index - 56
ISSN - 1542-7390
DOI - 10.1029/2005sw000192
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , space weather , space (punctuation) , center (category theory) , meteorology , management , political science , public administration , geography , sociology , economics , computer science , social science , operating system , chemistry , crystallography
The U.S. space weather community took a hit in early August when Ernest Hildner retired as director of NOAA's Space Environment Center (SEC). For nearly two decades, Hildner steered the world's premier forecasting agency with a passionate devotion cited by scientists and administrators alike.