Mitchell Battros:  

Winston Churchill Distinguished Alumni Nomination Form 2022 Dear Churchill Grads of 1974, 1975, 1976 NOTE: Deadline is October 31st 2022 A form has been released requesting the nomination of a Churchill alumnus who has contributed to society as a whole. In the areas of involvement sought, I am requesting your supportive nomination of my contribution in the discipline of scientific research. My specific area in which I have been acknowledged is related to what has become a common term called "Space Weather". In just the last two decades a better understanding of what happens in our solar system, specifically the Sun, has a direct causal effect on our home Earth. I am currently in process of having the term "space weather" associated with my name. For now, Wikipedia makes the following statement: "The term space weather was first used in the 1950s and came into common usage in the 1990s." We are hoping soon for this to be further acknowledged as Battros in the 1990's. As a direct correlation to my in-depth interviews with scientists from NASA, NOAA, US Naval Observatory, and the European Space Agency, I stumble across an area we now call Space Weather. In short, I quickly discovered as a result of my research a gaping hole between NASA's study of solar events in space, and NOAA's study of Earth's oceans and atmosphere. Until my published papers, both NASA and NOAA described their discoveries in terms of "Climate", which is measured in terms of decades, centuries, and ...Expand for more