Space Weather Executive Workshop
November 3, 2025
Anticipate, evaluate, and mitigate space-weather risks to mission critical tech.
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Building 200
11101 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, MD 20723
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Breakfast and lunch provided
November 3, 2025
In-Person
1,400
Instructor: Joseph Comberiate
Solar storms can cripple satellites, black out power grids, and jam critical comms in minutes. Space Weather and Space Systems—Johns Hopkins Engineering Lifelong Learning’s exclusive one-day executive course—gives you the playbook to stay ahead of them.
Across six tightly focused modules led by Joseph Comberiate, the APL scientist whose ionospheric-forecast and scintillation-warning tools now shield U.S. defense satellites, you’ll trace the complete Sun-to-Earth chain—from explosive flares and coronal mass ejections to geomagnetically induced currents.
You’ll learn to explain how the space environment evolves, identify every way it threatens technology, predict localized impacts from real-time drivers, and analyze any system’s vulnerabilities. Further, you’ll leave with the insight and tools to anticipate, evaluate, and mitigate space-weather risks to mission-critical technology.
Who Should Attend
- Government, industry, academic, or commercial users of space systems without extensive space weather domain knowledge.
- Operational users of space systems or DoD / IC service members, civilians, or contractors.
- Anyone who might be impacted by space weather with a desire to learn more about it.
Acquire Essential Knowledge of Space Weather Threats
- Explain the Sun-Earth connection and the dynamic space environment.
- Identify every major way space weather threatens modern technology—from ionospheric glitches to radiation-belt hazards.
- Predict localized impacts using real-time environmental drivers.
- Analyze any space system and pinpoint its vulnerabilities to solar activity.
Prerequisites
While there are no formal prerequisites, it is recommended that learners have a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in science, engineering, or mathematics.
Meet Your Instructor
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Joseph “Joe” Comberiate PhD is the group supervisor of the Space Algorithms and Technologies group at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He is the instructor and course developer for the Space Weather and Space Systems graduate course at Johns Hopkins University. He earned his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where his dissertation focused on tomographic reconstruction of ionospheric electron density using space-based ultraviolet observations.
Space Weather Executive Workshop
November 3, 2025
In-Person
1,400