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Storms from the Sun

Michael Carlowicz is the author of Storms from the Sun: The Emerging Science of Space Weather. From 1997 to 2002, he worked alongside Steele Hill at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, helping journalists, teachers, museum curators, and scientists tell the story of solar observing and space weather, as observed by the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics mission.

Mike specializes in writing about earth and space sciences, and his work has been published by NASA, Oceanus, Currents, The Discovery Channel, Earth, and Eos. From 1993 to 2001, he taught nonfiction writing at The Johns Hopkins University. He is now a science writer/editor for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Read more about Mike >>

Steele Hill has served as media specialist for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission since its first year of operation in 1996. He has generated dozens of posters, CD-ROMs, museum displays, murals, illustrations, and educational/public outreach materials for the European Space Agency and NASA. He has consulted on several documentary and news productions, and his illustrations and scientific visualizations have been published in numerous magazines (most recently in National Geographic).

Through his work at NASA, he is more familiar with the images from SOHO and other solar missions than anyone on the planet. He has written dozens of poems, short stories, and essays, though none have been published. He has taken courses in photography and built his own darkroom.

You can see Steele or Mike present images and stories of the Sun at the following events:

+ June 17 -- Smithsonian Resident Associates Program -- "Here Comes the Sun! Auroras, Flares, Spots, and Storms"

+ August 4 -- Woods Hole Peanut Butter Club - at noon in Redfield Auditorium - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Water Street in the village of Woods Hole

Would you like to have Mike or Steele share a presentation or slideshow with your group, museum, or school? Send email to authors @ stormsfromthesun.net