W. Kent Tobiska Email & Phone Number

Pacific Palisades, Ca

Space Environment Technologies provides advanced space weather products and services. Our core expertise is the accurate specification of solar spectral irradiance variations. We link that information with empirical, physics-based, and hybrid environmental, operational, and design models that require a solar energy input. We have a wealth of experience in the process of transitioning research models into operational systems. Along with our partners, we actively conduct research and develop applications to meet space environment user requirements by combining solar irradiances with research and operational models at a systems level. The result is improved space weather forecast products for the design, development, and operation of space and ground technological systems.Strategic vision: Space Environment Technologies is envisioning and building the tools that enable human evolution into space in order to improve the quality of life on Earth.Mission statement: We will provide customers with the world's most advanced space weather information and forecasting technologies. We utilize leading-edge space physics models and aerospace applications as summarized in the National Space Weather Implementation Plan to accurately characterize the space environment. Our partners are government agencies, university researchers, and industry leaders and, together, we will create cutting-edge, applied-research solutions to reduce adverse solar-terrestrial effects. We believe that a resourceful use of our combined knowledge about the space environment’s influence on technological systems will improve the quality of life for our global society. Visit us at https://spacewx.com.

Pacific Palisades, Ca

Space Environment Technologies Chief Scientist responsible for the creative, innovative, and discovery science across all disciplines at SET.

Los Angeles, California

Taught the graduate level ASTE 535 "Space Environment and Spacecraft Interactions" survey class for the USC Astronautics and Space Technology Division (ASTD) every year. The class lectures can be found at the Space Environment Technologies (SET) Service website at https://spacewx.com/educational-tools/

Logan, Ut

Q-Up, LLC, located in Logan, Utah, is dedicated to serving the corporate radio network, amateur radio operator, and the emergency responder communities. It provides global, accurate, real-time and forecast high frequency (HF) radio propagation information that accounts for the known effects of dynamic space weather upon the ionosphere. The Q-up team is comprised of scientists, engineers, and students in Logan, Utah who are associated with the Utah State University Space Weather Center (SWC). Visit us at http://q-upnow.com.

Logan, Utah

The Utah State University (USU) Space Weather Center is an initiative by the State of Utah USTAR program to help create a vibrant economy in Utah related to space weather. Located on the USU campus in Logan, Utah, the Center is developing innovative applications for mitigating space weather in technical systems. The ionosphere is a key region that affects communication and navigation systems of the space environments that are affected by space weather. The USTAR initiative is developing products to reduce adverse effects of the ionosphere on these types of systems. Please visit our site as we grow at http://spaceweather.usu.edu.The Space Weather Center at USU is committed to developing and providing real-time, operational products for customers that will help them mitigate adverse space weather effects on communication and navigation systems. For example, two broad areas of product development are in radio communications and in navigation.

Instrument scientist for Galileo EUV and UVS instruments.