Humanity has been witnessing evidence of the sun’s influence on Earth for millennia, through aurorae. However, the development of “space weather” was driven by technology that is impacted by solar activity. These new technologies included radio and telegraph communication systems. Combined with improved observational techniques, the relationship between the sun and near-earth space and the many space weather effects became clear, and the disparate sciences involved were eventually merged together into what we now call “Space Weather.” This session has been inspired by the Heliophysics Oral History Project, funded by NASA and conducted by the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.

This session welcomes presentations about space weather impacts throughout history, advances in understanding and studying space weather phenomena, and evidence of solar-terrestrial connections in the pre-space weather era.

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