As Congress and the Trump Administration seek to improve space weather coordination, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is eager to help. UCAR, a nonprofit consortium of 120 North American colleges and universities focused on Earth system science, runs the annual Space Weather Workshop sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation and NASA. Although the April 2020 conference was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UCAR continues to conduct space weather research and make observations through the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a federally funded research and development center for the National Science Foundation. UCAR also manages research and education projects, called UCAR Community Programs, like the six-satellite Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, andClimate-2 (COSMIC-2) constellation. UCAR processes and disseminates data for COSMIC-2, a joint U.S.-Taiwanese initiative.
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