In February 2024, the space weather community welcomed Dr. Jennifer "Jinni" Meehan as the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Assistant Director for Space Policy and the new OSTP Co-Chair for SWORM. Dr. Meehan is serving on detail from NOAA where she had been the National Weather Service Space Weather Program Lead. The community thanks Ms. Ezinne Uzo-Okoro for her service as SWORM Co-Chair. Please note the link below takes you to a non-SWORM website.

It is SWORM CoChairs' pleasure to announce Dr. Ursula Rick, as the new SWORM Executive Secretary! At NASA, Ursula is a Program Executive in the Heliophysics Division at NASA HQ. She has spent her career at the intersection of science and policy, with a drive to see useful science produced for decision-makers and to increase fruitful interactions between people in both sectors. Prior to NASA she worked on energy, climate, and natural resource policy where she was the Managing Director of Western Water Assessment, a NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Program at the University of Colorado Boulder.

The Space Weather Advisory Group (SWAG) has appointed 15 new, non-government members! The new members represent the End User, Commercial Provider, and Academia communities. Please click the link below to get more information on all of the new appointees.