Correction: Explore space weather and the heliophysics big year through the Community Coordinated Modeling Center’s (CCMC) hands-on tools and collaborations

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The Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) supports heliophysics educational endeavors and has developed new resources for the public to engage with the Sun during the year leading to a solar maximum. The CCMC is a hub for model developers around the world, allowing the community to freely engage with world class heliophysics models. The CCMC has become an internationally recognized group facilitating space weather model research to operations over the past 25 years. Models hosted at the CCMC span across the heliophysics domains from the Sun to Earth. They support efforts across the research community including the International Space Weather Action Teams (ISWAT) initiatives and various time period study challenges to help advance research to operations back to research. The Heliophysics Big Year (HBY), a celebration of heliophysics and scientific outreach, provided the CCMC with an opportunity to engage with a broader community than the traditional scientific groups. Brand-new resources are now available on the CCMC's websitefoot_0 to engage with the Heliophysics Big Year (HBY)foot_1 , the global celebration of solar science. This paper reviews selected efforts from the CCMC to highlight efforts to celebrate the HBY by describing outreach opportunities, tool updates, and collaboration efforts.The CCMC participated in many outreach activities to help celebrate the Heliophysics Big Year.During the time period from October 2023 through December 2024, the CCMC participated in a variety of activities that highlighted the excitement of heliophysics to multiple audiences. These audiences included the general public, educators, and members of the scientific community. Overall, these outreach activities allowed members of the public to engage with heliophysics events and excited the community about upcoming missions.The CCMC partnered with the Intrepid Museum, and CCMC Project Support Specialist Elana Resnick helped to table at the Girls In Science and Engineering Day (GSED) on Saturday, March 9, 2024foot_2 . The organizers sent the following note after the event: "In total, we had over 1500 people in attendance at GSED, 834 of them being under the age of 18! Youth are the future, and you helped make so many futures a little bit brighter. Your devotion was noticed and greatly appreciated by our team and The Intrepid Museum." This event allowed more members of the public in the New York City area to be properly prepared for the upcoming solar eclipse by providing safe solar glasses for the first 200 attendees and providing the other attendees with pinhole projectors.Another ). She presented how to use the CCMC's tools to see the exciting events around the HBY. There were approximately 20 educators in attendance, additionally, there were a total of around 100 attendees that were able to access the information presented in the sessions.Elana presented " Explore Astronomy with Community Coordinated Modeling Center's Educational Heliophysics Tools" on July 10, 2024 at the 2024 Summer Meeting for the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). According to the MIT Physics Department, "[over] 1000 physics educators from around the world gathered to learn and share the latest advances in their field, make professional connections, and engage with research in the science of learning and teaching physics."foot_4 The presentation included information on heliophysics, space weather, and a basic overview of CCMC tools the educators could bring into their classrooms to share space weather information with their students.Elana led a two-hour workshop at Rutgers University for 16 high school physics teachers on "An Introduction to Space Weather from an Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE) approach" on September 28, 2024. She led the teachers through a historical analysis of space weather events using NASA data and the Community Coordinated Modeling Center's (CCMC) tools such as their Integrated Space Weather Analysis (ISWA) system. The ISLE approach engages the students in active learning, where the students analyze data and perform experiments to learn concepts. From Eugenia Etkina's Millikan award lecture, this approach is a "system of learning physics that engages students in active learning, not just of the concepts and laws of physics, but more importantly in the processes that mirror processes that physicists use to construct these concepts and laws" (Etkina, 2015). This was challenging for an approach to space weather education, where most of the information is presented in a lecture format.These educator outreach events allowed teachers to engage with space weather topics that many of them had not engaged with in the past. Several teachers followed up with the presenter during periods of increased space weather activity, or when they heard through their news sources that there may be a possibility of seeing the aurora near them.On June 6, 2024, there was a session titled "Empowering Community Open Participation in the HBY Campaign" at the 2024 CCMC Workshopfoot_5 . This session included talks titled "Introduction: Solar Max HBY Campaign", by Janet Kozyra, "Database of storms at CCMC. Using ISWA and DONKI for collaborative analysis of superstorms", by Yihua Zheng, "Telling superstorm stories with ISWA to a broader audience", by Elana Resnick and Laura Brandt Edson, and "Telling superstorm stories with OpenSpace", by Elon Olsson, Liz MacDonald, Anders Lundkvist, and Carter Emmart. After the presentations, some of the presenters stayed on for a panel conversation with the attendees to discuss HBY as an example of a community-wide open endeavor. Some of the information from the discussion is listed at a Google Docfoot_6 that was populated during the meeting.Additionally, the CCMC had representatives attend various other meetings in the scientific community. At the 2024 American Geophysical Union meeting, a poster 'Explore space weather and the Heliophysics Big Year (HBY) through storm narratives using Community Coordinated Modeling Center's (CCMC) hands-on tools' shared the new Heliophysics Big Year webpage at the CCMC (Resnick et al., 2024). Additionally, these updates were shared in a poster at the American Meteorological Society meeting in 2025 (Resnick et al., 2025).The CCMC has enhanced their Integrated Space Weather Analysis (ISWA) 9 system with several key features to enable the community to analyze dynamic time periods including great storms. The improved ISWA system now supports global synchronization of images and timelines to enable easy illustration of the onset and evolution of storms to a broader audience. It has improved support allowing users to design layouts focusing on specific physical phenomena, like solar flares, along the Sun-to-Earth path to make it easier to communicate to a larger variety of audiences. This flexibility enables the educator to tailor the display to tell the story of the storms, describe key physical processes, and communicate this complex chain of space environment phenomena in a targeted fashion.The CCMC also collaborates with Linköping University, Sweden, the American Museum of Natural History, New York University, and the University of Utah to develop OpenSpacefoot_7 . OpenSpace serves as an interactive and free 3D visualization tool that can be run from personal laptops to planetariums. OpenSpace dynamically integrates data from observations, simulations, and space missions, particularly using results from heliophysics simulation models hosted at CCMC. We will describe a pilot of this tool that adapts the original software for global visualization of new datasets.OpenSpace offers diverse visualization capabilities, including real-time satellite positions, trajectories, and heliophysics simulations. It is extensively utilized by CCMC for public engagement through planetarium shows visualizing space weather simulations and data. Additionally, it is used at ex

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