The Incoherent Scatter Radar Summer School

非相干散射雷达暑期学校

• 批准号: 1940027
• 负责人: Andrey Krywonos
• 金额: $ 58.33万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1940027&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Incoherent; Scatter; Radar; Summer

The Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) Summer School benefits society by training a workforce that will be able to collect and use ISR data, a skill currently taught at few, if any, institutions of high education. This training of a new user community increases the research output from NSF's investment in ISR facilities and contributes to the fundamental understanding of space weather in Earth’s atmosphere. this school also provides students with a background in radar theory, in learning to control and operate large radars, and an understanding of the data processing required to analyze radar data. All of this is directly transferable to other radar applications such as satellite tracking, weather radar, and satellite communications. In the school, facility PIs mentor students and establish professional relationships that extend beyond the school. Two of the core lecturing staff are female which provides important role models for students. The school often combines with the EISCAT ISR Summer School, fostering international relationships and communications. Recognizing that incoherent scatter is a very powerful technique to make precise measurements of multiple upper atmospheric parameters extending from below 100 km to above 600 km, the NSF has heavily invested in several ISR facilities. However, due to an aging workforce and a shift in the U.S. educational curriculum away from ISR theory and engineering, the next generation of trained engineers is now being produced in Europe and Asia where ISR investments continue. This project addresses the need for training ISR users and workers in the US by conducting a yearly ISR summer school with a combination of lectures and group work. The purpose of this school is to teach students how to propose and conduct an ISR experiment, and how to analyze and report the results. As has been evidenced by students from the prior decade of summer schools, these students will often incorporate ISR data into future research and thus advance overall knowledge of the upper atmosphere. Some students will delve much deeper into the topic and will become the future researchers and leaders of the field.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

非相干散射雷达 (ISR) 暑期学校通过培训能够收集和使用 ISR 数据的劳动力来造福社会，目前只有少数（如果有的话）高等教育机构教授这项技能。对新用户社区的培训增加了这一技能。该学院还为学生提供雷达理论背景、学习控制和操作大型雷达以及了解所需的数据处理。到所有这些都可以直接转移到其他雷达应用，例如卫星跟踪、气象雷达和卫星通信。在学校中，设施 PI 指导学生并建立超出学校范围的专业关系。学校经常与 EISCAT ISR 暑期学校合作，促进国际关系和交流，认识到非相干散射是一种非常强大的技术，可以精确测量 100 公里以下的多个高层大气参数。距离超过 600 公里，NSF 对多个 ISR 设施进行了大量投资。然而，由于劳动力老龄化以及美国教育课程从 ISR 理论和工程转向，欧洲和欧洲正在培养下一代训练有素的工程师。 ISR 投资仍在继续的亚洲。该项目通过每年举办一次结合讲座和小组作业的 ISR 暑期学校来满足培训 ISR 用户和工人的需求。该学校的目的是教学生如何提出和开展工作。情监侦实验，以及如何分析和报告结果，正如前十年暑期学校的学生所证明的那样，这些学生通常会将 ISR 数据纳入未来的研究中，从而提高对高层大气的整体了解。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。