U.S.-Finland Auroral Workshop

我们建议在赫尔辛基举办美国芬兰极光研讨会 1992年3月19日至21日。 讲习班的目的是 回顾过去的合作，发起新的活动， 在新一代的 两国的科学家。 重要的新机遇即将到来 由于最近或即将推出的举措， 极光、磁层和深空研究。 芬兰 为空间研究投入了大量财政资源， 大大增加了年轻科学家的数量。 芬兰 科学家们目前正在进行主要的地面观测， 设施，几个团体参与了FREJA，POLAR， CLUSTER和INTERBALL航天器飞行任务。 在美国，的 美国国家科学基金会已经开始了一项重大的新计划， 地理空间环境建模（GEM），这可能会大大 从美国和芬兰的合作中受益。 工作组将 表，以确定近期和长期的具体调查， term. 我们预计将有24名芬兰科学家参加，其中 许多是学生和青年科学家。 40名美国科学家 会被邀请，其中很大一部分也是年轻人， 科学家 尽管讲习班规模很大，但资金有限， 这些资金将几乎全部用于 支持那些还没有 参加了以前的美国-芬兰研讨会。

We propose to hold a U.S. Finnish Auroral Workshop in Helsinki from 19-21 March, 1992. The purpose of the workshop will be to review the past collaborations, to initiate new activities, and to establish collaborative links between a new generation of scientists in both countries. Significant new opportunities soon will be available due to recent or upcoming initiatives in auroral, magnetospheric, and deep space research. Finland has committed significant financial resources to space research and has greatly expanded the number of young scientists. Finnish scientists are presently operating major ground-based observation facilities, and several groups are involved in the FREJA, POLAR, CLUSTER, and INTERBALL spacecraft missions. In the U.S., the National Science Foundation has begun a major new program, Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM), that could significantly benefit from U.S. - Finnish collaboration. Working groups will form to identify specific investigations for both near- and long- term. We expect 24 Finnish scientists to participate, of which many are students and young scientists. Forty U.S. scientists will be invited, and a large fraction of these are also young scientists. In spite of the size of the workshop, limited funds are requested, and the money will be used almost exclusively to support the travel of young U.S. scientists who have not participated in previous U.S. - Finnish workshops.