National High School Space Weather Network

项目概述：半球：开发国家高中磁力计阵列。我们建议为全国各地的学校提供测量和实验地球自然环境的机会，为国家的空间天气计划提供数据，并拥有有效的教学工具来教育年轻科学家关于空间环境的知识。我们已经开发了一种相对便宜、坚固、灵敏的磁强计墨水形式，可以购买并分发给学校，由学生组装，然后安装并用于获取研究质量的数据。教师们将接受操作培训，以及如何在演示“空间天气”的课堂活动中使用它们。这些数据将通过一个基于网络的数据库传输，这样学生们就可以将他们当地的读数与非洲大陆其他地点的学生的读数进行比较，并可以被大学和其他研究人员用于研究地磁超低频率（ULF）波。低纬度和中纬度磁脉动提供了太阳风-磁层相互作用以及磁层和电离层动力学耦合的重要信息。在中低纬度观测到的磁变化包括：Pc 3-4脉动（周期为10-45秒），被认为其来源是上游激波和/或磁鞘；和π 2爆发（周期为40-150-s的阻尼脉动），与亚暴扩张爆发有关。本提案寻求资金用于培训高级高中科学教师使用感应线圈磁力计，提供空间物理研究中理解磁脉动数据所需的基本空间科学内容，并建立空间物理学家与当地高中科学教师及其学生之间的师徒关系。这些关系将使磁力计数据在科学和教育上得到充分利用。具体来说，我们计划开发磁力计的文档，测试仪器的培训材料，以及在课堂上使用仪器的教育材料。这些材料将成为加州大学伯克利分校为期一周的教师研讨会的基础，该研讨会召集了六名地理位置不同的科学教师，他们已经在NOAA空间环境中心参加了空间天气研讨会，以培训他们成为使用和实施磁力计的教师。该项目通过为高中提供真实的空间物理仪器和ULF数据进行分析，直接影响大学预科教育。

PROJECT SUMMARYHEMISPHERE: Developing a National High School Magnetometer Array.We propose to offer schools across the country the opportunity to measure and experimentwith Earth's natural environment, to contribute data to the nation's space weatherprogram, and to have effective teaching tools to educate young scientists about the spaceenvironment. We have developed a relatively inexpensive, robust, sensitive magnetometer inkit form that can be purchased and distributed to schools, assembled by students, then setup and used to take research-quality data. Teachers will be trained in their operation andhow to use them in classroom activities that demonstrate "space-weather." The data will betransmitted through a Web-based database, so that students can compare their localreadings with those of students at other sites around the continent and can be used byuniversity and other researchers to study geomagnetic Ultra-Low Frequency (ULF) waves.Low- to mid- latitude magnetic pulsations provide important information about the solarwind-magnetosphere interaction and the dynamic coupling of the magnetosphere andionosphere. The magnetic variations observable at low to mid latitudes include: Pc 3-4pulsations (periods of 10-45 s), which are thought to have their source in the upstreambow shock and or magnetosheath; and Pi 2 bursts (damped pulsations with 40-150-s periods)which are associated with substorm expansion onsets. This proposal seeks funding to trainMaster High School science teachers in the use of induction coil magnetometers, providethe basic space science content needed for the understanding of magnetic pulsation data inspace physics research, and develop mentoring relationships between space physicists andlocal high school science teachers and their students. These relationships will allow themagnetometer data to be fully utilized both scientifically as well as educationally.Specifically we plan to develop the documentation for the magnetometer, training materialfor testing the instrument, and educational material for using the instrument in theclassroom. This material will be the basis for a one-week teacher workshop at UCLAbringing together six geographically diverse science teachers that have already gonethrough a space weather workshop at NOAA Space Environment Center in order to train themas Master Teachers in the use and implementation of the magnetometer. This projectdirectly impacts pre-college education by providing High Schools with real-life spacephysics instrumentation and ULF data for analysis.