FDSS: A New Tenure-Track Solar Physicist at University of Colorado (CU)-Boulder: Catalyst for Change

FDSS：科罗拉多大学博尔德分校新任终身教授太阳能物理学家：变革的催化剂

• 批准号: 0457552
• 负责人: Daniel Baker
• 金额: $ 119.7万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-03-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0457552&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FDSS; New; Tenure; Track; Solar

The University of Colorado at Boulder (CU/Boulder) proposes to hire a new tenure-track faculty member in Solar Physics, to complement Boulder's strong community in solar and space physics both at CU and at institutions across the Boulder Valley (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Space Environment Center (NOAA/SEC), National Center for Atmospheric Research/High Altitude Observatory (NCAR/HAO), Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), etc). Currently, despite the large number of solar physicists in the Boulder community, there is no tenure track faculty member actively working in solar physics at CU, significantly inhibiting the growth of CU graduate programs in this space physics discipline. The potential addition of a faculty line in solar physics comes at an opportune time of overall transformation of the solar and space physics graduate and upper-division undergraduate programs on the CU/Boulder campus, including the development of a new integrative first-year graduate course in solar and space physics and new cross-departmental graduate courses. This proposal would enhance these endeavors, as well as support a named graduate student fellowship and an undergraduate research program.Because the space industry is a mature and essential part of the global economy and the commercial and governmental interests of the United States, it is essential that the US cultivate the talent needed to thrive and excel in this arena. This proposal would develop new talent for the US work force through both enhanced graduate and undergraduate education, an imperative identified in the recent NRC Decadal Survey on space physics. Space weather and the concomitant threats it poses to our technological infrastructure present important societal impacts. The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU/Boulder, the research home of the new faculty hire, has a leading role in knowledge transfer and empirical modeling as part of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored Center for Integrated Space weather Modeling (CISM). LASP performs this work in close cooperation with NCAR and NOAA/SEC, pursuing efforts to consolidate and integrate results from many international research programs and campaigns. The strengthening of solar and space physics at CU/Boulder will directly enhance LASP's ongoing Education and Public Outreach program in space weather. This EPO program is gaining national recognition for its space physics curriculum enhancements, teacher workshops, distance learning programming, and its new planetarium show entitled "Space Storm."

科罗拉多大学博尔德（CU/博尔德）建议聘请一名新的终身教职员工在太阳物理学，以补充博尔德的太阳和空间物理学在CU和整个博尔德山谷的机构强大的社区（国家海洋和大气管理局/空间环境中心（NOAA/SEC）、国家大气研究中心/高海拔观测站）（NCAR/HAO）、西南研究所（SwRI）等）。目前，尽管博尔德社区有大量的太阳物理学家，但没有终身教职的教职员工积极在CU从事太阳物理学工作，这大大抑制了CU研究生课程在这一空间物理学科的增长。在太阳物理学的教师线的潜在增加是在太阳能和空间物理学研究生和上师本科课程的CU/博尔德校园的整体转型的适当时机，包括一个新的综合一年级研究生课程的发展在太阳能和空间物理学和新的跨部门的研究生课程。这一建议将加强这些努力，以及支持命名的研究生奖学金和本科生研究计划。由于航天工业是全球经济和美国商业和政府利益的成熟和重要组成部分，因此美国必须培养在这一竞技场中茁壮成长和脱颖而出所需的人才。这一提议将通过加强研究生和本科生教育为美国劳动力培养新的人才，这是最近NRC空间物理十年调查中确定的一个必要条件。空间气象及其对我们的技术基础设施构成的威胁带来了重要的社会影响。CU/Boulder的大气和空间物理实验室（LASP）是新教职员工的研究中心，作为美国国家科学基金会（NSF）赞助的综合空间天气建模中心（CISM）的一部分，在知识转移和经验建模方面发挥着主导作用。LASP与NCAR和NOAA/SEC密切合作开展这项工作，努力巩固和整合许多国际研究计划和活动的成果。在科罗拉多大学/博尔德分校加强太阳和空间物理学将直接加强LASP正在进行的空间气象教育和公众宣传方案。EPO的空间物理课程改进、教师研讨会、远程学习计划以及名为“空间风暴”的新天文馆展览正在获得国家的认可。"