The Undergraduate ALFALFA Team

在这项合作努力中，丽贝卡·库普曼博士联合学院（Union College），Sarah Higdon（格鲁吉亚南方大学），托马斯·巴洛内克（高露洁大学）及其联盟团队成员将开展一系列活动，旨在让本科生参与现实世界的尖端研究项目，以收集、分析并在某些情况下发布来自ALCAFA的数据（阿雷西博遗产快速ALFA调查，其中ALFA是阿雷西博L波段馈源阵列项目的首字母缩写。 ALFFA是使用阿雷西博天文台射电望远镜上的七光束ALFA接收器对银河系外星系中的中性氢进行的大型调查。 预计ALCARFA将在未来五年内探测20，000多个星系，从而产生广泛的科学应用。 该计划有四个组成部分：1）将在阿雷西博举行年度本科ALFA团队研讨会，向学生介绍ALFA项目，并交流科学计划以及观测和数据分析技术; 2）学生将在教师导师的帮助下制定自己的研究计划，并使用世界上最大的望远镜阿雷西博进行自己的观测; 3）为规模较小的学校提供数据分析的计算机基础设施;以及4）在竞争的基础上为学生提供暑期研究职位，以帮助他们保持科学轨道。 该计划将在14所大学属于本科ALCAFA团队财团的广泛影响.该计划将提前发现和促进本科生和研究生在不同的大学设置，公立和私立，全国各地的学习. 所有小组成员都将参加年度讲习班，并鼓励他们在科学会议上介绍成果。 研究和教育基础设施将通过学生和教师与天文台之间的合作得到促进，这将刺激较小学院的本科生研究。 在参与机构与阿雷西博天使拉莫斯游客中心主任合作开发的本科生和K-12申请的课程和宣传材料将公开提供。 妇女在参与该方案的教员中占很大比例。

In this collaborative effort, Drs. Rebecca Koopmann (Union College), Sarah Higdon (Georgia Southern University), Thomas Balonek (Colgate University), and members of their consortium team will carry out an array of activities directed toward involving undergraduate students in real-world, cutting-edge research projects to collect, analyze, and, in some cases, publish data from the ALFALFA (The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey, where ALFA is an acronym for the Arecibo L-band Feed Array project. ALFALFA is large survey for neutral hydrogen in galaxies external to the Milky Way being carried out using the seven-beam ALFA receiver on the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope. ALFALFA is expected to detect over 20,000 galaxies over the next five years, resulting in a wide range of scientific applications. The program has four components: 1) An annual undergraduate ALFALFA team workshop will be held at Arecibo that will introduce students to the ALFA project and communicate science programs and observing and data analysis techniques; 2) Students, with the help of faculty mentors, will develop their own research programs and do their own observing using Arecibo, the world''s largest telescope; 3) Computer infrastructure for data analysis will be provided to smaller schools; and 4) Summer research positions will be provided to students on a competitive basis to help keep them on a science track. The program will have wide impact at 14 universities belonging to the Undergraduate ALFALFA Team consortium.The program will advance discovery and promote learning among undergraduate and graduate students in a diverse array of university settings, both public and private, across the country. All team members will participate in the annual workshops and will be encouraged to present their results at scientific meetings. Infrastructure for research and education will be promoted via the collaboration between students and faculty and the observatory, which will stimulate undergraduate research at the smaller colleges. Curricular and outreach material for both undergraduate and K-12 application, developed at the participating institutions and in collaboration with the Director of the Angel Ramos Visitor Center at Arecibo, will be made publicly available. Women comprise a large fraction of the faculty involved in the program.