A PAARE Program Between New Mexico State University, the National Solar Observatory, and the AFRL

新墨西哥州立大学、国家太阳天文台和 AFRL 之间的 PAARE 项目

• 批准号: 0849986
• 负责人: Bernard McNamara
• 金额: $ 65.19万
• 依托单位: New Mexico State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-15 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0849986&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PAARE; Program; Between; New; Mexico

This proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The goal of this program is to enhance diversity in astronomical research and education by establishing a partnership between the minority serving university, New Mexico State University (NMSU), the National Solar Observatory (NSO), and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Weather Center of Excellence. Scientists from the latter group are permanently stationed at the NSO facilities. The primary focus of this partnership is graduate education. A complete pathway, starting with a student's admission to NMSU and ending with his/her transition into the professoriate is provided. Research will target three areas where the partner institutions have common interests: 1) the origins and prediction of stellar activity, 2) instrument development, and 3) computational astrophysics. These have been designated as long-term research fields by the NSO, are central to the mission of the AFRL Space Weather Center of Excellence, and coincide with NMSU faculty research interests.This effort will recruit superior students regardless of their ethnicity. However, once it reaches a mature state, it will lead to a 50% increase in the number of Hispanic Ph.D.s awarded in Astronomy. It also 1) impacts research at NMSU by increasing external collaborative activities in five academic departments, 2) enhances the graduate curricula in these departments, and 3) produces graduates who can work in academia, at the NSO and AFRL, in businesses such as General Dynamics and Boeing, and in federally-funded national facilities and laboratories. Predictive models of space weather are highly relevant to today's society. Severe changes in the Earth's space weather can compromise satellite systems, disrupt global communication networks, navigation systems, and electric power distribution grids. To avoid the socio-economic losses associated with these failures, these efforts seek to improve space weather predictions so that active interventions can take place.

该提案将使用2009年美国复苏和再投资法案提供的资金进行奖励（公法111-5）。该计划的目标是通过建立少数服务大学，新墨西哥州州立大学（NMSU），国家太阳观测站（NSO），空军研究实验室（AFRL）空间气象卓越中心（Space Weather Center of Excellence）后一组的科学家长期驻扎在国家统计局的设施内。 这种伙伴关系的主要重点是研究生教育。提供了一个完整的途径，从学生进入NMSU开始，到他/她过渡到教授职位结束。 研究将针对合作机构有共同兴趣的三个领域：1）恒星活动的起源和预测，2）仪器开发，3）计算天体物理学。这些都是国家统计局指定的长期研究领域，是AFRL空间气象卓越中心的核心使命，也与NMSU教师的研究兴趣相吻合。然而，一旦它达到成熟状态，它将导致西班牙裔天文学博士学位授予人数增加50%。它还1）通过增加五个学术部门的外部合作活动来影响NMSU的研究，2）增强这些部门的研究生课程，3）培养可以在学术界，NSO和AFRL，通用动力公司和波音公司等企业以及联邦资助的国家设施和实验室工作的毕业生。 空间气象预测模型与当今社会高度相关。地球空间天气的严重变化可能危及卫星系统，破坏全球通信网络，导航系统和配电网。为了避免与这些故障有关的社会经济损失，这些努力力求改进空间气象预测，以便能够进行积极的干预。