The Millstone Geospace Science Center

磨石地球空间科学中心

• 批准号: 0952853
• 负责人: Frank Lind
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 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: 2009-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0952853&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Millstone; Geospace; Science; Center

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The Principal Investigator (PI) plans to develop a Geospace Science Center which will provide control, operation, and science integration of the Millstone Hill Upper Atmosphere Facilities (UAF) program, which include the existing onsite radar as well as providing facility space for development of distributed arrays of small instruments, and small satellite missions. This center will provide a modernized control and receiver area for the Millstone UHF radar, a set of display consoles and computers suitable for the simultaneous operation of multiple instruments, a radio frequency interference (RFI) screened receiver room, an electronics laboratory, and a computing facility capable of supporting a significant grid computing.The upgrades to the Millstone NSF funded Upper Atmosphere Research Facility are designed to provide improved support for science observations and research, by modernizing and enhancing existing equipment and services. The Millstone Observatory provides vital measurements of the Earth?s upper atmosphere, and the Geospace Center site upgrades will significantly improve onsite support equipment and data servers, as well as allow space for teaching and large workshops, which is not possible with the current accommodation. Enhancements to the Millstone teaching facilities will offer tremendous benefits for training and outreach to young scientists in the fields of Upper Atmosphere Science and Space Weather.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案资助的（公法111-5）。首席研究员（PI）计划建立一个地球空间科学中心，该中心将提供米尔斯顿山高层大气设施（UAF）计划的控制、操作和科学整合，其中包括现有的现场雷达，以及提供设施空间，以发展分布式阵列的小型仪器和小型卫星任务。该中心将为Millstone UHF雷达提供一个现代化的控制和接收器区域，一套显示控制台和计算机，适用于多个仪器的同时操作，一个射频干扰（RFI）屏蔽接收器室，一个电子实验室，和一个能够支持重要网格计算的计算设施。对米尔斯通国家科学基金会资助的高层大气研究设施的升级旨在提供通过更新和加强现有设备和服务，加强对科学观测和研究的支持。磨石天文台提供地球的重要测量数据？地球空间中心的场地升级将大大改善现场支持设备和数据服务器，并为教学和大型研讨会提供空间，这在目前的住宿条件下是不可能的。对Millstone教学设施的改进将为高层大气科学和空间气象领域的青年科学家的培训和推广提供巨大的好处。