US-South America Workshop to Foster Space Weather Investigation using the LISN Observatory

这项美国-南美洲奖将支持一个研讨会，以促进南美和美国研究人员在低纬度电离层传感器网络(LISN)社区的国际科学合作。讲习班将于2011年11月在巴西圣何塞·多斯坎波斯的国家空间研究所举行。在过去的几年里，LISS社区在整个南美洲大陆安装了40多个GPS接收器和5个磁力计。这一网络的持续运作能否成功取决于南美伙伴的合作。讲习班的主要目标是激励新成员了解LIS仪器，并让他们参与科学项目和运动。讲习班讨论的研究议题将包括：(1)新仪器、其可观测量和分析技术；(2)低纬电离层日常变化的物理和预测赤道扩散F(ESF)的方法；(3)空间气象应用和空间气象研究所在南美洲发展增强系统方面的作用。研讨会将由波士顿学院的Cesar Valladares博士与巴西INPE的Eurico de Paula博士和Hisao Takahashi博士、秘鲁Jicarmarca天文台的Jorge Chau博士和阿根廷拉普拉塔大学的Caludio Brunini博士共同组织。研讨会将汇集来自美国、巴西、秘鲁、阿根廷、哥伦比亚、厄瓜多尔和玻利维亚的顶尖研究人员，并为该社区提供独特的机会，以启动长期合作。对于美国来说，这个项目将为学生和早期职业科学家创造机会，让他们参与仪器安装、数据分析软件的开发以及使用在南美运行的新仪器提供的资源的不同阶段。此外，它还将为美国和南美的研究生和职业生涯早期的研究人员提供国际研究经验。本次研讨会得到了国际科学办公室的美洲计划和美国国家科学基金会地球科学局的空气工程计划、美国联邦航空管理局、S圣保罗研究基金会和巴西高等教育人员改进协调(CAPES)的支持。

This U.S.- South America award will support a workshop to promote international scientific collaborations between researchers from South America and the United States in the Low Latitude Ionospheric Sensor Network (LISN) community. The workshop will be held in November 2011 at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Sao Jose dos Campos in Brazil. The LISN community has installed over 40 GPS receivers and 5 magnetometers across the South American continent during the last few years. The success of the continuous operations of this network depends on the collaborations of the South American partners. The primary goal of the workshop is to motivate new members to learn about the LISN instrumentation and to engage them in scientific projects and campaigns. Research topics addressed at the workshop will include: (1) new instrumentation, their observable quantities, and analysis techniques; (2) physics of the day-to-day variability of the low-latitude ionosphere and a method for predicting equatorial spread F (ESF) initiation; and (3) space weather applications and the role of LISN on the development of an augmentation system in South America. The workshop will be organized by Dr. Cesar Valladares from Boston College with Drs. Eurico de Paula and Hisao Takahashi from INPE in Brazil, Dr. Jorge Chau from Jicarmarca Observatory in Peru, and Dr. Caludio Brunini from the University of La Plata in Argentina. The workshop will bring together leading researchers from the United States, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Columbia, Ecuador and Bolivia and provide unique opportunities for this community to initiate long-term collaborations. For the US, this project will create opportunities for students and early career scientists to participate in different phases of the instrument installation, development of data analysis software, and the usage of the resources offered by the new instruments that are operating in South America. Furthermore, it will provide an international research experience to U.S and South American graduate students and early-career researchers. This workshop is supported by the Americas Program in the Office of International Science and the Aeronomy Program in the Directorate of Geosciences at NSF, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) in Brazil.