International: Student Participation in a Unique Meteor Radar for Atmospheric Studies in Argentina

国际：阿根廷学生参与用于大气研究的独特流星雷达

• 批准号: 1139862
• 负责人: Carlos Martinis
• 金额: $ 7.4万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-05-03 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1139862&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Student; Participation; Unique; Meteor

0824742JanchesThis award will support Dr. Diego Janches of Northwest Research Association, Incorporated in a research and education collaboration with Drs. Claudio Brunini and Jose L. Hornaechea of Universidad Nacional de la Plata in La Plata (UNLP), Argentina. The proposed activity will involve students in an ongoing international research project that is potentially transformative. The research involves a new meteor radar that has not been possible (or attempted) with such a system to date and is positioned in a region of the world that is lacking instrumentation. This radar system is currently being deployed at the Astronomical Station Rio Grande (EARG), Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, and was specifically designed to pursue a number of synergetic research efforts including the characterization of the meteoroid population and large-scale atmospheric dynamics. The proposed measurements are magnetically conjugate to a number of northern-hemisphere radars and will further our understanding of global upper atmospheric systems. The participants will work closely with the Argentine collaborators in the analysis and interpretation of the radar data with the end goal of finding correlations between the radar data and small-scale gravity waves signatures in GPS measurements. This proposed activity will actively involve U.S. students and Argentine researchers in the development, deployment, and maintenance of a radar system. Additionally, the award will provide an international research experience to four U.S. students and they will be mentored by highly-qualified researchers in the U.S. and Argentina. Furthermore, the project will promote atmospheric and space science in Argentina with the goal to develop the first graduate curriculum in this field in Argentina. The PIs, with their Argentine collaborators, will offer seminars to students and faculty at UNLP on atmospheric sciences and aeronomy.

0824742Janchesthis奖将支持西北研究协会的迭戈·詹奇斯（Diego Janches）博士，该协会与博士的研究和教育合作合并。阿根廷拉普拉塔（La Plata）的克劳迪奥·布鲁尼尼（Claudio Brunini）和何塞·霍纳（Jose L. Hornaechea）拟议的活动将使学生参与一个正在进行的国际研究项目，该项目可能具有变革性。 该研究涉及一个新的流星雷达，迄今为止，这种系统是不可能（或尝试）的，并且位于缺乏仪器的世界地区。 该雷达系统目前正在阿根廷Tierra del Fuego的Rio Grande（EARG）（EARG）的天文站部署，并专门设计用于从事许多协同研究工作，包括表征流星种群和大型大气动力学。 所提出的测量在磁性上缀合到许多北部半球雷达，并将进一步了解我们对全球上层大气系统的理解。 参与者将与阿根廷合作者紧密合作，以分析和解释雷达数据，最终目标是在GPS测量中找到雷达数据与小规模重力波之间的相关性。这项拟议的活动将积极涉及美国学生和阿根廷研究人员的发展，部署和维护雷达系统。 此外，该奖项将为四名美国学生提供国际研究经验，并将受到美国和阿根廷资格的研究人员的指导。 此外，该项目将促进阿根廷的大气和太空科学，其目标是开发阿根廷该领域的首个研究生课程。 PIS及其阿根廷合作者将向UNLP的学生和教职员工提供大气科学和空中的教职员工。