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

该奖项将支持西北研究协会的Diego Janches博士，该协会与阿根廷拉普拉塔国立大学(UNLP)的克劳迪奥·布鲁尼尼博士和何塞·L·霍纳切亚博士开展了研究和教育合作。拟议的活动将让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。这项研究涉及一种新的流星雷达，这是迄今为止用这种系统还不可能(或尝试)的，而且安装在世界上一个缺乏仪器的地区。该雷达系统目前正部署在阿根廷火地岛的格兰德河天文台，专门设计用于开展若干协同研究工作，包括确定流星体数量和大规模大气动力学的特征。拟议的测量与北半球的一些雷达具有磁性共轭，并将进一步加深我们对全球高层大气系统的了解。学员将与阿根廷合作者密切合作，分析和解释雷达数据，最终目标是找出雷达数据与全球定位系统测量中的小尺度重力波特征之间的关联。这项拟议的活动将积极让美国学生和阿根廷研究人员参与雷达系统的开发、部署和维护。此外，该奖项将为四名美国学生提供国际研究经验，他们将由美国和阿根廷的高素质研究人员指导。此外，该项目将在阿根廷促进大气和空间科学，目标是在阿根廷编制这一领域的第一个研究生课程。和平研究所将与他们的阿根廷合作者一起，向UNLP的学生和教职员工提供关于大气科学和空气工程学的研讨会。

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.