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

0824742Janches该奖项将支持西北研究协会的Diego Janches博士，该协会与Claudio Brunini博士和Jose L.阿根廷拉普拉塔国立拉普拉塔大学的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。 这项研究涉及一种新的流星雷达，迄今为止还不可能（或尝试）使用这种系统，并且定位在世界上一个缺乏仪器的地区。 这一雷达系统目前正在阿根廷火地岛的格兰德河天文站部署，专门用于开展一些协同研究工作，包括流星体群和大规模大气动力学的特征描述。 拟议的测量磁共轭的一些北半球雷达，将进一步我们的全球高层大气系统的理解。 参加者将与阿根廷合作者密切合作，分析和解释雷达数据，最终目标是找到雷达数据与全球定位系统测量中小规模重力波特征之间的相互关系。这项拟议的活动将积极吸引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，该项目将促进阿根廷的大气和空间科学，目标是在阿根廷编制该领域的第一个研究生课程。 国际项目研究员将与阿根廷合作者一起为联合国内罗毕办事处的学生和教职员工举办关于大气科学和高层大气物理学的研讨会。

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.