The Millstone Hill Geospace Facility

磨石山地理空间设施

• 批准号: 1242204
• 负责人: Philip Erickson
• 金额: $ 1080.85万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-15 至 2018-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1242204&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Millstone; Hill; Geospace; Facility

The investigators will continue the operation of, and research associated with, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology radar and distributed ground-based instruments which comprise the Millstone Hill Geospace Facility (GF) in Westford, Massachusetts. The operations plan for Millstone Hill closely follows community guidance in enabling science, maintaining the facility, and conducting education and outreach activities. The facility provides unique capabilities for community science and observations at midlatitudes and in the important plasmasphere boundary layer (PBL) --activities essential for addressing the coupled workings of the Geospace system. The investigators will coordinate and conduct frontier science investigations aligned with community strategies in ionosphere-atmosphere interactions, Geospace system response, ion-neutral coupling, and radio science investigations of fundamental plasma physics. In support of community goals, the Millstone Hill staff will develop and implement new radar and radio remote sensing techniques with improved spatial and temporal resolution. These efforts will advance the technical capabilities of the facility, enabling a wider use of key technology, tools, and approaches that serve to maximize the scientific output of the facilities. Millstone Hill scientific staff will also continue to investigate the development of distributed-instrument arrays, lower atmosphere-upper atmosphere coupling, long-term trends in the ionosphere and thermosphere, and studies of magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling and the plasmasphere boundary layer. The facility operations plan includes activities designed to train and motivate a new generation of space scientists, radio scientists, and technicians through focused research opportunities, technical workshops, and general public outreach. Staff participation in international incoherent scatter radar workshops will focus on graduate students and their mentors. Other international collaborations include radar and radiophysics technical development, and efforts to develop an affordable Geospace-system global observatory. The investigators will maintain and expand the Madrigal Geospace Data System, and train and support the space science community in its use and development. The program includes support for a Boston University graduate student to work with the Millstone Hill Facility, and for continued participation in the Haystack Observatory Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. Millstone staff will also support international collaboration and education by organizing and teaching in schools, workshops and university classrooms, working with undergraduate, graduate, and precollege students, and providing visiting residence programs.

调查人员将继续操作马萨诸塞州理工学院的雷达和分布式地面仪器，并进行相关研究，这些仪器包括位于马萨诸塞州韦斯特福德的Millstone Hill地球空间设施。Millstone Hill的运营计划密切遵循社区指导，以实现科学，维护设施，并开展教育和推广活动。 该设施为中纬度地区和重要的等离子体边界层的社区科学和观测提供了独特的能力----这些活动对于处理地球空间系统的相互作用至关重要。研究人员将协调和进行前沿科学调查，与电离层-大气相互作用，地球空间系统响应，离子中性耦合和基础等离子体物理学的无线电科学调查的社区战略保持一致。为了支持社区的目标，Millstone Hill的工作人员将开发和实施新的雷达和无线电遥感技术，提高空间和时间分辨率。这些努力将提高该设施的技术能力，从而能够更广泛地使用关键技术、工具和方法，以最大限度地提高设施的科学产出。Millstone Hill的科学工作人员还将继续调查分布式仪器阵列的发展、低层大气与高层大气的耦合、电离层和热层的长期趋势，以及磁层与电离层的耦合和等离子体磁层边界层的研究。 该设施运营计划包括旨在通过重点研究机会、技术讲习班和一般公众宣传培训和激励新一代空间科学家、无线电科学家和技术人员的活动。国际非相干散射雷达研讨会的工作人员参与将集中在研究生和他们的导师。 其他国际合作包括雷达和无线电物理学技术开发，以及努力开发一个负担得起的地球空间系统全球观测站。调查人员将维护和扩大牧歌地球空间数据系统，并培训和支持空间科学界使用和开发该系统。该计划包括支持波士顿大学的研究生与Millstone Hill设施合作，并继续参与Haystack Observatory Research Experiences for Undergraduates计划。Millstone的工作人员还将通过在学校，研讨会和大学教室组织和教学，与本科生，研究生和预科学生合作，并提供访问居住计划来支持国际合作和教育。