The Millstone Hill Geospace Facility

研究人员将继续操作和研究麻省理工学院的雷达和分布式地面仪器，这些仪器包括位于马萨诸塞州韦斯特福德的米尔斯顿山地球空间设施（GF）。磨石山的运营计划密切遵循社区在促进科学、维护设施、开展教育和推广活动方面的指导。该设施为中纬度地区和重要的等离子层边界层（PBL）的社区科学和观测提供了独特的能力，这些活动对于解决地球空间系统的耦合工作至关重要。研究人员将协调和开展前沿科学研究，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的无线电科学研究的社区战略保持一致。为了支持社区目标，磨石山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。这些努力将提高设施的技术能力，使关键技术、工具和方法得到更广泛的应用，从而最大限度地提高设施的科学产出。Millstone Hill的科研人员还将继续研究分布式仪器阵列的发展，低层大气-高层大气耦合，电离层和热层的长期趋势，以及磁层-电离层耦合和等离子层边界层的研究。该设施运营计划包括旨在通过重点研究机会、技术研讨会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。工作人员参加国际非相干散射雷达讲习班的重点将是研究生及其导师。其他国际合作包括雷达和放射物理技术开发，以及努力开发负担得起的地球空间系统全球观测站。研究人员将维护和扩展“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一名研究生在米尔斯顿山设施工作，并继续参与本科生干草堆天文台研究经验计划。磨石的工作人员还将支持国际合作和教育，在学校、研讨会和大学教室组织和教学，与本科生、研究生和大学预科生合作，并提供访问住宿项目。

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.