The Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) Summer School

该奖项将支持一个年度暑期学校，教育本科生和研究生的理论和实践的非相干散射雷达（ISR）。 美国国家科学基金会支持全球六个ISR设施。一个由训练有素的科学家组成的社区操作和使用来自这些雷达的数据;然而，研究生没有明确的途径成为这个社区的一部分。虽然少数学校提供ISR研究的培训，但大多数感兴趣的学生需要为自己拼凑一条教育道路，或者通过博士后职位来追求该项目。从2008年开始，举办了非相干散射雷达学校，提供了一个密集的实践计划，包括雷达实验和该领域专家的讲座。在过去的五年里，该计划已被证明是非常成功的，并始终与美国和国际学生完全订阅。有些学校在国外开办，并在讲座和实验方面开展了国际合作。在这些学校接受培训的许多学生继续在该领域工作，并成为ISR社区的一部分。该奖项的合作者代表了一个核心讲师团队，他们开发了一个成功的课程议程，旨在在一周的课程中传授ISR理论和实验的核心原则。根据与雷达社区的接近程度，选定了五个地点作为未来的学校：Haystack天文台（马萨诸塞州韦斯特福德）、阿雷西博天文台（波多黎各）、CONICET（阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯）、地球物理研究所（阿拉斯加费尔班克斯）和SRI国际（加州门洛帕克）。在这些地点中的每一个，学生将有动手与ISR技术的互动，并将成为熟悉的雷达设施。ISR暑期学校的核心目标是鼓励新的参与者进入该领域。事实上，过去参加暑期学校的学生继续提出自己的ISR实验，并在该领域变得活跃。获奖者将系统地跟踪参加暑期学校的学生的教育和专业轨迹，并向校友发送年度调查，以了解他们目前与ISR研究和社区活动的关系。 他们还将鼓励选择校友回到学校担任导师和学生联络员。暑期学校的另一个重要方面是在该领域的知名科学家和感兴趣的学生之间建立的指导关系。在课程结束后，这些关系成为学生进一步学习和进入劳动力市场的资源。学生还与同龄人建立关系，他们在返回各自机构时提供支持。除了在美国建立的网络外，暑期学校还拥有强大的国际合作历史。该学校还与EISCAT暑期学校联合举办，许多欧洲学生和教授参加了该学校。这两所学校计划每三年合并一次。

This award will support an annual summer school to educate undergraduate and graduate students on the theory and practice of incoherent scatter radars (ISR). The National Science Foundation supports six ISR facilities worldwide. A community of highly trained scientists operates and uses the data from these radars; however, there is no clear path for graduate students to become a part of this community. While a handful of schools provide training in ISR studies, most interested students need to cobble together an educational path for themselves or pursue the program through a postdoctoral position. Starting in 2008, incoherent scatter radar schools have been held to provide an intense hands-on program that involves a radar experiment and lectures from experts in the field. Over the past five years, the program has proven highly successful and is always fully subscribed with both US and international students. Some schools have been held outside the country, and international collaborations on lectures and experiments have been developed. Many students trained in these schools have continued in the field and become a part of the ISR community. The collaborators on this award represent a core team of lecturers who have developed a successful agenda of courses aimed at imparting the core principles of ISR theory and experimentation during the course of one week. Five locations have been selected for future schools, based on proximity to radar communities: Haystack Observatory (Westford, Massachusetts), Arecibo Observatory (Puerto Rico), CONICET (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Geophysical Institute (Fairbanks, Alaska), and SRI International (Menlo Park, California). At each of these locations, students will have hands-on interactions with ISR technology, and will become familiar with a radar facility. The core goal of the ISR summer school is to encourage new participants into the field. Students who attended the summer school in the past have, in fact, continued on to propose their own ISR experiments, and have become active in the field. The awardees will systematically track the educational and professional trajectories of students who attend the summer school and send out yearly surveys to school alumni to learn their current relationship to ISR research and activity in the community. They will also encourage select alumni to return to the school to act as mentors and student liaisons. Another important aspect of the summer schools is the mentoring relationships that are developed between established scientists in the field and interested students. Well after the program has ended, these relationships become a resource as students further their studies and enter the workforce. Students also form relationships with their peers, who provide support as they return to their individual institutions. In addition to the network established in the United States, the summer school has a strong history of international collaboration. The school has also been conducted jointly with the EISCAT summer school, where many European students and professors were in attendance. The two schools plan to merge again every three years.