The Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) Summer School

非相干散射雷达 (ISR) 暑期学校

• 批准号: 1332771
• 负责人: Elizabeth Kendall
• 金额: $ 73.34万
• 依托单位: SRI International
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-15 至 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1332771&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Incoherent; Scatter; Radar; ISR; Summer

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.

该奖项将支持一年一度的暑期学校，向本科生和研究生提供非相干散射雷达(ISR)理论和实践方面的教育。美国国家科学基金会支持全球六个ISR机构。一个由训练有素的科学家组成的社区运行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研究方面的培训，但大多数感兴趣的学生需要为自己拼凑出一条教育道路，或者通过博士后职位继续攻读该项目。从2008年开始，非相干散射雷达学校开始提供密集的实践项目，其中包括雷达实验和该领域专家的讲座。在过去的五年里，该项目被证明非常成功，一直得到美国和国际学生的充分订阅。一些学校已经在国外举办，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留在外地，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，他们在一周的课程中制定了一系列成功的课程，旨在传授ISR理论和实验的核心原则。根据距离雷达界的距离，选定了五个地点作为未来的学校：干草堆观测站(马萨诸塞州韦斯特福德)、阿雷西博观测站(波多黎各)、CONICET(布宜诺斯艾利斯，阿根廷)、地球物理研究所(费尔班克斯，阿拉斯加)和SRI国际(门洛帕克，加利福尼亚州)。在每个地点，学生将与ISR技术进行实践互动，并熟悉雷达设施。ISR暑期班的核心目标是鼓励新的参与者进入该领域。事实上，过去参加暑期班的学生继续提出他们自己的ISR实验，并在该领域变得活跃起来。获奖者将系统地跟踪参加暑期学校的学生的教育和职业发展轨迹，并向学校校友发送年度调查，以了解他们目前与ISR研究和社区活动的关系。他们还将鼓励精挑细选的校友回到学校担任导师和学生联络人。暑期班的另一个重要方面是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。在项目结束后，随着学生进一步深造并进入劳动力大军，这些关系将成为一种资源。学生还与同龄人建立关系，同龄人在他们返回各自的院校时提供支持。除了在美国建立的网络，这个暑期学校还有很强的国际合作历史。该学校还与EISCAT暑期学校联合举办，许多欧洲学生和教授都参加了暑期学校。这两所学校计划每三年再合并一次。