SAVI: CLOUD Virtual Institute and Chemical Physics of Atmospheric New-Particle Formation

该项目涉及美国国家科学基金会的跨虚拟学院科学(SAVI)计划。SAVI是一个创新的概念，旨在促进全球科学家和教育工作者之间的互动，其原则是，世界上许多地区都存在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)研究和教育学科的卓越，无论科学家、工程师和教育工作者在哪里共同努力，都可以加速科学进步。Savi专注于跨越国界的有凝聚力的研究团队之间的互动，并通过利用互补的智力优势和共享独特的研究基础设施来利用美国和外国在前沿研究领域的现有投资。已开发出一个为期3年的云虚拟研究所(CVI)，其中包括卡内基梅隆大学、加州理工学院(Caltech)和Aerodyne，Inc.与欧洲培训网络(Cloud-Train)和瑞士CERN的云研究联盟合作的团队。CVI将使美国的研究人员能够参与云的研究，专注于大气中新粒子的形成。云围绕着一个极其复杂的实验云室，配备了一套最先进的大型仪器来测量纳米颗粒的尺寸分布和组成。该项目支持研究所的行政管理工作。研究资金，包括对学生和博士后参与研究的支持，正在通过向NSF和其他机构提出的其他特定研究建议来申请。该项目支持云联盟的团队成员资格，支持美国研究人员参加云活动、项目会议和数据分析研讨会，以及美国学生参加欧洲暑期学校和在CMU和/或加州理工大学举办暑期学校。网络工具将实现规划期间的远程协作、活动期间的每日简报、数据分析、论文规划和出版物准备。Cloud是一个研究联盟，由十几个不同的国家研究机构提供稳定的资金。Cloud-Train是玛丽·居里初始培训网络(ITN)，总部设在德国美因河畔法兰克福歌德大学。CVI团队包括云的所有美国成员以及与欧洲云成员机构(斯德哥尔摩大学、赫尔辛基大学、保罗·谢勒研究所和法兰克福大学)的几个增强合作。CVI还将与Finish大气组成和气候变化物理、化学、生物学和气象学英才中心密切合作。

This project addresses the Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) Program at NSF. SAVI is an innovative concept to foster interactions among scientists and educators around the globe based on the principle that excellence in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research and education exists in many parts of the world, and that scientific advances can be accelerated by scientists, engineers, and educators working together wherever they are. SAVI focuses on interactions between cohesive teams of researchers across national borders and takes advantage of existing U.S. and foreign investments in frontier research by leveraging complementary intellectual strengths and sharing unique research infrastructures.A 3-year Cloud Virtual Institute (CVI) has been developed to include a team at Carnegie Mellon University, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and Aerodyne, Inc. working in conjunction with the European Training Network (CLOUD-TRAIN) and the CLOUD research consortium based at CERN in Switzerland. The CVI will enable US based researchers to participate in CLOUD, focusing on new-particle formation in the atmosphere. CLOUD revolves around an extremely sophisticated experimental cloud chamber equipped with a large suite of state of the art instrumentation to measure nanoparticle size distributions and composition. This project supports the administrative aspects of the institute. Research funds, including support for students and postdoc participation in the research, are being requested through other research-specific proposals to NSF and other agencies.The project supports team membership in the CLOUD consortium, and travel by US researchers to CLOUD campaigns, project meetings, and data analysis workshops, as well as the participation of US students in European summer schools and the hosting of a summer school at CMU and/or at Caltech. Network tools will enable remote collaboration during planning, daily briefings during campaigns, data analysis, paper planning, and publication preparation. CLOUD is a research consortium with stable funding contributed by a dozen different national research agencies. CLOUD-TRAIN is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) based at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The CVI team includes all of the US members of CLOUD as well as several enhanced collaborations with European CLOUD member institutions (University of Stockholm, University of Helsinki, Paul Scherrer Institute, and the University of Frankfurt). The CVI also will closely collaborate with the Finish Centre of Excellence in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Meteorology of Atmospheric Composition and Climate Change.