Pathways to the Future of the Arecibo Observatory (AO) Workshop; San Juan, Puerto Rico; February 17-20, 2019

这笔赠款是为了组织将于2019年2月17日至20日在圣胡安波多黎各举行的“通往阿雷西博天文台（AO）未来的途径研讨会”。AO的基础研究设施是一个直径为305米的球面反射器，位于波多黎各阿雷西博的Barrio Esperanza。该设施拥有独特的仪器集群，使其成为卓越的中心，具有卓越的能力，以提高我们在空间科学方面的知识。天文台仍然是西班牙裔和其他代表性不足的群体的磁石。它为学生、教师和公众提供了广泛的教育资源。该研讨会由AO的新管理层主办，中央佛罗里达大学（UCF），旨在促进AO新研究活动的创新想法。研讨会提供了一个会议空间，使主要利益相关者，社区科学家和当地学生和教师可以走到一起，创造未来的研究将在AO进行的共同愿景。预计将利用与会者的专门知识和前瞻性领导能力，帮助创造切实可行的方法，促进尖端研究，并让科学界更广泛地参与。AO开展了广泛的科学活动，没有一个科学会议在一个地方涵盖所有主题。因此，这次研讨会的目的是将所有利益攸关方聚集在一起。这次研讨会旨在扩大未来十年左右的AO研究和科学计划，以及保证研究成功所需的技术改进。一个预期的结果是，这次研讨会促进的讨论将有助于保持AO作为世界上最重要的研究机构之一的地位，并保持波多黎各作为未来十年能够并将发生突破性发现的地点。此外，这次会议产生的白色文件可用于为国家科学院正在推动的十年调查提供信息。研讨会将讨论以下首要问题：科学家在未来十年将追求哪些关键科学问题、新兴科学机遇和技术进步？该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This grant is to organize the "Pathways to the Future of Arecibo Observatory (AO) Workshop" to be held February 17-20, 2019 in San Juan Puerto Rico. AO's cornerstone research facility is a 305-meter diameter spherical reflector, located in Barrio Esperanza, Arecibo, Puerto Rico. This facility has a unique cluster of instruments, making it a center of excellence with exceptional capabilities to enhance our knowledge in the Space Sciences. The observatory continues to be a magnet for Hispanic and other underrepresented groups. It has extensive educational resources for students, teachers and the public. This workshop is being hosted by the new management of AO, the University of Central Florida (UCF), with the goal of promoting innovative ideas for new research activities at AO. The workshop provides a meeting space so that key stakeholders, community scientists and local students and teachers can come together to create a shared vision of future research to be conducted at AO. It is expected to harness the expertise and forward-thinking leadership of the participants to help create tangible ways to promote cutting-edge research and involve wider participation from the scientific community. A broad range of science is carried out at AO and no single science meeting covers all of topics in one place. Therefore, this workshop was conceived to bring all stakeholders together in one place at one time. This workshop seeks to widen the AO research and science plans for the next decade or so, and the technical improvements that will be needed to guarantee the success of that research. An expected outcome is that the discussions facilitated by this workshop will help maintain AO's status as one of the premier research institutions in the world, and Puerto Rico as the location where breakthrough discoveries can and will happen in the next decade. Furthermore, white papers generated from this meeting may be used to inform Decadal Surveys being facilitated by the National Academies. The following overarching question will be addressed at the workshop: What key scientific questions, emerging science opportunities, and technical advances will scientists be pursuing in the next decade? The discussion is expected to lead to the development of next-generation instruments using existing infrastructure and broaden their scope beyond traditional approaches of doing science.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.