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

这笔赠款将用于组织将于2019年2月17-20日在波多黎各圣胡安举行的“阿雷西博天文台未来之路”研讨会。Ao的基石研究设施是一个直径305米的球面反射器，位于波多黎各阿雷西博的Barrio Eperanza。该设施拥有一组独特的仪器，使其成为一个卓越的中心，具有增强我们在空间科学方面的知识的非凡能力。天文台仍然吸引着西班牙裔和其他代表性不足的群体。它为学生、教师和公众提供了广泛的教育资源。这次研讨会由该组织的新管理层--中佛罗里达大学(UCF)主办，目的是促进在该组织开展新的研究活动的创新想法。研讨会提供了一个会议空间，以便主要利益攸关方、社区科学家和当地学生和教师可以聚集在一起，就将在AO进行的未来研究创造一个共同的愿景。预计它将利用参与者的专业知识和前瞻性思维领导能力，帮助创造切实的方式来促进尖端研究，并让科学界更广泛地参与。在AO上开展了广泛的科学活动，没有一次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让所有利益攸关方在同一时间聚集在一起。这次研讨会旨在扩大未来十年左右的AO研究和科学计划，以及保证这项研究成功所需的技术改进。一个预期的结果是，由这次研讨会促成的讨论将有助于保持AO作为世界一流研究机构之一的地位，并有助于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，这次会议产生的白皮书可能被用来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的科学问题、新兴的科学机会和技术进步？这次讨论预计将导致利用现有基础设施开发下一代仪器，并将其范围扩大到传统的科学方法之外。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.