DASI Track 2: Space Weather UnderGround (SWUG)

DASI 第 2 轨：地下空间天气 (SWUG)

• 批准号: 1933075
• 负责人: Charles Smith
• 金额: $ 50.59万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1933075&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DASI; Track; Space; Weather; UnderGround

This project supported by the Geospace Facilities Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments (DASI) will support the construction and deployment of a magnetometer array in northern New England as well as the construction of a data center. The Space Weather Underground (SWUG) network will bring a scientific investigation into the high school physics and engineering classrooms in northern New England. Students will continue ongoing projects to build fluxgate magnetometers and support hardware (photovoltaics, radio telemetry, and GPS) and then deploy the magnetometers at locations around the region. This array is capable of measuring local dynamics in Earth's Ionosphere in response to space weather events. Faculty at the University of New Hampshire will support the development effort and the data analysis efforts that will result in a manner that brings physics-driven computer programming tasks into the schools. The data generated from this network will be made publicly available to the scientific community.This magnetometer array will support existing magnetometers around the globe, monitor space weather, and provide insights into the small-scale ionospheric dynamics at mid-latitudes that result from solar wind transients. The spatial scale is designed to provide a measure of local dynamics as disturbances move through the region. It will provide unique measurements of mid-latitude dynamics that can be combined with global ground-based measurements, magnetospheric measurements from orbiting satellites, and solar wind data from Lagrange Point 1 (L1). This project also places a space physics research tool into the back yards of schools in northern New England and thereby serves to bring space science into the classroom. The same school-provided computers that serve the node data to the SWUG Data Center will have real-time graphics showing the state and activity of the local node. These magnetometers will constitute a network that will provide students and teachers with project-based activities that support inquiry and promote access to real scientific data. Participating schools will be provided with lessons to teach students the basics of magnetic forces, induction, geomagnetic fields, the solar wind and space weather.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.

该项目由地球空间设施分布式小型仪器阵列（DASI）支持，将支持在新英格兰北方建造和部署磁力计阵列以及建造数据中心。地下空间天气（SWUG）网络将为北方新英格兰的高中物理和工程教室带来科学调查。学生将继续进行项目，以建立磁通门磁力计和支持硬件（光电子学，无线电遥测和GPS），然后在该地区的位置部署磁力计。该阵列能够测量地球电离层中对空间气象事件作出反应的局部动态。新罕布什尔州大学的教师将支持开发工作和数据分析工作，从而将物理驱动的计算机编程任务带入学校。该网络产生的数据将向科学界公开提供，该磁强计阵列将支持地球仪的现有磁强计，监测空间天气，并提供对太阳风瞬变造成的中纬度小规模电离层动态的深入了解。空间尺度的目的是提供一个衡量当地动态的扰动移动通过该地区。它将提供独特的中纬度动态测量数据，这些数据可与全球地面测量数据、轨道卫星的磁层测量数据和拉格朗日点1（L1）的太阳风数据相结合。该项目还在北方新英格兰的学校后院放置了一个空间物理学研究工具，从而有助于将空间科学带入课堂。同样的学校提供的计算机服务的节点数据的SWUG数据中心将有实时图形显示的状态和活动的本地节点。这些磁力计将构成一个网络，为学生和教师提供基于项目的活动，支持调查和促进获取真实的科学数据。参与的学校将提供课程，教授学生磁力、感应、地磁场、太阳风和空间天气的基础知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。