Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) Workshop 2020; Scranton, Pennsylvania; March 20-21, 2020

该奖项将于2020年3月20日至21日在宾夕法尼亚州斯克兰顿大学组织为期2天的业余无线电公民科学调查（HamSCI）会议。会议旨在促进业余无线电操作员和科学界之间的合作，通过利用无线电传播实验来推进科学研究和对电离层的了解，鼓励开发新技术来支持电离层研究，并为业余社区和公众提供教育机会。2020年HamSCI研讨会的主题将是“极光联系”，并将邀请极光公民科学、极光无线电科学和极光业余无线电操作方面的杰出领导人。此外，2020年的研讨会将继续在以往HamSCI会议的主题上取得进展，包括使用业余无线电技术来观测和理解电离层扰动背后的物理学，散发E，电离层对太阳耀斑和地磁风暴的响应，以及空间天气对无线电波传播的影响。今年的会议同时也是HamSCI个人空间气象站（PSWS）的发展会议。PSWS的发展将大大提高目前由业余无线电社区进行的公民科学观测的科学质量。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 award is to organize a 2-day Ham Radio Citizen Science Investigation (HamSCI) meeting at the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on March 20-21, 2020. The meeting aims to foster collaborations between amateur radio operators and the science community for the purpose of advancing scientific research and understanding of the ionosphere by leveraging radio propagation experiments, encourage development of new technologies to support ionospheric research, and provide educational opportunities for the amateur community and the general public.The 2020 HamSCI Workshop theme will be "The Auroral Connection," and will feature prominent leaders in Auroral Citizen Science, Auroral Radio Science, and Auroral Amateur Radio Operations. Additionally, the 2020 workshop will continue to make headway on topics of past HamSCI meetings, including the use of amateur radio techniques for observing and understanding the physics behind traveling ionospheric disturbances, Sporadic E, the ionospheric response to solar flares and geomagnetic storms, and space weather effects on radio wave propagation. This year's meeting will also serve as a development meeting of the HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station (PSWS). Development of the PSWS will lead to a vast improvement of the scientific quality of citizen science observations currently made by the amateur radio community.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.