The Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) 2022 Workshop; Scranton, Pennsylvania; March 18-19, 2022

电离层是一个大气区域，距离地球表面约50至600英里。这一层大气层有高浓度的带电粒子（离子和电子），它们与无线电波发生强烈的相互作用。电离层中复杂的结构和带电粒子密度的变化改变了无线电波的传播行为，极大地影响了无线电通信和全球卫星导航系统。了解电离层的结构和过程将有助于增进对这些影响的了解和预测。业余无线电科学公民调查（HamSCI）是一个由专业研究人员和有执照的业余无线电操作员（又名火腿）组成的团体，其目标是促进业余和专业社区之间的合作，以推进科学研究和理解，鼓励新技术的发展以支持这项研究，并为业余无线电社区和公众提供教育机会。为了最大限度地发挥业余无线电与专业研究人员关系的潜力，需要召开会议，将这些团体聚集在一起，了解彼此的社区、词汇、分享想法，并参与促进科学领域和无线电爱好的活动。该项目将支持为期两天的HamSCI研讨会来解决这一需求。2022年HamSCI研讨会将是自2018年在新泽西理工学院举行首次会议以来的第五届美国HamSCI年度研讨会。这个系列的研讨会在空间物理、公民科学和使用众包电离层数据等领域引领了前沿工作。2022年HamSCI研讨会的主题将是“天气联系”，并将邀请空间天气、大气天气以及它们之间联系的杰出领导者。此外，2022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察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。本次会议还将作为HamSCI个人空间气象站（PSWS）的两年一次的发展会议，该项目是由NSF航空分布式小型仪器阵列（DASI）计划资助的。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。

The ionosphere is an atmospheric region extends from about 50 to 600 miles above the earth’s surface. This layer of atmosphere has a high concentration of charged particles (ions and electrons) that interact strongly with radio waves. Complex structures and variations of charged particle densities in the ionosphere alter the behavior of radio wave propagation, greatly affect the radio communications and global navigation satellite systems. Understanding ionospheric structures and processes will lead to an increased understanding and prediction of these effects.The Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) is a collective of professional researchers and licensed amateur radio operators (a.k.a. hams) with the objective to foster collaborations between the amateur and professional communities for the purposes of advancing scientific research and understanding, encouraging the development of new technologies to support this research, and to provide educational opportunities for the amateur radio community and the general public. To maximize the potential of the ham radio-professional researcher relationship, meetings are needed to bring these groups together to learn about each other’s communities, vocabularies, share ideas, and participate in activities that advance both the scientific field and the radio hobby.This project will support a 2-day HamSCI workshop to address this need. The 2022 HamSCI Workshop will be the fifth annual U.S. HamSCI Workshop since the inaugural meeting at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2018. This workshop series has led to cutting-edge work in the fields of space physics, citizen science, and the use of crowd-sourced ionospheric data. The 2022 HamSCI Workshop theme will be “The Weather Connection,” and will feature prominent leaders in space weather, atmospheric weather, and the connection between them.Additionally, the 2022 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 meeting will also serve as a bi-annual development meeting of the HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station (PSWS), a project funded through the NSF Aeronomy Distributed Array of Small Instruments (DASI) program. 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.