EAGER: Ideas Lab on Geomagnetically Induced Currents; Golden, Colorado; Mid to Late September 2022

Ideas实验室的主要目标是将包括建模人员和实验者在内的不同研究人员聚集在一起，组成跨学科团队，开发创新和变革性的方法，以加强关于GIC的研究到运营(R2O)计划。Ideas实验室将支持研究和工程技术开发工作，这些工作将在地球空间和地球科学领域带来新的机会，以更好地预测和缓解GIC效应。它还将涉及教育、培训和发展一支具有相关专业知识的跨学科劳动力队伍的创新方法，这些专业知识涵盖对日地耦合系统的物理理解、固体地球的地质形成以及地面电网和变压器的工程和操作。

In partnership with the NSF, NASA, and the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, UCAR Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS) will support an Ideas Lab to offer multiple perspectives from various scientific and engineering backgrounds to provide innovative approaches for new and bold ideas for better prediction and mitigation of Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GIC) that affect power grid operations, pipelines, and other technological systems involving long conducting wires. The main goal of the Ideas Lab is to bring together a diverse group of researchers, including modelers and experimentalists, to form interdisciplinary teams that will develop innovative and transformative approaches to strengthen the Research to Operations (R2O) program on GICs. The Ideas Lab will support research and engineering technology development efforts that will lead to new opportunities in geospace and Earth sciences to better predict and mitigate GIC effects. It will also involve innovative approaches in educating, training, and developing a cross-disciplinary workforce with the relevant expertise spanning physical understanding of the coupled Sun-Earth system, geological formation of the solid earth, and engineering and operation of ground power grids and transformers. UCAR CPAESS will host and KnowInnovation will facilitate the Ideas Lab for GICs that will bring together approximately thirty-six scientists to look at formulating new techniques and technologies to better predict and mitigate GIC effects.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.