Collaborative Research: California-Hawaii Astrophysics Mentoring Partnership (CHAMP)

合作研究：加州-夏威夷天体物理学指导合作伙伴关系 (CHAMP)

• 批准号: 2319554
• 负责人: David Sanders
• 金额: $ 43.96万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2319554&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; California; Hawaii; Astrophysics

The California-Hawaii Astrophysics Mentoring Partnership (CHAMP) is a program between the University of California Riverside (UCR), a minority serving institution, and the University of Hawaii (UH), Institute for Astronomy (IfA). CHAMP is designed to build on years of successful partnership between these two institutions to share their existing facilities and infrastructures, with the goal of building a partnership to address the 2022 Decadal Survey recommendations for Astronomy & Astrophysics. The UH-IfA has extensive access to ground-based telescopes (~15% of the observing time on all large telescopes on Mauna Kea - Keck, Gemini, Subaru, CFHT, UKIRT), with experience in observing techniques, data processing and reduction. UCR has significant expertise in data science, machine learning, data visualization, data cataloging, STEM education, and outreach. CHAMP will use this combined expertise to develop a research, education, and outreach program targeting both undergraduate and graduate students in the two partner institutions. CHAMP will particularly focus on the under-represented minority groups in astronomy, including Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, Hispanics and women. CHAMP will also organize summer camps in astronomy for high school students, introducing them to coding with Python and data science techniques. Using the telescopes at UCR observatory in Joshua Tree National Park and at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, CHAMP will organize hands-on and remote stargazing nights for the public. The focus of the broader impact will be Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders at IfA and the Latino and Hispanic community at UCR. UH-IfA and UCR have played a major role in creating two of the largest and deepest ground-based multi-wavelength galaxy surveys - COSMOS2020 and Hawaii-Two0 (H20). CHAMP will use these surveys to address major scientific questions in Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology and to develop research and training programs for undergraduate and graduate students who will visit the partner institutions to receive training and perform research under a faculty member. The program will last for 10 weeks each year for both undergraduate and graduate students. UCR students will gain hands-on observing experience and UH-IfA students will learn about data science and machine learning techniques and their application to astronomy. CHAMP will also develop two new courses to be delivered at both institutions: “Tools in Modern Astronomy” to teach basic skills in measurement of photometric redshifts, galaxy mass, extinction, star-formation rates; use of stellar population synthesis algorithms, and “Machine Learning for Astronomers” by adapting and building on an existing undergraduate course at UCR.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.

加利福尼亚 - 哈瓦伊天体物理学指导合作伙伴关系（Champ）是加利福尼亚大学河滨大学（UCR），少数派服务机构的计划，以及夏威夷大学（UH），天文学研究所（IFA）。 Champ旨在建立这两个机构之间多年的成功合作伙伴关系，以共享其现有的设施和基础设施，目的是建立合作伙伴关系，以解决2022年十年际调查的天文学和天体物理学建议。 UH-IFA可以广泛访问地面望远镜（在Mauna Kea的所有大型望远镜上的观察时间约为15％ - Kece，Gemini，Subaru，CFHT，UKIRT），具有观察技术，数据处理和减少的经验。 UCR在数据科学，机器学习，数据可视化，数据分类，STEM教育和外展方面具有重要的专业知识。 Champ将利用这种合并的专业知识来开发针对两个合作伙伴机构的本科生和研究生的研究，教育和外展计划。冠军将特别专注于代表性不足的天文学少数群体，包括夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民，西班牙裔和妇女。 Champ还将为高中生组织天文学夏令营，并将他们介绍给Python和Data Science技术。在约书亚树国家公园（Joshua Tree National Park）和夏威夷莫纳·基亚（Mauna Kea）的UCR观察中使用望远镜观察，将为公众组织动手和偏僻的观星之夜。更广泛影响的重点将是夏威夷人和UCR的拉丁裔和西班牙裔社区的夏威夷人和太平洋岛民。 UH-IFA和UCR在创建两个基于地面的最大和最深层的多波长星系调查中发挥了重要作用-Cosmos2020和Hawaii-Two0（H20）。 Champ将使用这些调查来解决银河发展和宇宙学中的主要科学问题，并为本科和研究生制定研究和培训计划，这些学生将访问合作伙伴机构以接受教职员工的培训和进行研究。该计划每年将持续10周，本科生和研究生均可持续10周。 UCR学生将获得动手观察者的经验，UH-IFA学生将了解数据科学和机器学习技术及其在天文学中的应用。 Champ还将开发两个新课程，以在两个机构中提供：“现代天文学工具”，以教授测量光度红移，星系质量，扩展，恒星形成率的基本技能；通过适应和建立UCR的现有本科课程，该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过基金会的知识分子和广泛的影响标准通过评估，使用了恒星种群合成算法和“天文学家的机器学习”和“用于天文学家的机器学习”。