Accessible Space Physics: Developing a National High School Magnetometer Array (AFGE)

9978314 Moldwin该项目为全国各地的学校提供了测量和实验地球自然环境的机会，为国家的空间天气计划提供数据，并提供有效的教学工具来教育年轻科学家了解空间环境。 它将开发一种相对便宜、坚固、灵敏的成套磁力计，可以购买并分发给学校，由学生组装，然后安装并用于获取研究质量的数据。 教师将接受操作培训，以及如何在演示“空间气象”的课堂活动中使用这些设备。“这些数据将通过地球仪计划基础设施传输，以便学生可以将他们当地的读数与非洲大陆其他地点的学生的读数进行比较，并可供大学和其他研究人员用于研究地磁超低频（ULF）波。 低至中纬度的磁脉动提供了关于太阳风-磁层相互作用以及磁层和电离层动态耦合的重要信息。 该项目将培训高中科学教师使用感应线圈磁强计，提供了解空间物理研究中磁脉动数据所需的基本空间科学内容，并在空间物理学家与当地高中科学教师及其学生之间建立指导关系。 这些关系将使磁力计数据能够在科学和教育方面得到充分利用。 计划的数据收集间隔与ISTP/Solar Max的主要数据收集阶段重叠，从而增加了科学合作的机会。 该项目直接影响研究生，本科生和大学预科教育，为高中提供真实的空间物理仪器和本科生和研究生的ULF数据进行分析。

9978314MoldwinThe project offers schools across the country the opportunity to measure and experiment with Earth's natural environment, to contribute data to the nation's space weather program, and to have effective teaching tools to educate young scientists about the space environment. It will develop a relatively inexpensive, robust, sensitive magnetometer in kit form that can be purchased and distributed to schools, assembled by students, then set up and used to take research-quality data. Teachers will be trained in their operation and how to use them in classroom activities that demonstrate "space-weather." The data will be transmitted through the GLOBE Program infrastructure, so that students can compare their local readings with those of students at other sites around the continent and can be used by university and other researchers to study geomagnetic Ultra-Low Frequency (ULF) waves. Low-to mid-latitude magnetic pulsations provide important information about the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction and the dynamic coupling of the magnetosphere and ionosphere. The project will train High School science teachers in the use of induction coil magnetometers, provide the basic space science content needed for the understanding of magnetic pulsation data in space physics research, and develop mentoring relationships between space physicists and local high school science teachers and their students. These relationships will allow the magnetometer data to be fully utilized both scientifically as well as educationally. The planned data-collection interval overlaps with the main data collection phase of ISTP/Solar Max, thus enhancing scientific collaborative opportunities. This project directly impacts graduate, undergraduate, and pre-college education by providing High Schools with real-life space physics instrumentation and undergraduates and graduate student's ULF data for analysis.