FDSS: Physics of the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere - Bridging the Gap between Solar and Terrestrial Research and Education

该项目将为新泽西理工学院物理系日地研究中心（CSTR）增加一个从事地面电离层/磁层实验研究和教育的初级终身教职人员职位。新泽西理工学院（NJIT）是一所综合性的公立技术大学，位于新泽西州纽瓦克市中心。由于它的环境和新泽西州的人口，新泽西理工大学有一个多元化的学生群体，创造了一个刺激的教育环境。CSTR是地面太阳物理学领域的领导者，在加州运营着大熊太阳天文台和欧文斯谷太阳能阵列。CSTR由四位专注于实验地面太阳物理研究和教育的教职员工和一位在太阳地球物理方面具有丰富经验的杰出研究教授领导。为了进一步加强该中心的空间等离子体物理，该大学还将在空间等离子体计算建模方面增加一个新职位。最近的（2003）《太阳和空间物理十年调查》（国家研究委员会，2003）高度重视NSF推荐的一个项目，“小型仪器分布式地面网络”（以下称为DASI，即“小型仪器分布式阵列”）。空间等离子体研究有许多前沿领域，可以通过适当的地面仪器网络来解决。期望被选为该职位的初级教师将成为该国家计划的主要教育者和参与者。

This project will provide for the addition of a junior, tenure-track faculty position in experimental ground-based ionosphere/magnetosphere research and education in the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) in the Department of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a comprehensive, public, technological university in an urban setting in the center of Newark, New Jersey. By virtue of its setting and of the population of New Jersey, NJIT has a diverse student body, making for a stimulating educational environment. CSTR is an leader in ground-based solar physics, operating the Big Bear Solar Observatory and the Owens Valley Solar Array in California. The CSTR is led by four faculty members who concentrate on experimental ground-based solar physics research and education, and by a distinguished research professor with wide experience in solar-terrestrial physics. To further enhance space plasma physics within the Center the university will also add a new position in computational modeling of space plasmas. The recent (2003) Decadal Survey of Solar and Space Physics (National Research Council, 2003) gives high priority to a recommended NSF program, the "Small Instrument Distributed Ground-Based Network" (hereafter called DASI, for "Distributed Array of Small Instruments"). There are numerous frontier areas in space plasma research that can be addressed with appropriate networks of ground-based instrumentation. It is expected that the junior faculty person selected for this position at NJIT will become a leading educator and participant in this national program.