FDSS: A New Tenure-Track Solar Physicist at University of Colorado (CU)-Boulder: Catalyst for Change

科罗拉多大学博尔德分校（CU/Boulder）提议聘请一名新的太阳物理学终身教职员工，以补充博尔德在CU和博尔德山谷的机构（国家海洋和大气管理局/空间环境中心（NOAA/SEC），国家大气研究中心/高空观测站（NCAR/HAO），西南研究所（SwRI）等）中强大的太阳和空间物理学社区。目前，尽管博尔德社区有大量的太阳物理学家，但在科罗拉多大学没有终身教职人员积极从事太阳物理学研究，这极大地抑制了科罗拉多大学空间物理学科研究生项目的发展。在科罗拉多大学/博尔德校区，太阳和空间物理研究生和高年级本科课程的全面转型，包括开发新的综合一年级太阳和空间物理研究生课程，以及新的跨部门研究生课程，这是增加太阳物理学教员队伍的合适时机。这项提案将加强这些努力，并支持一个命名的研究生奖学金和一个本科生研究项目。由于航天工业是全球经济以及美国商业和政府利益的一个成熟而重要的组成部分，因此美国培养在这一领域茁壮成长和脱颖而出所需的人才至关重要。这一提议将通过加强研究生和本科教育为美国劳动力培养新的人才，这是NRC最近的太空物理十年调查中确定的一个必要条件。空间天气及其对我们的技术基础设施造成的威胁呈现出重要的社会影响。科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的大气和空间物理实验室（LASP）是新教师的研究基地，作为国家科学基金会（NSF）赞助的综合空间天气建模中心（CISM）的一部分，在知识转移和经验建模方面发挥着主导作用。LASP与NCAR和NOAA/SEC密切合作开展这项工作，努力巩固和整合许多国际研究项目和活动的成果。科罗拉多大学博尔德分校太阳和空间物理学的加强将直接加强LASP正在进行的空间天气教育和公共推广计划。这个EPO项目因其空间物理课程的改进、教师研讨会、远程学习计划和名为“太空风暴”的新天文馆展览而获得了全国的认可。

The University of Colorado at Boulder (CU/Boulder) proposes to hire a new tenure-track faculty member in Solar Physics, to complement Boulder's strong community in solar and space physics both at CU and at institutions across the Boulder Valley (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Space Environment Center (NOAA/SEC), National Center for Atmospheric Research/High Altitude Observatory (NCAR/HAO), Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), etc). Currently, despite the large number of solar physicists in the Boulder community, there is no tenure track faculty member actively working in solar physics at CU, significantly inhibiting the growth of CU graduate programs in this space physics discipline. The potential addition of a faculty line in solar physics comes at an opportune time of overall transformation of the solar and space physics graduate and upper-division undergraduate programs on the CU/Boulder campus, including the development of a new integrative first-year graduate course in solar and space physics and new cross-departmental graduate courses. This proposal would enhance these endeavors, as well as support a named graduate student fellowship and an undergraduate research program.Because the space industry is a mature and essential part of the global economy and the commercial and governmental interests of the United States, it is essential that the US cultivate the talent needed to thrive and excel in this arena. This proposal would develop new talent for the US work force through both enhanced graduate and undergraduate education, an imperative identified in the recent NRC Decadal Survey on space physics. Space weather and the concomitant threats it poses to our technological infrastructure present important societal impacts. The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU/Boulder, the research home of the new faculty hire, has a leading role in knowledge transfer and empirical modeling as part of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored Center for Integrated Space weather Modeling (CISM). LASP performs this work in close cooperation with NCAR and NOAA/SEC, pursuing efforts to consolidate and integrate results from many international research programs and campaigns. The strengthening of solar and space physics at CU/Boulder will directly enhance LASP's ongoing Education and Public Outreach program in space weather. This EPO program is gaining national recognition for its space physics curriculum enhancements, teacher workshops, distance learning programming, and its new planetarium show entitled "Space Storm."