US-South America Workshop to Foster Space Weather Investigation using the LISN Observatory

这项美国-南美奖将支持一个研讨会，以促进南美洲和美国在低纬度电离层传感器网络（LISN）社区的研究人员之间的国际科学合作。该研讨会将于2011年11月在巴西圣若泽多斯坎波斯的国家空间研究所举行。在过去的几年里，LISN社区已经在南美大陆安装了40多个GPS接收器和5个磁力计。该网络的持续运作能否成功取决于南美伙伴的合作。研讨会的主要目标是激励新成员了解LISN仪器，并使他们参与科学项目和活动。研讨会讨论的研究主题将包括：(1)新仪器，它们的可观察数量和分析技术；(2)低纬度电离层日变化的物理特性和赤道扩散F （ESF）起始的预测方法；(3)空间天气应用和LISN在南美洲增强系统发展中的作用。研讨会将由波士顿学院的Cesar Valladares博士组织。来自巴西国家物理研究所的Eurico de Paula和Hisao Takahashi，秘鲁Jicarmarca天文台的Jorge Chau博士，以及阿根廷拉普拉塔大学的Caludio Brunini博士。该研讨会将汇集来自美国、巴西、秘鲁、阿根廷、哥伦比亚、厄瓜多尔和玻利维亚的主要研究人员，并为该社区发起长期合作提供独特的机会。对于美国来说，该项目将为学生和早期职业科学家创造机会，参与仪器安装的不同阶段，数据分析软件的开发，以及南美洲新仪器所提供的资源的使用。此外，它将为美国和南美的研究生和早期职业研究人员提供国际研究经验。本次研讨会得到了美国国家科学基金会国际科学办公室美洲项目、美国国家科学基金会地球科学理事会航空项目、美国联邦航空管理局、巴西<s:1>圣保罗研究基金会（FAPESP）和巴西高等教育人员发展协调（CAPES）的支持。

This U.S.- South America award will support a workshop to promote international scientific collaborations between researchers from South America and the United States in the Low Latitude Ionospheric Sensor Network (LISN) community. The workshop will be held in November 2011 at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Sao Jose dos Campos in Brazil. The LISN community has installed over 40 GPS receivers and 5 magnetometers across the South American continent during the last few years. The success of the continuous operations of this network depends on the collaborations of the South American partners. The primary goal of the workshop is to motivate new members to learn about the LISN instrumentation and to engage them in scientific projects and campaigns. Research topics addressed at the workshop will include: (1) new instrumentation, their observable quantities, and analysis techniques; (2) physics of the day-to-day variability of the low-latitude ionosphere and a method for predicting equatorial spread F (ESF) initiation; and (3) space weather applications and the role of LISN on the development of an augmentation system in South America. The workshop will be organized by Dr. Cesar Valladares from Boston College with Drs. Eurico de Paula and Hisao Takahashi from INPE in Brazil, Dr. Jorge Chau from Jicarmarca Observatory in Peru, and Dr. Caludio Brunini from the University of La Plata in Argentina. The workshop will bring together leading researchers from the United States, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Columbia, Ecuador and Bolivia and provide unique opportunities for this community to initiate long-term collaborations. For the US, this project will create opportunities for students and early career scientists to participate in different phases of the instrument installation, development of data analysis software, and the usage of the resources offered by the new instruments that are operating in South America. Furthermore, it will provide an international research experience to U.S and South American graduate students and early-career researchers. This workshop is supported by the Americas Program in the Office of International Science and the Aeronomy Program in the Directorate of Geosciences at NSF, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) in Brazil.