Faculty Development in Space Physics at the University of Minnesota

空间科学家对我们的社会越来越有价值，因为我们越来越依赖对空间环境条件敏感的技术系统，如全球定位系统和高速通信网络。通信、导航、能源生产和分配受到空间气象和近地空间环境气候学的显著影响。预测可能影响这些技术的扰动的能力取决于对相关的日地系统的详细了解和理解，包括太阳物理学、日光层物理学、磁层物理学和高空大气学等学科。 该项目由空间科学教师发展方案资助，其目的是确保大学教师的太阳和空间物理学的健康和活力。 通过在包括空间科学在内的知识学科中创建新的终身教职，太阳和空间物理学的研究课题将被整合到基础物理学，天文学，电气工程，地球科学，气象学，计算机科学和应用数学课程中，并导致能够培养该领域下一代领导者的空间物理学研究生课程的发展。该项目将支持明尼苏达大学物理和天文学院一个新的终身教职，目的是扩大空间物理组内研究和教学专门知识的广度和深度。 在空间物理研究和教育方面的创新和卓越的悠久历史的基础上，新聘人员的目标是一名实验空间科学家，以继续并进一步加强该集团？中国在这一领域的独特和非常成功的国家地位。 通过新的物理和纳米技术大楼的开放，空间物理技术人员在设计和建造天基仪器方面的专业知识，以及经验丰富的机器车间的协同作用，为新教师提供了独特的优势，在涉及航天器，立方体卫星，亚轨道火箭或气球的新计划中发挥领导作用。 增加一名新的空间科学初级教员将有助于更经常地开设空间物理课程，并开设一个或多个新的课程，以满足空间物理和天体物理学研究生、物理学专业、天体物理学专业和航空航天工程专业学生的需要。 除了加强对该机构进入该领域的年轻研究人员的培训外，这也将大大有助于成功地高质量地招聘。 新增人员将进一步加强和发展与几个部门和研究所的现有伙伴关系，还将鼓励与空间科学界广泛建立新的伙伴关系。 物理和天文学的学校有成功的推广计划，旨在感兴趣和激发儿童（和教育工作者）对物理学的悠久历史，教育公众关于有趣的研究或直接参与他们的研究，并涉及高中教师和本科生的研究。 所有教师都应参与并为这些项目做出贡献，新教师也将被鼓励为相关项目开发新的活动。 预算中为此编列了经费。 利用几个既定的和成功的部门和机构范围内的计划，该项目将致力于确保一个强有力的重点是增加多样性，在招聘学生进入该计划和新的教师。

Space scientists are becoming ever more valuable to our society as we rely more heavily upon technical systems sensitive to conditions in the space environment, such as global positioning systems and high-speed communications networks. Communications, navigation, and energy production and distribution are significantly affected by Space Weather, and the climatology of the near-Earth space environment. The ability to forecast disturbances which may impact these technologies hinges upon detailed knowledge and understanding of the connected Sun-Earth system, comprising the disciplines of solar physics, heliospheric physics, magnetospheric physics and aeronomy. This project is funded under the Faculty Development in Space Sciences program, the aim of which is to ensure the health and vitality of solar and space physics on university teaching faculties. Through the creation of new tenure-track faculty positions within the intellectual disciplines that comprise the space sciences, research topics in solar and space physics will be integrated into basic physics, astronomy, electrical engineering, geoscience, meteorology, computer science, and applied mathematics programs, and lead to the development of space physics graduate programs capable of training the next generation of leaders in this field. This project will support a new tenure-track faculty position in the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Minnesota, with the purpose of expanding the breadth and depth of the research and teaching expertise within the Space Physics group. Building on a long history of innovation and excellence in space physics research and education, the new hire targets an experimental space scientist to continue and further strengthen the group?s unique and highly successful national standing in this area. Synergies enabled by the opening of a new Physics and Nanotechnology building, the expertise of the space physics technical staff in design and building of space-based instrumentation, and an experienced machine shop provide a distinct advantage to the new faculty member in taking on a leadership role in new programs involving spacecraft, CubeSats, suborbital rockets, or balloons. The addition of a new junior faculty member in space sciences will allow for more regular offerings of space physics courses and the development of one or more new classes, designed to meet the needs of space physics and astrophysics graduate students, physics majors, astrophysics majors and aerospace engineering students. In addition to enhancing the training of young researchers entering the field at this institution, this will also greatly aid the successful, high quality recruitment of the same. The additional hire will further strengthen and grow existing partnerships with several departments and institutes and will also be encouraged to pursue new partnerships broadly with the space sciences community. The School of Physics and Astronomy has a long history of successful outreach programs, designed to interest and excite children (and educators) about physics, to educate the public about interesting research or directly involve them in research, and to involve high school teachers and undergraduates in research. All faculty members are expected to participate and contribute to these programs and the new faculty member will also be encouraged to develop new activities for relevant programs. Funds are included in the budget for this. Utilizing several established and successful departmental and institution wide programs the project will work to ensure a strong focus on increasing diversity in the recruiting both of students into the program and of the new faculty member.