DASI Track 2: Space Weather UnderGround (SWUG)

该项目由地球航天设施分布式小型仪器阵列(DASI)支持，将支持在新英格兰北部建造和部署磁强计阵列以及建设数据中心。空间天气地下(SWUG)网络将对新英格兰北部的高中物理和工程教室进行科学调查。学生们将继续进行建造磁通门磁力仪和支持硬件(光伏、无线电遥测和GPS)的项目，然后在该地区的各个地点部署磁力仪。该阵列能够测量地球电离层的局部动态，以响应空间天气事件。新汉普郡大学的教职员工将支持开发工作和数据分析工作，这将导致将物理驱动的计算机编程任务带入学校。这个网络产生的数据将向科学界公开。这个磁力计阵列将支持全球现有的磁力计，监测空间天气，并提供对太阳风瞬变导致的中纬度小尺度电离层动力学的洞察。空间尺度的设计是为了在扰动通过该区域时提供对局部动态的测量。它将提供独特的中纬度动态测量，可以与全球地面测量、轨道卫星的磁层测量和来自拉格朗日点1(L1)的太阳风数据相结合。该项目还在新英格兰北部的学校后院放置了一个空间物理研究工具，从而将空间科学带入课堂。向SWUG数据中心提供节点数据的同一学校提供的计算机将具有实时图形，显示本地节点的状态和活动。这些磁力计将构成一个网络，为学生和教师提供以项目为基础的活动，支持查询并促进获得真正的科学数据。参与的学校将提供课程，向学生传授磁力、感应、地磁场、太阳风和空间天气的基础知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project supported by the Geospace Facilities Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments (DASI) will support the construction and deployment of a magnetometer array in northern New England as well as the construction of a data center. The Space Weather Underground (SWUG) network will bring a scientific investigation into the high school physics and engineering classrooms in northern New England. Students will continue ongoing projects to build fluxgate magnetometers and support hardware (photovoltaics, radio telemetry, and GPS) and then deploy the magnetometers at locations around the region. This array is capable of measuring local dynamics in Earth's Ionosphere in response to space weather events. Faculty at the University of New Hampshire will support the development effort and the data analysis efforts that will result in a manner that brings physics-driven computer programming tasks into the schools. The data generated from this network will be made publicly available to the scientific community.This magnetometer array will support existing magnetometers around the globe, monitor space weather, and provide insights into the small-scale ionospheric dynamics at mid-latitudes that result from solar wind transients. The spatial scale is designed to provide a measure of local dynamics as disturbances move through the region. It will provide unique measurements of mid-latitude dynamics that can be combined with global ground-based measurements, magnetospheric measurements from orbiting satellites, and solar wind data from Lagrange Point 1 (L1). This project also places a space physics research tool into the back yards of schools in northern New England and thereby serves to bring space science into the classroom. The same school-provided computers that serve the node data to the SWUG Data Center will have real-time graphics showing the state and activity of the local node. These magnetometers will constitute a network that will provide students and teachers with project-based activities that support inquiry and promote access to real scientific data. Participating schools will be provided with lessons to teach students the basics of magnetic forces, induction, geomagnetic fields, the solar wind and space weather.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.