Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) Workshop 2020; Scranton, Pennsylvania; March 20-21, 2020

该奖项将于2020年3月20日至21日在宾夕法尼亚州斯克兰顿大学组织为期两天的Ham Radio公民科学调查(HamSCI)会议。这次会议旨在促进业余无线电运营商和科学界之间的合作，目的是通过利用无线电传播实验来促进科学研究和对电离层的了解，鼓励开发支持电离层研究的新技术，并为业余社区和公众提供教育机会。2020 HamSCI研讨会的主题将是“极光连接”，将有极光公民科学、极光无线电科学和极光业余无线电操作方面的知名领导人参加。此外，2020年的讲习班将继续在过去汉姆-阿尔伯特空间研究中心会议的议题上取得进展，包括利用业余无线电技术观察和了解移动电离层扰动背后的物理现象、零星E、电离层对太阳耀斑和地磁风暴的反应以及空间天气对无线电波传播的影响。今年的会议也将作为HamSCI个人空间气象站(PSWS)的发展会议。PSWs的发展将极大地提高目前由业余无线电社区进行的公民科学观测的科学质量。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 award is to organize a 2-day Ham Radio Citizen Science Investigation (HamSCI) meeting at the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on March 20-21, 2020. The meeting aims to foster collaborations between amateur radio operators and the science community for the purpose of advancing scientific research and understanding of the ionosphere by leveraging radio propagation experiments, encourage development of new technologies to support ionospheric research, and provide educational opportunities for the amateur community and the general public.The 2020 HamSCI Workshop theme will be "The Auroral Connection," and will feature prominent leaders in Auroral Citizen Science, Auroral Radio Science, and Auroral Amateur Radio Operations. Additionally, the 2020 workshop will continue to make headway on topics of past HamSCI meetings, including the use of amateur radio techniques for observing and understanding the physics behind traveling ionospheric disturbances, Sporadic E, the ionospheric response to solar flares and geomagnetic storms, and space weather effects on radio wave propagation. This year's meeting will also serve as a development meeting of the HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station (PSWS). Development of the PSWS will lead to a vast improvement of the scientific quality of citizen science observations currently made by the amateur radio community.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.