EAGER: Ideas Lab on Geomagnetically Induced Currents; Golden, Colorado; Mid to Late September 2022

UCAR地球系统科学推进合作项目（CPAESS）将与美国国家科学基金会（NSF）、美国国家航空航天局（NASA）和美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）空间天气预报中心合作，支持一个创意实验室，从不同的科学和工程背景中提供多种视角，为更好地预测和缓解影响电网运行、管道、管道的地磁感应电流（GIC）提供创新方法和大胆想法。以及其他涉及长导线的技术系统。创意实验室的主要目标是将不同的研究人员聚集在一起，包括建模师和实验家，组成跨学科团队，开发创新和变革的方法，以加强gic的研究到运营（R2O）计划。创意实验室将支持研究和工程技术开发工作，这将为地球空间和地球科学带来新的机会，以更好地预测和减轻GIC的影响。它还将涉及教育、培训和发展具有相关专业知识的跨学科工作人员的创新方法，包括对耦合太阳-地球系统的物理理解、固体地球的地质形成以及地面电网和变压器的工程和操作。UCAR CPAESS将主持，KnowInnovation将促进GIC的创意实验室，该实验室将汇集大约36名科学家，研究制定新的技术和技术，以更好地预测和减轻GIC的影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

In partnership with the NSF, NASA, and the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, UCAR Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS) will support an Ideas Lab to offer multiple perspectives from various scientific and engineering backgrounds to provide innovative approaches for new and bold ideas for better prediction and mitigation of Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GIC) that affect power grid operations, pipelines, and other technological systems involving long conducting wires. The main goal of the Ideas Lab is to bring together a diverse group of researchers, including modelers and experimentalists, to form interdisciplinary teams that will develop innovative and transformative approaches to strengthen the Research to Operations (R2O) program on GICs. The Ideas Lab will support research and engineering technology development efforts that will lead to new opportunities in geospace and Earth sciences to better predict and mitigate GIC effects. It will also involve innovative approaches in educating, training, and developing a cross-disciplinary workforce with the relevant expertise spanning physical understanding of the coupled Sun-Earth system, geological formation of the solid earth, and engineering and operation of ground power grids and transformers. UCAR CPAESS will host and KnowInnovation will facilitate the Ideas Lab for GICs that will bring together approximately thirty-six scientists to look at formulating new techniques and technologies to better predict and mitigate GIC effects.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.