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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial">ANNOUNCEMENT</span></b></p>
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2020 ISR Summer School<br>
Lowell, Massachusetts</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial">July 27 – August 1, 2020</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial">The 2020 ISR Summer School will be held July 27 - August 1 in Lowell, Massachusetts. The school provides students with hands-on experience in designing and running experiments at incoherent scatter radar (ISR)
facilities. During this summer school, students will have the opportunity to run experiments with the Millstone Hill incoherent scatter radar and use data from multiple ISR observatories, such as Poker Flat (PFISR), Arecibo, and Jicamarca. The school will
be structured to provide presentations in the morning and hands-on experience in experiment design and analysis in the afternoons. The morning lectures will include an introduction to the theory of incoherent scatter, radar operations, ISR analysis techniques,
and community databases. The afternoon exercises will involve working closely with ISR facility staff in the topic areas of proposal design, experiment execution, and data analysis. All students will have the opportunity to work one-on-one with experienced
scientists from multiple institutions.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial">The ISR summer school is suitable for graduate and advanced undergraduate students and attendance is limited. For most students attending institutions within the United States, travel, housing and meals will
be provided. For post-docs and students outside of the United States, funding will be considered on a case-by-case basis. All students who wish to apply for the ISR summer school must follow the application instructions at the summer school web site:</span></p>
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<span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial">https://amisr.com/school</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial">The 2020 ISR summer school is funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Geospace Facilities Program within the Geosciences Directorate and is organized by the University of Central Florida.
For more information about the school, contact elizabeth.kendall@ucf.edu</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial">The deadline for application submission is March 6, 2020.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: Arial">Notice of acceptance will be sent to participants by March 27, 2020<a></a>.</span></p>
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