ngVLA: Opportunity for the development of an integrated Broader Impact Strategy
Abstract
The NRAO considers it an ethical imperative to research, activate and communicate the potential broader impacts of its work for society. The Broader Impact Unit within the NRAO's Office for Diversity and Inclusion is tasked with the awareness, understanding and appreciation of broader impacts amongst NRAO employees and stakeholders in order to ensure that it is integrated in all aspects of the Observatory's work. The desire to understand our Universe drives the continuous demand for new generation telescopes with improved capabilities. Inspired by dramatic discoveries made using the NRAO's Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, the international astronomy community has initiated discussion of a next generation VLA (ngVLA) with ten times the angular resolution and sensitivity of the Jansky VLA. The design phase of the ngVLA provides a unique opportunity for the NRAO to also design a Broader Impact Strategy from the start of the project, ensuring interdisciplinary teams incorporate broader impacts throughout the design, construction and science phases of the new observatory. This poster will outline the co-operative design approach used to create the current draft ngVLA Broader Impact Strategy, as well as some of the broader impacts, including broadening participation and education and public outreach, that will be enabled by the ngVLA and the Strategy.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235
- Pub Date:
- January 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AAS...23536413F