The Field of Solar Physics Review and Recommendations for Ground-Based Solar Research (1989) / Chapter Skim
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1. Principal Findings
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The university role in solar physics is inadequate to sustain a vital science, support for solar physics by federal funding agencies has been dominated by missionoriented approaches, funding for the National Solar Observatory and the High Altitude Observatory has declined during recent years, support for experimental and observational programs in national centers and particularly in universities has shrunk to the point that efforts in this area have declined to a critical level, and the funding of exciting new initiatives in the forefront of solar science has become enmeshed in the politics of budget cuts. The central question is how each of these formidable issues can be addressed and resolved by the funding agencies and by the scientific community.
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In particular, the committee recommends that specific programs to enhance education and training of students in solar instrumentation and observational techniques be established in the university community and that those universities willing to commit themselves to such programs receive support for the extended periods required to carrier out such efforts. In addition, the committee recommends that more effective partnerships be forged between federally funded centers and universitiespartnerships involving the exchange of facula and technical staff, hardware and software, and workshops and short courses.
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While the solar observing facilities of the National Solar Observatory in certain cases still represent the forefront of solar instrumentation in the world, this primacy is challenged by the current advent of the European solar telescopes in the Canary Islands, especially as these new telescopes are equipped with modern, state-of-theart instruments. The committee recommends that NSF vigorously support efforts possibly in collaboration with European scientists and others to replace the National Solar Observatory facilities with a large-aperture solar telescope' and to do so at the best possible site.
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