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5 Heliophysics Career Enhancements
5 Heliophysics Career Enhancements
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There is much promise that these new opportunities can enhance the heliophysics community, but it is too early to tell how impactful these opportunities will be on heliophysics careers. 5.1 ENHANCING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR HELIOPHYSICS SCIENTISTS The complexity of solar and space physics research is growing: projects tend to increasingly involve large data volumes, require interdisciplinary expertise, and use complementary observational and computational approaches.
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support for solar and space physics maintained at levels as high as those the Graduate Students Researchers Program (GSRP) historically provided." Graduate student fellowship awards in heliophysics have increased since 2013 (to 23 percent in 2018's NESSF and 21 percent in 2019 with the newly instated Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science in Technology (FINESST)
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Finding 5.2: The NSF and NASA on-going education programs involving heliophysics summer schools, REU programs, and student workshops offer opportunities for exposing graduate and undergraduates to space physics research, as well as hands-on training. There is great potential for attracting more talent to
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Training for the use and analysis of big data and associated tools for research could be additional topics for future summer schools and student workshops. By educating and training the solar and space physics community, funding agencies will help create a culture that encourages scientists at all career levels to learn new techniques and maximize their scientific return.
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There are a few specific early-career research opportunities provided by NSF and NASA, and broadening activities of workforce development, diversity and inclusion, and science outreach are emerging elements in some opportunities, such as in NASA's HSCs1 and the former NSF CISM program.2 This committee did not have the resources, nor the expertise, to attempt to evaluate the current state of diversity in the heliophysics community; instead it offers considerations for enhancing diversity and recommends that a new demographics survey of the community be done before the next decadal survey, as discussed in Chapter 6. Anecdotally, the heliophysics community does not likely reflect the diversity of the U.S.
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The committee recommends strengthening these programs and emulating their core principles in other programs. The recently started NASA IMAP mission provides a positive example of desirable, proactive inclusion in its Student Collaboration and Future Heliophysics Leaders programs (McComas et al., 2018)
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It would be helpful for future solicitations to specify the types of diversity sought, what the proposal evaluation criteria concerning diversity are, and how diversity is evaluated over the course of a project. The committee recommends that the next solar and space physics decadal survey include a State of the Professional Panel, similar to the Astro2020 decadal survey.
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doi:10.2105/AJPH.2012.300750. CISM (Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling)
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 126:923.
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