Progress Toward Implementation of the 2013 Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics A Midterm Assessment (2020) / Chapter Skim
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As our society becomes increasingly dependent on technologies that are influenced by space weather, the importance of understanding, and ultimately forecasting, space weather continues to grow. The 2013 solar and space physics decadal survey (NRC, 2013)
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– The release of the National Space Weather Action Plan defines the responsibilities of 10 govern ment agencies to advance space weather capabilities and provides new opportunities for effective collaboration between agencies. However, these additional responsibilities come with a cost and require additional resources.
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program CISM summer school renamed Boulder Space Weather Summer Continue NSF CISM summer school School, administered and organized by NCAR, funded by NSF Have NSF community workshops for professional development of Continuation of Annual CEDAR, GEM Summer Student Workshops graduate students Recognize Solar and Space Physics as subdiscipline for NSF's annual Survey of Earned Doctorates Color Key: NASA, NSF, NOAA/other FIGURE S.1 Highlights of progress and plans for the heliophysics decadal survey research recommendations. NOTE: This is the same as Figure 3.1.
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HELIOPHYSICS RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS The Heliophysics System Observatory The decadal survey committee's highest priority was to complete the program of record, the assumed baseline that informed the committee's subequent recommendations. By placing the highest priority on completing the program of record, the committee was emphasizing both the importance of studying the
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DRIVE The second-priority research recommendation in the decadal survey, the DRIVE initiative, provided a new way to structure Research and Analysis (R&A) programs in order to maximize the science return of large NASA missions and NSF facilities.
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Most of the HSO missions are in their extended mission phase, and there was a period during this decadal interval for which none of the HSO missions were in prime phase. Finding: Many elements of the HSO are aging, and there is a risk of losing key capabilities.
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NASA should find ways to increase solar and space physics community participation in strategic 5. missions and enhance the diversity of mission teams.
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, and MEDICI (Magnetosphere Energetics, Dynam 3 NASA Science Mission Directorate, "Explorers," https://science.nasa.gov/heliophysics/focus-areas/explorers.
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system. However, these missions do not adequately observe Earth's poles and thus will not fully address one of the decadal survey top-level Research Recommendation 3.2 "to provide a comprehensive understanding of the variability in space weather driven by lower-atmosphere weather on Earth." To fully achieve the goals set out in the decadal survey, a constellation of satellites covering all latitudes and multiple local times is still required.
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Recommendation 4.1: In order to make efficient progress on the high-level goals in the National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan, NASA should develop, in collaboration with NOAA and the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Geosciences and Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences and their research communities, an implementation roadmap for space-weather science and for capability transfer between research and operations (R2O and O2R)
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As NOAA is the key civil agency for space weather operations, it is imperative that the next decadal survey engage with NOAA in developing its space weather plans. Recommendation 4.2: NOAA, along with other operational agencies, should develop notional budgets for space weather operations that would include identifying the need for new space weather funding lines required to fulfill the responsibilities added to their existing tasks by the National Space Weather Action Plan.
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programs, and student workshops offer opportunities for exposing undergraduates to space physics research, as well as hands-on training. There is great potential for the heliophysics community to significantly expand their involvement of undergraduate students by having more heliophysics-related REU programs.
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on some emerging topics of interest for the next decadal survey committee to consider is listed here. The process of preparing for decadal surveys has evolved since the last solar and space physics decadal survey, and lessons learned from the other science divisions could benefit Heliophysics strategic planning.
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programs in advance of starting the next solar and space physics decadal survey, and • NSF-supported workshops to strategically plan the next decade science challenges and goals and to identify high-priority measurements for the Mid-Scale RI and other research infrastructure concepts with the heliophysics community. The demographics and diversity of scientists and engineers in heliophysics may have evolved significantly since the last decadal survey.
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2019. National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan.
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