Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey White Papers Workshop #1:
Organizing the Decadal White Paper Submissions
October 29, 2021
The purpose of the first workshop was to plan for various white paper submissions to the upcoming Solar and Space Physics decadal survey. The workshop agenda included several topics that were discussed for about one-half hour each. During the workshop, the following two documents were created:
- Notes — Documentation of everyone's thoughts and comments. This document is open to everyone to add their thoughts.
- A spreadsheet of white paper ideas — The white paper topics are separated by categories on the workshop agenda. We encourage everyone to add new topics, put themselves as lead authors to new topics, and/or join existing efforts as contributors.
Workshop #1 Introduction Presentation Slides
Agenda
| Time (EDT) | Facilitators | Agenda/Subtopics |
| 12:00 p.m. | Doug Rowland Asti Bhatt |
Introduction |
| Decadal survey process, white paper submissions, and logistics for the workshop | ||
| Cross-scale coupling and complexity — a framework for identifying science priorities for the next decade | ||
| 1:00 p.m. | Lindsay Goodwin Julio Urbina |
Enabling Frameworks for Geospace Science |
| NASA/NSF collaboration on ground-based and satellite instrumentations | ||
| NASA/NSF/NOAA on maintaining the real-time data | ||
| Citizen science | ||
| Diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce development | ||
| Communicating geospace science to the world | ||
| 1:30 p.m. | Larisa Goncharenko Tzu-Wei Fang |
Mesosphere-Lower Thermosphere/Ionosphere |
| Science questions for next decade | ||
| Modeling needs | ||
| Instrumentation needs | ||
| 2:00 p.m. | Ryan McGranaghan Lindsay Goodwin |
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Interactions |
| Science questions for next decade | ||
| Modeling needs | ||
| Instrumentation needs | ||
| 2:30 p.m. | Ryan McGranaghan Asti Bhatt |
Open Science and Data Infrastructure |
| Data infrastructure for ground-based instruments | ||
| Heliophysics Knowledge Commons | ||
| 3:00 p.m. | Meers Oppenheim Tzu-Wei Fang |
Fundamental Properties of Geospace Systems |
| Science questions for next decade (e.g., ion-neutral interactions, neutral gas studies, including laboratory investigations, plasma instabilities) | ||
| Modeling needs | ||
| Instrumentation needs | ||
| 3:30 p.m. | All | Debrief and Wrap-Up |
| Identify topics for strong white papers to support future workshops | ||
| Identify leaders of white papers | ||
| 4:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
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