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<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:117%;color:rgb(54,95,145)">Announcing the NASA
Living With a Star Institute</span></b></p>
<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:117%;color:rgb(54,95,145)">Call for
Proposals</span></b> </p>
<h2><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:117%;font-family:Cambria;color:windowtext">2015 Topic Areas:</span></i></h2>
<h2 style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:windowtext">Nowcasts of radiation storms (proton events) at energy levels
that could create a radiation hazard for aircrew and passengers</span></i></h2>
<h2 style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:windowtext">Nowcasts of atmospheric drag for LEO spacecraft</span></i></h2>
<p class="">Deadline: 1 June 2015</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(54,95,145)">Purpose</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The goal of the NASA Living With a Star program is
to “Develop the scientific understanding necessary to enable the U.S. to
effectively address those aspects of the connected Sun-Earth system that
directly affects life and society.” Thus, the LWS program with its focus on the
basic science underlying all aspects of space weather and climate, acts as a
catalyst to bring the many research disciplines and applications communities
together to deepen the understanding of the system of systems created by the
Sun Earth connection. To that end, the LWS Institute Working Groups will
provide an opportunity for research and engineering community from academia and
industry from all over the world to contribute to the evolution of Heliophysics.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The LWS
Institutes are designed to facilitate a bridge between cutting-edge
heliophysics research and a societally relevant technology area that is
affected by space weather. They are small
working group style meetings that focus on well defined problems that demand
intense, direct interactions between colleagues in neighboring disciplines to
encourage and facilitate a deeper understanding of the variety of processes
that link the Sun’s magnetic variability (radiation, solar wind, energetic
particles) to Earth’s environment and atmosphere. Competitively selected
working groups will define cooperative new research that will make a critical
difference to this technology. </p>
<p class=""><b><span style="color:rgb(54,95,145)">An LWS
Institute Working Group (WG) proposal will:</span></b></p>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="" style><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><b><i>Focus</i></b> on a particular technology
area that will be positively affected by space weather research advances, </p><p class="" style><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><b><i>Identify</i></b> a team that is composed of
members who perform heliophysics research that is relevant to the affected
technology, who forecast or model space weather for this technology, and who
use (or who will use) this technology (when it is successfully improved),</p><p class="" style><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><b><i>Describe</i></b> how the team will quantify
and parameterize the magnitude and pathways of the impacts on the affected
technology and will scope the new ranges of targeted research that accordingly
will be needed, and</p><p class="" style><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><b><i>Articulate</i></b> the impacts of this
targeted research by envisioning the resulting, improved operational capability
that will make a positive difference to society.</p></blockquote><p class="" style></p>
<p class="" style></p>
<p class="" style></p>
<p class="" style></p>
<p class="">Each LWS Institute WG is required – as a final
report – to jointly submit a peer-reviewed study that provides an integrated view
of the space weather impacts on the selected technology area, a quantification
of the magnitude of the impact for space weather of different magnitudes, a
description of the impact pathways and of the scientific understanding achieved
during the course of the WG, either a method to positively impact the
technology or a research plan by which positive impact to the technology could
be quantifiably achieved through space weather research advances, and a
high-level graphical and textual vision of the resulting operational technology
solution. The team will also provide a Working Group Report for the benefit of
the LWS community. </p>
<p class=""><b><span style="color:rgb(54,95,145)">Proposals
should focus on:</span></b></p>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="" style><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><b><i>Improving</i></b> understanding of the
process and/or magnitude of the impacts of space weather on the selected
system, </p><p class="" style><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><b><i>Identifying</i></b> the science needed to
enable our forecast ability for that system, and</p><p class="" style><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><b><i>Outlining,</i></b> if not executing,
research that may develop abilities to reduce the impacts of space weather on
that system. </p></blockquote><p class="" style></p>
<p class="" style></p>
<p class=""><b><span style="color:rgb(54,95,145)">2015 Working
Group topics area:</span></b></p>
<p class="">We are seeking proposals that develop these principles in
relation to one or other of the following two topics:</p>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="" style><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span>Nowcasts of radiation storms (proton events) at
energy levels that could create a radiation hazard for aircrew and passengers,</p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="" style><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span>Nowcasts of atmospheric drag for LEO spacecraft</p></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal">Proposals should focus on reviewing the current state of the
art models and observations, <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">evaluate how leading predictive models agree
with in situ measurements and<span class=""> </span>identify
paths forward for addressing the key science and application gaps that need to
be solved for improvements in models and predictions. This could include new
and/or underutilized data sources that could be used to check predictive
models,<span class=""> or </span>identifying new
methods for gathering in situ data that could be used to *drive* predictive
models.</span> </p>
<p class=""><b><span style="color:rgb(54,95,145)">How the program
works:<br>
</span></b></p>
<p class="">Up to twice a year, a call for applications will
be released for international teams of scientists to address specific topic
areas related to the broad theme of Living With a Star, including pure and
applied research into the nature of space weather and space climate phenomena
and their impacts on society and its infrastructure. Teams may be made up of
approximately 8 to 15 scientists from different research labs, universities,
and industry, from different countries and with complimentary expertise. The
teams will meet approximately twice in a 12-month period for about a one-week
duration each time. Meeting locations
may vary depending upon cost and home institution locations of the
participating scientists.<br>
</p>
<p class="">The team leader will be responsible for submission
of the proposal and for organizing the execution of the project. The team
leader should also identify a co-team lead that would provide complimentary
expertise from the engineering/user community. The primary goal of the projects
is to result in a comprehensive report of the outcome of the study and at least
one refereed team publication. One or two postdoctoral or early career
scientists may be included in the proposal to work alongside the team.<br>
</p>
<p class="">A science committee selected by the LWS Program
Scientist and appointed by UCAR evaluates proposals and makes recommendations
for support to LWS Institutes’ sponsors. UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs
administers these Working Groups and provides support for travel expenses, per
diem, lodging and local area transportation costs during the weeklong meetings.</p>
<p class="">Deadline: 1 June 2015</p>
<p class=""><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">For
information on the LWS Institute, and details on submitting a proposal, please
visit the LWS
Institute website @ </span></span><a href="http://www.heliophysics.ucar.edu/lws-institute-apply.shtml">http://www.heliophysics.ucar.edu/lws-institute-apply.shtml</a>.<span style="color:rgb(54,95,145)"> </span></b></p>
<p class=""><b><span style="color:rgb(54,95,145)"><br></span></b></p><p class=""><b><span style="color:rgb(54,95,145)">Program
sponsorship:</span></b></p>
<p class="">NASA Living With a Star</p><p class=""></p>
<p class=""> Scientific fields of research tend to split into
parallel subdisciplines as our understanding deepens. The successful increase in knowledge of the
workings of the Sun’s magnetic activity, the recognition of the many physical
processes that couple throughout the heliosphere, and the insights into the
interaction of the solar wind and radiation with the Earth’s magnetic field and
climate system, have tended to differentiate and insularize the solar,
heliospheric, and geospace subdisciplines of the physics of the local cosmos.
Technical jargon, publication channels, and meeting venues have also been
subject to this tendency, hampering communication between the various
subdisciplines.</p><p class=""></p>
<p class="">The NASA Living With a Star program aims to
reverse this trend. The recognition that
the many connections within the Sun-Earth system require a systems approach,
led to the development of an integrated strategic mission plan and a
comprehensive research program encompassing all branches of solar,
heliospheric, and space physics. This
has raised awareness and appreciation of the research priorities and
difficulties among LWS scientists, and has led to observational and modeling
capabilities that span traditional discipline boundaries, and increased
cross-publication in technical journals as well as the number of
multi-disciplinary meetings.</p><p class=""></p>
<p class=""><b><span style="color:rgb(54,95,145)">Program administration:</span></b></p>
<p class="">The University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research is a consortium of more than 100 member colleges and universities
focused on research and training in the atmospheric and related Earth system
sciences. The UCAR Visiting Scientist
Programs office partners with federal agencies and universities across the nation
to recruit, hire, and provide administrative management to scientists who are
working on cutting-edge research of benefit to society.</p><p class=""></p>
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