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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The 2018 NASA Living with a Star Targeted Research and Technology (LWS TR&T) Program</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Analysis Group (LPAG
<a href="https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/lpag" class="">https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/lpag</a>) executive committee (EC) will soon</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">begin developing the next round of LWS focused science topics for ROSES 2019 and beyond. It</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">is vital for the success of the LWS TR&T program that there be active community engagement</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">in the development of annual TR&T science topics. We are therefore asking the Heliophysics</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Suggested science topics should be organized around achieving the goals set out in the strategic</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">science areas (SSA’s) articulated in the LWS Ten Year Vision:</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/pdf/LWS_10YrVision_Oct2015_Final.pdf" class="">https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/pdf/LWS_10YrVision_Oct2015_Final.pdf</a></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Physics-based Understanding to Enable Forecasting of:</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">• SSA-0, Solar Electromagnetic, Energetic Particle, and Plasma Outputs Driving the Solar</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">System Environment and Inputs to Earth’s Atmosphere</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">(note, Sun-Climate topics fall under SSA-0)</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">• SSA-1, Geomagnetic Variability</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">• SSA-2, Satellite Drag</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">• SSA-3, Solar Energetic Particle</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">• SSA-4, Total Electron Content</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">• SSA-5, Ionospheric Scintillation</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">• SSA-6, Radiation Environment</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Input may be entered through the LWS TR&T website at:
<a href="https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/input/" class="">https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/input/</a></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">To view and comment on input which has been submitted in response to this call, please go to:</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/viewinput/2018/" class="">https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/viewinput/2018/</a></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">To view the topics which were developed from community input by the previous TR&T</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">committee in 2016, see the final report of that committee at:</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/pdf/LWSTRT-Report-2016-Final.pdf" class="">https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/pdf/LWSTRT-Report-2016-Final.pdf</a></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">And the original community input and comments at:
<a href="https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/viewinput/2016/" class="">https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/viewinput/2016/</a></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Any topics in this 2016 report which were not selected by NASA for the ROSES 2017 TR&T</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">call, or which are not selected by NASA for the upcoming ROSES 2018 TR&T call will be</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">reviewed by the LPAG EC. Community input regarding updates to those topics is welcome.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">We greatly look forward to your input and to continuing on the path of innovation and scientific</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">exploration in the LWS program.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">LPAG Executive Committee Members: Anthea Coster (Co-Chair), Mark Linton (Co-Chair), Joe</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Borovsky, Richard Collins, Seebany Datta-Barua, Matina Gkioulidou, Fan Guo, Jorg-Micha</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Jahn, Enrico Landi, John Leibacher, Sabrina Savage, Brian Walsh</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">LPAG Ex Officio Members: Jeff Morrill, Janet Kozyra, Shing Fung</span></div>
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