CEDAR email: Rescheduling of Heliophysics 2050 Workshop

[Leisner, Jared S. (HQ-DJ000)]

Earlier this year, NASA, NSF, and NOAA announced the Heliophysics 2050 Workshop, scheduled to occur in August 2020. This workshop was envisioned as an agency-enabled, community-driven event to help the science community better prepare for the next Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey.

Following that announcement, public health concerns due to COVID-19 drove a significant change in the work and life environments for members of the heliophysics community. As the scope of these events became apparent, the agencies began examining potential re-planning for the Workshop and its role in preparing for the next Decadal Survey.

The Heliophysics 2050 Workshop has been moved from August 2020 to April 2021. It is intended to remain an in-person meeting, with a strong virtual attendance option, but contingency plans for a fully virtual meeting are being developed based off of other recent successful virtual science meetings.

The call for potential Science Organizing Committee members will be released soon and the calls for workshop white papers will be released in the next few weeks.

The agencies understand the difficulties experienced by many community members in the current public health situation. Community members are encouraged to begin considering potential workshop white papers and potential collaborators now. In addition, community members are strongly encouraged to proactively involve colleagues that may be experiencing significant time constraints due to the COVID-19 situation that would allow participation in but prevent the leading of white papers.

The white papers invited will be short (exp. <=3 pages) documents that succinctly identify a progression of linked scientific investigations starting from the current state-of-the-art and leading towards the desired state-of-the-art in 2050. There will be no limit of the number of white papers that an individual may submit, but the ideal white paper would contain as much of the links between and progression of related science investigations as possible.

Any questions about the Heliophysics 2050 Workshop or its rescheduling should be directed to Jared Leisner (jared.s.leisner at nasa.gov).
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