CEDAR email: Call for Science Organizing Committee, Heliophysics 2050 Workshop

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

Earlier this year, NASA, NSF, and NOAA announced the Heliophysics 2050 Workshop.  This workshop will be an agency-enabled, community-driven event to help the community prepare for the next Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey.

This workshop will focus on a strategic, multi-decadal science framework for solar and space physics. We anticipate that community members will leverage workshop results to provide context for their individual white papers to the Decadal Survey process. In preparation for and as input to the Workshop, NASA will support community members in forming a Science Organizing Committee (SOC) to:
   1. Organize community white papers into a strategic science web that identifies science dependencies and flow of science investigations.
   2. Organize Workshop sessions.
   3. Serve as editors for the workshop's proceedings document.

Workshop Philosophy: The workshop will examine current scientific understanding and what near-term investigations can enable and inform future investigations. From this scientific progression, the Workshop will create a "Science Web" that maps current understanding to the next set of compelling science investigations which, in turn, lead to still later studies. These investigations will cover the range of work from basic research to operational efforts and would be agnostic to their mode of execution (e.g. theory, observations, spaceflight missions). This will enable the next Decadal Survey to lay out a long-term science strategy: What does Heliophysics look like in 2050, and what do we do in the next decade to help us get there?

Applications are welcome from any heliophysics community member. Applicants should be aware that a reasonable time commitment will be needed from summer 2020 through spring 2021. Ideally, the SOC will be a diverse group of researchers able to identify the intra- and inter-discipline connections of investigations that advance and expand the field of heliophysics.

Submission Instructions:

Email Jared Leisner (jared.s.leisner at nasa.gov) with the subject line "Heliophysics 2050 SOC" and include:
   1. A statement of interest, including any vision for the Workshop and Decadal Survey preparation, and summarizing relevant expertise. Limit of two (2) pages.
   2. A CV documenting 1) the breadth and depth of scientific and/or technical expertise, 2) any relevant organizing experience, and 3) any experience with multi-/interdisciplinary scientific endeavors.
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