CEDAR email: Call for Community Input to LWS Focused Science Topics

[Thomas J. Immel]

Topic: Call for Community Input to LWS Focused Science Topics

From: Sabrina Savage and Anthea Coster (sabrina.savage at nasa.gov)

The 2023 executive committee of the NASA Living with a Star (LWS) Program Analysis Group (LPAG) is beginning to develop the next round of input for LWS Focused Science Topics (FSTs) for ROSES 2024 and beyond. The LWS program provides an essential funding opportunity for Heliophysics, focusing on systems-science and driven by community interests and needs with potential topics ranging from solar dynamo to planetary habitability.

It is vital for the success of the LWS Science program that there be active community engagement in the development of FSTs. We are therefore asking the Heliophysics community to provide input by July 21, 2023 for these topics.

Suggested science topics should be organized around achieving the goals set out in the recently revised Strategic Science Areas (SSAs; https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/strategic-science-areas-ssas). See Key Resources below for more information.

Enter *NEW* FST suggestions by using the following link (on or before July 21, 2023):
https://lwstrt.org/communityinput/input/.

View Input and Comment on *Roll-over* FSTs *AND* community input in response to this call (on or before July 21, 2023) at: https://lwstrt.org/communityinput/viewinput/2023/

All FSTs suggested by the community prior to and during 2020 that were not selected by NASA for the ROSES 2021 – 2023 LWS science calls will also be reviewed by the LPAG executive committee. Community input regarding updates to those topics is welcome through the same View Input and Comment page above.

For reference, the full list of topics that were developed from the last set of community input on FSTs by the previous LPAG committee in 2020 are available in the final report of that committee at: https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/docs/lpag/LPAG_2020_Report.pdf

We greatly look forward to your input and to continuing on the path of innovation and scientific exploration in the LWS program.

On behalf of the LPAG Executive Committee:
Anthea Coster, Sabrina Savage, Ian Cohen, Chuanfei Dong, Heather Elliott, Fan Guo, Thomas Immel, Robert McCoy, Ryan McGranaghan, Alexei Pevtsov, Olga Verkhoglyadova, Angelos Vourlidas, Shasha Zou
LPAG, https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/lpag