CEDAR email: Frontiers Special Issue on “Heliophysics Big Year: Education and Public Outreach Reports”

[Connor, Hyunju K. (GSFC-6730)]

Dear Colleagues,

We invite submissions to the Frontiers special issue on “Heliophysics Big Year: Education and Public Outreach report”: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/68226/heliophysics-big-year-education-and-public-outreach-reports.

The Heliophysics Big Year is a campaign celebrating the Sun’s influence across the entire solar system, including Earth. It began in October 2023 with an annular solar eclipse in North America, continued with a total solar eclipse in April 2024, and will run through December 2024, when NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach to the Sun. This campaign fosters a wide range of Education and Public Outreach (EPO) activities aimed at making heliophysics science and information accessible to all, thereby promoting broader awareness of heliophysics.

This Research Topic seeks to highlight heliophysics EPO activities conducted before and during the Heliophysics Big Year. The goals are to introduce current EPO efforts, share their results and lessons with the heliophysics community, encourage future EPO collaborations, and maintain momentum beyond the Heliophysics Big Year campaign.

We welcome a variety of article types supported by the Frontiers journal, including (but not limited to) original research, methods, reviews, mini-reviews, perspectives, data reports, brief research reports, general commentaries, and opinions. Topics of interest include:

  *   Reviews of Heliophysics Big Year activities.
  *   Citizen science projects and their influence on heliophysics research
  *   Heliophysics EPO programs: science outcomes, societal impacts, and lessons learned.
  *   Perspectives and strategies for advancing future EPO activities
  *   Design, implementation, and performance of low-cost instruments for heliophysics EPO efforts.

The abstract submission deadline is Jan 31, 2025 and the manuscript submission deadline is July 05, 2025.  The submission page is open now.

Please feel free to contact the editors if you have any questions.

Thank you very much,
Hyunju Connor
on behalf of the editor team: Kristina Collins, Michael Kirk, Gareth Perry, and Patricia Reiff.



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Hyunju Kim Connor (she/her/hers)
Associate Chief on detail
Space Weather Laboratory, Code 674
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Rm. 236, Bldg. 21
8800 Greenbelt RD, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Email     : Hyunju.k.connor at nasa.gov<mailto:Hyunju.k.connor at nasa.gov>
Tel.         : 301-286-7417
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