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

[Shasha Zou]

Call for Community Input to LWS Focused Science Topics 
Release Date:   June 18, 2025
Due Date:  July 24, 2025

From: Shasha Zou( shashaz at umich.edu) and Angelos Vourlidas (angelos.vourlidas at jhuapl.edu)

The 2025 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 2026 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 24, 2025 for these topics. 

Suggested science topics should be organized around achieving the goals set out in the Strategic Science Areas (SSAs; https://lwssci.smce.nasa.gov/strategic-science-areas/ ). 

Enter *NEW* FST suggestions by using the following link (on or before July 24, 2025):  https://lwssci.smce.nasa.gov/provide_fst_input/ . 

All FSTs suggested by the community prior to 2025 that were not selected by NASA for the ROSES 2021 – 2025 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, an index of topics from past ROSES solicitation as well as detailed descriptions of these topics from past LPAG annual reports are both available at: https://lwssci.smce.nasa.gov/focused-science-topics/. 

We look forward to your input and to our community’s collaborative  path of innovation and scientific exploration in the LWS program.


On behalf of the LPAG Executive Committee:

Shasha Zou, Angelos Vourlidas, Ian Cohen, Chuanfei Dong, Dong Lin, Thomas Immel, Meng Jin, Steve Kaeppler, Robert McCoy, Ryan McGranaghan, Erika Palmerio, Alexei Pevtsov, Olga Verkhoglyadova, Yihua Zheng

LPAG, https://lwssci.smce.nasa.gov <https://lwssci.smce.nasa.gov/> 


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Shasha Zou
Professor
Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP)
University of Michigan
1431 Space Research Building, 2455 Hayward St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143
(office) 734-936-8184
http://zou.engin.umich.edu
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