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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We invite submissions to the Frontiers special issue on “Heliophysics Big Year: Education and Public Outreach report”:
<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/68226/heliophysics-big-year-education-and-public-outreach-reports">
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/68226/heliophysics-big-year-education-and-public-outreach-reports</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Reviews of Heliophysics Big Year activities.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Citizen science projects and their influence on heliophysics research<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Heliophysics EPO programs: science outcomes, societal impacts, and lessons learned.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Perspectives and strategies for advancing future EPO activities<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Design, implementation, and performance of low-cost instruments for heliophysics EPO efforts.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The abstract submission deadline is Jan 31, 2025 and the manuscript submission deadline is July 05, 2025. The submission page is open now.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please feel free to contact the editors if you have any questions. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you very much,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hyunju Connor <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">on behalf of the editor team: Kristina Collins, Michael Kirk, Gareth Perry, and Patricia Reiff.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Email : <a href="mailto:Hyunju.k.connor@nasa.gov"><span style="color:#467886">Hyunju.k.connor@nasa.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Tel. : 301-286-7417<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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