A Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics

国家研究理事会将进行一项十年调查，以协助联邦政府协调和优化NASA（飞行计划和重点任务）、NSF（基础研究计划）和NOAA（操作计划）的活动和资源。 空间科学十年期调查因对联邦机构的规划和决策产生积极影响以及促进空间科学界的团结而受到广泛赞扬。该调查旨在吸引广泛的社区参与，让社区参与建立共识，并为未来十年设定特定学科的科学目标和优先事项。这项研究将产生以下影响：为太阳和空间物理学领域提供科学指导;组织科学界和有关机构，特别是美国航天局、国家科学基金会和诺阿;向立法和行政部门的其他决策者提供信息（特别是OMB和OSTP）;记录对太阳和空间物理学方面受过科学和技术培训的劳动力的需求;并宣传太阳和空间物理学的社会效益（例如，跨学科联系、教育、劳动力培训、公共宣传）。这份报告也将有助于公众？更好地理解太阳和空间物理学的近期成就和未来目标。在进行这一评估时，重点将放在为理论、地基和天基研究方案制定一种系统方法上，这些方案包括NASA的飞行方案和重点活动、NSF的地基和基础研究方案以及NOAA等其他机构的补充业务方案。这一新的十年期调查将更新和扩展NRC以前在太阳和空间物理学方面的调查，《太阳到地球及其以外：太阳和空间物理学十年期研究战略》（2003年）。调查委员会将在委员会也将设立的三个研究小组的指导下，并由非正式工作组予以补充，对太阳和空间物理学领域进行广泛的调查。委员会的报告将反映对科学和空间使命计划的认识，以及潜在的工业、国际和美国机构合作伙伴的优先事项，并确定合作机会和增长或扩展的可能性。该调查将通过市政厅会议、专业会议和征求白色文件的方式征求和汇总太阳和空间物理学界的意见。

The National Research Council will conduct a decadal survey to assist the federal government in coordinating and optimizing activities and resources across NASA (flight programs and focused missions), NSF (basic research programs), and NOAA (operational programs). The decadal surveys in space science have been widely praised for having a positive impact on federal agency planning and decision-making, in addition to promoting unity within the space science community. This survey is designed to draw widespread community participation, engage the community in consensus-building, and set specific discipline-specific science targets and priorities for the coming decade. The study will have the following impact: provide scientific direction for the field of solar and space physics; organize the scientific community and the relevant agencies, particularly NASA, NSF, and NOAA; inform other decision-makers in the legislative and executive branches (particularly OMB and OSTP); document the needs for a scientifically- and technically-trained workforce in solar and space physics; and communicate the societal benefits of solar and space physics (e.g., interdisciplinary connections, education, workforce training, public outreach). The report will also contribute to the general public?s greater understanding of recent accomplishments and future goals in solar and space physics. In conducting this assessment, there will be an emphasis on developing a systems approach to the theoretical, ground-based and space-based research programs that comprise the flight programs and focused campaigns of NASA, the ground-based and basic research programs of NSF, and the complementary operational programs of other agencies such as NOAA. This new decadal survey will update and extend the NRC's previous survey in solar and space physics, The Sun to the Earth--and Beyond: A Decadal Research Strategy in Solar and Space Physics (2003). The survey committee, informed by three study panels that will also be established by the Board and supplemented by informal working groups, will broadly canvas the field of solar and space physics. The committee report will reflect an awareness of the science and space mission plans and priorities of potential industry, international, and U.S. agency partners and identify opportunities for cooperation and possibilities for growth or expansion. The survey will solicit and aggregate inputs from across the solar and space physics community via town hall meetings, sessions at professional meetings, and the solicitation of white papers.