Assessment of the National Science Foundation's 2015 Geospace Portfolio Review

美国国家科学基金会正在对大气和地球空间科学部（AGS）地球空间科学（GS）部门的设施、科学计划和其他活动进行组合审查。组合审查部分是国家科学基金会对国家研究理事会2013年十年期调查“太阳和空间物理学：技术社会的科学”中为地球空间科学界提出的建议的回应。该审查由NSF在其地球科学咨询委员会下组织的组合审查委员会（PRC）进行。国家科学基金会指出，审查的主要目标以及由此对地球空间科的组合进行的任何调整，是确保对地球空间科学学科和相应设施的投资现在和将来都与地球空间科学界的需要和优先事项以及国家在资助与国家优先事项相关的尖端科学研究方面的利益适当一致。在国家研究理事会的主持下，该项目将审查项目组合审查，并承担以下任务：（1）确定PR的调查结果、结论和建议与NRC十年调查中强调的问题和优先事项的一致程度，（2）检查GS部门针对十年调查已经采取的行动，（3）提供一个前瞻性的重点，所有GS资助的设施，计划和活动的潜力，以提供所需的科学成果，（4）提供一套明确的建议，GS科应如何实施十年调查的优先事项在NSF/地球科学战略规划过程的背景下。该奖项所涵盖的活动将由一个最多由12名成员组成的委员会完成，该委员会将在空间研究委员会及其太阳和空间物理常设委员会（CSSP）的主持下任命。该委员会将在五个月内举行最多三次会议。委员会对一般事务人员组合审查的分析和评价将以其集体专门知识为基础，辅之以研究期间独立收集的信息和数据。

The National Science Foundation is conducting a portfolio review for the facilities, science programs, and other activities of the Geospace Sciences (GS) section in the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS). The portfolio review is, in part, a response by the NSF to the recommendations highlighted for the Geospace scientific community in the National Research Council's (NRC) 2013 Decadal Survey, "Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society". The review is being carried out by a Portfolio Review Committee (PRC), organized by NSF under its Advisory Committee for Geosciences. NSF has stated that the primary goal of the review, and of any resulting adjustments of the Geospace Section's portfolio, is to ensure that investments in the Geospace science disciplines and respective facilities are properly aligned, both now and in the future, with the needs and priorities of the Geospace scientific community and with the interests of the nation in funding cutting edge scientific research of relevance to national priorities. This project, under the auspices of the National Research Council, will examine the portfolio review (PR) and undertake the following tasks: (1) determine how well the PR's findings, conclusions and recommendation align with the issues and priorities highlighted in the NRC decadal survey, (2) examine actions already taken by the GS section in response to the decadal survey, (3) provide a forward-looking focus on the potential of all GS funded facilities, programs and activities for delivering the desired science outcomes, and (4) provide a clear set of recommendations on how the GS section should implement the decadal survey's priorities within the context of the NSF/Geosciences strategic planning process. The activities covered by this award will be done by a committee of up to 12 members who will be appointed under the auspices of the Space Studies Board and its Standing Committee on Solar and Space Physics (CSSP). The committee will meet up to three times over a five-month period. The committee's analysis and evaluation of the GS portfolio review will be based on its collective expertise supplemented by information and data gathered independently during the course of the study.