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Appendix D: Education and Workforce Issues in Solar and Space Physics
Appendix D: Education and Workforce Issues in Solar and Space Physics
Pages 351-364
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The assessment was based on the community's first demographic survey and quantitative determination of the state of health of the solar and space physics community. One of the largest challenges in this undertaking was that the disciplines constituting solar and space physics are spread among many different academic fields (physics, astronomy, the Earth and space sciences, and several engineering disciplines)
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As a consequence, it seems prudent to develop a community of solar and space physics REU and Research Experiences for Teachers sites and programs -- to facilitate the sharing of resources, collaboration through distance-learning technologies, training of mentors and program staff regarding issues of diversity, and utilization of existing summer schools -- to augment REU programs and enhance the opportunities for attracting a diverse and talented 1 See National Science Foundation, Survey of Earned Doctorates, available at http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvydoctorates/.
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program, will provide funding for graduate students, there was concern expressed that the formal link between the student and a NASA center will disappear, and there was a strong desire to see NESSF support for solar and space physics maintained at levels as high as those the GSRP historically provided. Vibrant university-based solar and space physics education and research programs that extensively involve experimental science and engineering undergraduate and graduate students focused on instrument development and space systems are vital to maintaining the health of the field.
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Gross, Active learning for advanced students: The Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling Graduate Summer School, Advances in Space Research 42:1864-1868, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2007.06.056, 2008; S Simpson, A Sun-to-mud education in two weeks, Space Weather Quarterly 2(7)
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University of Arizona and National Solar Supported in part by a grant from NSF Graduate to advanced undergraduates Observatory 2008 Solar Physics Summer with an intense interest in solar physics, School space physics, or related fields. American Astronomical Society, Solar NASA, Living With a Star, Targeted Specifically incoming graduate students Physics Division, High Energy Solar Research and Technology program but also graduate students at any level Physics and recent Ph.D.s.
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They also explore ways that investigating the Sun and the space environment can teach us about important physical processes that occur throughout the universe. The names of the disciplinary areas in which these scientists operate include solar physics, heliophysics, space physics, aeronomy, and upper atmospheric physics.
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The keywords used to identify dissertations were the following: space physics, solar physics, magnetosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere, aurora, auroral, aurorae, heliosphere, space weather, aeronomy, solar corona, solar wind, solar chromosphere, helioseismology, solar flare, and solar active region. These terms were looked for in the dissertation keywords, title, and abstract.
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and Canadian Ph.D.s in solar and space physics produced in the past decade. SOURCE: Courtesy of Mark Moldwin, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, for the Education and Workforce Working Group of the Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics)
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SOURCE: Courtesy of Mark Moldwin, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, for the Educa Figure D-2 tion and Workforce Working Group of the Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics)
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SOURCE: Courtesy of Mark Moldwin, Department of Year Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, for the Education and Workforce Working Group of the Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics)
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faculty positions in solar and space physics. SOURCE: Courtesy of Mark Moldwin, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, for the Education and Workforce Working Group of the Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics)
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SOURCE: Courtesy of Mark Moldwin, Department of Atmospheric, 0 Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 for the Education and Workforce Working Group of the Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics Year (Heliophysics)
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35 30 Number of Scientist Postions 25 20 15 FIGURE D.8 Number of advertised scientist posi 10 tions in solar and space physics, worldwide. SOURCE: Courtesy of Mark Moldwin, Department of Atmo spheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of 5 Michigan, for the Education and Workforce Working Group of the Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space 0 Physics (Heliophysics)
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3400 1200 3200 Total 1100 3000 1000 2800 900 2600 800 700 2400 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 Year FIGURE D.9 Number of papers published in solar and space physics, worldwide. SOURCE: Courtesy of Mark Moldwin, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, for the Education and Workforce Working Group of the Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics)
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