Thriving on Our Changing Planet A Midterm Assessment of Progress Toward Implementation of the Decadal Survey (2024) / Chapter Skim
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5 Looking Ahead: Preparing for the Next Decadal Review
5 Looking Ahead: Preparing for the Next Decadal Review
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IMPROVE DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND ACCESSIBILITY EFFORTS AT THE NASA EARTH SCIENCE DIVISION TO ENHANCE VITALITY OF THE WORKFORCE In recent years, NASA commissioned two key reports to examine its efforts toward enhancing workforce vitality and diversity, which were published nearly simultaneously in 2022 (see Figure 5-1)
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and Foundations of a Healthy and Vital Research Community for NASA Science (NASEM 2022c) found that NASA ESD has made substantial effort, yet shown limited progress, in enhancing workforce vitality and diversity, even relative to other divisions.
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The decreasing cadence of Earth Venture and Earth System Explorer competitive solicitations makes it more difficult for scientists to demonstrate their potential and to take on leadership roles in the future, and for NASA ESD to demonstrate progress on DEIA objectives. Finding: The lack of competed mission opportunities, including the reduced cadence of Earth Venture solicitations and the delay and reduction in number of Earth System Explorer calls, has limited oppor tunities to achieve or demonstrate progress on workforce development goals and DEIA objectives.
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, the United States still lacks a strategic framework for ensuring the continuity of key Earth observations beyond specific mission lines such as LandSat and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) , which have developed large user communities that demand continuity for societal and economic benefit.
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, "the United States lacks an overarching, systematic plan or framework to identify, prioritize, fund, and implement sustained space-based Earth observations to meet the nation's full ranges of needs, government policy, and societal support." Three recent reports suggest1 the creation of a "framework" for determining which Earth measurements should be made continuously. To date, there has also been insufficient consideration of alternative means of obtaining information that might otherwise require continuing observations.
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The committee recognizes that many Earth system modelers have been involved in the two previous decadal surveys. However, it has not been clear how priority observables will be used to address critical issues in model performance and predictive skill.2 It is also critical to seek input that is free of traditional discipline silos because understanding and prediction of many of the feedback mechanisms of greatest concern require a combination of variables that have historically been considered by different decadal survey panels with limited coordination.
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Reprinted with permission from AAAS. DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES TO ACCELERATE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS FROM SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS NASA is well positioned to accelerate scientific research (including AI/ML innovation)
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