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Heliophysics Research Program

Heliophysics Research Program. Arik Posner Heliophysics R&A Lead. Topics: ROSES14 Changes ROSES13 Selections Update Competed Research Budget Trends. Topic: ROSES14 Changes. ROSES14-1. The new ROSES14 Solicitation was Released in February Changes: H-SR:

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Heliophysics Research Program

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  1. Heliophysics Research Program Arik Posner Heliophysics R&A Lead

  2. Topics: ROSES14 Changes ROSES13 Selections Update Competed Research Budget Trends

  3. Topic: ROSES14 Changes

  4. ROSES14-1 • The new ROSES14 Solicitation was Released in February • Changes: • H-SR: • H-SR Remains Open to All Science Areas in Heliophysics (Including Inner Magnetosphere) • No Duplicate Proposals Allowed! • Encourage/Discourage in Step 1 • H-TIDeS: • No Change • H-GCR: • Not Solicited in ROSES14. All Funds Committed. New Competition in ROSES16 Expected.

  5. ROSES14-2 • H-LWS: • No Strategic Capabilities. Currently Fully Subscribed. • New Set of Focus Topics • Solicitation for Independent Targeted Investigations • Focus Topics (4-Year Duration): • 1) Prediction of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field Vector Bz at 1AU • 2) Physics-based methods to predict connectivity of SEP sources to points in the inner heliosphere, tested by location, timing, and longitudinal separation of SEPs • 3) Ion-Neutral Interactions in the Topside Ionosphere • Not a Focus Topic/No Team (3-Year Duration): • Physics of the inner Heliosphere (Preparing for SPP, SO)

  6. ROSES14-3 • H-GI: • Two Mission-Specific Calls • One Open Data Development Call • Mission-Specific Calls(3-Year Duration): • 1) Van Allen Probes/BARREL Joint GI • 2) IRIS GI • ODDE Call (2-Year Duration): • Development of Data Products from Currently Operating HSO Missions. Capped at 100k/yr. • H-IDEE • No DEE Call (Subsumed in Cooperative Agreement Notice and H-GI ODDE) • Only H-I (Infrastructure)

  7. Topic: ROSES13 Selections Update

  8. HPD ROSES13 Selections for FY14 Funds * Some Proposal Selections Deferred ** H-DEE Selected. H-I Subelement TBD

  9. Topic: Competed Research Budget Trends

  10. FY15 President’s Budget Request

  11. FY15 President’s Budget Request

  12. FY15 President’s Budget Request

  13. FY15 President’s Budget Request Shared. ¼ (~$1.2M/yr) Helio. Total Competed R&A 69.2 - 63.0 63.7 63.6 63.6 63.6

  14. Competed R&A Budget/Selection Trends

  15. Competed R&A Budget/Selection Trends

  16. Competed R&A Budget/Selection Trends

  17. What is the Heliophysics Research Program? (2012 Slide) The Heliophysics Research Program contains: • Mission Operations & Data Analysis of many missions of the Heliophysics System Observatory: ACE, Cluster II, Geotail, RHESSI, SOHO, TIMED, TRACE, Voyager, and Wind; Solar and Space Physics Mission Operations Center. • The majority of Heliophysics Research & Analysis programs: Geospace and Solar/Heliospheric Supporting Research & Technology Program (including Supporting Research, Instrument Development, Low-Cost Access to Space), Heliophysics Guest Investigator Program, Heliophysics Theory Program. • Community Coordinated ModelingCenter and the Heliophysics Science Support Office. • Data Centers and Data Environment Programs: Solar Data Analysis Center, Space Physics Data Facility, Data & Modeling Service, competed Heliophysics Data Environment Enhancements (formerly VxOs). • Sounding Rockets and the Rocket Range infrastructure on behalf of SMD. Perception: The Heliophysics Research Program is mainly Competed R&A. Heliophysics Research Program

  18. Approximate Heliophysics Research Program Element Funding Levels (2012 Slide) HRP: ~$160-180M/yr • Heliophysics Research and Analysis: 19% • Sounding Rockets: 31% • Research Range: 11% • Other Missions and Data Analysis: 39% Heliophysics Research Program

  19. SMD Research Programs in Comparison (2012 Slide) Example: Physics Today, American Institute of Physics Periodical, Vol. 65, No. 4, April 2012. ‘Heliophysics Research’ FY12 Actual Budget Perceived as 28.2% of Total HPD Budget i.e., THE LARGEST FRACTION OF THE TOTAL BUDGET OF ALL SMD SCIENCE DIVISIONS Earth Science: 25% Astrophysics+JWST: 13.8% Planetary Science: 11.6% Heliophysics FY12 Actual Competed R&A is small: 9.4% (k$58,528 incl. LWS TR&T) Heliophysics Research Program

  20. Misperception Persists (2014 Slide) Simple Google Search: EOS/Mohi Kumar (American Geophysical Union) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014EO110002/pdf “Heliophysics, by contrast, gets a roughly 2% boost in the proposed FY 2015 budget over the enacted FY 2014 budget to $668.9 million.” Association of Public and Land Grant Universities http://www.aplu.org/document.doc?id=5087 “NASA Science cut (except Heliophysics)” American Institute of Physics http://www.aip.org/fyi/2014/fy-2015-budget-request-nasa “Heliophysics: $668.9 million, an increase of 2.3 percent” Assoc. for American Universities https://www.aau.edu/uploadedFiles/Budget_and_Appropriations/FY15_Budget_and_Appropriations_Information/FY14_Budget/AAU_Summary_of_the_Budget/FY15%20AAU%20Budget%20Summary.pdf “…and increase for Heliophysics (+2.3 percent).” Univ. Colorado http://www.cu.edu/sites/default/files/FY%2015%20budget%20highlights.pdf “Heliophysics-­‐ $669 million, which Is $15 million, or 2.3 percent above the FY14 amount of $654 million.” Slate/Phil Plait http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/03/05/nasa_budget_2015_more_cuts_more_politics.html “Other projects got modest increases, including Heliophysics (yay; studying the Sun is important) and a few others.” Spacepolitics.com http://www.spacepolitics.com/2014/03/05/nasa-fy-2015-budget-supports-asteroids-europa-and-commercial-crew-but-sacrifices-sofia/ Reports Plain Budget Numbers Suggesting Real Budget Increase: Heliophysics Up from $654.0 (FY14) to $668.9 (FY15)

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