Note to the community from the LWS TR&T Steering CommitteeDear Colleagues,
This spring, we solicited your input for LWS Focused Science Topics for the ROSES 2017 Announcement of Opportunity and the response was amazing. We received 57 topics from all areas of Heliophysics and many comments. We are thrilled with your response.
We met in mid-May to carefully review all of these community suggested science topics, keeping in mind the overall Living with a Star goals and the TR&T Strategic Science Areas (SSAs). Based on all of this, we have prepared a draft set of 13 topics, appended here for your inspection and comment. We considered all submitted topics very carefully and created Focused Science Topics that include as much of this input as possible.
Please keep in mind that these are draft topics. We are now soliciting community feedback on these draft topics, as the next, critical stage of this year's process of generating science topics.
All of these draft topics will be posted on our website shortly, with input boxes for comments and feedback on each individual topic, as well as on the overall process. Once the feedback site is up and running, we will keep it open for at least six weeks, or until July 18 (the Monday following the SHINE meeting), whichever is later. The topics will be presented both as posters and as LWS TR&T town hall discussions during the SPD, CEDAR/GEM, and SHINE meetings to expose them to as much community input as possible.
After this comment period closes, the committee will meet again to review the community feedback on the topics and, based on this feedback and on the LWS and TR&T goals, to finalize the topics for presentation to the NAC Heliophysics Subcommittee, and via that subcommittee, to NASA Headquarters.
We look forward to your feedback on these draft topics.
Sincerely,
Mark Linton, co-chair
Eftyhia Zesta, co-chair
On behalf of the LWS TR&T Steering Committee
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Below are the topics for your viewing pleasure.