Sentences with phrase «decadal survey of»

National Research Council (2015), Sea Change: 2015 — 2025 Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences, Natl. Acad.

The committee for the Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences 2015 (DSOS) will develop a list of the top ocean science priorities for the next decade in the context of the current state of knowledge, ongoing research activities, and resource availability.

A 2011 decadal survey of the field by the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academies ranked a giant segmented - mirror telescope as one of its top three priorities for ground - based optical and infrared astronomy.

Its Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences, scheduled to be released in early 2015, is supposed to identify both high - priority research projects and the infrastructure needed to conduct them.

In the National Research Council's 2010 decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics, researchers put it at the top of their wish list for ground - based telescopes.

Not exact matches

«We really can't do any of the decadal survey with a flat budget,» Ulvestad said.

The NRC decadal survey presumed a doubling of the NSF astronomy budget over the course of the decade, James Ulvestad, NSF division director for astronomical sciences, explained in a May 24 talk.

The NSF is working on the development of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which had been endorsed by the previous decadal survey, in 2001, and was reaffirmed as the top project on the ground in the most recent decadal sSurvey Telescope, which had been endorsed by the previous decadal survey, in 2001, and was reaffirmed as the top project on the ground in the most recent decadal ssurvey, in 2001, and was reaffirmed as the top project on the ground in the most recent decadal surveysurvey.

Even a business - as - usual strategy, without pursuing any of the new projects recommended in the decadal survey, would leave the agency with roughly $ 200 million in annual commitments to manage its ongoing projects, out of a budget of about $ 250 million.

The agency typically follows the recommendations of the Decadal Survey.

The current EOS orbiters are the result of the NASA's Decadal Survey for Earth Science, which prioritizes its research missions.

The troubles surrounding Webb and WFIRST, Rieke says, could delay the next such survey, which would at minimum throw off the timing for those of other fields — particularly the next decadal survey planned for planetary science.

As early as the 2000 decadal survey, U.S. astronomers ranked Webb as their highest priority for the first 10 years of the new millennium.

Meanwhile, WFIRST — NASA's planned successor to Webb and the highest priority of the 2010 Decadal Survey — has experienced tumult of its own, suffering moderate delays and cost growth.

In other words, the easiest solution might be for the next decadal survey to simply proceed as planned and to recommend that NASA pursue a portfolio of smaller, cheaper space telescopes rather than more multibillion - dollar behemoth in the 2020s.

Rieke is the principal investigator of Webb's NIRCam instrument, as well as the co-chair of the National Academies» Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics, a body that along with NASA, the National Science Foundation and the National Academies» Space Studies Board helps plan the decadal surveys.

The delay also jeopardizes the next decadal survey, a once - every -10-years strategic plan produced by the National Academies that assesses the research landscape and makes recommendations to federal agencies and Congress about developing and funding future generations of ground - and space - based telescopes.

Then, in 2015, the National Science Board endorsed proceeding from the design to the construction of the vessels — but advised NSF to include construction of two, rather than three, vessels in its future funding requests, following a recommendation for belt - tightening as laid out in the National Research Council's decadal survey for ocean sciences, released in early 2015.

It was recommended by the most recent decadal survey for astrophysics and remains one of NASA's top astrophysics priorities after the James Webb Space Telescope.

The panel's task was to find a balance between ongoing astronomy programs supported by the NSF and new activities proposed in the decadal survey in light of the new budget realities.

In a sharp departure from the past, the decadal survey committee went to an outside contractor, Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, California, for independent, rigorous estimates of the cost of missions it is recommending for the next decade.

Then, in 2001, the National Academy of Sciences» «decadal survey» of astronomy — a summary of the field's primary goals for the next 10 years — listed a survey telescope as a high priority for the field.

Saturn's moon Enceladus also has a substantial reservoir of liquid water, but the U.S. scientific community, in its most recent decadal survey, prioritized studying Europa, which is nearer.

It was recommended by the 2003 National Academy of Sciences» Planetary Decadal Survey («New Frontiers in the Solar System») that this first mission to the Kuiper Belt should include flybys of both Pluto and other KBOs in order to maximize the science return.

According to New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern: «2014 MU69 is a great choice because it is just the kind of ancient KBO, formed where it orbits now, that the Decadal Survey desired us to fly by.

In her new position, Holley - Bockelmann's goals are to help develop the case for LISA science for the National Academy of Science's 2020 Decadal Survey, which contains the academy's recommendations for astronomical research in the next decade.

The results of these studies, which are expected to be made public by the end of the year, can be seen as preparatory work, soliciting ideas from the scientific community for the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey that is due to come out in a few years.

The text of that bill has not been released, so whether it includes similar provisions about obtaining an NRC certification that any new Mars mission conforms with the decadal survey is unclear.

The most recent NRC planetary science decadal survey ranked returning a sample of Mars to Earth as its first priority for a flagship mission, with a Europa mission second.

The NRC committee that produced the 2010 decadal survey, New Worlds New Horizons, and recommended development of WFIRST was aware of ESA's plans for Euclid, but ESA had not yet selected Euclid for development.

However the House bill requires that the National Research Council (NRC) certify to Congress that NASA's new Mars plan conforms with the NRC's decadal survey priority of missions that will ultimately return a sample of Mars to Earth.

The bill requires, however, that the NRC certify to Congress that «the chosen mission concept will lead to the accomplishment of Mars sample return as described in the most recent [NRC] decadal survey.»

However, the bill also requires the National Research Council (NRC) to certify that the new Mars program will lead to accomplishment of a Mars sample return mission as dictated by the recent NRC Decadal Survey for planetary science or the money will be reallocated to study Jupiter's moon Europa.

As the Academies notes in their recent decadal survey,» [t] he search for exoplanets is one of the most exciting subjects in all of astronomy...» The report went on to recommend «a program to explore the diversity and properties of planetary systems around other stars, and to prepare for the long - term goal of discovering and investigating nearby, habitable planets.»

However, that same decadal survey went on to state that «it is too early to determine what the design of that space mission should be, or even which planet - detection techniques should be employed.

It has been recognized by the most recent National Academy of Sciences decadal survey in astronomy and astrophysics as an area that is ripe for new discoveries over the next decade, and one whose excitement we are pleased to share with our colleagues at NASA, with the scientific community, and with the American public.

The National Academies» decadal surveys are premier examples of setting priorities with extensive community input.

The committee stressed that it was «the moderate cost, low technical risk and mature design» of the original WFIRST concept that led the Decadal Survey committee to make it the top priority.

Once that is done, NASA should convene additional independent reviews of the coronagraph and of whatever mission design NASA ultimately proposes as a new start «to ensure that the proposed mission cost and technical risk are consistent with available resources and do not significantly compromise the astrophysics balance» recommended by the Decadal Survey.

The scientific opportunities provide a compelling case for optimizing and advancing the country's system of observatories, even if the National Science Foundation's Astronomical Sciences Division (NSF / AST) does not yet have the resources to implement all of the report's key recommendations without severely impacting program balance — the long - standing priority of the NRC's decadal surveys.

The AAS further endorses the report's key recommendations on optimizing instrumentation for, and offering broad access to, the full suite of public and private telescopes; on developing the capacity to further investigate Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) discoveries; on identifying the facilities needed to realize other decadal survey priorities; and on continuing technology development and astronomer training needed for the fSurvey Telescope (LSST) discoveries; on identifying the facilities needed to realize other decadal survey priorities; and on continuing technology development and astronomer training needed for the fsurvey priorities; and on continuing technology development and astronomer training needed for the future.

Dressler chaired the panel of the NRC's 2010 astronomy and astrophysics decadal survey, New Worlds, New Horizons (NWNH), that recommended a mission called the Wide - Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as the top priority for a large space mission for the next decade of space - based astrophysics ressurvey, New Worlds, New Horizons (NWNH), that recommended a mission called the Wide - Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as the top priority for a large space mission for the next decade of space - based astrophysics resSurvey Telescope (WFIRST) as the top priority for a large space mission for the next decade of space - based astrophysics research.

The NRC conducts Decadal Surveys for each of NASA's space and earth science disciplines.

Over the next year we plan to turn many of these ideas into grants, instrumentation plans, and one or more submissions into the upcoming Astro 2020 decadal survey.

Their recommended balance of large, medium, and small - scale efforts highlights the need to maintain sufficient funds to support individual investigators, to continue a program of technical innovation, and to train the next generation of scientists, while also funding those facilities essential for addressing the decadal surveys» scientific priorities.

Workshop participants laid out a number of possible ideas for the site, and, as discussed in the «Preparations for the Decadal Survey» article in this newsletter, we are now asking members of the community to help us turn those ideas into a plan for the next decade or longer.

A prominent theme in today's report is a reminder that the fundamental tenet of the NWNH Decadal Survey is to maintain balance in NASA's astrophysics portfolio among large programs like WFIRST, smaller programs in the Explorer series, and the associated Research and Analysis (R&A) program «If implementing WFIRST / AFTA compromises the program balance then it is inconsistent with the rationale that led to the high priority ranking,» the Harrison committee warned.

A Wide Field Infra - Red Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was the top large space priority in the report of the ASTRO2010 Decadal Survey «New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics».

The AAS stands behind the recommendations of all the decadal surveys and works to have them implemented.

The Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) would launch in 2020 as one of the next generation of telescopes that should target the early universe, search for nearby habitable planets and test the boundaries of fundamental physics, according to the Astro2010 Decadal Survey by the National Academy of Sciences.