Sentences with phrase «sciences decadal survey»

The committee's Planetary Science Decadal Survey was released here late yesterday.

Dr. Hofstadter: While there is no definitive path forward as yet, I hope that within the next five years (tied in part to the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey) we will converge on a specific plan.

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 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.

While the plans are still in their infancy, Stern and his team are hopeful that they can get their concept together in time for the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey, a massive report prepared for NASA and Congress by the planetary science community, which helps to set the space agency's priorities for solar system exploration.

Another scenario involves proceeding with the ACE mission recommended in the Earth science decadal survey.

The international Cryosat - 2 mission, currently in its implementation phase, and the ICESat - II, GRACE - II, DESDynI, and SCLP missions recommended by the Earth science decadal survey are also relevant.

The international ADM / Aeolus mission is relevant to this ECV, as is the 3D - Winds mission recommended by the Earth science decadal survey.

Recommended by the Earth science decadal survey, SMAP, an active and passive L - band mission to directly measure soil moisture, would provide direct global soil moisture measurements with greater penetration depth.

In addition, the presenter noted the similarities between the AoA and Earth science decadal survey recommendations, which endorse the need for (at reasonable cost and risk) an operational advanced imaging sounder for GOES and an early demonstration.

The Earth science decadal survey recommended that NOAA add CERES to NPP and that NASA develop CLARREO, which would provide spectral ERB measurements.

Participants also discussed the relevance of the GACM mission recommended by the Earth science decadal survey.

The second scenario, preferred by many participants, consists of a next - generation synthetic - aperture - radar - based scatterometer mission referred to in the Earth science decadal survey as XOVWM.

In the first scenario, which was the scenario most preferred by participants, Jason - 3 consists of a Jason -2-type altimeter to be launched by NOAA and EUMETSAT, and Jason - 4 consists of a wide - swath altimeter, referred to in the Earth science decadal survey as the SWOT mission, to be developed and launched by NASA and CNES.

The cloud properties ECV can be significantly advanced via the ACE mission recommended by the Earth science decadal survey, which would investigate aerosol - cloud interactions.

Workshop participants noted that the ACE mission, as described in the Earth science decadal survey, would provide significant advances.

Follow - on options discussed included relying on ASCAT on MetOp, duplicating QuikSCAT, and flying XOVWM (as recommended by the Earth science decadal survey).

Where appropriate, participants also considered whether missions in the Earth science decadal survey mission set might enable the recovery of the NPOESS climate measurements.11 As on day 1, templates were filled in during the breakout sessions, and they are available online.12 After the workshop a short background section was added to each breakout session summary to provide context for the discussions.

Not exact matches

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.

Ray and his colleagues are working on a science case and design for STROBE - X which will then be assessed by the decadal survey for astrophysics in 2020.

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.

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.

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.

The White House has bleaker plans for WFIRST, which the U.S. space science community ranked as the highest priority for NASA's astrophysics program in the 2010 Decadal Survey.

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.

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.

«The Group is concerned that no action was taken on its findings last year regarding a Uranus mission study,» he would note in his study, urging NASA «to initiate such a study responsive to Decadal Survey science goals for the ice giants.»

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 science for the National Academy of Science's 2020 Decadal Survey, which contains the academy's recommendations for astronomical research in the next Science's 2020 Decadal Survey, which contains the academy's recommendations for astronomical research in the next decade.

Choosing among the many places to visit within a constrained budget is a task left to the NRC and its decadal survey process wherein the relevant science community reaches consensus after significant debate on the top scientific priorities for a given 10 - year period (a decade, hence the term «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.

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

Abstract: In December 2010, NASA created a Science Definition Team (SDT) for WFIRST, the Wide Field Infra - Red Survey Telescope, recommended by the Astro 2010 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for a large space mission.

This paper describes an Interim... ▽ More In December 2010, NASA created a Science Definition Team (SDT) for WFIRST, the Wide Field Infra - Red Survey Telescope, recommended by the Astro 2010 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for a large space mission.

Decadal Surveys are conducted every 10 years by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to identify the key science questions and recommend missions to answer them for NASA's science programs.

NASA Science Mission Directorate head Thomas Zurbuchen is raising the possibility of delaying the next astrophysics Decadal Survey because of the JWST launch delay and uncertainty about the Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).

The first reply came from Bill Gail, the chief technology officer of Global Weather Corporation, a past president of the American Meteorological Society and co-chairman of the National Academies» 2017 Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space:

To examine the impacts of these changes, particularly those associated with climate research, and ways to mitigate those impacts, NASA and NOAA asked the NRC to add this task to its ongoing «decadal survey,» Earth Science and Applications from Space.

The decadal survey missions represent a set of community consensus priorities spanning Earth science including, but not limited to, climate science.