These fellowships provide the support they need to continue their studies
as heliophysics post-docs at leading Universities.
This is the inaugural meeting for TESS, which is a first of its kind: uniting the various research groups that study the sun - Earth connection from explosions on the sun to their effects near our home planet and all the way out to the edges of the solar system - a research field collectively known
as heliophysics.
Not exact matches
Support for the work came from a NASA Jack Eddy postdoctoral fellowship for Dong through the Princeton Center for
Heliophysics, led by Prof. Amitava Bhattacharjee, head of the PPPL Theory Department who serves
as Dong's postdoctoral advisor, and the Max Planck - Princeton Research Center for Plasma Physics, jointly financed by the DOE Office of Science and the National Science Foundation.
This research showcases how NASA
heliophysics missions —
heliophysics being the study of the nature of charged particles and energy in space,
as well
as how they are affected by the Sun — can work together.
He added that since President Obama entered office, there has been a «disproportionate increase» in funding for Nasa's earth science programme, which has come at the expense of space exploration
as well
as planetary science,
heliophysics and astrophysics.
He has made outstanding contributions to
heliophysics as the principal investigator on the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) instrument that first discovered the «ribbon» of neutral atom emission from the Sun's interaction with the interstellar medium.
A unique aspect of the workshop was participation by mission scientists and instrument leads who designed and presented classroom activities.The objective of the Van Allen Probes E / PO effort is to prepare teachers to engage and educate students in STEM content and Van Allen Probes
heliophysics - related science
as well
as engineering and technology.
Since the goal of this postdoctoral program is to train Sun - Earth system researchers, preference is also given to research projects that cross the traditional
Heliophysics subdomains of the Sun, heliosphere, magnetosphere, and ionosphere / upper atmosphere,
as well
as Sun - climate investigations.
«Caterpillars enter the cocoon of the Summer School and emerge
as beautiful
Heliophysics butterflies.
In order to make
heliophysics work
as the equivalent of ecology, a sense of community needs to exist:
heliophysics is thus also the activity of teaching across traditional discipline boundaries to stimulate the curiosity of one discipline to reach out to the expertise of another.»
Later, some Jack Eddy Fellows return to the
Heliophysics Summer School
as instructors.