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List of Responses to Request for Information
Listed in Table I.1 are the responses received by the Committee on a Decadal Strategy for Solar and
Space Physics (Heliophysics) in response to its request for information (RFI) sent in September 2010 to
the solar and space physics community (see Appendix H). The full-text versions of the RFI responses are
included in the compact disk that contains this report and are also available online through links at the
survey’s website at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/SSB/CurrentProjects/SSB_056864.
TABLE I.1 Responses to Request for Information
RFI Response
Number
First Author
Response Title
Summary Description
1
Ali, Nancy A., et al.
Recommendations for Education/Public
Outreach (EPO) Programs: A White
Paper Submitted for Consideration to
the NRC Decadal Survey in Solar and
Space Physics
Addresses EPO as a major contributing factor
to workforce development in solar and space
physics as well as in creating a scientifically
literate U.S. public.
2
Araujo-Pradere,
Eduardo A.
Research to Operations (R2O) Activities,
a Natural Conclusion of Research
Details transitions of academic models to
operations, which require an organizational
structure and a clear financial commitment that
barely exists today.
3
Ayres, Thomas R.,
and D. Longcope
Ground-Based Solar Physics in the Era of
Space Astronomy
Provides a synopsis of a 2009 report
commissioned by AURA in advance of the
Astro2010 decadal survey concerning the future
of ground-based solar physics.
4
Bach, Bernhard,
et al.
The Use of a Z-pinch Facility as a
Platform for Laboratory Solar and
Heliophysics
Explores the utilization of Z-pinch facilities
to create and investigate the physics of highenergy-density plasmas.