Findings & Recommendations on SMD ROSES Gaps RFI - Kartik Sheth, Jack Kaye, Jared Leisner, Stephen Rinehart M. Seablom, S. Crawford Program ...
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Findings & Recommendations on SMD ROSES Gaps RFI Kartik Sheth, Jack Kaye, Jared Leisner, Stephen Rinehart M. Seablom, S. Crawford Program Scientists in all the divisions and SMD leadership
Introduction
● SMD released a Request for Information (RFI) to identify gaps in
opportunities for interdisciplinary and interdivisional research
○ NASA Science research programs have traditionally operated
within the Division structure
○ Community and NASA recognize the potential for research that is
at the interface of traditional disciplines
● RFI specifically requested input on research that is responsive to
the goals of two or more Divisions but was not addressed by existing
research programs.
● Released on December 2, 2019. Responses closed on January
31, 2020.
○ 97 responses submitted
Demographics of Respondents • Number of responses: 97 complete • Demographics of responders: – NASA Centers (incl. JPL): 47% – Academia : 21% – Labs (e.g., UARCS, FFRDCs): 32% • MSIs (HBCUs/HSIs): 1 out of 97
Overview of Responses to the RFI
• Responses covered the breadth of SMD-supported disciplines;
addressed science, technology, and other capabilities.
• Responses fell into one of five major themes:
– Gaps in existing SMD research programs
– Technology development
– Data science, algorithms, software
– Ground-based observations
– Data archives
• For each theme, relations to current, planned, and potential SMD
activities were identified.
– Significant number of raised points have been recognized by
SMD over the past few years, internal actions have been
underway
– No decisions have been made out of RFI yet, current public
health situation has stressed bandwidth and research programs
Findings & SMD Actions in Response F1. Some research projects are specific short term projects (e.g. airborne research over the Antarctic, Bridging the gap in terrestrial impact craters) which are often second or third priority for divisions. Others (e.g. sprites, stratosphere-mesophere coupling) fall between discipline stovepipes and may need interagency partnerships ACTION (NEW): We will add a checkbox on the proposal cover page (and space for an explanatory paragraph) allowing proposers to indicate that their research is interdivisional. Program Officers will use the information to ensure an appropriate review for these proposals. SMD will analyze the data over two ROSES cycles (ROSES 21 and 22), report back to the community on these interdivisional proposals, and adjust strategy accordingly.
Findings & SMD Actions in Response F2. Technology development across multiple disciplines could be better coordinated (e.g., mirror technology, sensors/ detectors; tightly coupled platforms & instruments, system-level technologies). ACTION (NEW): SMD Chief Technologist to hold a Technology Festival in early 2021 to foster better awareness of the investments and opportunities for cross-divisional technologies in SMD and STMD, and to foster better coordination and exchange of ideas across the community. ACTION (IN PROGRESS): By 2nd quarter 2021, the TechFed will publish its Directorate-wide gaps list that is now being crafted, with the 2015 Technology Roadmaps as a starting point, in synergy with science requirements.
Findings & SMD Actions in Response F2. Technology development across multiple disciplines could be better coordinated (e.g., mirror technology, sensors/ detectors; tightly coupled platforms & instruments, system-level technologies). ACTION (NEW): The TechFed concurs that low TRL (1--3) core / enabling technologies (e.g. photonics, HEC, small satellite platform tech, autonomy, etc.) could be developed and managed in a cross-cutting fashion (e.g. STMD’s Early Stage Innovation Program). TechFed is undertaking a study on the balance in the portfolio between early and late stage TRL technologies and how they are funded. It will report its findings and recommend adjustments. Expect report by 1st qtr 2022.
Findings & SMD Actions in Response F3. Data science techniques and algorithms could be better shared and coordinated across the directorate for more efficient missions + data mining. ACTION (IN PROGRESS): SMD has established a Science Data Management Working Group (SDMWG) and appointed a new Science Data Officer. This group is investigating how to create appropriate mechanisms for capturing and serving data science techniques + algorithms that could be useful across SMD missions. ACTION (IN PROGRESS): SDMWG is laying out a SMD-wide policy to require all proposals to archive and make publicly available all software generated by SMD funded research. Expect an announcement by 1st qtr 2021.
Findings & SMD Actions in Response F4. Community desire for NASA to make larger investments in ground-based items (telescopes, sensors/instruments, lab). ACTION (IN PROGRESS): SMD will clarify existing flexibilities in AOs to proposers, reviewers and program scientists. AOs allow for costs of mission-essential ground-based work (e.g. TESS follow-up, THEMIS, GENESIS). To be reported at town halls and advisory committees, as well as improved language in AOs. ACTION (IN PROGRESS): SMD will clarify existing opportunities and flexibilities in R&A as well as the role of other agencies with community. To be reported at town halls and advisory committees, as well as improved language in ROSES 21.
Findings & SMD Actions in Response F4. Community desire for NASA to make larger investments in ground-based items (telescopes, sensors/instruments, lab). ACTION (NEW): SDMWG to consider best ways to link relevant databases resulting from laboratory research that may be useful across divisions (e.g. spectroscopy of ices, atomic coefficients, etc.). Expect progress report by 1st qtr 2022.
Findings & SMD Actions in Response F5. Community wants NASA to review and build more holistic archives with appropriate policies for initiating, maintaining and sunsetting archives. ACTION (IN PROGRESS): SDMWG is developing data policies to address all SMD data including archives. SMD to adopt and announce policies to community by 1st qtr 2021. ACTION (IN PROGRESS): SDMWG working on developing a common metadata standard and sharing of archival data between divisions to maximize science. Expect work on initial standards to be completed in 2021 and rolled out to community in subsequent years. ACTION (IN PROGRESS): SMD is establishing a data catalog to make all data discoverable. 2-3 year timescale for wide-implementation. Prototypes by 1st qtr 2022.
Findings & Recommendations on SMD ROSES Gaps RFI Kartik Sheth, Jack Kaye, Jared Leisner, Stephen Rinehart Thanks for dry run comments: Paul Hertz, Michael New, Louis Barbier Thanks also to all the PSs in all four divisions + special thanks to M. Perez, E. Scannapieco, P. Knezek and S. Crawford for feedback on these slides. And thanks to M. Seablom for comments (this morning - not ingested yet)
Motivation
● Discussed at the SMD Front Office retreat →
action item for SMD to understand whether there is
a gap in opportunities for some interdisciplinary /
interdivisional research
● Science has traditionally operated within the
divisional structure identified in the SMD Science
Plan (add link) and, within these, typically solicits
along the lines of widely recognized scientific
disciplines.
● NASA recognizes that there is tremendous
potential to make revolutionary scientific advances
not just within these disciplines, but also at the
interfaces between and among disciplines.
● We seek broad input from the community to help
NASA better understand what research opportunities
that span the interest of two or more SMD divisions
are being missed.Request for Information https://www.nap.edu
/catalog/11153/facili
● This could include both research that addresses tating-interdisciplina
ry-research
the interconnectedness of the science across the
divisions or addresses common techniques and/or
processes that underpin the work of two or more
divisions that is typically not explicitly addressed in
the divisions’ solicitations.
● Responses to this Request for Information (RFI)
will be used by NASA to inform a decision as to
whether the portfolio of current program elements
in ROSES need to be modified and/or expanded
to provide the proper avenue for such research.RFI - RESEARCH THAT FALLS IN A GAP
BETWEEN CURRENT SMD SOLICITATIONS
● Release Date: Dec 2, 2019
● Response Date: Jan 31, 2020
● The NASA Science Mission Directorate is soliciting
information on research that is aligned with the agency
mission and SMD’s Science Plan but falls in a gap between
current solicitations, possibly because it is interdisciplinary
or interdivisional.
● Responses to this Request for Information (RFI) will be used by
NASA to inform a decision as to whether the portfolio of current
program elements in the Research Opportunities for Space and
Earth Science (ROSES) needs to be modified and/or expanded to
provide the proper avenue for such research.
● The full text of the RFI and response instructions can be found at:
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solI
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&method=initFindings & Recommendations on SMD ROSES Gaps RFI Kartik Sheth, Jack Kaye, Jared Leisner, Stephen Rinehart Thanks for dry run comments: Paul Hertz, Michael New, Louis Barbier Thanks also to M. Perez, E. Scannapieco, P. Knezek and S. Crawford for feedback on these slides. And thanks to M. Seablom for comments (this morning - not ingested yet)
Updates on Other On-Going Initiatives
1. Innovation Workshop ~ 88 participants - Thank you!
– Follow-on meeting in the next few weeks
– Some good ideas worth exploring further
2. S&T Partnerships: AI Onboard processing + Data Fusion
Challenge - on-going conversation (thank you for everyone who
participated in survey feedback + open office hours). Engaged
S. Crawford (newest SMD hire / Science Data Officer) in these.
3. QEM workshop today - Friedl, Maring, Rinehart, Amer,
Lorenzoni, Searby, Sheth - (200+ HBCU participants)Summary
1. We have summarized the RFI responses into findings & recommendations in five
categories (Technology, Data, Ground-based activity, Archives and Interdivisional
research) that warrant further discussion by the SMAC.
• We focused not on specific ideas (and there were many) but tried to collate them into broad
structural categories for our findings and recommendations.
2. Funding for our recommendations needs to be balanced against current programs.
3. Each area requires additional thinking and planning (stakeholder buy-in, leveraging of
cross-disciplinary expertise + necessary communication and management for
success).
4. The creation of new cross-disciplinary endeavors often requires the development of
new processes that end up unconstrained by many current structural, institutional, and
cultural barriers that reduce the effectiveness of SMD programs. By implementing
those new processes, SMD may discover the possible ways that our current structures
can be improved to be more inclusionary.Findings & Recommendations
F1. Technology development across multiple disciplines
could be better coordinated (e.g., mirror technology, sensors/
detectors; tightly coupled platforms & instruments, system-level
technologies).
R1a. SMD Chief Technologist to coordinate and create a directorate wide
gaps list with prioritization from the different disciplines (perhaps via
an innovation-style workshop or other means).
R1b. SMD Chief Technologist to facilitate better coordination / coherence
where applicable using “TechFed” (ESTO/PESTO/HESTO*/ASTO*)
R1c. TechFed to discuss and recommend whether a directorate-wide
technology effort to develop, fund and manage common, enabling
technologies and innovation is warranted (likely gains for low TRL
technology / component level).
An outstanding question remains on what to do about missions or
large-scale technology infusion / transition that might serve more than
one division (e.g. an interstellar probe). This is outside the scope of this
RFI on Gaps in SMD ROSES calls. However, efforts like Entrepreneur
SharkTank / Tech Fed may be addressing this issue.Findings & Recommendations
F2. Data science techniques and algorithms could be
better shared and coordinated across the directorate
for more efficient missions + data mining.
R2a. SDMWG investigate how to create appropriate mechanisms
for capturing and serving data science techniques +
algorithms that could be useful across SMD missions.
R2b. No immediate action needed for scientific and analytic
software as a SMD-wide policy to archive and make such
software available is already in progress (assign to our new
colleagues - Steve Crawford and/or Chief SDO?)
Attention and dedicated resources for software earlier in the mission
planning process could lead to higher ROI with good software/
hardware synergies. To do this, software development could be
emphasized more strongly in AO text, every SRB could require a
scientific analysis software expert, etc. Separate discussion is
probably required to explore this further by the SDO, DI and SDMWG.
● SDMWG - Science Data Management Working Group ● DI - Data Initiative
● SDO - Science (SMD?) Data Officer ● ROI - Return on InvestmentFindings & Recommendations
F3. Community desire for NASA to make larger investments in
ground-based items (telescopes, sensors/instruments, lab).
R3a. Better socialize to proposers, reviewers and program scientists that AOs
allow for costs of mission-essential ground-based work (e.g. TESS
follow-up, THEMIS, GENESIS). Also socialize and clarify opportunities
and flexibilities in R&A + roles of other agencies with community.
R3b. Continue to provide pathways to build NASA instruments on NSF or
other facilities (e.g. NEID) when compelling NASA needs arise (e.g.,
analogous to NASA instruments on an ESA mission). No action needed.
R3c. SDMWG to consider best ways to link relevant databases resulting from
laboratory research that may be useful across divisions (e.g.
spectroscopy of ices, atomic coefficients, etc.).
To implement this ISFM, directed work outside NASA, additions to
Appendix E in ROSES, and/or other creative solutions may be needed.Findings & Recommendations
F4. Community wants NASA to review and build more
holistic archives with appropriate policies for initiating,
maintaining and sunsetting archives.
R4a. The on-going Data Initiative is already primed to create the
appropriate inter-divisional communication / coordination between
archives in different divisions. Upon completion of DI, the SDO /
Chief SDO should communicate results back to community.
R4b. SDMWG beginning a discussion on developing a common
metadata standard. They may be able to look at the issue of
sharing archival data between divisions to maximize science.
Also in purview of SDO / Chief SDO.Findings & Recommendations
F5. Some research projects are specific short term projects
(e.g. airborne research over the Antarctic, Bridging the gap in
terrestrial impact craters) which are often second or third
priority for divisions. Others (e.g. sprites,
mesosphere-thermosphere coupling) fall between discipline
stovepipes.
R5a. Checkbox on NOIs and proposals to indicate if the research is
interdivisional and if so, allow PIs to add a paragraph explaining why
they think so. This gives a heads up to the relevant PS(s) to determine
how best to review it and where appropriate fund it.
Run this experiment for one or two years and analyze if interesting
interdisciplinary / inter-divisional ideas come up and whether there are
barriers to funding them.
We discussed other options such as a directorate wide fund, proactive
solicitation of interdisciplinary projects within or outside SMD, or bi-annual
Appendix E solicitations etc. but could not come to a consensus on how to
maintain flexibility to react to good interdivisional ideas when the individual
R&A programs are fully leveraged.Backup slides
Fries Studies of Meteorite Falls: Perpetually Between the Gaps
Naborshchikov Quark Engineering
Eppens OrbitGuardians eliminating space debris!
Eppens OrbitGuardians eliminating space debris!
Burns Philosophy
Wentz ROSES Opportunities for Climate Data Centers External to EOSDIS
The need for NASA to invest in transient luminous event and terrestrial gamma-ray flash science
Lang
Saxena Generic exoplanets
Frank Tightly Integrated Sensor Platforms
Braverman Uncertainty Quantification
Navrotsky Materials of the Universe
Lis Comets, ADAP
Funding Gaps in Supporting US-Based Scientists to Participate in Foreign Space Missions
Sayanagi
Kollmeier Ground-based followup
Lieberman Exploring mesospheric and lower thermospheric dynamics in an extended GEOS
Advancement of Calibration Methods and Technology for Spaceborne Science Instruments
Berkoff
Greene Solar system
Wind Multi-sensor Cloud and Aerosol Retrieval Simulator
Zemcov Interstellar probe
Alexander Exoplanets and Helio
Arbic Earth-Moon history over 4.5 billion years and impact on planetary habitabilityKassis Ground based / instrumentation
Som Earth as a exoplanet proxy
Dwyer Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) and High-Energy Atmospheric Physics
Barry Cross div data science
Youngblood EUV sun cubesat
Drouin Interdivisional equipment
Beichman Earth 2.0
Hong CXIS - cross div tech
Street Interdisp software
Staguhn NSf-NASA ground instrum
Roman NASA's Earth at Night Program
Trubl Expanding the Virosphere
Krishnamoorthy PSD w Balloons?
Extension of space geodesy to the cislunar space for support of sub-microarcsecond very long
Petrov baseline interferometry
Corwin Green-Gray Infrastructure: Nature and engineering as an interdivisional research area
Burtscher Automatic Generation of Lossless Data Compression Algorithms for Space Instruments
Earths Deep Time Climate: Clues to Modern Earth Climate Processes and Environmental
Guzewich Conditions on Rocky Exoplanets
Barbier Planetary System Science
A Point of Synergy between Cosmochemistry and Solar Physics: Elemental and Isotopic
Jurewicz Composition of the Solar Nebula derived from Samples and Solar Processes
Barbier Sustainably Living on the Moon and Mars
Barbier Geoengineering to combat climate changeNeveu Physical Oceanography in SMDs Earth and Planetary Science Divisions
Feigelson New data science ROSES
Laming Element and Isotopic Abundances in Heliophysics and Planetary Science
Understanding Sun Climate Connection through Solar Magnetic Field -Atmospheric Electricity -
Cai Cloud Microphysics Processes
Mandt Enabling Cross-Division Science through Participating Scientist Calls and Data Analysis Programs
Lewis Closing the GAP with fundamental new disruptive technology advancements.
Vines Extrasolar helio
Hartinger Interdisciplinary Research through Sonification of NASA datasets
Zacny Sample Acquisition, Handling and Delivery
Gaskin Cross div tech
Cai Advancing Sciences and Applications with Commercial Satellite Constellations
Kocevski Cross mission Roses
Keller Investments in Instrumentation for Interdisciplinary Research
Alexander Leveraging Data Sources to Enhance Broad-Based Public Engagement
Danielson Enhanced Mission Science through Rapid Responsive Analytical Techniques
A Need for a Joint ESD/PSD Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy Campaign and Associated Data
Farrand Analysis Program for the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica
more funding and effort to improve spectroscopy and develop new retrieval algorithms for active
Mao remote sensing of greenhouse gases
Applied Lunar Exploration Science:
Lawrence A key cross-directorate gap
Young Mature codes, databaseFreeman Guest Investigator Program for Cross-cutting and non-NASA deep space missions
Johnson Research on Efficient Use of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
MacNeice Tool, code dev
Cohen Ice Giants Research
Airapetian Planet host stars in time
Ehlmann Optical constants of minerals
SanSoucie Understanding Lunar regolith and how to operate in Lunar environment
German Ocean worlds / exoplanet
Smith Manufacturing readiness
Theiling Non-Robotic Science Autonomy Development
Comparative Climatology
Domagal-Goldman
Liu Global Profiling of Martian Pressure and Temperature
Mather Hardware cooperation w ground
Tamppari Missing research: Scientific validation of proposed techniques
Michell Ground-based instrumentation support in Heliophysics
Thieme Examination of Returned Samples from Mars using Synchrotron Radiation
Deficiency in Funding Opportunities for Research at the Intersection of Geosciences and
Harrington Biological Sciences
Leisawitz Oblique for interferometry / philosophy
Castillo Mission enabling lab data
MacGregor Bridging the interdivisional gap in studying terrestrial impact craters
Hogg Data analysis for mission
MacDonnell Outer Planetary Science Payload Development and Deployment OpportunityRegberg Research on Life Detection in situ and in Returned and Analog Samples
Villarreal Common Platforms for Small Body Science and Heliophysics: Expanding the Rideshare Paradigm
Moore Applying Earth Science Data to Air Quality Management and Public Health Decisions
On The Need for NASA Institutional Support for Basic Research in Heliophysics Using Alternative
Seaton Observations
Palotai Observing and Modeling Asteroid and Comet Impacts into Earth's Atmosphere
vahidinia Interdisciplinary links in radiative transfer and applications to remote observations
Research That Falls in a Gap between current SMD Solicitations: Astrobiology and Materials
Arroyo Science
The Diversity of Shapes and Sizes for Small Bodies: Enabling New Foundational Science as
Buie Pathways to Future Mission Concepts
Sutton Monitoring the Upper Atmosphere Across SMD Divisions
Probing the 3-D Structures and Growth of Protoplanetary Dust Grains and Aggregates with
Hu High-Sensitivity and High-Resolution X-ray Nanotomography
Stone Improving the Accuracy of Sensors and Level-1 Datasets from NASA Space Assets
Remote sensing of physical and biochemical processes to study the upper-ocean ecosystem and
Maximenko its interaction with floating marine debris
Kuo Snow-algae distributions and feedbacks with dust for snowmelt dynamics
On the need for NASA support of competitively-developed end-user platforms/facilities to enable
Caspi gap-filling researchFindings & SMD Actions in Response F3. Data science techniques and algorithms could be better shared and coordinated across the directorate for more efficient missions + data mining. ACTION (NEW): SMD has started long term strategic discussion on how to better integrate software earlier in the mission planning process (Double check with FO/DDs). DELETE?
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