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Helio friends,
I hope you had a wonderful, relaxing, and safe Thanksgiving! We have had a very full month of exciting events, and more to come as we approach the end of 2020.
The American Geophysical Union Fall 2020 meeting is upon us! We had the opportunity to participate in an Early Career Mixer on Dec. 3, which was an excellent opportunity to talk to early career scientists. Coming up, members of the Heliophysics Division will be participating in the Living with a Star (LWS) Town Hall today, Dec. 10, at 7 pm EST and will give a status update on the program, missions, and ROSES. The Rideshare Office will also be giving an eLighting presentation on Dec. 14 at 7 pm EST on some of their findings from the Access2Space workshop from earlier this year. The Heliophysics Town Hall will take place on Dec. 14 at 1 pm EST where I will provide an overview of the division and highlight some important topics we are engaged in. Please also take a look at the Heliophysics tab in the NASA Booth at the AGU Exhibit Hall and say hello in the Group Chat.
HERMES was recently featured on nasa.gov about the instrument suite’s ability to help support future space weather forecast capabilities for Artemis astronauts as part of the Lunar Gateway. Additionally, a call went out recently for HERMES Interdisciplinary Science Teams as an amendment in ROSES-20. HERMES Interdisciplinary Science Teams will conduct science investigations addressing the HERMES science objectives and additional science objectives enabled by HERMES observations at Gateway. Step-1 proposals due are due Jan. 7, 2021 and Step-2 proposals are due Feb. 25, 2021.
We have some exciting new features on our site as well including an anniversary piece on SOHO’s quarter-of-a-century orbit and a feature on an incredible solar eruption captured by SDO. You can also find the press release highlighting the recent STP selections I mentioned in my note last week. Congrats again to GLIDE and Solar Cruiser! The podcast NASA’s Curious Universe released an episode recently called “Seasons of the Sun.” You can watch the most recent SMD town hall here, and if you have been worried you won’t get your 2021 NASA Science Planning Guide (aka NASA Science Calendar), you can request one here!
The Science Mission Directorate also released a ROSES-20 amendment for Post-COVID Recovery. The program element seeks to mitigate the damage of the pandemic response from falling disproportionately on a subset of the SMD science community by providing the opportunity to request augmentations and funded extensions to existing research and technology development awards. More information can be found here, and the final due date is Mar. 5, 2021.
The Proceedings book from the Solar Polarization Workshop #8, held in Sept. 2016, just came out, and the cover image features one of the important first results from the CLASP sounding rocket of 2015. The mission provided the first-ever polarization measurements of ultraviolet light emitted from the Sun's outer atmosphere. The book cover is a testament to the impact of sounding rockets to the developing new field of UV spectropolarimetry. Congratulations to NASA PI and Project Scientist for this mission Amy Winebarger and Ken Kobayashi.
Additionally, a paper by Gurnett et al. titled “A Foreshock Model for Interstellar Shocks of Solar Origin: Voyager 1 and 2 Observations” was just published in the Astronomical Journal, Volume 161. We are looking forward to this paper and others in the coming months exploring data from Voyager 1 and 2’s journeys into interstellar space.
We have also had a number of staffing changes since I last wrote to you. It is with mixed emotions that we say goodbye to Program Executive Willis Jenkins as he retires at the end of the year. Willis has been an integral part of this division for many years and while we are all very excited for this new chapter in his life, he will be deeply missed.
At the same time, we are delighted to have Patrick Koehn and John McCormack joining us as Program Scientists. Welcome!
It has been a busy few weeks and we are excited about what’s to come! (One big thing coming up: the total solar eclipse in South America on Dec. 14. I know a lot of people wish they could have been there in person, but if you'd like to watch the eclipse virtually in real time, you can tune into NASA TV at 10:30 am ET on Dec. 14 for a live stream of the eclipse here and for a Spanish show here.)
It’s a great time to be a Heliophysicist.

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Nicky  
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