SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics



Addressing the Mysteries of Inner Heliospheric Dynamics from a Multi-Spacecraft Vantage Point
Primary Convener:  Robert Colby Allen, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Lan Jian, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 6710, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Lina Hadid, LPP, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Paris, France and Yuming Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Primary Liaison:  Robert Colby Allen, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States


Amplifying Parker Solar Probe Science with Contextual Simulations and Supporting Observations
Primary Convener:  Rohit Chhiber, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Nathalia Alzate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Anna Tenerani, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States, Steven R Cranmer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rohit Chhiber, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, DE, United States


An Expedition to the Poles: Exploring the Science of the Sun’s Polar Regions
Primary Convener:  Lisa Upton
Convener:  Nicholas Andrew Featherstone, University of Colorado Boulder, Applied Mathematics, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lisa Upton


Artemis: Space Weather enabling humanity’s return to the Moon leading to new heliophysics and space weather insights
Primary Convener:  Alexa Jean Halford, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Michael R. Cook, Wyle Laboratories inc. / JSC NASA, Houston, TX, United States, Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Yaireska M Collado-Vega, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alexa Jean Halford, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Causes and Impact of Geomagnetically Induced Currents
Primary Convener:  Chigomezyo Mudala Ngwira, Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates, LLC, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Chigomezyo Mudala Ngwira, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Sean Patrick Blake, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Primary Liaison:  Chigomezyo Mudala Ngwira, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Coronal Magnetic Eruptions: from Birth to Death
Primary Convener:  Nada A Al-Haddad, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
Convener:  Erika Palmerio, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Benjamin J Lynch, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


Cyber-infrastructure for Solar Physics
Primary Convener:  Petrus C Martens, Georgia State University, Physics and Astronomy, Atlanta, GA, United States
Conveners:  Veronique Delouille, Observatoire Royal de Belgique, Brussel, Belgium, Andres Munoz-Jaramillo, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Madhulika Guhathakurta, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Shinsuke Imada, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Petrus C Martens, Georgia State University, Physics and Astronomy, Atlanta, GA, United States


Data Mining for Science of the Middle Solar Corona
Primary Convener:  Nathalia Alzate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States; ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  James Paul Mason, University of Colorado Boulder, LASP, Boulder, CO, United States; Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Matthew John West, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium; Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States and Laurel Rachmeler, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nathalia Alzate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States; ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Space Sciences
Primary Convener:  Jennifer L Gannon, Computational Physics Inc., Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Mark B. Moldwin, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Lisa Winter, National Science Foundation, Arlington, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer L Gannon, Computational Physics Inc., Boulder, CO, United States


Energy Transfer and Dissipation in Plasma Turbulence: From MHD to Kinetic Scales
Primary Convener:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Nahuel Andres Sr, IAFE, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tulasi N Parashar, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, Minping Wan, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China and Rohit Chhiber, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, DE, United States
Primary Liaison:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States


Enhancing heliophysics and space weather research by improving information architecture
Primary Convener:  Arnaud Masson, European Space Agency, Villanueva De La Can, Spain
Convener:  Shing F Fung, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shing F Fung, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Fast Magnetic Reconnection Onset from Sun to Earth
Primary Convener:  Qiang Hu, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Space Science and CSPAR, Huntsville, AL, United States and NASA LWS FST Team #2: Fast Magnetic Reconnection Onset (http://fluxrope.info/onset)
Conveners:  Ying Zou, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, James A Klimchuk, NASA GSFC, Solar Physics Lab, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Christopher Mouikis, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and NASA LWS FST Team #2: Fast Magnetic Reconnection Onset (http://fluxrope.info/onset)
Primary Liaison:  Qiang Hu, CSPAR/UA Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and NASA LWS FST Team #2: Fast Magnetic Reconnection Onset (http://fluxrope.info/onset)


First science results from the Solar Orbiter mission
Primary Convener:  Yannis Zouganelis, European Space Agency, ESAC, Villanueva De La Can, Spain
Conveners:  Daniel Mueller, European Space Agency, ESTEC, SCI-SCP, Noordwijk, Netherlands, Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and David Lario, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yannis Zouganelis, European Space Agency, ESAC, Villanueva De La Can, Spain


From the Sun to the Local Interstellar Medium
Primary Convener:  Matina Gkioulidou, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Reka Moldovan Winslow, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Daniel Brett Reisenfeld, Los Alamos National Laboratory, ISR-1, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Maher A Dayeh, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States and Jamie Sue Rankin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Matina Gkioulidou, JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States


Fundamental Physics of Solar Coronal Heating: Theory, Observations and Simulations
Primary Convener:  Mehmet Sarp Yalim, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, Huntsville, AL, United States
Convener:  Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mehmet Sarp Yalim, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, Huntsville, AL, United States


Fundamental Physics of the Solar Corona and Inner Heliosphere
Primary Convener:  Marco C M Velli, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Olga Panasenco, Advanced Heliophysics, Pasadena, CA, United States and Chadi S Salem, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yannis Zouganelis, European Space Agency, ESAC, Villanueva De La Can, Spain


High-Energy Solar Investigations Through Next-Generation Remote Sensing: Spectroscopy, Imaging, and Beyond
Primary Convener:  Amir Caspi, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Lindsay Glesener, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, United States, Jenna Samra, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States and P. S. Athiray, Universities Space Research Association Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Amir Caspi, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States


Interstellar Probe: a mission through the heliosphere edge into the local interstellar space
Primary Convener:  Elena Provornikova, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Parisa Mostafavi, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Benjamin L Alterman, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, MI, United States and Justyna Sokol, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
Primary Liaison:  Justyna Sokol, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States


Measurement Techniques for Space Plasma
Primary Convener:  Jason A Gilbert, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Conveners:  Keiichi Ogasawara, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, Georgios Nicolaou, UTSA, Rymdcampus, San Antonio, TX, United States and Phyllis L Whittlesey, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jason A Gilbert, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States


Near-Sun Parker Solar Probe Observations of the Young Solar Wind
Primary Convener:  Robert B Decker, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Kristoff W Paulson, University of New Hampshire, Chelmsford, MA, United States, Tatiana Niembro Hernandez, UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Fac. de Ciencias, Mexico City, Mexico, Adam Szabo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Robert B Decker, The Johns Hopkins University. Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kristoff W Paulson, University of New Hampshire, Chelmsford, MA, United States


Observing and Modeling the Solar Atmosphere: Recent Findings and Future Challenges.
Primary Convener:  Serena Criscuoli, National Solar Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Maria Kazachenko, University of Colorado at Boulder, LASP, Boulder, CO, United States and Irina Kitiashvili, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Serena Criscuoli, National Solar Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States


Origins of Long Duration Gamma-Ray Emission at the Sun
Primary Convener:  Silvia Dalla, University of Central Lancashire, Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, Preston, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Georgia Adair de Nolfo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Alessandro Bruno, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Silvia Dalla, University of Central Lancashire, Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, Preston, United Kingdom


Python Applications for Solar and Space Physics
Primary Convener:  Julie I Barnum, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Shawn Polson, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Nicholas A Murphy, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, United States and Jonathan T. Niehof, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Julie I Barnum, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States


Quantifying the Performance of Space Weather Forecast Models
Primary Convener:  Talwinder Singh, University of Alabama in Huntsville, CSPAR, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Ming Zhang, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States, Jun Wang, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States and Peng Mun Siew, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Talwinder Singh, University of Alabama in Huntsville, CSPAR, Huntsville, AL, United States


Revealing multiscale plasma dynamics and properties of turbulence in three dimensions: Insights from multispacecraft observations from Cluster and MMS to Helioswarm and beyond.
Primary Convener:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Bennett Maruca, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, Julia E Stawarz, Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, SW7, United Kingdom and Li J Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States


Small-scale Coherent Magnetic Structures in the Solar Wind and Particle Energization
Primary Convener:  Lingling Zhao, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Gary Paul Zank, Univ of Alabama, Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Daniele Telloni, National Institute for Astrophysics Astrophysical Observatory of Torino Via Osservatorio 20, Pino Torinese, Italy, Qiang Hu, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Space Science, Huntsville, AL, United States and Fan Guo, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lingling Zhao, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, Huntsville, AL, United States


Solar and Heliospheric Physics: General Contributions
Primary Convener:  Christina O Lee, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Romina Nikoukar, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Amy M Keesee, University of New Hampshire, Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christina O Lee, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


Solar Flare Onset and Energy Release
Primary Convener:  James Frederick Drake, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Dale E Gary, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States, Marina Battaglia, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Windisch, Switzerland, Fan Guo, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Katharine Reeves, Smithsonian Institution, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dale E Gary, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States


Solar flows and fields from the interior to the exterior and implications for magnetic activity
Primary Convener:  J Todd Hoeksema, Stanford University, HEPL, Stanford, CA, United States
Convener:  Mausumi Dikpati, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States; High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  J Todd Hoeksema, Stanford University, HEPL, Stanford, CA, United States


Space Weather Strategy, White Papers, and Roadmaps: Pathways to the Future
Primary Convener:  Mario Mark Bisi, United Kingdom Research and Innovation – Science & Technology Facilities Council - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jennifer L Gannon, Computational Physics Inc., Boulder, CO, United States and Sophie Murray, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), Astronomy and Astrophysics Section, Dublin, Ireland
Primary Liaison:  Mario Mark Bisi, United Kingdom Research and Innovation – Science & Technology Facilities Council - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom


The Globally Connected Corona and Heliosphere
Primary Convener:  Daniel B Seaton, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, United States; Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Aleida Katherine Higginson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Sarah E Gibson, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Daniel B Seaton, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, United States; Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States


Turbulence, magnetic reconnection, and particle acceleration in the solar corona and the solar wind
Primary Convener:  Stas Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Conveners:  Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, Nuno Loureiro, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, MA, United States and Christopher H K Chen, Queen Mary University of London, School of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Stas Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States


Turbulence, waves, and instabilities in the heliosheath and very local interstellar medium
Primary Convener:  Federico Fraternale, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Jacob Heerikhuisen, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand and Jamie Sue Rankin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Federico Fraternale, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy


Understanding coronal magnetic field with observations and models
Primary Convener:  Shaela I Jones, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Convener:  Nishu Karna, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shaela I Jones, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Understanding Large Solar Energetic Particle Events
Primary Convener:  Lulu Zhao, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Conveners:  Fan Guo, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, David Lario, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Mihir Indrajit Desai, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lulu Zhao, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States


Using Alternative Theoretical Approach to Study the Magnetic Fields of the Sun and the Interplanetary Space
Primary Convener:  Mahmoud E. E Yousif, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Conveners:  Endawoke Yizengaw, Boston College, Institute for Scientific Research, Boston, United States and Mahmoud E. E Yousif, The University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Primary Liaison:  Mahmoud E. E Yousif, The University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya


Waves and turbulence upstream and downstream of collisionless shocks: properties, generation mechanisms and transmission
Primary Convener:  Primoz Kajdic, Geophysics Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Space Science Department, Mexico City, Mexico
Conveners:  Lucile Turc, University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, Helsinki, Finland, Alexandra L Brosius, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Lina Hadid, LPP, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Paris, France
Primary Liaison:  Primoz Kajdic, Geophysics Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Space Science Department, Mexico City, Mexico


“All-clear” Prediction of Solar Energetic Particle Events: Understanding the Progress and Demands
Primary Convener:  Viacheslav M Sadykov, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States
Conveners:  Irina Kitiashvili, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Hazel M Bain, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States and Rafal Angryk, Georgia State University, Computer Science, Atlanta, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Viacheslav M Sadykov, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States


Small Satellites as Pathfinders for New Mission Capabilities
Primary Convener:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Charles D Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Pamela Millar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and David M Klumpar, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
Primary Liaison:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States