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A Need for Dedicated Outreach Expertise and Online Programming: Astro2020 Science White Paper
Amanda E Bauer, Britt Lundgren, William O'Mullane +4
Maximizing the public impact of astronomy projects in the next decade requires NSF-funded centers to support the development of online, mobile-friendly outreach and education activ…
The Growing Importance of a Tech Savvy Astronomy and Astrophysics Workforce
Dara Norman, Kelle Cruz, Vandana Desai +26
Fundamental coding and software development skills are increasingly necessary for success in nearly every aspect of astronomical and astrophysical research as large surveys and hig…
Infrastructure and Strategies for Time Domain and MMA and Follow-Up
B. W. Miller, L. Allen, E. Bellm +28
Time domain and multi-messenger astrophysics are growing and important modes of observational astronomy that will help define astrophysics in the 2020s. Significant effort is being…
The Data Lab: A Science Platform for the analysis of ground-based astronomical survey data
Knut Olsen, Adam Bolton, Stephanie Juneau +6
The next decade will feature a growing number of massive ground-based photometric, spectroscopic, and time-domain surveys, including those produced by DECam, DESI, and LSST. The NO…
Astro2020 APC White Paper: Tying Research Funding to Progress on Inclusion
Dara Norman, Terri Brandt, Zack Berta-Thompson +12
The US professional astronomy and astrophysics fields are not representative of the diversity of people in the nation. For example, 2017 AIP reports show that in 2014, women made u…
Astro2020 APC White Paper: Providing a Timely Review of Input Demographics to Advisory Committees
Dara Norman, Terri J. Brandt, Nancy D. Morrison +12
Organizations that support science (astronomy) such as federal agencies, research centers, observatories, academic institutions, societies, etc. employ advisory committees and boar…
Astro2020 APC White Paper: Elevating the Role of Software as a Product of the Research Enterprise
Arfon M. Smith, Dara Norman, Kelle Cruz +42
Software is a critical part of modern research, and yet there are insufficient mechanisms in the scholarly ecosystem to acknowledge, cite, and measure the impact of research softwa…
Petabytes to Science
Amanda E. Bauer, Eric C. Bellm, Adam S. Bolton +24
A Kavli foundation sponsored workshop on the theme \emph{Petabytes to Science} was held 12 to 14 of February 2019 in Las Vegas. The aim of the this workshop was to di…
Astro2020 Science White Paper: Science Platforms for Resolved Stellar Populations in the Next Decade
Knut A. G. Olsen, Melissa Graham, Dara Norman +2
Over the past decade, research in resolved stellar populations has made great strides in exploring the nature of dark matter, in unraveling the star formation, chemical enrichment,…