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Dear MIST Community,
The following appeared in the January UK Solar Physics Newsletter, and
might be of interest:
Steve
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Regarding the STFC cuts, we have had the following communication from
Prof Keith Mason, Chief Executive of STFC, via a couple of senior
members of our community (to whom we are grateful for taking up the
issue directly and communicating the result to us).
In reply to a query about why Solar Physics finds no explicit mention
in the STFC Delivery Plan, Prof Mason writes:
"Rest assured that the questions listed in the Delivery Plan are
examples only and not intended to be exhaustive. We simply cannot
include the full breadth of the new Council in any reasonable length
list in the same way as we used to in PPARC. The list of PP & A
questions, as given on http://www.so.stfc.ac.uk/roadmap/rmHome.aspx
remains unchanged however. While the Sun (and a number of other topics)
are not mentioned in the delivery plan explicitly, Solar missions are
contained in generic statements re ESA and post-launch support etc. You
are correct to infer that there was a strict page limit to the plan, and
there was a set list of topics that we had to cover in order to gain the
funding allocation that we did which left limited room for a description
of the programme. We concentrated on those areas where there is explicit
change. "
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