Astro2020 White Paper Coordination Hub Available

Mark Dickinson and Joan Najita, NOAO

To help you develop and share your Science White Papers for the 2020 Decadal Survey, NOAO has a created a community coordination hub:

https://noirlab.edu/science/resources/decadal-survey/astro2020hub

where you can submit topics for potential white papers, review topics suggested by others, post comments, find other people with similar interests who may want to collaborate on white papers, and provide links to completed white papers.

NOAO has a particular interest in topics for which ground-based optical-infrared (OIR) capabilities may be relevant, but this hub is open to submissions in any area of astronomy and astrophysics. We hope that you will find it useful, and we encourage you to post your white paper ideas soon, well in advance of the 11 March submission deadline, in order to facilitate potential opportunities for collaboration and coordination.

The NOAO hub also has links to other community-based Decadal Survey resources, including AstroSlack2020 (a Slack channel for Astro2020 discussion) and white paper coordination sites maintained by NRAO and the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG). We encourage you to use all of these resources to reach out to as broad and diverse an audience of potential white paper collaborators as possible.