The Growing Importance of a Tech Savvy Astronomy and Astrophysics Workforce
The Growing Importance of a Tech Savvy Astronomy and Astrophysics Workforce
Fundamental coding and software development skills are increasingly necessary for success in nearly every aspect of astronomical and astrophysical research as large surveys and high resolution simulations become the norm. However, professional training in these skills is inaccessible or impractical for many members of our community. Students and professionals alike have been expected to acquire these skills on their own, apart from formal classroom curriculum or on-the-job training. Despite the recognized importance of these skills, there is little opportunity to develop them - even for interested researchers. To ensure a workforce capable of taking advantage of the computational resources and the large volumes of data coming in the next decade, we must identify and support ways to make software development training widely accessible to community members, regardless of affiliation or career level. To develop and sustain a technology capable astronomical and astrophysical workforce, we recommend that agencies make funding and other resources available in order to encourage, support and, in some cases, require progress on necessary training, infrastructure and policies. In this white paper, we focus on recommendations for how funding agencies can lead in the promotion of activities to support the astronomy and astrophysical workforce in the 2020s.
Kelle Cruz、Eric Bellm、Frossie Economou、Adrian Price-Whelan、Erik Tollerud、Brian Cherinka、Jeyhan Kartaltepe、Arfon Smith、Dara Norman、Gautham Narayan、Chad Schafer、Manodeep Sinha、Joseph Harrington、Amanda Bauer、Dany Vohl、Wolfgang Kerzendorf、Chuanfei Dong、Ting Li、Federica Bianco、Chi-kwan Chan、Heloise Stevance、Benjamin Weiner、Brigitta Sipocz、Vandana Desai、Brian Nord、Maryam Modjaz、Timothy Pickering、Iva Laginja、Britt Lundgren
Hunter CollegeUniversity of WashingtonLSSTCenter for Computational Astrophysics Flatiron InstituteSpace Telescope Science InstituteJohns Hopkins UniversityRochester Institute of TechnologySTScINOAOSTScICarnegie Mellon UniversitySwinburne University of Technology ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions ASTRO 3DUniversity of Central FloridaLSSTASTRON Netherlands Institute for Radio AstronomyMichigan State UniversityPrinceton UniversityFermi LabUniversity of DelawareSteward Observatory University of ArizonaUniversity of Auckland University of SheffieldMMT Observatory University of ArizonaDIRAC Institute University of WashingtonCaltech IPAC-IRSAFermi LabNYUMMT ObservatorySpace Telescope Science InstituteUniversity of North Carolina Asheville
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Kelle Cruz,Eric Bellm,Frossie Economou,Adrian Price-Whelan,Erik Tollerud,Brian Cherinka,Jeyhan Kartaltepe,Arfon Smith,Dara Norman,Gautham Narayan,Chad Schafer,Manodeep Sinha,Joseph Harrington,Amanda Bauer,Dany Vohl,Wolfgang Kerzendorf,Chuanfei Dong,Ting Li,Federica Bianco,Chi-kwan Chan,Heloise Stevance,Benjamin Weiner,Brigitta Sipocz,Vandana Desai,Brian Nord,Maryam Modjaz,Timothy Pickering,Iva Laginja,Britt Lundgren.The Growing Importance of a Tech Savvy Astronomy and Astrophysics Workforce[EB/OL].(2019-10-17)[2025-06-29].https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08376.点此复制
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