Australian Academy of Science
Decadal PlanBackground
As many of you will be aware, the Australian astronomical community carries out a formal strategic planning process on a 10-year time scale; with reviews as/when appropriate. This process is run by the National Committee for Astronomy and provides the opportunity for Australian astronomy to carry out a stocktake of its capabilties, assess its impact both nationally and internationally, provide a vision for the future and to set priorities and develop strategies on how that vision might be implemented.
The resultant Decadal Plan can then be used as a highly influential document to present our vision to key stakeholders outside the research sector. This includes Australian Astronomy's key stakeholder, the Commonwealth Government, as well as industrial/research partners both nationally and internationally.
The currency of the last Decadal planning process ran from 1995-2005; with a mid-term review in 2001. It is now time, therefore to consider the next Decadal planning process for the period 2006-15.
Working Groups
Working Group Terms of Reference, Context and Guidelines Working Groups membersTimescale
The following time scale was also proposed:Consistent with that time scale the community are now asked to:
Please provide your input to me at the following email address: decadal.plan@csiro.au.
The deadline for submissions is August 13.
Editorial Board
Editorial Board Members:Presentations