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29 March 2024
 
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The Growing Importance of a Tech Savvy Astronomy and Astrophysics Workforce
Dara Norman ; Kelle Cruz ; Vandana Desai ; Britt Lundgren ; Eric Bellm ; Frossie Economou ; Arfon Smith ; Amanda Bauer ; Brian Nord ; Chad Schafer ; Gautham Narayan ; Ting Li ; Erik Tollerud ; Brigitta Sipocz ; Heloise Stevance ; Timothy Pickering ; Manodeep Sinha ; Joseph Harrington ; Jeyhan Kartaltepe ; Dany Vohl ; Adrian Price-Whelan ; Brian Cherinka ; Chi-kwan Chan ; Benjamin Weiner ; Maryam Modjaz ; Federica Bianco ; Wolfgang Kerzendorf ; Iva Laginja ; Chuanfei Dong ;
Date 17 Oct 2019
AbstractFundamental 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.
Source arXiv, 1910.8376
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