摘要：As part of the National Research Council’s (NRC) Space Studies Board (SSB) Solar and Space Physics (SSP) Decadal Survey Process, a Working Group was formed to examine Education and Workforce issues and help assess the health of the SSP field. As part of the Decadal Survey,theWorkingGroupconductedasuiteoffivestudies that looked into a wide range of characteristics of the field, including the first comprehensive demographic survey of the SSP field, a qualitative study of graduate students’ pathways into SSP graduate programs and their envisioned career goals. This article focuses on describing efforts to explore the balance between PhD production and job opportunitiesin solar and space physics. This is relevant not only in the academic research enterprise but also to applied fields in government and industry such as space weather forecasting, engineered system design, and space system operations.
