I hope that members of the AAS Solar Physics Division (SPD) find the links and resources below useful. Most items below are links to outside web pages, but there is some original content (denoted by LOCAL). In the links, I've tried to emphasize quality over quantity by assembling URLs that are not widely known, but in some places I've found it convenient to add some ``well-known'' links in order to have a central location where I can find them easily!

I'll try to keep this page up to date, but if anyone discovers that any links below have either expired or changed, please let me know (see FEEDBACK below).

FUNDING SOURCES:

NASA and NSF are the two mainstays for American solar physicists, so most readers are probably already aware of these sites:

• NASA Research Opportunities (overall)
• Shortcuts for NASA Code S (Office of Space Science): Open and Future proposal solicitations

• NSF Grants and Awards (overview) and Funding Opportunities
• Specific lists of NSF funding opportunities in Math and Physical Sciences, Geosciences, and Education

Many solar physicists also consider themselves something else (e.g., plasma physicists, astrophysicists, space physicists, atomic physicists), so these other U.S. Federal sources of funding may also be useful:

• NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) opportunities for research associateships and grants
• See also NOAA's Grants Management Division

• DOE (Department of Energy) opportunities (top-level), see also specific Office of Science solicitations

• DARPA research solicitations (U.S. Defense Advance Research Projects Agency)
• Office of Naval Research top-level page (click on ``BAAs'' for most recent opportunities)
• Army Research Office top-level page, specifically: Physics and Mathematics research announcements
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research program solicitations

• NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) funding opportunities

Non-U.S. funding sources for solar physics include the following:

• The UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) funds research in many areas relevant to solar physics
• The European Space Agency (ESA) provides research fellowships via its Research and Scientific Support Department
• The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) supports visiting scientists

Finally, if you're just starting out and haven't read the AAS's assembled Hints on Preparing Research Proposals, I strongly suggest taking a look.

JOB AND CAREER RESOURCES:

• Look here first: AAS . . . APS . . . AGU . . . AAAS
  (The societies have already assembled many useful links of career services - often one need go no further)

• Some insightful Advice to the Young Astronomer, by Ed Nather.
• Job/career issues tend to get involved with wider Public Policy issues!

• More advice to take or leave: Science is not necessarily about ``consensus!''
  (the link is to a long, but insightful speech by Michael Crichton)

COMMUNITY / MEETINGS:

• Directories of peoples' addresses (some requiring log-in) . . . SolarMail . . . AAS . . . AGU

• SOHO's compilation of upcoming solar conferences and workshops
• Liz Bryson's comprehensive International Astronomy Meetings List
• Society/agency meeting pages . . . AAS . . . AGU . . . IAU . . . APS . . . ESA
• PhysNet's links to lists of physics conferences, workshops, and summer schools
• IEEE's list of upcoming plasma physics conferences

• My subjective opinions about where to hold SPD meetings (LOCAL)

FUN:

• Telling time by the Sun
• Andrew Frankoi's list of Science Fiction stories sorted by astronomy topic: The Sun
• Trivia quiz: songs about the Sun (given the titles, guess the artists)
• Great moments in the history of solar physics
• Moldwin's timeline of solar-terrestrial physics
• You can't get too far without making some approximations!
• Links to myths and folklore about the Sun, from . . . UCAR . . . Stanford . . . about.com

• Extensive solar links pages . . . AstroWeb . . . SOHO Explore . . . NASA Orpheus . . . SEDS

• Celebrating our History: A Solar Physics Almanac (LOCAL)

FEEDBACK:

I'm happy to address questions or comments about anything on this web page, or anything else that I might be able to do in my capacity as an SPD Committee member.

Just send me email at:   scranmer @ cfa.harvard.edu     (remove spaces to use address; an attempt at anti-spam)