Newsletter 16-21

Issue 16-21, June 14, 2016

 

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1)IN MEMORIAM: ANDRE BRAHIC (1942-2016)

2)REMINDER: DPS 48/EPSC 11 ABSTRACT DEADLINE MOVED UP ONE DAY TO JUNE 22

3)HARTMANN STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS FOR DPS 48/EPSC 11

4)WHITE PAPER ON THE VALUE OF PARTICIPATING SCIENCE PROGRAMS ON NASA PLANETARY MISSIONS

5)SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 2016 EDITION OF THE IAC WINTER SCHOOL

6)UPCOMING MEETINGS

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IN MEMORIAM: ANDRE BRAHIC (1942-2016)

 

The planetary community, and in particular his French colleagues and friends, 

are very sad to announce the passing of André Brahic. Professor at the University 

Paris-Diderot, based at the Observatory of Paris until 1995 and the AIM laboratory 

at CEA Saclay, André Brahic devoted most of his career to the study of solar system

bodies, in particular of planetary rings and the formation of planets, but started out

by working on the chaos theory, the dynamics of galaxies and the supernovas. He 

was a member of the scientific teams of the cameras on Voyager 1 and 2, through 

which he made many discoveries and notably confirmed the existence of Neptune 

rings and the arcs of the Adams ring, that he had predicted. With an international 

team, he showed that the Adams ring, is actually composed of four arcs that he and 

his collaborators baptized “Courage”, “Liberté”, “Egalité”, “Fraternité” (CLEF for 

“KEY” in French). He was also a member of the science team on the Cassini mission, 

still returning amazing science results from the Saturnian system, that André would 

have liked to follow until the mission’s end.  André Brahic was of course also an 

extraordinary communicator, who transmitted his passion for science and astrophysics 

to generations of students and to the public. This has probably incited many of today’s

astronomers career choices, as it was for me – André was my professor during the

Master degree. He knew how to communicate his enthusiasm for science to everyone, 

whatever their level of education. André Brahic received the DPS Carl Sagan Medal 

in 2001 and the Jean Perrin 2006 award for scientific popularization. In July 2015,

he received the insignia of Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in France.  André Brahic 

has left an impressive heritage and will always be remembered as a great scientist, 

a great teacher and a great advocate of communicating with the public. 

 

Athena Coustenis

 

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REMINDER: DPS 48/EPSC 11 ABSTRACT DEADLINE MOVED UP ONE 

DAY TO JUNE 22 

 

As a result of the AAS moving to new offices this month, we have moved up 

the abstract deadline for this Fall’s DPS/EPSC meeting in Pasadena to 

Wednesday June 22 at 9:00 PM (21:00) Eastern Daylight Time.  The AAS 

will be physically unplugging the servers to migrate them to the new offices 

on the old deadline date.  Apologies for the change, but it’s the best solution 

under the circumstances. Please update your calendars with the new date:

 

9:00 PM EDT Wednesday June 22, 2016

 

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HARTMANN STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS FOR DPS 48/EPSC 11

 

A generous contribution from William K. Hartmann, supplemented by member 

contributions and matching funds from the DPS Committee, has enabled a limited 

number of student travel grants to assist participation by early-career scientists at 

the annual DPS meeting. 

 

Application details are at meetings/travel_grant_application

 

Travel grants are primarily intended for students, but post-doctoral scientists 

without other means of support will also be considered.  

 

The due date for applications is July 8, 2016 11:59 PM.  

 

The DPS Leadership is also soliciting additional contributions from members 

for the Hartmann Fund. Your tax-deductible gift promotes the careers of our next 

generation of planetary scientists. Thanks so much for your generosity.

 

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WHITE PAPER ON THE VALUE OF PARTICIPATING SCIENCE 

PROGRAMS ON NASA PLANETARY MISSIONS 

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

On behalf of the Assessment/Advisory Groups (OPAG, MEPAG, VEXAG, 

SBAG, LEAG and CAPTEM), we are preparing a white paper about the value 

of Participating Science programs on NASA planetary missions, and how the 

usefulness of such programs might be maximized. This white paper will be 

delivered to NASA and made available to the scientific community.

 

 

To help with the study, we have prepared a survey to gather opinions and 

perceptions about Participating Scientist programs and experiences. (Please note, 

we consider Guest Investigators and Interdisciplinary Scientists to also be a type 

of Participating Scientist). Please consider responding to this survey whether or 

not you have been a Participating Scientist on a NASA mission. We will be 

contacting mission Principle Investigators and Project Scientists separately 

about their experiences, but all are welcome to fill out this survey; please 

answer as many or as few questions as you wish.

 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1S-QzqQX6hgdl709VL5MMEBZbjHzti4Z8dHbvpLPLwOk/viewform

 

If you have any questions about the survey or the white paper, please contact [email protected].

 

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SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 2016 EDITION OF THE IAC WINTER SCHOOL

This announcement is to remind you of the XXVIII Edition of the IAC 
Winter School, organized by the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias 
and focused on the exploration of the Solar System. The school will 
be held in the UNESCO word heritage city of San Cristobal de La Laguna, 
in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) in November, 7-16, 2016.

The school is intended for post-graduate students in Astrophysics/
Planetary Sciences completing their PhD, and also to young postdocs. 
It is limited to 50 participants, and will provide several advanced 
courses in specific topics like planetary space missions, asteroids, 
comets, origin and evolution of the Solar System and a small workshop 
on planetary data archiving and image processing.

The students will have the opportunity to present a poster with their 
recent work. 

Registration deadline is June, 15th 

For more details visit our website: 

http://www.iac.es/winterschool/2016/

 

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UPCOMING MEETINGS

 

A) ENCELADUS AND THE ICY MOONS OF SATURN

     26-29 July 2016

     Boulder, Colorado            

 

     Early Registration Deadline: 24 June 2016

 

     http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/enceladus2016/registration/

 

 B) GSA ANNUAL MEETING 2016 SESSION T172. TECTONIC, 

      VOLCANIC, AND VOLCANOTECTONIC PROCESSES ON 

     ROCKY PLANETARY BODIES

We invite contributions to a special session on tectonic, volcanic, 
and volcanotectonic processes on rocky planetary bodies at the 2016 
GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, September 25-28.

Volcanism and tectonism are two of the most ubiquitous processes at 
work in the Solar System, shaping substantially the surfaces of the 
terrestrial planets. Through a combination of solicited and
contributed presentations, this session will host observational, 
laboratory, theoretical, or analogue research into any aspect of 
planetary volcanic and tectonic activity. We particularly welcome 
submissions that compare landforms and processes on multiple bodies, 
and how lessons from specific studies can be applied to understanding 
volcanism and tectonism across the inner Solar System and beyond.

Please consider submitting an abstract for this session. For more 
information, visit: 

https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/cfp.epl

The submission deadline is July 12, 2016.

Conveners:
Paul Byrne (North Carolina State University)
Christian Klimczak (University of Georgia)

We look forward to seeing you in Denver.

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Anne Verbiscer, DPS Secretary ([email protected]

 

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