Newsletter 19-38

Issue 19-38, August 24, 2019

 

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  1. EPSC-DPS 2019 MEETING MENTOR-MENTEE PROGRAM
  2. EPSC/DPS WOMEN IN PLANETARY SCIENCE DISCUSSION HOUR 2019 – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
  3. EPSC-DPS 2019 MEETING POSTER PRINTING SERVICE
  4. CARBON IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM: EPSC/DPS WORKSHOP 
  5. EPSC-DPS HOTEL NOTICE ABOUT FAKE AGENCIES 
  6. DPS FEDERAL RELATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE (FRS) SEEKING NEW MEMBERS
  7. 6TH VIRTUAL MEPAG MEETING WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28
  8. COMETS III: A PROPOSED NEW VOLUME IN THE SPACE SCIENCE SERIES
  9. NEXT SMALL BODIES ASSESSMENT GROUP (SBAG) MEETING
  10. 43RD SCIENTIFIC ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SPACE RESEARCH (COSPAR) AND ASSOCIATED EVENTS
  11.  JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES

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EPSC-DPS 2019 JOINT MEETING MENTOR-MENTEE PROGRAM

 

Sign Up Deadline: 31 August 2019

 

The EuroPlanet Early Career (EPEC) network is introducing a mentor-mentee

program for this EPSC-DPS 2019 meeting in Geneva. The program is designed

to support the novice conference attendees, students, and early career scientists

by enabling one-to-one meetings with an experienced researcher to help them

navigate the conference. The registered mentees will be able to meet their respective

mentors during the ice breaker event on Sept 15, 2019. 

 

Details to sign-up to the program: Mentees, if this is your first international conference,

your first oral presentation, first EPSC, or you are looking for guidance during the

EPSC-DPS 2019, sign up here:  http://eepurl.com/gxD-wf . We will put you in contact

with a suitable mentor, who would be beneficiary to your experience during the conference. 

 

Mentors, if you are a postdoc, researcher, or a senior scientist who has been in numerous
international conferences and are willing to show early careers how to navigate through

various sessions and network within an international community, please sign up here:
http://eepurl.com/gxD-wf .

 

You will be requested to set up at least one meeting with your mentee during the

conference week. 

 

The deadline to sign-up to the mentor-mentee program is 31st August, 2019. 

 

If you have any queries, please contact us at [email protected] 

 

Looking forward to meeting you in Geneva, EPEC-EPSC working group

 

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EPSC/DPS WOMEN IN PLANETARY SCIENCE DISCUSSION HOUR 2019 – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

 

Date: Wednesday, Sept. 18th, 2019

Time:  12:00-1:15 pm

Place: EPSC/DPS Conference venue, Saturn Lecture Room

Join us for the annual Women in Planetary Science event over lunch. All are welcome! 

We will discuss professional development topics related to diversity and inclusion in

planetary science.  The presentation/discussion schedule will be announced on the

registration page. Pre-registration at http://bit.ly/DPS_WIPS_2019 is required to receive 

a lunch (available to the first ~200 registrants due the generosity of our sponsors: AURA

and Southwest Research Institute), and registration is recommended even if you are bringing

your own lunch so we can balance room size with attendance size. 

 

**Registration deadline to receive a lunch is August 31**

 

More details and RSVP at: http://bit.ly/DPS_WIPS_2019

 

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EPSC-DPS 2019 MEETING POSTER PRINTING SERVICE

 

The University of Geneva will offer a poster printing service for meeting attendees.

Price is CHF 15,-

 

Deadline for providing payment and providing your .pdf file is 5 September 2019.

 

Ordered posters can be picked up by presenters at the conference center. Neither the

conference organizers nor members of the scientific organizing committee or the

local organizing committee will attach your poster to the dedicated poster board.

 

More details can be found on the EPSC-DPS 2019 meeting website:

https://www.epsc-dps2019.eu/information/guidelines/poster_presentation_guidelines.html

 

Order and upload your poster here: https://formulaire.unige.ch/outils/limebooking3/index.php/54828?lang=en

 

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CARBON IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM: EPSC/DPS WORKSHOP 

 

Please join us for an engaging discussion on Thursday, Sept 19, 10:30AM-noon, Pluto room (room 13) 

 

Recent results ranging from the Pluto system, the Saturn system, other locations

beyond ~5 AU, all the way to Mercury in the inner Solar System, and nearly all

points in between, raise questions abut the state of carbon in the Solar System:

how do carbonaceous compounds become weathered in response to thermal

processes and irradiation? How do we recognize carbon compounds and their

various weathering products? The synthesis of these results improves our scientific

understanding of the role of carbon in the Solar System, how it evolves and how

to recognize it. Analyses of samples from the carbonaceous near-Earth asteroids

162173 Ryugu and 101955 Bennu will provide context for the presence of carbon.

In this workshop, please come prepared to discuss observational, laboratory and

modeling work related to carbon and carbonaceous species on Solar System bodies.

We will kick off the discussion with short presentations from 1-2 invited speakers.

 

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EPSC-DPS HOTEL NOTICE ABOUT FAKE AGENCIES

 

Dear All,

 

We have been alerted to the fact that companies are making telephone calls to

conference participants/authors. They are claiming that they are “from the

congress organizers” and that they have a special hotel deal or that something

is wrong with your hotel booking for the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019.

 

Please ignore these calls (and/or emails) and do not provide them any information 

about your hotel booking, credit card or bank details.

 

Symporg is the only official housing agency has been contracted for the EPSC-DPS

Joint Meeting 2019 but will not do any cold calls.

 

If you are unsure about the status of your booking, please never hesitate to send

us a quick note.

 

Thank you and best regards,

Vanessa

EPSC-DPS 2019 Hotels – Accommodation team

c/o Symporg SA
Rue Rousseau 30
1201 Geneva
Switzerland

Email: leadership/frs. Working closely with

AAS Bahcall Fellows (https://aas.org/policy), AGU, and The Planetary Society partners, 

our DPS FRS efforts have helped double the U.S. Federal budget for planetary sciences

funding over the past five years.  

 

You can also find Kurt at the DPS meeting in Geneva to discuss the FRS. Please send an

email to [email protected] by the end of the DPS meeting on September 20, 2019 

and include why you are interested, a brief discussion of any public policy work you’ve

already done, and a brief statement on what you hope to accomplish as part of the FRS.

 

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6TH VIRTUAL MEPAG MEETING WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28

 

Members of the Mars community,

 

I cordially invite you to participate in the next virtual meeting (VM6) of the Mars

Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG), scheduled on

 

Wednesday, August 28th, 2019, at 12:00 pm-2:00 pm EDT.

(Please note that this is an update from the previous Save-the-date announcement.)

 

The draft agenda includes several follow-up discussion topics and actions from

MEPAG Meeting 37 as well as preparation of MEPAG discussion items for the 

upcoming Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS) meeting

(September 10-12). Additionally, we’ll hear a request for input from the Planetary

Protection Independent Review Board (PPIRB) on martian “Special Regions.”

 

WebEx connectivity information and updates to the agenda and presentations will be

posted to the MEPAG meeting website (http://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov/meetings.cfm).

The meeting is open to all members of the Mars science community including our

international colleagues, and I look forward to your participation.

 

Sincerely,

 

Dr. R. Aileen Yingst

MEPAG Chair

 

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COMETS III: A PROPOSED NEW VOLUME IN THE SPACE SCIENCE SERIES

 

Call for Expressions of Interest

 

A decade-and-a-half has passed since the publication of Comets II, edited by Michel 

Festou, Uwe Keller, and Hal Weaver. Substantial advancements in the field by

groundbased observers, spacecraft missions, and theoretical modelers amply

motivate the organization of Comets III as a proposed new volume in the University 

of Arizona Press Space Science Series under the editorial production guidance of the

Lunar and Planetary Institute. Chapters for Comets III would be due in 2022 with the 

volume being published in 2023.

An open call is being made for expressions of interest to participate in Comets III as 

authors, members of the scientific organizing committee, and/or editors. To indicate

your interest, download, fill out, and submit an indication of interest form:

 

Comets III Expression of Interest

 

Please submit your responses no later than October 15, 2019.

Questions may be addressed to the General Editor of the Space Science Series,

Richard Binzel ([email protected]).

 

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NEXT SMALL BODIES ASSESSMENT GROUP (SBAG) MEETING

 

January 14-16, 2020 (2.5 days)

Pasadena, CA area (venue TBD)

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/meetings/

 

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43RD SCIENTIFIC ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SPACE RESEARCH (COSPAR) AND ASSOCIATED EVENTS

 

Date: 15 – 22 August 2020

Place:  Sydney, Australia

 

Contact: COSPAR Secretariat

Tel: +33 1 44 76 75 10

[email protected]

http://www.cospar-assembly.org or http://www.cospar2020.org/

 

Scientific Program Chair: Prof. Iver Cairns, University of Sydney

Abstract Deadline: 14 February 2020

 

Topics: 

146 meetings covering the fields of COSPAR Scientific Commissions (SC) and

Panels (full list available at http://www.cospar-assembly.org):

 

– SC A:  The Earth’s Surface, Meteorology and Climate

– SC B:  The Earth-Moon System, Planets, and Small Bodies of the Solar System

– SC C:  The Upper Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets Including Reference Atmospheres

– SC D:  Space Plasmas in the Solar System, Including Planetary Magnetospheres

– SC E:  Research in Astrophysics from Space

– SC F:  Life Sciences as Related to Space

– SC G:  Materials Sciences in Space

– SC H:  Fundamental Physics in Space

– Panel on Satellite Dynamics (PSD)

– Panel on Scientific Ballooning (PSB)

– Panel on Potentially Environmentally Detrimental Activities in Space (PEDAS)

– Panel on Radiation Belt Environment Modelling (PRBEM)

– Panel on Space Weather (PSW)

– Panel on Planetary Protection (PPP)

– Panel on Capacity Building (PCB)

– Panel on Education (PE)

– Panel on Exploration (PEX)

– Panel on Interstellar Research (PIR)

– Special events:  Interdisciplinary lectures, space agency round table, etc.

 

Selected papers published in Advances in Space Research and Life Sciences 

in Space Research, fully refereed journals with no deadlines open to all submissions

in relevant fields.

 

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JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES

 

A) EDITOR OF THE PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL (PSJ)

 

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the Division for Planetary 
Sciences (DPS) are soliciting applications and nominations of 
candidates for the position of Editor of The Planetary Science Journal 
(PSJ). This is a new journal to serve the planetary science community. 
 

See:

https://aas.org/posts/news/2019/08/aas-dps-launch-gold-open-access-planetary-science-journal

 

The Search Committee is looking for candidates that have a record of 
achievement in planetary science, experience as an author and referee 
in this field, and a clear vision for the future of the PSJ. Previous 
editorial experience would be useful but is not required.

Candidates for this position should submit a cover letter, CV, 
bibliography, and names of two references to [email protected]

Nominations for the position may also be sent to the same address. 
Selected candidates will be asked to provide evidence of institutional 
support for their assuming the above editorial duties.

The cover letter should address the candidate’s qualifications, reason 
for interest in the position, and ideas for the operation, management, 
and future of the PSJ. Nominations submitted by September 30, 2019 will 
be given full consideration.

More information can be found at: 

https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/cfd23f2c

 

B) FACULTY AND POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS IN INDIA

 

School of Earth and Planetary Sciences (SEPS), National Institute of 
Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, is one of India’s 
premier research-driven academic institutes. SEPS/NISER is a unique 
center in India that has been established to emerge and excel in high 
quality and interdisciplinary scientific research works in Planetary 
Sciences, Earth Sciences, and Atmospheric-Ocean Sciences. NISER 
provides start-up grant and academic freedom for promising candidates.

SEPS seeks faculty applications from highly motivated and promising 
candidates for faculty positions at various levels. Interested 
candidates should send their application to [email protected]

Current faculty members in SEPS are involved actively in Indian and 
large international collaborative projects and astronomy/planetary
/exoplanetary missions, e.g., SKA, TMT, ALMA, NASA’s JWST, SOFIA and 
Dawn. Interdisciplinary works on astrochemistry & astrobiology, star 
& planet formation, radio/sub-mm/infrared astronomy, exoplanets, 
planetary minerology & morphology, small bodies & meteorites, 
planetary remote sensing, land-atmosphere coupling, boundary layer 
dynamics, current challenges in climate change, etc., have been 
initiated already.

Applications and positions are subject to rolling basis as per NISER/DAE norms:
 

https://www.niser.ac.in/notices/2017/recruitments/Faculty-Rolling-Advertisement-2017.pdf
 

NISER/SEPS also highly welcome candidates who are interested in 
prestigious independent faculty/fellowship program, for example, 
Ramanujan Fellowship, DST INSPIRE Faculty, SERB-NPDF etc.

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