With the Pasadena DPS/EPSC meeting forthcoming in just a month now, I thought that I might throw out some numbers with respect to where your money goes when you register for a DPS meeting. The Full Member, early registration this year was $588. It was $478 for the previous Pasadena DPS, in 2010.

As we here at the DPS gear up for this Fall's joint meeting in Pasadena, we'd like to extend a special invitation to students to attend and participate in the conference.

This week we are asking each member of the DPS to contact his/her members of Congress to encourage strong support for planetary science. In Fiscal Year 2016 Congress appropriated $1.63B for planetary science and we want to be sure that the FY2017 appropriation is at least at that level.

I know that you, like I, have been obsessively hitting 'reload' at fivethirtyeight.com to see the latest election predictions. Well, no more! The results of the DPS election are in.