Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:39:48 -0600
Subject: DPS Mailing #04-01: Message from the Chair, New Deputy Press Officer...
Greetings, colleagues. As we are all aware, many events of last
week may have important implications for us as scientists and
as a division. Your DPS Committee is closely watching the
situation with NASA following the President's address last Wednesday.
We are formulating a plan of action which we will present to the
membership in a few days. We are in the process of gathering as
much information as possible. Current developments are
summarized at the DPS Federal Relations Subcommittee website:
http://www.ess.washington.edu/~harris/frs/frsframe.htm
Bill Cochran
DPS Chair
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1) SANJAY LIMAYE NEW DPS DEPUTY PRESS OFFICER
2) DPS PRIZE DEADLINE
3) DEADLINE FOR NASA TIME ON THE KECK TELESCOPES
4) MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS
5) NOTE FROM THE SECRETARY
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SANJAY LIMAYE NEW DPS DEPUTY PRESS OFFICER
The DPS welcomes Sanjay Limaye of the University of Wisconsin as its
new Deputy Press Officer. We look forward to working with Sanjay
and we appreciate his willingness to work with the Committee.
Welcome, Sanjay!
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DPS PRIZE DEADLINE
As a reminder, the deadline for all nomination packages for
the 2004 DPS prizes are due 3 March 2004. See:
http://www.aas.org/~dps/prizes_contact.html for more details.
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DEADLINE FOR NASA TIME ON THE KECK TELESCOPES
Applications are due on 27 February for NASA time on the Keck
telescopes, for the period August 2004 - January 2005. The NASA time
is focused on the discovery and characterization of planetary
systems and investigation of their origin and evolution. Telescope
time will be awarded within three discipline areas: detection of
extrasolar planets, origin and nature of planetary systems, and
investigation of our own solar system. The proposal process is being
handled by the Michelson Science Center at Caltech. Please see the
website at http://msc.caltech.edu for further information. Observers
will receive financial support for travel to the W.M. Keck Observatory.
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MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS--listed by date of event (not deadline).
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• LPSC ANNOUNCEMENT
The announcement for the 35th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
(Houston, Texas, March 15 - 19, 2004), including the call for abstracts
and registration form is now available on the meeting Web site:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2004/
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• PLANETS TO COSMOLOGY: ESSENTIAL SCIENCE IN HUBBLE'S FINAL YEARS
Announcing an upcoming Symposium at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Additional information will be placed shortly on the Symposium web page at:
http://sd.stsci.edu/Planets_to_Cosmology/index.html
The Symposium will take place May 3-6, 2004, with registration and
a reception on May 2.
We are soliciting contributed talks. If you are interested in
presenting such talk, please send a title and an abstract to the
Symposium's Administrative Coordinator, Quin Gryce ([email protected]),
by February 15, 2004. If you intend to present a poster, please
indicate so on the registration form.
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• SPECIAL SESSION SPA02: THE FEBRUARY 2004 ULYSSES ENCOUNTER WITH JUPITER
Spring 2004 AGU meeting, 17-21 May, Montreal
http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm04/
Ulysses will pass through peri-Jove in February 2004. This flyby will
allow studies of the release and interplanetary propagation of Jovian
electrons, energetic particles, dust, neutral gas, and radio waves
from a wide range of high northern latitudes. Coordinated remote
observations are planned with XMM and/or Chandra and from Earth.
This session will provide an opportunity to report early results from
this campaign.
Contact Information:
Steven T. Suess. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, 256-961-7611,
[email protected]
Robert Macdowall , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 301-286-2608,
[email protected]
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• 35TH COSPAR MEETING JULY 18-25, 2004 (PARIS) SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT
This cross referenced symposium will address the inner and outer
planetary upper atmospheres, ionospheres, and magnetospheres
(and their comparisons), with an emphasis upon recent spacecraft
data and corresponding model simulations that provide interpretation.
Broad solicited talks plus focused contributed presentations will
be highlighted in the program. The comparison of common features and
processes across several planetary bodies is encouraged. The target
audience will encompass terrestrial and planetary scientists who
appreciate the value of comparative studies of planetary upper
atmospheres, ionospheres and magnetospheres. Both oral and poster
contributed papers are welcome. The relevant Copernicus website
advertising this COSPAR symposium is as follows:
http://www.cosis.net/members/frame.php?url=www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html
Abstracts for invited and contributed papers are due February 15, 2004.
Instructions for abstract submission can be found on the Copernicus website .
Please contact S. W. Bougher, [email protected], (734)-647-3585 for more information.
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• HEMISPHERES APART: THE ORIGIN AND MODIFICATION OF THE MARTIAN
CRUSTAL DICHOTOMY
The two-day workshop will be held September 30-October 1, 2004,
at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, Texas.
For information regarding the purpose, scope, and meeting format,
please refer to the first announcement at:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/hemispheres2004/
to subscribe to a mailing list to receive electronic reminders
relating to the meeting via email, please submit an electronic
Indication of Interest form (available at the meeting website)
by February 13, 2004.
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• WORKSHOP ON CHONDRITES AND THE PROTOPLANETARY DISK
The Workshop on Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk will be held
November 8-11, 2004, at the Radisson Kaua'i Beach Resort Hotel,
4331 Kaua'i Beach Drive, Lihue, Hawai'I For further information
regarding the format and scientific objectives of the meeting,
please check the full text of this announcement at:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/chondrites2004/
To subscribe to a mailing list to receive electronic
reminders and special announcements relating to the
meeting via e-mail, please submit an electronic Indication of
Interest form (available at the Conference website) by January 30, 2004.
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NOTE FROM THE SECRETARY Colleagues, Thanks for the (mostly) kind and
helpful suggestions I received about the formatting problems in last
month's newsletter. I am still new at this, and am still on the
learning curve about how to gather and distribute information most
efficiently. I hope this newsletter will be free of such problems,
but please let me know if any persist. For the future, it will
greatly help the preparation of the newsletter if items submitted
are BRIEF (e.g., a few sentences). Please include contact information,
including a link to a website for a conference or job listing.
Attachments cannot be included with this newsletter. Thanks very much!
LFE
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inda French Emmons, DPS Secretary Illinois Wesleyan University
[email protected]