Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:54:44 -0500
Subject: DPS News #04-10: Candidates for 2004 DPS elections, workshops....
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| 1) CANDIDATE SLATE FOR 2004 DPS ELECTION |
| 2) WORKSHOP - Meteoroids 2004 Conference |
| 3) WORKSHOP - SOFIA UPPERDECK SPACE AND EARTH SCIENCES OPPORTUNITES |
| 4) WORKSHOP - Mars Astrobiology Science and Technology |
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CANDIDATE SLATE FOR 2004 DPS ELECTION
The Nominating Subcommittee, chaired by Hal Levison, has prepared
the following slate of candidates for the next election:
Vice-Chair: Michael Drake (LPL/University of Arizona)
Richard French (Wellesley College)
Committee: Bill Bottke (Southwest Research Institute)
Don Davis (Planetary Science Institute)
Imke de Pater (University of California, Berkeley)
Chris McKay (NASA/Ames)
The bylaws provide for the possibility to add candidates by petition.
If you wish to nominate a candidate, I must receive a petition, signed
by at least 20 DPS members (regular or affiliate, but not junior),
along with a statement from the candidate expressing willingness to
serve if elected, by July 1, 2004. Ballots, including candidate
biographies and position statements, will be mailed in early August.
The deadline for receiving ballots back will be in early September 2004.
Linda French Emmons, DPS Secretary ([email protected])
Department of Physics
Illinois Wesleyan University
P. O. Box 2900
Bloomington, IL 61704
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Meteoroids 2004 Conference
London, Ontario, CANADA
August 16-20, 2004
ABSTRACT/EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 24, 2004
This conference will be the fifth in a series of meteoroid meetings
which have been held every few years since 1992, the last in Kiruna,
Sweden in 2001. It will accommodate a broad range of meteoroid research
ranging from the dynamics, sources and distribution of these bodies,
their chemistry and their physical processes in the interplanetary
medium and the Earths atmosphere to their impact on space weather and
their hazard to space technology, and laboratory studies of meteorites,
micrometeorites and interplanetary dust. Current research further
benefits from the use of large aperture radar facilities to detect
fainter meteors and the general availability of high powered computing
facilities to support dynamical model calculations. With this theme we
wish to address both the dynamics of small bodies in the solar system
as well as the evolution of solid matter which provides a bridge to
include aspects of astrobiology and astromineralogy. The meeting will
be of interest to researchers from astronomy, astrophysics,
cosmochemistry, mineralogy and space physics.
website for more information : http://www.uwo.ca/meteoroids2004
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SOFIA UPPERDECK SPACE AND EARTH SCIENCES OPPORTUNITES WORKSHOP
The "Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy" (SOFIA) is
currently being assembled. It is scheduled to perform 960 flight
hours/year for 20 years. The Upper Deck of this Boeing 747 aircraft
may in the future facilitate experiments for serendipitous research
during regular deployments, independent or in support of the regular
mid-IR and submm observations with the main telescope. Preferentially,
this research will support NASA's and DLR's mission goals.
In order to investigate the science questions that could be addressed
uniquely in potential future research experiments on the SOFIA Upper
Deck, NASA's Space Science APRA program and NASA's Earth Science
Enterprise are co-sponsoring a workshop:
SOFIA Upper Deck Science Opportunities Workshop
to be held on: June 22-23, 2004.
at: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
We are soliciting extended (2-5 page) abstracts that will be published
on-line prior to the meeting. From that library, the important science
questions will be summarized in a white paper, writing tasks for which
will be allocated at the workshop.
More information on the workshop and registration can be found at:
http://surf.arc.nasa.gov/
Important dates:
Registration deadline foreign nationals: May 15
Registration deadline for US citizens: June 10
Extended abstract submissions: June 15
Workshop: June 22-23
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Mars Astrobiology Science and Technology Workshop
8-10 September 2004
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC
Abstract Deadline, 5 July 2004
The discovery of evidence for past liquid water on Mars, along with
the resulting potential for ancient current life there, has galvanized
the scientific community's interest in astrobiology research on Mars.
This workshop will help pave the way toward the next generation of
Mars in situ astrobiology science and technology experiments, aimed
toward determining martian history, understanding martian habitability,
and detecting signatures of past or present life.
The workshop will involve (i) presentations on aspects of the
current program, technology issues, and funding opportunities,
(ii) poster presentations on possible new concepts and directions,
(iii) focused discussion on specific topics relevant to technology
and instrument development, and (iv) development of recommendations
for NASA HQ on Mars astrobiology technology issues. The workshop
will be open to the science and technology communities, and we
specifically encourage participation from people who have not been
involved previously in the program. For more information on the
meeting, abstract format, and registration, see the conference web
site at http://astrobiotech.arc.nasa.gov/ .
Bruce Jakosky (Univ. of Colorado; [email protected])
Greg Bearman (NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory; [email protected])
Andrew Steele (Carnegie Institution of Washington; [email protected])