Subject: [DPS Members] DPS Mailing #07-11: Prize announcements, May 21st 2007 +------------------CONTENTS---------------------------------+ 1) 2007 DPS Prize Winners 2) Hartmann Student Travel Grant Fund 3) AGU to provide reference lists to ADS 4) Senior Advisor for Research and Analysis at NASA HQ 5) Proposed Europa book: Call for participation 6) Job Announcements 7) Upcoming Conferences and Workshops +------------------------------------------------------------+ 1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1 2007 DPS PRIZE WINNERS The DPS Committee is pleased to announce the following recipients of DPS prizes for 2007: The Gerard P. Kuiper Prize: Dr. Andrew Ingersoll, Caltech, for theoretical and observational contributions to the study of planetary atmospheres. The Harold Masursky Award: Dr. Thomas Gehrels, U. of Arizona, for his efforts in developing the Space Sciences Series of the University of Arizona Press. The Harold C. Urey Prize: Dr. Francis Nimmo, U. C. Santa Cruz, for fundamental contributions to the understanding of terrestrial planets and icy satellites and their evolution. 2---------2---------2---------2---------2---------2---------2---------2 HARTMANN STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT FUND The DPS has established the Hartmann Student Travel Grant Fund, an endowed fund which will be used to support student travel to the annual DPS meeting. The DPS Committee thanks all of those who have already contributed to the fund. There is some indication, however, that some of the contributions have not been correctly attributed to the Hartmann fund. If you have contributed to the fund, please contact Nadine Barlow, the DPS Treasurer, ([email protected]) so she can verify that your contribution appears on the list. If you have not yet contributed, now is a great time to do so. If you wish to charge your contribution to a credit card, you can use the AAS online contribution page at https://members.aas.org/contributions/. If you prefer to write a check, please send it to American Astronomical Society PO Box 79305 Baltimore, MD 21279-0305 Please indicate "Hartmann Endowment" in the memo line of your check so it will be deposited into the correct account. Remember also that the DPS is matching all contributions up to $100,000, so your contribution will go even further. 3---------3---------3---------3---------3---------3---------3---------3 AGU TO PROVIDE REFERENCE LISTS TO ADS As noted in previous DPS newsletters, a serious problem has existed in the citation listing of the Astrophysics Data System (ADS). Up to now, when authors publishing in Icarus and AGU publications referenced your work, those references were not showing up in the citation lists because these journals have not provided reference lists to ADS. Thus anyone using those citation lists to evaluate your scientific achievement will not know how often you are being cited in the most widely read planetary sciences journals. Fortunately, the American Geophysical Union has recently decided to begin sending reference lists to ADS, so this problem will be fixed for AGU journals (e.g. JGR and GRL). The problem remains for Icarus. The DPS committee is continuing to pursue this issue. 4---------4---------4---------4---------4---------4---------4---------4 SENIOR ADVISOR FOR RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS AT NASA HQ This notice was sent the NSPIRES mailing list on May 1st: NASA Science Mission Directorate Informational Notice: Meet SARA ([email protected]) Dr. Alan Stern, Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, has created an entirely new position within the Science Mission Directorate designed specifically to advise, adjust, and streamline NASA's Science Research and Analysis Programs to maximize the scientific return on NASA's investment. Dr. Yvonne Pendleton, an infrared astrophysicist formerly at NASA Ames Research Center, is the person tasked with this responsibility. She comes to the position with the experience of many years as an active researcher within NASA, and with the experience of serving as Chief of the Space Science and Astrobiology Division at NASA's Ames Research Center for the past two years. Her new title is Senior Advisor for Research and Analysis (SARA). The position is advisory directly to the Associate Administrator and has oversight of the R&A activities across the directorate. In order to improve communication between the science community and the Science Mission Directorate, you can now send email to Yvonne at [email protected]. If you have an issue, complaint, concern (or praise!) specific to a NASA Science R&A program, please contact the appropriate NASA program officer first. However, if your issue is of a more general nature, if you have not received a response within 24 hours, or the response requires elevation to a higher level, please contact Yvonne through the [email protected] address. The mail and your identity will be kept confidential. Information provided will be used in a discrete manner to illuminate issues that can be fixed and to rectify communication problems if they exist. A web page devoted to R&A issues will be up shortly, and you will be notified through NSPIRES when this has occurred. After the web page is up and running, we will not use the NSPIRES system to further update the community. We will ask you to sign up on the web site for updates and thereby preserve the NSPIRES email list for its current purpose. There will be SARA presentations at many of the upcoming scientific conferences, including the AAS in May, Bioastronomy in July, the DPS in October, and the AGU in December. Look for updates from Yvonne Pendleton at these meetings through the NASA night or town hall presentations. Comments or questions regarding this informational notice should be addressed to Dr. Yvonne Pendleton, Senior Advisor for Research and Analysis, Science Mission Directorate, NASA, Washington, DC, 20546; Email: [email protected]. 5---------5---------5---------5---------5---------5---------5---------5 PROPOSED EUROPA BOOK: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION EUROPA: A proposed new volume in the University of Arizona Press Space Science Series. The time is right for an edited book on Europa. After a decade of interpretation and modeling of the Galileo data, our understanding of Europa has reached a high level of maturity. We have the opportunity to bring forward within the University of Arizona Press Space Science Series a volume on Europa that describes: "What we know. How do we know it. Where do we go from here." The purpose of this message, sent on behalf of the Editors and the currently forming Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC), is to invite you to volunteer to participate in the EUROPA project. You may volunteer to participate in the SOC, propose to write a chapter, or recommend chapters and topics for the book. CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS. For details, see: http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/europa To capitalize on our current state of knowledge, and to take advantage of an immediate available opening in the production schedule for the Space Science Series, we wish to bring this book together in a very timely fashion. Responses must by received by June 1, 2007, with chapter selection by June 15, and chapters due no later than October 15, 2007. Reply to: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] -Bob Pappalardo, Bill McKinnon, and Krishan Khurana 6---------6---------6---------6---------6---------6---------6---------6 JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS 1) Research Associate position at Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College London, U.K. (deadline: May 31, 2007) More info at: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment/research/ns200767kc 2) Director, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP), position number 89123, UHM SOEST , (Manoa). http://workatuh.hawaii.edu/zoom_job.php?7626 Review of applicants will begin on July 1st and will continue until the position is filled. 7---------7---------7---------7---------7---------7---------7---------7 UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS Workshop on Planetary Atmospheres 2007, November 6-7, 2007, Baltimore/Washington DC Area See http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/patm2007 SPONSORS: Lunar and Planetary Institute, NASA CONVENER: Philippe Crane, Planetary Atmospheres Discipline Scientist, NASA Headquarters +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Send submissions to: John Spencer, DPS Secretary ([email protected])