Subject: [DPS Members] DPS Mailing #09-04: Final Prize Reminder,	Decadal Survey  Update

Issue 09-04, April 16th 2009

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1) Final Reminder: DPS Prize Nominations - Deadline 17 April
2) Planetary Decadal Survey Update

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FINAL REMINDER: DPS PRIZE NOMINATIONS - DEADLINE 17 APRIL

You have two more days to submit prize nominations to honor
your favorite planetary scientist (or with the new Eberhardt prize,
your favorite piece of planetary journalism). See
http://dps.aas.org/prizes/ for details.


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PLANETARY DECADAL SURVEY UPDATE

Steve Squyres has posted the first of a regular series of Decadal Survey
newsletters at the Decadal Survey Web site, at
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ssb/squyres_newslett1.pdf

This newsletter includes a description of the process for gathering
community input, and messages from Jim Green, the Director of NASA's
Planetary Science Division, and Doug McCuistion, the Director of the
Mars Exploration Program.

The decadal survey web site is at
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ssb/ssedecadal2011.html.


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