Issue 11-19, November 10, 2011
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1) IN MEMORIAM: WILLIAM H. SMYTH (1941-2011)
2) DPS COMMITTEE TWITTER
3) REPORTS FROM THE EPSC-DPS 2011 JOINT MEETNG
4) SPECIAL ISSUE OF ICARUS
5) UPCOMING MEETINGS
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IN MEMORIAM: WILLIAM H. SMYTH (1941 – 2011)
William H. Smyth (1941-2011) passed away on Friday Sept. 30, 2011 after a long illness. He is survived by his wife Iris (of 43 years), three children and five grandchildren.
Bill graduated from Harvard in 1972 and after a postdoc with Michael McElroy working on Voyager observations he became an early member of AER in Lexington Ma., where he spent almost all of his career, Bill was a leader in planetary exospheres and conducted pioneering research on the exospheres of Io, Europa, Mercury, the moon, comets, and the Saturnian H cloud, especially in complex orbital environments.
His expertise on Io’s neutral clouds and the plasma torus were second to none. Bill constructed the first successful model of Io’s neutral clouds and studied their response to and the resulting mass loading of Jupiter’s magnetosphere. This led to his serving as an IDS with the Galileo mission.
Recently, Bill extended his research to the denser parts of the atmosphere and pioneered the consistent physical description of atmospheres through all degrees of collisionality. Bill was equally comfortable developing theory and analyzing observations.
His meticulous penetrating research, persistent search for the
underlying truth, honesty, and integrity will be deeply missed.
Forwarded by Max Marconi and Mike Combi.
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DPS COMMITTEE TWITTER
Social media is becoming increasingly important, and in response the DPS has established an official Twitter account to rapidly disseminate information to our membership (and the public). At this point we are still gauging the best level of activity, but the account is active. Follow @DPSCommittee, your society outpost in the Twitterverse!
Contact: Andy Rivkin
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REPORTS FROM THE EPSC-DPS 2011 JOINT MEETNG
Please be reminded that all the reports and presentations from the 2011 meeting can be found in the members package at :
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SPECIAL ISSUE OF ICARUS
Special Icarus Issue on the Stardust-NExT and EPOXI missions.
The Editorial Office of Icarus has agreed with the Stardust-NExT and EPOXI mission science teams to have a special issue of Icarus devoted to papers describing both mission results as well as those from relevant ground based and spacecraft based observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 and 103P/ Hartley 2 during the months around the impact. Manuscripts for papers to be Included in the special issue should be submitted to the Icarus Elsevier web site,
http://ees.elsevier.com/icarus/default.asp,
no later than November 15, 2011 for Stardust-NExT related papers or February 1, 2012 for EPOXI related papers.
Under the normal Elsevier schedule accepted papers will be available electronically on the Elsevier/Icarus web site within a few of weeks after acceptance. Authors will be held to a tight schedule of submission and revision, so as not to delay publication of the special issue.
Papers that fall behind that schedule owing to author-caused delays will of course be considered for publication in later regular issues of the journal.
Contact information
Michael F. A’Hearn, Guest Editor
E-mail: [email protected]
Joseph Veverka, Guest Editor
Email [email protected]
Michael R. Combi, Editor
E-mail: [email protected]
Cheryl L. Hall, Editorial Manager
E-mail: [email protected]
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UPCOMING MEETINGS
Please note the start of the Abstract submission for the EGU General Assembly 2012 (EGU2012), 22 Apr 2012 – 27 Apr 2012, Vienna, Austria. You are cordially invited to browse through the Sessions at: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/sessionprogramme
Each Session shows the link Abstract Submission. Using this link you are asked to log in to the Copernicus Office Meeting Organizer. You may submit the text of your contribution as plain text, LaTeX, or MS Word content. Please pay attention to the First Author Rule as described at: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2012/abstract_management/how_to_submit…
The deadline for the receipt of Abstracts is 17 Jan 2012. In case you would like to apply for support, please submit no later than 15 Dec 2011.
Further information about the EGU General Assembly 2012 can be found at: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2012