Issue 16-26, July 18, 2016
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- REMINDER: PLEASE VOTE IN THE 2016 DPS ELECTION
- REMINDER: REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR DPS48/EPSC 11
- COMPUTATIONAL ADVANCES IN SOLAR SYSTEM STUDIES
- SBAG ANNOUNCEMENTS
- JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES
- UPCOMING MEETINGS
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REMINDER: PLEASE VOTE IN THE 2016 DPS ELECTION
DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING: ONLY TWO MORE WEEKS!
The 2016 election for DPS Vice-Chair and Committee is now open, and will
close on July 31st 2016.
Please remember to vote!
Go to https://aas.org/vote/
You will need your AAS member login ID (which defaults to your membership
number), and your password.
If you have trouble voting on line, the AAS can do a proxy vote and vote on your
behalf (send an e-mail to [email protected]). You will still get an automated email
confirmation and a separate manual email, both with who you voted for and a
confirmation number.
You should vote for one of the two candidates for Vice-Chair:
o Catherine Olkin, Southwest Research Institute
o Harold Reitsema, Retired
The elected Vice-Chair will take his/her functions in October 2016 and will
become the DPS Chair in October 2017.
You should also vote for two of the five candidates for DPS Committee:
o Ashley Davies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
o Karl Hibbitts, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
o Catherine Neish, University of Western Ontario
o Britney Schmidt, Georgia Institute of Technology
o Maria Womack, University of South Florida
The successful candidates will serve on the Committee for three years after
October 2016.
The detailed vitae and position statements for each of the candidates is linked
from the main election page,
It is very important for all DPS Members to participate to these elections, so
please take a moment to vote!
Thank you!
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REMINDER: REGULAR REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR DPS 48/EPSC 11
The Regular Registration Deadline is Friday, August 12, 2016.
Full Registration for Full DPS Members increases from $622 to $719 if you
register after August 12.
Pasadena, CA, 16-21 October 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center
https://aas.org/meetings/dps48
* Important dates
12 August 2016 DPS 48/ EPSC 11 Regular Registration Deadline
https://aas.org/meetings/dps48/registration
And also:
– 22 July 2016: Exhibitor Deadline
– 2 August 2016: Late Abstract Submission Deadline – 9:00pm ET
– 14 September 2016: Hotel Reservations Deadline
– 16 Septembar 2016: Dependent Care Grant Application Deadline
The DPS is grateful to our Meeting Sponsors:
Universities Space Research Association (USRA)
Ball Aerospace
Southwest Research Institute
Elsevier
Space Science Institute
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COMPUTATIONAL ADVANCES IN SOLAR SYSTEM STUDIES
Computing in Science & Engineering (CiSE) magazine announces an opportunity
to contribute to a special issue about Computational Advances in Solar System
Studies. Submission deadline is November 1, 2016. See the call for articles at:
https://www.computer.org/web/computingnow/cscfp4
Computing in Science & Engineering (CiSE) magazine features the latest
computational science and engineering research in an accessible format, along
with departments covering news and analysis, computational science and
engineering in education, and emerging technologies.
See https://www.computer.org/web/peer-review/magazines for general author guidelines.
Questions? Contact guest editors Lucy McFadden and
Nargess Memarsadeghi at [email protected]
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SBAG ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Draft Findings from the SBAG 15 Meeting
Thank you for a productive SBAG 15 meeting! A draft document with findings
from the meeting is now posted online and available for comments from the SBAG
community. Please provide any comments by July 25, 2016. Comments can be
emailed to: [email protected] or any SBAG steering committee member.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/findings/
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Request for CubeSat and Small Sat Mission Concepts
As mentioned at the SBAG 15 meeting, we would like to collect a bit of information
about possible CubeSat and small sat missions of interest to the SBAG community.
We saw a few examples presented by the NIAC fellows at the SBAG 15 meeting and
would like to hear your thoughts on the subject. If you’d like, please provide one
paragraph briefly describing the following:
• A CubeSat or small sat mission concept (what is to be accomplished and briefly how),
• The benefits of using CubeSats or small sats (e.g. low cost, distributed reach, etc),
• Any technology that would enable or benefit the CubeSat portion of the mission.
Multiple submissions are fine, the CubeSat/small sats can be the primary spacecraft
or daughter craft, and notional concepts are fine. We will use this information to
augment the newly created SBAG technology roadmap and to respond to any NASA
inquiries about the suitability of CubeSat and small sat missions to our community.
No proprietary information, please, as the summaries may be posted to SBAG’s
website as references for our technology roadmap.
Responses to Carolyn Mercer ([email protected]) by July 22 would be particularly
helpful, but we will also collect this information through August 31.
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Upcoming SBAG Meetings
SBAG 16
January 11-13, 2017
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
SBAG 17
tentatively planned for:
June 13-15, 2017
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD
In particular, we’d like to know if there are known conflicts or issues with the dates
tentatively planned for the SBAG 17 meeting, as we will be finalizing the dates for
this meeting later this month. Please email incoming SBAG chair Tim Swindle
([email protected]) with any known issues or comments.
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Best wishes,
Nancy Chabot
SBAG Chair
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JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES
A) ESA RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN SPACE SCIENCE
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UPCOMING MEETINGS
A) AGU 2016 SESSION P004: COMETARY PROCESSES
IN THE LIGHT OF ROSETTA
Conveners: Bonnie Buratti, Mathieu Choukroun, Matt Taylor, and Nicolas Altobelli
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft will make an unprecedented
controlled crash onto comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in late September
2016, providing close scrutiny of the comet until the very end. This session will
focus on scientific results from this final stage of Rosetta’s life. The session will
also include correlative studies among instruments from all phases of the mission;
studies that incorporate ground-based observations for better temporal coverage
and perspective; theoretical modeling of cometary processes; and interrelationships
among comets and other small bodies.
AGU abstracts are due no later than 3 August.
B) AGU SESSION P026 SOLAR SYSTEM SMALL BODIES:
RELICS OF FORMATION AND NEW WORLDS TO EXPLORE
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to our session entitled
“Solar System Small Bodies: Relics of Formation and New Worlds to Explore”
scheduled at the AGU Fall Meeting at San Francisco, December 12-16 2016.
Abstract deadline: 3 August 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13304
The composition and physical properties of Small Solar System Bodies
(SSSBs), remnants of the formation of planets, are key to better understand
our solar system. Increased knowledge of their surface properties and their
potential as resources are also necessary to prepare for robotic and human
exploration. Hints about the internal structure and composition of SSSBs
have been acquired recently thanks to flyby/rendezvous data from space
missions, study of complex multiple asteroid systems, or close encounter
between asteroids. This session welcomes abstracts on the results bringing
information on the internal structure and composition of SSSBs based on
space and ground-based data, numerical models, as well as instrument/mission
concepts in the prospect of future exploration.
Conveners:
Franck Marchis (SETI Institute & Iris AO), Julie C. Castillo (NASA Jet
Propulsion Laboratory) and Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher (Space Science
Institute)
C) AGU SESSION P006: DETECTION AND DIRECT IMAGING OF
HABITABLE EXOPLANETS: PROGRESS AND FUTURE
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to our session entitled
“Detection And Direct Imaging Of Habitable Exoplanets: Progress And Future”
scheduled at the AGU Fall Meeting at San Francisco, December 12-16 2016.
Abstract deadline: 3 August 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13664
This session consists in a discussion on the potential of new and future facilities
and modeling efforts designed to detect, image and characterize habitable
exoplanets, studying their formation, evolution and also the existence of
possible biospheres. Topics to be covered in this session include signs of
exoplanet habitability and global biosignatures that can be sought with
upcoming instrumentation; instrument requirements and technologies to
detect these markers; strategies for target selection and prioritization; and
impacts of planetary system properties, ground-based and space telescope
architectures, and impacts of instrument capabilities on the yield of potentially
inhabited exoplanets.
Conveners: Franck Marchis (SETI Institute), Ramses M. Ramirez (Cornell
University), Douglas Caldwell (SETI Institute)
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