Newsletter 16-33 - AAS Division for Planetary Sciences

Issue 16-33, September 5, 2016

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REMINDERS FOR UPCOMING DPS 48/EPSC 11 DEADLINES
COMPUTATIONAL ADVANCES IN SOLAR SYSTEM STUDIES
MAPSIT ASSESSMENT GROUP
32nd MEPAG MEEETING 2nd INFORMATION CIRCULAR
BIG DATA CHALLENGES, RESEARCH, AND TECNOLOGIES IN THE EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES
JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES

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REMINDERS FOR UPCOMING DPS 48/EPSC 11 DEADLINES

Pasadena, CA, 16-21 October 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center

https://aas.org/meetings/dps48

* Important dates

– 14 September: Hotel Reservations Deadline

– 16 September: Dependent Care Grant Application Deadline

– 16 September: Late Registration Deadline

– 21 September: Open Mic Submissions Deadline

The DPS is grateful to our Meeting Sponsors:

ESA

Europlanet

NASA

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

AURA

Nature Astronomy

Southwest Research Institute
Ball Aerospace

Nature Geoscience

Space Science Institute

The University of Arizona Press

Universities Space Research Association (USRA)

VORTICES

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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 i

n 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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MAPSIT ASSESSMENT GROUP

MAPSIT, the Mapping and Planetary Spatial Information Team, is a new
NASA Assessment Group that is seeking steering committee membership,
including international. We consider all aspects of planetary data,
from collection, to processing, to incorporation into regional and
global products and maps, and finally to storage and accessibility.
We seek to identify and prioritize community needs and to increase
the utility of our international spacecraft data. We will accept
nominations (including self-nominations) consisting of one paragraph
about how your involvement will benefit MAPSIT, plus your CV, sent
to [email protected] by 30 September 2016. The MAPSIT steering committee
will decide between these nominations, considering how to retain
expertise in tools and methods and to maintain balance between
science, disciplines and institutions. Visit:

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/mapsit/

for more information on MAPSIT.

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32ND MEPAG MEETING 2ND INFORMATION CIRCULAR

Members of the Mars community,

I cordially invite you to participate in the 32nd meeting of the Mars
Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG), scheduled as a virtual
meeting on October 6th, 2016, 8:30am-12:30pm PDT.

Adobe Connect information and current draft agenda are posted at:

http://mepag.nasa.gov/meeting/2016-10/meeting32_2nd%20Information%20Circular_v3.pdf

Key discussion topics will include:
* Reports from the Mars Exploration Program on budget, current
missions, and studies for future Mars missions;
* Updates on Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) activities;
* Report on the planetary science community-wide survey of
Participating Scientist programs;
* New membership within the MEPAG Goals and Executive Committee;
* Report from the recent conference on “Biosignature Preservation
and Detection in Mars Analog Environments”;
* Upcoming MEPAG activities, including the next face-to-face
MEPAG meeting (No. 33) in early 2017.

The meeting is open to all members of the Mars science community
including our international colleagues. I look forward to your
participation.

Sincerely,
Dr. Jeffrey R. Johnson
MEPAG Chair

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BIG DATA CHALLENGES, RESEARCH, AND TECHNOLOGIES

IN THE EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES

http://geo-bigdata.github.io/

Part of IEEE International Big Data Conference 2016, Washington D.C.
Monday, December 5th, 2016

Paper submissions due September 25th, 2016

A new paradigm is needed in order to increase the productivity and
effectiveness of scientific data analysis for Earth and planetary
science investigation. This paradigm must recognize that architectural
and analytical choices are interrelated, and must be carefully
coordinated in any system that aims to allow efficient, interactive
scientific exploration and discovery to exploit massive data
collections, from point of collection to analysis and decision support.

Both observational systems and data centers will be needed as part
of this new paradigm, which includes the significant increase in size
and complexity of science data as well as new approaches across the
entire data lifecycle from capture to management and analysis of
the data.

This workshop builds off of two successful previous workshops that
have merged to offer a comprehensive venue for all aspects of Big
Data in the Earth and Planetary Sciences. We seek computational and
data science experts to present on their research and discuss Big Data
roadmaps, architectures, technologies, and methodologies for future
Earth and planetary science data challenges emerging from both
instrumentation and data access and analytics.

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JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES

A) ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY

Department of Astronomy

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

content/assistant-professor-astronomy

B) POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN OBSERVATIONAL

STUDIES OF EXOPLANETS

Centre for Space and Habitability

University of Bern

Bern, Switzerland