Issue 17-29, July 22, 2017
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- REMINDER: DPS ABSTRACTS DUE 9:00 PM EDT 26 JULY 2017
- DPS ABSTRACTS – REMEMBER BONUS EDUCATION ABSTRACTS – SPECIAL CALL TO DISCUSS ECLIPSE EVENTS
- REMINDER: PLEASE VOTE IN THE 2017 DPS ELECTION
- AGU SESSION P012: EXPLORATION OF THE JUPITER TROJANS
- NEAR-EARTH OBJECT WORKSHOP
- FUTURE KUIPER BELT MISSIONS COMMUNITY GROUP SIGN-UP
- DPS CALL FOR MENTORS AND MENTEES – MENTORNET
- JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES
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REMINDER: DPS ABSTRACTS DUE 9:00 PM EDT 26 JULY 2017
https://aas.org/meetings/dps49/abstracts
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DPS ABSTRACTS – REMEMBER BONUS EDUCATION ABSTRACTS –
SPECIAL CALL TO DISCUSS ECLIPSE EVENTS
Regular DPS abstracts are due on July 26, 2017. We want to remind all members
that in addition to your regular contributed abstract,everyone can submit an additional
education abstract. To celebrate the “Great American Eclipse”, we are soliciting
contributions that describe your special education and outreach events for the
August eclipse, including large public events, special online events, and other
outreach activities.
Sanlyn Buxner and Bonnie Meinke
DPS Education Subcommittee
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REMINDER: PLEASE VOTE IN THE 2017 DPS ELECTION
The 2017 election for DPS Vice-Chair and Committee is now open, and will
close on July 31st 2017.
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 Reggie Hudson, Goddard Space Flight Center
o Linda Spilker, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The elected Vice-Chair will take his/her functions in October 2017 and will
become the DPS Chair in October 2018.
You should also vote for two of the five candidates for DPS Committee:
o Michele Bannister, Queens University, Belfast
o Terry Hurford, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
o David Morrison, NASA Ames Research Center
o Michael “Migo” Mueller, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Netherlands
o Padma Yanamandra-Fisher, Space Science Institute
The successful candidates will serve on the Committee for three years after
October 2017.
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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AGU SESSION P012: EXPLORATION OF THE JUPITER TROJANS
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session23834
Exploration of the Trojans has reached a critical phase with new missions and
observational tools. Lucy, just selected by NASA as the next Discovery mission,
will launch in 2021 on a trajectory that will encounter six Jupiter Trojans with a
diverse range of properties. An innovative solar-sail-based mission to directly
sample a Trojan is currently under consideration by JAXA. Earth-based studies
are revealing new complexity among the Trojans including new collisional families
and an excess of slow rotators. LSST will greatly expand the number of known
Trojans and JWST will enable mid-infrared spectroscopic studies of water and
organics. The connection to other populations including transneptunian objects,
Centaurs, and irregular satellites is being studied with Earth-based photometry
and spectroscopy and with laboratory investigations of possible surface components.
This session will bring together researchers working on different aspects of Trojan
studies to share their new results.
Primary Convener: Keith S. Noll, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners: Simone Marchi, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder,
CO, United States, Hajime Yano, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,
Sagamihara, Japan and Tatsuaki Okada, ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical
Science, Kanagawa, Japan
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NEAR-EARTH OBJECT WORKSHOP
Dear asteroid aficionado,
From 14 May to 8 June 2018 we will hold a workshop titled “Near-Earth objects:
Properties, detection, resources, impacts and defending Earth” within the framework
of the Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics (MIAPP), funded by the
Munich/Garching Excellence Cluster “Origins and Structure of the Universe. The
primary goal is to identify the remaining uncertainties in determining the Earth’s
impact hazard and how to reduce them.
More information is available at http://tinyurl.com/MIAPP-2018-NEO-Workshop.
The deadline for expressing your interest in attending is 14 August 2017.
(The website ‘Registration’ does not require any payment.)
The organising committee:
Andreas Burkert, Camilla Colombo, Robert Jedicke, Detlef Koschny, Richard Wainscoat
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FUTURE KUIPER BELT MISSIONS COMMUNITY GROUP SIGN-UP
If you are interested in joining a community group to study and support future NASA
missions to explore objects in the Kuiper Belt, including as one possibility a potential
return to Pluto, please fill out the web-form here: http://bit.ly/F_KBO_list.
Sincerely, Jason Hofgartner, Renu Malhotra, Bill McKinnon, Cathy Olkin, Silvia
Protopapa, Kelsi Singer, Alan Stern, and Mark Sykes
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DPS CALL FOR MENTORS AND MENTEES – MENTORNET
Currently, DPS has a partnership with MentorNet, a mentoring platform that
connects STEM students with mentors working in STEM fields. If this sounds
interesting to you, consider joining! Additionally, if you know any students/
post-docs/ early-to-late career scientists that would be interested in becoming a
mentor or mentee, please pass along this information.
You do not have to be a current member of DPS to join, but please note AAS/DPS
as your affiliation when signing up so we can track usage statistics.
MentorNet gives students an opportunity to grow their network outside of their current
institution, and provides training sessions for mentors and mentees.
If you have any questions, please refer to the DPS MentorNet Q&A page,
or contact Audrey Martin and Kelsi Singer.
We hope you consider joining MentorNet!
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JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES
A) NASA HQ VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT – PLANETARY PROTECTION OFFICER
NASA has posted a position in the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance for Planetary
Protection. It has a very short response time, with applications due by 2017-08-14.
This position is now assigned to Office of Safety and Mission Assurance for
Planetary Protection. Planetary protection is concerned with the avoidance of
organic-constituent and biological contamination in human and robotic space
exploration. NASA maintains policies for planetary protection applicable to all
space flight missions that may intentionally or unintentionally carry Earth
organisms and organic constituents to the planets or other solar system bodies,
and any mission employing spacecraft, which are intended to return to Earth
and its biosphere with samples from extraterrestrial targets of exploration. This
policy is based on federal requirements and international treaties and agreements.
Current Agency policy requires the SL appointments be time-limited. The initial
appointment will be for 3 years, with the possibility of extending for an additional
2 years. This temporary promotion may be converted to permanent without further
competition.
NOTE: This announcement is open to U.S. citizens and U.S. nationals.
For additional information regarding the position, as well as qualifying and application
procedures, please review the complete announcement at:
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/474414000#hiring-paths
Additional questions regarding this position can be directed to:
Contact
Human Resources Management Division
Email : [email protected]
B) POST-DOCTORAL TEACHING ASSOCIATE IN GEOPHYSICS
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (http://web.eps.utk.edu)
at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville invites applications for a Post-
doctoral Teaching Associate position in Geophysics starting as early as
August 1, 2017. The position is a 9-month appointment and includes benefits.
Successful candidates will be expected to teach physical geology at the
100-level and specialized geophysical courses at the upper division
undergraduate or graduate level. Candidates will also be encouraged to
participate in departmental research projects and/or work on their own
research. UT–Knoxville is the state’s flagship research institution, located
in East Tennessee close to Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park. The Department of Earth and Planetary
Sciences comprises an energetic group of tenure-track and research faculty,
post-doctoral researchers, and ~150 graduate and undergraduate students.
Applicants should e-mail résumé, description of teaching and research
interests, and contact information for 3 references in PDF format to Melody
Branch, Business Manager, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996; Phone: 865-974-5498;
E-mail:
and will continue until the position is filled.
C) SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
content/solar-system-exploration-postdoctoral-fellow
D) CELESTIAL DYNAMICIST
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