Issue 18-12, March 21, 2018
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- REMINDER: DPS 2018 PRIZE NOMINATIONS
- SPITZER CYCLE 14 PROPOSAL DEADLINE MARCH 23
- COMMUNITY PLUTO FOLLOW ON MISSIONS WHITE PAPER AVAILABLE
- OUTER PLANETS ASSESSMENT GROUP FINDINGS AND NEXT MEETING
- RECONSIDERATION IN THE USE OF RPS FOR DISCOVERY
- NASA SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE SEEKS VOLUNTEER REVIEWERS
- UPCOMING MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS
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REMINDER: DPS 2018 PRIZE NOMINATIONS
Deadline: April 1, 2018
Every year the DPS recognizes exceptional achievement in our field.
Please consider nominating a respected colleague for one of the annual
DPS prizes. The DPS sponsors five prizes:
The Gerard P. Kuiper Prize honors outstanding contributions to the field
of planetary science.
The Harold C. Urey Prize recognizes outstanding achievement in planetary
research by a young scientist.
The Harold Masursky Award acknowledges outstanding service to planetary
science and exploration.
The Carl Sagan Medal recognizes and honors outstanding communication
by an active planetary scientist to the general public.
The Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award recognizes and
stimulates distinguished popular writing on planetary sciences.
DPS members and the planetary science community-at-large are encouraged to
submit nominations for DPS prizes.
A complete nomination submitted by the deadline will be considered by the
DPS Prize subcommittee for 3 years (i.e. for this year’s award, next year’s award,
and the year after that), or for the duration of a candidate’s eligibility, whichever
is less. Please fill out the nomination form, and it will be submitted to the prize
subcommittee. The Eberhart Award has different rules and procedures than the
other DPS Prizes, please see its page for more information.
Scroll to the bottom of prizes for rules and procedures.
Questions: [email protected] or [email protected]
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SPITZER CYCLE 14 PROPOSAL DEADLINE MARCH 23
All Cycle-14 observing proposals are due:
Friday, 23 March 2018, 2 PM PDT
All programmatic and technical information for Cycle-14 is available electronically
from the Proposal Kit section of the Spitzer Science Center website at
http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/warmmission/propkit/
If you have any questions please contact us at the Spitzer Helpdesk at
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COMMUNITY PLUTO FOLLOW ON MISSIONS WHITE PAPER AVAILABLE
A self-organized community white paper on Pluto Follow On Missions
is now available to the community to download from the following links:
and
https://sites.google.com/view/pkeg/resources
Those wishing to sign on to this white paper should contact Kelsi Singer,
-Richard Binzel, Will Grundy, Doug Hamilton, Jason Hofgartner, Rosaly Lopes,
Renu Malhotra, Jeff Moore, Cathy Olkin, Stuart Robbins, Kelsi Singer, Alan Stern,
Anne Verbiscer, and Amanda Zangari
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OUTER PLANETS ASSESMENT GROUP FINDINGS AND NEXT MEETING
Eight findings from 21-23 February OPAG meeting in Hampton have been posted at
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/. These findings address 1. Europa exploration
and the decade of darkness, 2. Status of CDAP and NFDAP, 3. Ice Giant exploration,
4. Workforce issues in the next Decadal Survey, 5. RPS for the next Discovery mission,
6. Ocean Worlds National Academies study, 7. Pre-Decadal mission studies, and
8. OPAG technology.
The next OPAG meeting is tentatively scheduled for September 11-12 in Pasadena.
-The OPAG Steering Committee
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RECONSIDERATION IN THE USE OF RPS FOR DISCOVERY
From: James Green, Director, NASA’s Planetary Science Division
After analysis and consultation with the Department of Energy, NASA’s Planetary
Science Division is pleased to announce that the ban on the use of Radio-isotope
Power Systems (RPS) by proposers responding to the upcoming Discovery 2018
AO has been removed. Proposers will be able to include the use of up to two (2)
Multi-mission Radio-Isotope Thermal Generators (MMRTG’s) to enable or
significantly enhance their mission concept. Costs to be borne by proposers for
the MMRTGs, the related environmental impact assessments, and the required
Nuclear Launch Approval process will be announced once determined.
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SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE SEEKS VOLUNTEER REVIEWERS
The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) has posted some new volunteer reviewer
forms on the SARA web page at
https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/volunteer-review-panels
SMD is currently seeking reviewers for:
- ROSES A.36 Earth Science Applications: Water Resources
- ROSES C.2 Emerging Worlds
- ROSES C.6 Solar System Observations
- ROSES C.13 MatISSE and C.22 DALI (high-TRL planetary instrument programs)
- ROSES D.3 Astrophysics Research and Analysis
- ROSES E.3 Exoplanet Research Program
- Earth Surface and Interior and Space Geodesy Programs
- Astrophysics Data Analysis Program (Appendix D.2 of the annual ROSES NRA)
If you would like to volunteer for a review that is not listed above (like Step-1
proposals for B.10 the Heliophysics – Early Career Investigator Program) you may
write directly to the Program Officer at
https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/program-officers-list/
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UPCOMING MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS
A) AIDA/DART SPRING 2018 INVESTIGATION TEAM MEETING: SECOND
ANNOUNCEMENT AND REGISTRATION REMINDER
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel MD
The DART Investigation Team will have a one-day meeting on 9 April 2018.
This meeting will be used to discuss the status of DART and the collaborative
AIDA project, present work done by the Investigation Team during DART’s
Preliminary Design Phase (“Phase B”), and prepare for a possible transition to
Final Design and Fabrication Phase (“Phase C”) later in 2018. We welcome
community interest and participation in general discussion, and plan to provide
for remote access.
Registration is required for onsite participants so that we can generate a visitor
log, but there is no registration fee and no abstracts are solicited. We note that
it is particularly important for people who are not US citizens to register by the
deadline–we will not be able to accommodate non-citizen walk-ins. The
registration deadline is March 23.
Further details including the current agenda and registration link can be found at
http://dart.jhuapl.edu/investigationteam_april2018/index.php
B) OCEAN WORLDS 3: ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 28
The abstract deadline for the Ocean Worlds 3 meeting has been extended to Wed.
March 28, 2018 5:00 PM CDT. Ocean Worlds 3 will be held May 21–24, 2018 at
the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston,
Texas. The focus will be on the potential for silicate-water interactions to occur on
Ocean Worlds beyond Earth, from a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspective.
As with past Ocean Worlds meetings, a primary motivation is to engender a cross-
fertilization of ideas and expertise by soliciting contributions from both the Ocean
Sciences and Planetary Sciences communities. Consequently, contributions are
invited that address any aspects of this broad water-rock interaction theme, across
he Planetary and Ocean Science fields, including geophysics, hydrogeology,
geochemistry and microbiology.
Meeting website: http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/oceanworlds2018
Thanks!
Marc Neveu
Ocean Worlds 3 Organizing Committee
C) 9th PLANETARY CRATER CONSORTIUM
The 9th Planetary Crater Consortium meeting will be held August 8-10, 2018,
at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, CO. The Planetary Crater
Consortium is open to all planetary scientists interested in any aspect of impact
cratering on solar system bodies, including observational, theoretical, experimental,
and numerical studies. Contributions on terrestrial impact crater field studies are
encouraged, as well as presentations about cratering on other solar system bodies.
The meeting is a combination of contributed talks, posters, and open discussion.
Abstract deadline is Wednesday, August 1, 2018. For more information, see
www.planetarycraterconsortium.nau.edu/ or contact Nadine Barlow
D) LUNAR AND SMALL BODIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2018 –
ANNOUNCEMENT AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
DEADLINE: MAY 11, 2018
ESF ABSTRACT DEADLINE: MARCH 30, 2018
Registration is now open for the 8th Annual Lunar and Small Bodies Graduate
Conference (LunGradCon 2018) to be held on Monday, June 25, 2018 at the
NASA Ames Research Center, preceding the NASA Exploration Science Forum
(ESF, June 26-28). With the expanded interests of the Solar System Exploration
Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), the scope of this year’s LunGradCon includes
both lunar and small body science. LunGradCon provides an opportunity for grad
students and early-career postdocs to present their research on lunar and small body
science in a low-stress, friendly environment, being critiqued only by their peers.
In addition to oral presentations, the conference presents opportunities for professional
development and networking with fellow grad students and postdocs, as well as
senior members of SSERVI. A limited amount of funding will be provided for travel
and lodging costs. The deadline for LunGradCon registration and abstract submission
is May 11, 2018, 11:59 PM PDT. The ESF abstract deadline is March 30th.
For more details, please visit:
http://impact.colorado.edu/lungradcon/2018/
or email any questions to: [email protected]
E) 4th IPM INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
Sep 12-14, 2018- Berlin, Germany
We are very excited to announce that the 4th International Workshop on
‘Instrumentation for Planetary Missions’ (IPM – 2018) will be held
in Berlin, Germany Sep 12-14, 2018. The venue will be the Technical
University (TU)
of Berlin. The topics of interest are listed below.
Important dates:
April 1, 2018: Abstracts submission opens
June 13, 2018: Abstracts submission deadline
The provisional portal is here (http://www.planet.tu-berlin.de/menue/veranstaltungen/ipm_2018/).
A more complete portal with additional information and abstract submission
links will be available soon.
The Local organizing committee (LOC) is led by Prof Juergen Oberst of
the Planetary Geodesy and Geoinformation Science Department at TU, Berlin.
The scientific Organizing Committee (SOC) members are:
- Athena Coustenis (Observatoire de Meudon/LESIA/CNRS),
- Juergen Oberst (TU, Planetary Science, Berlin)- Co-chair
- Sabrina Feldman (JPL)
- Stephanie Getty (GSFC)
- Elizabeth Turtle (APL)
- Shawn Domagal-Goldman (NASA/GSFC)
- Neil Bowles (Oxford, UK)
- Brook Lakew (GSFC)- Co-chair
- Manuel Grande (Aberystwyth Univ, UK)
- Anita Heward (UK)
- Christophe Sotin (JPL)
- David Beaty (JPL)
- Harald Michaelis (DLR, Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin)
*Please note that IPM-2018 will take place the week before the European Planetary
Science Congress (EPSC) – the main annual European planetary science conference
(https://www.epsc2018.eu/) – also happening at the same venue in Berlin.
As in years past we are looking forward to a successful IPM International Workshop.
Mark your calendars and prepare your abstracts!
-Brook Lakew
4th IPM Workshop co-chair.
Suggested topics for the 4th IPM Workshop
1- Planetary Science questions to be addressed in the next decade and
beyond – keynote/invited papers
2- Instruments on past missions – lessons learned and vision for next
generation instruments – keynote/invited papers
3- Life detection Instrumentation and related technologies for Ocean Worlds
4- Instruments on past and newly selected phase-A missions (Rosetta,
Hayabusa 2, Mangalyaan, TGO, ExoMars, Mars 2020, JUICE, Juno,
OSIRIS-Rex, Bepi-Colombo, Lucy, Psyche, Dragonfly, CEASAR, Europa
Clipper, Europa Lander, etc.)
5- Novel instruments for Lander Missions- including Lunar and Mars landers
6- Instruments for Orbiters, Flyby Missions (Sub-mm, Radar, UV, IR
spectrometers, imagers)
7- Instrumentation for descent probes (Saturn, Uranus, Venus, …)
8- Mass Spectrometry, Geochronology and Elemental Spectroscopy
instruments
9- Science Instruments for Deep-Space SmallSats and CubeSats
10- Electronics for extreme environments (temperature and radiation)
11- Dual-Function Instruments on Human Space Flight missions beyond LEO
12- Science Instruments on human space flight missions to the Deep-space
Gateway and planetary targets beyond LEO ( NEO, Mars, Phobos)
F) DIDYMOS OBSERVER WORKSHOP
The Second Announcement on the Didymos Observer Workshop,
June 19-21 in Prague, Czech Republic, is now available at
http://didymos2018-mtg.asu.cas.cz/didymosprague2018_secondannouncement.pdf
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