Issue 18-47, November 14, 2018
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- 2019 PIERAZZO INTERNATIONAL STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD
- JWST OBSERVER NEWS ROUNDUP DELIVERS JWST NEWS TO YOUR INBOX
- SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: THE MAIN BELT: A GATEWAY TO THE FORMATION AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
- SPECIAL ISSUE: OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL ATMOSPHERE
- OBITUARY – MICHAEL F. A’HEARN
- SMALL BODIES ASSESSMENT GROUP (SBAG) GOALS DOCUMENT – RESOURCE UTILIZATION
- JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES
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2019 PIERAZZO INTERNATIONAL STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD
Application deadline: 9 PM MST, November 29, 2018
Awards will be announced on or before December 10, 2018
This award is established by the Planetary Science Institute in memory of
Senior Scientist Betty Pierazzo to support and encourage graduate students
to build international collaborations and relationships in planetary science.
Two awards will be made each year, contingent upon there being meritorious
applications. One will be awarded to a graduate student working on his or her
Ph.D. at an institution within the U.S. This is to support travel to a planetary
science related meeting (conferences and workshops) outside of the U.S. The
second award will be to a graduate student working on his or her Ph.D. at an
institution outside of the U.S. This is to support travel to a planetary science
related meeting within the U.S. These include general meetings that have
planetary-focused sessions such as the AGU, GSA, EGU and IAG. The award
will consist of a certificate and up to $2000US. Additional information and
application materials are available at: http://www.psi.edu/pista
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JWST OBSERVER NEWS ROUNDUP DELIVERS JWST NEWS TO YOUR INBOX
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SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: THE MAIN BELT: A GATEWAY TO THE FORMATION AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Workshop, Sardinia, Italy | June 4-7, 2019
The Main Asteroid Belt is at the boundary of the inner and outer Solar
System. It marks a transition region from the rocky volatile-poor inner
terrestrial planets to the outer gaseous and icy giant planets. Asteroids
also give us access to the relatively unprocessed building blocks of planet
formation, with many retaining a record of processes that took place during
the formation and early evolution of the Solar System. This workshop
brings together experts to establish the current understanding of Main Belt
asteroid science, as well as to debate future directions for investigation.
The workshop stimulates discussions about accretion, chemistry, collisions,
dynamics, geophysics, and meteorites. The workshop is limited to
approximately 100 attendees.
Main topics:
1. Planetesimal Formation
2. Collisional Evolution
3. Depletion & Implantation
4. Composition & Chemistry
5. Meteorites & Samples
6. Space Missions
When: June 4-7, 2019 (including a half-day field trip to the 64-m dish
Sardinia Radio Telescope).
Where: Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy | https://www.pullman-timiama-sardegna.com/en/
Website: http://www.iaps.inaf.it/sz/mainbelt2019/
Deadlines: January 31, 2019 (abstract submission); March 31, 2019 (early registration)
SOC Chairs: Maria Cristina De Sanctis, INAF, Italy / Simone Marchi, SwRI, USA
SOC Members:
Eleonora Ammannito, ASI, Italy
William F. Bottke, SwRI, USA
Fabrizio Capaccioni, INAF, Italy
Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, ASU, USA
Roger Fu, Harvard University, USA
Thorsten Kleine, University of Münster, Germany
Javier Licandro, IAC, Spain
Alessandro Morbidelli, OCA, France
Carol A. Raymond, JPL/Caltech, USA
Fumi Yoshida, PERC/Chitech, Japan
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SPECIAL ISSUE: OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL ATMOSPHERE
A special issue of the open-access journal Atmosphere, “Modeling and Simulation
of Planetary Atmospheres”, is now open for submissions, until 16 August 2019.
Full information is at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/planetary_atmospheres .
Timothy E. Dowling, Guest Editor
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OBITUARY – MICHAEL F. A’HEARN
The AAS obituary for Michael F. A'Hearn's (1940-2017) has been posted at
https://aas.org/obituaries/michael-f-ahearn-1940-2017
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SMALL BODIES ASSESSMENT GROUP (SBAG) GOALS DOCUMENT – RESOURCE UTILIZATION
The Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) is in the process of revising
our document of the community's goals for exploration and study of small
bodies in the Solar System. A number of you have been involved with various
parts of it, but we are looking for some input on Resource Utilization. That
topic is only briefly mentioned in the current Goals document (at
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/goals/), but we believe that it deserves much
more emphasis this time. Some work had begun on this, but the lead was
unable to continue, because of conflicts with previous commitments, so we
will be starting afresh with Daniel Britt as the lead.
Please contact Dan (cc'd) if you are interested in contributing. We want
these documents to reflect broad input from the small bodies community.
Thanks.
Tim Swindle
Chair, Small Bodies Assessment Group Steering Committee
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JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES
A) PLANETARY SCIENCES TENURE-TRACK FACULTY POSITION AT CALTECH
The Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California
Institute of Technology is seeking outstanding applicants for a tenure-
track faculty position in planetary science at the assistant professor
level. We are seeking highly qualified candidates who are committed
to a career in research and teaching. We are especially interested in
individuals whose research complements that in the Division, which
covers the full spectrum of the earth and planetary sciences. We are
particularly interested in applicants with solar system-focused research
programs in planetary geophysics/geology, planetary atmospheric
sciences, or small bodies research; but those in other sub-disciplines
will be considered. For further information or to apply
https://applications.caltech.edu/jobs/ps
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