Issue 19-42, September 13, 2019
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- MESSAGE FROM THE OUTGOING AND INCOMING CHAIRS: LOOKING FORWARD TO THE EPSC-DPS JOINT MEETING
- MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR: KEY ACTIVITIES DURING EPSC-DPS JOINT MEETING; LUNCH BAGS PROVIDED FOR SOME MEETINGS
- EARLY CAREER REVIEW FOR THE UPCOMING EPSC-DPS JOINT MEETING IN GENEVA SEPTEMBER 16 AND 17
- CELEBRATION FOR THE PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL AT EPSC-DPS 2019
- DPS NOMINATING SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBER ELECTION AT THE DPS 2019 MEMBERS MEETING IN GENEVA
- JWST EVENTS AT EPSC-DPS 2019
- GETTING READY FOR LSST: + MILLION SMALL BODIES, 1+ BILLION OBSERVATIONS: WORKSHOP AT EPSC-DPS 2019
- EPSC-DPS 2019 WORKSHOP: CARBON IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
- ICE GIANT MEETINGS AT EPSC-DPS AND LONDON 2020
- SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT: ASTROCHEMICAL COMPLEXITY IN PLANETARY SYSTEMS
- NOAO 2020A OBSERVING PROPOSALS DUE 30 SEPTEMBER 2019
- JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES
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MESSAGE FROM THE OUTGOING AND INCOMING CHAIRS: LOOKING FORWARD TO THE EPSC-DPS JOINT MEETING
The EPSC-DPS Joint meeting is less than a week away and we look forward to
engaging with the planetary community at this important gathering! We outline
here a number of options that are available, in case any problems arise while at
the meeting.
If you observe or experience behavior that is in breach of the Code of conduct,
and wish to file a report, please use the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019 online form
( https://www.epsc-dps2019.eu/information/incidents.html). You can fill this in
anonymously, but we will be unable to follow up with you about your report
without a working email address.
If there are any issues, observations or suggestions that you would like to talk
to meeting leadership about while you are in Geneva, please visit the Europlanet
Society stand. A member of the EPSC-DPS Joint Organizing Committee or Meeting
Response Group will be happy to come and meet with you and hear your thoughts.
If you require on-site medical attention, there is an infirmary on Level -1 of the
CICG that is open from 09:00-18:00 Monday–Friday.
If you require emergency assistance while attending EPSC-DPS 2019 in Geneva,
the emergency telephone numbers are as follows:
· Police: 117
· Fire: 118
· Life-threatening emergencies (to call for an ambulance): 144
We look forward to seeing you at the meeting. Please feel free to talk with us during
the meeting about any of your concerns. We are here to support our membership!
See you in Geneva!
Best regards,
Linda Spilker (Outgoing Chair) and Amanda Hendrix (Incoming Chair)
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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR: KEY ACTIVITIES DURING EPSC-DPS JOINT MEETING; LUNCH BAGS PROVIDED FOR SOME MEETINGS
The week of the EPSC-DPS Joint meeting will be a busy one, filled with nine parallel
science sessions each day and many interesting and exciting Community Events and
Splinter Sessions. See https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2019/meetingprogramme
As a result of this very busy schedule, the typical plenary sessions, such as the DPS
and EPSC business meetings, have been scheduled during the lunch breaks (12:00 –
13:30). DPS and EPSC will provide lunch bags for attendees to make it easier for
you to attend these events. Food cannot be eaten in the conference rooms during
the meetings, so the lunch bags will be distributed either before or after the meeting.
A list of Community Events and Splinter Sessions that might be of interest to the DPS
membership are given below. Events with lunch bags provided are indicated with *.
Sunday
Sunday: Icebreaker reception
Sun, 15 Sep, 15:30–17:30 CICG main hall
Monday
Monday (Plenary): Opening ceremony; DPS and EPSC Prize presentations;
Kuiper, Urey, and Farinella Prize Lectures
Conveners: Jean-Pierre Lebreton, Linda Spilker, Stephane Udry, M. Cristina De Sanctis
Mon, 16 Sep, 10:15–13:00 Jupiter (Room 1) Programme
Kuiper Prize Lecture by Dr. Maria Zuber: “Inside the Moon Fifty Years after Apollo”: 11:30–11:55
Urey Prize Lecture by Dr. Kelsi Singer: “New Horizons: Exploration of Distant
Worlds in the Kuiper Belt”: 11:55–12:20
Farinella Prize Lectures by Drs. Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo: “Completing
the Inventory of the Solar System”
12:30-13:00
*150 lunch bags provided at end of meeting
Monday (Splinter): Status Report on Planning for the Next Planetary Science
Decadal Survey
Convener: David H. Smith
Mon, 16 Sep, 13:30–15:00 Saturn (Room 2)
Monday (Break): Celebration for The Planetary Science Journal, a new AAS-DPS
Publication
Cakes and Bubbly
Mon, 16 Sep, 15:00 AAS Booth in the Exhibit Hall, #06
Tuesday
Tuesday (Lunchtime): DPS Members meeting
Convener: Linda Spilker
Tue, 17 Sep, 12:15–13:00 Jupiter (Room 1)
*200 lunch bags provided at end of meeting
Tuesday, Space Exploration night
Conveners: Jean-Pierre Lebreton, Linda Spilker
Tue, 17 Sep, 19:00–21:30 Jupiter (Room 1)
*Dinner sandwich buffet provided at 18:30 for meeting attendees
Wednesday
Wednesday (Lunchtime): Women in Planetary Science Discussion Hour
Convener: Kelsi Singer
Wed, 18 Sep, 12:00–13:15 Saturn (Room 2)
*Lunch bags provided to registered attendees at start of the time block
Wednesday (Evening): Social event (pre-registered attendees only)
Wed, 18 Sep, 19:00–21:30, La Brasserie des Halles de l’île
Wednesday (Evening): Open Mic Night
Convener: Joseph Spitale
Wed, 18 Sep, 22:00–Thu, 19 Sep, 01:30, La Brasserie des Halles de l’île
Thursday
Thursday (Lunchtime): Europlanet Society General Assembly
Conveners: Nigel Mason, Athena Coustenis
Thu, 19 Sep, 12:15–13:15 Jupiter (Room 1)
*100 lunch bags provided at end of meeting
Thursday (Evening): Division for Planetary Sciences Sagan Public Lecture
“Asteroid impacts and Spacepod” by Dr. Carrie Nugent
Thu, 19 Sep, 19:30–20:30, University DUFOUR (auditoire Piaget)
I look forward to seeing everyone in Geneva!
Linda Spilker
DPS Chair
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EARLY CAREER REVIEW FOR THE UPCOMING EPSC-DPS JOINT MEETING IN GENEVA SEPTEMBER 16 AND 17
Is EPSC-DPS 2019 your first conference presentation (oral or poster)? Nervous?
Would you like advice? Join others like you for this educational opportunity to get
feedback from seasoned presenters at the Early Career Review on Monday, Sep 16
& Tuesday, Sep 17, 08:30am -10:00am in the EPEC Room. Undergraduates, Graduate
Students, and new Post-Docs are all welcome. If you would like to participate in the
Early Career Presenters’ Review, please register now at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EC_2019_EPSC.
If you have any questions, or are a seasoned presenter that would like to add your
voice to the review, please contact Brian Jackson at [email protected].
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CELEBRATION FOR THE PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL AT EPSC-DPS 2019
If you are attending the EPSC-DPS Meeting in Geneva, we invite you to join us
at a celebration for The Planetary Science Journal, a new AAS-DPS publication!
Cakes & Bubbly
Monday, 16 September 2019
AAS Booth in the EPSC-DPS Exhibit Hall, #06
3:00pm
Julie Steffen
Director of Publishing
American Astronomical Society
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DPS NOMINATING SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBER ELECTION AT THE DPS 2019 MEMBERS MEETING IN GENEVA
The DPS membership will elect a new member of the Nominating Subcommittee
at the upcoming EPSC-DPS conference. This election will occur at the DPS member
meeting at the conference. Nominations are made in person, and must be seconded.
Voting occurs directly after nominations are complete.
The Nominating Subcommittee is responsible for assembling a slate of candidates
to run for DPS vice-chair and committee. The 2020 committee includes Matthew Knight
(University of Maryland) and incoming chair Carrie Nugent (Olin College). We thank
current chair Yvonne Pendleton (NASA Ames) for her excellent leadership this year.
We encourage nominations of outstanding members of the DPS community, and
attendance at the DPS member meeting. We look forward to welcoming our new
member.
Please contact Carrie ([email protected]) with any questions.
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JWST EVENTS AT EPSC-DPS 2019
The James Webb Space Telescope will bring fantastic capabilities for solar
system science! I hope that many of you are planning on proposing for General
Observing time during Cycle 1. The Cycle 1 call opens on 23 January 2020 with
proposals due 1 May 2020.
Two events will be held at the EPSC-DPS in Geneva to inform the community
and help with proposal preparation (both will be led by Stefanie Milam, the JWST
Deputy Project Scientist for Solar System Science):
1. Sunday Sept 15 15:30-18:30 Preparing Cycle 1 Solar System Science Observations
with JWST workshop [a detailed orientation to the proposal planning system]
2. Thursday Sept 19 12:15-13:15 JWST Townhall [overview of the observatory,
instrumentation, and specific details for solar system observations]
In addition to these EPSC-DPS events, webinars and in-person training courses
will be held, some geared toward solar system observations, leading up to the
spring Cycle 1 deadline. I will work to keep the community apprised of these plans.
Again, the solar system community is strongly encouraged to submit JWST proposals!
Please feel free to reach out to me with questions or concerns.
Amanda Hendrix ([email protected])
JWST Users Committee
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GETTING READY FOR LSST: + MILLION SMALL BODIES, 1+ BILLION OBSERVATIONS: WORKSHOP AT EPSC-DPS 2019
Thursday September 19, 2019 1:30–3:15pm,
Geneva, Switzerland – Open to all EPSC-DPS attendees
The LSST is slated to make a significant contribution to the study of the Solar
System, delivering over a billion highly precise observations of millions of Solar
System objects (5mmag photometry and 10mas astrometry, per observation, at
the bright end). This dataset presents tremendous opportunities for Solar System
science. This town hall/workshop will overview the science possibilities, report
on project status and expected data products, and discuss how to get involved in
preparations for science with LSST. Talks include:
– LSST Overview and Current Status (Ranpal Gill)
– LSST Solar System Data Products & LSST Commissioning Update (Mario Jurić)
– Update from the LSST SSSC (Meg Schwamb)
– Euclid and Comet Interceptor Synergies with LSST (Colin Snodgrass)
Workshop Contact: Mario Jurić ([email protected])
and Ranpal Gill ([email protected])
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EPSC-DPS 2019 WORKSHOP: CARBON IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Please join us for an engaging discussion on Thursday, Sept 19,
10:30AM-noon, Pluto room (room 13).
Recent results ranging from the Pluto system, the Saturn system, other
locations beyond ~5 AU, all the way to Mercury in the inner Solar
System, and nearly all points in between, raise questions abut the
state of carbon in the Solar System: how do carbonaceous compounds
become weathered in response to thermal processes and irradiation? How
do we recognize carbon compounds and their various weathering products?
The synthesis of these results improves our scientific understanding of
the role of carbon in the Solar System, how it evolves and how to
recognize it. Analyses of samples from the carbonaceous near-Earth
asteroids 162173 Ryugu and 101955 Bennu will provide context for the
presence of carbon. In this workshop, please come prepared to discuss
observational, laboratory and modeling work related to carbon and
carbonaceous species on Solar System bodies. We will kick off the
discussion with short presentations by Gianrico Filacchione and Lucille
LeCorre.
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ICE GIANT MEETINGS AT EPSC-DPS AND LONDON 2020
Dear All,
Please see below several meetings of possible interest to the Ice Giants community:
EPSC-DPS2019
An Ice Giants session will be held at EPSC-DPS2019 (Geneva) on Monday
September 16th, from 08:30-10:00 and 13:30-15:00 (Venus room).
The Ice Giants session will be followed by
– Poster session (Tuesday September 17th, 17:15–18:45)
– Splinter meeting (Wednesday September 18th, 17:15-18:30) in the Pluto
room. The splinter meeting provides an opportunity for discussion of mission
proposals and the strategies for international coordination.
Royal Society Ice Giant Systems Meeting
Registration and abstract submission are open for the international meeting in
London, January 20th-22nd 2020. Please see https://ice-giants.github.io/ for full
details, and we have been delighted to see the number of people registering already.
Note that registration is mandatory and limited in numbers. The closing deadline
will be during the AGU meeting in December, so please plan ahead. Please
contact [email protected] if you have any questions.
If you have any questions about either meeting, please contact
Dr. Leigh Fletcher, [email protected]
Best wishes, The Ice Giant Systems 2020 SOC
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SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT: ASTROCHEMICAL COMPLEXITY IN PLANETARY SYSTEMS
This interdisciplinary symposium will be held the 259th ACS National Meeting,
Philadelphia, PA, 22-26 March 2020.
The aim is to bring together laboratory, theoretical and observational astrochemists
with planetary scientists to generate insights into the origins of chemical complexity
in planetary systems.
Session Topics:
1. Chemical Complexity from the ISM to Disks: Observations and Models.
2. Experimental and Theoretical Techniques for Interstellar/Planetary Chemistry.
3. The Outer Solar System, Comets, Icy Rings, and Satellites.
4. Inner Solar System, Asteroids and Giant Planets.
5. Organics in Meteorites.
6. Organics on the Primordial Earth.
7. Emerging Techniques for Sample Analysis.
Confirmed Invited Speakers:
Brett McGuire, Jennifer Bergner, Susanna Widicus Weaver, Hervé Cottin,
Chao He, Kathrin Altwegg, Hunter Waite, Yoko Kebukawa, Jay Forsythe,
Mehmet Yesiltas, Amanda Hendrix, Jamie Elsila, Ryan Fortenberry,
Reggie Hudson, Mike McCarthy, Steven Charnley, Scott Sandford.
Visit https://callforpapers.acs.org/philadelphia2020/PHYS to submit a talk
or poster abstract (deadline is 2019 October 14th). For additional details see
http://astro.phys-acs.org/symposia/Spring2020.html
Dr M. Cordiner and Dr. C. Bennett,
Symposium organizers
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NOAO 2020A OBSERVING PROPOSALS DUE 30 SEPTEMBER 2019
Dear Colleague:
This is a reminder that NOAO has issued a Call for Proposals (CfP) for
Semester 2020A, with proposals due by 30 September 2019 at 11:59pm Mountain
Standard Time (MST). The 2020A CfP can be found at
http://ast.noao.edu/observing/call-for-proposals-2020a
Proposal forms and information for observing time requests for the
2020A semester (1 Feburary 2019 – 31 July 2020) are available on the
NOAO web page:
http://ast.noao.edu/observing/proposal-info
Time requests for 2020A may be made for Gemini North and South,
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (including SOAR and SMARTS),
and Kitt Peak National Observatory (including WIYN). Time continues
to be available on the automated global telescope network of Las
Cumbres Observatory (LCO), as well as the CHARA interferometer. Nights
are also available on the Subaru and AAT telescopes through time-exchange
agreements.
Of particular note is the NN-EXPLORE program, which continues on both the
WIYN 3.5m and the CTIO/SMARTS 1.5m telescope with the CHIRON precision
radial-velocity spectrometer, as well as 5 nights on the AAT 3.9m
with the Veloce precision radial-velocity spectrometer. The new precision
radial-velocity spectrograph, NEID, is expected to be available on the
WIYN 3.5m in 2020A in shared risk mode.
Questions about the proposal form or the proposal process may be
directed to [email protected]. Questions specific to an
observing run may be sent to the site, either [email protected] or
[email protected]. Gemini related questions may be sent to
[email protected] or through the Gemini Helpdesk at:
http://www.gemini.edu/sciops/helpdesk/submit-general-helpdesk-request
Thank you and best wishes,
Verne Smith, NOAO TAC Program Head
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JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES
A) EDITOR OF THE PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL (PSJ)
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the Division for Planetary
Sciences (DPS) are soliciting applications and nominations of
candidates for the position of Editor of The Planetary Science Journal
(PSJ). This is a new journal to serve the planetary science community.
See:
https://aas.org/posts/news/2019/08/aas-dps-launch-gold-open-access-planetary-science-journal
The Search Committee is looking for candidates that have a record of
achievement in planetary science, experience as an author and referee
in this field, and a clear vision for the future of the PSJ. Previous
editorial experience would be useful but is not required.
Candidates for this position should submit a cover letter, CV,
bibliography, and names of two references to [email protected]
Nominations for the position may also be sent to the same address.
Selected candidates will be asked to provide evidence of institutional
support for their assuming the above editorial duties.
The cover letter should address the candidate’s qualifications, reason
for interest in the position, and ideas for the operation, management,
and future of the PSJ. Nominations submitted by September 30, 2019 will
be given full consideration.
More information can be found at:
https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/cfd23f2c
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