Issue 20-24, June 2, 2020
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- DPS EDUCATION AND OUTREACH GRANTS
- HARTMANN STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS FOR DPS 52
- 52nd ANNUAL DPS MEETING WORKSHOP, SPLINTER MEETING, AND TOWN HALL. PROPOSAL DEADLINES
- WEBINAR: ENGAGING AUDIENCES VIRTUALLY
- SPATIAL DATA WHITE PAPER
- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS TO EPSC VIRTUAL MEETING SESSIONS
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DPS EDUCATION AND OUTREACH GRANTS
The DPS Committee is offering small grants (average amounts of $200 to $500) to
support DPS members to engage in local and virtual education and public engagement
activities. These grants are intended to support DPS member efforts to engage other
members, students, teachers, and the public and can be used for materials, consumables,
equipment but not for salary or travel to DPS meetings. Proposals are being accepted
for programs that will occur by June 1, 2021. We encourage creative solutions for
engagement efforts that also conform to social-distancing requirements. If you have
a question about what is an acceptable cost, please contact the DPS Education and
Outreach Officer, Sanlyn Buxner, [email protected]. Proposals should be emailed to
[email protected] and you will receive an email confirmation.
Applications will be accepted in two review cycles – the first deadline is July 1st (11:59pm
in proposers’ local time), and awardees will be contacted by July 15th. The second deadline
will be August 1st, and awardees will be contacted by August 15th. All proposals will be
reviewed by members of the DPS education subcommittee and the executive committee.
Complete directions, including a scoring rubric, can be found at education/education-outreach-grants/application
Please address any questions to [email protected].
Sanlyn Buxner (Education and Public Outreach Officer) and
Brian Jackson (Deputy Education and Public Outreach Officer)
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HARTMANN STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS FOR DPS 52
A generous contribution from William K. Hartmann, supplemented by member
contributions and matching funds from the DPS Committee, has enabled a limited
number of student travel grants to assist participation by early-career scientists at
the annual DPS meeting.
***NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is possible that the DPS meeting will
be virtual this year. The DPS Committee anticipates making the final decision on meeting
format by the end of June 2020. Due to the schedule required to support the Hartmann
grants in the event of an in-person meeting, we are going ahead with the solicitations
for applications. However, please be advised that if the meeting shifts to virtual, we will
not be awarding the grants. We appreciate the community’s support and patience during
this time.***
Application details are at meetings/hartmann-application
Travel grants are primarily intended for students, but post-doctoral scientists
without other means of support will also be considered.
The due date for applications is July 12, 2020 11:59 PM.
The DPS Leadership is also soliciting additional contributions from members
for the Hartmann Fund. Your tax-deductible gift promotes the careers of our next
generation of planetary scientists. Thanks so much for your generosity.
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52nd ANNUAL DPS MEETING WORKSHOP, SPLINTER MEETING, AND TOWN HALL. PROPOSAL DEADLINES
The proposal site for workshops, splinters and townhall site for the 52nd Annual DPS
meeting is live. Workshop proposals are due 30 June and splinter meeting and town hall
proposals are due 5 August. More information at https://aas.org/meetings/dps52
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WEBINAR: ENGAGING AUDIENCES VIRTUALLY
June 3, 2020, 1 pm Central Daylight Time Please join us online
Presenting content virtually is challenging, and it is even more difficult to have authentic
dialogue with audiences when the format is online. Join us to discuss strategies to initiate
active participation from audiences and to incorporate feedback in a virtual program.
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SPATIAL DATA WHITE PAPER
Dear Planetary Data Community,
The following White Paper, titled Maximizing the Value of Solar System Data through
Planetary Spatial Data Infrastructures, will be submitted prior to the July 4, 2020 deadline
for consideration for the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10iLj5NFYLAIPcmnWS7hiACh5rDhcwZBpZ698X16jMJs/edit?usp=sharing
If you are interested in endorsing or signing this document (as the page limits allow)
please add your name onto the cover page using “Suggesting” mode or email
[email protected]. Other comments and suggestions are also welcome (again, in
“Suggesting” mode).
Thank you,
Jani Radebaugh
Chair, Mapping and Planetary Spatial Data Infrastructure Team
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS TO EPSC VIRTUAL MEETING SESSIONS
EPSC SESSION TP7: IONOSPHERES OF UNMAGNETIZED OR WEAKLY MAGNETIZED
BODIES
Virtual meeting 21 September- 9 October 2020
We encourage abstract submissions to our EPSC 2020 session. The
session will focus on the analysis of ionospheres of weakly magnetized
bodies with substantial atmospheres (e.g. Mars, Venus, Titan, Pluto and
comets), and how each body reacts to space weather disturbances.
Understanding how each unmagnetized body reacts to all these factors is
a key in comparative aeronomy because although a priori all of them
have a general similar behavior, they also have scientifically
important differences caused by their different natures. We solicit
abstracts concerning remote and in situ data analysis, modeling
studies, instrumentation and mission concepts. Topics may include, but
are not limited to, day and night side ionospheric variability, sources
and influences of ionization, ion-neutral coupling, current systems,
comparative ionospheric studies, and solar wind-ionosphere interactions
and responses of the ionized and neutral regimes to transient space
weather events. Abstracts on general plasma and escape processes are
also welcome.
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2020/session/38507
Deadline: 24 June 2020
Conveners: Beatriz Sanchez-Cano, Matteo Crismani, Niklas Edberg,
Xiaohua Fang, and Francisco Gonzalez-Galindo
EPSC2020 – SESSION EXO3: “From Protoplanetary Disks to Small Bodies, Planets and their Atmospheres” — Call for abstracts
Dear colleague,
We would like to bring to your attention the following session that will take place
during the Europlanet Science Congress 2020 (EPSC2020, www.epsc2020.eu), as
part of the Exoplanets and Origins of Planetary Systems group:
EXO3 From Protoplanetary Disks to Small Bodies, Planets and their Atmospheres
Since the discovery of the first exoplanet in 1995 more than 4000 exoplanets have been
detected to date. This indicates that planet formation is a robust mechanism and nearly
every star in our Galaxy should host a system of planets. However, many crucial questions
about the origin of planets are still unanswered: How and when planets formed in the Solar
System and in extra-solar systems? Are protoplanetary disks massive enough to form the
planets cores? And what chemical composition do planets and primitive Solar System bodies
inherit from their natal environment? Is the chemical composition passed unaltered from
the earliest stages of the formation of a star to its disk and then to the bodies which assemble
in the disk? Or does it reflect chemical processes occurring in the disk and/or during the
planet formation process? A viable way to answer these questions is to study the planets
formation site, i.e. protoplanetary disks. In the recent years, the advent of ALMA and near-
infrared/optical imagers aided by extreme adaptive optics revolutionised our comprehension
of planet formation by providing unprecedented insights on the protoplanetary disks structure,
both in its gaseous and solid components. The aim of this session is to review the latest results
on protoplanetary disks; to foster a comparison with the recent outcomes of small bodies space
missions (e.g. Rosetta, Dawn, Hayabusa 2, OSIRIS-REx) and ground-based observations;
and to discuss how these will affect the current models of planet formation and can guide
us to investigate the origin of planets and small bodies and of their chemical composition.
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2020/session/38481
Please note that due to the pandemic, EPSC2020 will be held as a virtual meeting on
21 September – 9 October 2020.
The deadline for abstract submission is *** 24 June 2020, 13:00 CEST ***.
Information on how to submit an abstract can be found at the following link:
https://www.epsc2020.eu/abstract_management/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html
We would like to encourage all people interested in this topic to submit an abstract,
in particular early career scientists.
Sincerely yours,
Linda Podio, Mauro Ciarniello, Cecile Favre, Carlo Felice Manara. and Francesco Marzari
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