Issue 22-08, March 27, 2022
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- CALL FOR DPS PRIZE NOMINATIONS
- CELEBRATING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM WOMEN, IN ASTRONOMY AND IN SCIENCE
- 3 DAYS LEFT! 2022 NASA PLANETARY SCIENCE SUMMER SCHOOL APPLICATIONS DUE MARCH 30, 2022
- NEOWISE 2022 DATA RELEASE AVAILABLE MARCH 23, 2022
- SMALL BODIES ASSESSMENT GROUP (SBAG) STEERING COMMITTEE POSITIONS OPEN
- ARECIBO / GREEN BANK SINGLE DISH SUMMER SCHOOL REGISTRATION DEADLINE APRIL 6TH, 2022
- JOBS, POSITIONS, AND OPPORTUNITIES
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CALL FOR DPS PRIZE NOMINATIONS
Deadline: April 15, 2022
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 six prizes:
The Gerard P. Kuiper Prize [prizes/kuiper] recognizes and honors outstanding contributors to the field of planetary science.
The Claudia J. Alexander Prize [prizes/alexander] recognizes excellence and achievements by a mid-career scientist.
The Harold C. Urey Prize [prizes/urey] recognizes and encourages outstanding achievements in planetary research by an early-career scientist.
The Harold Masursky Award [prizes/masursky] recognizes and honors individuals who have rendered outstanding service to planetary science and exploration through – but not limited to – engineering, managerial, programmatic, editorial, or public service activities.
The Carl Sagan Medal [prizes/sagan] recognizes and honors outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the general public.
The Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award [prizes/eberhart] 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 [prizes/eberhart#Nomination], 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 [prizes/eberhart-nomination-form] for more information.
Scroll to the bottom of prizes for rules and procedures.
Questions: Email [email protected]
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CELEBRATING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM WOMEN, IN ASTRONOMY AND IN SCIENCE
The DPS Professional Climate and Culture Subcommittee (PCCS) highlights that March is Women’s History Month. We’d like to share a recent great article about how women in science are doing great astronomy and planetary science research and also changing up the culture of our community.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/women-are-creating-a-new-culture-for-astronomy/
This article features many great folks, including Drs. Ekta Patel, Heather Knutson, Lia Medeiros, Sarah Hörst, Sarah Tuttle, Meg Urry, Jessica Werk, Caitlin Casey, Laura Kreidberg, Laura Chomiuk, Danielle Berg, Sinclaire Manning, Melinda Soares-Furtado, Laura Lopez, Emily Martin, Catherine Zucker, Kathryne Daniel, Melodie Kao, Nicolle Zellner, and Vera Rubin. This article discusses the many (intersecting) marginalized identities of these folks, and strategies and efforts they undertake as they contribute mightily to their science fields and communities. We found this article via a AAS CSWA post: https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2022/03/crosspost-women-are-creating-new.html. Happy March, all!
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3 DAYS LEFT! 2022 NASA PLANETARY SCIENCE SUMMER SCHOOL APPLICATIONS DUE MARCH 30, 2022
Offered by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, PSSS is a 3-month long career development experience to learn the development of a hypothesis-driven robotic space mission in a concurrent engineering environment while getting an in-depth, first-hand look at mission design, life cycle, costs, schedule & the inherent trade-offs.
Science & engineering doctoral candidates, recent PhDs, postdocs, & junior faculty who are U.S. Citizens or legal permanent residents (& a very limited number of Foreign Nationals from non-designated counties) are eligible. Applicants from diverse backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply – we highly value diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Session 1: May 9-Aug 5
Session 2: May 23-Aug 19
With workload of a rigorous 3-hour graduate-level course, participants act as a planetary science mission team during the first 12 weeks of preparatory webinars, with the final culminating week mentored by JPL’s Advance Project Design Team for refining the mission concept design & presenting it to a mock expert review board. The culminating week is typically at JPL, but in 2022 it is likely virtual due to Covid-19 pandemic concerns.
go.nasa.gov/missiondesignschools
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NEOWISE 2022 DATA RELEASE AVAILABLE MARCH 23, 2022
The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) and IPAC at the California Institute of Technology announce the NEOWISE 2022 Data Release.
The 2022 Data Release includes data acquired during the eighth year of the NEOWISE Reactivation mission (Mainzer et al. 2014, ApJ, 792, 30), 13 December 2020 to 13 December 2021. These data are combined with the Year 1-7 data into a single archive that contains ~20.3 million sets of 3.4 and 4.6 micron images and a database of ~151 billion source detections extracted from those images.
NEOWISE scanned the sky nearly sixteen complete times during the first eight years of survey operations, with approximately six months between survey passes. Twelve or more independent exposures are made on each point of the sky during each survey epoch. Therefore, the NEOWISE archive is a time-domain resource for extracting multiple, independent thermal flux and position measurements of solar system small bodies and background galactic and extragalactic sources.
A guide to the NEOWISE data release, data access instructions and supporting documentation is available at http://wise2.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/release/neowise/. Access to the NEOWISE data products is available via the on-line and API services of the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) at https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu.
NEOWISE is a joint project of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Planetary Science Division.
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SMALL BODIES ASSESSMENT GROUP (SBAG) STEERING COMMITTEE POSITIONS OPEN
We are soliciting up to five positions open on the Steering Committee of the Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG), with terms starting in August 2020.
The SBAG Steering Committee organizes SBAG meetings, writes the official SBAG findings, and takes a leadership role in other activities where community input on topics of interest is needed. The Steering Committee members should be as diverse as the community, in terms of topical interest (asteroids, comets, meteoroids, TNOs, KBOs, observational, experimental, computational, sample handling, etc.), demographics, experience, type of employer (commercial, small business, academia, government), and other parameters.
We are looking for members with expertise in the following areas:
• Human Exploration Lead – We desire an individual actively involved in, studying, and aware of
Human Exploration and the current challenges and progress in this field to lead related SBAG activities
• At-large members (2 to 4) – Any member of the small bodies community from any career stage is welcome to apply.
Terms are for three years. Application for Steering Committee Membership requires a) a two-page CV, which should include a description of participation in SBAG or other small bodies community organizations, and b) a short (one-page or equivalent) statement of interest.
Previous participation in SBAG is preferred, but not required. To indicate your willingness to serve in any of these positions, please email Bonnie Buratti ([email protected]) by May 25, 2020, and include a two-page CV and your statement of interest. The current Steering
Committee will select new members prior to the 23rd Meeting of SBAG, June 1-2, 2020.
Bonnie Buratti, SBAG Steering Committee Chair
Website: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag
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ARECIBO / GREEN BANK SINGLE DISH SUMMER SCHOOL REGISTRATION DEADLINE APRIL 6TH, 2022
The single dish summer school this year will be held from 16 – 20 May, 2022, and is jointly organized by Arecibo and Green Bank Observatories. We are excited to hold this event in person at the Arecibo Observatory! For participants who can’t attend in person, there will also be a fully virtual option.
The school is open to any advanced undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and astronomers from other fields interested in learning about the techniques and applications of radio astronomy and gaining practical experience in using single-dish telescopes and radio data analysis.
Registration is free and open now at this link: https://www.naic.edu/ao/single-dish-summer-school-spring-2022.
The application deadline is Wednesday, April 6th, 2022, 5pm EDT. Participants will be notified of acceptance by April 8th.
Meals, lodging, and transportation for activities and the airport will be covered. Participants must cover their own travel to and from Puerto Rico.
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JOBS, POSITIONS, AND OPPORTUNITIES
Job seekers and employers are encouraged to browse DPS’s job listings and advertise open positions.
Recent openings and opportunities are listed below and many more are at the link above.
- Post-doctoral research associate in planetary atmospheres, LPL, UAZ
content/post-doctoral-research-associate-planetary-atmospheres
- Postdoctoral position in Mass Spectrometry of Lunar Volatiles, NASA GSFC
content/postdoctoral-position-mass-spectrometry-lunar-volatiles
- Research Scientist, Origin of life/Prebiotic Chemistry, NASA JPL
content/research-scientist-origin-lifeprebiotic-chemistry
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