Issue 23-30, September 24, 2023
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- DPS-EPSC 2023 VIRTUAL & HYBRID PARTICIPATION OPPORTUNITIES
- DPS-EPSC 2023 TALK AND POSTER UPLOADS
- DPS-EPSC 2023 WEBSITE TOOLS AND RESOURCES
- DPS EDIA PLENARY LECTURE ON OCTOBER 4, 11:15 CT
- DPS-NSBP SPEAKER AWARDEE’S PRESENTATION ON YOUTUBE AND OCTOBER 4 AT DPS
- PHOTOS FROM DPS 2022 AND 2018 MEETINGS
- EXOPLANET EXPLORATION PROGRAM ANALYSIS GROUP MEETING AT DPS SAN ANTONIO
- WORKSHOP ON EDIA FOR LEADERS IN PLANETARY SCIENCE #EDIALPS
- DONATIONS SOLICITED FOR THE DPS URM FUND TO BE MATCHED UP TO $10,000!
- SMALL BODIES ASSESSMENT GROUP (SBAG) TOWNHALL AT DPS/EPSC
- IN MEMORIAM: MICHAEL DAVID HICKS (1964 – 2023)
- REQUEST FOR REVIEWER FOR DPS EARLY CAREER PRESENTERS HELP DESK/PRESENTATION REVIEW (VIRTUAL)
- THE DPS COMMITTEE INVITES DPS MEMBERS TO APPLY FOR THIS CYCLE OF DPS EDUCATION AND OUTREACH GRANTS
- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 IS INTERNATIONAL OBSERVE THE MOON NIGHT
- JOB OPENINGS, POSITIONS, AND OPPORTUNITIES
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DPS-EPSC 2023 VIRTUAL & HYBRID PARTICIPATION OPPORTUNITIES
Our Virtual Organizing Committee has made extensive improvements to the planned quality of the DPS-EPSC 2023 Hybrid Meeting format, including: two or more dedicated cameras in each oral session room (for viewing the speaker, audience, and session chairs), a Lightning poster Zoom-session within the exhibit hall to advertise all posters, the Slack workspaces, the Engagefully app for personal itineraries, a Gathertown room for virtual posters, and a dedicated block in the Thursday schedule for virtual poster engagement by in-person attendees. There is still time to register for virtual participation through 6 October (https://aas.org/meetings/dps55/registration). View virtual and hybrid participation opportunities
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DPS-EPSC 2023 TALK AND POSTER UPLOADS
Talk Presenters: Please note that, unlike in previous meetings with an in-person component, it is important that you upload your talk slides no later than Friday, 29 September in order to have them loaded by the IT staff and ready to go for your talk the following week. Government employees potentially impacted by a government shutdown may pre-record their talks and upload them at this site as well.
Poster Presenters: Similarly, we ask you to upload a PDF of your poster so that virtual and in-person attendees have access to the poster. We are requesting all virtual poster presenters upload their one-page poster PDF by Wednesday, 27 Sept so that we can integrate your poster into Gathertown and also make it accessible by meeting attendees through the meeting app.
See the INFORMATION FOR PRESENTERS (https://aas.org/meetings/dps55/presenter-instructions) page for more.
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DPS-EPSC 2023 WEBSITE TOOLS AND RESOURCES
Our meeting website (https://aas.org/meetings/dps55) has many answers to the questions you might be seeking. The PLAN YOUR TRIP (https://aas.org/meetings/dps55/plan-your-trip) page has details on Ground Transportation (including a google form for Rideshares; rental cars are discouraged), recommendations For Families, and many recommendations by the LOC for great restaurants and bars nearby under the Food & Drink top-tab.
Early career folks should be sure to read the PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/EARLY CAREER (https://aas.org/meetings/dps55/professional-development) page, including details on the Monday evening networking reception and the Wednesday lunch-time Women in Planetary Science (WiPS) Discussion Hour.
The TOOLS & RESOURCES (https://aas.org/meetings/dps55/tools-resources) page has info on Poster Printing, LGBTQ+ Community Resources, Accessibility Resources, Reproductive Health Resources, and how to Contact Us. Look for more timely information to come in the DPS-EPSC-2023 Slack (https://dps-epsc55.slack.com) channels #helpdesk and #aas_dps_announcements. The Engagefully app is ready to download from your phone’s app store and link to our event, with more detailed instructions soon to follow on forming your own personalized itinerary.
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DPS EDIA PLENARY LECTURE ON OCTOBER 4, 11:15 CT
The annual EDIA Plenary Lecture at the DPS-EPSC meeting, organized by the DPS Professional Climate and Culture Subcommittee (PCCS), will be on Wednesday, October 4, 11:15am CT – just following the JWST plenaries. All DPS-EPSC meeting attendees are welcome to attend! We will hear from Robert Salcido, from the Pride Center in San Antonio. (Recordings of past DPS EDIA Plenaries are available at the PCCS website: https://dps.aas.org/leadership/climate.)
Additionally, the PCCS is organizing a small-group lunch with the speaker, following the presentation – if you are interested in joining this lunch, please contact Serina Diniega ([email protected]) with, optionally, a brief explanation of why you are interested. All are welcome, with priority given to those connected with the planetary LGBTQIA+ communities.
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DPS-NSBP SPEAKER AWARDEE’S PRESENTATION ON YOUTUBE AND OCTOBER 4 AT DPS
Dr. Naomi Rowe-Gurney is this year’s DPS-NSBP Speaker Awardee, a program under DPS’s partnership with the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP), Earth and Planetary Systems Sciences (EPSS) section (https://dps.aas.org/leadership/nsbp_parnership). Dr. Rowe-Gurney is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at NASA Goddard & University of Maryland, College Park, with research in atmospheric characterization of Uranus and Neptune based on observations collected by space telescopes such as JWST, Spitzer, and Hubble. At the DPS meeting, she’ll be presenting a poster on Wednesday, October 4, in the Uranus and Neptune session (323.02: “Observing the Ice Giants with Hubble and Keck to Enhance Cycle 1 JWST Data”).
Additionally, as the DPS-NSBP Speaker Awardee, Dr. Rowe-Gurney presented last month at the Georgia Tech Astrobiology Seminar and that talk (“Solar System Science from the James Webb Space Telescope”) is available on their channel https://www.youtube.com/@georgiatechastrobiology.
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PHOTOS FROM DPS 2022 AND 2018 MEETINGS
DPS Community —
Just in time for the upcoming DPS meeting in San Antonio, I have released a gallery of photos from last year’s 2022 DPS meeting in London, Ontario. It has close to 200 photos of the DPS community presenting talks, receiving awards, debating at posters, observing Jupiter at the Public Night + Star Party in the shadow of the poutine truck, playing bagpipes at the Open Mic Night, competing at PDS-Node Jeopardy, consuming organic molecules, and otherwise enjoying the scientific environment in London.
http://www.eaubergine.com/images/DPS22_London_Canada/
At the same time I’ve also released a long-delayed set of nearly 300 photos from the ’50th Anniversary’ Knoxville TN DPS meeting in 2018, featuring the DPS history sessions, an assemblage of historical DPS chairs, the Ryugu and Bennu encounter press conferences, the Art of Planetary Science exhibit, and the Open Mic Night at the Knoxville Museum of Art.
http://www.eaubergine.com/images/DPS18_Knoxville/
Thanks to everyone who participated by allowing me to point a camera at them during these meetings, and the many before them.
Henry Throop
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EXOPLANET EXPLORATION PROGRAM ANALYSIS GROUP MEETING AT DPS SAN ANTONIO
The Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) is holding its 28th meeting on Sunday October 1st, 2023 in the Salon I room of the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter. The meeting will run from 9 am to 6 pm and will be offered in both in-person and hybrid formats. Complete information on the meeting, including the agenda and remote connection info, is available at the meeting website
Please register at the website if you plan to attend either in person or virtually, registration is free. Remote attendees of ExoPAG 28 do not need to register for the DPS meeting itself.
The ExoPAG28 meeting is an official splinter session of the 2023 Division for Planetary Sciences meeting. The goal of our meeting is to strengthen the connections between the astronomy and planetary science communities in the study of exoplanets and the solar system. The agenda includes 10 talks from researchers exploring the synergies between these topics, and time for the Co-chairs of the 2022 Decadal Survey of Planetary Science and Astrobiology to present their perspectives on this. The agenda also includes status updates on the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP), and an interactive business meeting.
The exoplanet community is invited to send proposed findings and/or suggestions to the ExoPAG Executive Committee for review prior to the meeting via these anonymous online forms: These inputs will be discussed during the business meeting.
Findings:
Suggestions:
We look forward to you joining us in San Antonio and online,
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WORKSHOP ON EDIA FOR LEADERS IN PLANETARY SCIENCE #EDIALPS
October 23 – 25, 2023, 4 hours daily, 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm EDT
We invite planetary scientists in leadership roles to join us for the third offering of our workshop on engaging with EDIA concepts and strategies. “Leaders” includes: mission and instrument PIs (and future PIs), department chairs, institute directors, program officers, and group leaders of all kinds. This workshop (~25 people or less, to encourage interaction) provides the basic tools needed to enact positive change in personal and professional spheres regarding inclusion, diversity, accessibility, and equity. Entirely on-line, no registration fee.
“Well organized and well-facilitated, great breadth and depth of topics, and good novel interactive components as well. The content was expertly curated and extremely well presented …” Participant, Nov. 2022
Facilitators: Drs. Julie Rathbun and JA Grier (Note: Julie will be at the DPS meeting if you want to talk to her about the workshop)
Website, draft agenda/schedule/ and application: https://edialps.psi.edu
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DONATIONS SOLICITED FOR THE DPS URM FUND TO BE MATCHED UP TO $10,000!
The DPS Fund to Support Underrepresented Minority Communities in Planetary Science was created to build partnerships between the DPS and national organizations, such as the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP), and to enhance participation of underrepresented minority scientists at the annual DPS conference, with special focus on Black/African Americans, Hispanic/Latinx, and Indigenous communities. As a new fund, growth is needed to support the travel of enough students and scientists each year to make a lasting difference to the diversity of our community. DPS made a significant contribution two years ago to build up principal and last year supported 14 students and postdocs to attend the DPS and NSBP meetings. Participants expressed significant appreciation for the opportunity this provided for them to engage with the planetary science community and with other minority scientists, and we loved hearing about their science results. This year, we had even more applicants from 20 institutions and 7 countries seeking to attend the 2023 DPS-EPSC meeting, and we supported another 14 DPS meeting attendees!
We expect the application number to continue to increase as we successfully reach more of those in underrepresented communities that we seek to include, and increases in our principal are needed to keep this program going. To enable stability and continued large support from this program, DPS community donations are solicited. And a community member has agreed to match private donations submitted now through the end of the 2023 DPS-EPSC meeting, up to $10,000. Please consider donating! Information and link to donate at: https://dps.aas.org/Inclusivity/support-underrepresented-minority-communities-planetary-science
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SMALL BODIES ASSESSMENT GROUP (SBAG) TOWNHALL AT DPS/EPSC
SBAG will be holding a Townhall at DPS #55 in San Antonio, TX. It will take place in-person from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM on Thursday, October, 5, 2023 in Conference Room 3. The SBAG Chair will provide a brief status report and then moderate a community discussion to gather feedback on current items of interest and concern. There is no cost to attend and no
pre-registration as long as you are registered for the conference. Thank you to the DPS Committee and LOC for covering the room expenses.
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IN MEMORIAM: MICHAEL DAVID HICKS (1964 – 2023)
Michael David Hicks of Sunland, CA passed away on July 30, 2023, at 59 years of age. He worked at JPL as a NASA postdoc and then as research scientist from 1998 until 2022. Born in Dayton, Ohio, Michael earned degrees from Boston University and a PhD in Lunar and Planetary Science at the University of Arizona. His research specialty was the physical properties of comets and asteroids. He served on the science teams of the DART Project, the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) Project, the Dawn Mission, and the NASA Deep Space 1 Mission. He was the author of over 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers.
Michael’s passion for science was coupled with a deep appreciation of art. He pursued projects in visual media, from woodblock prints to oil painting to metalwork, and he played the ukulele. His performances were a regular occurrence during observing runs at Mount Palomar.
He is survived by his father Richard, six brothers and sisters, daughter Julia, and ex-wife Brunella Bigi.
A memorial service will be held Saturday September 30, 2023, 11:00am at the Will and Ariel Durant Library Community Room, 7140 W. Sunset Blvd LA, CA 90046. His website requests that donations can be made to al-anon.org.
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REQUEST FOR REVIEWER FOR DPS EARLY CAREER PRESENTERS HELP DESK/PRESENTATION REVIEW (VIRTUAL)
Wednesday Sept 27, 2023 6 pm ET/ 5 pm CT/ 4 pm MT / 3 pm PT or
Thursday Sept 28, 2023 11 am ET/ 10 am CT/ 9 am MT / 8 am PT
In preparation for the upcoming DPS meeting, the DPS education committee has early career presenters registered to practice their presentations before the meeting. We are looking for experienced presentations to volunteer to review and give constructive feedback and advice. Please contact Christine Shupla ([email protected]) to volunteer!
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THE DPS COMMITTEE INVITES DPS MEMBERS TO APPLY FOR THIS CYCLE OF 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 now being accepted. If you have a question about what is an acceptable cost, please contact the DPS Education Officer, Sanlyn Buxner, [email protected]. Proposals should be emailed to [email protected] and you will receive an email confirmation.
Applications will be accepted until all grant funds have been depleted, that cap will be posted on this website. Grants have a rolling deadline with reviews occurring each month. Awardees will be alerted by the 15th of each month after they are received. All proposals will be reviewed by members of the DPS education committee and the executive committee (see rubric below). Awards will be issued as a check mailed to the lead proposer.
Read more about https://dps.aas.org/education/education-outreach-grants/application
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 IS INTERNATIONAL OBSERVE THE MOON NIGHT
You are invited to join observers around the world in learning about lunar science and exploration, making celestial observations, and honoring cultural and personal connections to the Moon. This annual, worldwide public engagement event takes place when the Moon is close to first quarter – a great phase for evening observing.
You can participate in International Observe the Moon Night from wherever you are: Attend or host a virtual or in-person event, join in as an individual observer or be a featured scientist!. You can also tune into our NASA TV Broadcast and see live-streams of the Moon from telescopes around the world on our Live Streams page on October 21.
We encourage you to interpret ‘observe’ broadly. From lunar art projects to virtual field trips to data that you can hear, there are so many ways to enjoy, learn about, and connect with the Moon! Visit our website to find creative observing suggestions, browse a curated set of hands-on activities, and download custom Moon Maps designed especially for International Observe the Moon Night 2023.
Observers in parts of the Americas will also have the opportunity to see an annular solar eclipse on October 14, one week before International Observe the Moon Night. Celebrate both of these events by recording your Moon observations in this special eclipse-edition lunar journal.
Join the global conversation through our Facebook page, #ObserveTheMoon on your preferred social media platform, and the International Observe the Moon Night Flickr group. Register your participation, find an event to be a featured scientist at, find tips and resources to host and evaluate events, and much more on the International Observe the Moon Night website: moon.nasa.gov/observe.
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JOBS, POSITIONS, AND OPPORTUNITIES
Job seekers and employers are encouraged to browse DPS’s job listings and advertise relevant open positions **free of charge**.
Recent openings and opportunities are listed below and more are at the link above.
- Tenure-Track Faculty Position in High Pressure studies in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of Rochester
- Open Rank Planetary Science Professor, Arizona State University
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