Current Issue: Volume 2, Issue #24
May 4, 2008
PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org
Editor: Nic Richmond
Co-Editors: Mark V. Sykes, Matt Balme
Email: pen_editor at psi.edu
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1. Autumn 2008 Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Internship at the
National Research Council's Space Studies Board
2. 15th International Conference on the Origin of Life
3. GSA Abstract Deadline: Tuesday, June 3, 2008
4. GSA Session on Analog Sites and Field Exercises for Training
Planetary Field Geologists
5. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions
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AUTUMN 2008 LLOYD V. BERKNER SPACE POLICY INTERNSHIP AT THE NATIONAL
RESEARCH COUNCIL'S SPACE STUDIES BOARD
As part of its celebration of the 50th anniversary of its founding,
the Space Studies Board (SSB) has expanded the scope of the Space
Policy Intern program it has operated since 1992 by initiating the
Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Internships. The goal of the program
is to provide promising undergraduate and graduate students with the
opportunity to work in the area of civil space research policy in
the Nation's capital, under the aegis of the SSB.
Established in 1958 to serve as the focus of the interests and
responsibilities in space research for the National Academies, the
Board provides an independent, authoritative forum for information
and advice on all aspects of space science and applications. It
oversees advisory studies and program assessments, facilitates
international research coordination, and promotes communications on
space science and science policy between the research community,
the federal government, and the interested public. The SSB also
serves as the U.S. National Committee for the International Council
for Science (ICSU) Committee on Space Research (COSPAR).
Application deadlines:
June 16 - Autumn 2008 program (undergraduates and graduate students)
February 2 - Summer 2009 (undergraduates only)
Full details can be found at:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ssb
/Berkner_Space_Policy_Internships.html
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15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
The 15th International Conference on the Origin of Life
http://www.dbag.unifi.it/issol2008/
sponsored by the ISSOL, The International Astrobiology Society, will
be held in Florence, Italy, August 24-29, 2008. As you may see from
the on-line program, the current list of speakers, and the Second
Announcement, the topics to be covered at the conference include
most of astrobiology and relevant planetary science. We are assured
of an exciting meeting with a very international participation.
We are endeavoring to extend the deadline for early (less expensive)
registration for an additional month, past the current deadline of
May 1. Of course, later registration is certainly possible.
Note that travel grants for young scientists with accepted
contributions are available to ISSOL members.
William Irvine, Vice-President, IAU Commission 51 (Bioastronomy)
Antonio Lazcano, President, ISSOL - The International Astrobiology
Society
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GSA ABSTRACT DEADLINE: TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2008
The Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America will be
October 5-9, 2008 in Houston Texas, a joint meeting with several
crop/soil societies. The abstract deadline is Tuesday, June 3, 2008.
The Planetary Geology Division would like to encourage submissions to
our sessions:
- Return to the Moon: A new era of lunar exploration (Pardee keynote
symposium)
- Mineralogic and petrologic mapping of planetary surfaces: The G.K.
Gilbert Award Session
- Planetary pummeling: Cataclysmic bombardment of the solar system
- Terrestrial impact structures: Origin, structure, and evolution
- Terrestrial impact craters as windows into planetary crusts
- The geology of small volcanic vents and their associated vent fields
throughout the solar system
- From Magma Oceans to Basalts: Igneous differentiation
- Geological and geophysical remote sensing applications
- Water-rock interaction on Mars
- Glacial and periglacial processes and landforms on Mars
- The role of field geology and geophysics in the return to the Moon
(cosponsored with FEAT)
- Preparations for the new era of lunar science: Laboratory
measurements
- Current Research Issues in Lunar Stratigraphy
- Engineering geology of the lunar regolith
- Living on a Dusty Moon
- Titan Geology: A New Frontier
- Analog sites and field exercises for training planetary field
geologists
Submit abstracts:
https://www.acsmeetings.org/2008/
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GSA SESSION ON ANALOG SITES AND FIELD EXERCISES FOR TRAINING PLANETARY
FIELD GEOLOGISTS
Geological Society of America Joint Annual Meeting, October 5 - 9,
2008, Houston, Texas
Sponsors: GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Geoscience Education
Division; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies
We encourage those interested in planetary sciences, field work, and
the education of the next generation to submit an abstract to GSA
session T110 which covers educational field activities that can be
completed by students at a suite of planetary analog sites.
Submissions can cover past, ongoing, or future ideas for activities
at a single field site, workshops, camps, trips with activities
geared for college and graduate students, post-docs, and K-12
Educators and with no limits to locations, length of activity, or
number of field participants.
Presentations should focus on: 1) the overall geology and field
objectives, 2) data sets and planetary equivalents, 3) field methods
and integration of new technology, 4) results of the field exercise
and any student feedback, and 5) what comparative insight into
planetary geologic processes is gained.
GSA Joint Annual Meeting Website:
https://www.acsmeetings.org/
Abstract Deadline: June 3, 2008
Conveners:
W. Brent Garry (Smithsonian Institution-NASM/CEPS) garryw@si.edu
Jacob E. Bleacher (NASA-GSFC) Jacob.Bleacher-1@nasa.gov
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PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS
Posted at http://planetarynews.org/meetings.html
October 6-10, 2008
The Star and its Planetary System in the Wake of Corot Advances
(International Young Astronomers School)
http://ecole-doctorale.obspm.fr/rubrique163.html
Paris, France
[Editor Note: If there is a planetary-related meeting, conference or
workshop that you think your colleagues should be aware of, please
send the date, title, URL and location to pen_editor at psi.edu.]
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