PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 5, Number 54 (November 27, 2011) PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org Editor: Mark V. Sykes Co-Editors: Melissa Lane, Susan Benecchi Email: pen_editor at psi.edu o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. Postdoctoral Position Available — Washington University 2. Titan Through Time II Workshop 2nd Announcement 3. GSA Planetary Geology Division's 2012 Dwornik Awards for Students 4. [NASA] Postdoctoral Fellowships 5. SOFIA Cycle 1 Call for Proposals 6. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AVAILABLE - WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in Saint Louis invites applications for their new Steve Fossett Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Department seeks outstanding candidates who will strengthen and complement existing areas of study, including both terrestrial and planetary geology, geochemistry, and geophysics. Candidates will be encouraged to collaborate directly with Faculty and students within the Department, and will be invited to lead a seminar in their area of expertise. Ideal candidates will have trans-disciplinary interests, and will interact scientifically with a broad spectrum of the Department's members. This competitive postdoc is awarded for a one-year period, which may be extended to a second year. Applicants should contact a potential Faculty sponsor to discuss additional arrangements. Applications will be considered until the position is filled, but priority will be given to those received before January 15, 2012. For further information: http://eps.wustl.edu/Fossett_Fellowship 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 TITAN THROUGH TIME II WORKSHOP 2ND ANNOUNCEMENT NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD A second workshop on "Titan Through Time: Unlocking Titan's Past, Present and Future" will be held from April 3-5th 2012, following the successful event in 2010. As in 2010, the 2 1/2 day workshop will feature a mixture of invited reviews, and contributed talks and posters on all aspects of Titan's formation, evolution and fate - from theory to experiment. Invited review topics and speakers have been confirmed and are listed on our website, which is also open for registration and abstract submission at: http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~hurfordt/ttt/index.html Deadlines are: February 1st - Abstracts February 15th - On-line registration The workshop fee will be $60 payable on arrival. Further workshop details, including lunch and dinner arrangements will be posted in due course. Please check back to our site regularly for updates, and look forward to seeing you in 2012. Conor Nixon, Univerity of Maryland Ralph Lorenz, Johns Hopkins APL Co-chairs, science program. 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 GSA PLANETARY GEOLOGY DIVISION'S 2012 DWORNIK AWARDS FOR STUDENTS Please encourage your students who are attending and presenting as first-author at the 2012 LPSC meeting in The Woodlands, TX, to consider applying for the 2012 Stephen E. Dwornik Award for the best student presentations. Awards are given for both oral and poster presentations, with separate awards for graduate ($500 plus plaque) and undergraduate students ($250 plus plaque). For the first time, GSA-PGD is pleased to announce that foreign students enrolled in US educational institutions are eligible to apply for the Dwornik Award. The application deadline is January 11th, 2012 (the day after the abstract deadline for LPSC). Please see the application criteria and instructions on the GSA-PGD website at: http://rock.geosociety.org/pgd/awards.html#_dwornik Simon Kattenhorn University of Idaho 2011-2012 Chair, GSA-PGD 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 [NASA] POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers scientists and engineers unique opportunities to conduct research at NASA Centers. Each NPP fellowship opportunity is designed to advance NASA research in a specific project related to space science, earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, lunar science, or astrobiology. Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in hand before beginning the fellowship, but may apply while completing the degree requirements. U. S. citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents, and foreign nationals eligible for J-1 status as a Research Scholar may apply. An H-1B Visa status is not acceptable because the NPP is not an employment program. Stipends for Postdoctoral Fellows start at $50,000 per year, with moderate supplements for high cost-of-living areas and for certain academic specialties. Funds are available for relocation expenses, up to a specified limit, and health insurance is available through the program. Fellows also receive $8,000 per appointment year to support travel to conferences, meetings, and other activities that directly support their research. Applications are accepted three times each year: March 1, July 1, and November 1. For further information and to apply, visit: http://nasa.orau.org/postdoc/description/index.htm Questions may be submitted by e-mail to nasapostdoc@orau.org 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 SOFIA CYCLE 1 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Release Date: November 22, 2011 Proposal Deadline: January 27, 2012 The Cycle 1 observing period is from August 2012 to August 2013. Cycle 1 observations offer with the instruments of FORCAST mid-infrared camera at 5-40 micron (P.I. Terry Herter, Cornell University), GREAT far-infrared spectrometer (P.I. Rolf Guesten, Max Planck Institutefor Radio Astronomy), FLITECAM infrared camera at 1-5 micron (P.I. Ian MacLean, UCLA) and HIPO Occultation Photometer (P.I. Edward Dunham, Lowell Observatory). The combination of HIPO/FLITECAM is also available. The instrument configuration of FORCAST grism, FLITECAM grism and GREAT M1 (2.51 THz OH line) are considered "shared-risk" observations. To prepare and submit observing proposals, see: http://www.sofia.usra.edu/Science/proposals/cycle1/ Updates of supporting tools and documentation will be released on December 12, 2011. For further information about the Cycle 1 Call for Proposal or help in preparing proposals, please see the "Information for Researchers" section of the SOFIA web site at: http://www.sofia.usra.edu/Science/ or contact the SOFIA help desk at sofia_help@sofia.usra.edu. Other questions can be directed to: Dr. B-G Andersson SOFIA Science Operations Manager bg@sofia.usra.edu Dr. Ravi Sankrit SOFIA User Support Scientist rsankrit@sofia.usra.edu Dr. Erick T. Young Science Mission Operations Director eyoung@sofia.usra.edu [Edited for length.] 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS Posted at http://planetarynews.org/meetings.html September 25-28, 2012 Searching for Life Signatures http://luth7.obspm.fr/Life-Signatures-25-28-Sep2012.pdf San Marino, Italy [Editor Note: If there is a planetary-related meeting, conference or workshop of which your colleagues should be aware, please send the date, title, URL and location to pen_editor at psi.edu.] *********************************************************************** * The Planetary Exploration Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. * Current and back issues are available at http://planetarynews.org * * To subscribe, go to http://planetarynews.org/pen_subscribe.html, or * send a request to pen_editor at psi.edu * * To unsubscribe, send an email to pen_editor at psi.edu * * Please send all replies and submissions to pen_editor at psi.edu. * Announcements and other messages should be brief with links to URLs * for extended information, including detailed descriptions for job * announcements. 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