PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 13, Number 4 (January 27, 2019) PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org Editor: Elisabeth Adams Co-Editors: Georgiana Kramer, Mark V. Sykes, Karen R. Stockstill-Cahill Email: pen_editor@psi.edu o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. Support Furloughed NASA Post-docs 2. [NASA] Delay of Due Date for Solar System Workings 3. [NASA] FINESST: Delay of Proposal Due Date 4. Lunar ISRU Workshop Delayed 5. International Meeting on Paleoclimate: Change and Adaptation 6. Swedish Institute of Space Physics is Looking for Three PhD Students 7. Cassini Science Symposium, May 20-24 8. AOGS Session PS02: Plasma - Surface Interactions with Airless Bodies in the Solar System 9. AOGS Session ST08: Magnetic Flux Rope Throughout the Solar System 10. Fully-Funded PhD on Surface Wind Modelling on Mars 11. Pellas-Ryder Award Nominations for Best Student Paper in Planetary Sciences 12. Button Art Competition Submissions Due by February 1 13. Call for Abstracts: Pluto System After New Horizons Conference 14. Europlanet Cometary Plasma Science Workshop 15. European Lunar Symposium 16. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions o---------------------------------------------------------------------o 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 SUPPORT FURLOUGHED NASA POST-DOCS https://www.gofundme.com/funding-furloughed-nasa-postdocs 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 [NASA] DELAY OF DUE DATE FOR SOLAR SYSTEM WORKINGS Because of the Government shutdown, the proposal due date for C.3 Solar System Workings has been changed from January 31, 2019 to TBD. A new due date will be set for this program, and announced later. It is expected that some additional time will be provided because there are proposers who have been unable to work because of the shutdown. Please note that the due date shown in NSPIRES is NOT a proposal due date; the system requires a specific date be used rather than "TBD". Go to: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ 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 [NASA] FINESST: DELAY OF PROPOSAL DUE DATE Because of the government shutdown, the proposal due date for Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology(FINESST) has been changed from February 1, 2019 to TBD. A new due date will be set for this program after the government returns. It is expected that some additional time will be provided because there are proposers who have been unable to work because of the shutdown. Please note that the due date shown in NSPIRES is NOT a proposal due date; the system requires a specific date be used rather than "TBD". Go to: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ 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 LUNAR ISRU WORKSHOP DELAYED Despite the recent announcement of a temporary funding measure to open the government, there is no guarantee that this will become permanent. This situation has had a debilitating effect on our Lunar ISRU Workshop, not only in terms of getting NASA participation, but also support from USRA. At this time, we have no choice but to postpone the workshop. If your presentation has been accepted, it will remain so. 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 INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON PALEOCLIMATE: CHANGE AND ADAPTATION Coimbra, Portugal 18-19 July, 2019 The Directors of the Geosciences Centre (CGEO) and of the Centre for Earth and Space Research (CITEUC) of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) invite members of your institution to participate in the International Meeting on "Paleoclimate: Change and Adaptation", at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), on the 18th-19th June, 2019. The goal is to promote an open discussion on paleoclimatic signals in order to improve our look at the present and to ground future perspectives. Research topics covers, without being limited to, the following areas: T1 - Paleoclimates in the Solar System: external forcing and divergent evolutions T2 - Climate changes in geological time: lessons to learn T3 - Climate memory in the geological record T4 - Climate changes and human adaptations throughout the Quaternary T5 - Climatic events and human-environment interactions in the Holocene A Special Issue of papers for the "International Meeting on Paleoclimate" meeting will be launched by Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263; CODEN: GBSEDA), an interdisciplinary, international peer-reviewed open access journal of geoscience, future earth and planetary science published monthly online by MDPI. Registration and additional information: https://paleoclimate2019.wixsite.com/paleoclimate2019 Maria Helena Henriques (CGEO) and Joao Fernandes (CITEUC) 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 SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS IS LOOKING FOR THREE PHD STUDENTS The positions are related to studies of space plasmas. Applications are invited for PhD students to study space plasma regions of fundamental importance, such as magnetic reconnection sites, shocks, turbulence regions, ionospheres and kinetic processes there. We are looking for students in each of the following science topics: 1. Characterization of energy conversion and identification of the mechanisms of particle acceleration operating in turbulent layers formed at fronts of plasma jets, based on experimental data from the NASA multi-spacecraft MMS mission. 2. Understanding of electron heating and energetic electron generation at collisionless shocks, in particular resolving the mechanisms of the non-adiabatic processes using MMS data. 3. Understanding Saturn's ionosphere and the influence of the rings on the ionization balance using models and data acquired during the Grand Finale of the NASA Cassini mission. Last Application Date: 2019-02-28 http://www2.irf.se/Topical/Vacancies/ 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 CASSINI SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM, MAY 20-24 The Cassini Project will host a five-day Cassini Science Symposium May 20 -24, 2019 to review the latest findings on the Saturn system and Jupiter-Saturn synergies, including the interpretation and synthesis of results. The meeting will be hosted by the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. Abstracts will be due March 1, 2019. Early registration ends April 15. Symposium information can be found at: http://civspace.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Events/events/cassini/ Sessions will include review talks as well as invited and contributed talks on the latest Cassini findings on the Saturn system. Sessions will include interdisciplinary talks that will cover the following disciplines: Rings, Titan, Icy Satellites, Magnetospheres and Planets. Talks emphasizing Saturn-Jupiter synergies are encouraged. Discipline-focused workshops will also be held during the late afternoons. This Symposium will serve as a springboard for future studies and space missions. Future mission posters are welcome. We hope to see you there. Linda J. Spilker Chair, Symposium Organizing Committee Organizing Committee: Bonnie Buratti Josh Colwell Jeff Cuzzi Scott Edgington Tamas Gombosi Amanda Hendrix Norbert Krupp Andy Ingersoll Jonathan Lunine Don Mitchell (LOC) Mark Perry (LOC) Abi Rymer (LOC) Darrell Strobel 8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8 AOGS SESSION PS02: PLASMA - SURFACE INTERACTIONS WITH AIRLESS BODIES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM We would kindly like to bring to your attention our session entitled "Plasma - Surface Interactions with Airless Bodies in the Solar System", organized at the 2019 Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) meeting, held from 28 July to 2 August in Singapore. In this session we invite contributions that will move forward our understanding of fundamental plasma-surface interaction mechanisms with airless bodies in our Solar System. Investigations that explore key challenges by exploiting the synergies between in-situ observations, simulations models and laboratory experiments to characterize the fundamental physical processes determining the global and local near-surface plasma environments are especially welcomed. Full session details here: https://www.meetmatt-svr.net/Public/SessionDetailsPartial?id=13 With many successful missions to airless bodies recently completed, currently active, and in preparation, and with both simulation models and laboratory experiments resolving the finer details of plasma interactions better each year, this will surely be an exciting session! Feel free to spread this announcement. Before February 12, submit your abstract here: http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2019/public.asp?page=abstract.htm Thank you, we look forward to seeing you in Singapore! Jan Deca, Li Hsia Yeo, Charles Lue 9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9 AOGS SESSION ST08: MAGNETIC FLUX ROPE THROUGHOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM At the AOGS 2019 conference held in Singapore 28 July - 2 August 2019, we will convene a session titled: "ST-08 Magnetic Flux Rope Throughout the Solar System". We invite abstracts that address a wide range of topics on the fundamental physics of magnetic flux ropes from the solar atmosphere to the magnetospheres of Earth and planets (inner and outer planets, including Venus and Mars) using spacecraft observations, theoretical analysis, and numerical simulations. Magnetic flux rope is one of the most fundamental magnetic structures in space plasma physics and are ubiquitous in the solar system. They can exist in a wide range of spatial scales, from tens-of-million km coronal mass ejection in interplanetary space, to tens-of-thousands km flux transfer events and plasmoid-type flux ropes in global/induced planetary magnetospheres, down to the electron inertial scale length magnetic islands forming during the early stages of reconnection in thin current sheets. Despite having been extensively studied using classical plasma theory, numerical simulations and observations, many aspects of magnetic flux ropes remain unexplored, primarily their origins, dynamics (e.g. plasmoid instability) and their effects on field-aligned current generation, energetic particle acceleration and thermal plasma transport. 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 FULLY-FUNDED PHD ON SURFACE WIND MODELLING ON MARS Research team based in UK and co-supervised by researchers in CalTech and SETI. Mars has widespread deposits of sand-sized sediments forming significant wind-blown dune fields of various typologies and scales. Understanding the dynamics of surface atmospheric boundary layers is therefore paramount in examining Mars' landform dynamics. Most research efforts have focussed on Mars atmospheric circulation at very large scales using Global Climate Models (GCMs). Temporal and spatial scales of these models are good first principles in understanding atmospheric-surface interactions, but are much too coarse when trying to understand surface landform dynamics. Recent efforts have employed microscale computational fluid dynamics modelling to investigate atmospheric surface interactions and dune surface changes. Several state-of-the-art numerical atmospheric modelling tools will be used, including a Mars GCM, a regional Mars mesoscale climate model, and a computational fluid dynamics model (OpenFOAM). Geospatial and geomorphic analysis of relevant spacecraft imagery and other observational data will be used to constrain and validate the modelling results. Overall objective: to combine macro- to meso- to micro-scale airflow modelling for a more realistic modelling of meter-scale airflow involved in the time-evolution of aeolian features on Mars. Full info and deadlines: https://www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/find-a-phd/342205 11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 PELLAS-RYDER AWARD NOMINATIONS FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER IN PLANETARY SCIENCES DUE JANUARY 31 This award, which is jointly sponsored by the Meteoritical Society and the Planetary Geology Division of the Geological Society of America, is awarded to an undergraduate or graduate student who is first author of the best planetary science paper published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal during the year prior to the award. Potential topics include: Asteroids, Comets, Craters, Interplanetary Dust, Interstellar Medium, Lunar Samples, Meteors, Meteorites, Natural Satellites, Planets, Tektites, Origin and History of the Solar System. The first author must have been a registered student at a degree awarding institution at the time the paper was submitted to the publishing journal. Two letters of certification are required: (1) From the student's department head attesting that the individual was a student at the time of paper submission to the publishing journal; (2) From the student's advisor detailing the portion of the work done by the student and contributed by others including the advisor. The deadline for nominations of 2018 papers is January 31. Submissions (PDF) for consideration should be emailed to the Chair of the Selection Committee, Prof. Jon Friedich (friedrich@fordham.edu). Further information here: https://community.geosociety.org/pgd/awards/pellas-ryder 12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12 BUTTON ART COMPETITION SUBMISSIONS DUE BY FEBRUARY 1 Attention planetary artists! The Planetary Geology Division (PGD) of the Geological Society of America (GSA) is holding a Button Art Competition to determine the design of buttons to be distributed at the 2019 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC). Those wishing to submit artwork must follow these guidelines: (1) the design must be completed within a 6 cm diameter circle, (2) the letters "PGD" and year "2019" must be included as a central feature in the artwork, (3) the scanned or saved image sent to the PGD must be clear. Group submissions are allowed. Send submissions to mallory.kinczyk@ncsu.edu by February 1, 2019. Contact mallory.kinczyk@ncsu.edu or Kelsey.crane@uga.edu with questions about the competition. 13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: PLUTO SYSTEM AFTER NEW HORIZONS CONFERENCE The Pluto System After New Horizons (PSANH) conference will provide an opportunity to summarize our understanding of the Pluto system and the Kuiper belt following the New Horizons encounters with Pluto and 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule). Contributions spanning all relevant research on the Kuiper belt, including both observations and theory, are being solicited. The conference will take place July 14-18, 2019 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, USA. Abstracts can now be submitted at the PSANH website: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/plutosystem2019/ The abstract deadline is May 2, 2019 at 5:00 pm Central Daylight Savings Time (GMT-5). Registration details will be announced at this website on March 15, 2019. 14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14 EUROPLANET COMETARY PLASMA SCIENCE WORKSHOP Helsinki,Finland March 28-29, 2019 We welcome contributions to the Europlanet sponsored cometary plasma science workshop hosted by the Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC). The scope of the workshop covers all cometary plasma physics related topics, including the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and the Rosetta mission, other comets and missions as well as remote sensing, theory and laboratory studies. The organizer of the workshop is the Aalto University (Espoo, Finland) and it will be held at the Finnish Meteorological Institute at the Kumpula Campus in Helsinki. For further information and registration please follow this link: http://space.aalto.fi/cometplasma2019/ Deadline for the registrations is March 1, 2019. Sincerely, Local Organizing Committee: Esa Kallio, Aalto University Riku Jarvinen, Aalto University Markku Alho, Aalto University 15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15 EUROPEAN LUNAR SYMPOSIUM We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission is now open for the 7th European Lunar Symposium (ELS), which will be held in Manchester, UK on 21-23 May 2019. Please note that because of the continuing shutdown of the US Government, the primary website for ELS 2019 is currently unavailable. For now we have thus put together a temporary page where you can download the abstract template and submit your abstract, and which should provide sufficient information about registration processes and deadlines. Please bookmark this page as we will provide further updates as and when necessary. For any query, please e-mail: romain.tartese@manchester.ac.uk and/or europeanlunarsymposium@gmail.com To submit your abstract please visit: http://sservi.nasa.gov/els2019 Please make a note of the following important dates: Registration opens: 1 January 2019 Abstract submission closes: 12 February 2019 Early-bird registration closes: 7 April 2019 To register for ELS, please visit: https://estore.manchester.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of- science-engineering/school-of-electrical-and-electronic-engineering/ european-lunar-symposium-2019/european-lunar-symposium-2019 The number of attendees is limited by room capacity, and we will take registration on a 1st come, 1st served basis. 16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16 PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS Posted at http://planetarynews.org/meetings.html March 28-29, 2019 Europlanet Cometary Plasma Science Workshop http://space.aalto.fi/cometplasma2019 Helsinki, Finland May 20-24, 2019 Cassini Science Sympoium http://civspace.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Events/events/cassini Laurel, MD July 18-19, 2019 International Meeting on Paleoclimate: Change and Adaption https://paleoclimate2019.wixsite.com/paleoclimate2019 Coimbra, Portugal [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@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.php, or * send a request to pen_editor@psi.edu * * To unsubscribe, send an email to pen_editor@psi.edu * * Please send all replies and submissions to pen_editor@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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