PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 18, Number 6 (February 11, 2024) PEN Website: https://planetarynews.org Editor: Mark V. Sykes Co-Editors: Matthew R. Perry, Alex Morgan Email: pen_editor@psi.edu Twitter: @pen2tweets o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. Ice Giant Systems Seminar Series: February 13, Dr. Tom Nordheim (JHU/APL) 2. NEO WARP Community Feedback Opportunity 3. Call for Applications: Department Head, Purdue EAPS 4. PhD Student in Space Physics for Studies of Space Weather 5. Europa Clipper Lecture Series Email Signup 6. Ocean Worlds Working Group Subgroup Meetings Announcement 7. USGS Astrogeology Support Sprints Newsletter 8. Postdoc Position on Pluto Atmospheric Modeling at LESIA, Paris Observatory, France 9. Postdoc Position: Delft, The Netherlands 10. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions 11. Planetary Science Journal - New Papers 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 ICE GIANT SYSTEMS SEMINAR SERIES: FEBRUARY 13, DR. TOM NORDHEIM (JHU/APL) Date/Time: February 13, 11am ET Speaker: Dr. Tom Nordheim (JHU/APL) Topic: Moon-magnetosphere interactions at Uranus and Neptune The Ice Giant Systems Seminar Series showcases recent developments in scientific topics covering all aspects of the ice giant systems, including atmospheres, satellites, rings, magnetic fields, interior structures, and science related to formation and evolution. To access the virtual seminar, view the seminar schedule, and "Stay Informed", visit the series website here: http://icegiantsseminar.jhuapl.edu Mallory Kinczyk & Jodi Berdis 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 NEO WARP COMMUNITY FEEDBACK OPPORTUNITY Following the summary presentation at the recent 30th NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group Meeting about the Near-Earth Objects Workshops to Assess Reconnaissance for Planetary Defense (NEO WARP), the organizers of the NEO WARP workshop series are requesting community feedback from now through February 23, 2024. Feedback can be provided via this link: https://t.ly/3cSRc For reference, the NEO WARP summary presented at SBAG can be viewed at: https://t.ly/iSfPt 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 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: DEPARTMENT HEAD, PURDUE EAPS The College of Science at Purdue University invites applications for Head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS): https://www.eaps.purdue.edu We seek a highly accomplished scholar and visionary leader who is dedicated to promoting scholarly and teaching excellence in an interdisciplinary department. Please see the full job ad for a position description, qualifications, and application instructions: http://tinyurl.com/2s3wmhye A review of applications will begin on March 1, 2024, and continue until the position is filled. The anticipated start date for the position is as early as August 2024. Nominations of outstanding potential candidates are welcomed. Applications, nominations, and inquiries should be addressed to: Prof. Ken Ridgway and Prof. Briony Horgan, Co-Chairs of the Search Committee (eaps-faculty-search@purdue.edu). 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 PHD STUDENT IN SPACE PHYSICS FOR STUDIES OF SPACE WEATHER The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) is looking for a PhD student to join the Uppsala team to work on a space-weather research project investigating geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) in the Swedish power grid. The project is part of an ongoing collaboration between IRF, the Swedish Research Defence Agency, the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, and Svenska Kraftnat to improve awareness and resilience to space weather effects in Sweden. GICs are unwanted currents that flow in ground-based infrastructure caused by varying conditions in space, often due to plasma eruptions from the Sun. They can cause physical damage and lead to disruptions such as power outages, and thus, it is of high societal importance to mitigate this hazard. One of the outstanding questions is identifying the transmission lines at risk to GICs in Sweden. The PhD project will focus on evaluating and understanding the causes of GICs in Sweden using state-of-the-art ground- and space-based experimental data, advanced plasma simulations, as well as 3D ground conductivity modelling. More information: http://tinyurl.com/2s46zfmn Contact persons: Dr. Andrew P. Dimmock, andrew.dimmock@irfu.se Prof. Yuri Khotyaintsev, yuri@irfu.se The closing date for applications is 1 March 2024. 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 EUROPA CLIPPER LECTURE SERIES EMAIL SIGNUP The Europa Clipper Project is happy to announce the opening of the Europa Clipper Lecture Series to the scientific community. Speakers in this series include a variety of Europa Enthusiasts ranging from, for example, the PIs of the recently awarded PSIE grants to authors of recently published Europa-relevant papers to members of NASA HQ. Talks are typically held biweekly on Fridays from 11am-12pm PT / 2-3pm ET. If you are a fellow Europa Enthusiast and would like to join the email distribution list, please sign up on this Google Form: http://tinyurl.com/ECLS-signup 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 OCEAN WORLDS WORKING GROUP SUBGROUP MEETINGS ANNOUNCEMENT The OWWG has now established two subgroups to develop the Ocean Worlds Exploration Strategy. Our Science Goals subgroup, led by Angela Marusiak and Misha Zolotov, will develop the science rationale for exploring ocean worlds over the next several decades. Our Technology Roadmap subgroup, led Kate Craft, Peter Willis, and Paula do Vale Pereira, will focus on identifying the technology development required to meet those science goals. Each of these subgroups will meet approximately monthly beginning this month. These first meetings will begin to review existing community documents (e.g., Decadal Survey) to collect previous work relevant to Ocean Worlds science goals and technology development. The Science Goals Subgroup will meet on Wednesday, February 14, 10AM PST. If you wish to participate in the Science Goals meeting please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/ZNdtRCQwrzTM489D8 The Technology Roadmap Subgroup will meet on Wednesday, February 21, 12 PM PST. Please save this date and stay tuned for more information. All are welcome to participate in one or both of these meetings. If you have not yet joined our mailing list, please visit: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/owwg/iofi Mike Bland (mbland@usgs.gov) and Cynthia Phillips (cynthia.b.phillips@jpl.nasa.gov) [Edited for length] 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 USGS ASTROGEOLOGY SUPPORT SPRINTS NEWSLETTER At USGS Astro we run quarterly support sprints that last 3-4 weeks to address issues across our support portfolio (e.g. ISIS, USGSCSM). We are moving to alerting people about software sprints using a new GovDelivery newsletter mechanism. We will send out notifications as we used to for this next sprint but afterwards, we will move to only notifying via the email subscription list. Sign up to get notified when Astrogeology software support sprints are happening and when the prioritization meetings are happening here: https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDOIGS/signup/39118 Some info on our support sprints: http://tinyurl.com/4dhavd8e 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 POSTDOC POSITION ON PLUTO ATMOSPHERIC MODELING AT LESIA, PARIS OBSERVATORY, FRANCE The objectives of the postdoctoral position is to understand what controls the radiative balance in Pluto atmospheres. The relevant science questions to be addressed include: What explains the cold Pluto's upper atmosphere, the cold near-surface layer and the latitudinal atmospheric temperature variations? What is the radiative impact of the haze? What are the properties of the aerosol and how do they evolve over the annual timescale? How can we explain the differences between Pluto's and Triton's thermal profiles? The candidate will contribute to the development of the Pluto/Triton version of the Generic Planetary Circulation Model (PCM), by implementing a comprehensive scheme of organic haze and hydrocarbon ice clouds microphysics. With this new scheme, the candidate will be able to explore how the haze evolve and impact the climate. Comparisons with observations (JWST, ALMA) will be done to validate and interpret model results. Several scientific papers can be envisioned during the 2-year period. The position is funded by our ANR grant "Studying HazE Radiative Processes and Atmosphere-Surface (SHERPAS) interactions on Pluto and Triton", and could start ideally in Fall/Winter/Spring 2024. For details, see: https://web.lmd.jussieu.fr/~tbertrand/ANR_Sherpas/sherpas.html 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 POSTDOC POSITION, DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS In the group of Dr. Niels Ligterink at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The Netherlands), a laboratory-based PhD project is available on the investigation of carbon chemistry on the heavily irradiated surfaces of the Galilean moons and unravel the endogenic and/or exogenic origin of these molecules. More information and how to apply can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/3anhrrxn The deadline for applications is March 21, 2024. Feel free to contact Niels Ligterink (niels.ligterink@unibe.ch) with questions. 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS Note: Most face-to-face meetings going forward will have online components. Check their websites for details. Posted at https://planetarynews.org/meetings.html No new meetings. [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.] 11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL - NEW PAPERS Direct Links to Open Access Papers Editor, Faith Vilas https://psj.aas.org Surface Roughness at the Moon's South Pole: The Influence of Condensed Volatiles on Surface Roughness at the Moon's South Pole Lizeth O. Magana et al. 2024 PSJ 5:30 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad18da Optical Constants of Ices Important to Planetary Science from Laboratory Reflectance Spectroscopy S. C. Tegler et al. 2024 PSJ 5:31 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad1683 Numerical Simulations of (10199) Chariklo's Rings with a Resonant Perturber Amanda A. Sickafoose and Mark C. Lewis 2024 PSJ 5:32 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad151c Rotationally Resolved Mid-infrared Spectroscopy of (16) Psyche Anicia Arredondo et al. 2024 PSJ 5:33 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad16ec Clues to the Origin of Jovian Outer Irregular Satellites from Reflectance Spectra Faith Vilas and Amanda R. Hendrix 2024 PSJ 5:34 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad150b Photometry of the Didymos System across the DART Impact Apparition Nicholas Moskovitz et al. 2024 PSJ 5:35 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad0e74 *********************************************************************** * The Planetary Exploration Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. * Current and back issues are available at https://planetarynews.org * * To subscribe, go to https://planetarynews.org and click on Subscribe. * * An unsubscribe option is available at the end of every PEN email. 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