PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER
Volume 18, Number 49 (December 1, 2024)

PEN Website: https://planetarynews.org
Editor: Matthew R. Perry
Co-Editors: Mark V. Sykes, Alex Morgan
Email: pen_editor@psi.edu
Twitter: @pen2tweets

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1. Submit a Planetary Session to the 2025 GSA Connects Annual Meeting
2. LSST Solar System Predictions and Analysis Software AAS Journals
   Focus Issues
3. Mercury Science and Exploration Annual Meeting 2025 
4. SETI Institute's 2025 Frank Drank Postdoctoral Fellowship 
5. Mars Exploration Science Program Newsletter for November 2024 
6. Mercury Science and Exploration November 2024 Newsletter Released 
7. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at NOIRLab 
8. Joint DiRAC Fellowship and Baum Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovative 
   Astronomy 
9. Postdoctoral Fellow - School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
   Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
10. [EGU2025] PS1.2 Venus: Models, Observations, (Ancient) Earth- and
    Exoplanet Analogue
11. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions
12. Planetary Science Journal - New Papers
13. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets - New Papers

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SUBMIT A PLANETARY SESSION TO THE 2025 GSA CONNECTS ANNUAL MEETING

19-22 October 2025 in San Antonio, Texas

https://community.geosociety.org/gsa2025

Planetary Science will take center stage at the 2025 meeting as one of
its three main themes:

From Earth to the Cosmos: Geoscience Beyond Our Planet

This theme invites exploration of planetary geoscience in its full
scope, bridging terrestrial geology with the study of solid, icy, and
gaseous bodies across the Solar System and extending to exoplanets.
Planetary Science covers impacts, volcanism and tectonism, atmospheric,
sedimentary, and hydrologic processes, regolith formation, potential
biosignatures and habitability. New frontiers include materials for In
Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU), such as ice and critical minerals,
which are crucial for supporting future human habitation on other
worlds. Through this expanded lens, geoscientists can explore not only
Earth's unique attributes but also the geological and material
diversity across our Solar System, contributing to advancements in both
science of planetary environments and commercial space exploration.

GSA also welcomes proposals for field trips and short courses.


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LSST SOLAR SYSTEM PREDICTIONS AND ANALYSIS SOFTWARE AAS JOURNALS FOCUS
ISSUES

Beginning at the end of next year, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy
Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will usher in a new era of Solar System
science. The survey is expected to discover and monitor ~5 million
Solar system objects over the next decade. We are organizing two AAS
Publishing Focus Issues. One Focus Issue in the Astronomical Journal
(AJ) aims to be a collection of papers presenting software designed to
facilitate Solar System science with the LSST. The Second Focus Issue
in the Planetary Science Journal (PSJ) is a collection of papers on the
latest predictions for the small body discoveries with the LSST. Anyone
with papers on these topics is welcome to submit to the Focus Issues.
Papers can be submitted to any of the AAS Journals (except for AAS
Research Notes). Further details about submission and the scope of the
Focus Issues can be found at:

https://lsst-sssc.github.io/focusissues.html


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MERCURY SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION ANNUAL MEETING 2025

The annual Mercury Exploration Assessment Group (MExAG) meeting will be
held 4-6 February, 2025 in person at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics
Laboratory (Laurel, MD) and around the world virtually. This meeting
will bring together the international Mercury community to share new
and ongoing science and to shape the future of Mercury exploration
through technology- and community-focused sessions.

The meeting website is:

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/mexag/meetings/feb2025/

Abstracts for the meeting are short (1,000 characters maximum) and are
submitted through the meeting website. The abstract deadline is
December 11, 2024, 5:00 p.m. U.S. Central Standard Time (GMT-6).
Abstracts are open to projects of all maturity levels, from
back-of-the-envelope ideas to recently published results.

Travel and participation stipends to support students and early-career
attendees will be offered. Details available soon at the meeting
website.


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SETI INSTITUTE'S 2025 FRANK DRAKE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

The SETI Institute is pleased to announce the call for applications to
the Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellowship focusing on "Innovation in the
Search for Life in the Universe".
 
For more information, go to:
 
https://www.seti.org/frank-drake-fellowship


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MARS EXPLORATION SCIENCE PROGRAM NEWSLETTER FOR NOVEMBER 2024

Full newsletter will be available at:

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/mepag/newsletter/
 
Thanks to everyone to presented at and attended the MEPAG Virtual
Meeting #18 earlier this month. As a reminder, several members of the
Steering Committee will be stepping down in the next 6 months, so we
anticipate an open call (in early 2025) for applications to serve on
the MEPAG Steering Committee. I also want to encourage people to submit
topics for the Mars Surface Science Workshop (MSSW) series focused on
human exploration of Mars:

https://tinyurl.com/5n7ed7sh

The first group of suggested topics will be reviewed and prioritized in
January 2025, and all suggestions will be held for ongoing
consideration.

Please make sure your colleagues know about this mailing list - not
only does MEPAG use it to send out this Newsletter, but we also use it
for distribution of draft findings, as well as announcements about
events and opportunities to get involved with MEPAG activities. To
join, please e-mail mepag-signup@jpl.nasa.gov. Your e-mail address will
be forwarded to LPI automatically for inclusion in their meeting
announcements list.
 
Until next month,
 
Vicky Hamilton, Chair, hamilton@boulder.swri.edu

[Edited for length]


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MERCURY SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION NOVEMBER 2024 NEWSLETTER RELEASED

The Mercury Exploration Assessment Group (MExAG) is circulating Issue
17 of "The Mercury Newsletter". The quarterly community newsletter can
be accessed online at:

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/mexag/newsletter/

This edition highlights the upcoming MExAG Annual Meeting (abstracts
due December 11, 2024), features Mercury-focused content at AGU next
month (don't forget to RSVP for the Mercury Social by December 3,
2024), reports Mercury science and exploration news, spotlights early
career members, notes upcoming meetings, shares community
announcements, and includes recent publications. All quarterly
newsletters can be found online at:

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/mexag/newsletter/

Please send your future Mercury community announcements and calendar
items for inclusion in the newsletter to the MExAG Steering Committee
at mexag.sc@gmail.com, or use this online form to submit an
advertisement to the MExAG community:

https://tinyurl.com/2s4faksc


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POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AT NOIRLAB

NSF NOIRLab is the preeminent US national center for ground-based
optical-infrared astronomy, providing services across a range of
programs: Gemini, Rubin, CTIO, KPNO, and CSDC; with facilities in three
locations: Arizona, Chile and Hawai'i. NOIRLab's mission is to enable
breakthrough astrophysical discoveries by developing and operating
state-of-the-art ground-based observatories and providing data products
and services for a diverse and inclusive community.

We invite applications for the NOIRLab Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship. We encourage applications from early career scientists with
interests in forefront optical-infrared astronomy research, including
but not limited to: innovative observational techniques,
instrumentation, large data sets and data systems, artificial
intelligence and machine learning applications in astronomy, Solar
System science, and computation and theory.

For more information, please visit:

https://tinyurl.com/4d5rxhx3

Fellows will develop an independent research program of their choosing.
Applicants are encouraged to propose research programs that connect
with NOIRLab facilities and programs. We particularly welcome projects
that connect with Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time
early science.

The three-year position can be taken at any of the three NOIRLab sites.
Please submit your application by December 23, 2024.

Please direct questions to Kathy Vivas (kathy.vivas@noirlab.edu) or
John Blakeslee (john.blakeslee@noirlab.edu).


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JOINT DIRAC FELLOWSHIP AND BAUM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW FOR INNOVATIVE
ASTRONOMY

We invite applications for the 2025 Joint DiRAC Fellowship and Baum
Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovative Astronomy in the University of
Washington's Astronomy Department. These up to 3-year postdoctoral
positions are available to promising early-career scientists who are
ready to engage in self-directed research that complements the work
done at UW's Institute for Data-Intensive Research in Astrophysics and
Cosmology (DiRAC). Active areas include: Transients and Variable Star
Science, Solar System Science, Milky Way Structure, Extragalactic
Science, Cosmology, and Astronomical Software Development.

For more information, please visit:

https://apply.interfolio.com/158267

Applicants with innovative research programs involving early science
with Rubin Observatory and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)
are especially encouraged to apply. 

Applications are due by December 31, 2024. Please direct questions to
Jim Davenport (jrad@uw.edu).

[Edited for length]


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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW - SCHOOL OF EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES,
GEORGIA TECH, ATLANTA, GA

Job ID: 279670

The application deadline is December 31, 2024 or until the position is
filled.

This is a fixed term position for 18 months. 

The postdoctoral scholar's specific research topic is open and will be
chosen based on the mutual interests of the postdoctoral scholar and
the supervisor Dr. Shi Joyce Sim (jssim@eas.gatech.edu,
joycesim.github.io).

Access to high-performance computing resources is available through
Partnership for an Advanced Computing Environment (PACE) at Georgia
Institute of Technology.

For more information, please visit:

https://tinyurl.com/4ezu7dar


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[EGU2025] PS1.2 VENUS: MODELS, OBSERVATIONS, (ANCIENT) EARTH- AND
EXOPLANET ANALOGUE

For more information, please visit:

https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessionprogramme/5526#

Abstract deadline: 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET

Invited talk by: Prof. Stephen Kane (UC Riverside, USA) 

[Edited for length]


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PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS

Note: Many face-to-face meetings going forward will have online
components. Check their websites for details.

Posted at https://planetarynews.org/meetings.html

February 4-6, 2025
Mercury Science and Exploration Annual Meeting 2025
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/mexag/meetings/feb2025/
Laurel, MD

[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.]


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PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL - NEW PAPERS

Editor, Faith Vilas
https://psj.aas.org

No new papers this week.


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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS - NEW PAPERS

Direct Links to Open Access (OA) Papers

Editor-in-Chief, Amanda Hendrix
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/21699100

No new papers this week.


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