PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 10, Number 47 (November 13, 2016) PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org Editor: Mark V. Sykes Co-Editors: Karen Stockstill-Cahill, Susan Benecchi Email: pen_editor at psi.edu o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. 2016 Pierazzo International Student Travel Award 2. Post-Doctoral Research Associate Position in Comet Observations at the Open University, UK 3. New Cosmic Dust Data Set: Wind Spacecraft Dust Impact Database 4. Planning your Solar System Observations with JWST 5. Small Bodies Assessment Group Early-Career Travel Support 6. Mars Exploration Science Monthly Newsletter for November 2016 7. 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 2016 PIERAZZO INTERNATIONAL STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD Application deadline: 9 PM PST, November 30, 2016 Awards will be announced on or before December 9, 2016 This award is established by the Planetary Science Institute in memory of Senior Scientist Betty Pierazzo to support and encourage graduate students to build international collaborations and relationships in planetary science. Two awards will be made each year, contingent upon there being meritorious applications. One will be awarded to a graduate student working on his or her Ph.D. at an institution within the U.S. This is to support travel to a planetary science related meeting (conferences and workshops) outside of the U.S. The second award will be to a graduate student working on his or her Ph.D. at an institution outside of the U.S. This is to support travel to a planetary science related meeting within the U.S. These include general meetings that have planetary-focused sessions such as the AGU, GSA, EGU and IAG. The award will consist of a certificate and up to $2000US. Additional information and application materials are available at: http://www.psi.edu/pista 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 POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSITION IN COMET OBSERVATIONS AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, UK This part-ESA funded position will combine preparation of observational data on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for archiving at the ESA Planetary Science Archive, with research on cometary science. The research direction is flexible within the broad topic of comet science, and will depend on the interests of the successful candidate, but is expected to make use of (and/or build on) the same observations of 67P. Possible topics include the large-scale structure of the comet's coma and tails, its composition, and/or comparison with other comets - in all cases, comparing between remote observation and Rosetta instrument results. The research could also involve further observations (based on new proposals) or work with Rosetta instrument teams. There will be a roughly 50-50 split between research and functional duties. The duties encompass collation and documentation of data from various observatories, working with observers to ensure that data is properly reduced, and interaction with the ESA PSA to have it archived in a useful way alongside spacecraft data. Closing date for applications is 29 Nov 2016. For further details see advert: http://www.open.ac.uk/about/employment/vacancies/post-doctoral -research-associate-12987 or contact Colin Snodgrass (colin.snodgrass@open.ac.uk) [Edited for length] 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 NEW COSMIC DUST DATA SET: WIND SPACECRAFT DUST IMPACT DATABASE This announces the public release of the Wind/WAVES dust impact database on NASA's CDAWeb and the ftp/http directories at NASA's Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF). It was recently discovered that the Wind/WAVES electric field instrument has been detecting interplanetary and interstellar dust at 1 AU for over 20 years through hypervelocity impact ionization of dust grains on the spacecraft surface. This nearly unexplored data set has the potential to enable new advances in the study of cosmic dust in the heliosphere. The Wind Spacecraft Dust Impact Database has been created to make the Wind dust data easily accessible to the heliophysics community. The database contains over 107,000 dust detections, including information about dust grain direction of motion. The data range from 1995-01-01 to 2016-01-01 and will be updated periodically. Data Access: http://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov Description: http://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/misc/NotesW.html#WI_L3-DUSTIMPACT_WAVES FTP Data: ftp://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/wind/waves/dust_impact_l3/ Contact for Questions: David.Malaspina@colorado.edu lynn.b.wilson@nasa.gov 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 PLANNING YOUR SOLAR SYSTEM OBSERVATIONS WITH JWST At the 2016 DPS meeting in Pasadena, Drs. Stefanie Milam (GSFC) and John Stansberry (STScI) presented a "JWST Early Release Science (ERS) and Proposal Workshop" as well as a JWST Townhall event. A webcast of the workshop, as well as all of the presentations, are now available on line at: https://webcast.stsci.edu/webcast/detail.xhtml?talkid=5248&parent=1 In addition to details about the specific ERS call, the packages include detailed description of JWST's moving target capability as well as expected instrumental performances. If you have any questions on any of the presented materials, the ERS program, or JWST observations, please feel free to contact Stefanie Milam (Stefanie.n.milam@nasa.gov). 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 SMALL BODIES ASSESSMENT GROUP EARLY-CAREER TRAVEL SUPPORT We are planning to offer limited U.S. travel support for early career scientists to participate in the SBAG 16 meeting, to be held at the University of Arizona on January 11-13, 2017. Interested undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, and other early career scientists (within 3 years of PhD/MS/BS) should submit a letter and a CV to SBAG Early Career Secretary Angela Stickle (angela.stickle@jhuapl.edu) by COB (5 pm Eastern time) November 25, 2016. Included in the letter, which must not exceed 2 pages, should be a demonstration of financial need and an explanation of how the applicant's work relates to the purposes of the SBAG. The letter and CV should be combined into a single PDF document for submission by e-mail attachment. Recipients of travel support will be expected to give a short presentation of their SBAG-relevant work at the SBAG 16 meeting. 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 MARS EXPLORATION SCIENCE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FOR NOVEMBER 2016 Please find the November 2016 edition of the Mars Exploration Science Monthly Newsletter at: http://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov This contains a new announcement and recently released information for upcoming calendar events. 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 PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS Posted at http://planetarynews.org/meetings.html March 8-10, 2017 7th International Workshop on Occultation and Eclipse http://iota-me.com/oe.php Hafshejan & Shahr-e Kord, Iran [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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