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The Planetary Division of the Geological Society of America

Volume 29, Number 1 March 2011

Message from the Chair Dwornik Best Student Paper Award at the annual Lunar and Conference (89 candidates to judge in March 2011).

I and the other officers of the PGD hope to make this year a banner year for the Division, culminating in the 30th David A. Williams School of & Space Exploration Anniversary Special Session and celebration State University at the GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis (October 9-12, 2011). We have already It is my honor to address you as the chair of revamped the PGD website, to make it more the Planetary Geology Division in this e y e -catching and relevant with all of the special year, the year of the Division’s 30th NASA missions and programs that are Anniversary. Who would have thought back underway. Please check out our website at: in 1981 that, together, we would create one http://rock.geosociety.org/pgd/ of GSA’s most popular divisions. I base this statement on the comments I’ve received By now all of you should have received my over the last four years at the GSA Annual fundraising letter regarding the Dwornik Meetings, at our outreach booth, and at the Award program. Since its founding in 1991, various sessions and events we’ve held. Our the Dwornik Best Student Paper Award has current membership is at 515 and we have recognized 97 students for excellence in an ever growing participation in our most presentation of research results, many of popular student program, the Stephen E. whom have gone on to become leaders in

1 our field. I think we can say with conviction for the 30th Anniversary and the that Steve Dwornik’s dream of inspiring Minneapolis Annual Meeting. students to enter the field of planetary geology with the help of the Dwornik We are living in a very exciting, uncertain Award program has been a great success. time for the field of planetary geology and Since we’ve expanded it to include planetary exploration. This year we will see undergraduate students, there is a greater the first Mercury orbiter, the first Vesta need to shore up the endowment for the orbiter, and the launch of three new missions future. So, if you haven’t already, please (Grail – , Juno – , and the Mars consider giving a donation to the GSA Science Laboratory Curiosity rover). I think Foundation for the PGD Dwornik fund, or all of us eagerly await the public release of one of our other funds if you prefer. I would the NRC Planetary Decadal Survey on like to take this opportunity to congratulate March 7 in Houston, which will set the our 2010 PGD award winners: Timmons direction of future exploration Erickson (Shoemaker Award, Univ. of from 2013-2022. With a divided government Puerto Rico), Vishnu Reddy (Pellas-Ryder in Washington at loggerheads regarding the Award, Univ. of North Dakota), Erin Shea direction of the human space program, and (MIT), David Blair (Purdue Univ.), Kelsi in a time of shrinking federal budgets for Singer (Washington Univ.), Charles science, it behooves all of us to remember Barnhart (UC-Santa Cruz), Jacob that our future success as planetary Richardson (E. Michigan Univ.), Christina depends to a great extent on King (Univ. of Hawaii), and Cameron public support for NASA’s planetary Mercer (Middlebury College), our Dwornik science programs, and that we should look Award winners, and of course, Dr. Carlé for every opportunity to communicate our Pieters of , the 2010 G.K. exciting results to the public, and in Gilbert awardee. particular, to try to inspire interest in science, technology, engineering, and Our preparations for the 2011 Annual mathematics (STEM) among the current Meeting are well underway. We will have an generation of young people. If you would expanded booth in the Exhibit Hall this year, like the help of the PGD to support a STEM and some nifty PGD 30th anniversary items project at your institution or community, available for a donation to the division. please feel free to contact one of the Please look elsewhere in this newsletter for officers, and we will try to help you. And the list of proposed topical sessions for this thank you for your continued support as year’s Annual Meeting, and consider members of the Planetary Geology Division. submitting an abstract. The abstract deadline See you in Minneapolis! is July 26, 2011. Our 30th anniversary celebration will include a special session David A. Williams titled: Then and Now – The Past 30 Years of PGD Chair Solar System Exploration. The Division is School of Earth & Space Exploration also sponsoring a field trip to study outcrops Arizona State University of the Sudbury impact in the western Lake February 2011 Superior region (contact Mark Jirsa for more information: [email protected]). Please stay alert for emails from the Division officers regarding more details on our plans

2 who have received both the Barringer and 2010 Division News the Leonard Medals from the Meteoritical Society. He received the G.K. Gilbert It is with great sadness that we report the Award from the Geological Society of news of the deaths of two illustrious America and the J. Lawrence Smith Medal members of Planetary Geology Division. from the National Academy of Sciences.

Ralph Baldwin 1912-2010 Jared Morrow 1959-2010

Dr. Ralph Belknap Dr. Jared R. Baldwin died on Morrow lost his October 23, 2010. He battle with graduated from the cancer on Oct. 7, University of Michigan 2010. Morrow with a B.S. in 1934, an received his bac- M.S. in 1935, and a helor’s degree Ph.D. in from Humboldt (Physics) in 1937. He State University, taught astronomy at the master’s degree from Washington State Universities of Michi- University and his Ph.D. from the University gan, Pennsylvania, and of Colorado-Boulder. He went to San Diego Northwestern. Baldwin State University in the fall 2006 from the received three honorary degrees: an LLD University of Northern Colorado and taught from Michigan in 1975, an ScD from Grand core undergraduate courses in - Valley State University in 1989, and an ScD ology and , along with graduate from Aquinas College in 1999. During courses in basin analysis. World War II he was a Senior Physicist at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns “Jared’s vigorous and successful research Hopkins University. career involved many students and centered on the geological record of Baldwin showed that the craters on the impacts,” said David Kimbrough, chair of Moon were produced by the impact rather the SDSU Department of Geological than being volcanic in origin. Baldwin's Sciences. “Key aspects of the physical and early work culminated in the books, "The biological evolution of Earth are ascribed to Face of the Moon" (1949), which many impact events and Jared was at the forefront consider the generating force behind modern of research in this area.” research in both terrestrial impact craters and lunar surface features, and "The Morrow provided strong support to the Measure of the Moon" in 1965. Baldwin professional community by serving as vice- was a Fellow in the Meteoritical Society, the chair and chair of the North American American Geophysical Union, the American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature, Association for the Advancement of an associate editor of the journal Palaios and Science, and the American Academy of Arts board member for the Sigma Xi Scientific and Sciences. The Royal Astronomical Research Society Grants-in-Aid of Society of Canada made him an Honorary Research, among other things. Member. He was one of only two

3 citationist was Dr. Jim Head of the Brown 2010 Annual Meeting University.

The 2010 Annual GSA meeting in Denver, Colorado saw the Planetary Geology Division’s continued success. The Division sponsored or co-sponsored eight different sessions during the 4-day convention, with average attendance varying between mostly full to standing-room only.

The Division sponsored two Pardee Keynote Symposiums. "Evolving Moon: Recent Advances in Understanding our Planetary Neighbor from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter and Other Missions," Carle Pieters (left) receives the 2010 G.K. Gilbert was organized and run by Dave Williams Award from PGD Chair Jayne Aubele (right). and Clive Neal. “Exploring for Life in the Cosmos: Celebrating Five Decades of ” was sponsored in collaboration with GSA and Divison and was organized by Jack Farmer. The G. K. Gilbert Award Session titled “Planetary Exploration through Remote Compositional Analysis” was organized by Jayne Aubele and Jim Head.

The Planetary Geology Division booth continued to serve as a focal point for Carle Pieters, the 2010 Gilbert Awardee, with past Division fundraising and outreach activities. students and colleagues. Special thanks to all the members who donated time and items for the booth. Special thanks go out to Eric Twelker for his The Eugene M. Shoemaker donation of for the daily raffles Memorial Award for Crater Studies and continued support of the PGD. We are pleased to announce the 2010 At the annual Business Meeting all PGD recipient of the Shoemaker Award was reports were presented, the various 2010 Timmons Erickson, University of Puerto award winners were announced and our new Rico Mayaguez, who is studying the GSA Planetary Geology Division website of shocked from the Vredefort (http://rock.geosociety.org/pgd/index.htm) structure and their deposition in was introduced. This was followed by the as a function of distance from the impact 2010 G.K. Gilbert Award ceremony and site. This unique sedimentary provenance reception. The award was given to Dr. study is designed to assist interpretations of Carle Pieters of Brown University; the shocked minerals in ancient sediments

4 where all other remnants of the have been erased from the geologic record. 2010 Dwornik Awards The judging panel at the 41st LPSC saw Dr. Carolyn Shoemaker established the another crop of outstanding entries for the Eugene M. Shoemaker Memorial Fund for 2010 Dwornik Prize — many thanks to the Crater Studies in memory of her husband in all the students who competed and to the 1998. She established this endowment so volunteers who assisted with the judging! In that students will have an opportunity to case you missed it, the 2010 Dwornik pursue studies of impact craters, which were winners were: the focus of her husband's graduate student studies and a large part of his professional Best Graduate Oral Presentation: Erin career. Friends, scientific colleagues, and Shea, MIT, “Evidence for a Lunar Core companies have contributed to (and continue Dynamo at 3.7 Ga from Mare Basalt to contribute to) the fund to ensure its 10020?” success. Honorable Mention: David Blair, Purdue University, "Testing Mechanisms for the The Eugene M. Shoemaker Memorial Formation of a Ring of Graben in Central Award for Crater Studies is for Raditladi Basin Mercury" undergraduate or graduate students, of any nationality, working in any country, in the Best Graduate Poster Presentation: Kelsi disciplines of geology, , Singer, Washington University, "Pits, , astronomy, or biology. The Spots, Uplifts, and Small Chaos Regions on award, which includes $2500, is to be : Evidence for Diapiric Upwelling applied for the study of impact craters, either from Morphology and Morphometry" on Earth or on other solid bodies in the solar system. Areas of study may include but shall Honorable Mention: Charles Barnhart, not necessarily be limited to impact University of California, Santa Cruz, "The cratering processes, bodies (asteroidal or Role of Impact Excavation in Distributing cometary) that make the impacts, or the geo- Clays Over Noachian Surfaces" logical, chemical or biological results of impact cratering. For full consideration, Best Undergraduate Oral Presentation: applications and letters of recommendation Jacob Richardson, East Michigan should be received by early September University, “Identification of Volcanic 2011. The awardee is usually announced at Ridge in Northern Syria Planum, Mars: the Planetary Geology Division business Constraint on Geologic History of Syria” meeting during the annual GSA conference. Please check the following website Honorable Mention: Christina King, (http://rock.geosociety.org/pgd/awards.html#_sh University of Hawaii, "Martian Slope oemaker) for submission information and Streaks Form Sporadically Throughout the electronic application form. The Planetary Year" Geology Division officers strongly encourage all of our Division members to Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation: actively recruit promising students to apply Cameron Mercer, Middlebury College, for this prestigious award. "Principal Components Analysis of Reflectance Spectra Returned by the Mars Exploration Rover"

5 The Dwornik Award was established in 1991 with a generous endowment by Dr. 2010 Pellas-Ryder Award Stephen E. Dwornik, who wished to The Pellas-Ryder award is given to the encourage students who are U.S. citizens to Planetary Science Best Student Paper become involved with NASA and planetary published during the preceding year. The science. The Award consists of a plaque and award is jointly given by the Meteoritical a $500 check, and is given for the best Society and the Planetary Geology Division student presentations (poster and oral) at the of the Geological Society of America and annual Lunar and Planetary Science consists of a check for $500 from the Conference (LPSC) hosted by the Lunar and Meteoritical Society and a plaque awarded Planetary Institute and NASA Johnson by the PGD. Space Center in Houston, Texas. In 2009 we started granting separate awards of $250 For 2010, the Pellas-Ryder award was for Best Undergraduate Presentations. This presented to: Vishnu Reddy, University of year awards will again be given for Best North Dakota (Advisor: Mike Gaffey) for an Undergraduate Oral and Poster presentation. outstanding publication in a major peer- reviewed journal on a topic of significant Students may submit abstracts for importance, and for the perseverance to see consideration of the award to the annual it published. LPSC. The student must be first author on the abstract. Along with the abstract, the The paper was: Reddy, V., J. P. Emery, M. student must also complete an application J. Gaffey, W. F. Bottke, A. Cramer, and form (available on the PGD website M. S. Kelley, Composition of 298 http://rock.geosociety.org/pgd/awards.html# Baptistina: Implications for the K/T _dwornik) and have it signed by their impactor link, MAPS, 44 (12), 1917-11927, dissertation or research advisor. The signed 2009. form must be faxed or emailed to the Lunar and Planetary Institute by the day after the LPSC abstract deadline (typically early 2010 Finances and Membership January of each year). Please see the PGD website for more information. The Division's finances remain healthy, and we hope they will continue to improve, as Special Thanks to Dwornik Judges we stay focused on reducing costs and PGD officers would like to thank all of our raising funds. In 2008 we instituted a new members who attended the 41st LPSC and student travel grant program for students to assisted in judging for the 2010 Dwornik attend the annual GSA Meeting, in which awards. With the large number of applicants two students receive $500 grants (with each year (89 this year), it would not be matching funds from the student’s advisor.) possible to judge the student awards without The 2010 travel grant awardees were Joe the help of our volunteers. Ruffini of the University of Wisconsin - Madison and Michael Lucas of the Thanks to everyone who volunteered on University of South Florida. their abstract submission forms to help judge th the 2011 Dwornik competitors at the 42 To continue these travel grants (and our LPSC. Please contact our Second Vice- fiscal health) we need your support through Chair Bob Anderson if you have any purchases at our booth at the Annual questions (robert.c.anderson@jpl..gov).

6 Meeting! We still have PGD tee shirts in applications online at the GSA website: various sizes and colors and we will also be http://www.geosociety.org offering a 30th anniversary shirt this year, along with anniversary water bottles and coffee cups. So come to the booth at the Call for Applications & Nominations 2011 Minneapolis meeting and complete your wardrobe for just a small donation! For the past several years the Division has enjoyed a great deal of growth and vibrancy, As is shown below, our largest single yearly something we hope will continue well into cost continues to be the Division’s annual the future! This is something that reflects business meeting at the GSA Annual positively upon us as a community, and we Meeting, and we will continue to search for would like to remind everyone of the ways to reduce this expense. The financial opportunities to participate and contribute. activity of our Division over the past year is summarized as follows: G.K. Gilbert Award: All members are strongly encouraged to submit nominations REVENUE 2010 $ for the G. K. Gilbert Award. This is the Division Dues Income 1,488.93 Division’s highest award, presented Contributions 1,788.30 annually for outstanding contributions to the Total Revenue 3,277.23 solution of fundamental problems in planetary geology in the broadest sense. EXPENSES 2010 $ Nominations (which include a letter Contract Labor 1925.00 detailing the accomplishments of the Furniture & Equipment 129.48 nominee) should be submitted directly to Postage & Shipping 250.34 Dave Williams ([email protected]) b y Grants & Awards, Cash 1,000.00 December 1, 2011. Awards, Purchased 105.00 Catering Annual Meeting 2100.86 Dwornik Award: Due to the advent of the Miscellaneous 314.32 undergraduate awards, the Dwornik fund is Total Expenses 5,825.00 no longer self-sustaining. We hope the fund will continue to grow and provide new NET INCOME/LOSS -2,547.77 opportunities, and thus encourage your donations. You can donate at: LIABILITIES http://www.gsafweb.org/makeadonation.html Deferred Dues Income 2651.10 In addition, anyone interested in serving as a Net Assets, Beginning of Year 16,118.24 judge for the Dwornik competition at next Net Income/Loss Current Year -2547.77 year’s LPSC please note that there is now a place on your LPSC abstract submission UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS 2010 $ form where you can indicate your 16,221.57 willingness. Thanks in advance!

Membership: As of the end of 2010, the Eugene M. Shoemaker Award: The Shoe- Division has 515 members. Please maker fund is currently self-sustaining, but encourage your colleagues to keep their we welcome your donations. As a reminder, Division memberships active, and remember the deadline for 2011 will be on or about that GSA accepts new membership September 1, 2011! For more details and online application forms, please see:

7 http://rock.geosociety.org/pgd/awards.html#_sh communicating with and connecting to the oemaker rest of the geoscience community represents an opportunity for us all, and we encourage Pellas-Ryder Award: This award, offered anyone with ideas for future Pardee Keynote jointly with the Meteoritical Society, is an proposals to coordinate with Dave Williams opportunity for student first authors ([email protected]) or Simon publishing their work in English to receive Kattenhorn ([email protected]). As you recognition for outstanding scientific consider possible topics, remember that the achievement. The deadline for nominations Pardee Keynote Symposia represent was January 31, 2011. For details, or to interdisciplinary, leading-edge topics in a nominate papers published for next year, scientific discipline or area of public policy contact Division Past Chair Jayne Aubele or address broad fundamental issues. ([email protected]). The Division also strongly encourages the Pardee Keynote Symposium: The Pardee submission of Topical Sessions for future Keynote Symposia, as special events GSA meetings. Division-sponsored Topical selected on a competitive basis because of Sessions provide a format for the exchange their broad interest to the geoscience of ideas at GSA meetings. community, are an important avenue for conveying important new planetary science results to a broader audience. This forum for

We need your help! This would be a great time to make a contribution to the Dwornik, Shoemaker, G. K. Gilbert or student travel grant funds! Unlike many other charitable donations, your donation to these funds will produce positive results you can see for yourself as you encourage and support your future colleagues. Please include a check or money order, made payable to Planetary Geology Division, GSA.

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ANNOUNCING THE 2011 G.K. GILBERT AWARD WINNER

Dr. Steven Squyres, Cornell University

Previous Gilbert Award Recipients: E. Shoemaker (1983); G. Wetherill (1984); W. Alvarez (1985); R. Baldwin (1986); D. Gault (1987); D. Wilhelms (1988); H. Schmitt (1989); H. Masursky (1990); J. Guest (1991); J. Wood (1992); M. Carr (1993); S. R. Taylor (1994); B. Lucchitta, 1995); R. Sharp (1996); R. Greeley (1997); J. Adams (1998); S. Solomon (1999); L. Soderblom (2000); H. J. Melosh (2001); J. Head (2002); R. Phillips (2003), W. Hartmann (2004), L. Wilson (2005), M. Gaffey (2006), M. Zuber (2007), P. Christensen (2008), R. Strom (2009), C. Pieters (2010).

The 2011 G.K. Gilbert awardee is Dr. Steve Squyres, Professor, Cornell University. His research area is in planetary sciences, with a focus on large solid bodies in the solar system such as the terrestrial and the of the Jovian planets. He has participated in many of NASA's planetary exploration missions. From 1978 to 1981 he was an associate of the Voyager mission to Jupiter and , participating in analysis of imaging data. He subsequently worked as a radar investigator on the Magellan mission to , and with the Near Earth Rendezvous mission. Along with his work as Principal Investigator on the MER (Mars Exploration Rovers), he is also a co-investigator on the 2003 Mars Express and 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter missions, a member of the Gamma-Ray Spectrometer Flight Investigation Team for the Mars Odyssey mission, and a member of the imaging team for the Cassini to Saturn.

He recently served as Chair of the NASA Space Science Advisory Committee and as a member of the NASA Advisory Council. He is the recipient of the 2004 Carl Sagan Memorial Award and the 2009 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Communication in Planetary Science. On October 28, 2010, Dr. Squyres received the 2010 Mines Medal for his achievements as a researcher and professor.

9 Upcoming 2011 Annual Meeting

The 2011 GSA annual meeting will be held October 9-12, 2011, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The theme of the meeting is: Archean to Anthropocene: The Past is the Key to the Future. We hope to have a very visible presence at the meeting, with several sessions and a field trip. The final list of sessions approved by GSA will be reported in the Fall 2011 PGD Newsletter, which will be published prior to the Annual Meeting. Note that we especially encourage students to submit abstracts to any of these sessions!

List of Proposed Sessions, 2011 GSA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis

Special Session: “Planetary Geology Division 30th Anniversary: Then and Now – The Past 30 Years of Solar System Exploration”, GSA Planetary Geology Division, Simon Kattenhorn - This session will provide a retrospective on the major advances in understanding the geologic histories of planets and moons over the past 30 years, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Planetary Geology Division. We describe the history of solar system exploration in this time frame with emphasis on characterizing planetary surfaces and unraveling the geologic processes and histories that have resulted in the astounding geologic diversity of our solar system. (Planetary Geology).

Field Trip: “The Sudbury Meteorite Impact Layer in the Western Lake Superior Region”, GSA Planetary Geology Division, Mark Jirsa, Phil Fralick, Paul Weiblen, Jennifer Anderson - This trip examines a sequence of ejecta and deformed substrate resulting from the 1850 Ma Sudbury meteorite impact. Of the 178 verified terrestrial impacts, the Sudbury event was the second largest (based on estimated crater size) and forth oldest. An impact origin for the Sudbury structure in Ontario has long been accepted; however, the resulting ejecta blanket—known informally as the Sudbury Impact Layer—was discovered only recently in 2005. The layer in the western Lake Superior region lies at the stratigraphic top of Paleoproterozoic Gunflint Iron Formation, 700 kilometers west of the impact site. The trip will visit exposures at Gunflint Lake in NE Minnesota, at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, and near Thunder Bay, Ontario. The deposits include autochthonous material interpreted to be seismically folded and shattered iron-formation, and overlying strata composed largely of allochthonous material derived in part from target rocks. Definitive microscopic evidence of an impact origin includes the occurrence of accretionary lapilli, pellets, spherules, relict glass, and quartz fragments marked by planar deformation features. The Sudbury impact layer exhibits extreme lithologic variability from place to place within each exposure area and between exposure areas, which is not surprising given the chaotic nature of impact. The stratigraphy presented by these exposures can be used to devise a sequence of deformational and depositional events that is consistent with experimental and empirical evidence of impact processes. The 3-day field trip (Oct. 13-15) visits exposures in northeastern-most Minnesota, USA, and adjacent Ontario, Canada. (Planetary Geology).

Topical Sessions: (T210) “Impact Cratering: Geology’s Latest Revolution”, GSA Planetary Geology Division, GSA Geophysics Division, Jay Melosh, Elisabetta Pierazzo, - Impact cratering is the most recent

10 revolution in geological science, it has brought catastrophic events back into mainstream geology. This session will review the importance of this new geologic process. (Planetary Geology; Geophysics//; Environmental Geoscience).

(T211) “30+ Years of Teaching about Planetary Geology: Past Lessons Learned and Future Possibilities”, GSA Planetary Geology Division, GSA Geoscience Education Division, Jayne Aubele, Eric Pyle - We encourage abstracts that analyze past, present, and potential future teaching of planetary geology through textbooks, curriculum, and lab exercises at the university, K-12, and informal science education levels for science and non-science students. (Planetary Geology; Geoscience Education).

(T212) “Impact Cratering on the Earth, Moon and Planets: Remote, Field and Lab Studies”, GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Geophysics Division; GSA and Tectonics Division; GSA , Geochemistry, and Division; International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP); , Jeff Plescia, - This session solicits contributions on any aspect of studies (terrestrial and planetary), including recent observations of lunar craters that constrain geologic aspects of craters and provide information on the modeling of impacts. (Planetary Geology; Petrology, Metamorphic; Geochemistry).

(T213) “Robotic Exploration of Planetary Surfaces: The G.K. Gilbert Award Session”, GSA Planetary Geology Division; David Williams, - This session celebrates the career and accomplishments of this year’s recipient of the Planetary Geology Division’s G.K. Gilbert Award. Oral presentations will be given by the awardee and by the awardee’s former students and colleagues. (Planetary Geology; Remote Sensing/Geographic Info System; Geochemistry).

(T214) “Exploring Mercury by Spacecraft: First MESSENGER Results from Orbit”, GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Geophysics Division; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division; GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division, Sean Solomon, Louise Prockter, - In March 2011, MESSENGER will become the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. This session will highlight early scientific results from orbital observations, with an emphasis on the ’s geology, geochemistry, and geophysics. (Planetary Geology; Structural Geology; Volcanology).

(T215) “Terrestrial Analogs in Solar System Studies”, GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Geophysics Division; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Division; GSA Geobiology & Geomicrobiology Division; GSA Limnogeology Division; GSA Division, Simon Kattenhorn, - This session focuses on terrestrial analog studies with application to understanding other solar-s y s t e m bodies, their geological histories, the processes operating on them, and the potential for habitable environments. (Planetary Geology; Volcanology; Structural Geology).

(T216) “Lava Flows: Earth and Beyond”, GSA Planetary Geology Division, Larry Crumpler, - This session will focus on the way in which our increased understanding of lava flows has

11 benefited from synergistic studies on Earth and on other planets. (Planetary Geology; Volcanology; Petrology, Igneous).

(T217) “Dawn at Vesta: Initial Results for the Survey Orbit”, GSA Planetary Geology Division, Debra Buczkowski, David Williams, - The Dawn spacecraft will go into Vesta orbit in August 2011. Results from analysis of the initial observations of the Survey orbit will be presented. (Planetary Geology).

(T149) “Virtual Reality in Geoscience Education”, GSA Geoscience Education Division; GSA Geoscience Education Division; GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Geoinformatics Division; GSA Planetary Geology Division; National Association of Geoscience Teachers; Google Inc.; Oxford University Press; Minnesota Planetarium Society, Declan DePaor, Steven Whitmeyer, John Bailey, - This session covers virtual reality in formal and informal geoscience education at all levels: Google Earth, OmniGlobe, LiDAR, GigaPan, full- dome digital planetaria, caves, and resources for handheld devices, such as iPads and smart phones. (Geoscience Education; Geoinformatics; Structural Geology).

GSA 2010-2011 Planetary Geology Division Officers

Chair: David A. Williams, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287; [email protected]

First Vice-Chair: Simon Kattenhorn, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844; [email protected]

Second Vice-Chair: Robert C. Anderson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109; [email protected]

Secretary-Treasurer: Debra L. Buczkowski, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD; [email protected]

Past Chair: Jayne C. Aubele, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104; [email protected]

PGD Election 2011

Would you like to help the PGD? This year we must elect a new Second Vice-Chair for one-year term. Please suggest candidates to any of our officers over the next few months.

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12 Current Planetary Geology Division B.Sc. (Geology, Physics) 1990, B.Sc. Hons. (Geology) 1991, M.Sc. (Geology) 1994; Univ. of Officers’ Biographies Akron, Ohio, M.S. (Geology) 1994; Stanford University, California, Ph.D. (Geological & Environmental Sciences) 1998. Professional (Chair) Williams, David A., Experience: Associate Professor of Geology, Univ. of Mathematical computer modeling, Idaho 2004-present; Assistant Professor of Geology, geologic mapping, image Univ. of Idaho 1998-2004; Research Assistant, processing, geochemical studies, Stanford Univ. 1994-1998; Teaching Assistant, Univ. Volcanology, Planetary Geology. of Akron 1992-1994. Professional Service: Second Education: Indiana University BS vice-chair, Planetary Geology Division, GSA, 2009- (Astronomy & ) 2010; NASA-Idaho Space Grant Consortium 1989; Arizona State University, Advisory Committee, 2009-present; Session chair, M.Sc. (Geology) 1992; University ―Fault and fracture studies in the solar system, GSA of Alabama, Ph.D (Geology) 1998. Professional Annual Meeting 2009; Scientific Organizing Experience: Fac. Research Assoc., Arizona State Committee, Lunar and Planetary Institute Workshop University (ASU), 2002-present; Visit. Assist. Prof., on Europa’s Icy Shell, 2004; Session Chair, ―Fluids ASU, 2001-2002; Postdoct. Research Assoc., ASU, and Faulting: Cause and Effect, AGU Fall Meeting 1998-2002; Student Participant, NASA Magellan 2002; Reviewer for 82 journal/book articles and grant SAR Team, 1990-1992; Student Affiliate, NASA proposals 1997-present; Served on NASA Planetary Galileo SSI Team, 1992-1994; Associate, NASA Geology and Geophysics and NASA Outer Planets Galileo SSI Team, 1998-2003; Associate, NASA Research review panels. Professional Memberships: Mars Polar Lander SSI team, 1999; Associate, ESA GSA (1993-present), AGU (1996-present), AAS- Mars Express HRSC Team, 2003-present; Division for Planetary Sciences (2003-present); Participating , NASA Dawn mission to Planetary Society (1995-present). Honors & Awards: Vesta, 2010-present. Member: GSA, AGU, DPS, Participant in NSF-funded Tropical Rift Lake AAAS, IAVCEI, NSS. Recent Service: JSO Science Systems Workshop, Lake Kivu, Rwanda, 2010; Definition Team 2007; GSA Dwornik Award Judge, Participant in NSF-funded Workshop on Volcanic 2005-2011; DSMCE panel 2008; MDAP panel 2007; and Seismic Hazards in East Africa, Trieste, Italy, CDAP panel 2006; MFRP panel 2003; MDAP panel 2009; Participant in NSF-funded Magmatic Intrusion 2004; PG&G panel 2004; IAVCEI Large-Volume Workshop, Dry Valleys, Antarctica 2005; Participant Basaltic Provinces Steer. Group Member, 1993-1998. in NSF-funded Tectonic-Magmatic Interaction Honors & Awards: 10-yr Service Award, Dept. of Workshop, Iceland 2003; Alumni Award for Geolog. Sci., ASU, 2003; Award for Outstanding Excellence, Univ. of Idaho 2001. Research: Tidal Research by a Doctoral Student, Grad. College, Univ stresses and tectonic deformation on outer solar Alabama, 1998, College of Arts & Sciences, 1998, system icy satellites; active tectonics on Europa and Dept. of Geology, 1998; Univ. Alabama Grad. Enceladus; fault evolution and dike intrusion on Council Research Fellow, 1996, 1997, 1998; NASA Mars; tectonics of oblique spreading, Iceland; active Space Grant Grad. Fellowship, Sum. 1992 (ASU). tectonics and earthquake hazards in northern Research: Analytical-numerical modeling of low- California; t h e r m o -mechanical modeling of lava viscosity lava emplacement on Earth, the Moon, cooling and fracturing; Research advisor to 18 Mars, and ; Regional and global geologic mapping graduate students; Published 21 research articles and of Io using Galileo and Voyager images; Studies of 96 conference presentations; External research geochemical evidence for erosion by basaltic lavas at funding from NASA (13 times), NSF, DOE. Address: Mount St. Helens; Geologic mapping of the Tharsis Dept. of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Idaho, PO shields using HRSC data. Address: School of Earth Box 443022, Moscow, ID 83844-3022; Ph (208) 885- and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, 5063; Email: [email protected]. Tempe, AZ 85287, or call (480) 965-7029, fax (480) 965-8102, or e-mail: [email protected] (Second Vice-Chair) Anderson, Robert C., (First Vice-Chair) Kattenhorn, Planetary Geology, Structural Simon A., Planetary Geology, Geology, Planetary regoliths, Structural Geology, Old Dominion University, B. S. Geomechanics. Education: Univ. (Geology) 1979, Old Dominion of Natal, Durban, South Africa, University, M.S. (Geology/

13 Planetary Tectonics) 1985, University of Pittsburgh, Meeting, St. Louis MO, 1998. Address: Jet PhD. (Geology/Remote Sensing) 1995. Professional Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 91381, ph. Experience: Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion 818-393-1253, email: Laboratory and is currently the Mars Science [email protected] Laboratory (MSL) Investigation scientist for the Sample Acquisition/Sample Processing and Handling (SA/SPaH), Science Lead on the Solid Sample (Secretary-Treasurer) Library, Science lead on the characterization of dry Buczkow ski, Debra L., powder flow, and physical properties experiments for Planetary Geology, Structural MSL, 2006-present; Mars Exploration Rovers Geology, geologic mapping. Mission Planner and Investigation Scientist for the Education: Boston University Rock Abrasion Tool and member of the physical BA (Astronomy) 1992; Univer- properties theme group, 2000-2007. Science sity of Massachusetts Amherst, Collaborator Mars Exploration Rover, 2002-present, MS (Geology) 2002, PhD Science Lead for the OASIS/AEGIS project (onboard Geosciences) 2005. Professional science analysis software), 1999 - present. Adjunct Experience: JHU/APL profess- Research Faculty at the Department Geology and ional staff 2008-present; JHU/APL postdoctoral Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh (1998- research associate 2005-2008; MRO CRISM team 2003). Lecturer/Instructor at the California Institute m e m b e r 2007-present; Dawn mission to Vesta, of Technology, 2008 (Igneous and Metamorphic participating scientist 2010-present. Professional Petrography), Adjunct Faculty, Pasadena City Affiliations: GSA member since 2004; AGU, AWG. College (Planetary Geology), 1999-2002, Mission GSA Service: Dwornik Award judge 2006-10; PGD Planner and Investigation Scientist for the 2001 Mars officer 2010-future. Additional Service: PG&G panel Mission, 1999-2001, Deputy Education and Outreach 2005-06; MDAP panel 2007; MFRP external review Coordinator: Mars Exploration Office, 1998-1999, 2007; LPSC program committee 2009-11; LPSC California Institute of Technology Postdoctoral session chair 2008-11; AGU session chair 2009; Scholar 1996-1998 (Mars Pathfinder project under ACM session chair 2008; reviewer multiple articles M. Golombek). Professional Organizations: Member 2005-present. Honors/Awards: JHU/APL special of GSA and AGU. Honors and Awards: JPL Mariner achievement 2009; JHU/APL postdoctoral fellowship Award (, 2007), JPL Spot 2005-08; NASA GSRP fellow 2003-05. Published 8 Award (Mars Science Laboratory, 2006), JPL Team research articles and 34 conference presentations; Award (OASIS Team, 2005), JPL Spot Award (Mars External research funding from NASA (5 times). Exploration Rover, 2004). NASA Group Research Interests: structural geology and geologic Achievement Award (MER Operations, 2004), mapping of Mars, Venus, Mercury, Eros and Vesta; NASA Group Achievement Award (MER Operations spectral analysis of Mars. Address: JHU Applied Planning, 2003), NASA Group Achievement Award Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, 20723, ph. 443- (MER Science Operations, 2003), NASA Group 778-2684, email: [email protected] Achievement Award (Mars Pathfinder Science Operations, 1997), NASA Group Achievement Award (Mars Pathfinder Science Team, 1997). Invited Talks: India Space Agency, Bangalore India, 2005, Keynote address speaker, Oklahoma Annual Meeting, 2003, 2004, Keynote address speaker, AAPG Midwest Regional Meeting, 2003, Invited Talk, International Fuel Cell Conference, 2005, Invited Talk, United Nations Office of Space Science, Beijing China, 2004, Keynote address speaker, Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Society, Pittsburgh PA, 2004, Invited Talk, IBM Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2003, JPL Lab- wide Section Seminar, Topic: Rover Traverse Science, 2002, Invited Talk, U.S. and Russian Manned Space Program, Costa Rica, 2001, Keynote address speaker, IEEE Aerospace Meeting, 1999, 2000, Keynote address speaker, University of Virginia Teacher Association Annual Meeting, 1999,

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