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Monica's Monthly Message Monica’s Monthly Message January 2015 Dear all, Happy New Year! Sorry, once more I am in default and here we are coming to the end of February and I am offering you December and January’s news. What else can I say? There will only be one more of these incorporating February and March’s news then Monica’s “Monthly” Message will be no more. I know one should not really report February’s news in the December newsletter, but I am very pleased to report that Dr Sally Jordan will be taking over as Head of Department from the beginning of April. December and January were very busy months for the Department as you can see from the length of this newsletter. Looking through the news it mainly seems to be about our outreach activities which is great. However, we must also make sure that we are capturing our research and teaching (and scholarship) contributions as well. I note, despite my constant requests for people to tell the admin staff about their published papers, only two staff seem to have published anything in the last two months. I am almost certain that this is not the case. Please make sure that you send Georgina a link when a new paper is published. This is absolutely essential so that we can demonstrate our excellence. The same goes for our teaching – what is happening with specific people on our first level courses? We need to start thinking about projects for our space masters and I am going to ask Nick Braithwaite to write a short outline on what we are hoping to achieve with it for the next newsletter. Anyway that is enough from me. There is a brief bullet‐pointed list of what I have been up to and, if you need any more details, you can follow me on Twitter. Where has Monica been? Lots of Lunar Mission One campaign Interviews on The Infinite Monkey Cage, Woman’s Hour, Hard Talk and Radio Leeds Reviewing the Sunday papers on radio four SmashFEST Quizmaster for OU University Challenge team Inclusion in The Debrett’s 500 People I am very sorry to report that Jon Dawson died at the end of January, following another chest infection. Jon, who completed his MPhil in 2012 and was awarded the degree last year, having first joined Physics and Astronomy as a research student in October 2008. His widow, Karen, told us that Jon was very proud of all that he had achieved at the OU and valued the company of his fellow research students and other colleagues greatly during his time with us. Congratulations to Marcus Lohr, Marc Cornwall, Jessica Barnes and Andy Clarke on the successful defence of their PhD theses. Andy Mason (OU PhD Astronomy 2010) and Yvonne Sutton (OU PhD Plasma Physics 2009) put the finishing touches to their joint research project, 10 Jan 2015. We welcome Laura Alexander, who started work as a Science Staff Tutor on 1st December 2014, on an 11‐month 0.5 contract, in part covering for Sam Smidt’s absence. Laura is a tutor on S104 (Exploring Science) and a range of Engineering modules and she is a very welcome addition to the team of the growing band of physical science staff tutors. She will be looking after associate lecturers on SXRA288 (Practical science: physics and astronomy), plus some on most other physical science modules and she will also be developing a model to improve our support to resit students. Like Alan Cayless, Laura will be based at the Edinburgh Office. She will however be at Walton Hall for the DPS Academic Staff meeting on 11th February, so please look out for her then. After 3 great years at the OU, Romain Tartese has left DPS to begin working on the oxygen isotope composition of the insoluble organic matter from Precambrian oceans, with Francois Robert and Marc Chaussidon at the Muséum national d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Adrian Brearley has joined the department as a visiting academic until 31.10.17 and he will be working in collaboration with the CRG group on meteorites. Dave Rothery was pleased to receive the advance copies of his new book ‘Planet Mercury: from Pale Pink Dot to Dynamic World’ on 8 Dec, published by Springer Praxis. This book, partly written while on Study Leave, reflects expertise that Dave developed in his role as Lead Scientist for the UK instrument on ESA’s Mercury orbiter (BepiColombo) and as leader of ESA’s Mercury Surface & Composition Working Group. The book attempts to draw together our current understanding of Mercury near the end of NASA’s current MESSENGER mission, and looks ahead to the many issues left for BepiColombo to clarify. Dave says, “There are many lines of evidence pointing to Mercury being rich in volatiles, but it has no right to be like that, so close to the Sun. It is a misfit planet, and I’m very glad that ESA’s next Cornerstone planetary mission will go there.” Dave Rothery, pictured with his current Mercury students Becca Thomas and Emma Fegan, in front of the large Mercury image mosaic in K Block. He also gave an interview about the book to New Books in Astronomy, which is part of the New Books Network of podcasts (www.newbooksnetwork.com), which turned into an hour long discussion about Mercury http://newbooksinastronomy.com/2014/12/28/david‐a‐rothery‐planet‐mercury‐from‐pale‐pink‐dot‐ to‐dynamic‐world‐springer‐2014/ And also a 14 min podcast on Physics Central http://physicscentral.com/explore/multimedia/podcast.cfm?uid=20150128113132 about how to get a spacecraft to Mercury, to which he contributed. There are lots of stories about members of DPS in the annual report:‐ http://www.open.ac.uk/about/main/sites/www.open.ac.uk.about.main/files/files/ecms/web‐ content/about‐annual‐report‐2013‐14.pdf Manish Patel, Mark Leese and Jon Mason delivered the UVIS instrument as part of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission for 2016. UVIS is a highly miniaturised UV and visible spectrometer which will measure ozone, dust and clouds in the martian atmosphere, and will now be integrated into the main instrument (NOMAD) in the following few weeks. UVIS has a mass of just 943 grams (yes, grams – that’s it in my hand…) and is testament to the fantastic work (= blood, sweat and tears) put in by the OU UVIS team of Mark, Jon, Tim, Adam, Dan and Brijen over the past several years. Sally Jordan has been appointed as Chair of the Assessment Pool of Experts in the EADTU (European Association of Distance Teaching Universities) Empower Programme and attended the first meeting in Brussels just before Christmas. Sally is also now on the committee of the Institute of Physics Higher Education Group (as is Sam Smidt) and has been asked to join a recently‐formed IoP Advisory Group on Higher Education. M4 proposals ‐ Colin Snodgrass was one of the lead proposers on Castalia, a mission to a main belt comet. As part of their STFC Impact Acceleration Account pathfinder project, ‘From Mars to the Mountains’, DPS researchers Axel Hagermann and Erika Kaufmann, accompanied by Knowledge Exchange Fellow Ross Burgon, visited the headquarters of DemacLenko in Selva, Italy. DemacLenko is a top European developer of turnkey snowmaking systems for the worldwide skiing industry. The purpose of the visit was to investigate potential opportunities for collaboration and knowledge exchange in the area of artificial snowmaking, which Axel and Erika have been researching for a number of years as part of their work investigating the Martian polar icecaps. The trip was a great success and the team are hopeful that building on the knowledge gained will help inform their research and develop further collaboration opportunities with DemacLenko and other companies in the skiing industry. The CEI has designed and received from manufacture its first image sensor, a silicon integrated circuit based on advanced CMOS technology. The sensor is intended for imaging applications in space and in particular Earth observation and low light level imaging. This is also the first time an integrated circuit of any kind has been designed at The Open University. This featured also on the OU News on 22 December: http://intranet.open.ac.uk/ouintra/story.aspx?id=28410 Following The Times naming Nigel (Farage) as Briton of the Year, the OU’s Rosetta team has been suggested as a possible nomination for Milton Keynes people of the year 2014. Apparently one can vote online but goodness knows what Nigel would think of this highly‐successful pan‐European collaboration… http://www.mkweb.co.uk/NIGEL‐FARAGE‐BRITON‐YEAR‐6‐suggestions‐Milton/story‐ 25774711‐detail/story.html The Centre for Electronic Imaging (CEI) and e2v held their annual Technology Exchange Event at e2v’s headquarters in Chelmsford. The event, spread over a day and a half, gives CEI researchers, students and e2v engineers and opportunity to present and showcase their work, discuss new advances in imaging sensing technology, network and socialise. Every year the event goes from strength to strength with this year seeing upwards of 70 CEI and e2v staff members attending, the highest number in the 10 years of the collaboration. We're delighted to report that Lunar Mission One has just achieved its crowd funding goal on Kickstarter with over £600,000 raised and over 6500 backers world‐wide. This will enable the project to proceed to Phase 2 over the next 3 years during which it will confirm and agree the lunar science and develop the instrument package.
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