DPS Member’s Meeting 2019 17 September 2019 Geneva, Switzerland Division for Planetary Sciences of the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Call Meeting to Order Linda Spilker Chair Opening Remarks • Shortened DPS Members meeting this year to accommodate packed schedule for joint EPSC-DPS meeting and to provide time for lunch at the end of the meeting • Some reports are in backup material • Presentations will be posted on DPS website • Left time at the end for your comments and questions, but feel free to contact me, Amanda or any of the DPS committee members for more discussion after the meeting • Anne Verbiscer is serving one more year as DPS secretary. If you are interested in learning more about this role, please contact Anne. • 200 lunch bags will be available after the Members meeting for meeting attendees. Thanks to PSI for their sponsorship of the lunches! Congratulations to DPS Prize Winners Division for Planetary Sciences of the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Secretary’s Report Anne Verbiscer In Memoriam Joshua Bandfield Jay Bergstralh Lonne Lane José Flores Velázquez Andrea Milani Nancy Grace Roman Ed Smith Laurel Wilkening Membership • Current active membership: 1402. Non-US fraction is 1600 unchanged: 15% 1500 Renew your membership and pay your dues before 31 Dec. 2019 to avoid being dropped from the membership in 1400 February. • Pay your 2020 membership dues online at 1300 https://my.aas.org/services • Remember that your AAS membership benefits include 1200 15% off the author charges for one paper published in an 0 500 1000 1500 AAS Journal such as The Planetary Science Journal Days Since 1 January 2015 Elections Remember to vote !! 571 people voted this year! 41% of our membership, compared to 16% last year. THANK YOU! Bylaws changes were approved by 96%. New AAS voting system used unique links for each member. Newsletters 42 issues so far this year. Thank you to DPS Webmaster Katie Gosmeyer for posting on the DPS website. For obituaries, please send the full text when it is ready for distribution to the DPS Membership. Thank you. DPS Incoming Officers, Committee Members, Subcommittee Chairs Amanda Hendrix Amy Mainzer Kurt Retherford DPS Chair DPS Vice Chair Federal Relations Officer Dana Hurley Noemi Pinilla-Alonso Carrie Nugent, Chair Brian Jackson DPS Committee DPS Committee Nominating Subcommittee Deputy EPO Officer DPS Outgoing Officers, Committee Members, and Subcommittee Chair Linda Spilker Cathy Olkin DPS Chair -> Past Chair DPS Past Chair Catherine Neish Britney Schmidt Yvonne Pendleton, Chair DPS Committee DPS Committee Nominating Subcommittee Division for Planetary Sciences of the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Treasurer Report Tony Roman DPS Annual Cash Flow Exhibitors & Institutional Sponsorships: ~$80k-$130k Meeting Expenses Annual Meeting ~$350-$600k Registration Fees Meeting ~$350k-$450k account Transfers as Surplus, if any needed DPS Reserve Investment Membership Dues account Income & Losses ~$33k Transfers as needed Governance & Federal Contributions Operating Relations Travel ~$20k ~$4k account Prizes ~10k Elsevier Grant $28k accounts Grant Recipients Hartmann Student Travel Grant Awards • Funded 24 Student Travel Grants for a total of $12,000 ($500 ea.) • Funded students from variety of disciplines • Grantees • 21 PhD candidates, 1 undergrad, 2 postdocs • From 19 different institutions • From 3 different countries (considered primarily non-European countries this year, given that Europlanet also provided student travel grants) Bylaws Changes • Compatibility with recent changes to AAS bylaws • Compatibility with recent changes to AAS membership classes • All classes can join DPS • All classes can vote in DPS leadership elections • Most classes can hold DPS leadership positions • Removed nomination requirement for affiliate membership • Added Federal Relations Officer • Added Student Representative • Removed Secretary/Treasurer Officer • Have been using separate offices of Secretary and Treasurer since 2003 Reminders Graduate Job listings! school & REU program databases! Photo gallery! • Don’t be shy to contact me if information is missing/incorrect/badly linked! [email protected] For More Information [email protected] Division for Planetary Sciences of the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Description of Nominating Subcommittee Member Election Carrie Nugent Nominating Subcommittee Nominations Nominating Subcommittee Voting • Please vote by writing the name of the individual on the card being provided • Return folded paper to a DPS member • Thank you! Division for Planetary Sciences of the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY DPS Prize Update Committee Report Cathy Olkin Prize Update Subcommittee Report We convened a subcommittee to update the prize descriptions. These proposed changes were iterated with the DPS Committee and then ratified. Here is a summary of the changes: • More consolidated information is now provided on the Nomination Page, including: • What is meant by ‘Planetary Science’ • Expectation that a candidate for nomination follows the AAS Code of Ethics and actively promotes AAS core values. • A new page on Prize Subcommittee Procedures is added, which describes the selection procedure. Prize Update Subcommittee Report • The Harold C. Urey Prize candidates now have NO age requirement and the time since PhD has increased from 6 to 8 years. Also some teXt on criteria for consideration was added. • The Gerard P. Kuiper Prize: A description of some criteria for consideration was added (innovative and creative nature of the work, leadership in the field, and collaboration). • The Harold Masursky Award: We removed: ‘The Masursky Award is generally given for accomplishments outside of the normal work duties of the nominee’. This was not the original intention of the award. • The Carl Sagan Medal: No significant changes. • The Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award: No changes. • https://dps.aas.org/prizes/ • All DPS members are encouraged to submit prize nominations! Division for Planetary Sciences of the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 315 ISSN 0019-1035 Volume 315 , 15 November 2018 ICARUS International Journal of Solar System Studies ICARUS CONTENTS Vol. Volume 315 , 15 November 2018 315 ( 1 Temperature and para hydrogen gradients on Jupiter observed from the FORCAST camera on SOFIA 2018 B.J. Conrath , P.J. Gierasch , T. Herter and J. Wang ) 1–174 7 Melting probe experiments under Mars surface conditions – the influence of dust layers, CO2 -ice and porosity N.I. Kömle , P. Tiefenbacher and A. Kahr 20 Analysis of meteoritic activity in the Vth–XVth centuries using an extended survey of European Medieval sources M.J. Martínez and F.J. Marco 30 Composition of Pluto’s small satellites: Analysis of New Horizons spectral images Icarus Editor’s J.C. Cook , C.M.D. Ore , S. Protopapa , R.P. BinzelReport , R. Cartwright , D.P. Cruikshank , A. Earle , W.M. Grundy , K. Ennico , C. Howett , D.E. Jennings , A.W. Lunsford , C.B. Olkin , A.H. Parker , S. Philippe , D. Reuter , B. Schmitt , J.A. Stansberry , S. Alan Stern , A. Verbiscer , H.A. Weaver and L.A. Young 46 PFS/MEX limb observations of 4.3-µm CO2 non-LTE emission in the atmosphere of Mars Editor-in-Chief M. Giuranna , S. Fonte , A. Longobardo , G. Sindoni , P. Wolkenberg and V. Formisano Rosaly M. Lopes Rosaly Lopes 61 The strength of ice-saturated extraterrestrial rock analogs J. Atkinson , W.B. Durham and S. Seager 69 A synthesis of geochemical constraints on the inventory of light elements in the core of Mars E.S. Steenstra and W. van Westrenen 79 Atmospheric energy deposition modeling and inference for varied meteoroid structures Editors L.F. Wheeler , D.L. Mathias , E. Stokan and P.G. Brown Oded Aharonson 92 Morphological mapping of Ganymede: Investigating the role of strike-slip tectonics in the evolution of terrain types M.E. Cameron , B.R. Smith-Konter , L. Burkhard , G.C. Collins , F. Seifert and R.T. Pappalardo Michael R. Combi 115 The spatial distribution of Mercury's pyroclastic activity and the relation to lithospheric weaknesses C. Klimczak , K.T. Crane , M.A. Habermann and P.K. Byrne William M. Grundy 124 Breaking up is hard to do: Global cartography and topography of Pluto's mid-sized icy Moon Charon from New Horizons P.M. Schenk , R.A. Beyer , W.B. McKinnon , J.M. Moore , J.R. Spencer , O.L. White , K. Singer , O.M. Umurhan , F. Nimmo , T.R. Lauer , Jeffrey R. Johnson W.M. Grundy , S. Robbins , S.A. Stern , H.A. Weaver , L.A. Young , K.E. Smith and C. Olkin Alessandro Morbidelli 146 Loss of the Martian atmosphere to space: Present-day loss rates determined from MAVEN observations and integrated loss through time Philip D. Nicholson B.M. Jakosky , D. Brain , M. Chaffin , S. Curry , J. Deighan , J. Grebowsky , J. Halekas , F. Leblanc , R. Lillis , J.G. Luhmann , L. Andersson , N. Andre , D. Andrews , D. Baird , D. Baker , J. Bell , M. Benna , D. Bhattacharyya , S. Bougher , C. Bowers , P. Chamberlin , J.-Y. Chaufray , J. Clarke , G. Collinson , M. Combi , J. Connerney , K. Connour , J. Correira , K. Crabb , F. Crary , T. Cravens , M. Crismani , G. Delory , R. Dewey , Francis Nimmo G. DiBraccio , C. Dong , Y. Dong , P. Dunn , H. Egan , M. Elrod , S. England , F. Eparvier , R. Ergun , A. Eriksson , T. Esman , J. Espley , S. Evans , K. Fallows , X. Fang , M. Fillingim , C. Flynn , A. Fogle , C. Fowler , J. Fox , M. Fujimoto , P. Garnier , Z. Girazian , H. Groeller , J. Gruesbeck , Carol S. Paty O. Hamil , K.G. Hanley , T. Hara , Y. Harada , J. Hermann , M. Holmberg , G. Holsclaw , S. Houston , S. Inui , S. Jain , R. Jolitz , A. Kotova , T. Kuroda , D. Larson , Y. Lee , C. Lee , F. Lefevre , C. Lentz , D. Lo , R. Lugo , Y.-J. Ma , P. Mahaffy , M.L. Marquette , Y. Matsumoto , M. Mayyasi , Giovanna Tinetti C. Mazelle , W. McClintock , J. McFadden , A. Medvedev , M. Mendillo , K. Meziane , Z. Milby , D. Mitchell , R. Modolo , F. Montmessin , A. Nagy , H. Nakagawa , C. Narvaez , K. Olsen , D. Pawlowski , W. Peterson , A. Rahmati , K. Roeten , N. Romanelli , S. Ruhunusiri , C. Russell , S. Sakai , N. Schneider , K. Seki , R. Sharrar , S. Shaver , D.E.