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November 2022

1-2	Inclusion Plan Best Practices Workshop *, Virtual  The goal of this workshop is to provide proposers with some background and tools needed to be active participants in creating and maintaining inclusive work environments. This workshop is open to any member of the science community and may be of particular interest to those writing ROSES or mission proposals requiring inclusion plans.
2-4	Exoplanets in Our Backyard 2 *, Albuquerque, New Mexico/Virtual  The goal of the workshop is to examine and discuss exoplanet-solar system synergies on planetary properties, formation, evolution, and habitability.
2-4	Lunar Polar Volatiles Conference *, Boulder, Colorado/Virtual  The conference will focus on discussions on the current state of knowledge of volatiles in the lunar polar regions and outstanding questions to be addressed by missions anticipated in the next several years.
3-5	Planetary ReaCH: Culturally Inclusive Planetary Engagement, Laurel, Maryland  This is a professional development opportunity led by Planetary ReaCH program planetary science and exploration subject matter experts (SMEs; including graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, engineers, and technicians). This workshop will help attendees learn strategies for engaging diverse audiences, specifically Black and Latinx youth and their families, in planetary science and exploration. Planetary SMEs will be joined by local informal, or out-of-school time, educators.
3	LPI Seminar: Mass spectrometers in the laboratory and beyond: what do they tell us about our Solar System? (Soumya Ray, University of Maryland, College Park), Virtual  Mass spectrometers have provided invaluable insights into the chemical makeup of various planetary materials. In this talk, I will discuss the iron isotopic compositions of aubrites and what they tell us about the differentiation processes that occurred on their parent body(s). I will also talk about miniaturized, spaceflight mass spectrometers capable of analyzing inorganic composition and organic compounds at ultrahigh mass resolving power. Registration is required:
7-9	20th Meeting of the Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VEXAG) *, Albuquerque, New Mexico/Virtual  The annual meeting is a forum for scientists and engineers to discuss NASA/U.S. exploration of Venus.
7-11	Exploration of Asteroids Symposium, Noordwijk, The Netherlands  The Exploration of Asteroids Symposium aims to bring together world experts on asteroids to review the current state-of-the-art in the field and to discuss its future development. It will primarily focus on near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and strategies to optimize the synergies between science, human exploration, planetary defense, and mission planning for NEAs. The symposium will include invited talks, contributed talks, and poster presentations.
7-13	Forming and Exploring Habitable Worlds, Edinburgh, United Kingdom/Virtual  The inaugural Forming and Exploring Habitable Worlds meeting is a multi-discipline four- to five-day international scientific meeting taking place in Edinburgh and Stirlingshire, UK, in November 2022. This event is hosted by the University of Edinburgh's School of Geosciences and will provide a forum for the exchange of new interdisciplinary findings and ideas in relation to two principle themes: 1) the origins of habitable bodies in and beyond our home solar system, and 2) the motivation for and current status of priorities for space exploration and its governance. The Forming and Exploring Habitable Worlds meeting is to accommodate — with generous spacing for reasons of COVID safety — roughly 120 in-person delegates of all career stages based in a range of relevant employment sectors. A hybrid model is envisaged to be delivered so as to broaden participation by accommodating virtual attendance of additional delegates. The welcoming atmosphere of this modest-sized event will foster friendly scientific exchange and shall help to promote networking beneficial to early, mid, and senior career planetary scientists, space lawyers, educators, and space technology/mission innovators. Students and those in their early careers are encouraged to attend and contribute their work in this friendly, relatively unintimidating, and specialist gathering.
8-9	4th Global Summit on Future of Materials Science and Research, Las Vegas, Nevada  Peers Alley Media meetings would like to invite researchers, professionals, research scholars, industrialists, scientists, academicians, young researchers, business delegates, and students from all around the world to attend 4th Global Summit on Future of Materials Science and Research November 8-9, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. This conference provides an unparalleled opportunity to network with colleagues and learn from different leaders in materials science research. This conference is a perfect platform for global networking as it brings together academicians, renowned speakers, professors, scientists, educators, researchers, and students from across the globe to this scientific event to report and witness the latest scientific achievements in materials science.
8-10	Planetary Formation and Exoplanets with the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), Fréjus, France  This meeting will be a thematic workshop concerning the study of "Planetary Formation and Exoplanets with the ELT" in the fall of 2022. The main objectives are: to inform the French community about the status, calendar, modes, and performances of the MORFEO/MICADO, HARMONI, METIS, MOSAIC, ANDES, and PCS instruments; to present and revisit together the scientific cases , the samples, the observation, calibration, data analysis strategies, and the interpretation tools of the programs dedicated to the study of "Planetary Formation and Exoplanets," and to federate and pool our efforts, our tools, and our strategy for the preparatory work on the ELT programs dedicated to this theme within the framework of guaranteed time and open time.
10	LPI Seminar: Smashing Saturn: Insights from Impact Crater Analysis on Saturn’s Satellites (Sierra Ferguson, Southwest Research Institute), Virtual  An outstanding question after the conclusion of the Cassini mission is “How old are the inner satellites and how did they form?” This question is of critical importance for the refinement of how solar systems and giant planet systems form and evolve. Determining the ages of the satellites also has broad scale implications for active geologic processes and the durations of subsurface oceans that may have once been present under the ice shells of these mid-sized moons. One of the most direct ways to test the ages of a planet's surface is through the use of impact craters and analysis of their sources. This research utilizes images from the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) to analyze craters on three of the mid-sized moons of Saturn; Mimas, Tethys and Dione. Additionally, we use elliptical craters to further test the surface ages since elliptical craters provide another means of assessing the bombardment environment around Saturn as they record the primary direction of the object that created the crater upon impact on the surface. We have mapped these craters on Mimas, Tethys, and Dione to analyze the global distributions of these craters and their orientations. Across Tethys and Dione, we find that in the equatorial regions between 30° N/S in latitude, the orientations of the elliptical craters are predominantly oriented East/West. Whereas this signal isn’t observed within the cratering record of Mimas. This potentially suggests that the source of material that was available to create these craters didn’t extend closer in to Saturn, or that this material could have been present at Mimas, but with a diminished signal than on the outer moons. An interpretation of this E/W signal is that these craters were formed by a local planetocentric source as it would likely lie within the same orbital plane as the satellites. In addition to the elliptical craters, we mapped at a regional scale (~200 m/pix) across all three surfaces to investigate potential regional differences in the cratering and what that can reveal about the impactor sources for these craters. Neither of the previously predicted production functions for the outer planets fit perfectly with the observations we have in the Saturn system. We further interpret this difference to be indicative of a local planetocentric source that has had a large impact on the observed crater record. Registration is required:
14-16	Hayabusa 2022: Symposium of Solar System Materials, Sagamihara, Japan  The main topics of this symposium will be new results of Ryugu sample analysis and related discussions with the results from remote-sensing, surface measurements, and sample analysis achieved by Hayabusa2 as well as OSIRIS-REx and other missions. Regular topics on any extraterrestrial materials and primitive bodies in the solar system by theoretical, observational, and experimental studies, new methodology of analysis, and future space missions will also be welcome. In order to synchronize with current results of planetary material sciences, this symposium will be jointly held with the session on Antarctic meteorites in the 13th Symposium on Polar Science (45th Symposium on Antarctic Meteorites).
15-16	Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) Meeting, Houston, Texas/Virtual  The Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) is NASA's community-based forum designed to provide science input for planning and prioritizing outer planet exploration activities for the next several decades. This meeting will include updates from NASA HQ, updates on current missions, and aspects of the Decadal Survey that are relevant to OPAG.
17-18	Great Lakes Exoplanet Area Meeting (GLEAM) 2022, Columbus, Ohio  All researchers in exoplanets and related fields, including star and planet formation and planetary science, in the Great Lakes region are invited to attend. The purpose of the meeting is to show the breadth and depth of ongoing work and encourage collaboration among researchers in the region and to introduce those new to the region to our community. We particularly encourage new postdocs and faculty arriving in the region in 2022 to attend. This meeting builds upon earlier conferences hosted by Chicago and Northwestern, and last year’s edition hosted by Michigan. Registration is free, and hotel accommodations will be provided for students.
17	LPI Seminar: Assessing Reaction Pathways on Mars — From Meteorites to Sample Return (Susanne P. Schwenzer, The Open University), Virtual  Orbiters, rovers, and landers have returned a plethora of information from Mars. While exploration on Mars continues, the question of habitability also becomes more specific. From the broader aim of "follow the water," investigations have moved to very specific environments and to the fine details of the environmental conditions within them. Of specific interest are environments with alteration minerals. While much information can be gained from observations, one critical factor is not observable: the reaction pathway and its corresponding fluid. This talk demonstrates how thermochemical modeling can fill this gap and what we can learn from theoretical investigations of the observed environments. Registration is required:
27-30	Annual Meeting of Mediterranean Geosciences Union, Marrakech , Morocco  MedGU will be offering a special session dedicated to oral/poster presentations on new discoveries and research advances focusing on Astrogeology, Impact Craters and Meteorites from the following disciplines: Astronomy, Geology, Physics (Geophysics, Astrophysics), and Chemistry (Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry).
30-Dec 2	Workshop on EDIA for Leaders in Planetary Science, Virtual  Planetary scientists in leadership roles are invited to join this pilot workshop designed to engage participants with equity, diversity, inclusion, and access (EDIA) concepts and strategies. Leadership roles include mission and instrument PIs (and future PIs), department chairs, institute directors, program officers, and group leaders of all kinds. The goal of this workshop is to give participants the basic tools they need to begin to enact positive change in their personal and professional spheres regarding equity, diversity, inclusion, and access. The meeting will be entirely online with no registration fee. The workshop leaders will be Dr. Julie Rathbun and Dr. JA Grier.

 

December 2022

1	LPI Seminar: A Global Geologic Map of Pluto (Oliver White, SETI Institute), Virtual  The flyby of Pluto in 2015 by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft returned high-quality images that revealed a diverse range of terrains with disparate morphologies and crater spatial densities, implying a complex geological history. This presentation focuses on the first draft of a global geologic map of Pluto for the >75% of Pluto’s surface that was imaged by New Horizons, to be published by the USGS. The wide range of surface ages across Pluto appears to be primarily a consequence of how surface volatile distribution is affected by atmospheric, geographic, and topographic effects. Large-scale geologic activity is ongoing in the form of convection and glacial flow in Sputnik Planitia, Pluto's prime repository of surface nitrogen ice that is contained within a deep impact basin. There is a gradual transition from volatile ice-poor, cratered, and ancient terrains west of Sputnik Planitia, to younger accumulations of large deposits of volatile ices to its east, interpreted to stem from Sputnik Planitia's regulation of atmospheric circulation and, consequentially, the longitudinal distribution of volatiles. Volatile accumulation east of Sputnik Planitia is also thicker and younger in the equatorial regions than in the north, reflecting an additional control on volatile distribution by Pluto's distinct climate zones that stem from its high obliquity. Pluto's most ancient terrains are represented by smooth plains, thin, eroded mantling deposits, and glacially carved landscapes, and include the complex ridge-trough tectonic system that follows a great circle. The configuration of these ancient landscapes may indicate that the ridge-trough system was aligned along Pluto's equator prior to true polar wander that occurred in response to the Sputnik basin impact. Relatively recent, large-scale cryovolcanism may be represented by the enigmatic Wright and Piccard Montes to the south of Sputnik Planitia. Registration is required:
2-4	Life and Space 2022 Conference, Virtual  This conference hosted by the Polish Astrobiology Society will cover a variety of topics including prebiotic chemistry, extremophiles, origin of life and evolution, biosignatures, planetary sciences, and more.
6-8	Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Survive the Night Technology Workshop *, Cleveland, Ohio/Virtual  Technologies of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to power (generation, storage, and distribution), thermal and illumination, plasma environment, materials/anti-static, in situ resource utilization, and communication and technologies to enable operation.
12-16	American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Chicago, Illinois/Virtual  The American Goephysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting unites the Earth and space science community to share findings, connect like-minded scientists from around the world, and advance our profession and shared passion for the impact of science. More than 25,000 attendees from more than 100 countries will convene to explore the theme "Science Leads the Future." We welcome a diverse community of scientists, students, journalists, policymakers, educators, and organizations who are working toward a world where scientific discovery leads to scientific solutions, and where our global collaborations and partnerships can carry us into a sustainable future.

 

January 2023

9-11	1st Workshop on Ices in the Solar System: A Volatile-Excursion from Mercury and the Moon to the Kuiper Belt and Beyond *, Montreal, Canada  The workshop aims to fuse a diverse group of early-, mid-, and senior-career planetary scientists whose work focuses on Ices and provide a dynamic platform for presenting and exchanging their most current observations, interpretations, hypotheses, and/or explanations. Discussion of mission-exploration plans and options, current and/or proposed, also would be welcomed.
16-19	Magnetism & Accretion Conference, Cape Town, South Africa  This conference will focus on the study of objects and physical processes that occur when magnetic fields influence accretion. These include magnetically dominated regions around accreting sources, including black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs, young stellar objects, and planets.
16-27	Data Analysis for Planetary Science: A COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop, Antofagasta, Chile  Earth and space science graduate students and early career researchers interested in working with data coming from planetary missions are invited to send an application to the COSPAR Data Analysis for Planetary Sciences Capacity Building Workshop (DAPS-CBW). The goal of the workshop is to develop interesting scientific projects guided by experts of missions as Rosetta, Juno, Hayabusa 2, Perseverance, and representatives of NASA's Planetary Data System and ESA's Planetary Science Archive. The workshop will take place in the facilities of the Universidad Católica del Norte, located in Antofagasta, Chile, in the core of the Atacama Desert.
24-26	28th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) *, Pasadena, California/Virtual  The Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) meets twice yearly to provide a sounding board for the concerns of the small bodies community and to gather reports on the status of small body missions.
24-26	NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group Meeting #28, Pasadena, California/Virtual  The Small Bodies Assessment Group’s (SBAG’s) next meeting will be on January 24-26, 2023 at IPAC on the Caltech Campus in Pasadena, California, and online. The SBAG identifies scientific priorities and opportunities for the exploration of asteroids, comets, interplanetary dust, small satellites, and Trans-Neptunian Objects. The SBAG also provides scientific input on the utility of asteroids and comets in support of human space activities.
30-Feb 1	Venus Surface and Atmosphere *, Houston, Texas/Virtual  The conference aims to summarize the current state of knowledge, explore new hypotheses about the surface and atmosphere, and identify innovative ways these Venus mysteries can be explored.

 

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