Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 17:22:58 -0400
Subject: DPS Mailing #03-11: ELECTION RESULTS
Greetings DPS colleagues -
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|1) ELECTION RESULTS |
|2) IDEAS PROPOSALS |
|3) MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT |
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ELECTION RESULTS
We are pleased to congratulate the newly elected DPS officer and
Committee members:
Vice-Chair: Bill McKinnon
Committee: Fran Bagenal, Jim Bell
Thanks to all of you who took the time to vote.
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IDEAS PROPOSALS
Big IDEAS
NASA Office of Space Science and Space Telescope Science Institute are
pleased to announce the opportunity to apply for an Initiative to
Develop Education through Astronomy and Space Science (IDEAS) grant.
Attached is a PDF of the Call for Proposals (CFP), which details the
proposal guidelines and procedures. The CFP may also be found at the
program website, http://ideas.stsci.edu.
The following are highlights from the CFP:
* The grant provides start-up funding for innovative, creative
education and public outreach programs that feature active
collaboration between astronomers/space scientists and formal
education/informal education professionals.
* Astronomy/space science must be the primary area of focus used
to promote science, mathematics and/or technology education and/or
public outreach.
* Proposals may request:
* Up to $20,000 for programs to be completed in one year.
(Programs may request additional time, up to two years, due to school
schedules, etc. which the panel review will consider.); OR
* From $20,001 to $50,000 for programs which may request up
to two years to complete.
The deadline for submitting a 2003 IDEAS grant proposal is Friday, 24
October 2003, 5:00 p.m. ET. If you are interested in more information
regarding IDEAS, please send email to
<mailto:ideas@stsci.edu> ideas@stsci.edu or contact a NASA OSS Education
Support Network Forum and/or a Broker/Facilitator. Points of contact
and addresses for the Education Support Network may be found at
http://spacescience.nasa.gov/education/resources/ecosystem/index.htm.
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MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
2003 LEONID MAC WORKSHOP
- INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE MEETING ON LEONID STORM RESEARCH
Abstract deadline: July 10
Date and location: August 28-30, NASA Ames Research Center
Registration : http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/workshop/
In the days prior to the DPS meeting at nearby Monterey, there will
be an international science meeting on Leonid storm research at
NASA Ames Research Center (August 28-30). This will be the first
opportunity for participating researchers in the successful 2002
Leonid storm observing campaigns to come together and compare notes
with researchers in planetary astronomy and aeronomie. Topics of
discussion include the ejection and composition of large cometary
grains, what they can tell us about comet surfaces and the origin
of the solar system, their evolution in the interplanetary medium,
their impact hazard to satellites, their interaction with Earth's
atmosphere, their effect on airglow and other processes in the
lower thermosphere, and the chemical products that meteors may have
contributed to the origin of life. This final workshop of NASA's
Leonid MAC program intends to facilitate the data reduction and
interpretation effort.
Registration and abstract submission (with a July 10 deadline) are
provided at http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/workshop/
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Melissa McGrath, DPS Secretary-Treasurer
submissions to: mcgrath@stsci.edu