Dear Meteoritical Society Members,
First, let us say that it is an honor and a pleasure to be starting our terms as Meteoritical Society President and Secretary. We want to thank Nancy Chabot for her term as President and for continuing to bring that experience to Council to guide our society for the next two years as Past President. We also welcome Maria Schönbächler as the new Vice President, and thank Brigitte Zanda for the last six years on Council, most recently as Past-President. The role of Meteoritical Society Treasurer is crucial to the functioning of our society, and we are thankful that Tasha Dunn has safely steered the society through the last six years. We are grateful that Cari Corrigan will be starting her term as Meteoritical Society Treasurer. We are excited about the team we have to lead the Meteoritical Society for the next two years, and we look forward to serving our community.
Here are a few announcements for January 2025:
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Renew Your MetSoc Membership for 2025 – Membership renewals are now open for 2025. Visit this page to renew, and more details can be found here. Student membership is only $10 and early career membership is $40.
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Endowment Grant Deadline is 15 January, 2025 – The Meteoritical Society offers both Community Grants, to further the goals of the Meteoritical Society, and Research Grants, to support early career and student members. Visit the website for details on how to apply.
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Nominations Are Open for 2025 Awards – Nominate a deserving colleague for a MetSoc award! Nominations are due February 15, 2025, for the Leonard Medal, Barringer Award, Nier Prize, and Service Award. Pellas-Ryder Award nominations are due January 31, 2025. Visit the Awards page of the website for details.
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Latest Community Grant report
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From Kuljeet Kaur Marhas, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, on: International Conference on “Meteoroid, Meteor and Meteorites: Messengers from Space: (MetMESS) 2024 on 20-22 November 2024”
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Ed Scott Lecture Series – View the recording of the lecture given by Don Brownlee on the Diverse Rocky Materials that Formed Comets a few weeks ago, and mark your calendar for the next lecture:
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23 January, 2025, 20:00 UTC Motoo Ito on Hayabusa2 Discoveries
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COMMUNITY SUBMITTED ANNOUNCEMENTS
Gordon Conference - June 14-15 2025
2025 Gordon Conference on Origins of Solar Systems: Constraints on Planet Formation from Theory, Observations, and Meteoritics: June 14-20, 2025
We welcome you to attend the Gordon Conference on the Origins of Solar Systems and its associated Gordon Research Seminar, to be held June 14-20, 2025 at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA, USA.
This meeting aims to advance the frontiers of planet-formation science by bringing together diverse research communities from cosmochemistry, planetary science, and astrophysics.
The main conference will feature presentations of cutting-edge research, extensive time for discussion after talks and at poster sessions to foster informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The Seminar aims at early career students and researchers to present their work and to build collaborative relationships with their peers.
For more information see: https://www.grc.org/origins-of-solar-systems-conference/2025/ and (https://www.grc.org/origins-of-solar-systems-grs-conference/2025/)
Please apply early, the conference may fill up quickly. Final deadline is 17 May 2025.
Financial support will be available. Preference will be given to early career researchers and applicants from undergraduate, minority-serving, and small institutions. The call for funding support requests will go out in February to those who have applied to attend the meeting.
submitted by Maria Schönbächler (ETH Zurich)
Impact Cratering And Associated Research US (ICAARUS) Workshop on May 31- June 1, 2025, Flagstaff, AZ
The Barringer Crater Company is hosting a 2-day workshop in Flagstaff (and at Meteor Crater) to promote interdisciplinary impact crater science in the US.
The goal of ICAARUS is to reinvigorate impact cratering research in the United States by assessing the current state of impact crater research as well as the funding landscape, and to strategize ways to support a sustained impact cratering community. This workshop will be the first in a series that will consider outstanding scientific problems in impact cratering in order to generate creative interdisciplinary research and collaboration. This workshop is open to impact crater scientists with the focus on field work, laboratory work, modeling, astrobiology, analogues, and more!
As part of their initiative to increase impact cratering research, The Barringer Crater Company is proud to host ICAARUS 2025 and fund participants’ travel to Flagstaff.
TO ALL INTERESTED: Please submit an application (https://forms.gle/iW2oHLj68B85z4mK7) due January 15th, 2025. Responses will be sent by the organizing committee by February 1st, 2025.
For more information, contact: Dr. Steven Jaret (sjaret@amnh.org) or Dr. Carolyn Crow (carolyn.crow@colorado.edu)
Thank you for being part of the Meteoritical Society, and please feel free to reach out to us at any time. Please, note new email addresses:
Guy Consolmagno, Meteoritical Society President, metsocpres@metoritical.org
Jutta Zipfel, Meteoritical Society Secretary, metsocsec@meteoritical.org
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