Dear Meteoritical Society Members,
We wanted to share some MetSoc business and community-provided announcements in this monthly email for November 2024:
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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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Next Ed Scott Lecture on 20 November, 2024, 20:00 UTC – The next Ed Scott online lecture will be given by Don Brownlee with the title of The Diverse Rocky Materials that Formed Comets. Zoom connection was emailed to members, and the lecture will be recorded and posted online after the event. Also, mark your calendars for future Ed Scott lectures on 23 January, 2025, by Motoo Ito and 19 February, 2025, by Martin Lee.
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Meteoritical Bulletin Database Survey – The Lunar and Planetary Institute and MetSoc are working together to make improvements to the usability and utility of the Meteoritical Bulletin Database. Please consider taking this short survey to help direct that effort!
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Volunteer to Staff the AGU Booth – The Meteoritical Society will have a booth in the exhibit hall at AGU24 in Washington, DC from Monday to Thursday (December 9-12). The goal of the booth is to tell people about our society and recruit new members. We are looking for volunteers to staff the booth for at least an hour. We also have a few exhibit passes for people who would like to help out at the booth but were not planning on attending the meeting. Thank you to Tom Burbine for leading this effort, and contact him to sign up and for any specific questions, comments, or suggestions: tburbine@mtholyoke.edu
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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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Report on Planetary and Space Science Outreach for Basic Schools in Ghana – Read this report submitted by Marian Selorm Sapah, University of Ghana, about this outreach activity support by a Meteoritical Society Community Grant.
COMMUNITY SUBMITTED ANNOUNCEMENTS
Release of In Search of Falling Stars, Dr. H. H. Nininger's complete autobiography
The family of Dr. H. H. Nininger announces the publication of Dr. Nininger’s complete autobiography as he originally intended it to be. This new volume, entitled In Search of Falling Stars, will be released on November 12, 2024.
In Search of Falling Stars traces Nininger’s life from his childhood in the 1890s and 1900s on the frontier in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri, through the invention of the automobile and the airplane, to men walking on the Moon. During his life, Nininger, co-founder of The Meteoritical Society, took the study of meteorites from an interesting hobby to a mainstream science. He has been called the Father of Modern Meteoritics. Dr. Nininger built the world’s largest private meteorite collection, and investigated the role of meteorite impacts in the evolution of the Earth and Moon and of life on Earth. On the way, he provided insight to those designing rockets. Nininger provided a major meteorite collection to the Natural History Museum, London, and the majority of his collection forms the core of the meteorite collection at the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University. This book tells how it all happened. See https://insearchoffallingstars.com/ for more information or to order.
Submitted by: Gary Huss
Job Announcement:
Open Rank Tenure Track Professorship in Earth and Planetary Materials at the University of New Mexico
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) and the Institute of Meteoritics (IOM) at the University of New Mexico invites applications for an Open Rank tenure track faculty position (full, associate, assistant) in the field of Earth and Planetary Materials to begin in August 2025. This is a full-time, Open Rank professorship focusing on the petrology or mineral physics of the Earth and/or other planets. Applicants must have a PhD in Geoscience, Planetary Science, or a related field by date of appointment. For best consideration, all application materials must be received by December 16, 2024.
For details see this link: https://unm.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/18/home/requisition/31368?c=unm
If you have any questions contact Search Co-chairs Carl Agee (agee@unm.edu) or Tobias Fischer (fischer@unm.edu).
PhD Position:
PhD position available as part of the ERC funded project NoSHADE at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin.
The overarching goal of the NoSHADE (Novel Perspectives on our Solar System History recorded in the Atacama Desert) project funded by the European Research Council (ERC, 101077668) is to collect traces of cosmic dust from Atacama Desert sedimentary records reaching back >10 million years and link them to specific cosmic events (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9SzMdAGtVk). The successful candidates will work on the identification of major dust-producing events within our Solar system by analysing time-resolved sedimentary records from the Atacama Desert for micrometeorites. The focus lies on (1) the collection and identification of micrometeorites (e.g., optical and electron microscopy, electron microprobe, X-ray fluorescence) for analysing their types and fluxes over time, and (2) chemical sample preparation for the extraction and measurement of long-lived radionuclides (accelerator mass spectrometry) to determine the micrometeorite exposure times and origins in space.
The 3-year positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) will start early 2025. Please apply online (https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/jobs-and-career/jobs) for job offer 59/2024. Closing date for the application is 22.11.2024.
Share your announcements with MetSoc members – Submission guidelines and other details are given on the society's website.
Thank you for being a part of the Meteoritical Society, and please feel free to reach out to us at any time.
Nancy Chabot, Meteoritical Society President, metsocpres@gmail.com
Jutta Zipfel, Meteoritical Society Secretary, metsocsec@gmail.com
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