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Announcement about the upcoming deadline for Endowment grant proposals More…

Announcement of upcoming membership renewal deadline for 2023 More…

Sarah Sutton, currently a postdoctoral scientist at the Lunar & Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, is awarded the 2022 Pellas-Ryder Award for her paper titled "Sinuous channels east of Olympus Mons, Mars: Implications for volcanic, hydrological, and tectonic processes" published in Icarus in 2022. More…

I am sad to report that our friend and colleague Klaus Keil passed away peacefully Friday night at home after a long battle with cancer. He was Emeritus Professor, former Director of the Hawai`i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, and former Interim Dean of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. Klaus was an outstanding scientist, spectacular mentor, educator, and leader, dedicated family man, and enthusiastic tennis player. More…

We are happy to release the first Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for Ryugu samples in the following URL; [https://jaxa-ryugu-sample-ao.net/], and Ryugu sample catalog now available online as follows; [https://darts.isas.jaxa.jp/curation/hayabusa2/]. As mentioned in the top page of the AO, the notice of intent to propose is due in mid-March, and registration and longin page will be available soon. Please enjoy the Ryugu sample catalog and consider your research proposal based on the information described in the guidebook [https://jaxa-ryugu-sample-ao.net/files/guidebook.pdf]. We are looking forward to having fruitful research proposals from you! More…

Those of you who have not yet renewed your membership will have temporarily lost your access to the Member Portal (and therefore to the Journal) on January 1st, but this can be easily remedied by renewing. Subscription to the print journal will not be interrupted if members renew by January 20th. Also, there is only about a month left to nominate candidates for our Society's Awards. The procedures for making a nomination can be found on our website. More…

An eminent pioneer of noble gas geochemistry, Peter Signer, emeritus professor at ETH (Switzerland) died on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021. After a long illness, he peacefully fell asleep at the age of 92. Following his dissertation at the University of Bern on a mass spectrometric study of the 176Lu decay constant with Friedrich Houtermans and a seven-year stay with Alfred O. Nier at the University of Minnesota, Peter Signer was appointed professor for Geo- and Cosmochronology at ETH Zurich in 1965. He founded the Laboratory for Noble Gas Mass Spectrometry, which he led until his retirement in 1994 and which is now headed by Henner Busemann in the third generation. More…

Gareth Collins (Imperial College of London) and Kai Wünnemann (Germany) are jointly awarded the Barringer Award for 2022 for their collaborative development of the iSALE hydrocode and their influential scientific work in understanding and simulating the physics of impact crater formation. More…

Prof. Arya Udry of the University of Nevada Las Vegas has been selected for the 2022 Nier Prize for her significant contributions in the petrology and chemistry of martian meteorites, for advancing our understanding of the crystallization sequences of martian magmas and for being an effective public communicator of the science. More…

It is with great sadness that we announce that Sandra Pizzarello passed away on October 24, 2021. She greatly enhanced the research field of molecular, isotopic, and chiral analysis of organic compounds in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites since the 1970s. During her active research career, she produced an impressive number of achievements in her studies on the origin and chemical evolution of organic compounds in the early Solar System and the origin of homochirality in living systems. More…