2015 DPS WiPS Networking Event! – Lunch Order Deadline is Oct. 1

Hi All,

I am pleased to announce the details about the upcoming Women in Planetary Science Networking event, we hope many of you can attend!

Keynote Address by Amy Simon: Navigating Hurdles Throughout Your Career

Date: Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Time: 12:00-1:30 pm (lunchtime!)
Place: Baltimore 3 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, at the Division for Planetary Sciences Annual Meeting in National Harbour, MD

RSVP: http://bit.ly/DPS_WIPS_2015

WiPS in the News

Congratulations to our female planetary science colleagues who have recently received awards for their research and accomplishments!  See below for details!

Passing of Claudia Alexander

It was with heavy hearts this weekend that many of our group heard of the passing of Rosetta US Project Scientist Claudia Alexander. As one of the few African American women in our field, she gave many an inspiring example to look to and emulate as they furthered their careers.

We hope her wisdom left behind in her 51+ Women in Planetary Science interview continues to help future early career scientists.

Christina Richey’s response to ‘Bothered’ from the Science Magazine Career Advice Section

Christina Richey has a great post in the Women in Astronomy Blog about dealing with sexual harassment – cross-posting the link here with her permission :).

http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2015/06/my-response-to-bothered-from-science.html?fb_ref=Default&fb_source=message

AGU/Wiley book on women in the geosciences

This is a somewhat pricey book, but could be an interesting read.

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119067855.html

If anyone had read or reads this, let us know what you think.

2015 Susan Niebur LPSC Networking Event Summary

Photo by Heather Dalton

Many thanks to all the participants (120!), volunteers, and supporters, especially LPI and DPS, for making the annual Susan Niebur Women in Planetary Science Networking Event at LPSC a great success! The format of table discussions enabled us to cover a wide variety of topics in a short amount of time and to share experience and strategies (some highlights below). As always, the positive energy of the group was inspiring!

If you have any feedback, suggestions, and/or would like to help coordinate future events, please let us know.

–Zibi, Nicolle, Kelsi, Sarah

LPSC Women in Planetary Science Networking Event 2015

Announcement of the 2015 Susan Niebur Women in Planetary Science Networking Event at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference!

This event is open to all interested persons, and we will spend most of the time discussing the topics below.

Light refreshments will be served thanks to generous support from the Division for Planetary Sciences!  If you are not familiar with their resources and programs check out: http://dps.aas.org/
When: Wednesday, March 18th, 2015; 6:00 to ~7:30 pm
Where: Montgomery Ballrooms A-C (in Conference Venue – Woodlands Waterway Marriott, Houston , TX)

Program:
We will have tables setup for the following topics, and will conclude with a full room discussion:

• negotiating a new position
• careers outside of academia
• the two body problem
• the n-body problem (kids)
• managing and reducing stress
• social media and your professional career
• the proposal submission and reviewing process
• imposter syndrome

Childcare at LPSC – what solutions have you found/heard of?

HI All

There is no formal childcare program sponsored by LPSC for liability reasons.  However, there are quite a few people who are in need of such services :).  What solutions have you used or heard of from past conferences?  

• Note there will be a mother’s room available at the conference starting Sunday – ask at the LPSC registration desk for details.

Emily Lakdawalla recommends sittercity.com to find great sitters — you can list a job and interview people before hand.   She  has also had very good experiences getting a referral to a babysitting service from the hotel concierge and hiring a local babysitter to sit her kids in her hotel room.

Also, if there are people interested in trading “sitting time” feel free to express interest below.

Conference Announcement: Planetary Systems – A Synergistic View

Hi All,

I had a request to post this conference call, and since sounds quite interesting and is not one of the annual conferences, just helping spread the word :).

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

PLANETARY SYSTEMS: A SYNERGISTIC VIEW

International Center for Interdisciplinary Science Education

Quy Nhon, Vietnam

19-25 July 2015

http://rencontresduvietnam.org/conferences/2015/planetary-systems/

Evidence of sexism in science doesn’t convince men on the internet that there’s a problem

The Washington Post reports on a study that examined the comments left by readers on stories about sexism in the sciences posted by outlets including The New York Times, Discover Magazine, and IFL Science:

…it isn’t surprising that a pile of evidence saying “sexism is a major problem in STEM fields” would make a bunch of male-identifying commenters foam at the mouth. But since commenting threads can produce a kind of herd mentality, and since evidence shows that their tone can influence readers’ perspective of an article, it’s troubling to see these results laid out.

Ugh.

New CSWA Survey on Workforce Climate!

From Christina Richey:

The new Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy (CSWA) survey on workplace climate is now online.  All colleagues in the fields of astronomy and planetary science are encouraged to fill out the survey at your earliest convenience.  For more information, please see my blog post on the Women in Astronomy Blog:

http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2015/01/cswa-survey-on-workplace-climate.html?m=1

Interview with Dr. Miriam Rengel: Identify professional and personal goals, monitor them and work hard to reach them!

Dr. Miriam Rengel is an astrophysicist with a wide range of topical interests. She studies solar system objects at the far-IR and submm wavelengths (planetary atmospheres and small bodies), protostars and young stellar objects. She also conducts space based observations and related science on instruments onboard the Herschel Space Observatory, and sub-millimeter ground-based observations. She is involved in two key Herschel programs called “Water and related Chemistry in the Solar System” and “TNOs are Cool“.

She is also a collaborating scientist at the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (HIFI) Instrument Control Center (ICC), for the HIFI onboard the Herschel Space Observatory. In addition to conducting research, she also participates in the preparation and data analysis focused on HIFI calibration (responsibilities include test software campaigns, creation and maintenance of documentation for astronomers, and investigations of quality assessment of final products with HIFI). During 2005-2007 she applied her capacities and skills for cometary studies with the OSIRIS instrument onboard Rosetta (which has just successfully placed a lander on a comet for the first time), that also included calibration activities. She has led several observational programs in world-wide facilities (e.g. IRAM30m, APEX, SMT, SEST, JCMT, SMA). She has participated in observing runs at the 2-m Schmidt telescope at the TLS Landessternwarte Tautenburg (Germany), at the 1‐m Schmidt telescope at the Venezuelan National Astronomical Observatory, and in the 2.2m telescope on Calar Alto, Spain.

Check out Miriam’s website, where you can find more information about her work and pictures of some of the many telescopes she has worked at ☺.