Post-doc: Titan’s Atmosphere
This from the University of Bristol’s Nick Teanby: Applications are invited for a three year Post-doctoral Research Assistant/Associate in Planetary Sciences, within the School of Earth Sciences, to study the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, using remote sensing data. Closing date April 13th. Full details here.
Read MoreWater, Ice and the Origin of Life in the Universe
Please note that the deadline of the Nordic-Hawai’i Summer School, ‘Water, Ice and the Origin of Life in the Universe, is on 15 March 2015. The summer school will take place in Iceland from the 1–13 July 2015. Full information here.
Read MoreUKSA Space Environments Working Group call for nominations
This from the UK Space Agency: The UK Space Agency seeks nominations for membership of its Space Environments Working Group (SEWG). The SEWG provides advice and support to the Agency on matters related to space environments, microgravity and human spaceflight programmes. In practice, this consists principally of UK involvement in ESA’s ELIPS and ISS Utilisation programmes, and associated national activities. The SEWG reports to the Agency’s Space Exploration Advisory Committee (SEAC), which advises the Agency on the breadth of its space exploration activities. SEWG has a particularly...
Read MorePhD position: ExoMars PanCam at UCL-MSSL
A UK Space Agency-funded PhD studentship is available at UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory, to work on science preparations for ExoMars PanCam, from 1 October 2015. The UCL-led PanCam instrument (Coates et al., 2012, Griffiths et al., 2006) on the ESA-Russia ExoMars rover is due to reach Mars in 2019 following its planned launch in 2018. The PanCam instrument consists of two wide angle cameras (WACs), each of which include an 11-position filter wheel, complemented by a high resolution camera. Images from the WACs at different wavelengths will provide geological and atmospheric context...
Read MorePost-doc: ‘Designing an extraterrestrial sample curation facility’ at the Vienna NHM
This via Dr. Ludovic Ferrière at the NHM Vienna: This 2-year Post-Doctoral position available at the Natural History Museum Vienna is part of the Horizon 2020 European Commission Research and Innovation programme, call COMPET-8-2014: “Science in context: sample curation facility and scientific exploitation of data from Mars missions”. The plan of EURO-CARES is to create a roadmap for the implementation of a European Extra-terrestrial Sample Curation Facility (ESCF). Our aim is to improve European competitiveness in this field by road-mapping the required steps and highlighting...
Read More4th UK in the Aurora Programme Meeting
We have received the following meeting notice from the UK Space Agency: The 4th UK in Aurora meeting will take place on May 15th in Burlington House, London with the aim of providing a meeting for researchers to show the results of their research into Mars and other planetary science topics. A theme of this meeting is water-rock interaction on Mars. Subjects will include results from Gale Crater, ExoMars landing sites and meteorite research. Other topics are welcome. There will also be an opportunity to discuss planetary science and exploration strategy with UKSA. If you wish to give a...
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