Issue of March 05, 2021
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Meet the Women in Astronomy Blog Team!
2. Celebrating Indigenous Women in Physics
3. Upcoming SHIELD Webinar: Fri March. 12th, 2021 2:00 PM EST
4. Major physics society won’t meet in cities with racist policing record
5. AAS CSMA Launches Micro-Grants Program
6. Science diversified: Queer perspectives on research
7. Lack of diversity in science
8. Eight women at the forefront of the world’s COVID-19 response
10. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
11. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
12. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter
An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/ at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.
1. Meet the Women in Astronomy Blog Team!
From JoEllen McBride via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
As Blogger-in-Chief, I'm excited to introduce you all to the new members of the Women in Astronomy Blog team. These four bloggers are going to contribute their unique perspectives to the blog and I can't wait for you to see what they bring to the table.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/03/meet-women-in-astronomy-blog-team.html
Back to top.2. Celebrating Indigenous Women in Physics
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
Join us for conversation, inspiration and action on International Women's Day! About this Event This unique and engaging virtual event will combine talks, interactive activities, musical interludes, artwork and science conversations.
Read more at
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/celebrating-indigenous-women-in-physics-tickets-142132862217
Back to top.3. Upcoming SHIELD Webinar: Fri March. 12th, 2021 2:00 PM EST
From: Shield Outreach [shieldoutreach_at_bu.edu]
Experiences from the Voyager Interstellar Mission
Speaker: Charles Kohlhase Charles Kohlhase led the design of many deep-space missions during his extended career, including Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Cassini missions. For his sustained robotic exploration contributions over the last 40 years of the 20th century and solid success record, he received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and has an asteroid, 13801 Kohlhase, named in his honor. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on January 6, 2003 (M.P.C. 47300). He managed and guided the team which designed the epic Voyager Grand Tour mission to the outer planets and their moons and rings. After Voyager, Kohlhase became the science and mission design manager for the international Cassini–Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan. Following the launch, cruise, and Saturn orbit phases of Cassini, he has continued to advise NASA/JPL on numerous missions to Mars and to other worlds. In addition to his counsel on various review boards, Kohlhase has chaired the Mars Program Systems Engineering Team, composed of many senior experts spanning diverse disciplines. He is also a member of the Advisory Council for The Planetary Society.
Speaker: Suzanne Dodd Suzanne Dodd is the Project Manager for the Voyager Interstellar Mission and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Director for the Interplanetary Network Directorate. She became the Voyager Project Manager in 2010, returning to the project she first worked on after her college graduation. The Interplanetary Network Directorate oversees NASA’s Deep Space Network and Advanced Multi-Mission Operations System. She has over 30 years of experience in spacecraft operations, including project manager roles on the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array. Suzanne worked at Caltech for 11 years as the Spitzer Space Telescope Science Center Manager and the Manager of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, NASA's multi-mission center of expertise for long-wavelength astrophysics. Suzanne has also worked in the area of mission planning and uplink on the Cassini Mission to Saturn, the Mars Observer Project, and the Voyager Uranus and Neptune Missions. Suzanne has a BS degree in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech, a BA degree in Math/Physics from Whitman College, and a MS degree from the University of Southern California in Aerospace Engineering. She is the recipient of a NASA Exceptional Service Medal, NASA Public Service Medal, NASA Silver Achievement Medal and NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal. She also has an honorary PhD from New York University for her role in the Voyager Interstellar Mission.
Friday, March 12 2 PM EST
Register Here: https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqcumsrjMuGtAA4MGScF1AKgtAYgEG85ye
Back to top.4. Major physics society won’t meet in cities with racist policing record
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Nidhi Subbaraman
Days after police killed George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, last May, physicist Philip Phillips was in his garden in Champaign, Illinois, incensed and racking his brain over how his scientific community could respond. Scientific institutions had not done enough to acknowledge previous deaths of Black people in police encounters, and this time should be different, he thought. “The outrage should have been there a long time ago,” he says.
The idea that dawned on him would eventually steer a major physics society to take a stand against police brutality.
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00492-3
Back to top.5. AAS CSMA Launches Micro-Grants Program
From: Neelab Yousafzai via the AAS News Digest
Through the American Institute of Physics (AIP) 2020 Diversity Action Fund, the AAS Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy (CSMA) is launching the CSMA Micro-Grants Program to sponsor Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), and other students who are suffering from the effects of financial scarcity. The program will offer small grants of at least $250 to support BIPOC undergraduates to pay graduate school application fees and virtual conference registrations or to buy textbooks and research supplies.
The Micro-Grants Program will open on 1 April (12:00 am ET) and close on 1 June (11:59 pm ET).
Read more at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2021/03/aas-csma-launches-micro-grants-program
Back to top.6. Science diversified: Queer perspectives on research
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
By Dom Byrne
Two LGBTQ+ scientists describe how sexual and gender identities can help to drive research by offering perspectives that others in a lab group or collaboration might not have considered.
What role, for example, did gay scientists have in developing the direction of research into HIV and AIDS in the early 1980s, when the condition was erroneously seen as something that only affected homosexual men?
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00166-0
Back to top.7. Lack of diversity in science
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
The study examined the gender and affiliations of 1051 top-authors, those scientists with the most publications in 13 leading ecology and conservation journals. The results show that women and the Global South are barely represented on this list. "The overall list of top authors included only 11% women, while 75% of the articles were related to just five countries in the Global North," says Bea Maas, lead author from the University of Vienna. "This massive imbalance in scientific authorship is extremely concerning, especially in the field of ecology and conservation, where diverse perspectives are needed to address global climate and environmental challenges," Maas emphasizes.
Read more at
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uov-lod030221.php
Back to top.8. Eight women at the forefront of the world’s COVID-19 response
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
By Kate Whiting
Beyond making up 70% of the world's health workers, women researchers have been at the cutting edge of coronavirus research.
* The gender gap persists, as only 33% of the world's researchers are women.
* Here are just some of the women making lasting contributions in the fight against COVID-19.
* They include Dr Özlem Türeci, co-founder of BioNTech, which helped produce the first vaccine.
Read more at
https://bigthink.com/coronavirus/women-in-stem
Back to top.9. Job Opportunities
For those interested in increasing excellence and diversity in their organizations, a list of resources and advice is here: https://aas.org/comms/cswa/resources/Diversity
- Short-term Position in Astronomical Observation Software Development, Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, DC https://jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/position-in-astronomical-observation-software-development
- IT System Administrator, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope https://cfht.applicantpro.com/jobs/1673989.html
Back to top.10. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.12. Access to Past Issues
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