AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of January 27, 2023
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. NASA Planetary Science Summer School
2. Peer Review Under Review Workshop
3. National Space Interns
4. Navigating the fluid funding landscape
5. Women scientists at famed oceanography institute have half the lab space of men
6. Job Opportunities
7. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
9. 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.
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1. NASA Planetary Science Summer School
From: Joyce Armijo [joyce.e.armijo_at_jpl.nasa.gov]
Now through March 27, 2023, NASA is encouraging applications for its 35th Annual Planetary Science Summer School. Offered by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, PSSS is a 3-month long early career development experience to help prepare the next generation of planetary science and engineering mission leaders. Participants learn the process of developing a science hypothesis-driven robotic space mission in a concurrent engineering environment while getting an in-depth, first-hand look at mission design, life cycle, costs, schedule and the trade-offs inherent in each.
Science and engineering doctoral candidates, recent Ph.D.’s, postdocs, junior faculty, and certain master’s degree students, who are U.S. Citizens or legal permanent residents (and a very limited number of Foreign Nationals from non-designated countries), are eligible. There is no charge to attend, and applicants from diverse backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply. Diversity, equity and inclusion are important to us, and we strive to create a welcoming environment where participants’ contributions and unique perspectives are valued.
Register for a PSSS Application Q&A Webinar on February 8, 2023 from 8-9 am Pacific Time at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewGtBj8v9hRTgKNB-YwLhYMUuo17jIPqlzc4yZY9AsIaVorg/viewform
To apply and learn more about the NASA Science Mission Design Schools, go to
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/intern/apply/nasa-science-mission-design-schools/
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2. Peer Review Under Review Workshop
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
This workshop will bring together experts from a large number of organizations and facilities [ in the astronomy field] to discuss the state of peer review and the ways forward for a digital and interconnected science community. The workshop will be divided in 4 main sessions (Peer review at large, Methodologies, Diversity,Equity and Inclusion in peer review, and Concrete examples) and it will include ample time for discussion.
The workshop will be held February 6 - 10, 2023 and the deadline for on-line registration is January 31.
Learn more and register at
https://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2023/PRUR.html
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3. National Space Interns
From: Kathryn Williamson [kw0003c_at_uah.edu]
Vice President Kamala Harris has expressed interest in diversifying the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) workforce, especially the aerospace workforce. She has created a program in collaboration with a few industry organizations that will give a few thousand students stem internships by the year 2030. Applications are due February 4th.
Learn more and register at
https://swf2030.org/national-space-interns/
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4. Navigating the fluid funding landscape
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
Holly Barnard (CU-Boulder) wrote a short communication about federal funding opportunities that was published in the Journal of Hydrology. Titled “Navigating the fluid funding landscape”. The article has practical advice that’s applicable to all field.
Read more at
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022169422014792
[Eds. Note: Access requires a subscription to the journal through your institution or otherwise.]
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5. Women scientists at famed oceanography institute have half the lab space of men
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Meredith Wadman
Women constitute 26% of the scientists at the prestigious Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), but only hold 17% of the space, according to an unprecedented report released last week.
SIO’s 56 women scientists have on average half as much research space and one-third the storage space of their 157 male counterparts, according to the 95-page report by a task force of SIO faculty and staff and UCSD officials. The 16 labs defined as “very large” all belong to men. Women also have less office space. And of 32 coveted storage containers in service yards on site—as opposed to at less convenient remote locations—31 are assigned to men.
Read more at
https://www.science.org/content/article/women-scientists-famed-oceanography-institute-have-half-lab-space-men
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6. 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#howtoincrease
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Chief Operations Officer
https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/harvard-smithsonian-center-astrophysics/chief-operations-officer-smithsonian
- Tenured or Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State University, University Park, PA
https://science.psu.edu/astro/job-opportunities
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7. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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