AASWomen Newsletter for January 24, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of January 24, 2020
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

The Sensoria 1 crew, from item 3 (Image credit: SENSORIA Program)

This week's issues:

1. Call for Information: Publication Policy and General Codes of Conduct for Consortia and Mission Teams

2. Hester Pulter's 17th-century Spaceflight of Imagination

3. The first all-woman Mars analog crew just 'returned to Earth' in Hawaii

4. Scientific Meetings for All

5. Want more women in leadership roles? Recognize their accomplishments

6. NextProf Science 2020 Opportunity at the University of Michigan

7. From Pixel to Cosmology in the 2020s

8. Job Opportunities

9. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

11. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Highlights from Women In Space 2019

By Kathryn Powell

Kathryn E. Powell, Ph.D. is a planetary scientist studying ancient Martian environments with remote sensing and the MSL Curiosity rover. She is currently a postdoctoral scholar at Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University.

Editor's Note: This is one of a series of recaps of the Women in Space conference. Each will feature the viewpoint of someone at a different career stage.

The Women in Space Conference was held February 7 and 8th at Arizona State University’s Skysong facility in Scottsdale, Arizona. The meeting brought together planetary scientists, astronomers, engineers, educators, and others under one roof to discuss a similarly diverse set of topics. The conference format was single-track, which mostly effective at keeping all the attendees in the same room for sessions within and outside of our respective fields. The schedule during the main conference days was distributed between keynotes, panel discussions, and clusters of shorter talks. The latter were nominally eight minutes in duration, although that time limit frequently went flying by during the speaker’s methods section.

Upcoming Webinar from AWIS: "Spot and Stop It: How to End Harassment at Professional Meetings"

The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) is hosting a webinar on Thursday, 12 May, at 12:00 pm ET about proactive strategies in addressing harassment at professional meetings and conferences.


Topics to be discussed include:

• How to create proactive sexual harassment policies and effective procedures to stop harassment
• Identifying venues for harassment in addition to the workplace and school
• Engaging society staff and members on the issue

The one-hour webinar will be led by guest speakers Rosina Romano, the Entomological Society of America's Director of Meetings, and Dr. Sherry Marts, CEO of S*Marts Consulting, long-time executive and career coach, expert on harassment issues, and women's self-defense instructor. Learn more and register for this webinar.

AWIS is kindly offering complimentary registration for this webinar to AAS members. Enter "AAS" as the registration code when registering to view this webinar for free.