Summary of Minutes
from the IOPW meeting in
The meeting was held in the lunch patio of the
Library over take-out sandwiches.
Present: Glenn Orton (Chair), Bob West, Imke de Pater and Chris Russell
(permanent members), Heidi Hammel (Uranus/Neptune
discipline chair), Agustin
Sanchez-Lavega (Jupiter/Saturn discipline chair),
Ted. Kostiuk (representing
Jack Connerny, aurora discipline chair).
Not present were: Galopeau (radio
magnetospheres), Steffes (laboratory/theory), Machis (satellites), Roe
(Titan), Oliverson (Io Torus).
After the meeting Roe and Jeff Morgenthaller
(standing in for Oliverson), related that they could
not find where the group
was convening.
Rotating members Nick Thomas and Steve Miller were rotated off after several
years of membership, with recommendations for committee members solicited in
subsequent email for replacement. Rotating member Martin Roos-Serote was
replaced by Kevin Baines, who wandered in at the wrong time and happened in
on the meeting.
Although Galopeau mantained
several email lettes for his discpline
per year,
the committee agreed that the relatively moribund nature of the other
disciplines suggested that radio, torus and auroral discliplines be combined.
Orton wold
solicit input from Galopeau but tentatively
select Nick Schneider
to head a re-formed group.
It was noted that Frank Marchis also does regular
newsletters and was a
sufficiently recent appointment to be retained as Io discipline chair.
Steffes earlier has professed that he wasn't sure
what his duties were as
discpline lead for laboratory/theory. The committee
pointed out several
deficiencies in current lab/theory/observational-interactive research.
Several members missed the presence of a DPS-proximate workshop with lab and
users getting togehter. It was suggested that Steffes might try to create
such a meeting with help from Pasadena-based spectroscopist
Linda Brown on
a weekend near the next DPS meeting in
of links to relevant laboratory results which were not available on the
PDS/Atmospheres web site. A third was the inadequacy of current HITRAN
and
possibly GEISA molecular spectroscopic parameters for planetary atmospheric
modeling.
Heidi Hammel reported starting an
multidisciplinary effort to characterize
the atmospheres of Uranus during the next few years around the period of its
equinox. she has the ear of Curt Niebur at NASA HQ and will try to establish
a workshop in the spring of 2006. The hope is to try a little funding loose to
target atmospheric, small-body, ring and astronomical observing. (Chair's
note: this was organized to take place near the next Outer Planet Assessment
Group, OPAG, meeting in