Technical Science Information and Links

Welcome to my Technical Science Page! This site contains information and links to societies, journals, funding, travel, meetings, women in science, and other subjects that might be of interest to a science professional. If you would like information on planetary science topics of general public interest, try my Fun Science Page. The list below is not intended to be comprehensive, these links are those that I have found the most useful to my work at the present time. Disclaimer - The appearance of a link below does not imply any endorsement of either the organization listed or their web site. Thanks to Kim Cyr, whose science page I used for many years!

Organizations, Societies and Related Meetings

• AAS Homepage: American Astronomical Society, which includes the DPS (see link listed below)
• DPS Homepage: Division of Planetary Sciences of the AAS
• ACM - Asteroids Comets and Meteors Meeting Info for the last conference held July 1999, Cornell University, Ithaca NY. The next conference will be in Berlin, 2002.
• AGU Homepage: American Geophysical Union
• COSPAR Homepage: Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), they sponsor the ACM meetings (see ACM above)
• CAPTEM Homepage: Curation and Analysis Planning Team for Extraterrestrial Materials. The CAPTEM initiative "New Views of the Moon Enabled by Combined Remotely Sensed and Lunar Sample Data Sets, A Lunar Initiative" has spawned the "New Views of the Moon" workshops, the last of which was New Views 1999, Flagstaff Arizona
  
• International Astronomy Meetings
• Lunar and Planetary Institute Homepage: An amazing place with an amazing site. This site lists links for specific meetings and conferences, general interest information, and LPI specific pubications.
  • Meetings and Conferences: LPI's listing of recent sponsored meetings and others. Check here for conferences and workshops including New Views of the Moon (see link above), LPSC (Lunar and Planetary Science Conference), Goldschmidt, Mars exploration and related workshops, as well as Meteoritical Society meetings (see link to society homepage below).
  • Calendar of other Meetings and Conferences
• The Meteoritical Society Homepage: Membership info, newsletter, lists of upcoming meetings
• Malin Space Science Systems: Operates the MGS/MOC
• National Science Foundation Homepage
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration: FAQ's, news, info on NASA, etc., including:
  • Information on NASA Centers
  • Office of Space Science: (OSS), Code S
  • Johnson Space Center
    • Earth Science & Solar System Exploration Division
    • JSC Student Programs: High school through grad school programs, including the Cooperative Education program, GSRP's, NRC's etc.

Peer Review Journals, Presses, Books and Other Publications

• JGR Planets: Journal of Geophysical Research, Planets, an AGU Publication
• GRL: Geophyisical Research Letters, an AGU Publication
• Astronomical Journal: AJ, published by AAS
• Astrophysical Journal: Ap J, published by AAS
  • Ap J Letters
  • Ap J Supplement
• Icarus: Journal of DPS, which is part of AAS
• Meteoritics and Planetary Science: Journal of the Meteoritical Society
• Nature
• Science
• ADS Abstract Service: Astrophysics Data System site which allows you to search for abstracts from a large number of journals and proceedings.
• University of Arizona Press: Home of the Space Science Series of books, a great set

Sources of Funding for Research, Education and Outreach

• Office of Space Science Research: OSS Research Opportunities, a biggie for planetary science data reduction, as it includes the PGG (Planetary Geology and Geophysics), MDAP (Mars Data Analysis), and formerly the LDAP (Lunar Data Analysis) Programs. NOTE: OSS now includes an E/PO (Education and Public Outreach) grant to be associated with a major OSS science grant.
• NSF Grants Page

Tools of the Trade: Web Calculators, Reference Information and Science Databases

• Standard Planetary Information, Formulae, and Constants
• IAU Gazetteer: IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
• NASA National Space Science Data Center
• PDS Node: Planetary Data System Node - This site has the highly useful Planetary Image Atlas containing links to image data from a large range of planetary missions.
• MGS Data Tools: Site of links to tools to use to manipulate and reduce MGS and related data.
• Crater: A FORTRAN77 program which calculates crater diameters using projectile size.
  
  
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Travel Links: Useful links for international and domestic travel compiled by Kim Cyr.
• Federal Express Homepage: Allows you to track your package
• LPL/Dept. of Planetary Science: University of Arizona
• Planetary Science Institute: PSI Homepage

Women in Science

• Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy: Homepage (part of the AAS). The site includes info and links including:
  • Women in Astronomy Database: Contains professional contact and sci reserach interest info on women in astronomy and other related fields. Purpose includes convenient way to find female speakers, female job applicants, resource for newcomers, and quick access to women in astro-science stats.
• Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering; includes info sites, documents, bio links, female sci fi authors, women's studies resources
• TAP: The Ada Project Bibliographies
• TAP: Other Informational Sites

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Last Modified: July 5, 2000

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