Professor Robert Brown transitioned to Emeritus status in September. Professor Brown, who holds a joint appointment in Planetary Sciences and Astronomy at the University of Arizona, began his career at LPL in 1996. He served as Team Leader for the Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) facility instrument on the Cassini Orbiter (1990-present) and will be actively engaged in finalizing Cassini mission research until September 2019.