DPS Mailing #01-19: Survey Committee Panels Appointed

Solar System Exploration Survey Committee Panels Appointed

Much of the initial work of the Solar System Exploration Survey
Committee will be conducted via its component panels. Each panel will
consists of a chair, a vice chair (who is also a member of the Survey
Committee) and four additional members. The panel will prepare reports
summarize current understanding in their respective areas and will
identify and prioritize the most important scientific issues that need
to be addressed in the next decade. These panel reports will be
forwarded to the Survey Committee and used to determine
solar-system-wide priorities for the next decade. The report of each
panel will appear as a chapter in the Survey Committee’s final report.

On 14 May, the chair of the National Research Council approved the slate
of candidates proposed for the panels by the Space Studies Board. These
individuals are currently being contacted. Those who have already
indicated their willingness to serve, pending the completion of NRC
formalities, are as follows:

Inner Planets

Carle’ Pieters–Brown University-Chair

Ronald Greeley–Arizona State University–Vice-chair

Bradley Jolliff–Washington University

Ann Sprague–University of Arizona

Ellen Stofan (Proxemy Research)

One appointments outstanding

Giant Planets

Reta Beebe–New Mexico State University–Chair

Andrew Ingersoll–California Institute of Technology–Vice-chair

Thomas W. Hill–Rice University

Julianne Moses–Lunar and Planetary Institute

Gerald Schubert–University of California, Los Angeles

Amanda Bosh–Lowell Observatory

Alfred McEwen–University of Arizona–Chair

Robert Pappalardo–University of Colorado–Vice-chair

Caitlin Griffith–Northern Arizona University

Torrence Johnson–Jet Propulsion laboratory

Krishan Khurana–University of California, Los Angeles

William Moore–University of California, Los Angeles

Dale Cruikshank–Ames Research Center–Chair

Michael A’Hearn–University of Maryland–Vice-chair

Alan Stern–Southwest Research Institute

Michael Zolensky–Johnson Space Center

Two appointments outstanding

Because the Survey Committee was specifically charged by NASA to pay
special attention to the exploration of Mars and to incorporate the
results of an on-going study on Mars science and mission priorities
being conducted by the Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration
(COMPLEX), COMPLEX will act as the Survey Committee’s Mars panel. The
Mars exploration priorities identified by COMPLEX will be forwarded to
the Survey Committee for prioritization along with the results from the
deliberations of the other four panels. For symmetry with the other
panels, Survey-Committee member John F. Mustard (Brown University) had
been designated vice-chair of the “Mars panel”. COMPLEX chair John
Wood (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) will chair the “Mars
panel.”

The remaining members of the panels will be announced in the near future.

David H. Smith, Study Director (DHSmith@nas.edu)
Solar System Exploration Survey Committee

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Nick Schneider, on behalf of the DPS Committee
(submissions to Al Harris: awharris@lithos.jpl.nasa.gov)