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Patterns in the Void (Credit: Christian Klepp, distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

PS Planetary and Solar System Sciences Structure

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European Geosciences Union

Division on Planetary and Solar System Sciences
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Structure

Planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS) structure
President
Anezina Solomonidou
Deputy President
Stephen Mojzsis Email
Programme Group Chair
Anezina Solomonidou
Science Officers
Daniel Kitzmann Email (Exo)planet Atmospheres
Tim Lichtenberg Email Astrobiology
Patricia L. Clay Email Meteorites, Planetary Geochemistry
Maria Gritsevich Email Small Bodies (dwarf planets, asteroids, comets) to Dust
Moa Persson Email Space weather and space weathering
Gregor Golabek Email Terrestrial Planets Systems
Sébastien Charnoz Email Terrestrial Planets Systems
OSPP Co-ordinator
Lena Noack Email
ECS Representative
Georgia Moutsiana
ECS Co-Representatives
Joshua Dreyer Email ECS Advisor
Peter Krizan Email ECS Outreach Coordinator

Awards & medals committees

David Bates Medal committee
David Bates Medal (inactive for the 2024 call)
Committee chair Tristan Guillot
Committee members Beatriz Sanchez-Cano
Chrysa Avdellidou
Franck Montmessin
Sébastien Charnoz
Runcorn-Florensky Medal committee
Runcorn-Florensky Medal
Committee chair Tristan Guillot
Committee members Beatriz Sanchez-Cano
Chrysa Avdellidou
Franck Montmessin
Sébastien Charnoz
Jean Dominique Cassini Medal committee
Jean Dominique Cassini Medal
Committee chair Rosaly Lopes
Committee members Anders Johansen
Janet Luhmann
Rumi Nakamura
Sara Russell
Veronique Dehant

Journal editors

Executive editors of Annales Geophysicae (ANGEO)
Annales Geophysicae (ANGEO)
Executive editors Christoph Jacobi
Ingrid Mann
Ioannis A. Daglis

Programme groups

Terrestrial Planets Systems

This includes terrestrial planets, their environments and Moons. Science questions include processes and the evolution in interiors, at surfaces, in atmospheres, exospheres or magnetospheres. Related observational, instrumental, experimental, modelling and theoretical methods are relevant. In the future, research on small exoplanets can be integrated here.

Synergies are welcome with general planetary topics and with other EGU areas in Earth sciences and techniques.

Small Bodies (dwarf planets, asteroids, comets) to Dust

This programme group concerns the small objects in the planetary system, including asteroids, moons, comets and the interplanetary dust and meteoroid complex. It also includes the interaction of these objects with the solar wind and other component of the interplanetary medium resulting e.g. in comae, exospheres, dust layers, plasma sheets or magnetospheres. We also welcome research on gas and dust in planetary disk and emerging planetary systems.

Giant Planets Systems

This theme will deal with the systems as a whole of the giant planets and Pluto. The physics of the planets, their satellite systems, magnetospheres and rings will be discussed, as well as the coupling processes and the interactions among the different objects. This theme also invites findings regarding the exoplanetary systems. Results based on space and ground-based observations will be presented. Laboratory and theoretical work in support of these analyses are welcome.

Space Weather, Climate, Habitability, and Life in (Exo-) Planetary Context

’Space weather’ deals with stellar winds, magnetospheres and the impact of high energy particles upon (exo)planetary atmospheres. ‘Climate’ broadly refers to understanding responses and evolution of climate-related variables in (exo)planetary environments. ‘Habitability’ encompasses investigating processes which favor the development and sustainment of life (e.g. the presence of liquid water, the availability of energy and nutrients etc.) in (exo)planetary environments. Finally, ‘Life in the (exo)planetary context’ refers to investigating the potential origin(s) and evolution of life and its associated biosignatures beyond the solar system.