Drone based research capabilities and future plans for Mars, Titan, Venus and Earth analogues are growing fast. The aim of theis session is to provide a strategic overvew of future drone based exploration beyond the Earth, using current activities, and expected capabilities in the near future - in the format of a white paper. All contributions are welcomed before (14:30) and after (18:00) the MITM9 drone session on Thursday.

Splinter meeting organised by the German Space Agency at DLR for scientists with an affiliation in Germany to discuss the latest activities regarding the investigation of Apophis.

The Hera mission will launch on Oct. 7th 2024 from Cape Canaveral. This meeting is open to the Hera community where the current status, ongoing and future activities will be presented, followed by discussions with the team. The RAMSES mission to Apophis may also be presented.

The first part of the meeting is an open discussion with the community being invited to ask questions about the mission. It is followed by a more specific discussion about Comet Interceptor target selection, in particular the choice of backup targets.

The International Commission on Planetary Atmospheres and their Evolution (ICPAE) provides a focus for research on atmospheres of planetary objects. It is one of the ten commissions of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS), which is in turn part of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG).
The workshop will present the activities proposed by ICPAE. It will be an open forum for discussing the committee's future and brainstorming new ideas. All are welcome.

This is an opportunity to meet with JGR: Planets board members and learn about the journal, open data policies, special collections and more!

This session aims to inform early-career researchers in the European planetary science and related communities about ESA and specifically the space science programme of the ESA Science Directorate.

ESA and in particular the Science Directorate operate a range of cutting-edge missions on the forefront of today's planetary science, ranging from long-term operational missions such as Mars Express, new missions such as BepiColombo and the recently launched Juice, and future missions such as EnVision and Comet Interceptor. Exoplanet studies are another major focus with both dedicated current and future missions such as Cheops, Plato and Ariel but also multi-purpose missions such as Gaia and JWST. ESA's science programme is defined bottom up by the scientific community of the ESA member states, but its long time-scales and wide reach (and many, many acronyms!) often seem intimidating to early-career researchers. In particular, during the interaction with early-career researchers it became clear that there is high interest in a more systematic introduction and in the possibility to discuss and ask questions that go beyond individual one-to-one conversations.

This session aims to provide such an introduction through dedicated talks and an open panel discussion.

This is a "bring your own lunch event". Feel free to pack a sandwich or a salad and join us for the session.

Hosted by the Royal Society, this workshop will explore how to successfully select and submit to a scientific journal. Aimed at Early Career Researchers, this session will unpack the black box of scientific publishing, and reveal some tips and challenges of publishing your research.

"The time for climate action is now. Science is critical in shaping the policies and actions to tackle the global climate change challenge,” said former IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee. Scientist Rebellion is an international movement of scientists and scholars who are extremely concerned about the climate and ecological crisis and believe the scientific community has the responsibility to step up and join the forefront of the environmental movement.

Unless those who are best placed to understand this crisis behave according to the emergency we live in, we cannot expect the public to do the same. The latest IPCC report notes “Any further delay in concerted action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all.” We believe that we must expose the reality and severity of the climate and ecological emergency through nonviolent direct actions, including civil disobedience.

In this Splinter meeting we would like to share how we work and what we do. After the wide interest for a similar event shown by EGU attendees, we are repeating this discussion session within the planetary science community. If you want to have a chat with some of us to see if this is a network you would like to join, feel free to stop by at this informative splinter meeting organized by EPSC participants who are also members of Scientist Rebellion.

Free slots available.

- Have you ever overheard a comment that you knew was not right but did not know what to say?
- Are you ever the one who feels the need to "laugh" at a "joke" that is more harmful than funny?
- Do you ever find yourself heading home after work thinking, "I should have said..."?
- Would you like to have some specific skills designed to help interrupt break-room gossip?

This Bystander Intervention workshop is an in-person, interactive workshop that is designed to engage participants in conversation about difficult topics including, but not limited to, racial-, sexual-, religion-, age-, gender-, and sexuality-based harassment, bullying, and exclusion.


The workshop's goals are:

- Raise awareness of barriers to helping.
- Raise awareness of helpful behaviors.
- Increase desire and motivation to help.
- Develop skills and confidence to help.
- Ensure the safety and well-being of attendees

Workshop agenda:

1. Introduction and Brave Spaces
2. Goals
3. Theories and Definitions
4. Experiences
5. Social and Cultural Identifiers
6. Bystander Intervention Action Model
7. Skills Training
8. Team Agreement
9. Q&A

When: Sunday, 8 September 2024, 13:00–17:00

Where: Room Mercury - Konferenzraum III

Who: Organized by the Europlanet Diversity Committee, the workshop trainer is Dr. Moses Milazzo.

How to attend: This workshop has a capacity of 27 participants, if you wish to attend, please sign up at https://terminplaner.dfn.de/y4XuZOdLMZ8WpCSt

In case your plans have changed and you cannot attend anymore, please go back to this form and update your attendance, so that other people can join.

If you have any questions, please contact Solmaz Adeli.

Meeting dedicated to an experiment on the visual perception of images of planetary surfaces. The focus is on the perception and cognitive processes involved in human photo-geologic investigation. People interested in taking part in the study can contact ottaviano.ruesch@uni-muenster.de

The meeting is scheduled in two parts.

The rapid advancements in machine learning (ML) present unprecedented opportunities for planetary science. Establishing a dedicated working group focused on the application of ML in this field will harness these technological advancements to address complex scientific questions and enhance our understanding of planetary systems. Some examples of potential projects or research areas that the working group might focus on include:

1. Developing ML methods and tools for planetary surface and subsurface mapping, mineralogy, geomorphology, and geology.
2. Applying ML techniques to planetary atmospheres, climates, and weather systems.
3. Using ML approaches to study the formation and evolution of planetary systems, exoplanets, and astrobiology.
4. Creating ML frameworks and platforms for data integration, fusion, visualization, and dissemination.

This splinter session invites everyone who is interested in ML in planetary science. We intend to establish a Europlanet Working Group “Machine Learning in Planetary Science.” The proposed working group will complement and build upon what has been achieved during the Europlanet RI project in ML. While the Europlanet RI has addressed a broad range of ML applications across planetary research, the new group will delve deeper into specialized areas, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange. This targeted approach will enable the development of tailored ML solutions, driving innovation and accelerating scientific discoveries. By bridging the gap between ML and planetary science, this working group will position academic institutions and industry stakeholders at the forefront of cutting-edge research, fostering a collaborative environment that leverages ML to unlock the mysteries of our solar system and beyond.

Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) steering committee members will hold a townhall to gather feedback and share news on topics of interest.

Meeting of the planned NEONET consortium.

Join us to discuss Europlanet's presence on social media, how we might better leverage our reach to the community and what platforms we ought to be focussing our attention on.

The International Outer Planets Watch is an informal organization coordinating observations of the Solar System Outer Planet Systems. The workshop will host short presentations of scientific themes not accomodated on the oral and poster sessions. The list of topics includes: Jupiter observations and Juno observational support. Saturn observations from the ground. Observations of Uranus and Neptune. Model simulations of atmospheric dynamics of Jupiter/Saturn. If you are willing to provide some topics for presentations/discussions over the workshop please e-mail Ricardo Hueso (ricardo.hueso@ehu.eus) with a title and an estimation of time required for your presentation.

Discussion on current amateur observations of the Giant planets from Jupiter to Neptune are welcomed and encouraged.

This is an internal meeting for Lightship IDT members.

This workshop is to discuss status of fireball networks, observations (optical, radio, others) and modeling.

Gathering the regional hubs' committees:

The transition from Europlanet Society to Europlanet AISBL (Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif) represents a strategic shift towards a stronger organisation, able to support planetary research in Europe in the long term, while remaining agile and close to the needs of its members.

With an emphasis on a "bottom-up" approach where regional hubs play a central and dynamic role in the evolution of Europlanet, thus contributing to a more responsive, inclusive and innovative ecosystem.

The splinter meeting will focus, through informal discussion, on the definition of a short term network roadmap to consolidate Europlanet's activities in the future.

There are many reasons why people may need or want to take time off or deviate from the linear academic career path. Experience shows that returning to doing research after such a break is very tricky, even though people will have gained different and valuable experiences and perspective from a pause in their career.

The goal of this splinter session is to share personal stories, and start the discussion on how to address this underexposed issue.

This session is open to anyone interested.

OpenPlanetary (https://www.openplanetary.org/) is a non-profit organisation helping planetary scientists and software developers to share, discuss and improve planetary data, tools, workflows and overall knowledge of our Solar System.
We introduce the community and discuss issues around the available software stacks and data sets for planetary science.

Are you interested in knowing more about or become engaged in the Germany Hub of the Europlanet Society? Then please join us for this informal meeting at EPSC.