Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable

Nature Geoscience Springer Nature 16:8 (2023) 658-660

Authors:

Benjamin Fernando, Sam Giles, Christopher Jackson, Anya Lawrence, Munira Raji, Rebecca Williams, Jenni Barclay, Louisa Brotherson, Ethny Childs, Jacqueline Houghton, Anjana Khatwa, Alicia Newton, Keely Mills, Francisca Rockey, Steven Rogers, Catherine Souch, Natasha Dowey

Abstract:

Admission to doctoral study is a crucial step in the academic pipeline, but discriminatory procedures can disproportionately impact students from ethnic minority backgrounds. We show how these policies contribute to inequity in the geosciences and propose strategies for change.

The Runaway Greenhouse Effect on Hycean Worlds

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 953:2 (2023) 168

Authors:

Hamish Innes, Shang-Min Tsai, Raymond T Pierrehumbert

Cassini composite infrared spectrometer: correcting an offset error and refining the pointing parameters for the midinfrared detectors.

Applied optics 62:22 (2023) 5882-5888

Authors:

John C Pearl, Conor A Nixon, Donald E Jennings, Shahid Aslam, Simon Calcutt, Monte S Kaelberer, Nicolas Gorius, Richard K Achterberg, Paul N Romani, Gordon L Bjoraker, Michael Flasar

Abstract:

Based on preflight laboratory testing, an unexpectedly large positional offset between the two midinfrared (mid-IR) detector arrays in the Cassini composite infrared spectrometer (CIRS) instrument has been noted in the literature. A much smaller offset was measured in-flight. We investigate this discrepancy by estimating several spatial relationships among the detectors and comparing these results with three independent data sets. This enables us to infer the probable cause of this offset and to derive a new reduced value. We comment on the effect that this change could have on previously published results involving CIRS data. We also present a graphical display of the arrays projected on the sky as CIRS would see it.

Cassini composite infrared spectrometer: correcting an offset error and refining the pointing parameters for the midinfrared detectors: publisher's note.

Applied optics 62:23 (2023) 6298

Authors:

John C Pearl, Conor A Nixon, Donald E Jennings, Shahid Aslam, Simon Calcutt, Monte S Kaelberer, Nicolas Gorius, Richard K Achterberg, Paul N Romani, Gordon L Bjoraker, Michael Flasar

Abstract:

This publisher's note serves to correct Appl. Opt.62, 5882 (2023).APOPAI0003-693510.1364/AO.491970.

Bidirectional reflectance distribution function measurements of the Winchcombe meteorite using the Visible Oxford Space Environment Goniometer

Meteoritics and Planetary Science Wiley (2023)

Authors:

RJ Curtis, HC Bates, TJ Warren, KA Shirley, EC Brown, AJ King, NE Bowles