Job announcement: two positions at ASU!
Well, technically three, but while I know many dual career couples in planetary science, I can’t think of any triple career couples in the field, so that’s probably not as important to our readership. This week’s PEN newsletter had three postings from Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration. All three are for [...]

Job announcement: E/PO, DC area
Interested in sharing your knowledge of planetary science with others? Consider a career in planetary science education and public outreach. SSAI is seeking an individual to work closely with scientists, the NASA educational community, formal and informal educators, parents, children, and the general public to develop, carry out, and lead education and public outreach programs and [...]

A new voice for graduate students
We are excited today to announce a new contributor to the Women in Planetary Science Blog, Kelsi. Kelsi is going to help us increase the relevance of this blog to graduate students and postdocs as we continue to roll out features relevant for early-, mid-, and late-career planetary scientists. Kelsi has been active [...]

(More) Women on a Mission
In my last post, I showed you numbers, and told you that the number of female planetary scientists on missions is low. Now I want to turn that around, and introduce you to some of the amazing women doing work on planetary science missions, not because they are women, but because they are incredibly impressive and [...]

Women on a Mission
Recently, I took a look at the demographics of the PIs, Project Scientists, Co-Is, and Participating Scientists selected by NASA to implement a mission in the Discovery Program.  The Discovery missions, if you don’t already know, are NASA’s least complex planetary science missions and can be characterized as relatively low in cost (less than $425M), [...]