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Business updates
- Teams are now invited to volunteer for lightning talks at monthly NOW StComm meetings
- NOW Working Group updates: EDI, Lecture Series, Website and Communication
- Welcome to new Steering Committee Members: Carrie Anderson (NASA Goddard), Melissa Ugelow (NASA Goddard), Julia McGonigle (Bigelow Laboratory), David Dubois (NASA Ames), Tom Nordheim (NASA JPL)
Lightning talks (Carrie Anderson, Rajani Dhingra, Evan Carnahan)

November 30^thSteering Committee meeting: 2 of 3 Lightning Talk slots still to be confirmed
Jan 4^th Quarterly Lecture Series, Episode 4: “Life on the surface and in the atmospheres.”

NASA Coronavirus Response Information: https://nasapeople.nasa.gov/coronavirus/
February 10, 2021 Planetary Science Journal Focus Issue: “Ocean Worlds: Motivations for a Multi-Decadal Exploration Program" call for submissions https://oceanworlds.space/information-now/
February 22-26, 2021 Habitable Worlds 2021: https://aas.org/meetings/aastcs8/habitable
March 15-19, 2021 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference: http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021
Oct 25, 2021 Modern Brines Across the Solar System https://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/initiatives/brines/
May 15-20, 2022 AbSciCon: https://www.agu.org/abscicon/

Buffo, J. J., Schmidt, B. E., Huber, C., & Walker, C. C. (2020). Entrainment and Dynamics of Ocean‐derived Impurities within Europa’s Ice Shell. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, e2020JE006394 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006394
Dziak, R., D. Ban eld, R. Lorenz, H. Matsumoto, H. Klinck, R. Dissly, C. Meinig, and B. Kahn. 2020. Deep ocean passive acoustic technologies for exploration of ocean and surface sea worlds in the outer solar system. Oceanography 33(2), https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2020.221
Liao, Y., Nimmo, F., & Neufeld, J. A. (2020). Heat production and tidally driven fluid flow in the permeable core of Enceladus. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 125, e2019JE006209. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006209
Solomonidou, A. et al. (2020). The chemical composition of impact craters on Titan. Implications for exogenic processing. A&A, 641, A16, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202037866

In order to more fully incorporate early career scientists within NOW, we have kick-started a group called FLOW: Future Leaders in Ocean Worlds. We expect the group activities to include within-group networking and mentorship opportunities with other NOW members. We are limiting the group to students and post-docs who are already within the network (e.g., part of a team within NOW). If you, or a member of your team, is interested in joining FLOW, please sign-up via this Google Form: https://forms.gle/wgSLQRyXhmWRz5NA8

NASA Planetary Instrument Concepts for the Advancement of Solar System Observations, Solicitation: NNH20ZDA001N-PICASSO (Step1: 9/18/2020, Step2: 11/20/2020)
New Frontiers 5 (NF5) Announcement of Opportunity (AO) as Special Notice under Notice ID NNH20ZDA016L https://newfrontiers.larc.nasa.gov/NF5/
COLDTech: Autonomy, Communications, and Radiation-Hard Devices, Solicitation: NNH20ZDA001N-CLDTCH (Step1: 12/10/2020, Step2: 2/19/2020)
Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology, Solicitation: NNH20ZDA001N-FINESST (proposals due 2/4/2021)