Below is an announcement regarding the Pellas Ryder Award from Katherine Joy, Chair of the Award Committee: Dear all, Please consider nominating your graduate students for the Pellas-Ryder Award for best student paper in planetary science published in 2016. The *deadline is January 31, 2017* The Paul Pellas - Graham Ryder Award for best student paper in planetary science published in 2016 is jointly sponsored by the Planetary Geology Division of the Geological Society of America. Potential topics are listed on the cover of *Meteoritics & Planetary Science <http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/?page_id=34>**,* and include: Asteroids, Comets, Craters, Interplanetary Dust, Interstellar Medium, Lunar Samples, Meteors, Meteorites, Natural Satellites, Planets, Tektites, Origin and History of the Solar System. The award has been given since 2001, and honours the memories of meteoriticist Paul Pellas and lunar scientist Graham Ryder. See MetSoc <http://meteoriticalsociety.org/?page_id=64> or GSA <http://rock.geosociety.org/pgd/pellas-ryder.html>webpages for details of previous winners. Nominations should include: - the full citation, - a brief description of the paper's significance, - a letter from the department head verifying that the first author was a registered student when the paper was submitted, and - a letter from the student's advisor describing what portion of the work was done by the student. Nominations for Meteoritical Society awards <http://meteoriticalsociety.org/?page_id=66> should be sent, preferably by email with electronic attachments, to the committee chair Katherine Joy ( katherine.joy@manchester.ac.uk) or to Emily Martin (MartinES@si.edu)and copied to metsocsec@gmail.com Best wishes, Katherine on behalf of the Pellas-Ryder Award Committee (Jon Friedrich, Katherine Joy, Randy Korotev, Emily Martin, Brad Thomson and Sharon Wilson Purdy) -- Michael K. Weisberg Dept. Physical Sciences Kingsborough Community College CUNY Brooklyn, NY 11235 718 368 5769 (office) 718 820 2289 (cell) Dept. Earth and Environmental Sciences City University of New York Graduate Center New York, NY 10016