From the Editor

Keith Heinzelman (heinzelman1@llnl.gov)

The 2010 Annual Meeting of the HPS in Salt Lake City included many excellent presentations related to accelerator radiation protection.  For those who did not attend the meeting, we have reprinted abstracts from several of the papers presented.  Two of the abstracts deserve special mention as they earned student awards for their presenters: Samuel Brady from Duke University won the Lutz Moritz Award for his presentation, Radiation Dosimetry for 10 MeV Neutrons Using XRQA Radiochromic Film ; and Michael Hall from the University of Tennessee won the H. Wade Patterson Award for his poster, The Estimates of Skin and BFO Dose Rates, Dose Equivalent Rates and Accumulated Doses for Human Crews on the Surface of the Moon from 15 January 2005 Solar Energetic Particle Event Using Earth-Moon-Mars Radiation Environment Module. 

A complete list of the meeting’s presentations can be found at http://hpschapters.org/2010AM/program/sessions.php3.  Accelerator radiation protection related papers were presented in sessions TAM-F, TPM-F and WPM-B.