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  Slate of Officers and Board of Directors with Photos for 2010–2012 Elections
  Union Officers | Board of Directors | Atmospheric Sciences | Biogeosciences | Geodesy | Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism | Hydrology | Ocean Sciences | Planetary Sciences | Seismology |  Space Physics and Aeronomy | Tectonophysics | Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology

Union Officers

Candidates for President-Elect

Carol A. Finn

Carol A. Finn
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1980. Research geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS); affiliate of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado.


James L. Burch

James L. Burch
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1965, Fellow since 1995. Vice president, Space Science and Engineering Division, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Tex.

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General Secretary

Curtis A. Collins

Curtis A. Collins
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1967. Professor of oceanography at the Naval Postgraduate School.


Lisa Tauxe

Lisa Tauxe
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1980. Professor of geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO).

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International Secretary

Francis Albarède

Francis Albarède
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1971. Professor of geochemistry at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.


Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi

Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1980. Professor of geophysics, Institute for Geophysics, National University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City.

Board of Directors

Candidates for Director I

Robert D. van der Hilst

Robert D. van der Hilst
Biography

AGU member since 1990. Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth Sciences and director, Earth Resources Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).


Elizabeth A. Johnson

Elizabeth A. Johnson
Biography

AGU member since 1985. Senior staff geophysicist, Chevron Energy Technology Company.

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Director II

Marvin A. Geller

Marvin A. Geller
Biography

AGU member since 1968. Professor at Stony Brook University.


Mary Anne Carroll

Mary Anne Carroll
Biography

AGU member since 1981. Professor, departments of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences (AOSS), Geological Sciences, and Chemistry, University of Michigan (UM).

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Director III

Nancy U. Crooker

Nancy U. Crooker
Biography

AGU member since 1970. Research professor, Center for Space Physics, Boston University.


Daniel N. Baker

Daniel N. Baker
Biography

AGU member since 1973. Director (1994 to present), Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder; and professor, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences (also Department of Physics).


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Director IV

Rafael L. Bras

Rafael L. Bras
Biography

AGU member since 1975. Dean of engineering and distinguished professor in engineering and science, University of California, Irvine.


Kenneth W. Potter

Kenneth W. Potter
Biography

AGU member since 1970. Professor of civil and environmental engineering and Gaylord Nelson Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.


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Director V

Jason C. Neff

Jason C. Neff
Biography

AGU member since 1992. Associate professor, University of Colorado, Boulder.


Mary A. Voytek

Mary A. Voytek
Biography

AGU member since 1990. Senior scientist in astrobiology, NASA.


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Director IV

John W. Farrington

John W. Farrington
Biography

AGU member since 1987. Scientist emeritus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), 2006, and interim dean, School of Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, August 2009.


Margaret Leinen

Margaret Leinen
Biography

AGU member since 1974. Founder and CEO of the Climate Response Fund.


Atmospheric Sciences

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President-Elect

Charles E. Kolb

Charles E. Kolb
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1990. President, Aerodyne Research, Inc. (ARI), since 1985.


Peter J. Webster

Peter J. Webster
Biography & Statement

Member of AGU since 1989. Professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences and environmental engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology since 2002.

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Secretary - Aerosols and Clouds (AA)

Surabi Menon

Surabi Menon
Biography

AGU member since 1996. Staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., since 2003.


Omar Torres

Omar Torres
Biography

AGU member since 1988. Research associate professor, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton University.

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Secretary - Atmospheric Physics and Climate (AP)

Natalia Andronova

Natalia Andronova
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1993. Research scientist in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences at University of Michigan.

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Secretary, Composition and Chemistry (AC)

John E. Mak

John E. Mak
Biography

AGU member since 1991. Currently associate professor, Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres/School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (ITPA/SOMAS), Stony Brook University.


Sasha Madronich

Sasha Madronich
Biography

AGU member since 1987. Senior scientist in the Atmospheric Chemistry Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).


Biogeosciences

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President-Elect

Eric A. Davidson

Eric A. Davidson
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1991. Currently senior scientist at Woods Hole Research Center.


David McGuire

David McGuire
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1996. Currently professor of ecology in a U.S. Geological Survey cooperative faculty position at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF).

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Secretary

Hope Jahren

Hope Jahren
Biography

AGU member since 1990. Professor, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii.


Laura Wasylenki

Laura Wasylenki
Biography

AGU member since 1993. Assistant research scientist since 2004 in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University.


Geodesy

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President-Elect

Markus Rothacher

Markus Rothacher
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1990. Professor of physical and mathematical geodesy at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland.


Timothy H. Dixon

Timothy H. Dixon
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1979. Professor at University of Miami since 1992.

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Secretary

Tonie M. van Dam

Tonie M. van Dam
Biography

AGU member since 1983. Assistant professor, Faculté des Sciences, de la Technologie et de la Communication, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.


William C. Hammond

William C. Hammond
Biography

AGU member since 1995. Presently assistant research professor in the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and Nevada Seismological Laboratory at University of Nevada, Reno.


Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism

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President-Elect

Richard G. Gordon

Richard G. Gordon
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1976. Keck Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth Science, Rice University.


James E. Channell

James E. Channell
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1980. Distinguished professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida.

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Secretary

Jeffrey S. Gee

Jeffrey S. Gee
Biography

AGU member since 1988. Professor in residence, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), since 2004.


Laurie L. Brown

Laurie L. Brown
Biography

AGU member since 1972. Professor of geophysics, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts.


Hydrology

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President-Elect

David G. Tarboton

David G. Tarboton
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1986. Professor of civil and environmental engineering, Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University.


Eric F. Wood

Eric F. Wood
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1971. Professor of civil and environmental engineering, Princeton University.

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Secretary

Ying Fan

Ying Fan
Biography

AGU member since 1990. Assistant professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University.


Martha H. Conklin

Martha H. Conklin
Biography

AGU member since 1987. Professor at University of California, Merced.


Ocean Sciences

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President-Elect

James W. Murray

James W. Murray
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1982. Professor, School of Oceanography, and founding director of the Program on Climate Change, University of Washington, Seattle.


Deborah K. Steinberg

Deborah K. Steinberg
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1996. Professor of marine science, Department of Biological Sciences, at Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), College of William and Mary.

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Secretary - Biological Oceanography (OB)

Margaret R. Mulholland

Margaret R. Mulholland
Biography

Member of AGU since 1992. Associate professor, biological oceanography, Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion University (ODU).


Christine Whitcraft

Christine Whitcraft
Biography

AGU member since 2009. Presently an assistant professor at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB).

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Secretary - Physical Oceanography (OP)

Emanuele Di Lorenzo

Emanuele Di Lorenzo
Biography

AGU member since 2004. Associate professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology.


Robin D. Muench

Robin D. Muench
Biography

AGU member since 1972. Currently senior scientist at Earth & Space Research.

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Secretary - Marine Geology and Geophysics (OG)

Robert L. Evans

Robert L. Evans
Biography

AGU member since 1991. Currently an associate scientist in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).

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Secretary - Marine Geochemistry (OC)

Elizabeth A. Canuel

Elizabeth A. Canuel
Biography

AGU member since 1988. Currently full professor in the Department of Physical Sciences at Virginia Institute of Marine Science/School of Marine Science, College of William and Mary (W&M).


Gregory A. Cutter

Gregory A. Cutter
Biography

AGU member since 1980. Currently a professor in the Department of Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at Old Dominion University (ODU).


Planetary Sciences

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President-Elect

William B. McKinnon

William B. McKinnon
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1979. Professor of Earth and planetary sciences and fellow of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at Washington University, Saint Louis, Mo.


Robin M. Canup

Robin M. Canup
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1993. Institute scientist, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colo.

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Secretary

Linda T. Elkins-Tanton

Linda T. Elkins-Tanton
Biography

AGU member since 1996. Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Geology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).


Adam P. Showman

Adam P. Showman
Biography

AGU member since 1994. Associate professor of planetary sciences at University of Arizona.


Seismology

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President-Elect

Anne F. Sheehan

Anne F. Sheehan
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1986. Professor of geological sciences and fellow of Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder.


Karen M. Fischer

Karen M. Fischer
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1983. Professor of geological sciences, Brown University.

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Secretary

Suzan van der Lee

Suzan van der Lee
Biography

AGU member since 1991. Member of the faculty of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Northwestern University since 2003.


Ed J. Garnero

Ed J. Garnero
Biography

AGU member since 1985. Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe.


Space Physics and Aeronomy

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President-Elect

Peter Riley

Peter Riley
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1993. Senior scientist at Predictive Science, San Diego, Calif.


James Klimchuk

James Klimchuk
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1990. Research astrophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

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Secretary - Aeronomy (SA)

Larisa P. Goncharenko

Larisa P. Goncharenko
Biography

AGU member since 1996. Research scientist at the Haystack Observatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Michael P. Hickey

Michael P. Hickey
Biography

AGU member since 1980. Currently associate dean for research in the College of Arts and Sciences and professor in the Department of Physical Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU).

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Secretary - Solar-Heliospheric Physics (SH)

Ian G. Richardson

Ian G. Richardson
Biography

AGU member since 1991. Contract scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland.


Dana W. Longcope

Dana W. Longcope
Biography

Member of AGU since 1994. Professor of physics at Montana State University (MSU).

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Secretary - Magnetospheric Physics (SM)

Michael J. Wiltberger

Michael J. Wiltberger
Biography

AGU member since 1995. Scientist III in the High Altitude Observatory at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).


Aaron J. Ridley

Aaron J. Ridley
Biography

AGU member since 1994. Associate professor in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan.


Tectonophysics

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President-Elect

Greg Hirth

Greg Hirth
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1986. Associate professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University.


Sean Willett

Sean Willett
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1986. Presently professor, head of the Geological Institute and director of Studies in Earth Sciences at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland.

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Secretary

Tim A. Stern

Tim A. Stern
Biography

AGU member since 1984. Professor of geophysics at Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.


Carolina R. Lithgow-Bertelloni

Carolina R. Lithgow-Bertelloni
Biography

AGU member since 1987. Reader in geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, University College London.


Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology

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President-Elect

Bernard Marty

Bernard Marty
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1987; elected Fellow in 2007. Professor of geochemistry at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie de Nancy (France); staff scientist at Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CRPG-CNRS).


Catherine A. McCammon

Catherine A. McCammon
Biography & Statement

AGU member since 1978. Staff scientist at Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

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Secretary - Petrology and Volcanology (VP)

Anita Grunder

Anita Grunder
Biography

AGU member since 1983. Full professor, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University (OSU).


Elisabeth Widom

Elisabeth Widom
Biography

Member of AGU since 1986. Professor of geology at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) since 1997.

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Secretary - Geochemistry (VG)

Matthew J. Kohn

Matthew J. Kohn
Biography

AGU member since 1988. Associate professor of geology, Boise State University, since 2007.


Sumit Chakraborty

Sumit Chakraborty
Biography

AGU member since 1985. Professor in the Department of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.


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