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February 25, 1998
AGU RELEASE NO. 98-05 For Release on February 25, 1998 |
Contact: Harvey Leifert
(202) 777-7507 hleifert@agu.org |
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Members of the American Geophysical Union have elected new officers of the Union and its ten constituent sections, with effect from July 1, 1998. Terms of office are two years, with presidents-elect of the Union and the various sections moving up to president at the end of their terms.
Section officers play a key leadership role in the 35,000 member AGU, working to advance the geophysical sciences as a whole. Presidents and presidents-elect of the sections, along with Union officers, constitute the AGU Council, the equivalent of a board of directors. Officers also guide the work of their respective sections, equivalent to societies for the disciplines they cover.
Following is a list of newly elected officers and their current positions.
President-elect: Marcia K. McNutt, Director, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
General Secretary: John A. Orcutt, Director, Cecil H. And Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego
International Secretary: Gordon Rostoker, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Alberta
President-elect: Marvin A. Geller, Professor and Director, Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospherics, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Secretary-Atmospheric Chemistry: Jack A. Kaye, Manager, Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Analysis Program, Science Division, Office of Mission to Planet Earth, NASA
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Secretary-Atmospheric Physics and Climate: Kenneth P. Bowman, Associate Professor of Meteorology, Texas A&M University
President-elect: Thomas A. Herring, Professor of Geophysics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Secretary: Tonie M. van Dam, Research Geophysicist, Absolute Gravity Group, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado
President-elect: William Lowrie, Professor of Geophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
Secretary: Catherine G. Constable, Associate Professor of Geophysics, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego
President-elect: Kenneth W. Potter, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chair, Land Resources Program, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Secretary: Marc B. Parlange, Professor of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
President-elect: Robert A. Weller, Senior scientist, Physical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Secretary-Biological Oceanography: Linda E. Duguay, Research Scientist, Center for Environmental Studies, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland, and Program Manager for Science Planning, Advanced Projects, and International Coordination, Antarctic Science Section, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation
Secretary-Marine Geochemistry: Richard A. Feely, Supervisory Oceanographer, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA
Secretary-Physical Oceanography: Newell Garfield, Research Assistant Professor, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
Secretary-Marine Geology and Geophysics: Paul A. Baker, Professor of Geochemistry, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University
President-elect: James W. Head III, Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Professor of Geological Sciences, Brown University
Secretary: Laurie A. Leshin, W.W. Rubey Faculty Fellow, University of California at Los Angeles
President-elect: Jeffrey J. Park, Associate Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University
Secretary: Lucile M. Jones, Supervisory Geophysicist, Western Earthquake Hazards Team, United States Geological Survey, Pasadena, California, and Visiting Research Associate, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
President-elect: John T. Gosling, Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Secretary-Aeronomy: Thomas E. Cravens, Professor of Physics, Kansas University
Secretary-Magnetospheric Physics: Terrance G. Onsager, Staff Physicist, Space Environment Center, NOAA
Secretary-Solar and Heliospheric Physics: William C. Feldman, Laboratory Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
President-elect: Peter L. Olson, Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Secretary: Louise H. Kellogg, Associate Professor of Geology, University of California at Davis
President-elect: Frederick A. Frey, Professor of Geochemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Secretary: Mary R. Reid, Associate Professor of Geology and Geochemistry, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles