VGP Section Committees 2008-2010
(terms are July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010)

Executive Committeeconducts Section business, sets policies, communicates by email, and meets at fall and spring AGU meetings.

President: Alex Halliday
President-elect: Steve Sparks 
Past President: Bernie Wood
Secretary and Fall Mtg. Chair: Janne Blichert-Toft 
Secretary and Fall Mtg. Chair: Paul Wallace 
Press Officer: Attila Kilinc
Spring Mtg. Chair: Don Baker 
Western Pacific Mtg. Chair: Simon Turner 
Education/Outreach Chair: Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya
Bowen Chair: Frank Spear--
Macelwane Chair: John Eiler
Fellows Chair: Catherine McCammon 
Nominations Chair: Bill McDonough
Union Medals Chair: Charlie Langmuir
Kuno Chair: Jon Davidson
VGP Newsletter Editor: Sarah Fagents
Web Site: Chris Nye

Meetings Committeeincludes the VGP Secretary and two or more others responsible for organizing VGP sessions at the fall and spring meetings, plus fall and spring VGP Press Officers who identify either sessions or individual papers that are especially press-worthy.

Craig Manning (Chair)
James Brenan
Attila Kilinc (press officer)
Terry Plank (program rep)
Joe Pyle
Youxue Zhang

Education and Outreach Committeejudges presentations for Best Student Paper awards at the Fall and Spring Meetings.  This is the largest committee in VGP.  AGU has a vigorous Committee on Education and Human Resources (CEHR).  Jill Karsten, the AGU staff person assigned to CEHR and who now serves as principal contact for our section, has worked with CEHR to substantially increase the education component at fall and spring meetings.  VGP would like to expand the role of our committee both in the realm of education and in outreach.

Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya (Chair 2009-2011)
Jackie Caplan-Auerbach (Western Washington University)

Howard Day (University of California, Davis)

Karen Harpp (Colgate University)

Fabrizio Nestola (Università di Padova, Italy)

Aaron Pietruszka (San Diego State University)

Pete Stelling (Western Washington University)

Qin Wang (Nanjing University, China)

Richard Wirth (GFZ, Potsdam, Germany)

Jingsui Yang (Institute of Geology, Beijing, China)

 


Nominations CommitteeAGU elections take place every two years.  The VGP Nominations Committee is charged with identifying two candidates for Secretary and two for President-elect of the section. A new committee will be appointed to  identify candidates for the 2008-2010 term.

            Bill McDonough (chair)

(Other committee members will be listed once appointed.)

Awards CommitteesVGP has five awards committees that solicit nominations for awards and also recommend candidates for the Bowen and Kuno Awards to the VGP officers and for Fellows to the AGU Fellows Committee.  The Union Committee was added in 2004 in order to solicit nominations for other Union medals and awards (e.g., Hess Medal, Bucher Medal, etc., exclusive of the Macelwane Medal).

Bowen Award Committee

(nominations by May 1)  

Frank Spear (chair)

(Other committee members will be listed once appointed.)


Macelwane Medal Committee

(nominations by March 15) 

John Eiler  (chair)

(Other committee members will be listed once appointed.)


Fellows Committee (2008-2010)

(nominations by July 1)   

Catherine McCammon (Chair)
Patricia Dove
Terry Plank
Bernard Marty
Colin Wilson
Frank Spear

Kuno Award Committee

(nominations by May 1)

Jon Davidson (Chair) 
Charles R. Bacon
Craig Manning
Ikuo Kushiro


Union Medals Committee 

Charlie Langmuir (chair)
(Other committee members will be listed once appointed.)

 

 

 

 

 

Any committee chair wishing to establish a committee web page should contact Chris Nye at vgpweb@giseis.alaska.edu.


Comments or questions? Email vgpweb@giseis.alaska.edu

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