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

Meetings Committee — includes 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 Committee — judges 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.

Nominations Committee — AGU 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.  The members listed below will identify candidates for the 2006-2008 term.

Awards Committees — VGP has four awards committees that solicit nominations for awards and also recommend candidates for the Bowen Award to the VGP officers and for Fellows to the AGU Fellows Committee.  A new VGP 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).