Officers

Note: SPD officers who are federal government employees represent themselves as private citizens and not the federal government in any and all Society business.

The SPD officers are:

SPD Committee

The SPD Committee consists of the officers (above) and the following Committee members:


Former officers and committee members

PDF charts of past officers and committee members are available.

Nominating Committee

The Nominating Committee (see by-laws) submits nominations to the SPD Secretary for vacancies in the positions of Officers and Committee-persons. The Nominating Committee ascertains the willingness of its nominees to serve if elected.

Current Nominating Committee members are:

  • Ron Moore (Chair)
  • K. D. Leka
  • Joe Gurman

Hale and Harvey Prize Committee

  • Aad Van Ballegooijen (Chair)
  • Gary Chapman
  • Holly Gilbert
  • Steve Keil
  • Phil Scherrer

Popular Writing Award Committee

  • Mark Linton (Chair)
  • Joan Burkepile
  • Jim McTiernan
  • Ellen Shortill
  • Curt Suplee

Summer School Committee

  • Terry Forbes (Chair)
  • John Leibacher
  • David Alexander
  • Sarbani Basu
  • Gordon Emslie, ex officio
  • Haimin Wang
  • Amy Winebarger
  • Jim Ryan

Education and Public Outreach Committee

  • Emilie Drobnes (Chair)
  • Dave Dooling
  • Zoe Frank
  • Spiros Patsourakos
  • Pete Riley
  • Rich Wolfson
  • Jie Zhang
  • Craig DeForest, ex officio (SPD Press Officer)
  • Terry Forbes, ex officio (Chair, Summer School Committee)
  • Mark Linton, ex officio (Chair, Pop. Writing Award Com.)
  • Gordon Emslie, ex officio (SPD Studentship Awards Program)
  • Jacob Noel Storr, ex officio (AAS Astronomy Education Board)

Website Committee

  • Joe Gurman (Chair)
  • Rick Bogart
  • Steve Cranmer
  • David McKenzie
  • Angelos Vourlidas

Press Officer

    Craig DeForest

Studentships

    A. Gordon Emslie

SPD Handbook Editor

    John Leibacher

SolarMail

    Rick Bogart

Archivist

    Jack Thomas

Liaisons

  • Tom Ayres (Stellar Astrophysics)
  • Jim Chen (Plasma Physcis)
  • Vahe Petrosian (High Energy)
  • Merav Opher (AGU: Solar-Terrestrial Physics)