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:
- Chair:
Todd Hoeksema (to 2009)
- Vice-chair: Shadia Habbal (to 2009)
- Secretary: Neal E. Hurlburt (to 2009)
- Treasurer: Joan Schmelz (to 2010)
SPD Committee
The SPD Committee consists of the officers (above) and the following Committee members:
- Douglas A. Biesecker (to 2009)
- Holly Gilbert (to 2010)
- James Klimchuk (to 2010)
- Scott McIntosh (to 2010)
- Amy R. Winebarger (to 2009)
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)