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:
Shadia Habbal (to 2011)
- Vice-chair: Todd Hoeksema (to 2010)
- Secretary: Yuhong Fan (to 2012)
- Treasurer: Joan Schmelz (to 2010)
SPD Committee
The SPD Committee consists of the officers (above) and the following Committee members:
- Bill Abbett (to 2011)
- Holly Gilbert (to 2010)
- James Klimchuk (to 2010)
- Scott McIntosh (to 2010)
- Alex Pevtsov (to 2011)
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:
- K. D. Leka (Chair)
- Joe Gurman
- Dave Webb
Hale and Harvey Prize Committee
- John Raymond, 2009 - 2013 (Chair)
- Gary Chapman, 2007 - 2011
- Holly Gilbert, 2007 - 2011
- Judy Karpen, 2009 - 2013
- Dana Longcope, 2009 - 2013
Popular Writing Award Committee
- Brian T. Welsch (Chair)
- Gordon Holman
- C. Renee James
- Manolis Georgoulis
- Noé Lugaz
Summer School Committee
- Terry Forbes (Chair)
- David Alexander
- Sarbani Basu
- John Leibacher
- Haimin Wang
- Amy Winebarger
- Ilia Roussev, ex officio (Past Summer School Director)
- Jiong Qiu ex officio (SPD Student Committee Member)
Education and Public Outreach Committee
- Zoe Frank (Chair)
- Emilie Drobnes (Vice Chair through 2010 Spring)
- Dave Dooling
- Spiros Patsourakos
- Ignacio Ugarte-Urro
- Trae Winter
- Rich Wolfson
- 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
SPD Student Committee
- Gordon Emslie (Chair)
- K.S. Balasubramaniam
- Jiong Qiu
Press Officer
-
Craig DeForest
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)