[iris-bulk] 2007 IRIS Nominations Committee Named

IRIS irismail at iris.washington.edu
Wed Jun 27 07:55:35 PDT 2007


Elections for important positions on the IRIS Board of Directors will  
be held during the Annual IRIS Membership Meeting in San Francisco on  
December 10.  The Nominations Committee has now been appointed by the  
Board and consists of:

Tom Owens (Chair)
University of South Carolina
owens at seis.sc.edu

Greg Beroza
Stanford University
beroza at geo.stanford.edu

Susan Schwartz
University of California, Santa Cruz
susan at es.ucsc.edu

All member representatives are encouraged to contact members of the  
Nominations Committee to provide suggestions for candidates for the  
open positions.   Elections will be held for four positions this year.

Three positions will be for three-year terms. The Directors whose  
regular term expires this year are:

Thorne Lay (Chair)
Karen Fischer
Tom Owens

Anne Trehu, who was recently appointed as Director of the  EarthScope  
National Office, will step down from the IRIS Board of Directors at  
the end of 2007.  Since Dr. Trehu's regular term of office expires at  
the end of 2008, a Director will be elected to serve the remaining  
year of her term.

As described in the elections procedures of the By Laws, the  
nominations committee "shall prepare a slate of one or more nominees  
for each Director position to be filled.” Prior to the Annual IRIS  
Membership Meeting at AGU on Monday, December 10, you will be  
informed of the candidates and provided with details on the voting  
procedures.

Continuing Directors are:

Chuck Ammon – Vice Chair (08)
Kenneth Creager (09)
James Gaherty (09)
Anne Sheehan (08) Suzan van der Lee (09)

Thank you for your continued involvement in the activities of your  
Consortium.



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