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Atmospheric Chemistry Division

Editorships

External Scientific, Policy and Education Committees and Advisory Panels


Advanced Study Program


Atmospheric Technology Division

Editorships

External Scientific, Policy, or Educational Committees and Advisory Panels

Awards


Climate and Global Dynamics Division

Editorships

Gordon Bonan, Editor, Journal of Climate, 1998; Editor, Climatic Change, 1992; Editorial Advisory Board, Global Change Biology, 1994

Grant Branstator, Associate Editor, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 1994

Clara Deser, Associate Editor, Journal of Climate, 1996

Scott Doney, Associate Editor, Reviews of Geophysics, 1997

Peter Gent, Associate Editor, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 1992

James Hack, Editor, Journal of Climate, 1998

Matthew Hecht, Associate Editor, Monthly Weather Review, 1998

Jeffrey Kiehl, Board of Reviewing Editors, Science Magazine, 1997

William Large, Associate Editor, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 1992

Ralph Milliff, Guest Editor, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 1998

Doug Nychka, Associate Editor, Technometrics, 1995

Bette Otto-Bliesner, Associated Editor, Paleoclimates, 1992

Philip Rasch, Editorial Panel Member, Tellus, 1992

David Schimel, Consulting Editor, Biogeochemistry, Ecological Applications, Global Change Biology, 1989

Kevin Trenberth, Editor, Earth Interactions, 1996-1998

Joseph Tribbia, Editor, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 1993

Tom M. L. Wigley, Editorial Board, Climate Dynamics, 1994; Global Climate Change Digest, 1989; Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 1995; Editorial Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Climate & Weather, 1996

Robert L. Wilby, Review Editor, Climate Research, 1998

Scientific, Policy, or Education Committees and Advisory Panels

Maurice Blackmon, Member, Climate Research Committee, National Research Council, 1997; Chair, NCAR Climate System Model (CSM) Scientific Steering Committee, 1996; Chair, Board of Governors, Colorado Alliance for Science, 1995; Science Team Member, NASA's Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES); Co-Chair, Scientific Working Group, Atlantic Climate Change Project, 1993; Chair, Working Group on Natural Variability, Model Validation and Climate Diagnostics, Climate System Modeling Program; Member, American Meteorology Society Committee on Climate Variations, 1991; Member, International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology; Member, IAMAP, Working Group D, Medium and Large-Scale Dynamics

Gordon Bonan, Co-Chair, CSM Land Modeling Working Group, 1996

Byron Boville, Co-Chair, Climate System Model (CSM) Project at NCAR, 1993; Member, IAMAS Commission on the Meteorology of the Upper Atmosphere, 1991; Member, IAMAS Commission on the Meteorology of the Upper Atmosphere (ICMUA) Working Group on Modeling of the Middle Atmosphere, 1988; Member, Organizing Committee for the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Climate Modeling, 1996; Member, CSM Scientific Steering Committee, 1996

Grant Branstator, Member, National Research Council’s U. S. Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System (GOALS) Panel, 1994

Frank Bryan, Member, CSM Scientific Steering Committee, 1998; Co-director, International Earth Rotation Service Sub-bureau for the Ocean, 1998

William Collins, Member, Earth Observing System (EOS) Validation Team, 1997; Member, Scanner for Radiation Budget (ScaRaB) Science Team, 1995; Member, Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) Science Team, 1996

Clara Deser, Member, American Meteorology Society Committee on Climate Variations, 1994

Scott Doney, Member, U.S. JGOFS Steering Committee, 1993; Member, U.S. World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Scientific Steering Committee, 1997; Co-chair, CSM Biogeochemistry Working Group, 1998

Ronald Errico, Member, Organizing Committee for 3rd Adjoint Workshop; Member, Organizing Committee for Workshop on Use of Satellite Observations in Data Assimilation

Peter Gent, Co-Chair, Climate System Model Project at NCAR, 1995; Co-chair, CSM Ocean Working Group, 1996; Member, CSM Scientific Steering Committee, 1996; Member, Working Group for Modeling and Prediction of the International Research Institute at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1998

James Hack, Member, DOE Climate Change Prediction Program (CCPP) Science Team, 1991; Member, DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Program Advisory Panel, 1990; Member, NASA FIRE-III Science Team, 1995; Member, DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurements (ARM) Science Team, 1991; Co-Chair, CSM Atmospheric Modeling Working Group, 1997; Member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Computer Science and Mathematics Division Advisory Committee, 1998

James Hurrell, Member, Great Plains Regional Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change, 1994; Member, Advisory Panel for NCEP CDAS/Reanalysis Project, 1994; Member, American Meteorology Society Committee on Meteorology and Oceanography of the Southern Hemisphere, 1995; Member, GPS/Meteorology Advisory Committee, 1995; Member, Atlantic Climate Change Advisory Committee, 1997; Co-chair, CSM Natural Variability Working Group, 1997; Member, National Research Council Panel on the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment, 1997; Member, U.S. CLIVAR Scientific Steering Committee, 1998

Jeffrey Kiehl, Member, International Global Aerosol Chemistry Committee on Aerosol Forcing, 1993; Member, DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurements (ARM) Science Team, 1991; Co-Director, NSF Science and Technology Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate (C4), 1997; Chairman, General Circulation Model (GCM) Validation Working Group at the Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate (C4), 1994; Member, CSM Scientific Steering Committee, 1996; Co-Chair, CSM Chemistry and Climate Change Working Group, 1997; Member, Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) International Scientific Steering Committee, 1996; Member, NCAR Aerosol Panel, 1997; Member, Climate Variability (CLIVAR) Scientific Steering Committee, 1998

Tim Kittel, Member, National Technical Advisory Committee; National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC), DOE, 1996; Member, National Science Foundation Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program Climate Committee, 1990; Science Team Member, Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project, 1993; Member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center User Working Group, 1997; Member, Central Great Plains Assessment Steering Committee; U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, 1998

William Large, Co-chairman of the International WOCE Science Steering Group, 1997; Member, NSF’s Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Interaction (OAII) Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic (SHEBA) Advisory Committee, 1996; Member, American Meteorology Society Committee on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, 1997; Co-chair, CSM Polar Climate Working Group, 1998

Roland Madden, Member, Advisory Board for Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 1995; Member, NOAA/ERL Aeronomy Laboratory Review Committee, 1998

James C. McWilliams, Member, Scientific Advisory Council of NSF Climate Modeling, Prediction, and Analysis Program, 1990; Member, U.S. World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Scientific Steering Committee, 1994; Member, MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1995; Member, U.S. Ocean CLIVAR Planning Committee for NSF, 1995; Member, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth Science Advisory Council, 1997

Gerald Meehl, Member, Climate System Model Investigators Group, 1994; Member, Climate Simulation Laboratory (CSL) Allocation Panel, 1995; Visiting Senior Fellow, University of Hawaii Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, 1995; Member, Climate Variability and Predictability Working Group on Coupled Models (CLIVAR WGCM), World Climate Research Programme, 1997; Member, Japan/U.S. Scientific Advisory Committee for the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, 1997; Chairman, Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), 1996; Member, NRC Panel on Climate Observing Systems Status (PCOSS), 1998; Lead Author, IPCC Special Report on the Regional Impacts of Climate Change, 1997; Contributor, "Glossary of Meteorology," 1997; Coordinating Lead Author, IPCC Third Assessment Report, Chapter 9, Projections of Climate Change, 1998

Doug Nychka, Cascadia Tropospheric Ozone Peer Review Panel, 1997; Research Fellow, National Institute of Statistical Science

Bette Otto-Bliesner, Co-Chair, CSM Paleoclimate Working Group, 1996; Member, Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP), 1995

Philip Rasch, Member, NSF Science and Technology Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate (C4), 1990; Co-Chair, Chemistry Modeling Group at the NSF Science and Technology Center for Clouds, and Climate (C4), 1994; Member, NCAR Aerosol Panel, 1997; Member, Coordinating Committee of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project on Stratospheric and Upper Tropospheric Aerosols (SUTA), 1998

R. Saravanan, Member, NOAA Atlantic Climate Variability Advisory Panel, 1998

David Schimel, Member, Advisory Committee, Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, 1997; Convening Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, 1994 and 1995; Visiting Member, Graduate Faculty, Texas A&M University; Member, U.S. National Academy Committee on Global Change Research; Member, National Research Council Committee on Global Change Research; Member, University of Colorado's Global Change and Environmental Quality Program Committee; Member, International Geosphere-Biosphere Program: Task Force on Global Analysis, Interpretation and Modeling; Member, U.S. National Academy Ecosystems Panel; Member, Governing Board, National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis

Dennis Shea, Member, 7th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, 1997; Member, 14th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, 1997; Member, American Meteorology Society Probability and Statistics Committee, 1997

Starley Thompson, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, "Forces of Change" Exhibit, 1995; Member, Circumpolar Arctic Paleo Environments (CAPE) Steering Committee, 1995; Member, Project GLOBE Focus Group on Scientific Visualization, 1995; Member, Committee on Transportation and a Sustainable Environment, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, 1994; Member, Committee on Global Environmental Change, American Geophysical Union, 1993; Member, Electorate Nominating Committee, Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993; Member, National Science Foundation Paleoclimate of Arctic Lakes and Estuaries (PALE) Steering Committee, 1993; Member, Committee on Glaciology of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Polar Research Board, 1988; Advisor, Atmospheric Sciences Guild of Sandia National Laboratory, 1992

Kevin Trenberth, Member, NOAA Panel on Climate and Global Change, 1987 and Executive Committee, 1991; Member, ECMWF Reanalysis (ERA) Project Advisory Group, 1993; Member, Climate Modeling, Analysis and Prediction (CMAP) Science Advisory Council, 1993; Member, Atmospheric Observation Panel for the Global Climate Observing System, 1994; Member, COLA (Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies) Scientific Advisory Committee, 1994 and Chair, 1998; Member, Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System (GOALS) Panel, 1994; Member, International CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group, 1995, and Co-chair, 1996; Member, CSM Advisory Board, 1998; Member, NOAA Council on Long-term Monitoring, 1998; Member, Review Panel for NCEP Climate Prediction Center, 1998

Harry van Loon, Member, Solar Terrestrial Energy Program of ICSU, Working Group No. 5, and Project Leader, Solar Terrestrial Oscillation Project, 1995

Warren Washington, Member, National Science Board, 1995; Member, Secretary of Energy's Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee, 1990; Chair, Secretary of Energy's Health and Environmental Research Subcommittee on Biological and Environment Research Program in the U.S. Global Change Research Program, 1995; Member, Modernization Transition Committee of the National Weather Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1993; Past President, American Meteorological Society, 1994; Member, Executive Committee, American Meteorological Society Council, 1995; Chair, Fellows Committee, American Meteorological Society, 1995; Member, Board on Sustainable Development, National Research Council, 1995; Member, Advisory Panel, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, 1995; Member, The National Committee, American Association for the Advancement of Science Center for Science and Engineering, 1994; Member, National Science Board Programs and Plans Committees: CPP Task Force on the Environment; CPP Task Force on Polar Issues; and Chair, Merit Review Criteria Task Force, 1996; Member, NASA Earth Systems Science and Applications Advisory Committee (ESSAAC), 1998; Member, Board of Trustees of the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, 1998; Member, Executive Committee, National Science Board, 1998; Member, NOAA Science Advisory Board, 1998; Member, American Meteorological Society, History of the Atmospheric Sciences Committee, 1999

Tom M. L. Wigley, Member, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), 1995; Member, Climate and Paleoclimate Committee, 1996; Member, NCAR Aerosols Project (NAP) Steering Committee, 1997

David Williamson, Member, CAS/JSC Working Group for Numerical Experimentation (WGNE), 1991; Member, DOE Climate Change Prediction Program (CCPP) Science Team, 1991; Chairman, NSF/NCEP Workshop on Global Weather and Climate Modeling, 1998; Member, Atmospheric Modeling Intercomparison Project, 1996

Professional Society Memberships

Thomas Bettge, American Meteorological Society

Maurice Blackmon, American Meteorological Society

David Blankinship, American Meteorological Society

Gordon Bonan, American Geophysical Union

Byron Boville, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society; Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

Esther Brady, American Geophysical Union; The Oceanography Society

Frank Bryan, American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union; The Oceanography Society

William Collins, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society; American Physical Society; American Association for the Advancement of Science

Clara Deser, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society

Scott Doney, American Geophysical Union; The Oceanography Society

Benjamin Felzer, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society; Geological Society of America; Society of Sigma Xi

Aime Fournier, American Meteorological Society; Union of Concerned Scientists

Peter Gent, American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union

James Hack, American Meteorological Society

Matthew Hecht, American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union

Tim Hoar, American Statistical Association; American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union

James Hurrell, American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union

Akira Kasahara, American Meteorological Society (Fellow); American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow); American Geophysical Union; Meteorological Society of Japan (Honorary Member); Sigma Xi

Jeffrey Kiehl, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society

Timothy Kittel, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society; Ecological Society of America; International Association for Vegetation Science

Erik Kluzek, European Geophysical Society

Roland Madden, American Meteorological Society

Gerald Meehl, American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union; Pacific Science Association

Ralph Milliff, American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union; The Oceanography Society

Philippe Naveau, American Statistical Association; Institute for Mathematical Statistics

Douglas Nychka, American Statistical Association; Institute for Mathematical Statistics

Bette Otto-Bliesner, American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society; Geological Society of America; New York Academy of Sciences

Philip Rasch, American Meteorological Society

David Schimel, American Geophysical Union; Ecological Society of America

Dennis Shea, American Meteorological Society

Christine Shields, American Meteorological Society

Gary Sneddon, American Statistical Association; Statistical Society of Canada

Claudia Tebaldi, American Statistical Association

Starley Thompson, American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society

Kevin Trenberth, American Meteorological Society; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Royal Meteorological Society of New Zealand; American Geophysical Union

Warren Washington, American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society

John Weatherly, American Geophysical Union

Tom M. L. Wigley, American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Geophysical Union

Robert L. Wilby, British Hydrological Society; American Geophysical Union; International Association of Hydrological Sciences; Air and Waste Management Association

David Williamson, American Meteorological Society

Honors and Awards

James Hurrell, NCAR's Outstanding Publication Award, 1997

Akira Kasahara, Honorary Member, Meteorological Society of Japan

William Large, NASA Group Achievement Award as a member of the NSCAT Science Team

Ralph Milliff, NASA Group Achievement Award as a member of the NSCAT Science Team

Warren Washington, Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, 1998-1999; UCAR Walter Orr Roberts Distinguished Lecturer, 1998

Tom M. L. Wigley, 1997 Outstanding Scientific Paper Award, NOAA, Environmental Research Laboratories; 1998 Norbert Gerbier-MUMM International Award

 


Environmental and Societal Impacts Group

Editorships of Peer-Reviewed Journals

Scientific, Policy, or Educational Committees, Advisory Panels, Boards


High Altitude Observatory

Editorships of Peer Reviewed Journals

Paul Charbonneau was Guest Editor of Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, special issue on "Stratified and Rotating Turbulence," vol. 11, No. 3-4, 1998.

Peter A. Fox is an Associate Editor of Fundamentals of Cosmic Physics, 1993-present.

Thomas E. Holzer is an Associate Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research, Space Physics, 1995-1998.

Boon Chye Low is a member of the Board of Editors of Solar Physics, 1992-1998.

Arthur D. Richmond is an Associate Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research, Space Physics, 1997-2000.

Scientific, Policy, or Educational Committees and Advisory Panels or Boards

Thomas J. Bogdan is a member of the Solar Magnetism Initiative (SMI) Steering Committee, 1996-present.

Timothy M. Brown served on the Big Bear Solar Observatory Users Committee, 1997.

Timothy M. Brown serves on the NSO Users Committee, 1997-2000.

Barbara A. Emery serves on the Information Systems and Science Operations (ISSO) Management Operations Working Group (MOWG), NASA, 1997-present.

Barbara A. Emery is an ex-officio member of CEDAR Science Steering Committee, 1987-present.

Barbara A. Emery serves on the Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere-Stratosphere Subgroup of the NASA Space Physics Data System (SPDS), 1994-present.

Peter A. Fox serves on the SunRISE Scientific Steering Committee, 1994-present.

Peter A. Fox is a member of the International Solar Cycle Studies (Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics), Working Group 1, Subgroup 3, 1997-present.

Peter A. Fox is a member of the Distributed Oceanographic Data System (DODS) Technical Advisory Committee, 1997-present.

Peter A. Gilman serves on the Global Oscillations Network Group (GONG) Scientific Advisory Committee, 1985-present.

Peter A. Gilman serves on the SOLIS Advisory Committee, 1997-present.

Peter A. Gilman serves on the Solar Magnetism Initiative (SMI) Steering Committee, 1996-present.

Peter A. Gilman served on the Search Committee for the Director of the National Solar Observatory, 1997-1998.

Peter A. Gilman serves on the Council of the Solar Physics Division, American Astronomical Society, 1998-present.

Maura E. Hagan serves on the NASA/NRC Committee of Solar Terrestrial Research, 1996-1999.

Maura E. Hagan serves on the CEDAR Science Steering Committee, 1997-2000.

Maura E. Hagan is a co-chair of the Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics subgroup for Planetary Scale Mesopause Observing System (PSMOS), 1996-1997.

Thomas E. Holzer is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Max-Planck- Institut fur Aeronomie in Lindau, Germany, 1996-1999.

Michael T. F. Knoelker is a member of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) Observatory Visiting Committee (OVC), 1996-present.

Michael T. F. Knoelker is a member of the Solar Magnetism Initiative (SMI) Steering Committee, 1995-present.

Michael T. F. Knoelker served as Chairman of the NCAR Search Committee for Director of the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG), 1997-1998.

Michael T. F. Knoelker served on the NCAR Working Group on Emeritus Designation, 1998.

Michael T. F. Knoelker is a member of the Working Group on UCAR Outstanding performance Awards, 1998.

Bruce W. Lites is a member of the NASA Solar-B Science Definition Team, 1994-1997.

Bruce W. Lites is a member of the Solar Magnetism Initiative (SMI) Steering Committee, 1995-present.

Boon Chye Low is a member of the Solar Magnetism Initiative (SMI) Steering Committee, 1995-present.

Gang Lu is an Associate of the Center for Integrated Plasma Studies at the University of Colorado, 1996-present.

Keith B. MacGregor was Chairman of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the European Southern Observatory Workshop on Cyclical Variability in Stellar Winds, 1996-November 1997.

Keith B. MacGregor was a member of the NSF Stellar Astronomy and Astrophysics Program, Panel on Solar and Stellar Models, December 1997.

Keith B. MacGregor was a Member of the NASA Sun-Earth Connection Program Theory Review Panel, August 1998.

Arthur D. Richmond is a member of the Groupe International de Recherche en Geophysique Europe Afrique (GIRGEA), 1995-present.

Arthur D. Richmond is a member of the Science and Technology Definition Team for the NASA Global Electrodynamics Mission, 1998-present.

Raymond G. Roble serves on the Advisory Board at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, 1985-present.

Raymond G. Roble serves on the University of Michigan College of Engineering Alumni Society Board of Governors, 1996-present.

Steven Tomczyk is a member of the Global Oscillations Network Group (GONG) Data Management and Analysis Center Users Committee, 1995-present.

Oran R. (Dick) White serves on the SunRISE Precision Solar Photometric Telescope (PSPT) Steering Committee, 1992-present.

Oran R. (Dick) White serves on the NOAA Solar Prediction Panel, 1997-1999.

Awards

Arthur D. Richmond received Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, Journal of Geophysical Research, Space Physics, April 29, 1998.


Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division

Scientific, Policy and Education Committees and Advisory Panels

Awards


Research Applications Program


Scientific Computing Division

Education

Aaron Andersen served as a scientific research mentor in the SOARS program.

Brian Bevirt served as a scientific writing mentor in the SOARS program. He also teaches Technical Writing as a service to the University of Colorado Division of Continuing Education.

Jeff Boote provided a morning session for the Project Learn activity on the use of new web technologies to convey scientific content.

Nancy Dawson served as a scientific writing mentor in the SOARS program.

Pete Peterson served as a community mentor in the SOARS program.

Tim Scheitlin participated in the Colorado Computational Science Fair in April, and presented six half-hour demos in the Visualization Lab for science fair attendees.

External Scientific, Policy or Educational Committees

Bill Buzbee, Ph.D, serves on the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute's External Advisory Board. He is a member of ACM, IEEE and the IEEE subcommittee on Supercomputing (SIAM), and the American Meteorological Society (AMS). He is also on the advisory board of RCI, Ltd., an international consortium of leading-edge users and vendors of High Performance Computing. He is listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering and is currently listed in American Men and Women of Science.

Ginger Caldwell served on the SC97 Education Program Committee for the SC97 conference held in San Jose, November 15-21, 1997. She is the SC98 Education Chair for SC98 held November 7-13, 1998 in Orlando. Plans include videoconferencing a special three-day session for teachers located in four states using video over IP technology. Over 150 educators will attend sessions in Orlando with over 100 educators in Illinois, Iowa, and North Carolina attending.

Susan Cross serves as Local Planning Committee Chair for the 20th Annual National Conference of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. She also served as a judge for the 1997 Technical Art Competition conducted by the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication.

Rachelle Daily serves as Secretary, Executive Board, IEEE Computer Society, Mass Storage Technical Committee.

Sally Haerer is President of the Cray User Group (CUG), an international organization focused on the effective usage of high-performance computing resources from Silicon Graphics, Inc. She chairs the organization's Board of Directors and Advisory Council. She is a member of the Parallel Tools Consortium (Ptools) Steering Committee, which works to make parallel tools more responsive to user needs. She assisted with the technical programs for the '97 and '98 annual meetings hosted at NCAR. Sally served as Research Exhibits Chair for the SC'97 Conference. She now serves on the SC'98 Tutorials Committee, charged with the review and selection of high-quality tutorials to be presented to conference attendees this November in Orlando. Additionally, she is on the SC'99 Executive Committee as Exhibits Coordinator. She oversees the planning of Industry Exhibits, Research Exhibits, Research Posters, the Exhibitor Forum, HPC Challenge, and Security for that conference.

Steve Hammond, PhD, is a member of IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Supercomputer Applications Excutive Committee. He is a member of Sigam Xi, the Scientific Research Society of North America. He is also a member of the SC98 Program Committee and the program committee for the Second International Workshop on Software Engineering and Code Design in Parallel Meteorological and Oceanographic Applications. He was co-organizer of the first Workshop of Climate, Ocean, and Weather Benchmarks. He also served as a scientific writing mentor in the SOARS program.

Roy Jenne serves as chair of the data exchange project under the US-Russia WG-VIII project. His memberships include the NRC Panel on the US co-op observing net of 8000 stations, the team for US Assessment Studies (for climate model archives), the data committee for GCIP (mesoscale model data), the EOSDIS Review Group (ERG) for NASA Earth Science Data Systems, and the study group for the new NASA EOSDIS.

Jeff Kuehn served as Chair of Performance and Evaluation SIG and Chair of Programming Environments SIG for the Cray User Group, where he is an Advisory Council Member. He also served as a Steering Committee Member for the Parallel Tools Consortium. For both of these groups, he assisted in arranging their annual meetings and managed their presence (booths) at the Supercomputing 97 conference.

Lynda Lester is the managing editor/photographer for CUG.log, the international newsletter of the Cray User Group (CUG), and secretary of the CUG Advisory Council. She managed the CUG booth at SC97, scheduling volunteers and working with Silicon Graphics Cray to produce visual materials and handouts. Lester helped produce the first of DIG's seminar series on "The Impact of the Internet on the World," working with Dr. William Moninger from NOAA who gave a presentation on "The Internet and the Relaxation of Structure."

Bernard T.O'Lear is a member of the IEEE Computer Society Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee Executive Committee. He was a member of the program committe for the combined Sixth NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and the 15th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems. He was co-chair with Bill Buzbee of the Computers in Atmospheric Sciences 98 (CAS98) meeting sponsored by SCD and four vendors in Annecy France, June 30 to July 2, 1998.