Advisory Committee Nominations
The EarthScope Consortium Board of Directors is looking for volunteers to help guide and shape our new vision by serving on its Advisory Committees. The five EarthScope Advisory Committees will provide valuable insight and guidance to the new EarthScope Board, and will serve as important liaisons between the Consortium and the facility user community.
If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else for any of these committees, please fill out the Interest in EarthScope Consortium Governance Form.
While the duration of inaugural committee member commitments will vary, the typical Advisory Committee member is expected to serve a 3 year term, with three new members rotating onto the committee each year. Committee members are expected to participate in training related to onboarding, governance best practices, ethics, and implicit bias at the beginning of their terms.
Member Responsibilities:
- Be Informed: Participate in Onboarding, Governance Best Practices Training, and Ethics and anti-Bias Training.
- Be Visible: Actively solicit input from the broad stakeholder community.
- Be Fair and Impartial: Faithfully represent broader community needs and perspectives.
- Be Honest: Committee members should seek to meet the highest standards of transparency and ethics.
- Be an Active Committee Member:
- Prepare for and attend committee meetings (no more than two in-person meetings per year; Additional virtual meetings likely).
- Review and edit meeting briefing materials in advance of the next meeting
- Actively participate in committee discussions
Member/Committee Support to be provided by EarthScope:
- Limited caregiver support for governance participation
- Hybrid option available for all meetings
- Access to online resources for communication and record-keeping
- Administrative support including minutes-keeping at meetings
- Training in committee purpose, governance leading practices, and past committee actions
- Onboarding education describing responsibilities of governance members to represent broad interests
- Bias and ethics training
EarthScope Board of Directors
Member / Organization | Term Start / Term End |
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Lara Wagner (Chair) Carnegie Institution for Science | Jan 2023 / Dec 2024 |
Gareth Funning (Vice Chair) University of California, Riverside | Jan 2023 / Dec 2025 |
Leigh Stearns (Secretary) The University of Kansas | Jan 2023 / Dec 2023 |
Brandon Schmandt (Treasurer) University of New Mexico | Jan 2023 / Dec 2023 |
Kristel Chanard Institut de physique du globe de Paris | Jan 2023 / Dec 2025 |
Zachary Eilon University of California, Santa Barbara | Jan 2023 / Dec 2025 |
Jeffrey Freymueller Michigan State University | Jan 2023 / Dec 2023 |
Paul Lundgren NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Jan 2023 / Dec 2024 |
Beatrice Magnani Southern Methodist University | Jan 2023 / Dec 2025 |
Anne Sheehan University of Colorado | Jan 2023 / Dec 2023 |
Frederik Simons Princeton University | Jan 2023 / Dec 2024 |
Tonie van Dam University of Utah | Jan 2023 / Dec 2024 |
Integration and Innovation Advisory Committee
The Integration and Innovation Committee investigates possible new strategic opportunities for the EarthScope Consortium on topics such as emerging applications and technologies, leading practices in science support, and/or new or major revenue source.
Name/Organization | Term Start/Term End |
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Marine Denolle (Chair) University of Washington | January 2023/January 2025 |
Rick Aster Colorado State University | January 2023/January 2024 |
Roland Burgmann University of California, Berkeley | January 2023/January 2024 |
Chunli Dai University of Florida | March 2023/January 2025 |
Ronni Grapenthin University of Alaska, Fairbanks | January 2023/January 2024 |
Heiner Igel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | March 2023/January 2026 |
Harriet Lau Brown University | March 2023/January 2026 |