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: Dale Gary (to 08/2021)
- Vice-Chair: Craig DeForest (to 2021)
- Secretary: Peter Young (to 2022)
- Treasurer: David McKenzie (to 2022)
SPD Committee The SPD Committee consists of the officers (above) and the following Committee members:
- Holly Gilbert (to 2022)
- Nick Arge (to 2020)
- Paola Testa (to 2022)
- Bin Chen (to 2021)
- Nicki Viall (to 2021)
Former Officers and Committee Members
PDF chars of past officers and committee members:
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:
- Dana Longcope (Chair; to 2019)
- Silvina Guidoni (to 2019)
- Alphonse Sterling(to 2019)
Hale and Harvey Prize Committee
- Terry Kucera 2017-2021 (Chair)
- Frank Hill 2017-2021
- Kathy Reeves 2017-2021
- Jiong Qiu 2019-2023
- Tim Bastian 2019-2023
Popular Writing Award Committee
- James Mason (Chair)
- Angela DesJardins
- Cooper Downs
- Kelly Korreck
Public Policy Committee
- Gordon Emslie
- Stephen Bradshaw
- Nicole Duncan
- Kelly Korreck
- Brian Welsch
- Sarah Jaeggli
Education and Public Outreach Committee
- Laurel Rachmeler (Chair)
- Claire Raftery
- Mitzi Adams
- Camilo Buitraga-Casas
- Zoe Frank
- Trae Winter
- Craig DeForest, ex officio (SPD Press Officer)
- Brian Welsch, ex officio (Chair, Pop. Writing Award Com.)
- Timothy Slater, ex officio (AAS Astronomy Education Board)
Website Committee
- Alisdair Davey (Chair)
- Rick Bogart
- Steve Cranmer
- David McKenzie
- Angelos Vourlidas
SPD Student Committee
- Gordon Emslie (Chair)
- Lisa Upton
- Matthias Rempel
Metcalf Travel Award Committee
- Marc DeRosa, Chair (2019), (2014-2019)
- Maria Kazachenko (2019-2022)
- Michael Kirk (2018-2021)
- Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo (2018-2021)
Press Officer
SPD Handbook Editor
- John Leibacher
SolarMail
- Rick Bogart
Archivist
- Jack Thomas
Liaisons
- Todd Hoeksema (AAS Committee on Advocacy and Public Policy)
- Trae Winter (AAS Astronomy Education Board)