2007 Nominations and Ballot

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

2007 Nominations for Offices

GROUP POSITION NOMINEE (ESIP Type) NOMINATED BY (1st & 2nd)
Assembly Officers President Chuck Hutchinson, University of Arizona (II) Ledley/Schloss  
Vice President Rob Raskin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (III) Yunck/Reiff  

Constitution and Bylaws Committee

Chair Sam Bacharach, Open Geospatial Consortium Montgomery/Caron  

Finance and Appropriations Committee

Chair Bruce Caron, New Media Studio Domenico/Frew  

Partnership
Committee

Chair Tom Yunck, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Schloss/Montgomery  

Commercial Development Committee

Chair Stefan Falke, SHAIReD, Washington University in St. Louis Husar/Reiff  

Community Engagement Committee

Chair TBA  

Education Committee

Chair Tamara Ledley, TERC Dahlman/Benedict 

Information Technology & Interoperability Committee

Chair Karl Benedict, Earth Data Analysis Center, University of New Mexico Jasmin/Raskin  

Products and Services Committee

Chair Jeff Arnfield, NOAA National Climatic Data Center Burrows/Raskin  

*Multiple nominees for any office are welcome. Send nominations to carol.meyer@earthsciencefoundation.org

2007 Call for Nominations

Each year, the ESIP Federation conducts elections of its officers, committee chairs and vice chairs, ESIP Type Representatives and Administrative Committee members. We are at the time of year when we begin accepting nominations for the following positions which are elected Federation-wide:

Officers
President*
Vice President*
Administrative Committee Positions
Constitution and Bylaws, Chair
Finance and Appropriations, Chair*
Partnership, Chair
Standing Committee Positions
Commercial Development, Chair
Community Engagement, Chair
Education, Chair
Information Technology and Interoperability, Chair
Products and Services, Chair

The current ESIP Type Representatives will be contacting their respective caucuses to begin accepting nominations for the following positions:

ESIP Type Representative* (a Type I, Type II and Type III are needed)
ESIP Type Representative from each of the ESIP Types I, II and III is needed to fill a seat on each of the Administrative Committees (Constitution and Bylaws; Finance and Appropriations, Partnership)

Note: This is the first year that the ESIP Type Caucuses are electing Administrative Committee members and a Type Representative to the Executive Committee.

All Officers, Committee Chairs and Type Representatives serve on the ESIP Federation Executive Committee. The positions marked with an asterisk (*) also serve on the Board of the Foundation for Earth Science. Nominations will be accepted through July 2, 2007.