Scientific
Leadership and
Collaboration
pg. 6-7
MISSION
The purpose of the American Geophysical Union is
to promote discovery in Earth and space science for
the benefit of humanity.
VISION
Science
and Society
AGU galvanizes a community of Earth and
space scientists that collaboratively advances and
communicates science and its power to ensure a
sustainable future.
2011 MEMBERSHIP DATA – AT A GLANCE
• The official 2011 year-end AGU membership number
is 61,676. The 2010 year-end number was 60,847.
• The 2011 year-end gender distribution is:
20% Female, 63% Male, and 17% unreported.
• The retention rate of members in 2011 was 85%.
• AGU members resided in 146 countries in 2011.
• In 2011, 23% of AGU members were students. Of
the 77% classified as regular members. 2% were
Fellows, 1% were Associate Members, 2% were Life
Members, and 1% were Retired.
pg. 8-9
INTERNATIONAL & DOMESTIC
United States & Territories
61%
Canada
4%
Latin America
2%
Western Europe
17%
Eastern Europe
1%
Science and Society
Middle East & North Africa
1%
The American Geophysical Union engages members, shapes policy,
and informs society about the excitement of Earth and space science
and its role in developing solutions for the sustainability of the planet.
Central & South Africa
0%
South Asia
1%
Western Pacific
13%
STRATEGIC GOALS
Scientific Leadership and Collaboration
The American Geophysical Union is a leader, collaborator and sought
after partner for scientific innovation, rigor and interdisciplinary focus
on global issues.
Talent Pool
pg. 10-11
Talent Pool
The American Geophysical Union is a diverse and inclusive
organization that uses its position to build the global talent pool in
Earth and space science.
92% OF AGU MEMBERS HAD A PRIMARY AFFILIATION
TO A SECTION OR FOCUS GROUP IN 2011.
Organizational Excellence
Organizational
Excellence
As a scientific society, the American Geophysical Union operates
within a new business model that is sustainable, transparent, and
inclusive in ways that are responsive to members and stakeholders.
Ocean Sciences
1%
Atmospheric
Sciences
2%
Hydrology
13%
pg. 12-13
Volcanology,
Geochemestry
and Petrology
3%
13%
Biogeosciences
Tectonophysics
5%
Financial
Summary
13%
6%
6%
pg. 14-15
Space Physics
and Aeronomy
Seismology
5%
8%
Planetary
Sciences
Global Environmental
Change
Paleoceanography
and Paleoclimatology
Geodesy
Earth and Planetary
Surface Processes
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PERCENT OF REGION TO MEMBERSHIP
THE AGE DISTRIBUTION OF AGU
MEMBERS IN 2011 RANGED FROM 18-100.
Cryoshere
Sciences
Geomagnetism &
Paleomagnetism
Near-Surface
Geophysis
3%
12%
14%
Under 30
Mineral and Rock
Physics
Earth and Space
Science Informatcs
30 to 44
45 to 59
14%
60 to74
Natural Hazards
31%
Study of the Earth’s
Deep Interior
LESS THAN 1%
Atmospheric and
Space Electricity
75+
Unknown
26%
Nonlinear
Geophysics
Societal Impacts
and Policy Sciences
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Letter from the President
Henry Ford once said, “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is
progress. Working together is success.” As I reflect on the events of 2011, the
challenges AGU has faced, and the successes we have achieved, Ford’s words
are particularly relevant.
A little over two years ago we instituted a new governance structure to help
us carry out AGU’s mission “to promote discovery in Earth and space science
for the benefit of humanity.” We also adopted a new strategic plan built on four
pillars: pursuing scientific excellence and collaboration, promoting science for the
benefit of society, nurturing development of the global talent pool, and sustaining
organizational excellence to meet the needs of our members.
The foundation of the new governance structure is based upon collaborative leadership shared between
a board and council. The board has responsibility for financial, legal, and organizational matters, while the
council guides the scientific affairs of the union. The extraordinary progress we have made toward achieving
the goals outlined in our strategic plan is a testament to the value of this new structure. Below are just a few
highlights from 2011.
We continued to increase the frequency and scope of our press releases and other media-related activities
to promote groundbreaking AGU research. Likewise, we increased the number of press releases on key
science policy issues and current events. These efforts to broadly share our scientific knowledge led to the
more than 10,000 stories worldwide quoting AGU sources. We likewise published a letter to the editor in The
Washington Post, which has a circulation of more than 500,000, articulating the importance of funding for
scientific research. On Forbes.com we responded to a story that criticized the scientific consensus on climate
change and the integrity of climate scientists. We also increased our reach though social media, including
YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and the AGU Blogosphere. As an example, at the end of 2011, there were more
than 112,000 page views per month on the Blogosphere.
AGU has increased efforts to support grassroots member engagement in several ways. We provided
members with opportunities to meet their congressional representatives, both in Washington, D. C., and in
their hometowns, to discuss their research and its societal value. In 2011, more than 60 members came to
Washington, D. C., to participate in Congressional Visits Day programs that were organized, sponsored, and/
or cosponsored by AGU, including the first-ever Climate Science on Capitol Hill Day event. We also offered
training to more than 200 members in how to communicate effectively with diverse audiences, whether it be
one-on-one, using social media, or in formal settings.
UNION OFFICERS
Carol A. Finn
President-Elect
Christine McEntee
Executive Director & CEO
Francis Albarède
International Secretary
Timothy L. Grove
Immediate Past President
improve accessibility of content and member engagement. These included a smartphone mobile app that
was downloaded more than 11,000 times and ePosters, 2200 of which were uploaded by the end of the
meeting. We also officially recognized 79 AGU members for their leadership and scientific achievements
and inaugurated a new Climate Communication Prize. News from the Fall Meeting was carried in hundreds
of publications from around the world. In addition, AGU also hosted eight topically focused Chapman
Conferences, where groups of 75–150 attendees from around the world gathered to present and discuss
leading-edge research.
AGU continued to produce 19 leading scientific journals read in more than 150 countries. Among them,
Paleoceanography ranked number one in its class for the sixteenth consecutive year. Geophysical Research
Letters and the Journal of Geophysical Research–Atmospheres both ranked in the top 10 most cited
publications on climate change. Our Books Digital Library, which now houses 580 book titles, also continued
to expand and reach wider audiences though inclusion in Microsoft Academic Search.
We enhanced our efforts to develop the next generation talent pool in Earth and space science by providing
student travel grants, recognition programs, and specialized education on topics such as how to secure NSF
funding. We supported science educators in a variety of ways, one of which included training workshops for
middle school through graduate-level teachers. For all our members we provided career services such as
networking social functions, an active online Career Center, and free instructional webinars.
In this report we have profiled the work of a few AGU members. These individuals represent only a
small percentage of our over 61,000 members, but their inspiring stories are a genuine reflection of how
collectively we advance Earth and space science to address the great challenges that face our society today.
These individuals reflect attributes that make AGU a great organization: dedication, integrity, excellence,
engagement, diversity, and unselfish cooperation in research.
It has been an honor to serve as AGU’s president during this time of change and growth. I am proud of
what we achieved in 2011 not only because of how it has contributed to the vitality and broad impact of our
organization but also because of how it positions us for even greater success in the future.
Sincerely,
Fall Meeting attendance records were once again broken when more than 22,000 participants gathered
in San Francisco’s Moscone Center in December 2011. We launched several new technologies there to
Michael J. McPhaden, President
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Lisa Tauxe
General Secretary
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2011 HIGHLIGHTS
Publications
• Produced 19 leading Earth and space science research
journals through the efforts of nearly 475 volunteer editors and
associate editors, approximately 15,000 reviewers, and AGU
staff. Geophysical Research Letters and Journal of Geophysical
Research–Atmospheres both ranked among the top 10 most
highly cited research publications on climate change over the
past decade. Paleoceanography ranked number one for the
sixteenth consecutive year. In the Multidisciplinary Geosciences
category, which includes 170 journals, AGU’s Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Geophysical Research Letters journals
placed in the top 10 for impact factor.
SCIENTIFIC LEADERSHIP AND COLLABORATION
• Improved timeliness of journal production of articles, from acceptance to publication, by 44%.
Working Together
to Advance Science
The American
Geophysical Union is
a leader, collaborator,
and sought after
partner for scientific
innovation, rigor, and
interdisciplinary focus
on global issues.
Science advances as a dialogue—
“each
new result initiates new
ideas for how my own work could
and should be expanded and/or
directed. Collaborators’ ideas, data,
models, and theoretical concepts
all can help to advance my own
scientific research, and I hope to
be able to contribute my share to the research of others.
Scientific organizations are a great place to connect
with people from a variety of specialties and learn how
to interact with people from different backgrounds.
Activities within organizations like AGU are great for
developing leadership talents that can also be very
”
useful in career development.
Tuija Pulkkinen is Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering at Aalto
University in Finland.
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Tuija Pulkkinen has been an active member of several AGU
committees, including the Macelwane Committee, the Meetings
Committee, the Strategic Planning Forum, and AGU’s Fellows
Committee, on which she also served as chair. In addition to having
served as vice president and president of the European Geophysical
Union, she has been an organizer, convener, or program committee
member for more than 20 scientific meetings. She finds working
with interdisciplinary groups to be an excellent way to expand one’s
own area of expertise and appreciates the opportunities that AGU
provides through its meetings and other programs for scientists
to learn, connect with colleagues, and advance multidisciplinary
activities.
AGU is known around the world for its leading publications and
meetings. Sharing scientific knowledge and best practices enables
members to advance their research and break new ground in their
own disciplines as well as through interdisciplinary research.
AGU’s history, reputation, and vision continue to make the
organization a sought-after partner in the scientific community for
collaboration with other professional societies. In 2011, Memoranda
of Understanding were signed with the Asia-Oceania Geosciencies
Society, Asociación Latinoamericana de Geofísica Espacial,
Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS),
European Geosciences Union, and the Soil Society of America.
• Increased availability and readership of AGU’s journals with further expansion into emerging markets, including China, India,
Russia, and Brazil. Peer-reviewed articles in AGU journals were
read in more than 150 countries.
• Launched an annual editors in chief meeting, as well as an “Exchange of Ideas” meeting with geoscience librarians designed
to foster communication between AGU and scientific and
information science professionals.
• Published several timely, relevant books, including Monitoring
and Modeling the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Record-Breaking Enterprise; George H. Ludwig’s detailed personal account
of the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts; Opening Space
Research: Dreams, Technology, and Scientific Discovery; and
Sundar A. Christopher’s Navigating Graduate School and Beyond: A Career Guide for Graduate Students and a Must Read
for Every Advisor.
• Launched the Books Digital Library, which contains online access to AGU books published since 1956.
• Increased discoverability of AGU’s published science through
added functionality in the search on www.agu.org, inclusion of
AGU content in Microsoft Academic Search, and provision of
enhanced metadata to librarians.
Meetings
• Increased attendance at AGU’s Fall Meeting, held each year
in San Francisco, by nearly 10% over 2010, with more than
22,000 attendees from 94 countries, 29% of which were students. AGU’s Fall Meeting is the largest gathering of Earth and
space scientists in the world.
• Supported a robust scientific program at the Fall Meeting including: more than 12,000 poster presentations; 2200 ePoster
presentations; 6000 oral presentations; 250 exhibitors; and numerous workshops, town halls, and networking events. Highprofile lectures were delivered by astronaut and AGU member
Andrew Feustel, NOAA Administrator and Undersecretary of
Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere Jane Lubchenco, Tokyo University Geophysics Institute researcher Hiroo Kanamori,
and British author and journalist Simon Winchester.
• Conducted eight leading-edge Chapman Conferences, each
with 75-150 attendees: Advances in Lagrangian Modeling of
the Atmosphere; The Galápagos as a Laboratory for the Earth
Sciences; Dynamics of the Earth’s Radiation Belts and Inner
Magnetosphere; Modeling the Ionosphere/Thermosphere System; Climates, Past Landscapes, and Civilizations; Relationship Between Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric
Processes; Atmospheric Gravity Waves and Their Effects on
General Circulation and Climate; and Source to Sink Systems
Around the World and Through Time.
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2011 HIGHLIGHTS
News Coverage
• Generated more than 1800 Fall Meeting–related news stories
through press releases, press conferences, and other media
relations activities designed to promote the research being
conducted by AGU’s members worldwide. Coverage was seen
in news outlets around the world, including the Associated
Press, Boston Globe, CBS News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Earth Online, Hindustan Times (India), Huffington Post,
The Independent (UK), Irish Examiner, Mainichi Daily News
(Japan), National Geographic News, Nature, New Scientist, Science, Sydney Morning Herald, USA Today, and Wired.
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Communicating Science and Its
Benefits to the World
The American
Geophysical Union
engages members,
shapes policy, and
informs society about
the excitement of
Earth and space
science and its role in
developing solutions
for the sustainability
of the planet.
I think we owe it to society to
“ communicate.
We ask the public to
fund us because we believe deeply
and powerfully that this knowledge
is useful. We’ve got to take it back
to them. What we do as scientists
actually makes fascinating stories—
and we need to tell the story of what
science is and how it works and how people can use it
to help themselves. The world’s gotten so noisy, with
so much media competing for attention, that a lot of us
need to be out talking and mastering communication
techniques—because no one, two, three people can
do it alone. And it’s hugely important for institutions
like AGU to have a role in this communication for a
number of reasons, perhaps most importantly because
of the authority they bring when we take something to
”
Congress, policymakers, and the public.
Richard Alley is Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Penn State
University, an AGU fellow, and a contributor to the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Richard Alley sees effective communication as a vital skill for
scientists to develop and nurture. He has been extensively involved
in outreach to policymakers and to the press in an effort to share his
research findings with the broadest possible audience. In 2011 he
hosted the PBS series “Earth: The Operators’ Manual” and wrote the
book of the same title that serves as a companion piece to the series.
AGU provides an authoritative, collective voice for the Earth and
space sciences and the benefits they offer to society. AGU also
assists individual scientists in honing their skills in communicating
effectively with a wide array of audiences, providing them with
resources ranging from hands-on training sessions at the Fall
Meeting to a blog, The Plainspoken Scientist, filled with tips and
real-life examples of effective science communication. And in
2011 AGU established an annual Climate Communication Prize
that recognizes excellence in climate communication as well as the
promotion of scientific literacy, clarity of messaging, and efforts to
foster respect and understanding for science-based values related to
climate change.
AGU is also dedicated to strengthening the role of science in
informing public policy. The global community faces a myriad of
serious challenges related to the Earth and space sciences, and to
address them successfully requires that scientific knowledge be
considered in policymaking. AGU continuously works to bring
the science of its members to Congress, the White House, and
other organizations in the policy arena through events including
Congressional briefings, participation in science and science policy–
related coalitions, one-on-one meetings with members of Congress
and their staffs, and facilitating grassroots member engagement.
• Established AGU as an authoritative voice for the Earth and
space sciences through increased numbers of press releases
and other communications in print and on Web-based outlets.
Topics included President Barack Obama’s budget proposal;
the critical need for strategic investments in scientific research;
a letter to the editor in The Washington Post on threats to
funding for the Joint Polar Satellite System; a House Science,
Space, and Technology Committee hearing on climate change;
a response on Forbes.com in defense of the scientific consensus on climate change and the integrity of climate scientists;
and endorsements of new scientific integrity policies and
roadmaps released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and the Department of the Interior, respectively.
Policy Outreach
• Cosponsored 13 congressional briefings. Hosted three
congressional visits day programs, which bring scientists to
Washington, D.C., for a day of policy communication training
and a day of visits to their local legislators – including the firstever Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill.
• Sponsored two Congressional Science Fellows, Rebecca
French and Ian Lloyd, who worked for senators Bernie Sanders
(I-VT) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), respectively, for 12 months.
• Mobilized more than 1000 members to sign letters to the
congressional Super Committee urging strategic investments in
scientific research.
Public Outreach
• Sponsored and organized Exploration Station, an annual
family-friendly public event held at the Fall Meeting. The event
included 27 hands-on science exhibits presented by AGU
members, and was attended by nearly 300 people.
• Trained more than 200 Fall Meeting attendees on effective
methods for communicating science to the media, political
leaders, and the public.
Social Media Engagement
• Increased traffic to AGU’s YouTube channel (www.YouTube.
com/AGUvideos) to nearly 26,000 views. The channel houses
videos on such topics as Geomagnetic Secular Variation as a
Window on the Dynamics of Earth’s Core, highlights from the
Fall Meeting, and an interview with Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), one
of the few sitting members of Congress who is a scientist.
• Increased the average page views per month for the AGU
Blogosphere (blogs.agu.org) to more than 112,000. The
Blogosphere hosts seven blogs written by scientists on topics
ranging from weather and climate to volcanology.
• Increased the numbers of followers of AGU’s Twitter account
(@theAGU) to nearly 9000 and its Facebook community (www.
facebook.com/AmericanGeophysicalUnion) to more than 7500.
Recorded more than 8000 tweets using the AGU-created Fall
Meeting hashtag #AGU11.
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2011 HIGHLIGHTS
Students
• Hosted nearly 100 Bright Students Training as Research Scientists (Bright STaRS) at the Fall Meeting. These high school and
middle school students presented 33 research posters. In addition to interacting with scientists at their poster presentations,
they had mentoring time with 17 AGU fellows and 31 Minorities Striving and Pursuing Higher Degrees of Success in Earth
System Science (MS PHD) students. AGU President Michael
McPhaden gave an inspiring talk at their luncheon.
• Awarded nearly 200 student travel grants to support undergraduate and graduate student attendance at the Fall Meeting.
TALENT POOL
Filling, Sustaining, and Supporting
the STEM Pipeline
The American
Geophysical Union is
a diverse and inclusive
organization that uses
its position to build
the global talent pool
in Earth and space
science.
“
My goal is to inspire students.
When you have them do research,
you get them to the point where
they can say, ‘I love it—I can
do it.’ My primary achievement
is seeing my students succeed
at four-year institutions…The
success stories I see, their faces
seeing a mountain for the first time or understanding
the hydrology of their hometown, that’s the biggest
professional reward I could ever have. For my own
career, AGU has been so instrumental: the Fall
Meeting was the first conference I ever attended
as an undergrad, and it opened my eyes to what
the geosciences really are…I want to replicate that
Joshua Villalobos is one of the leaders of the National Association of
Geoscience Teachers’ 2012 “Preparing for an Academic Career in the
Geosciences” workshop. AGU’s suite of education outreach programs
provides him with the opportunity to collaborate with other faculty
members, discussing challenges, sharing solutions, and learning about
new resources for research-based education.
Joshua Villalobos is an associate professor of geology at El Paso
Community College.
In addition, AGU recognizes and promotes the work of students
and early career scientists through programs like the Outstanding
Student Paper Awards (OSPA) and provides them with networking,
mentoring, and other career development–related opportunities.
AGU’s Career Center programming, offered at the Fall Meeting and
online at careers.agu.org, assists students and early career scientists
with career planning and links them with potential employers.
environment for my students.
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”
From protecting public safety and national security to building
a foundation for economic competitiveness, Earth and space
science is critical to ensuring a sustainable future. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics is calling for a more than 20% rise in demand for
geoscientists in professional, scientific, and technical sectors by the
end of the decade. Today’s students have an employment opportunity
of a lifetime, and AGU supports them with its strong commitment to
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.
To build and maintain that STEM pipeline, AGU supports a
multifaceted, holistic approach. AGU provides venues such as
Exploration Station for exposing students to leading-edge scientific
research in ways designed to make Earth and space science fun and
interesting. AGU also offers programs such as the Heads and Chairs
and Geophysical Information for Teachers (GIFT) workshops that
are designed to strengthen the skills of instructors at all educational
levels to further support student achievement.
• Presented 150 Outstanding Student Paper Awards at the 2011
Fall Meeting.
• Received a National Science Foundation Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences grant to enable the launch
of a new initiative, Unique Research Experiences for Two-Year
College Faculty and Students (URECAS). This program is designed to support and foster two-year college students in their
Earth and space science educational careers, including those
who choose to transfer to four-year institutions.
• Held a Navigating the National Science Foundation workshop,
designed to help participants obtain funding for their research.
Educators
• Doubled the number of education-related abstracts submitted for the 2011 Fall Meeting to 687, compared to the number
submitted in 2010.
• Increased attendance at the annual Geophysical Information for
Teachers (GIFT) workshop to nearly 40 participants. The workshop, which is designed for current and preservice middle and
secondary school teachers, includes talks by leading research
scientists coupled with take-it-to-the-classroom activities.
• Sponsored a new National Association of Geoscience Teachers
(NAGT) workshop at the Fall Meeting, “Reinforcing Quantitative
Skills in the Geoscience Classroom,” designed to help participants improve their undergraduate-level teaching skills.
• Secured record attendance of 60 Earth and space science
department leaders at AGU’s Heads and Chairs workshop.
Participants discussed retention, fundraising, and diversity issues.
Careers
• Managed an average of more than 100 newly created accounts
each month on the AGU Career Center Web site, totaling more
than 1600 job seekers by the end of 2011. The Career Center
is a one-stop repository for student and early career scientist
resumés, allowing qualified applicants to quickly connect with
potential employers.
• Offered students and early career job seekers the opportunity
to meet face-to-face with employers during the Fall Meeting
and improve their interviewing and networking skills.
• Provided an online tool kit of career resources, including resume writing tips and webinars on interview preparation.
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2011 HIGHLIGHTS
Leadership
• Established an ongoing program of leadership development
for the board of directors and council and defined leadership
criteria for succession.
• Expanded the Council Leadership Team to strengthen the voice
of interdisciplinary science within AGU and increase participation by students and early career scientists.
• Worked to align the charges of all of AGU’s committees to best
support the goals of the new strategic plan.
• Formalized definitions of union medals, awards, and prizes:
medals are given for a scientific body of work in Earth and
space sciences; awards are related to science, society, and
talent pool goals; and prizes are presented jointly by AGU and
another nonprofit, for profit, government, and/or nongovernmental entity and involve significant funding.
ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Advancing AGU for the
Benefit of Our Members
As a scientific
society, the American
Geophysical Union
operates within a
new business model
that is sustainable,
transparent, and
inclusive in ways
that are responsive
to members and
stakeholders.
the largest member
“Asorganization
of Earth scientists,
AGU has the potential to help
its members be better heard and
understood. My job has been to
provide an early career perspective
on the organization’s strategic
goals for the next 10 years, and
I have felt that my opinion is really listened to and
valued. The work of the strategic planning task force
on which I participated set a standard for pursuing
organizational excellence within AGU that is grounded
in good leadership, collaboration, and inclusivity. On
a personal level, I’ve learned a great deal through my
volunteer roles at AGU. AGU isn’t just a place for
meetings and publications, and I’d like to see more
”
young people taking ownership of the organization.
Emma Hill is Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University’s
Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS), where much of her work involves
studying the regional tectonics of southeast Asia using the Global
Positioning System.
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As a member of the Strategic Planning Task Force and then as
an early career representative on the AGU Council, Emma Hill
has helped nurture a culture of inclusivity, collaboration, and
transparency within AGU. The impact of students and early career
scientists on the development of AGU’s strategic plan has led her
to encourage others to become involved in the organizational
development of AGU. To them, she advises, “Don’t be afraid to
speak up!”
The focus of 2011 was on the implementation of AGU’s strategic
plan. A five-year operations plan was initiated to lay out specific
steps that the organization will take to meet the objectives set in
the strategic plan. An organizational budget was also developed
in strict alignment with the plan, ensuring that spending will be
focused on the highest-priority programs.
The AGU Council’s work to establish scientific direction
for the union also advanced significantly in 2011. The
Mission:Alignment Project (M:AP) team identified three distinct
roles that the council should play—forming policies, generating
ideas, and advising on science and member-related issues—as
well as how partnerships with the board and committees can be
enhanced. They also focused their attention on aligning AGU’s
honors and recognition program to better support the strategic
plan. This included developing formal definitions and clarifying
criteria for union medals, awards, and prizes and beginning
to develop a conflict of interest policy for the honors and
recognition program. In addition, the council also recommended
realigning leadership terms to a calendar year and decided to add
six new positions for students and early career scientists.
• Clarified the difference in criteria between union-level and other
medals, awards, and prizes: union-level medals, awards, and
prizes focus on excellence and impact, lifetime achievement,
the significance of the body of work, the contribution across
the union, and the alignment with AGU’s vision/mission; section, focus group, and program awards focus on that group’s
area of science, the excellence or promise for excellence and
future potential, and the significant contribution to that section,
focus group, or program.
• Hired a chief operating officer to establish or strengthen internal
systems, processes and programs needed to implement AGU’s
strategic plan. A new performance management system was
also instituted in 2011 to make clear the role of every staff
member in executing the plan.
Technology Infrastructure Improvements
• Began designing a new association management system, which
will improve service to members, strengthen financial controls,
and more effectively support all aspects of operations while
providing a comprehensive view of how scientists interact with
AGU as members, authors, editors, and other volunteer roles, as
well as meeting attendees, etc.
• Launched ePoster functionality for the Fall Meeting. This new
system allows presenters to upload an electronic version
of their poster to the Fall Meeting Web site where they can
engage in dialogue with those who view it. More than 2200
posters were uploaded in 2011.
• Launched mobile apps for the Fall Meeting and Eos, both of
which were designed to increase accessibility of content as well
as member engagement with AGU.
• Expanded production of video on demand segments of sessions and lectures at the Fall Meeting to increase the amount of
scientific research accessible after the meeting.
Business Model
• Completed a strategic review of AGU’s publication operations
and began implementation of several of the recommendations.
This included exploration of new business models and strategic
partners; development and approval of job descriptions and
search processes, which established an editor in chief for
all journals; increased financial and travel support to further
increase the visibility, prestige, breadth, and depth of all editors;
and appointment by the council of a New Journals Feasibility
Study Task Force.
• Began addressing AGU’s need for diversified sources of revenue
by increasing in-house expertise in fundraising, creating new
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opment resources.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY
AGU completed a fiscally challenging year on 31 December 2011.
Statements of Financial Position
Despite struggling U.S. and global economies, the organization
(Year ended Decemeber 31)
Statements of Activities
2010
(Year ended Decemeber 31)
2011
Unrestricted
Temporarily
Restricted
2011 Total
2010 Total
$ 23,053,418
-
$ 23,053,418
$ 23,638,421
continued to improve services and operations for its members
and society.
Johnson Lambert & Co. LLP conducted the 2011 audit and
gave AGU an unqualified opinion, indicating that AGU’s financial
statements fairly represented the organization’s financial
position and were in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles. Assets and liabilities were in balance on 31
December 2011 at $81.7 million, which equates to a decrease of
approximately 6.2% since 2010. The organization experienced
a decrease in revenue and an increase in expenses in 2011,
resulting in a net operating loss of $4.9 million. This operating
ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents
$ 3,885,318
$ 3,630,075
Publications, net cost of goods sold
Investments
64,291,754
70,888,892
Member dues
906,185
-
906,185
905,268
693,026
705,452
Contributions
-
566,168
566,168
326,379
Debt Service Reserve Fund and
other escrows
Receivables, net
Prepaid expenses and deposits
Prepaid awards
Inventory, net
loss was the result of planned and increased investment in
Fixed assets, net
programs and services that support the implementation of AGU’s
Unamortized debt issuance cost
strategic plan. This strategy is demonstrated by the examples of
Art and precious stones
success highlighted in this report.
Total assets
To protect against business disruptions and to fund strategic
initiatives in support of the Union’s mission, AGU held financial
reserves of over $64 million at year’s end. The organization’s
REVENUE AND SUPPORT
2,467,899
2,370,441
671,397
393,177
1,044
2,087
145,609
299,790
9,397,933
8,715,253
201,584
218,852
3,667
3,667
$ 81,759,231
$ 87,227,686
Grants and contracts
1,259,321
-
1,259,321
4,389,499
Meetings
7,784,617
-
7,784,617
9,323,380
Rental income
578,417
578,417
560,914
Other
274,540
274,540
304,558
Net assets released from restriction
176,469
(176,469)
-
-
34,032,967
389,699
34,422,666
39,448,419
22,197,552
-
22,197,552
22,233,315
6,276,840
-
6,276,840
6,845,988
Total revenue and support
EXPENSES
Program services:
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Publications
Meetings
Liabilities:
START
1,638,920
-
1,638,920
4,093,061
Accounts payable and accrued
expenses
Strategic communications and outreach
3,081,358
-
3,081,358
2,203,956
Membership
2,358,570
-
2,358,570
1,885,069
35,553,240
-
35,553,240
37,261,389
798,871
-
798,871
884,937
$ 6,186,085
$ 6,493,946
investment portfolio is continually monitored to ensure that
Postretirement health benefits
3,434,801
2,229,396
appropriate safeguards and risks are in place to take full
Deferred revenue
4,272,385
2,815,719
advantage of the market and to meet the long-term needs of
Security deposits
20,721
20,721
the organization.
Interest rate collar agreement
977,027
708,161
AGU’s business model has been extremely successful for many
Notes payable
6,225,000
6,610,000
General and administration
390,611
-
390,611
107,788
18,877,943
Building and investments
1,293,409
-
1,293,409
1,263,440
Marketing
1,331,451
-
1,331,451
830,596
3,814,342
-
3,814,342
3,086,761
39,367,582
-
39,367,582
40,348,150
Investment return
(5,334,615)
(1,531,182)
389,699
(25,028)
(4,944,916)
(1,556,210)
(899,731)
8,053,667
Postretirement benefit obligation
(1,205,405)
-
(1,205,405)
(17,345)
Change in net assets
(8,071,202)
364,671
(7,706,531)
7,136,591
a way that supports the organization’s mission while also meeting
Reclassification of net assets
(2,702,508)
(2,702,508)
-
-
the ever-changing needs of its membership.
Net assets, beginning of year
62,291,086
6,058,657
68,349,743
61,213,152
$ 51,517,376
$ 9,125,836
$ 60,643,212
$ 68,349,743
2011 investment performance resulted in a loss of $1.5 million.
While negative investment returns are never welcomed, AGU’s
21,116,019
years and continues to evolve to meet organizational needs.
Revenues from publications and meetings have been used to
Net assets:
support strategic endeavors such as public outreach, member
Unrestricted:
services, governance support, and business infrastructure
Undesignated
20,181,128
29,337,633
improvements as well as to develop new programs. And AGU
Designated by Board of Directors
31,336,248
32,953,453
51,517,376
62,291,086
9,125,836
6,058,657
60,643,212
68,349,743
$ 81,759,231
$ 87,227,686
staff actively engages in the development of new revenue
sources that will support the organization and its mission, both
now and in the future.
Ever mindful of the fragile U.S. economy and continued global
challenges, AGU’s fiscal strategies are continuously managed in
Temporarily restricted net assets
Total liabilities and net assets
Total program services
Supporting services:
Fundraising and development
Total expenses
Change in net assets before investment return
and postretirement benefit obligation
Net assets, end of year
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2011 DONORS
* Deceased | Corporate contributors in boldface
Each year, the AGU Voluntary Contribution Campaign and other development efforts enable individual,
corporate, and foundation donors to support the advancement of the Earth and space sciences and to help
ensure that AGU can continue to make an impact well into the future. Gifts to AGU funds, sections, and
focus groups allow us to continue playing a strong and prestigious role in the scientific community.
AGU gratefully acknowledges the 7907 gifts, grants, and pledges from members and friends that were
received during 2011. The following list recognizes donors who have contributed annual gifts of $120 or
more during the 2011 calendar year and cumulative lifetime giving of $5000 or more. The 1919 Society
($100,000 or more) and Benefactors ($5000–$99,999) recognize single major gifts and cumulative
contributions. Three circles acknowledge annual giving: the President’s Circle ($1000 or more), Leadership
Circle ($200–$999), and Supporters Circle ($120–$199). Those loyal members who support AGU with a
one-time gift of $1200 or more along with their commitment of lifetime membership are counted among our
Supporting Life Members.
THE 1919 SOCIETY
$100,000 or more
James A. Austin
Carlos A. Dengo
ExxonMobil Exploration
Robert E. Horton*
Francis A. Kohout*
Robert E. Riecker*
Edgar J. Saltsman*
Bruce T. Tsurutani
Olga P. Verkhoglyadova
Pinar Oya Yilmaz
BENEFACTORS
$25,000 - $99,999
Santimay Basu
Sunanda Basu
Sylvia E. Burges
Stephen J. Burges
Chevron
Robert C. Cowen
Steve J. Drussell*
Ronald W. Girdler*
William Chandler Graustein
Pembroke J. Hart*
Lockheed Martin Corp.
David E. Lumley
NASA
Nature’s Own
Swiss Reinsurance
America Corporation
$10,000 - $24,999
Clarence R. Allen
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Henri Bader*
Adele Bader*
Ball Aerospace
& Technologies Corp.
James L. Burch
Andrew Castaldi
Leonard B. Corwin*
Ronald E. Doel
Jeff Dozier
Joseph Dracup*
Earl George Droessler*
Elsevier
William S. Falkenberg
Janis Falkenberg
Ruth Falkenberg
Kristine C. Harper
Margaret Hellweg
IBM
Elizabeth F. Karplus
William M. Kaula*
Gene Kaula-Slater
John A. Knauss
Robert L. Kovach
Arthur Lerner-Lam
Peter W. Lipman
Munich Re
Edith Namias*
Northrop Grumman
Space Technology
Richard E. Orville
Erick O. Schonstedt*
Space Physics
& Aeronomy Section
A. F. Spilhaus
Springer
David W. Strangway
Yoshihide Takano
The Blue Foundation
John W. Townsend
Richard P. Turco
UNAVCO
University of Alaska,
Fairbanks
Charles A. Whitten*
Joseph David Zund
$5,000 - $9,999
2G Enterprises
L. Thomas Aldrich
Almax Industries
Vassilis E. Angelopoulos
Charles R. Bacon
Robert Barbera
William F. Brace
Dixon M. Butler
Katharine V. Cashman
Timothy A. Cohn
Community Foundation of
South Puget Sound
DAAD - Research in Germany
Anton M. Dainty
Decagon Devices, Inc.
Robert E. Dickinson
John A. Dracup
EcoLogic Systems Corp.
Samuel S. Goldich*
Timothy L. Grove
Christopher G. A. Harrison
Paul C. Henshaw
Roberta M. Johnson
Timothy L. Killeen
Helmut Landsberg*
Ronald G. Mason*
David J. McComas
Betsy J. Miller
MITRE Corporation
Mark B. Moldwin
John O. Nolton
James J. O’Brien
John A. Orcutt
Ned Ostenso*
Paolo Rezzonico
Alan Robock
James T. Ryder
SCAR
Peter Schlosser
Michael Schulz
Scripps Institution of
Oceanography
Colin J. Seftor
Waldo E. Smith*
George A. Thompson
David J. Thomson
Johannes Weertman
Robert S. Weinbeck
Masashi Yasui
PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE
$1,000 or more
2G Enterprises
Clarence R. Allen
Almax Industries
Vassilis E. Angelopoulos
Arctic Institute of
North America
Charles R. Bacon
Ball Aerospace
& Technologies Corp.
Santimay Basu
Sunanda Basu
Boeing
James L. Burch
Stephen J. Burges
Katharine V. Cashman
Chevron
Martha H. Conklin
Robert C. Cowen
CRDF Solutions
Nancy U. Crooker
Brian Dewan
Ronald E. Doel
JeffDozier
Grenville Draper
ExxonMobil Exploration
Carol A. Finn
Timothy L. Grove
Jennifer W. Harden
Kristine C. Harper
Hazelyn and Harrold
McComas Charitable Trust
Margaret Hellweg
Robert E. Horton*
Roberta M. Johnson
Elizabeth F. Karplus
Robert L. Kovach
Arthur Lerner-Lam
Peter W. Lipman
Lockheed Martin Corp.
W. V. Graham Matthews
David J. McComas
Michael J. McPhaden
Mark B. Moldwin
NASA
Nature Publishing Group
Nature’s Own
Northrop Grumman
Space Technology
Orbital Sciences Corp.
John A. Orcutt
Richard E. Orville
Peter Schlosser
Colin J. Seftor
R. Stephen J Sparks
SSD Loral
David W. Strangway
Swiss Reinsurance
America Corporation
Yoshihide Takano
Lisa Tauxe
The Blue Foundation
The Lipman Family
Foundation
Bruce T. Tsurutani
Richard P. Turco
UNAVCO
Lelia B. Vann
Olga P. Verkhoglyadova
Thomas A. Weaver
Robert S. Weinbeck
Pat Wilde
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
$500 - $999
Arcus, Inc.
Susan K.Avery
Subir Kumar Banerjee
John W. Bieber
Rafael Luis Bras
Deborah J. Callender
Dale N. Chayes
Climate and Cryosphere
Project
Margarita Conkright Gregg
Dorothy Cutting
Erika F. Dade
Virginia De Lima
Karen Dean-Smith
Patricia H. Doherty
Laurie Schuur Duncan
John W. Farrington
Eric Firing
Donald W. Forsyth
Inez Yau Sheung Fung
Geometrics, Inc.
Thomas E. Graedel
Guernsey Office Products
George M. Hornberger
Linda A. Hunt
Frank W. Ireton
Jill Leslie Karsten
Thorne Lay
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Li-Cor, Inc.
Christopher Lynnes
Frank B. McDonald
Jason S. McLachlan
John W. Meriwether
Tsugunobu Nagai
James J. O’Brien
Richard H. Picard
William S. Reeburgh
Todd Reed
Richard B. Rood
Christopher Philip Ross
Roberta L. Rudnick
John C. Schaake
John S. Seo
David R. Sherrod
C. K. Shum
Harlan E. Spence
Edward A. Steiner
David J. Stevenson
Stephanie Ann Stockman
Edward C. Stone
Technodiamant
David J. Thomson
Robert A. Weller
Rodney W. Whitaker
Zonge Engineering &
Research Organization, Inc.
$200 - $499
Edwin J. Adlerman
Mary P. Anderson
David K. Arctur
Kenneth Argyle
Fran Bagenal
Karl Banse
Eric J. Barron
Mary C. Barth
Stephen J. Bauer
Robert C. Beardsley
Boris D. Belan
Harvey E. Belkin
Karen G. Bemis
Roger G.Bilham
William Allen Birkemeier
James K. Bishop
Geoffrey Blewitt
Geoffrey Bohling
Wendy A. Bohrson
Gabriel J. Bowen
Allen A. Bradley
Mark T. Brandon
Alan L. Bressler
Charles A. Brock
Edward V. Browell
William H. Brune
Scott Alan Budzien
Kevin C. Burke
James D. Burke
Pamela C. Burnley
Pierluigi Stefano Calanca
Richard W. Carlson
Elaine Chapin
David S. Chapman
Ji Chen
Arthur CH Cheng
Yoshimitsu Chikamoto
Andrew B. Christensen
Gail Lynn Christeson
Edward L. Chupp
Hugh W. Church
Michael A. Church
H. Lawrence Clark
Thomas A. Clark
Calvin Robert Clauer
James A. Coakley
Robert S. Coe
Dale W. Cole
Jose A. Colon
Shannon L. Colton
Richard H. Cox
Russell Lee Cuhel
Peter V. Czipott
Shamita Das
Jan W. Dash
Nicolas Dauphas
Eric A. Davidson
Ralph K. Davis
James L.Davis
Robert Earl Davis
Paul S. De Carli
Shanaka L. De Silva
Floyd DesChamps
Russell R. Dickerson
Timothy H. Dixon
Jacqueline Eaby Dixon
Delia E. Donatelli
Raymond A. Donelick
Richard Donner
Ellen R. M. Druffel
Claude E. Duchon
Robert H. Eather
Hajo Eicken
Jon Eiriksson
James W. Elkins
Sonia Esperanca
Larry Wayne Esposito
Robert L. Evans
Susanna M. Falsaperla
Theodore F. Fathauer
Clinton D. Fawcett
William C. Feldman
Cassandra G. Fesen
Christopher Bower Field
Rana A. Fine
Lennard A. Fisk
Peter F. Folger
Jeffrey M. Forbes
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Theodore D. Foster
John H. Fournelle
Timothy J. Francis
Jennifer Ann Francis
Jeffrey T. Freymueller
Gerard J. Fryer
William B. Gail
Jinyao Gao
Jeffrey S.Gee
John William Geissman
Terrence M. Gerlach
J. Freeman Gilbert
Barbara L. Giles
Allen F. Glazner
Raymond Goldstein
Larry L. Gordley
Donn S. Gorsline
John T. Gosling
Hans Christian Graber
Diana G. Graham
Harry W. Green
Green Engineering, Inc.
Watson W. Gregg
Priscilla C. Grew
Stephen E. Haggerty
Michelle K. Hall
Gilmor S. Hamill
William K. Hart
Matt Heavner
Katherine Hedstrom
Christopher D. Henry
Mark E. Hernick
Thomas A. Herring
H. Kent Hills
Michael P. Hoagland
Raymond M. Hoff
Rainer Hollerbach
John M. Holt
Richard P. Hooper
Larry D. Hothem
Leigh S. House
Gregory A. Houseman
Benjamin F. Howell
Tai-Yin Huang
William B. Hubbard
Scott S. Hughes
Hiroshi Ichikawa
Devrie S. Intriligator
Iris Instruments
Ian N. S. Jackson
Angela S. Jayko
Ola M. Johannessen
ElizabethA. Johnson
Valentin T. Jordanov
Garry D. Karner
Lauren A. Keaton
Louise H. Kellogg
David W. Kicklighter
John S. Knapp
Max A. Kohler
David Krasa
Herbert W. Kroehl
Logan K. Kuiper
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John E. Kutzbach
Claude L. Labine
Louis J. Lanzerotti
Peter B. Larson
Daniel P. Lathrop
Alan R. Levander
Michael W. Liemohn
Kuo-NanLiou
Sarah A. Little
Steven Andrew Lloyd
Jennifer A. Logan
Gang Lu
Myriam Lubino-Bissainte
Roland Carl Luetzelschwab
Timothy M. Lutz
Robert L. Lysak
Ling-Hsiao Lyu
Douglas R. MacAyeal
Parker MacCready
Heather Macdonald
J. Douglas Macdougall
Stephen J. Mackwell
Douglas L. MacTaggart
Michael Manga
Craig E. Manning
Hal B. Maring
Seelye Martin
Philip David Martzen
Kooiti Masuda
William H. Matthaeus
Glen S. Mattioli
Vicki S. McConnell
Kenneth R. McDonald
Dianne McDonnell
Christine McEntee
Carl E. McIlwain
Andrew McIntyre
Stuart A. McKeen
Judith Ann McKenzie
Robert B. McKibben
Diane M. McKnight
Ralph L. McNutt
Robert L. McPherron
Philip A. Meyers
Valerie Lee Meyers
Calvin F. Miller
John F. Miller
Ronald L. Miller
P. Christopher Milly
Ralph Moberly
Robert L. Molinari
Willard S. Moore
David F. Morehouse
Stearns Anthony Morse
Walt Nadolny
Eric R. Nash
Anne Walden Nolin
Jerrold G. Norton
Michael O’Brien
Carolyn Olson
Patricia L. Olson
Samuel J. Oltmans
Michael L. Oristaglio
David E. Parker
Erricos C. Pavlis
Elise G. Pendall
Donald K. Perovich
William Dean Pesnell
William K. Peterson
Roger V. Pierce
Jeffrey B. Plescia
Lamont Rozelle Poole
William H. Prescott
Philip L. Pritchett
G. Michael Purdy
Terrence M. Quinn
Mohan K. Ramamurthy
Douglas W. Rankin
Geoffrey D. Reeves
John R. Reinfelder
Roberta L. Rice
Randall M. Richardson
Kim A. Richardson
William Rison
D. Aaron Roberts
Charles Andrew Rodgers
Fred L. Roesler
David V. Rogers
Virginia J. Rohay
Linda R. Rowan
Carolyn D. Ruppel
William W. Sager
Yukimasa Saito
Charles G. Sammis
Gary E. Sanger
Jae-Kyung E. Schemm
Francis J. Schmidlin
Robert N. Schock
Michael Schulz
Robert W. Schunk
Stephen E. Schwartz
William E. Scott
Stephen Self
Sensors & Software Inc.
Koji Seto
A. Surjalal Sharma
Henry F. Shaw
Nobumichi Shimizu
Mostafa A. Shirazi
Tom Shoberg
David J. Simons
Thomas W. Sisson
Edward C. Sittler
Murugesu Sivapalan
Ruth M. Skoug
Olav Slaymaker
Arnold L.Snyder
Elena B. Sparrow
Raymond C. Staley
Tammo S. Steenhuis
Richard S. Stolarski
David B. Stone
Michael P. Sulzer
Roger E. Summons
Fumiko C. Tajima
Mark E. Tamisiea
Hajimu Tamura
Anne M. Thompson
Michelle F. Thomsen
Robin T. Tokmakian
Terry E. Tullis
Allan J. Tylka
US Permafrost Association
James W. Vallance
Albert J. Valocchi
Thomas M. Van Wagoner
David A. Vanko
Mary A. Voytek
Venugopal Vuruputur
Richard J. Walker
Raymond J. Walker
Terry Charles Wallace
Gerald J. Wasserburg
Clark J. Weaver
John D. West
Donald J. Williams
ElizabethB. Wilson
Isaac J. Winograd
Susan M. Wirth
Donald J. Wuebbles
Ryozaburo Yamamoto
Masashi Yasui
David F. Young
Ein-Fen Yu
Chidong Zhang
Rixiang Zhu
Walter E. Zuern
SUPPORTER’S CIRCLE
$120 - $199
Knut Aagaard
Dallas H. Abbott
Linda M. Abriola
Robert F. Adler
Mark L. Adrian
Carmen Aguilar
Francis Albarede
Mikaela L. Alexander
James F. Allan
John S. Allen
Bjarne Sven Guestav Almqvist
Douglas E. Alsdorf
Guillermo Alvarado-Induni
Don L. Anderson
Gregory J. Anderson
Linda Davis Anderson
Anonymous
Spiro K. Antiochos
David Applegate
Daniel Ariztegui
Raymond Ernst Arvidson
Lewis D. Ashwal
Marcelo Assumpcao
Elliot L. Atlas
Linnea Marie Avallone
Roni Avissar
Michael R. Babcock
Kevin H. Baines
Anne O’Donnell Ball
Lawrence E. Band
Katherine A. Barbeau
Melanie Ames Weed
Barnes Don Barrie
Ana Paula Barros
Sheryl Luzzadder Beach
Nathan C. Becker
John Charles Behrendt
Richard N. Benson
Edgar A. Bering
Eric A. Betterton
Glenn P. Biasi
Rudy Birsa
Donna W. Blake
Richard J. Blakely
Max P. Bleiweiss
Michael J. Bodeau
Scott W. Bogue
Nicholas A. Bond
Donald Joseph Boucher
David Donald Bowman
Roscoe R. Braham
Lawrence W. Braile
Stephen H. Brecht
Daniel W. Breed
Stephen Brenner
Howard A. Bridgman
Andrew Brock
Paul D. Brooks
Barbara Brown
Laurie L. Brown
Michael Brown
J. Michael Brown
Larry Douglas Brown
Wilfried H. Brutsaert
William R. Bua
Michael R. Burkart
James H. Butler
James J.Butler
David A. Butterfield
John O. Byrd
Joseph C. Cain
Wendy M. Calvin
Suzana J. Camargo
Donald B. Campbell
Steven C. Cande
Ralph D. Cantral
William D. Carlson
Peter D. Carragher
William Eugene Carter
Carmen G. Castro
Donald J. Cavalieri
Lin H. Chambers
James E. Channell
Jessica F. Chau
Margaret Chen
Eric R. Christian
Eric H. Christiansen
Robert W. Christopherson
Marshall Robbins Church
Millard F. Coffin
Max L. Coleman
Michael R. Collier
John E. P. Connerney
Martin G. Connors
William J. Cook
Reid F. Cooper
Vernon F. Cormier
Ferdinand V. Coroniti
Anthea J. Coster
Michael D. Cousins
James P. Cravens
Kenneth C. Creager
Richard Crook
Richard H. Cuenca
William B. Curry
Ruth G. Curry
Timothy W. Darling
Sarah B. Das
Peter H. Daum
Stewart R. Davey
Earl E. Davis
Odile de la Beaujardiere
Robert L. de Zafra
Elias J. Deeb
Margaret L. Delaney
Kristine L. DeLong
Edward E. DeLuca
Lorinda A. Dengler
Lamont Di Biasi
Jean O. Dickey
Robert L. DiMarco
Paul Dirmeyer
Andrea K. Dobson
Eugene W. Domack
Andrea Donnellan
David P. Donovan
George A. Doschek
Anne R. Douglass
Ruth Duerr
John R. Dunn
Todd K. Dupont
William B. Durham
Adam M. Dziewonski
Kenneth Eack
Richard Eastes
Margaret H. Edwards
Gary D. Egbert
Annmarie Eldering
Wilfred A. Elders
Linda T. Elkins Tanton
Steven R. Emmerson
Cheryl Enderlein
David G. Evans
Cynthia A. Evans
Russell C. Evarts
David W. Fahey
Kent Fanning
Annia K. Fayon
Maria Giuditta Fellin
Jack D. Fellows
Jonathan Fentzke
Paulo Jlcs Fialho
Walker Fillius
Robert J. Finch
C. K. Folland
Matthew J. Fouch
Paul Jeffrey Fox
Andrew N. French
James Frew
Frederick August Frey
David L. Freyberg
Ann Martin Fridlind
Randall R. Friedl
Jonathan S. Friedman
Eigil A. Friis-Christensen
Theodore A. Fritz
Angela Frizzell
Craig D. Fry
Patricia B. Fryer
Rong Fu
James R. Fuller
Climate Communication Prize
The Climate Communication Prize recognizes excellence in
climate communication as well as the promotion of scientific
literacy, clarity of messaging, and efforts to foster respect
and understanding for science-based values related to
climate change. This annual award was made possible
by a generous gift from AGU members Roy Young and
Rosa Venezia and their company, Nature’s Own, a Boulder,
Colorado–based company specializing in the sale of
minerals, fossils, and decorative stone specimens.
From left to right: Michael McPhaden, AGU president; Carol Finn, AGU
president-elect; Christine McEntee, AGU executive director/CEO; Rosa
Venezia, Nature’s Own; Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space
Studies and cofounder of RealClimate.org; and Roy Young, Nature’s Own.
“This award will help increase communication of our scientific
understanding of climate change and its consequences,”
said Young. “By rewarding those scientists with the best
communication skills, we hope to increase respect for
science-based values and greater appreciation of the work
of scientists in understanding our changing world.”
The award was presented for the first time in 2011 to Gavin
Schmidt, a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute
for Space Studies and cofounder of RealClimate.org. He
received the prize, which comes with a $25,000 cash award,
at the 2011 Fall Meeting.
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Shing F. Fung
James N. Galloway
Marshall W. Gannett
James V. Gardner
Jean-Pierre Gattuso
Lind S. Gee
Lynn W. Gelhar
Marvin A. Geller
Robert S. Gemmell
Konstantine P. Georgakakos
Efstathia F. Georgiou
Joe Giacalone
M. Charles Gilbert
Randy Gladstone
John A. Goff
Claudia Susana G. Gogorza
Richard A. Goldberg
Tamas I. Gombosi
Oscar Gonzalez-Ferran
Charles C. Goodrich
David C. Goodrich
Natchimuth Gopalswamy
Donna Goss
Robert J. Greaves
Reinhard O. Greiling
Pavel Ya Groisman
Thomas L. T. Grose
Richard S. Gross
Paula J. Grunthaner
Rose A. Grymes
Vijay K. Gupta
Andrew John Guswa
James T. Gutmann
Volker Haak
Gerhard Haerendel
Stefan S.Hafner
Maura E.Hagan
Marc R. Hairston
John K. Hall
Tom W. Hamilton
Mohamed M. Hantush
Robert N. Harris
Timothy Mark Harrison
Robert C. Harriss
Beverly K. Hartline
Holly C. Hartmann
Keiko H. Hattori
Susan L. Hautala
Robert J. Hawley
Roderick A. Heelis
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John W. Hess
Stephen H. Hickman
Saswata Hier-Majumder
Sean M. Higgins
Thomas W. Hill
Mary C. Hill
Emma Hill
Claude Hillaire-Marcel
John W. Hillhouse
Keith Martin Hines
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Larry D. Hinzman
David T. Ho
J. Todd Hoeksema
Albrecht W. Hofmann
William Hohle
W. Steven Holbrook
Charles R. Holliday
Charles P. Holmes
William E. Holt
Robert H. Holzworth
Dorlisa Hommel
Debbie Hopkins
Jan W. Hopmans
Mary F. Horan
Charles Luther Hosler
Russell A. Howard
Bruce M. Howe
Dwight T. Hoxie
Ivan Hrvoic
Jeffrey W. Hughes
Gauthier Hulot
Dana Hurley
Lindsay B. Hutley
Ryoichi Imasu
Virginia A. Irvine
Miaki Ishii
Emi Ito
Takao Itoh
Erik R. Ivins
Clifford A. Jacobs
P. Jagam
Bor-Ming Jahn
David E. James
David R. Janecky
Pamela E. Jansma
Ambrose Jearld
Mark Jellinek
Robert E. Jensen
Catherine Louise Johnson
Leonard E. Johnson
Lyle H. Johnson
Torrence V. Johnson
Joanna Joiner
Jack R. Jokipii
Julia Allen Jones
Keith W. Jones
Thomas H. Jordan
Vania K. Jordanova
Ian R. Joughin
Glenn R. Joyce
Michele A. Judd
Alan S. Judge
Jasmeet Judge
Bruce R. Julian
Donna M. Jurdy
Stephen W. Kahler
Chuichi Kakuta
May-Britt Kallenrode
Marilyn Kaminski
Shun-Ichiro Karato
Thomas Richard Karl
David Michael Karl
Jeffrey Alan Karson
Miriam Kastner
Hideaki Kawano
Jack A. Kaye
Terry D. Keegan
Amy M. Keesee
Peter B. Kelemen
G. Randy Keller
Kathryn A. Kelly
Harvey M. Kelsey
Dennis V. Kent
Siri-Jodha S. Khalsa
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Mohan J. Khisty
Krishan K. Khurana
Clark B. Kimball
Stephen H. Kirby
Joseph L. Kirschvink
Margaret Galland Kivelson
James A. Klimchuk
Margaret A. Knuth
Kenneth P. Kodama
David L. Kohlstedt
Charles E. Kolb
Masaru Kono
Vladimir G. Kossobokov
Jozsef Kota
Nir Krakauer
Jonathan Krall
David H. Krantz
Frank Krause
Stamatios M. Krimigis
Andreas K. Kronenberg
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Atsuki Kubo
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Satoko Kurita
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Michael J. Kurylo
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Matthew C. Larsen
Kristin A. Larson
Kristine M. Larson
William K-M Lau
Conrad C. Lautenbacher
Steven A. Lavalle
Erin H. Lay
Paul W. Layer
Tamara S. Ledley
Xinglin Lei
Harvey I. Leifert
Harold Leinbach
Margaret Leinen
O. Walter Lennartsson
Laurie A. Leshin
Ray Leuning
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Kan Liou
Timothy A. Livengood
Peter N. Lombard
Ramon Edgardo Lopez
Frank P. Lorenz
William Lowrie
Charles Luce
Janet G. Luhmann
Vyacheslav S. Lukin
Bruce P. Luyendyk
Don R. Mabey
Conall Mac Niocaill
Tim Maciejewski
David Scott Mackay
Jon J. Major
Anthony J. Mannucci
Chris Marone
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Sittampalam
Thirugnanasampanthan
Space Weather and Nonlinear Waves
and Processes Prize
The newly created biennial Space Weather and Nonlinear
Waves and Processes Prize, which recognizes excellence in
research involving space weather as well as nonlinear waves
and processes, carries a $10,000 cash award. The generous
endowment that supports this award was made possible
by a donation from AGU members Bruce Tsurutani and
Olga Verkhoglyadova, both scientists at the NASA/California
Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
AGU members Olga Verkhoglyadova and Bruce Tsurutani, scientists at the
NASA/California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Tsurutani, who has been an AGU member and leader for
nearly half a decade, said, “These are two emerging areas
of science, and we would very much like to support their
gaining prominence, both in public awareness and also in
recognition. We felt an AGU award would do both of these
things at the same time.”
Generous donations like this provide AGU with the support
necessary to create and pursue new initiatives and
programs. Tsurutani added, “I have been an AGU member
for nearly 50 years, and I’m honored to be able to give back
to the Union that has served me throughout my career.”
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Kristy French Tiampo
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Michael Tomlinson
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Compton Tucker
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Susan Jane Webb
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Ming-Ying Wei
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Ru-Shan Wu
Frederic C. Wurster
Yongkang Xue
William W. Yeh
Thomas C. Yoksas
Edward D. Young
Jiye Zeng
Richard C. Zimmerman
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Edward J. Zipser
Maria T. Zuber
Arthur I. Zygielbaum
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each of the last 10 consecutive
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AGU Student Travel Grants
Each year, with funding made possible by the vitally
important student travel grant program, hundreds of
student members from around the world who have little
or no support from contracts or grants are able to attend
AGU’s renowned scientific meetings to present their
research. Made possible by the generous support of
individual and corporate donors such as ExxonMobil, this
program was able to significantly upgrade and expand its
reach in 2011, contributing to AGU’s goal of building the
global talent pool in Earth and space sciences.
Students participate in a career workshop at AGU’s 2011 Fall Meeting.
Harvey I. Leifert
O. Walter Lennartsson
Maureen P. Leshendok
Murray D. Levine
Alan G. Lewis
Robert C. Liebermann
Beth Z. Lincoln
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Michael Marani
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Robert Mayer
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Archie K. McQuillan
Robert R. Meier
Thomas Meixner
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Martha L. Miller
Jean B. Minster
Helena Mitasova
Nobuyoshi Miyajima
Peter A. Mock
Mark B. Moldwin
Francis C. Monastero
Toshitsugu Moroizumi
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Stearns Anthony Morse
Arvin R. Mosier
Roman J. Motyka
George H. Mount
Edward C. Mozley
Andreas Mulch
Thomas J. Murphy
Christopher J. Murray
Laurent Muschietti
Tsugunobu Nagai
Yasuyuki Nakamura
Yosio Nakamura
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Brent D. Newman
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Sally Newman
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Simon Norris
Susan M. Nossal
Takuro Nunoura
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Masahiro Osako
Nikolai Ostgaard
Thomas Mark Over
Stanton J. Peale
Robert O. Pepin
Michael R. Perfit
Nikolai Petersen
Katerina E. Petronotis
Irina V. Petropavlovskikh
Gordon H. Pettengill
Amal C. Phadke
Roger J. Phillips
Richard H. Picard
Paolo A. Pirazzoli
Sergei A.Pisarevsky
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William H. Prescott
Caroline M. Preston
Charles T. Prewitt
Philip L. Pritchett
Claus Prodehl
Richard C. Quittmeyer
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Navin Ramankutty
Albert Rango
Hans J. Reichmann
Matthias Rentsch
Georg Resele
Roberta L. Rice
Philip G. Richards
Kim A. Richardson
Ian G. Richardson
Randall M. Richardson
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Arthur D. Richmond
Randall Ricklefs
B. A. Ridley
Dean L. Roberts
Michael Roden
Elizabeth Roemer
Alan Ernest Rogers
David V. Rogers
Vladimir E. Romanovsky
Gerald J. Romick
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Frank Roth
Gary J. Rottman
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Scott Kaniela Rowland
Phillip Feng Ruan
Bert Rudels
Roberta L. Rudnick
Michael G. Ryan
John Phillip Ryan
Amos Salamon
Gary E. Sanger
Francis J. Sansone
James W. Sari
Jeanne M. Sauber
Ronald S. Saunders
Andrey K. Savtchenko
John C. Schaake
Daryl A. Scherkenbach
Jeffrey S. Schleher
Reiner Schlitzer
Francis J. Schmidlin
Werner L. Schmidt
Phillip W. Schmidt
Steven R. Schroeder
Michael Schulz
Henning Scriba
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James R. Sharber
Donald E. Shemansky
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Bunichiro Shibazaki
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Harry L. Stern
David J. Stevenson
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Lynn R. Sykes
Takao Tabei
Haider Taha
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Yoshiaki Tamura
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Satoru Tanaka
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John Robert Taylor
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Akihiko Tomiya
Takeo Tomono
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Naftali Anatol Tsitverblit
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Friedhelm Von Blanckenburg
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Richard I. Walcott
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Raymond J. Walker
Terry Charles Wallace
Richard L. Walterscheid
James R. Wang
Yang Wang
David F. Webb
Stephen N. Webb
Robert Weber
Wilford F. Weeks
Wilhelm Weinrebe
Kathleen Ann Welch
Reinhard Werner
Robert D. Westfall
Neil John White
Robert C. Wigand
Juergen Willebrand
Margaret B. Williams
Owen W. Williams
Hugh E. Willoughby
Douglas J. Wilson
Richard Wirth
Warren J. Wiscombe
Steven F. Wojtal
Eric W. Wolff
Connie A. Woodhouse
Thomas N. Woods
Patrick H. Wyant
Satoshi Yagitani
Makoto Yamano
Koshun Yamaoka
Katsuyuki Yamashita
Song Yang
Jiye Zeng
Chidong Zhang
Paul J. Ziemann
TRIBUTE GIFTS
Gifts made in honor of or
in tribute to distinguished
members, loved ones, or events
are a special way to support the
work that AGU does to advance
Earth and space sciences
throughout the year.
Lisa Babbit
John B. Diebold
Michael J. Drake
Rupert Ford
Ron Greeley
Vit Klemes
Jeanne Miller
Reuven Ramaty
Carl A. “Skip” Reber
Roger Revelle
Paul G. Silver
Edward Thiel
Helen Wilson
The 50th Wedding Anniversary
of Sunanda & Santimay Basu
The earthquake in Fukushima,
March 11, 2011
2011 VOLUNTEERS
AGU sincerely thanks all of the 2011 volunteers for their hard work and dedication, without which the organization’s
success would not be possible. The following list recognizes elected and appointed volunteers who have led AGU
through their service.
AGU BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
Michael McPhaden, president*
Carol A. Finn, president-elect*
Timothy Grove, past president*
Lisa Tauxe, general secretary*
Francis Albarede,
international secretary*
Christine McEntee,
executive director/CEO*
Sunanda Basu
Rafael Bras
Mary Anne Carroll
Nancy Crooker
Floyd DesChamps
Susan Joy Hassol
(as of December 2011)
Margaret Leinen
Chris Mooney
(until November 2011)
R. Stephen Sparks
Robert van der Hilst
Mary A. Voytek
*Serve as the Executive Committee
AGU COUNCIL
Carol A. Finn, council chair
and AGU president-elect*
R. Stephen Sparks,
council vice chair*
John Bates
Richard J. Blakely
Raymond S. Bradley
Julie Brigham-Grette
Steven Cummer
Susan L. Cutter
Eric A. Davidson
Timothy H. Dixon
Michael Ellis
Rana Fine
Karen M. Fischer
Richard G. Gordon
Harry W. Green*
Jennifer W. Harden
Emma Hill
Greg Hirth
William Hooke
Alan Howard
Alik T. Ismail-Zadeh
Stacy Jackson
James Klimchuk
Adrian Lenardic
Laurie A. Leshin
Dennis P. Lettenmaier*
Shaun Lovejoy
Anthony Lui
Chris J. Marone
Catherine A. McCammon
Christine McEntee,
executive director/CEO*
William B. McKinnon
Michael McPhaden,
AGU president
Karen Moe
Brad Murray
James W. Murray
Anne Nolin
Thomas H. Painter
Mark Panning
Louise Pellerin
Michael Piasecki
Leonard Pietrafesa
Randall Richardson
Ashton Robinson Cook
David T. Sandwell
Peter Schlosser
Xuan-Min Shao
Peter M. Shearer
Jan Josef Sojka
Peter Swart
Danling Tang
Christy Till
Anne Thompson
George Tsoflias
Heather C. Watson
Peter J. Webster*
Bernard Wood
Eric F. Wood
Donald J. Wuebbles
*Serve as the Council Leadership
Team
COMMITTEES
Audit and Investments
Committee
Lisa Tauxe, chair
Steve Burges
Cindy Ebinger
Paul Fox
Richard Hooper
Hannah Padilla
Books Board
Kenneth R. Minschwaner, chair
Gray E. Bebout
Kenneth H. Brink
Jiasong Fang
Ralf R. Haese
Yonggang Liu
W. Berry Lyons
Laurent Montési
Nancy N. Rabalais
Todd C. Rasmussen
A. Surjalal Sharma
David E. Siskind
Rigobert Tibi
Peter E. van Keken
Bylaws Committee
James Davis, chair
Jason Box
Curtis Collins
Catherine Constable
Michelle Thomsen
Committee on International
Participation
Francis Albarede, chair
Akeem Babatunde Rabiu
Yao Chen
Harsh Gupta
Fumihiko Imamura
Gerassimos Papadopoulos
Marina Stepanova
Laszlo Szarka
Vaughan Turekian
Hassan Virji
Meththika Vithanage
Pinar Yilmaz
Development Board
Carol A. Finn, vice chair
Kai Anderson
Andrew Castaldi
Carlos Dengo
James T. Ryder
Jagadish Shukla
Anselm Smolka
David Strangway
Stewart Taylor
Kenneth Washington
Rita Colwell, ex-officio
Marcia McNutt, ex-officio
Stephen Burges, emeriti member
Robert Cowen, emeriti member
Fall Meeting Program
Committee
Kathy Hibbard, chair
Natasha Andronova
Bruce Banerdt
Laurie Brown
James Byrne
Razvan Caracas
Mariah Carbone
Alin Carsteanu
Michael H. Cosh
Steven Cummer
Linda T. Elkins-Tanton
Robert L. Evans
Sergio Fagherazzi
Becky Flowers
Sean Ford
Matt Fouch
Larisa Goncharenko
Anita Grunder
Brian Gunter
Baerbel Hönisch
Doug Jerolmack
Matt Khon
Stefan Kollet
Yev Kontar
Steven Lloyd
Stephen Macko
Sasha Madronich
Beatrice Magnani
Hans-Peter Marshall
Figen Mekik
Surabi Menon
Karen Moe
Mark Panning
Michael Piasecki
Ian Richardson
Aaron Ridley
Matt Rodell
Nicholas Schmerr
Matthew Schmidt
Simon Schneider
Brian Schubert
Durelle Scott
Xuan-Min Shao
Chet Weiss
Jolante van Wijk
Paul Winberry
Wen-lu Zhu
Fellows Committee
Anthony Lui, chair
D. Andrew Barry
Anne R. Douglass
Jeanne Hardebeck
Andrew Jackson
Claude P. Jaupart
Torrence Johnson
R. Dietmar Mueller
Gerald R. North
W. Richard Peltier
Taro Takahashi
Pieter P. Tans
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Governance Committee
Timothy Grove, chair
Kathy Cashman
John Farrington
Abby Kavner
Ken Potter
Tilman Spohn
Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi
History of Geophysics
Committee
Kristine Harper, chair
J. Keay Davidson
Ron Doel
John Farrington
James Fleming
John Fournelle
Gregory Good
Homer LeGrand
Gregory Quenet
Diane Rabson
Phillip Smith
Patrick Taylor
Honors and Recognition
Committee
Rana Fine, chair
Achim Herrmann
Prasanta Kalita
Judith Ann McKenzie
Eiji Ohtani
Carle Pieters
Journal Editors
Rezaul Mahmood,
Earth Interactions
Anny Cazenave, Eos
Christina Cohen, Eos
Jose Fuentes, Eos
Wendy Gordon, Eos
David Halpern, Eos
Carol Stein, Eos
Joel Baker, G-Cubed
Thorsten Becker, G-Cubed
Louis Derry, G-Cubed
James Tyburczy, G-Cubed
Eric Calais,
Geophysical Research Letters
Noah Diffenbaugh,
Geophysical Research Letters
Paolo D’Odorico,
Geophysical Research Letters
Ruth Harris,
Geophysical Research Letters
Wolfgang Knorr,
Geophysical Research Letters
Benoit Lavraud,
Geophysical Research Letters
William Peterson,
Geophysical Research Letters
Eric Rignot,
Geophysical Research Letters
Meric Srokosz,
Geophysical Research Letters
Peter Strutton,
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Geophysical Research Letters
Geoffrey Tyndall,
Geophysical Research Letters
Paul Williams,
Geophysical Research Letters
Michael Wysession,
Geophysical Research Letters
Eric Sundquist,
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Joost de Gouw,
JGR-Atmospheres
Steven Ghan, JGR-Atmospheres
Sara Pryor, JGR-Atmospheres
Yinon Rudich, JGR-Atmospheres
Renyi Zhang, JGR-Atmospheres
Dennis Baldocchi,
JGR-Biogeosciences
Alexander Densmore,
JGR–Earth Surface
Bryn Hubbard,
JGR–Earth Surface
Eric Barton, JGR-Oceans
Frank Bryan, JGR-Oceans
Miguel Goni, JGR-Oceans
Thomas Herbers, JGR-Oceans
Andrey Proshutinsky,
JGR-Oceans
Harvey Seim, JGR-Oceans
Chunzai Wang, JGR-Oceans
Mark Wieczorek, JGR-Planets
Robert Nowack, JGR–Solid Earth
Tom Parsons, JGR–Solid Earth
Andre Revil, JGR–Solid Earth
Michael Walter, JGR–Solid Earth
Philippa Browning,
JGR–Space Physics
Masaki Fujimoto,
JGR–Space Physics
Robert Lysak,
JGR–Space Physics
David Randall,
Journal in Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES)
Christopher Charles,
Paleoceanography
Rainer Zahn, Paleoceanography
Paul Cannon, Radio Science
Fabio Florindo,
Reviews of Geophysics
Mark Moldwin,
Reviews of Geophysics
Gregory Okin,
Reviews of Geophysics
Alan Robock,
Reviews of Geophysics
Eelco Rohling,
Reviews of Geophysics
Louis Lanzerotti, Space Weather
Todd Ehlers, Tectonics
Onno Oncken, Tectonics
Ronald Griffin,
Water Resources Research
Hoshin Gupta,
Water Resources Research
Tissa Illangasekare,
Water Resources Research
Praveen Kumar,
Water Resources Research
Graham Sander,
Water Resources Research
John Selker,
Water Resources Research
Meetings Committee
John Bates, chair
Mary A. Voytek,
board representative
Rafael M. Escribano
Kathleen S. Fontaine
Rong Fu
Audrey Huerta
Anders M. Jorgensen
Dennis W. Moore
John Sinton
Alexis Viscaino Marti
Amanda B. White
Kathy Hibbard, Fall Meeting chair
A. Surjalal Sharma,
Chapman Conference chair
Peter Swart, Joint Assembly chair
Mission: Alignment Project
(M:AP) Team
Carol A. Finn, council chair
and AGU president-elect*
R. Stephen Sparks,
council vice chair*
Harry W. Green*
Dennis P. Lettenmaier*
Peter J. Webster*
Chris McEntee,
executive director/CEO*
Richard J. Blakely
Michael Ellis
Jennifer W. Harden
James Klimchuk
Shaun Lovejoy
Anthony Lui
Louise Pellerin
Randall Richardson
Peter Schlosser
Christy Till
*Council Leadership Team members
Outreach Committee
Randall Richardson, chair
Mary Anne Carroll,
board representative
Chris Mooney,
board representative
(until November 2011)
Susan Joy Hassol,
board representative
(as of December 2011)
Jana Davis
Nyasha Dunkley
James Evans
Noel Gurwick
Cathryn Manduca
Betsy Mason
Michael Oppenheimer
Ellen Prager
Simon Schneider
Stephanie Slater
Publications Committee
Bernard Wood, chair
Robert van der Hilst,
board representative
David Alexander
Franco Biondi
Jiwen Fan
Efi Foufoula
Natalia Ganushkina
David Hill
Jun Korenaga
Jeff Plescia
Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi
Kenneth R. Minschwaner,
books board representative
Scientific Ethics Task Force
Peter Gleick, chair
David J. Chesney
Floyd DesChamps
Karen Fischer
Timothy Grove
Linda Gundersen
Noel Gurwick
Dennis Moore
Arthur Nowell
Len Pietrafesa
Jeff Plescia
Peter Schuck
Jagadish Shukla
Vivian Weil
Tellers Committee
Robert Robinson, chair
Doerthe Tetzlaff
Rong-Hua Zhang
Western Pacific Geophysics
Meeting Program Committee
Peter Swart, deputy chair
Robert L. Evans
Ashish Sharma
Alistair Smith
Paul Tapponnier
Bin Wang
MEDALS, AWARDS, AND
PRIZES COMMITTEES
Sharon Kanfoush
Tara LaForce
Bowie Medal Committee
David Chapman, chair
Veronique Dehant
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
Donald Turcotte
Carl Wunsch
Hess Medal Committee
Albrecht Hofmann, chair
Yingwei Fei
David Rowley
Roberta Rudnick
David Walker
Bucher Medal Committee
Anne Trehu, chair
Samuel Bowring
Attila Kilinc
David Kohlstedt
Stuart Ross Taylor
Horton Medal Committee
Guenter Bloeschl, chair
Tissa Illangasekare
Michael Kirkby
Karen Prestegaard
Bridget Scanlon
Thorsten Wagener
Climate Communication Prize
Committee
Margaret Leinen, chair
Richard Anthes
William Hooke
Stacy Jackson
Mojib Latif
Jagadish Shukla
Roy Young
Cowen Award Committee
Susan Hough, chair
Richard Dixon
Kathryn Matthews
Ligia Perez-Cruz
Josh Willis
Education Award Committee
Mioara Mandea, chair
Joseph Baker
Adelaide Johnson
Changqian Ma
Saumitra Mukherjee
Irene Rubinstein
Afroz Shah
Ewing Medal Committee
Miriam Kastner, chair
Eric Lindstrom
Susan Lozier
Kenneth Macdonald
Monika Rhein
Falkenberg Award Committee
Sara Graves, chair
Peter Cornillon
Mark Parsons
Ashton Robinson-Cook
Annette Schloss
George Tselioudis
Fleming Medal Committee
Trond Torsvik, chair
William Beasley
Janet Luhmann
John Tarduno
Bruce Tsurutani
Flinn Award Committee
Walter Gonzalez, chair
Jack Fellows
Robert Gagosian
International Award
Committee
Brian Fraser, chair
Noel Aloysius
Tereza Cavazos
Natalia Gomez Perez
William Ridley
Daniel Schertzer
Giday WoldeGabriel
Lehmann Medal Committee
Vernon Cormier, chair
Akira Hasegawa
Richard O’Connell
John Orcutt
Barbara Romanowicz
Lianxing Wen
Macelwane Medal Committee
Joyce Penner, chair
Amy Clement
Shaul Hurwitz
Joseph Kirschvink
Lou-Chuang Lee
Raymond Pierrehumbert
Perlman Award Committee
Anahita Tikku, chair
Kim Fulton-Bennett
Veronica Lance
Rosaly Lopes
Anjana Shah
Revelle Medal Committee
Jorge Sarmiento, chair
Anny Cazenave
Ann Henderson-Sellers
Rebecca Phillips
Dong Wu
Shang-Ping Xie
Smith Medal Committee
Diane Wickland, chair
Jay Fein
Ming Ji
Masaru Kono
William Prescott
Spilhaus Award Committee
Ed Mathez, chair
Robert Eather
Michael Mayhew
Mary Miller
Suzanne O’Connell
Sullivan Award Committee
Usha Lee McFarling, chair
Estella Atekwana
Michael Carlowicz
Cindy Clark
Michael Mischna
Michelle Nijhuis
Whitten Medal Committee
Jeffrey Freymueller, chair
Don Chambers
Kristine Larson
Martin Vermeer
Richard Gross
SECTION AND FOCUS
GROUP OFFICERS
Natalia G. Andronova
Richard J. Blakely
Raymond S. Bradley
Julie Brigham-Grette
Laurie L. Brown
Molly E. Brown
Elizabeth A. Canuel
Martha H. Conklin
Reid F. Cooper
Steven Cummer
Susan L. Cutter
Eric A. Davidson
Timothy H. Dixon
Linda T. Elkins-Tanton
Michael Ellis
Robert L. Evans
Karen M. Fischer
Larisa P. Goncharenko
Richard G. Gordon
Harry W. Green
Anita Grunder
Jennifer W. Harden
Rhett Herman
Greg Hirth
William Hooke
Alan Howard
Alik T. Ismail-Zadeh
Hope Jahren
James Klimchuk
Matthew J. Kohn
Timothy Lang
Kanani Lee
Adrian Lenardic
Laurie A. Leshin
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Carolina R. Lithgow-Bertelloni
Shaun Lovejoy
Sasha Madronich
Chris J. Marone
Catherine A. McCammon
William B. McKinnon
Figen Mekik
Surabi Menon
Karen Moe
Robin D. Muench
Margaret R. Mulholland
Brad Murray
James W. Murray
Thomas W. Narock
Anne Nolin
Thomas H. Painter
Mark Panning
Louise Pellerin
Michael Piasecki
Leonard Pietrafesa
Michele L. Reba
Ian G. Richardson
Aaron J. Ridley
Elizabeth Safran
David T. Sandwell
Peter Schlosser
Xuan-Min Shao
Peter M. Shearer
Jan Josef Sojka
R. Stephen J. Sparks
Peter Swart
Anne Thompson
George Tsoflias
Tonie M. Van Dam
Suzan Van Der Lee
James Wanliss
Heather C. Watson
Peter J. Webster
Eric F. Wood
Donald J. Wuebbles
Ilya V. Zaliapin
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