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Tim Killeen, NCAR director
and an expert on Earth's upper atmosphere, has been elected president
of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Killeen will take the AGU's
helm on 1 July 2006, while continuing his role as NCAR director, which
he has held since July 2000. Killeen will serve two years on the AGU's
governing council as president-elect before beginning his two-year
term as president. He will remain active on the council as immediate
past president for another two years, completing his six-year governing
commitment in 2010.
Based in Washington, D.C., the AGU is a nonprofit scientific organization
dedicated to promoting the scientific study of Earth and its environment
in space. The union boasts more than 41,000 scientist and student members
from 130 countries.
"The AGU is a premier scientific organization dedicated to fostering
scientific excellence, human capital development, and the rapid dissemination
of research results across the broad range of geophysics," says
Killeen. "It is a great honor to have been nominated and chosen
to serve as AGU president-elect. I will work hard to uphold and augment
the union's high standards of excellence in research and community
service."
Killeen is co-principal investigator for a new National Science Foundation
(NSF) Science and Technology Center devoted to numerical modeling of
space weather. He plans to continue his scientific research as a principal
investigator and instrument developer for a spaceborne Doppler interferometer
on NASA's TIMED spacecraft. Killeen is also currently editor-in-chief
of the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics.
Before joining NCAR, Killeen was a professor of atmospheric and space
sciences at the University of Michigan, where he led the university's
Space Physics Research Laboratory and served as associate vice president
for research. Killeen has also presided over the AGU's Space Physics
Section, and he has led various NASA and NSF committees.
Born in Cardiff, Wales, Killeen received a Bachelor of Science degree
in physics and a Ph.D. in atomic and molecular physics from the University
College London.
Gang Lu, a scientist in NCAR's High Altitude Observatory, was elected
secretary for aeronomy in the AGU's Space Physics and Aeronomy Section.
Aeronomy is the study of Earth's upper atmosphere.
NCAR is managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
(UCAR), a consortium of 68 universities offering Ph.D.s in the atmospheric
and related sciences. NCAR's primary sponsor is the National Science
Foundation.
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