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Executive Committee Members

James Syvitski (CSDMS Integration Facility), ExCom Chair and CSDMS Executive Director
Rudy Slingerland (Penn State), Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee
Brad Murray (Duke Univ.), Chair of the CSDMS Coastal Working Group
Pat Wiberg (Univ. of Virginia), Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group
Greg Tucker (Univ. of Colorado), Chair of the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group
Scott Peckham (CSDMS Integration Facility), Chief Software Architect
Eckart Meiburg (Univ. of California at Santa Barbara), Chair of the CSDMS Cyberinformatics & Numerics Working Group
Karen Campbell (Univ. Minnesota), Chair of the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group

CSDMS Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and will meet twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee will also develop the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee will develop and implement the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee will further:

  1. Review proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
  2. Ensure that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
  3. Review the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
  4. Ensure scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
  5. Ensure the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
  6. Ensure transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.
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