Please nominate!

[Rebecca Bendick]

Dear. Community:

Happy summer!   In addition to being the best time for beach reading, field work, and writing research papers, summer is also the time when we get ready for our Board of Directors elections and rotations of members on the NSF SAGE/GAGE Advisory Committees.  

We updated our process with the formation of the EarthScope Consortium with the goal of making sure that many different facility and organization perspectives are represented in our governance and advisory bodies.  Specifically, nomination portals on our governance (https://www.earthscope.org/about/governance/) and advisory committee (https://www.earthscope.org/about/facility-advisory-committees/) web pages are always open.  These pages show the current members, their terms, and, at the bottom, a link for self-nominations or nominations of others.  You can nominate yourself or someone you think would help us with our mission, vision, and charges at any time.  

Board nominations will be considered each year by our Board Nomination Committee, which selects a balanced election slate.  Elections are conducted in the fall.  Committees select their own members, making sure that committees are broadly representative.  Any nominations not advanced in a given year will be rolled to subsequent years.

We really want to make sure that as the facilities and the Consortium grow and evolve we maintain our deep and rich interactions with our community.  This means a central role for Advisory and Governance bodies, and a an urgent need for your participation.  Please consider getting involved or convincing your colleagues to do so!

All the best,

Becks

	Becks Bendick (she/her)
	CEO

rebecca...@earthscope.org