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About Us

The Earth and Planetary Surface Processes (EPSP) Section began, officially, late in 2008, following approval by the AGU of a proposal from the community. As of the 2016 Fall meeting, we have 1027 AGU members who have chosen EPSP as their primary affiliation (and 515 primary student members), and 7186 secondary members. Earth and Planetary Surface Processes is a multidisciplinary field that embraces the full range of processes — including anthropogenic — that generate, erode, and measure landscapes, that generate stratigraphy, and that couple the internal dynamics of the surface to climatic and tectonic forcings.

Join EPSP

To join the EPSP Section, log into your account at AGU. Select to update your “Profile” and choose “Earth and Planetary Surface Processes” as your primary “Area of Scientific Interest”.

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Executive Committee

The EPSP Executive Committee is made up of our elected officers (listed to the right), the chairs of each of our committees, and the JGR Earth Surface Editor-in-Chief. The current committee chairs are:

Suzanne Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder (EPSP President)
Alexander Beer, University of Tübingen (OSPA chair)
Roberto Fernández, Penn State (EPSP Connects Chair)
Kimberly Hill, University of Minnesota (EPSP Past-President)
Eric Kirby, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (EPSP President-elect and Fellows Committee Chair)
Risa Madoff, University of North Dakota (Canvassing Committee and EPSP Connect chair)
Jon Major, USGS (EPSP Awards committee chair)
Claire Masteller, Washington University in St. Louis (Fall Meeting Program Committee co-chair)
Dorothy Merritts, Franklin and Marshall College (Canvassing Committee co-chair)
Susannah Morey, CU Boulder (Social Media chair)
Evan Dethier, Colby College (Student Travel Awards chair)
Emma Rogers, Dartmouth College (Student Committee Chair)
Ann Rowan, University of Bergen (JGR Earth Surface Editor-in-Chief)
Joel Scheingross, University of Nevada Reno (EPSP Secretary, Webmaster)
Kyle Straub, Tulane University (Fall Meeting Program Committee co-chair)
Danny White, University of Idaho (Student Committee Liaison)