Overview and Membership

Space Physics and Aeronomy Section Committees

Leadership Committees

SPA Executive Committee

  • President
    • Therese Moretto-Jorgensen, President
    • Kathy Reeves President-Elect
    • Geoff Reeves, Past-President
  • Secretary
    • Amy Keesee, Magnetospheric (SM)
    • Scott England, Aeronomy (SA)
    • Hazel Bain, Solar and Heliospheric (SH)
  • LAC Representatives
    • Dominique Stumbaugh, Student Rep
    • Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, Early Career Rep
    • George Ho, DEI Rep
  • Webmaster

Fall Meeting Program Committee Representatives

  • Scott England
  • Hazel Bain
  • Amy Keese
  • Hadi Madanian, Early Career Rep

Advocacy Committee

  • Ian Cohen (chair)
  • Gordon Emslie
  • Harlan Spence
  • Dan Baker
  • Sarah Vines
  • Ryan McGranaghan


Nomination Task Force (NTF)

        Committee Homepage



Leadership Advisory Committees

Student LAC

  • Dominique Stumbaugh (Chair)
  • Ananyo Bhattacharya
  • Tyler Eddy
  • Erika Hathaway
  • Brianna Isola (Co-Chair)
  • Mariana Jeunon
  • Onyinye Nwankwo
  • Mary Smirnova
  • Will Teague
  • Kathryn Wilbanks
  • Recruiting new members now!

      Student Committee Homepage 

      Student Resources

Early Career LAC

    • Bea Gallardo-Lacourt (chair)
    • Mike Heyns 
    • Agnit Mukhopadhyay 
    • Tibebu Getachew Ayalew 
    • Jan Deca 
    • Phyllis Whittlesey 
    • Ryan McGranaghan 
    • Savvas Raptis 
    • Robert C Allen 
    • Bharat Kunduri 
    • Muhammad Fraz Bashir 
    • Hadi Madanian 
    • Sebastijan Mrak 
    • B. L. Alterman 
    • Chris ''Gilly'' Gilbert

          Early Career Homepage

    DEI LAC (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)

      • George Ho (chair)
      • Leonardo Regoli 
      • Hyunju Connor 
      • Chris Mouikis 
      • B. L. Alterman 
      • Joshua Pettit 

            DEI Homepage


      SPA Award Committees

      Fred L. Scarf Awards Committee

      • Ofer Cohen (chair)
      • Chia-Lin Huang
      • Stefaan Poedts
      • Toshi  Nishimura
      • Dogacan Ozturk
      • Emma Louise Spanswick
      • Lee-Anne Mckinnell
      • Karl-Heinz Glassmeier
      • Yiqun Yu
      • Susie Imber
      • Anthony Yeates
      • Raluca Ilie


      SPA Section Fellows Committee

      • Naomi Maruyama (Chair)
      • Volker Bothmer
      • Brett Carter
      • Marina Gkioulidou
      • Therese Kucera
      • János Lichtenberger
      • Astrid Maute
      • Binbin Ni
      • Alphonse Sterling
      • Claudia Stolle
      • Weichao Tu
      • Endawoke Yizengaw

      Outstanding Student Presentation Awards Committee

      • Sam Schonfeld (chair)
      • Lindsay Goodwin
      • Sarah Vines

      SPA Richard Carrington (SPARC) Education and Public Outreach Award Committee

      • Toshi Nishimura (Chair)
      • Muhammad Fraz Bashir
      • Mark Cheung

      Sunanda & Satimay Basu Early Career Award for Research Excellence in Sun-Earth Systems Science Committee (United States)

      • Joe Huba (chair)
      • Alex Glocer
      • Fabriano Rodrigues
      • Tomoko Matsuo
      • Lynn Kistler

      Sunanda & Satimay Basu Early Career Award for Research Excellence in Sun-Earth Systems Science Committee (International)

      • John Habarulema (chair)
      • Anil Bhardwaj
      • M. Virginia Alves
      • Zuyin Pu 
      • Pornchai Supnithi

      Page last updated on 10/15/2024