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

Nomination Task Force (NTF)

        Committee Homepage

Fall Meeting Program Committee Representatives

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

Advocacy Committee

  • Brian Walsh (Chair)
  • Daniel Baker
  • Ryan McGranaghan
  • Joshua Pettit
  • Gilda Gonzalez
  • Wen Li
  • Agnit Mukhopadhyay
  • Emily Mason
  • Bhishek Manek
  • Subash Adhikari
  • Grant Berland
  • Sachin Reddy
  • Hanieh Karimi
  • Claire Gasque
  • Judit Szente




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

  • Robert C. Allen (Chair)
  • Savvas Raptis (Co-Chair)
  • Chris "Gilly" Gilbert (Secretary)
  • Agnit Mukhopadhyay
  • B. L. Alterman
  • Bharat Kunduri
  • Claire Gasque
  • Eduardo Perez Macho
  • Garima Malhotra
  • Hadi Madanian
  • Jan Deca
  • Komal Kumari
  • Milo Buitrago-Casas
  • Mike Heyns
  • Muhammad Fraz Bashir
  • Phyllis Whittlesey
  • Ryan McGranaghan
  • Sebastijan Mrak
  • Tibebu Getachew Ayalew

DEIA Advisory Committee

  • Xioa-Chen Shen
  • Roman Gomez
  • Hong Zhao
  • Lindsay Goodwin
  • Karen Julia Coldebella Ferreira
  • Bhupendra Malvi
  • Sarah Gibson


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

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