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2016 AGI Executive Committee Welcomed at the GSA Annual Meeting

Alexandria, VA - The American Geosciences Institute welcomed its 2015-2016 executive committee at the Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting held last month in Baltimore, Maryland.

New officers include:

  • Jean M. Bahr, President-Elect, currently a professor at University of Wisconsin at Madison, and holds degrees from Stanford and Yale. She is a fellow and was the President of GSA from 2009-2010. She currently is an editor of the AGU journal Water Resources Research. In 2012 she was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.

  • Charlene Sundermann, Treasurer, lauded for her basic skills in non-profit financial management that she honed while serving as the President for the Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) from 2009-2010 and then as President of AWG Foundation from 2011 to 2013. She is currently pursuing a law degree from the University of St. Thomas.

  • Diane Smith, Member-at-Large, currently the Chair of Geosciences at Trinity University, has led a career filled with service to geoscience organizations. She has been active in many organizations including GSA as well as the Council on Undergraduate Research.

These new officers joined officers already in service of AGI including President Scott Tinker, Past-President Eric Riggs, Secretary Bill Siok, and Members-at-Large Katherine Lee Avary and Paul Bertsch.