Committees, Boards, Working Groups, Editors
To volunteer or suggest members for a Committee, send a note to the Chair of the Appointments Committee. To be most useful, include the date of Ph.D. and a few sentences on the background and areas of experitse of the named individual.
Due to the large number of AAS Committees with independent terms of service, committee compositions change throughout the year. Please contact John Graham (aassec@aas.org) if corrections or updates are needed.
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Presidential Appointment Committees:
- Ad-hoc Leap Second Committee
- Appointments Committee
- Budget Committee
- Committee on Astronomy and Public Policy
- Committee on Membership
- Committee on New Communications
- Committee on Professional Development
- Committee on Topical Sessions for Summer Meetings
Standing Committees, Boards, And Working Groups:
- Astronomy Education Board
- Audit Committee
- Childcare Committee
- Committee on Employment
- Investment Advisory Committee
- Committee on Light Pollution, Radio Interference and Space Debris
- Committee on Meetings
- Nominating Committee
- Obituary Committee
- Publications Board
- Committee on the Status of Minorities
- Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy
- Working Group on Astronomical Software (WGAS)
- Working Group on Laboratory Astrophysics (WGLA)
- Working Group on the Preservation of Astronomical Heritage (WGPAH)
- Working Group on Professional-Amateur Collaboration (WGPAC)
Grant, Prize, And Award Committees:
- Chambliss Amateur Achievement Award Committee
- Annie Jump Cannon Award Committee
- Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award Committee
- Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards Committee
- Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize Committee
- Dannie Heineman Prize Committee
- Education Prize Committee
- George Van Biesbroeck Prize Committee
- Henri Chretien Grant Committee
- Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation Committee
- Russell Lecture Committee
- Small Research Grant Committee
- Student Award Committee
- Warner/Pierce Prize Committee
Journal Editors:
- Astronomical Journal
- Astrophysical Journal
- Astrophysical Journal Letters
- Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Icarus