Hello all, In 2015, leadership of the international GLIMS (Global Land Ice Measurements from Space) initiative transferred to Bruce H. Raup. With this message we announce the formation of the GLIMS Core Team, which will serve to guide the overall direction of development of GLIMS. The membership and responsibilities are outlined below. GLIMS, the National Snow and Ice Data Center, and the World Glacier Monitoring Service constitute the Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers (GTN-G). The GTN-G advisory board also functions as the GLIMS advisory board. See http://www.gtn-g.org/contact/ for information on GTN-G and the advisory board. Overall function of the GLIMS Core Team: To direct the high-level activities of GLIMS, and to ensure that those activities remain responsive to the needs of the greater scientific community. Initial membership Membership will change periodically. The listed roles are subject to change in response to actual needs, and boundaries between the roles are flexible as well. For example, if you have a suggestion for GLIMS, you could contact anyone in the Core Team. Bruce Raup National Snow and Ice Data Center Role: director, technical lead for the database at NSIDC Adina Racoviteanu CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder Role: link to the greater science community Frank Paul University of Zürich Role: link to international organizations, and to European Space Agency Jeff Kargel University of Arizona, Tucson Role: link to NASA, USGS, and several Asian research institutions Etienne Berthier Laboratoire d'étude en géophysique et océanographie spatiale, Toulouse Role: link to French Space Agency and European Space Agency Tobias Bolch University of Zürich Role: link to the greater science community See http://www.glims.org/glims/contactInfo.php for contact information. The initial tasks for the Core Team will be to see that geographic coverage of GLIMS, together with rich metadata, achieves global completeness, to recommend priorities for the next big technical tasks, to recommend new directions that GLIMS might take to provide valuable and relevant glacier data to the scientific community, and to engage with space agencies where possible to help guide satellite imaging of glaciers. Several members of the GLIMS Core Team are also members of the International Association for the Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) working group for Randolph Glacier Inventory and infrastructure for glacier monitoring. GLIMS and this group are working together to harmonize different glacier databases, in data production, formatting, and ease of use. With best regards, Bruce Raup -- Bruce H. RAUP National Snow and Ice Data Center University of Colorado 449 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309 Phone: 303-492-8814 http://cires.colorado.edu/~braup/