[GLIMS] New GLIMS Core Team formed

[Bruce RAUP]

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

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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/