Activities of the Executive Committee

Next Scheduled Meeting:  

TBD

Activities will be posted approximately 1 week after each meeting.

Last met on: 

2 August 2018

Present:  Claire Currie, Katie Cooper, Omar Ghattas, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg,  Louis Moresi, and Frederik Simons

Absent: Magali Billen

Announcements:

• 2018 Bylaw revisions have been approved by the electorate
• CIG Year 3 budget has been approved by NSF

Discussions:

• 2018 Nominating Committee to be appointed by end of month
• Plans to update Grand Challenges in Geodynamics Report, NAS
• Software: Proposed code donation in particle dynamics. Support of proprietary software.

19 April 2018

Present: Magali Billen, Claire Currie, Katie Cooper, Omar Ghattas, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg,  Louis Moresi, and Frederik Simons

Actions:

• Approved moving Annual Business Meeting to noontime at AGU.
• Discussed plans for meeting of the Electorate to present proposed changes to Bylaws followed by electronic balloting.
• Discussed realignment of Working Groups including annual call for new Working Groups.

Previous Meetings:

09 February 2018

Present: Katie Cooper, Omar Ghattas, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg,  Louis Moresi, and Frederik Simons

Absent: Magali Billen and Claire Currie

Actions:

• Elected new Chair and Vice Chair
• Approved CIG Principles of Community and Code of Conduct
• Approved New Members (by e-vote)
• University of Melbourne
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette 

Discussed: 

• Moving forward with Speaker Series
• Updates from visit to NSF
• Revision of bylaws
• Input to upcoming NAS study

28 November 2017

Present: Magali Billen, Claire Currie, Katie Cooper, Omar Ghattas, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg,  Louis Moresi, and Frederik Simons

Discussed:

• Upcoming joint meeting with CGU
• Updates to CIG Bylaws
• Community input for visioning document for research opportunities in computational geodynamics

3 November 2017

Present: Claire Currie, Katie Cooper, Omar Ghattas, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg, and Louis Moresi

Absent: Magali Billen and Frederik Simons

Discussed:

• IRIS HPCWG proposal for CIG leadership on meeting community HPC needs
• Code of Conduct for CIG
• Upcoming Meetings and Workshop: AGU Business Meeting, CTSP, joint CGU meeting

13 June 2017

Present: Claire Currie, Omar Ghattas, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg,  and Frederik Simons

Absent: Magali Billen and Louis Moresi

• Recommended members for the Nominations Committee
• Received an overview of the 2017-2018 budget
• Reviewed upcoming CIG sponsored events

10 April 2017

Present: Claire Currie, Omar Ghattas, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg, Louis Moresi, and Frederik Simons

Absent: Magali Billen

The following institutions were approved for membership:

• University of Kentucky
• University of Toronto

Discussions:

• Feedback on CIG Speaker Series website
• Changes to Annual Report

6 March 2017

Present: Magali Billen,  Claire Currie, Omar Ghattas, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg, Louis Moresi, and Frederik Simons

The meeting focused on:

• Changing format of Annual Business Meeting
• Inactive Institutional Member Representatives
• Retaining flexibility in long term scheduling of CIG meetings 
• Targeted audience and speakers for CIG Distinguished Speaker Series
• Response to NSF RFI on Future Needs for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to Support Science and Engineering Research

6 February 2017

Present: Magali Billen, Katie Cooper, Claire Currie, Omar Ghattas, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg, Louis Moresi, and Frederik Simons

• Election of Chair Omar Ghattas; Vice Chair, Louis Moresi
• Working Group membership. Recommendation for 3 year terms that are renewable.
• Long term scheduling of CIG meetings - working groups and organizational-wide.
• Criteria for CIG Distinguished Speaker Series and joint EC & SSC committee for selection of speakers and venues.
• Criteria for travel support for collaborative code development. Applications to be reviewed twice a year by SSC.

27 October 2016

Present: Brad Aagaard, David Bercovici, Magali Billen, Omar Ghattas, Lorraine Hwang, and Louise Kellogg

Discussions:

• Upcoming AGU Business Meeting
• DOIs for software
• Report back on slate of candidates for 2016 Elections
• Update on partnerships with IRIS and potential workshop with CSDMS
• CIG'16 Survey results

8 September 2016

Present: Brad Aagaard, David Bercovici, Magali Billen, Bruce Buffett, Omar Ghattas, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg, and Louis Moresi

Action Items:

• Selection of Nominating Committee

Discussions:

• Partnership with IRIS
• Joint meeting with Canadian Geophysical Union 2018

3 February 2016

30 November 2015

Present: Brad Aagaard, Bruce Buffett, Claire Currie, Omar Ghattas, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg, Scott King
Absent: David Bercovici

Action Items:

• Approved Institutional Membership for the Carnegie Institute of Science and International Affiliate for University of Mainz
• Declined request for support from the Princeton seismology graduate group

7 October 2015

Discussions:

• 2015 All Hands Meeting
• 2015 Annual Business Meeting
• Nominations
• Staffing Update

28 April 2015

25 March 2015

17 February 2015

Present:  Brad Aagaard, Wolfgang Bangerth, David Bercovici, Bruce Buffett, Claire Currie, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg, Scott King
Absent: Omar Ghattas

Action Items:

• Approved support for students and post docs to attend the  XIV International Workshop on Modeling of Mantle and Lithospheric Dynamics.

• PISM donation, action pending SSC recommendations
• The role of grand challenges in CIG III
• CIG II accomplishments

30 January 2015

17 November 2014

Present:  Brad Aagaard, Wolfgang Bangerth,  Claire Currie, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg, Scott King
Absent: David Bercovici, Bruce Buffett

Informational:

• CIG in collaboration with researchers at UCD has been selected by campus to submit a proposal to the NSF MRI program.  
• The Geodynamo Working Group has been granted an INCITE Award and will receive 83 million core-hours on Mira in Year 1.

Discussions:

• The CIG III Writing Committee will get together in early January. A general outline for the proposal was discussed and approved.
• MC and LTT Working group members will be updated.

02 September 2014

Informational:

• The paper on the donated code Burnman as been published and was recommended to list as a seismology code.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013GC005122
• Positioning CIG has been released to the community.
• UC Davis / CIG was recently awarded a 2 yr EAGER grant - EAGER: Development of software citation methodology for open source computational science
• Rowena Lohman, Marc Speigelman and Gary Glatzmaier have accepted positions on the 2014 Nominating Committee

Discussions:

• It was recommended that the CIG III Proposal Writing Committee by compose of 2 CIG HQ staff (PI +1), 2 EC, 2 SSC and 2 at large members.  
• One-pagers will be solicited from the community.

19 August 2014

Present:  Brad Aagaard, Wolfgang Bangerth, David Bercovici, Bruce Buffet, Claire Currie, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg, Scott King

Actions:

• University of Alberta was approved by consensus for membership as an International Affiliate.
• Prospective Nominating Committee members will be contacted to serve. 

Discussions:

• External Advisory Board - Agenda and Format 
• Potential RCN joint with IRIS (lead) and LLNL
• Preliminary discussions on CIG III - writing committees and schedule

25 April 2014

Present:  Brad Aagaard, Wolfgang Bangerth, David Bercovici,  Claire Currie, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg, Scott King
Absent: Bruce Buffett

Discussions

• External Advisory Panel to convene late Summer/early Fall
• 2014-15 Operational Plan and Budget

27 March 2014

Action Items:

• Approved ASPECT “hack-a-thon” to be held at TAMU
• Accepted meeting report of LTT-EarthScope workshop 
• Provided feedback on CIG Positioning Document

27 February 2014

Present:  Brad Aagaard, Wolfgang Bangerth, Bruce Buffett, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg, Scott King
Absent: David Bercovici, Claire Currie

Action Items:

• Voted to accept AxiSEM as a donated code,
• Will send suggestions for Strategic Objectives and Actions to the document developed from the January leadership retreat
• CIG will recirculate incorporating other feedback for next meeting

18-20 January 2014

Action Items:

1. Draft a Strategic Plan by late Spring 2013

• Mission, Visions and Core Values along with Straregic Objectives.

 

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