SCD community service activities

Bill Buzbee, Ph.D, serves on the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute's External Advisory Board. He is on the review team for the National Centers for Environmental Protection (NCEP), Central Operations (NCO). He is a member of ACM, IEEE and the IEEE subcommittee on Supercomputing (SIAM), and the American Meteorological Society (AMS). He is also on the advisory board of RCI, Ltd., an international consortium of leading-edge users and vendors of High Performance Computing. He is listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering and is currently listed in American Men and Women of Science.

Ginger Caldwell is a Member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the American Management Association. She is also a member of the Supercomputing '97 Education Program Committee.

Fred Clare is a member of the ACM, SIGGRAPH, and the IEEE Computer Society.

Rachelle Daily serves as Secretary, Executive Board, IEEE Computer Society, Mass Storage Technical Committee.

Sally Haerer served on: Supercomputing '96 Executive Committee - Technical Papers and Invited Speakers Chair; Parallel Tools Consortium Steering Committee; Cray User Group Board of Directors and Advisory Council - Vice President; is a member of IEEE Computer Society; and is a Program Committee Member of IAI Workshop, Boulder.

Roy Jenne continues to serve on the following advisory panels: Academy CES satellite committee; Advisory Panel for Goddard DAAC (Data System); and the Science Council for Earth Sciences for USRA (University Space Research Association) (through November 1999). He also chaired Negotiations on Working Group VIII Data Exchange, August 1996; is Head of US side of US-Russia data exchange under Working Group VIII bilateral (1980-1996).

Jeff Kuehn is Chair, Special Interest Committee for Performance and Evaluation, Cray User Group, Inc. (elected); Advisory Council Member, Cray User Group, Inc. (appointed); Steering Committee Member, Parallel Tools Consortium (appointed); (Association for Computing Machinery) Usenix Association.

Lynda Lester is the Editor of "CUG.log," the international newsletter of the Cray User Group (CUG), and is secretary of the CUG Advisory Board. She gave an invited presentation at Colorado State University on how to edit and manage publications on the web. She is a member of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), for whom she hosted two chapter meetings and gave one presentation at NCAR. She also won an STC "Award of Merit" for SCD's web newsletter, "SCDzine."

Bernie T. O'Lear was chair of the Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee for the IEEE Computer Society until August 1997. He received the IEEE Computer Society's "Golden Core Member" Award. The Golden Core Members consist of approximately 500 people who have served the society in significant ways throughout its 50 years. Bernie O'Lear has also participated in the First IEEE Metadata conference as a member of the conference committee and Registration Chair. He has also been appointed to the 1997 UCAR Grievance Panel.

The Network Engineering and Technology Section (NETS) participated in the vBNS Technical Coordination Committee and the Westnet Steering Committee.