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IERS Message No. 421                                    January 28, 2021
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IDS election results


Dear colleagues,

The IDS recently organized elections to fill the three vacancies in the
IDS Governing Board for the next 4 year term, 2021-2024:
Analysis Centers' Representative, Member-at-Large,
Data Center Representative.

The members elected by the IDS Associates are:

Member at-large: Karine Le Bail (Chalmers University,
Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden)

Analysis Centers' Representative: Frank Lemoine
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)

Data Center Representative: Benjamin Patrick Michael
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)

We also welcome Tonie van Dam (IERS Directing Board Chair) as the new
IERS Representative to the IDS GB.

During the first Governing Board meeting with the new members on January
26, 2021, following the procedures outlined in the IDS Terms of
Reference, Frank Lemoine was elected as IDS Chairperson for a second
term.

The new members took office on January 26, 2021.

The new list of the GB members is given on the IDS website at
https://ids-doris.org/ids/organization/governing-board.html

Congratulations to the newly elected members and thank you to the
excellent candidates who participated in the IDS Governing Board
elections.

We thank the IDS Elections committee (Claudio Abbondanza, Ernst Schrama,
Pascal Willis) for organizing the GB elections.

We also thank the IDS associates for participating in the elections.

The IDS also thanks Brian Luzum (US Naval Observatory, Scientific
Director) for his membership of the IDS GB from 2013-2020 as IERS
Representative.

The IDS would also like to express their sincere appreciation to Denise
Dettmering (DGFI, Technical University of Munich) for serving as
Member-at-Large to the IDS Governing Board from 2017-2020. Denise
remains an ex officio member of the IDS GB, in the role of Chair of the
IDS Working Group on Near Real Time Data.

Best regards,
Laurent Soudarin
IDS Central Bureau


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