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Members of the IAU FITS Working Group

North America      (Appointed)               Areas of Expertise
 Steve Allen         (2003) UCO/Lick Obs    Optical, Mosaicing, WCS
 Daniel Durand       (2003) CADC, Canada    Optical, CFHT 
 Perry Greenfield    (2009) STScI           Data processing pipelines
 Eric Greisen        (1988) NRAO            FITS History, AIPS, Radio, WCS
*Bob Hanisch         (1988) STScI           (VO Working Group Rep) WGAS Chair
*Bill Pence          (1993) HEASARC, GSFC   (Chairman) CFITSIO, X-ray
*Arnold Rots         (2002) SAO             (Chair of N. American FITS committee) 
                                            Chandra, X-ray, Timing 
 Dick Shaw           (2003) NOAO            UV/Optical, Spectroscopy, Imaging, IRAF
 Betty Stobie        (2003) NOAO            Optical, near-IR, IRAF
 William Thompson    (2003) GSFC            Solar, SOHO, STEREO
 Doug Tody           (1988) NRAO            VO, WCS, IRAF, Optical/IR, Radio

Europe
*Lucio Chiappetti    (2003) IASF Milano, It. (Vice-chair) X-ray, XMM, BeppoSAX, databases
 Malcolm Currie      (2009) RAL, U.K.       Optical/IR imaging & spectroscopy
*Adam Dobrzycki      (2010) ESO, Germany    (Chair of European FITS committee) QSOs,
                                            computational astronomy
 Thierry Forveille   (2003) Grenoble        Optical/IR, Radio 
 Carlos Gabriel      (2005) ESA/ESAC, Spain X-ray, XMM Science Operations
 Preben Grosbol      (1988) ESO, Germany    (Ex-chair, 1988-1994; Ex-Chair of the
                                            European FITS committee) FITS History, VLT
 Walter Jaffe        (2003) Leiden, NL      Radio, IR interferometry
 Francois Ochsenbein (1988) CDS, France     Vizier, VOTable
 Andreas Wicenec     (2003) ESO, Germany    ALMA, Optical, AVO
 Zhelenkova, Olga    (2009) Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), Russia   

Japan:
*Osamu Kanamitsu     (1995) Fukuoka Univ of Edu.  (Chair of the Japanese FITS committee)
                                            Optical

Australia
*Mark Calabretta     (2003) ATNF/CSIRO     (Chair of the Australia/New Zealand
                                            FITS committee) Radio, WCS

(* = member of the Executive Committee)

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Previous Members
                           Tenure
 Bill Cotton, NRAO       (1988-2003)
 John Glaspey, NOAO      (1988-2003)
 Don Jennings, NOST      (2000-2000)
 Oleg Malkov, Moscow     (2003-2009)
 Shiro Nishimura, Japan  (1988-1995)
 Clive Page, UK          (2003-2009)
 Bruce Peterson, MSO     (1988-2003)
 Anatoly Piskunov, RU    (1988-2000)
 Ernst Raimond, NL       (1988-2003) Ex-vice-chair: 1994-2003
 Barry Schlesinger, NOST (1988-1999) 
 Peter Teuben, U. MD     (1995-2002) Ex-Chair of N. American FITS Committee
 Pat Wallace, UK         (1988-2005)
 Wayne Warren, GSFC      (1988-2003)
 Don Wells, NRAO         (1988-2009) Ex-chair, 1994-2003; Ex-vicechair, 1988-1994