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) ------------------------------------ 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