The American Geophysical Union has a new president-elect: Timothy Killeen, director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and a senior scientist at its High Altitude Observatory. He becomes president-elect on 1 July, and in 2006 will succeed John A. Orcutt (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), who becomes president this year.
Killeen has a BS in physics and astronomy (1972) and a PhD in atomic and molecular physics (1975), both from University College London. He was at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for more than 20 years, first as a researcher and professor of atmospheric, oceanic, and space sciences and then as director of the university’s space physics research laboratory and associate vice-president for research. In 1992, he was a visiting senior scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Killeen says he is “honored to have been nominated and elected to serve the AGU,”...