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Call for Nominations
for the GRSS Administrative Committee
The Nominations Committee calls upon our membership
to nominate members to serve on the GRSS Administrative
Committee (AdCom). A nominating petition carrying a minimum of 2% of the names of eligible Society members (~60),
excluding students, shall automatically place that nominee on
the slate. Such nominations must be made by May 25, 2013.
The Nominations Committee may choose to include a
name on the slate regardless of the number of names generated by the nominating petition process. Prior to submission of a nomination petition, the petitioner shall have
determined that the nominee named in the petition is willing to serve if elected; and evidence of such willingness to
serve shall be submitted with the petition. Candidates must
be current members of the IEEE and the GRSS.
Petition signatures can be submitted electronically through
the Society website, or by signing, scanning and electronically
mailing the pdf file of the paper petition. The name of each
member signing the paper petition shall be clearly printed
or typed. For identification purposes of signatures on paper
petitions, membership numbers or addresses as listed in the
official IEEE membership records shall be included. Only signatures submitted electronically through the Society website
or original signatures on paper petitions shall be accepted.
A brief biography of the nominee, similar to that used
for TGARS authors, but not to exceed one page, will be
required and should be submitted with the nominating
petition by May 15, 2013 to:

GRSS Nominations Committee
c/o Dr. David G. Goodenough
IEEE GRSS Nominations Chair
University of Victoria
3355 Haida Drive
Victoria, BC, V9C382, Canada
E-mail: dggoodenough@shaw.ca

The slate derived by the Nominations Committee shall
be presented to the Society membership at large via electronic ballot, and the three candidates receiving the greatest
number of votes shall be elected. The Administrative Committee shall hold an Annual Meeting in November, 2013
after results of this vote are known, at which time elections
will be held to fill the remaining three regular vacancies in
the Administrative Committee, with all successful candidates to start on January 1, 2014.
Our AdCom consists of 18 elected persons, each of
whom serves for three years. Their terms are overlapping to ensure continuity. Additional information on the
society and the AdCom is available at http://www.grssieee.org/. We thank all candidates for their willingness
to serve and support the IEEE Geoscience and Remote
Sensing Society.

GRSS Search for a New Editor in Chief
for Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
The Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) is
conducting a search for a new Editor in Chief (EIC) for its
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL) journal starting
Jan. 1, 2014. Prof. Paolo Gamba has been an excellent EIC
of this journal for six years and has instituted many improvements to the journal greatly increasing the number of
papers handled by GRSL while maintaining the rapid paper
turn around needed by a letters journal. The EIC position

is in charge of assigning all GRSL papers to appropriate Associate Editors (AEs) and making final decisions based on
AE recommendations. The EIC is initially appointed for
a 3-year term, which can be renewed for a second 3-year
term. All those interested in this position should contact
Bill Emery (emery@colorado.edu) the GRSS Vice President
for Publications.
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