IRIS welcomes several new employees. Chau Tran has been working hard in the Business Office taking care accounting, purchase orders, and inventory. Jamie Understein is now working with our subcontractors. Christina Wise has taken over the phones, as our new Receptionist/Secretary. We also welcome Susan Strain, Executive Assistant, who will be working closely with the President, Program Managers and Executive Committee on planning of meetings and contact with IRIS members. Shawn Boo has taken on an expanded role as Director of Finance and Administration.
The IRIS DMC congratulates and welcomes back Anh Ngo, who returns after the birth of her son. The DMC also welcomes Deborah Barnes, Interface Specialist. Debbie comes to us from the Borehole Research Group at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. Her background includes graphics design and the development and maintenance of World Wide Web pages. Debbie will be involved in many aspects of graphical user interface design for IRIS.
Rhett Butler attended the recent meeting of the Group of Scientific Experts of the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland, participating in discussions of the development of the auxiliary network for use in CTBT.
Tim Ahern, DMS Program Manager has spent much of the month of November on a tour of data centers and seismological institutions in South America.
Gregory van der Vink has been elected to the AAAS Committee on Science and International Security. He is also teaching a course on the Analysis of Environmental and Scientific Policies at Princeton University in the Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences.
David Simpson, IRIS President, has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and during a recent trip to Moscow was presented with the Medal of the Schmitt Institute of Physics of the Earth.
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