Board

Rollin C. Richmond
President, Humboldt State University

Richmond is president of Humboldt State University. Prior to his appointment in 2002, he had a distinguished career as a faculty member, researcher in evolutionary biology and academic administrator. He was provost of Iowa State University from 1999-2002; provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook from 1995-1999; and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida from 1990- 1995. He served on the faculty of the Department of Biology at Indiana University in Bloomington for twenty years and also served as department chair.

Council

Soroosh Sorooshian
Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing (CHRS), UC Irvine

Dr. Sorooshian’s research focuses on surface hydrology, primarily in the area of rainfallrunoff modeling. He has devoted much of his effort to model identification and calibration issues and has developed special estimation criteria to account for the uncertainties of calibration data. He also consults on problems related to surface hydrology and flood forecasting. Dr. Sorooshian is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE); Past-President of AGU’s Hydrology Section; NOAA Science Advisory Board; and U.S. Member of the Hydrology Commission for WMO. He has served on numerous advisory committees, including those of NRC, NASA, NOAA, NSF, EPA, and UNESCO.

S. Pete Worden, Director, NASA Ames Research Center

Prior to becoming Director, Dr. Worden was a Research Professor of Astronomy, Optical Sciences and Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona where his primary research direction was the development of large space optics for national security and scientific purposes and nearearth asteroids. Additionally he worked on topics related to space exploration and solar-type activity in nearby stars. He is a recognized expert on space issues - both civil and military. In addition to his former position with the University of Arizona, Dr. Worden served as a consultant to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on space-related issues.

Kathy Yelick, Director, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Katherine Yelick received her Bachelors (1985), Masters (1985), and PhD (1991) degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests include parallel computing, memory hierarchy optimizations, programming languages and compilers.