The GLIMS Core Team

The GLIMS Core Team, or Executive Board, guides overall direction of scientific and technical development within GLIMS, and works in consulation with the Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers (GTN-G) advisory board. The membership and responsibilities are outlined below. The GTN-G advisory board also functions as the GLIMS advisory board. See http://www.gtn-g.org/contact/ for information on GTN-G and the advisory board.

Overall function of the GLIMS Core Team:

To direct the high-level activities of GLIMS, and to ensure that those activities remain responsive to the needs of the greater scientific community.

Membership

Membership changes periodically. The listed roles are subject to change in response to actual needs, and boundaries between the roles are flexible as well. For example, if you have a suggestion for GLIMS, you could contact anyone in the Core Team.

Bruce Raup	National Snow and Ice Data Center	Director (since 2015), technical lead for the database at NSIDC
Adina Racoviteanu	Université Joseph Fourier, LGGE, Grenoble, France	Link to the greater science community
Frank Paul	University of Zürich	Link to international organizations, and to European Space Agency
Etienne Berthier	Laboratoire d'étude en géophysique et océanographie spatiale, Toulouse	Link to French Space Agency and European Space Agency
Tobias Bolch	Graz University of Technology, Austria	Link to the greater science community
Fabien Maussion	University of Innsbruck	Link to the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) group

The main tasks for the Core Team are to recommend priorities for the next big technical tasks, to recommend new directions that GLIMS might take to provide valuable and relevant glacier data to the scientific community, and to engage with space agencies where possible to help guide satellite imaging of glaciers.

Several members of the GLIMS Core Team are also members of the International Association for the Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) working group for Randolph Glacier Inventory and infrastructure for glacier monitoring. GLIMS and this group are working together to harmonize different glacier databases, in data production, formatting, and ease of use.