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| 2 | +title: "Executive Committee" |
| 3 | +linkTitle: "Executive Committee" |
| 4 | +weight: 100 |
| 5 | +--- |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +The Executive Committee (EC) ensures that the activities of the Open Modeling Foundation further its vision, mission, and goals as expressed in the organizational [charter](https://openmodelingfoundation.github.io/governance/charter/#executive-committee). It oversees all elections and any other selection of individuals involved in OMF activities to ensure that qualified, ethical individuals who are dedicated to the foundation’s vision, mission, and goals are chosen to fill their roles in the OMF. It also oversees the Working Group activities to ensure that they are carrying out their respective responsibilities in an appropriate and effective manner, consistent with the vision, mission, and goals of the OMF. |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +Elected members of the EC serve staggered three-year terms. |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +## Non-voting Members |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +##### __Executive Director__ |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +<div class="card-deck"> |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +{{< imgproc barton Fit "200x200" >}} |
| 18 | +<center><strong>Michael Barton</strong></center> |
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| 20 | + |
| 21 | +<div class="card mb-4 border-0"> |
| 22 | +<p> <br> Michael Barton is a Professor in the School of Complex Adaptive Systems and in the School of Human Evolution & Social Change, and Director of the Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity at Arizona State University (USA). He also directs the Network for Computational Modeling in Social and Ecological Sciences (<a href="https://comses.net">CoMSES.Net</a>), an international scientific network to enable accessibility, open science, and best practices for computation in the socio-ecological sciences. Barton received his BA from the University of Kansas in Anthropology/Archaeology, and MA and PhD from the University of Arizona in Anthropology/Archaeology and Geosciences. His research centers around long-term human ecology and landscape dynamics, integrating computational modeling, geospatial technologies, and data science with geoarchaeological field studies. Barton has directed transdisciplinary research on hunter-gatherers and small-holder farmers in the Mediterranean and North America for over three decades, and collaborates on research on human-environmental interactions in the modern world. He is a member of the open-source GRASS GIS Development Team and Project Steering Committee, dedicated to making advanced geospatial technologies openly accessible to the world. Web page and CV at: <a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton"> http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton </a> </p> |
| 23 | +</div> |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +</div> |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +##### __Administrative Coordinator__ |
| 28 | +<div class="card-deck"> |
| 29 | + |
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| 31 | +<center><strong>Laura Swantek</strong></center> |
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| 33 | + |
| 34 | +<div class="card mb-4 border-0"> |
| 35 | +<p> <br> Laura Swantek is the project coordinator for the Network for Computational Modeling in Social and Ecological Sciences (<a href="https://comses.net">CoMSES.Net</a>). She received her MA from University at Albany in Classics and her PhD from Arizona State University in Anthropology/Archaeology.</p> |
| 36 | +</div> |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +</div> |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +##### __Cyberinfrastructure Representative__ |
| 41 | +<div class="card-deck"> |
| 42 | + |
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| 44 | +<center><strong>Allen Lee</strong></center> |
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| 46 | + |
| 47 | +<div class="card mb-4 border-0"> |
| 48 | +<p> <br> Allen Lee is a full stack software engineer who has been building cyberinfrastructure for computational social science at Arizona State University since 2006; projects include <a href="https://www.tdar.org">the Digital Archaeological Record</a>, <a href="https://commons.asu.edu">the Virtual Commons</a>, <a href="https://seslibrary.asu.edu">the Social Ecological Systems Library</a>, <a href="https://openskope.org">Synthesizing Knowledge of Past Environments (SKOPE)</a>, <a href="https://interplanetary.asu.edu/port-of-mars">the Port of Mars</a>, and <a href="https://comses.net">CoMSES Net</a>, where he serves as co-director and technical lead. |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +Allen also works to improve the state of open, transparent, reusable, and reproducible computational science as a <a href="https://carpentries.org">Carpentries certified instructor</a> and maintainer for the <a href="https://github.com/swcarpentry/python-novice-gapminder">Python Novice Gapminder lesson</a>, and member of the <a href="https://github.com/force11/force11-sciwg">Force 11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group</a> and <a href="https://github.com/scicodes">Consortium of Scientific Software Registries and Repositories</a>. </p> |
| 51 | +</div> |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +</div> |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +##### __Affiliated Early Career Scholars Representative__ |
| 56 | +_To be announced later_ |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +<br> |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +## Voting Members |
| 61 | +<br> |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +##### __Members Council Representatives__ |
| 64 | +<div class="card-deck"> |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +{{< imgproc chen Fit "200x200" >}} |
| 67 | +<center><strong>Min Chen</strong></center> |
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| 69 | + |
| 70 | +<div class="card mb-4 border-0"> |
| 71 | +<p> <br> Dr. Min Chen is a full professor and the Vice Director of Key Lab of Virtual Geographic Environment (Ministry of Education of PRC), Nanjing Normal University, China. His research interests are geographic modeling and simulation, virtual geographic environment. He is the group leader of the Open Geographic Modeling and Simulation System (<a href="http://geomodeling.njnu.edu.cn/">OpenGMS</a>) team. |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +He is the executive editor of Annals of GIS (an official journal of International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS))(ESCI), an editor of Environmental Modelling & Software (an official journal of International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs)). He also serves as the Vice-President of iEMSs (2020-), Chair of Modeling Geographic System Committee of International Geographical Union (IGU) (2020-), Co-Chair of Education and Capacity Building for Digital Earth committee of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) (2019-), Chair of Exploring interoperability of open modeling platforms Initiative in Community Surface Dynamic Modeling System (CSDMS)(2019-), Chair of Young Scientist Working Group in Asian Geographic Associate (AGA)(2019-), Co-Chair of National VGE committee of ISDE (2016-), a member of board of directors of The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc. (MSSANZ,2021-). Most important, he is a Fellow of International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, and a Fellow of Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers. He is also the PI of National Young Talents Program China (Funded as the key level), PI of NSF for Excellent Young Scholars of China, Distinguished professor of Jiangsu province, group leader of Innovative and entrepreneurial talent group of Jiangsu Province, the Innovative personality of Jiangsu province. |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +He has won the “Waldo Tobler Young Researcher Award” in GIScience awarded by Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1 First Prize and 1 Second Prize in Natural Science awarded by the Ministry of Education of China, 1 Second Prize in Natural Science awarded by Jiangxi Province, 1 Second Prize in Natural Science awarded by the Education department of Jiangsu province, Grand Prize of Progress award in Geographic Information Technology by China Association for Geospatial Information Society, Global Frontier Science and Technology Young Scientist, the 6th university innovative personality in GIS in China, the Youth Science and Technology Award of Jiangsu Province, the Youth science and technology award in the Geographical Society of China. |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +During recent years, Dr. Chen has published 140+ journal papers, including these in top journals such as Science, Earth-Science Review, Annals of AAG, EMS, IJGIS. Dr. Chen has published more than 20 conference papers and book chapters. He was the first author of the VGE definition chapters for The International Encyclopedia of Geography and Encyclopedia of China. He has more than 10 patents issued and 10 software copyright. |
| 79 | +</div> |
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| 81 | +</div> |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | +<div class="card-deck"> |
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| 86 | +<center><strong>Karin Frank</strong></center> |
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| 88 | + |
| 89 | +<div class="card mb-4 border-0"> |
| 90 | +<p> <br> Karin Frank is a Professor for Ecological Modelling at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ. The focus of her research is on modeling the structure, dynamics, functions and stability properties of ecological, eco-hydrological and social-ecological systems under the influence of global change (esp. climate, land use and institutional change). </p> |
| 91 | +</div> |
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| 93 | +</div> |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | +<div class="card-deck"> |
| 96 | + |
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| 98 | +<center><strong>Bert Jagers</strong></center> |
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| 100 | + |
| 101 | +<div class="card mb-4 border-0"> |
| 102 | +<p> <br> Bert Jagers is a Senior Advisor and Researcher at Deltares. He has extensive experience in developing numerical engines for integrated environmental assessment, with a background in mathematics, physics, and civil engineering. Bert specializes in software development, numerical modeling, earth surface processes in particular hydrology and biogeomorphology.</p> |
| 103 | +</div> |
| 104 | + |
| 105 | +</div> |
| 106 | + |
| 107 | +##### __Working Group Chairs__ |
| 108 | +_To be announced later_ |
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