Nomination Committee

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For Election of Office Bearers 2026-2028

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Announcement: Society’s General Election & Call for Nominations

We are pleased to announce the upcoming general election of Council Members for our society at the 2025 Annual Meeting which will be held from 27 July to 01 August 2025 at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre of the Marina Bay Sands Singapore.

We invite all members to participate in this important process by nominating candidates for the positions listed below. Those elected will serve in the 2025-2026 term as Vice President, Assistant Secretary General, Assistant Treasurer and Section Vice Presidents.

1. President
2. Secretary General
3. Treasurer
4. Section President, Atmospheric Sciences (AS)
5. Section President, Biogeosciences (BG)
6. Section President, Hydrological Sciences (HS)
7. Section President, Interdisciplinary Geosciences (IG)
8. Section President, Ocean Sciences (OS)
9. Section President, Planetary Sciences (PS)
10. Section President, Solar and Terrestrial Sciences (ST)
11. Section President, Solid Earth Sciences (SE)

Guidelines and Requirements

1. Submission Deadline
   All nominations must be submitted by 17 December 2024
   

2. The full nomination package must include
   1-page CV and 1-page nomination letter for each nominee.
   

3. Submission Method
   Nominations should be submitted via MARS, the AOGS online platform under “Nomination” in the “Author Options” section
   • To set up a user account, log onto the portal and follow the “Create A New User Account” instructions. Click “Login ⟶ “Create A New User Account”
   • You can use your existing user account for future events without needing to create a new one.

Procedure as set out in detail on page 6 of the society’s constitution -
For the election of Council members at the Annual General Meeting, the Council may appoint a Nomination Committee. The tasks of the Nomination Committee are as follows:

1. Prepare a slate of candidates for the Council Members i.e. President-Elect, Secretary General-Elect, Treasurer-Elect and Section Presidents-Elect (separately for each section). Ideally two to three candidates for each of these positions. The candidates for the Section Presidents-Elect will be identified in consultation with the individual sections.
   

2. Ascertain the willingness of all candidates to stand for election; and
   

3. Present the proposed slates to the Council for approval. In selecting nominees, care should be given to assure that there is representation of the Society’s diverse regional and disciplinary interests and that the Council reflect, over time, a reasonable balance of these interests.
   

4. Election will be by ballot. In the event of a tie the Chair of the Nomination Committee shall have a casting vote. Ballots marked for candidates for Section President-Elect in more than one Section will be declared null and void as far as Section elections are concerned. Space for write-in candidates will also be provided.

For more information: Please email the nomination committee and send a copy to admin@asiaoceania.org

Nomination Committee

Chair	: Chun-Chieh WU, AOGS Vice-President cwutyphoon@ntu.edu.tw
Vice-Chair	: Ji CHEN, AOGS Secretary General jichen@hku.hk
Members	: Masaki SATOH, AS Section Vice-President satoh@aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp : Bhoopesh MISHRA, BG Section Vice-President bhoopeshm@gmail.com | bmishra3@iit.edu : Kyungrock PAIK, HS Section Representative paik@korea.ac.kr : Ping-Yu CHANG, IG Section Vice-President pingyuc@gmail.com | pingyuc@ncu.edu.tw : Yusuke UCHIYAMA, OS Section Vice-President uchiyama@harbor.kobe-u.ac.jp : Steve VANCE, PS Section Vice-President svance@jpl.nasa.gov : Yoshiharu OMURA, ST Section Vice-President omura@rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp : Florian SCHWANDNER, SE Section Vice-President florian.m.schwandner@nasa.gov