Dear GSW Council, The proposed slate of 2020 GSW officers, to be voted on at the Oct. 23 meeting, is: President:…………………...… Ester Sztein (National Academy of Sciences)
 1st VP: ………………………….. Liz Cottrell (National Museum of Natural History ,Smithsonian Institution)
 2nd VP: …………………...……. Larry Meinert (Independent consultant & Editor, Economic Geology) Treasurer: ……………..……... Carl-Henry Geschwind (Independent researcher)
 Council Secretary: …….…... Pat Carr (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency)
 Council Members: …..…….. Pranoti Asher (American Geophysical Union)
 Julia Nord (George Mason University)
 Bill Craddock (United States Geological Survey)
 Meeting Secretary: …………Beth Doyle (Northern Virginia Community College) Many thanks to Callan Bentley, the 2019 Nominating Committee Chair. Sincerely, Mike Michael E. Purucker. Faster, smaller, cheaper (not cheap) President Geol Soc Washington, Chief Laboratory of Planetary Magnetospheres NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 301-614-6473 (O) 13420 Montvale Drive, Silver Spring 20904 301-793-6535 https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/michael.e.purucker www.gswweb.org