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Dale G. Platetter
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This past year, the Radiation Effects Steering Group (RESG) and the Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) undertook many "firsts," as we moved into the electronic (paperless) world of the new millennium. The year 2000 marked our first attempt at on-line conference registration via the web site, distributing abstracts/summaries to reviewers via email, eliminating 35mm color slides at the NSREC, allowing computer-projected PowerPoint presentations, requiring electronic manuscript submission to the Guest Editor, and eliminating "camera ready copy" for the TNS.
It was not our intent to change so quickly. And it happened very smoothly (well, most of the time), but not without some growing pains. Our session chairs, authors, and conference attendees all had to learn several new electronic processes, just to participate in the annual July meeting. As engineers and scientists, we adapted to these changes very fast. Why? It’s our calling in life to be creative and to solve new problems. Of course!
The executive committee of the ‘NPSS Radiation Effects Committee’ is more commonly known as the Radiation Effects Steering Group (RESG). The RESG is made up of elected and appointed members from the radiation effects community. Our new membership for 2000-01 is as follows:
Chairman: Dale Platteter, NAVSEA Crane
Executive Vice-Chairman: Ronald Schrimpf, Vanderbilt University
Secretary: James Schwank, Sandia National Laboratories
Past Chairman: Klaus Kerris, Army Research Laboratory
Senior Member-at-Large: James Kinnison, JHU / Applied Physics Lab
Member-at-Large: Fred Sexton, Sandia National Laboratories
Junior Member-at-Large: Dave Hiemstra, Macdonald Dettwiler
Vice-Chairman, Technical Publications: Nick van Vonno, Intersil Corporation
Vice-Chairman, Publicity: Teresa Farris, Aeroflex UTMC
Vice-Chairman, 2000 Conference: Ronald Pease, RLP Research, Inc.
Vice-Chairman, 2001 Conference: Marty Shaneyfelt, Sandia National Laboratories
Vice-Chairman, 2002 Conference: Ken Hunt, Vanderbilt University/AFRL
Vice-Chairman, 2003 Conference: Allan Johnston, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Editor, Transactions on Nuclear Science: Paul Dressendorfer, Sandia National Laboratories
NPSS AdCom Member: Mark Hopkins, The Aerospace Corporation
NPSS AdCom Member: Peter Winokur, Sandia National Laboratories
NPSS AdCom Member: Kenneth Galloway, Vanderbilt University
RADECS Liaison: Robert Ecoffet, CNES
These are just a handful of the volunteers who support the NSREC. The ‘real work’ is done by hundreds of authors, reviewers, our guest editors, and session chairman, too many to mention here. Their names can be found in the front section of each December TNS. These are the people who make changes happen.
For the most up-to-date information on the Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference, visit our web site at www.nsrec.com.
Dale Platteter, The REC Chair, can be reached at NAVSEA Crane, Code 605, B-2088, Crane, IN 47522-5001; Phone: (812)-854-1206; Fax: (812) 854-1751; E-mail: platteter@atd.crane.navy.mil