Service
National Academies:
Astro2010: Decadal Survey Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics
National Academies Board of Physics and Astronomy (2010-2014;
Chair, Committee on a Strategy to Optimize the U.S. Optical and
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)
AURA Board of Directors (2013-present); Vice Chair (2015-2017,
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
President-elect (2018-)
Vice President (2015-2018)
American Astronomical Society (AAS):
President (2010-12), Past President (2012-13), President-elect (2009-10)
Committee on the Status of Women (chair 1991-97),
started electronic newsletter AASWOMEN
Committee on Astronomy and Public Policy (2009-present; Chair
2014-present)
Nominating Committee (1994-97, chair 1996-97)
Councilor (1999-2002)
Astronomy Education Board (1999-2002) as Council Liaison
Membership Committee (2000-01)
AAS rep to USNC-IAU Board (1999-2002)
Ex-officio member of the U.S. National Committee for the
International Astronomical Union (2010-present)
Warner and Pierce Prize Committee (2005-07, chair 2006-07)
Chretien International Research Grant committee (2017-present)
National Science Foundation (NSF) committees:
Presidential Young Investigators selection committee (1989)
Site Visiting Team for proposed Tucson Optics center (chair, 1990)
Faculty Awards for Women selection committee (1990)
POWRE selection committee (1997, 1999)
Postdoctoral fellows selection committee (2000-01, chair)
Committee of Visitors, Division of Astronomical Sciences (co-chair 2002)
External Review Committee for the CTIO Small and Moderate Aperture
Research Telescope System (SMARTS; 2003)
NSF Program Review Panel for NOAO (2002-2004)
Waterman Prize Committee (2006-2009)
Astronomy & Astrophysics Advisory Committee (AAAC) for NSF, NASA,
and Dept. of Energy (2010-2013)
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
Chair, Telescope Allocation Committee, Cycle 21 (2013) (also served on TAC 1992, 1998, 2002)
Space Telescope Users Committee (1998-2001, chair 2002-05)
Spitzer Space Telescope (SST)
Telescope Allocation Committee (2004; IPAC ADP 1993)
Postdoctoral fellowship committee (2006-2008, chair 2008)
National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)
Systems Committee on Optical/Infrared Astronomy (2003-2004)
Survey Telescope Allocation Committee (2008)
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
Users Committee (1993-97)
Telescope Allocation Committee (2002-04)
National Research Council panel for postdoctoral fellowships (1996-98)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee (2012-2015)
Past Chair, Astronomy Section (chair-elect 2015, chair 2016, past chair 2017)
Scientific Organizing Committees:
SOC, IAU Colloquium 157: Barred Galaxies, Alabama, 1995
Working group, IAU XXV, Women in Astronomy, Sydney, 2003
Program Committee, Conference on Women in Astronomy, Caltech 2003 SOC, Penetrating Bars through Masks of Cosmic Dust: The Hubble Tuning
Fork strikes a New Note, South Africa, June 2004
SOC, Spitzer Conference: The Evolving Interstellar Medium in the Milky
Way and Nearby Galaxies, Pasadena, 2007
SOC, Galaxy Wars: Stellar Populations and Star Formation in Interacting
Galaxies Conference, Tennessee, 2009
SOC, 12th Kavli Futures Symposium on the Future of U.S. Ground-based Astronomy in the Global Context, 2014
SOC, IGM@50: Is the Intergalactic Medium driving Star Formation?, Spineto, Italy, June 2015
SOC, Observational Evidence of Gas Accretion onto Galaxies?, NRAO, Oct. 2015
SOC, Kavli IAU Workshop on Future Space-Based Optical/UV/IR Telescopes, Leiden, Netherlands, July 2017
Intel Science Talent Search (STS)
Director of New York Intel STS for high school students (1992-2003)
Science Committees
