New Chair and Vice-Chair SC-IGBP
At the end of 1997 Peter Liss will step down from the Scientific Committee of the IGBP after serving as chair for four years. His position will be taken over by Berrien Moore III, currently the chair of the GAIM Task Force. (Moore heads the EOS Interdisciplinary Science Investigation: "Changes in Biogeochemical Cycles.") In addition to a new chair, the SC-IGBP will welcome a new vice-chair, Paul Crutzen, who formerly served as vice-chair of the IGAC SSC and is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995. Both nominations will take effect on January 1, 1998.