Dear colleagues,
Earlier in the year, we contacted this list asking for nominations for
the position of statistician on the oversight committee of the IntCal
working group (IWG). Nominations have now closed and the election
process has started and we would like to offer members of this list a
chance to vote.
The aim of the IntCal group is to provide an accurate, internationally
agreed radiocarbon calibration curve for use throughout the radiocarbon
dating community. The appointed statistician on the IntCal Oversight
Committee (IOC) will work with two palaeoscientists to allow community
input and transparency to the curve creation process.
Voting is open until 15 January 2009 and each elector may vote for one
nominee in each of the three areas of expertise: 1) marine
palaeoscience, 2) terrestrial palaeoscience and 3) statistics. A list of
the nominees with brief biographies is available on-line at
http://www.radiocarbon.org/IntCal_bios.pdf
While some nominees have expertise in more than one category, for
convenience, each is listed in just one. The nominee biographies were
provided by either the nominator or the nominee (but in some cases were
not available).
Please vote for at most *one nominee in each category* by emailing Mark
McClure at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> with
the subject "IOC vote" and the name of the person you wish to vote for
in each category in the main body of the message.
Mark McClure will tally the votes and relay the results to the IntCal
Working Group and all nominees.
Many thanks,
Paul Blackwell
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Professor P. G. Blackwell
Dept. of Probability & Statistics, University of Sheffield
Tel. +44 114 2223719; http://paul-blackwell.staff.shef.ac.uk/
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