CF Governance

Governance Documents

• Rules for making changes to the CF Conventions
  • Discussion about these rules can be found in the CF mailing list archives, in June and July, 2007. See messages with the subject line “proposed rules for changes to CF conventions”.
  • The rules were amended in January 2016 following CF trac ticket 146
• Rules for correcting errors in the CF documents
• CF constitution
• CF white paper (Lawrence et al., 2006) [ PDF, HTML ]

Conventions Committee and Standard Names Committee

(The date of the end of each member’s present term appears in parentheses)

• Chris Barker (29 Sep 2028)
• Lars Bärring (12 Apr 2026)
• David Blodgett (30 Sep 2028)
• Philip Cameron-Smith (29 May 2025)
• Fran Eggleton (12 Apr 2026)
• Ellie Fisher (19 Nov 2029)
• John Graybeal (29 May 2025)
• Jonathan Gregory (29 May 2025, chair of CF Committees, 28 August 2027)
• David Hassell (31 Mar 2027, secretary of the Conventions Committee)
• Martin Juckes (12 Apr 2026)
• Daniel Lee (30 Sep 2024)
• Roy Lowry (29 May 2025)
• Luke Marsden (23 Oct 2029)
• Seth McGinnis (29 Sep 2028)
• Alison Pamment (29 May 2025, secretary of Standard Names Committee)
• Karl Taylor (29 May 2025)

CF Conventions Committee and Standard Names Committee meeting minutes

Governance Panel

• Fanny Adloff
• Ethan Davis (chair)
• Jonathan Gregory
• Bryan Lawrence
• Daniel Lee
• Karl Taylor

CF Governance Panel meeting minutes

Information Management and Support Team

• Andrew Barna
• Sadie Bartholomew
• Guilherme Castelão
• Antonio S. Cofiño
• Fran Eggleton
• Ellie Fisher
• David Hassell (secretary of the Conventions Committee)
• Rosalyn Hatcher
• Alison Pamment (secretary of Standard Names Committee)

Governance Panel members also contribute to information management and support.

CF Information Management and Support Team meeting minutes.

Acknowledgements

The climate research community is indebted to former members of the committee, panel and team, and to the many other contributors, as listed below, for their magnanimous contributions in establishing and improving the CF Conventions.

Former Committee, Panel and Team Members

• Dave Bader (Governance)
• Balaji (Conventions)
• Jim Biard (Conventions)
• John Caron (Conventions)
• Michel Crucifix (Standard Names)
• Martin Desruisseaux (Information Management and Support)
• Manuel Fuentes (Standard Names)
• Nan Galbraith (Conventions and Standard Names)
• John Graybeal (Information Management and Support)
• Tom Gross (Conventions)
• Kyle Halliday (Information Management and Support)
• Steve Hankin (Conventions and Governance)
• Matthew Harris (Information Management and Support)
• Richard Hattersley (Information Management and Support)
• Mark Hedley (Information Management and Support)
• Heinke Höck (Standard Names)
• Bryan Lawrence (Standard Names)
• Velimir Mlaker (Information Management and Support)
• Jeff Painter (Information Management and Support)
• Tanya Reshel (Information Management and Support)
• Russ Rew (Conventions and Governance)
• Burkhardt Rockel (Standard Names)
• Martin Schultz (Conventions)
• Rich Signell (Governance and Standard Names)
• Karl Taylor (Governance and Conventions, former chair but present member of both)
• Christiane Textor (Standard Names)

Contributors

Lists of contributors to information management and website, standard names and conventions.

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