Membership includes active researchers with a professional interest in the scientific program at SURF.
The SURF User Association:
- Promotes open discussion on relevant topics for researchers performing science at SURF
- Provides a means for SURF management to inform users on issues including current and future plans for the facility
- Promotes a sense of community amongst SURF experiments and researchers
- Articulates and promotes scientific case for UG science and its significance to society
Membership includes active researchers with a professional interest in the scientific program at SURF. An Executive Committee conducts the day-to-day business of the Association and consists of 9 individuals:
- At least one (1) early career or young researcher (less than 5 years post-Ph.D.);
- At least two (2) representatives of the physics community;
- At least two (2) representatives of the biology-geoscience-engineering community.
At least one meeting of the general membership will be held each year.
Executive Committee Members
| Name | Field | Experiment | Institution | Notes |
Term Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Hanhardt | Physics | CASPAR | SDSTA | Early Career | 04/12/2022 |
| Brittany Kruger | Life Science | DeMMO | Desert Research Institute | Secretary | 04/12/2021 |
| Kevin Lesko | Physics | LZ | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 04/12/2022 | |
| Rachel Mannino | Physics | LZ | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Early Career | 04/12/2022 |
| Ralph Massarczyk | Physics | MJD | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Chair | 04/12/2021 |
| Brianna Mount | Physics | BHUC | Black Hills State University | 04/12/2022 | |
| Megan Smith | Earth Science | EGS/ SIGMA-V |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | 04/12/2021 | |
| Frank Strieder | Physics | CASPAR | SD Mines | 04/12/2021 | |
| Wenqin Xu | Physics | MJD | University of South Dakota | 04/12/2022 |
SURF User Association News
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February 23, 2021: First quarterly meeting planned
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January 6, 2021: Executive Committee officers selected
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December 4, 2020: Executive Committee members announced
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November 25, 2020: Executive Committee election voting deadline
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October 21, 2020: Executive Committee nomination deadline
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July 28, 2020: Nominating Committee appointed