The Scientific and Technological Activities Commission (STAC) is responsible
for keeping watch on the progress of research and operations in the atmospheric,
oceanographic, hydrologic, and related sciences. The STAC Commission is
composed of 30 committees and is governed by a board including the STAC
commissioner, who is appointed for a three-year term by the Council, plus the
Chairs of each of the STAC committees of the Society.
The STAC Commission has the following responsibilities, as laid out in the
Constitution of the AMS.
To keep watch on the progress of research and operations and to inform the
Council of lack of support where support seems to be needed and of cases where
important projects are in jeopardy for lack of funds; to be responsible to the
Council for receiving and reviewing the reports of the scientific and
technological committees and extracting therefrom those items on which the
Council should take action and to transmit these to the Council with their
recommendations (the original committee reports shall be forwarded to the
Council for information); to recommend to the Council the establishment of new
committees or the dissolution of those no longer serving a useful purpose; to
establish and review the terms of reference of the committees.
Scientific and Technological Activities committees will be established by
the Council on the recommendation of the Scientific and Technological Activities
Commission to coordinate opinion and stimulate activity in any scientific or
technological subject of interest to the Society.
The Scientific and Technological Activities Commission will appoint the
chairpersons and members of the committees subject to the concurrence of the
Council ex post facto. Terms of appointment are for two to three years as
determined by the Commissioner with the privilege of reappointment for a period
up to three years.
Each committee will report at least annually to the Commission; each
committee within its assigned field is responsible for a continuous review of
the Society's general activities and for making such recommendations as appear
desirable to ensure that the activity of the Society reflects the importance of
and interest in the field of the committee. |
