Organizational Structure


Executive Council

The Executive Council establishes policy for INTERMAGNET, deals with questions of international participation and data exchange and communicates with national agencies and international scientific and funding agencies. It is assisted and advised by the Operations Committee.

Operations Committee

The Operations Committee advises the Executive Council on the technical issues that arise within INTERMAGNET. This includes matters relating to instrumentation, data processing and communications. The Committee is also responsible for establishing and maintaining standards and formats for the global exchange of data under the INTERMAGNET programme, for designing and publishing the INTERMAGNET Technical Manual and producing the annual CD-ROM/DVD.

Operations Committee Structure

Name Definitive Data GINS IMO Applications and Standards Technical Manual Instrumentation and Data Acquisition
Andras Csontos       Member  
Andrew Lewis     Deputy Chair Member  
Benoit Heumez Deputy Chair   Member    
Brendan Geels   Member      
Charles Blais   Member      
Chris Turbitt     Chair Deputy Chair  
David Calp     Member    
Jan Reda Co-Chair        
Jürgen Matzka     Member    
Kristina Rossavik Member        
Maggie Pueringer Member   Member    
Marcos Vinicius da Silva Member        
Matthew Gard Member   Member    
Roman Leonhardt Co-Chair        
Seiki Asari       Member  
Shun Imajo   Member      
Simon Flower Member Chair      
Stephan Bracke   Member   Chair  
Tero Raita Member   Member    
Virginie Maury   Member      
No. of members 9 6 8 5 0

Data Checking Task Team

The work of the Data Checking Task Team is described on the Data Checking page. The members of the team are as follows:

Data Checking Task Team Officers Institute
Andrew Lewis Geoscience Australia
Benoit Heumez Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France
Kristina Rossavik U.S. Geological Survey
David Calp Natural Resources Canada
Emmanuel Nahayo SANSA Space Science, South Africa
Hiroaki Toh Kyoto University, Japan
Igor Mandic University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jan Reda Institute of Geophysics, Polish Ac. of Science
Kusumita Arora National Geophysical Research Institute, India
Margaret Pueringer U.S. Geological Survey
Matthew Gard Geoscience Australia
Orsi Baillie British Geological Survey
Seiki Asari Japan Meteorological Agency
Tero Raita Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory, Finland

GIN Managers

Intermagnet’s Geomagnetic Information Nodes (GINs) are described on the Geomagnetic Information Nodes page. Each GIN has a manager, who should be contacted with any questions relating to that GIN.

GIN Institute Manager
Edinburgh British Geological Survey Simon Flower
Golden United States Geological Survey Brendan Geels
Kyoto Kyoto University Shun Imajo
Ottawa Natural Resources Canada Charles Blais
Paris Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris Virginie Maury