Past Chairs
The U.S. National Committee (USNC) for the International Union of Radio Scientists (URSI) is appointed by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). USNC-URSI is led by an Executive Committee consisting of the Chair, Immediate Past Chair, Secretary/Chair-Elect, and Accounts Manager. Prior to 1999, the roles of Chair-Elect and Secretary were separated.
The full USNC-URSI Committee is comprised of the Executive Committee, each of the ten USNC-URSI Commission Chairs, representatives to various professional societies and government agencies with interests in Radio Science, and six Members-at-Large.
This page lists those USNC-URSI members who have had the honor to be elected by their peers to serve as Chair of USNC-URSI.
Michael H. Newkirk | 2022-2024
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Sembiam R. Rengarajan | 2018-2021
California State University at Northridge
David R. Jackson | 2015-2017
University of Houston
Steven C. Reising | 2012-2014
Colorado State University
Yahya Rahmat-Samii | 2009-2011
University of California at Los Angeles
Piergiorgio L.E. Uslenghi | 2006-2008
University of Illinois at Chicago
Umran S. Inan | 2003-2005
Stanford University
Gary S. Brown | 2000-2002
Virginia Tech
Susan K. Avery | 1997-1999
University of Colorado at Boulder
David C. Chang | 1994-1996
Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY
Chalmers M. Butler | 1991-1993
Clemson University
Sidney A. Bowhill | 1988-1990
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Robert K. Crane | 1985-1987
Environmental Research & Technology
Thomas B.A. Senior | 1982-1984
University of Michigan
C. Gordon Little | 1979-1981
NOAA, Environmental Research Labs
John V. Evans | 1976-1978
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory
Francis S. Johnson | 1974-1976
University of Texas at Dallas
Alan T. Waterman | 1971-1973
Stanford University
Edward C. Jordan | 1968-1970
University of Illinois
M. G. Morgan | 1965-1967
Dartmouth College