Front Matter

National Science Board

WARREN M. WASHINGTON
(Chair), Senior Scientist and Section Head, National Center for Atmospheric Research

DIANA S. NATALICIO
(Vice Chair), President, The University of Texas at El Paso

DAN E. ARVIZU
Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

BARRY C. BARISH
Linde Professor of Physics and Director, LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

STEVEN C. BEERING
President Emeritus, Purdue University, West Lafayette

RAY M. BOWEN
President Emeritus, Texas A&M University, College Station

G. WAYNE CLOUGH
President, Georgia Institute of Technology

KELVIN K. DROEGEMEIER
Regents' Professor & Roger and Sherry Teigen Presidential Professor; Weathernews Chair of Applied Meteorology; Director, Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms; and Director, Sasaki Institute, University of Oklahoma, Norman

DELORES M. ETTER
ONR Distinguished Chair in S&T, Electrical Engineering Department, U.S. Naval Academy*

NINA V. FEDOROFF
Willaman Professor of Life Sciences and Evan Pugh Professor, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park

KENNETH M. FORD
Director, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

DANIEL HASTINGS
Director, Engineering Systems Division and Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ELIZABETH HOFFMAN
President Emerita, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, University of Colorado at Denver

LOUIS J. LANZEROTTI
Distinguished Research Professor, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology

ALAN LESHNER
Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science

JANE LUBCHENCO
Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University

DOUGLAS D. RANDALL
Professor of Biochemistry and Director, Interdisciplinary Program on Plant Biochemistry and Physiology, University of Missouri-Columbia

MICHAEL G. ROSSMANN
Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, Purdue University

DANIEL SIMBERLOFF
Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

JON C. STRAUSS
President, Harvey Mudd College

KATHRYN D. SULLIVAN
Science Advisor, Center of Science and Industry

JO ANNE VASQUEZ
Mesa, Arizona Public Schools (Retired)

JOHN A. WHITE, JR.
Chancellor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

MARK S. WRIGHTON
Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis

ARDEN L. BEMENT, JR.
Member Ex Officio and Chair, Executive Committee, Director, National Science Foundation

MICHAEL P. CROSBY
Executive Officer

*Resigned November 2005