CARA Board of Directors

California Association for Research in Astronomy

Board Chair

Thomas Soifer, Chair 
Director, Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology

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George R. Blumenthal, Vice-Chair
Chancellor Emeritus, University of California at Santa Cruz, Director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education

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Board of Directors

Fiona Harrison
Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair, Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy and Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics at Caltech

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Bruce Macintosh
Director, University of California Observatories (UCO)

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Chris Martin
Director, Caltech Optical Observatories, California Institute of Technology

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Katherine Newman
Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of California

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Board Liaisons

Hashima Hasan, NASA Liaison
Program Scientist, NASA

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Doug Simons, Director
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaiʻi

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T.J. Keck, Keck Representative
W. M. Keck Foundation

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