Past Icarus Editorial Board Members

Icarus Editors-in-Chief

Icarus Editorial Board

Icarus affiliated with the DPS effective in January 1975, with Carl Sagan as editor-in-chief. Prior to that date, there was no Icarus Editorial Board. Since that time, there has been a board of six members, two appointed each year, serving staggered three-year terms, beginning in January and ending in December of the years as listed below. The protocol for selecting new members is that the Icarus editor-in-chief proposes two candidates to the DPS Committee. The committee chooses one of those, and proposes two candidates back to the editor-in-chief, who chooses one of those. The newly selected members take office in January of the year following their selection. 

The Icarus Editorial Board holds occasional meetings over the year to advise the Icarus editor-in-chief. The board helps to decide policy on Icarus paper solicitations, reviewing, and publication. This occasionally involves reading papers or grant applications. The Board is asked to evaluate and consider the needs of the community in making these decisions, as well as considering what will keep authorship and readership high. 

Following is the list of all members who have served on the editorial board, with years of service as defined above. In all cases, the year of appointment is the year preceding the year of start of service.

Note: In 1977, there were DPS meetings in January and October, after which meetings have been held in the latter part of the year. Thus in 1977, two new members were selected at the January meeting, to start terms in January 1978, and no new members were selected at the October meeting, since the next terms of office would not start until January 1979.

Current Editorial Board Members