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Members of the IAU FITS Working Group

North America      (Appointed)               Areas of Expertise
 Steve Allen         (2003) Lick Obs        Optical, Mosaicing, WCS
 Daniel Durand       (2003) CADC, Canada    Optical, CFHT 
 Eric Greisen        (1988) NRAO            FITS History, AIPS, Radio, WCS
 Bob Hanisch         (1988) STScI           VO, WGAS
*Bill Pence          (1993) HEASARC, GSFC   (Chairman) CFITSIO, X-ray
*Arnold Rots         (2002) SAO             (Chair of N. American FITS committee) 
                                            Chandra, X-ray, Timing 
 Dick Shaw           (2003) NOAO            Optical, Spectroscopy, Imaging, IRAF
 Betty Stobie        (2003) U. Arizona      Optical, HST
 William Thompson    (2003) GSFC            Solar, SOHO
 Doug Tody           (1988) NRAO            VO, WCS, IRAF
*Don Wells           (1988) NRAO            (Ex-chair, 1994-2003; Ex-vicechair,
                                            1988-1994) FITS History, Radio

Europe
 Lucio Chiappetti    (2003) Milan, Italy    X-ray, XMM, BeppoSAX
 Thierry Forveille   (2003) CFHT & Grenoble Optical 
 Carlos Gabriel      (2005) ESA/VILSPA, Spain  X-ray, XMM Science Operations
*Preben Grosbol      (1988) ESO, Germany    (Virtual Observatory Working Group Rep.;
                                            Ex-chair, 1988-1994; Chair of the
                                            European FITS committee) FITS History, VLT
 Walter Jaffe        (2003) Leiden, NL      Radio
 Oleg Malkov         (2003) Russia          Databases, Data analysis
*Francois Ochsenbein (1988) CDS, France     (Vice-chair) Vizier, VOTable
 Clive Page          (2003) Leicester, UK   X-ray, AstroGrid, AVO
 Andreas Wicenec     (2003) ESO, Germany    ALMA, Optical, AVO

Japan:
*Osamu Kanamitsu     (1995) Fukuoka Univ.   (Chair of the Japanese FITS committee)
                                            Optical

Australia
*Mark Calabretta     (2003) CSIRO           (Chair of the Australia/New Zealand
                                            FITS committee) Radio, WCS

(* = member of the Executive Committee)

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Previous Members
                           Tenure
 Bill Cotton, NRAO       (1988-2003)
 John Glaspey, NOAO      (1988-2003)
 Don Jennings, NOST      (2000-2000)
 Shiro Nishimura, Japan  (1988-1995)
 Bruce Peterson, MSO     (1988-2003)
 Anatoly Piskunov, RU    (1988-2000)
 Ernst Raimond, NL       (1988-2003) Ex-vice-chair: 1994-2003
 Barry Schlesinger, NOST (1988-1999) 
 Peter Teuben, U. MD     (1995-2002) Ex-Chair of N. American FITS Committee
 Pat Wallace, UK         (1988-2005)
 Wayne Warren, GSFC      (1988-2003)