Judges for Student Posters Needed for AAS 237

The AAS Executive Office seeks additional members to judge posters for the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards at the 237th AAS meeting in January 2021. Winter meetings are always busy for our Chambliss competition, with somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 students entering. This means we need about 400 judges — and while we have a lot already, we still need more. Volunteers will be asked to evaluate no more than about five undergraduate- and/or graduate-student posters according to defined criteria (see the Chambliss rules and scoring rubrics for details).

Attention Student Members: Advanced graduate students who have finished their coursework and are working on their dissertation research are eligible to judge undergraduate posters, as long as they are not also entering the competition.

Student poster authors will sincerely appreciate your expertise in judging their work. Judging will occur during evening poster sessions (4:10 – 5:40 pm ET) on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

If you have not already registered for the meeting, you can easily volunteer to judge posters while registering online. If you’ve already registered or submitted an abstract and didn’t volunteer, it’s not too late! Just fill out our sign-up form. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me via email at [email protected].

Thank you for your help with supporting students in the astronomical and space sciences.