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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">We are now ready to form the Time Domain Astronomy (TDA) chapter steering committee! We have already
started collecting nominations from current TDA chapter members (>40 members so far). <span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted6">Thank you to those TDA chapter members who have already put their hand
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If you would like to<span class="ContentPasted3"> </span><b class="ContentPasted3">nominate</b><span class="ContentPasted3"> </span>for any of the below positions, please do the following:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">-Sign up for the TDA chapter if you have not already done so (instructions are below). Then: </span><span class="ContentPasted3" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 14pt; color: black;">Send
an email to<span class="ContentPasted3"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 14pt; color: black;"><i class="ContentPasted3">ashley.ruiter@adfa.edu.au</i></span><span class="ContentPasted3" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 14pt; color: black;"><span class="ContentPasted3"> </span>containing: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted3">-which position(s) you want to apply for</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted3">-your career stage and institution </span></div>
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Here are the positions up for nomination: </div>
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<span style="margin:0px;outline:0px;box-sizing:border-box" class="ContentPasted3">Chair </span></li><li style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arimo, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: white;">
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Process: </div>
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The TDA founding committee (M. Caleb, J. Cooke, M. Duldig, A. Ruiter) will assess the received nominations over the next couple of weeks. </div>
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If it turns out that we have more nominations from suitable candidates than slots available, we will hold an<span class="ContentPasted3"> </span><i class="ContentPasted3">election</i>. </div>
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Only TDA members will be able to vote in the election. </div>
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If an election needs to occur, interested parties will need to send a short CV and a 1 page cover letter explaining in more depth why they are an excellent candidate. </div>
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<span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted4"> Please see the TDA landing page for more details (click the TDA tab): </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ksBfCWLVXkU6LWx2VS6Mnfi?domain=asa.astronomy.org.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWA5d8c90ae-0a19-0e9f-738b-cbe6efa07ea3" data-linkindex="0" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted3 ContentPasted4" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://asa.astronomy.org.au/about-2/chapters/</a></div>
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Looking forward to your nominations! </div>
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<u>Instructions on how to join the TDA Chapter of the ASA:</u> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">University of New South Wales </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Canberra </span></div>
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