Annual Report Providing Solutions
ECS holds the keys to the kingdom in terms of expertise for driving energy storage R&D. — Gary Rubloff director, nees
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Scientists and engineers seek to unveil what is possible and to exploit that knowledge to provide solutions to the myriad of problems we now face as a society, a neverending endeavor that uncovers new frontiers and new challenges. Thanks to this kind of fortitude in our community, 2015 was a banner year for ECS, all made possible by our members, meeting organizers and attendees, editors, journal contributors, sponsors, donors, and our staff. In addition to celebrating our generous donors to whom we are indeed grateful, we wish to acknowledge the thousands of people who give of their time, intelligence, and discoveries to make our Society a thriving and critical piece of the world’s research fabric. Their contributions make our scientific society flourish and they provide solutions for our societal needs, including ways to create and store renewable energy, detect and cure illness, and ensure a sustainable environment. In October 2015, at our 5th Electrochemical Energy Summit, U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science and Energy Lynn F. Orr acknowledged that ECS’s scientists and engineers hold the keys to solving our world’s complex energy problems. ECS is positioning itself to help provide those solutions through full open access of our peer-reviewed research, an initiative called Free the Science. Authors will be able to publish open access for free and readers everywhere will be able to access the ECS Digital Library for free. We know it’s the right thing to do for our Society and for our global society. In 2015, with our community’s help we were able to celebrate these achievements:
• Published the most journal articles in our history • The ECS Digital Library recorded more than 3 million downloads • 45% of papers in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES) were published open access • JES had almost 63,000 citations • Our spring meeting, held in Chicago, had the highest attendance in over a decade And back to our people: ECS membership increased to over 8,850, representing more than 80 countries and 54 student chapters. This breadth of involvement is the future—the future for collaboration, the future for a new generation of leaders, and the future for discoveries. Going fully open access will make this future even more productive. We thank you for continuing to support ECS—our Society and the society-at-large are grateful that you’re helping to provide solutions.
Roque Calvo
Daniel Scherson
executive director & ceo
president 2015–2016
what we Membership & Education Programs When we ask our members why they stay involved with ECS, everyone gives a variation of: I grew up with ECS, from when I was getting my degree until now. ECS is like family to me. That sentiment pervades our membership, programs, and activities. It instills a sense of community, where scientists and engineers alike can turn to find answers, collaborators, and opportunities. Our family continues to grow. With representation from the corporate sector, academia, national labs, and small businesses, ECS brings together a globally diverse set of needs and interests to encourage relationships that foster innovation. In 2015, ECS and Toyota North America chose three recipients to each receive a $50,000 fellowship focused on green energy technology. “We view research as an investment in our future for our business, but also for the greater society,” says Paul Fanson, manager of Toyota’s North American Research Strategy Office. “It is necessary to invest in and encourage scientists from diverse backgrounds with creative ideas, who are willing to think outside of the box."
Honors & Awards Since the beginning, the ECS Honors & Awards Program has paid homage to the ideations, innovations, and volunteer leadership of scientists within our multi disciplinary community. Today, the legacy of recognition remains in celebration of the work that scientists are doing to improve our quality of life and provide solutions to global challenges. Among the awards presented in 2015 was the inaugural Allen J. Bard Award in Electrochemical Science, in honor of the man recognized as the father of modern electrochemistry. Bard dedicated much of his 60-year career to cultivating younger generations of professors and researchers. It was those former students and protégés who initiated the fundraising effort needed to create and support this award. The Bard Award takes its place in the ECS Honors & Awards Program with Henry White as its first winner. We are grateful to the nominators, appli‑ cants, and especially the ECS Honors & Awards Committee for its year-long efforts in administering the program.
do Publications For almost 115 years we have published some of the most important research in our fields, often providing the backbones of the technology used in everyday devices and large sectors such as energy. We are proud to still be an independent, nonprofit publisher as most of scholarly research is now controlled by commercial publishers that determine the price and distribution of research. Our choice to combat this trend is to Free the Science. This means making all research in the ECS Digital Library free to publish and free to read. In 2015, over 40% of our manuscripts were published open access with almost 100% of those at no charge to the author because of our article credits. And, for the third year in a row ECS has not increased subscription prices. Our efforts are rooted in our mission to distribute and advance scientific research and also respond to our global need to find sustainability solutions for our planet.
Meetings The concepts our members are pursuing make our international scientific meetings among the most significant being held in the world today. ECS is globalizing knowledge with the aid of cities that are clusters of innovation. ln 2015, Glasgow, Scotland and Phoenix, AZ were two such examples. At these gatherings we highlighted plenary speakers like John Turner, who is the international spokesperson for hydrogen energy, and Adam Heller, who developed a continuous and accurate monitoring of glucose levels in diabetics, effectively impacting over 370 million patients. ECS began to rotate meetings in Latin America in 2006 when we held our first joint meeting with SMEQ in Cancun. On the heels of a second successful joint meeting in 2014, ECS pulled together a coalition of organizations committed to a reoccurring meeting in the Western Hemisphere. The first Americas InterÂ‑ national Meeting on Electrochemistry and Solid State Science (AiMES) will be held in 2018 in Cancun, Mexico. We are connecting the dots among scientists, governments, institutions, and corporations allowing them to share their research, grow their networks, and work together to provide solutions.
$150,000
$
for ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowships
$
88,500 in travel grants by divisions
$
25,000
2015 Membership & Educational Programs
for ECS Summer Fellowships
8,855 88 54 22 total members, including 2,600 students
countries represented
student chapters
geographic sections
2015 Honors &Awards
2015 Publications
8,263 articles published in ECS Digital Library; now 123,000+ articles in total in library
awards given across the organization; 14 society, 18 division, 6 section, 13 student
11
fellows inducted
2015 Meetings
4,288 biannual meeting abstracts
#1
ranking — Journal of The Electrochemical Society in materials science, coatings, and films as per JCR
44% 7
of journal articles were open access
Masters Series Videos including Adam Heller, Allen J. Bard, Alvin Salkind, Ralph Brodd, Richard Alkire, Esther S. Takeuchi, and M. Stanley Whittingham
800 44% 50%
attendees and 712 abstracts for Glasgow satellite meeting of meeting attendees were first-timers of meeting attendees were members
donor Thank you to the following organizations and individuals who have made either unrestricted or program gifts to ECS during the past year. With their support we are able to honor leaders in our field, support travel grants, create innovative programs, and build our Free the Science fund: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA) MTI Corporation and Jiang Family Foundation Houston Endowment, Inc. Combined Federal Campaign
James C. Acheson Radoslav Adzic Robert Alwitt Alfred B. Anderson John C. Angus Rajaram Bhat Viola Ingrid Birss William D. Brown W. Murray Bullis James D. Burgess Keith T. Burnette Carlos R. Cabrera Robert Lee Calhoun Roque J. Calvo Michael K. Carpenter Giovanni Pietro Chiavarotti Bryan Chin David E. Cliffel Becca Jensen Compton Emanuel I. Cooper Angela DeVito Howard D. Dewald George A. Di Bari Francesco Di Quarto John F. Elter Ronald E. Enstrom Thomas Z. Fahidy Fu-Ren F. Fan Larry R. Faulkner Elena S. Flitsiyan Randall Fowler
Gerald S. Frankel Robert P. Frankenthal Shinji Fujimoto Fernando H. Garzon Norman Goldsmith John B. Goodenough Richard D. Goodin Koji Hashimoto Adam Heller Dennis W. Hess Michael S. R. Heynes Lloyd H. Hihara Fumio Hine Natalie A. W. Holzwarth W. Jean Horkans Howard R. Huff Henry G. Hughes Earl C. Johns Gunter H. R. Kegel Martin W. Kendig Harry N. Knickle Paul A. Kohl Bernd O. Kolbesen Zlata Kovac Bruce Arthur Kowert Kevin Krist Simeon J. Krumbein Michael Krumpelt Uwe Heiner Landau Jose Larcin Kelly Lazzaroni
Robert T. Leah Arthur J. Learn Johna Leddy Peter A. Lewis Bor Yann Liaw Clovis A. Linkous Stuart B. Lyon Henri J. R. Maget Tyler X. Mahy Florian B. Mansfeld Robert A. Mantz Frederick Leon Marsh James A. McIntyre Kenneth L. Menningen Shelley D. Minteer Sudhan S. Misra Herbert J. Moltzan Theodore D. Moustakas Rangachary Mukundan Takurou N. Murakami Hironori Nakajima John S. Newman Alex R. Nisbet Yoshio Nishi John P. Olatta Boone B. Owens Sennu Palanichamy Robert E. Palmer Thomas Popp Linus J. Portman Robert A. Rapp
Cynthia A. Rice Robert F. Savinell Daniel A. Scherson Morton Schwartz Irving Shain Toshio Shibata Milton M. Silver Kathryn Steele Kurt H. Stern Frederick J. Strieter Alice H. Suroviec Makoto Takahashi E. Jennings Taylor Ken Tokunaga Aiji A. Uchiyama Natasa R. Vasiljevic Ryan Jeffrey White Fariaty Wong Arthur Yelon Hiroshi Yoneyama
rs ECS is grateful to the following companies and institutions who have supported us through membership, sponsorship, and/or exhibits. Their involvement ensures that we are able to advance the most cutting edge research in our fields through conferences and publications. 3M Company Air Liquide AIXTRON Aldrich Materials Science at Sigma-Aldrich ALS Co. Ltd. American Elements AMETEK Scientific Instruments Applied Materials Arbin Instruments ARO Asahi Kasei Corporation Asahi/America, Inc. ASM International Asylum Research Axiall Corporation BASi Biolin Scientific, Inc. BioLogic SAS BioLogic USA Central Electrochemical Research Institute Chroma ATE, Inc. Daiichi Jitsugyo (America), Inc. DOE's Fuel Cell Technologies Office Duracell ECOTEC Solutions, Inc. EL-CELL EL-CELL GmbH Electrosynthesis Company, Inc. Energizer Engineering & Manufacturing ESL Electroscience Faraday Technology, Inc. Ford Motor Company Gamry Instruments Gelest, Inc. General Motors Research Labs
Giner, Inc. GS-Yuasa Corp. HE3DA HEKA Electronics Incorporated Hohsen Corporation Honda R&D Co., Ltd. HORIBA Scientific Huizhou Top Metal Material Hydro-QuĂŠbec IBM Corporation IMERYS Graphite & Carbon Ltd. Industrie De Nora S.p.A. International Lead Zinc Research Organization Inc. IonPower Ivium Technologies Kanto Chemical Co., Inc. Keithley Instruments Lam Research Corporation Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Leclanche, S.A. Los Alamos National Laboratory Maccor Mattson Medtronic, Inc. Energy and Component Center Metrohm AutoLab Metrohm USA MFC Systems, LLC MTI Corporation Netzsch Instruments NA, LLC Next Energy-EWE-Forschungszentrum fĂźr Energietechnologie Nissan ARC, LTD. Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Occidental Chemical Corp. Office of Naval Research Ohio University CEER
PalmSens BV Panasonic Corporation, AIS Company Permascand AB Pine Research Instrumentation Princeton Applied Research/ Solartron Analytical Qualcomm Quallion, LLC Royal Society of Chemistry Saft Batteries, Specialty Battery Group Sandia National Laboratories SanDisk Scribner Associates Solvay Stanford Research Systems TDK Corporation, Device Development Center Technic, Inc. Teledyne Energy Systems, Inc. Thermo Fisher Scientific Tianjin Lishen Battery Joint-Stock Co., Ltd. Toray Research Center, Inc. Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (TEMA) Vacuum Technology Inc. Verder Scientific Western Digital Xergy, Inc. Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences at CWRU ZAHNER-elektrik ZSW, Center for Solar Energy & Hydrogen Research
Thank you to all of our supporters. If there is a mistake in our listings, please contact development@electrochem.org and we will issue a correction.
The scientific investments we’re making in renewable energy like artificial photosynthesis or energy storage are like an insurance policy against an uncertain future. — Harry Atwater director, artificial
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Statement of Activities year ended
12/31/15
REVENUE
2015
2014
6,945,086
7,778,212
EXPENSE Program Services Rental Operations Fundraising
5,520,770
5,500,067
566,249
575,950
Statement of Financial Position at
12/31/2015 2015
2014
189,588
102,123
General & Adminsitrative
1,035,576
945,150
Cash, investments & other
12,261,861
12,586,788
Total Expense
7,312,183
7,123,290
Property & Equipment, net
4,234,484
4,319,448
INCREASE IN NET ASSETS
$ (367,097)
$ 654,922
Total Assets
$ 16,496,345
$ 16,906,236
ASSETS
LIABILTIES AND NET ASSETS Liabilities
2,033,473
2,076,267
Net Assets
14,462,872
14,829,969
$ 16,496,345
$ 16,906,236
Total Liabilities and Net Assets
The mission of ECS is to advance and disseminate knowledge in the fields of electrochemical and solid state science and technology, and allied subjects. To encourage research, discussion, and critical assessment, the Society holds meetings, publishes scientific papers, fosters training and education of scientists and engineers, and cooperates with other organizations to promote science and technology in the public interest.
to the overall strong financial position of the organization:
ECS envisions a future where our published peer-reviewed research will be available completely open access, an initiative we are calling Free the Science. ECS is leading the way as a steward of scientific knowledge in our technical domains and accelerating scientific discovery and innovation.
Visit electrochem.org & freethescience.org to donate online or send an email to development@electrochem.org to discuss your ways to give, including planned giving and IRA charitable rollovers.
To support our bold vision for open access you can make a gift directly to the Free the Science campaign or to any ECS program area that contributes
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Awards Specific collections in the ECS Digital Library Meeting symposia The ECS Fund, an unrestricted fund supporting the greatest needs of the organization as determined by leadership
Other ways to contribute to ECS include membership, exhibiting, sponsoring, advertising, and submitting abstracts to our meetings and/or articles to our journals. Together, we can provide solutions. Thank you.
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