The IUGG Electronic Journal
Volume 3 No. 10 (October 1, 2003)
This short, informal newsletter is intended to
keep IUGG Member National Committees informed about the activities of the IUGG
Associations, and actions of the IUGG Secretariat. Past issues are posted on
the IUGG Web site. Please forward this message to those who will benefit from
the information. Your comments are welcome.
Contents
- Schedule of upcoming
Association Scientific Assemblies and Conferences of the Inter-Associations
Commissions
- New SEDI Officers
- IAG Presents their Levallois
Medal and Bomford Prize
- Australia National Report
added
- IUGG-related meetings
occurring during October - December 2003
1. Schedule of upcoming
Association Scientific Assemblies and Conferences of the Inter-Associations Commissions
2004
- July 4 - 9 Studies of
Earth's Deep Interior (SEDI), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Symposium on
Study of the Earth's Deep Interior, http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/sedi2004/
- November 14 - 19 International
Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI),
Pucón , Chile, Scientific Assembly "Volcanism and its Impact on
Society," http://www.iavcei.org
- December 2 - 4 Commission
on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability (GeoRisk), Hyderabad, India, Conference
on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability, http://www.mitp.ru/georisk
2005
- April 4 - 9 International
Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Foz de Iguassu, Brazil, Scientific
Assembly, http://iahs.info
- July 18 - 29 International
Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA), Toulouse, France, Scientific
Assembly, http://www.iugg.org/IAGA/
- August 2 - 11 International
Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, (IAMAS), Beijing, China,
Scientific Assembly, www.iamas.org/
- August 22 - 26 International
Association of Geodesy (IAG) and the International Association for the Physical
Sciences of the Ocean (IAPSO), joint with the International Association for
Biological Oceanography (IABO), Cairns, Australia, Joint Scientific Assembly
http://www.gfy.ku.dk/~iag and http://www.iugg.org/associations/iapso.php
- October 2 - 8 International
Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior, (IASPEI), Santiago,
Chile, Scientific Assembly, http://www.igm.cl/iaspei2005
2. New SEDI Officers
At the Sapporo General
Assembly, the new officers of the Inter Associations Committee on the Study
of Earth's Deep Interior (SEDI) were selected. The new Chair is Dr. Bruce Buffett
(Canada/USA) and the Vice-Chair is Dr. Gauthier Hulot (France). Michael Bergman
(USA) will continue as SEDI Secretary General.
3. IAG Presents their Levallois
Medal and Bomford Prize
At the Sapporo General
Assembly, the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) presented the Levallois
Medal to George Veis (Greece) in recognition of his distinguished service to
the science of geodesy. IAG also presented the Bomford Prize to Ramon Hanssen,
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. The Guy Bomford Prize is awarded
to a young scientist or to a team young scientists for outstanding theoretical
or applied contributions to geodetic studies, particularly in the four-year
period preceding the General Assembly at which the award is made.
4. Australia National Report
added
The report of 1999-2002
activities of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, a section of the National Report from
Australia, has been added to the IUGG web page under National Committee Reports.
5. IUGG-related meetings
occurring during October - December 2003
A calendar of meetings of
interest to IUGG disciplines (especially those organized by IUGG Associations)
is posted on the IUGG Web Site [www.IUGG.org]. Specific information about these
meetings can be found there. Individual Associations also list more meetings
on their web sites appropriate to their disciplines.
- October 6 - 10 URSI/COSPAR,
Grahamstown, South Africa, International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) Workshop
- October 8 -10 IGBP/GWSP,
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA, Global Water System Project (GWSP) Open Science
Project
- October 8 - 12 IASPEI,
Novosibirsk, Russia, International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics
- October 13 - 15 URSI,
Matera, Italy, Workshop on Atmospheric Remote Sensing using Satellite Navigation
Systems
- October 14 - 16 IASPEI,
Tanta, Egypt, 3rd International Symposium on Geophysics
- October 16 -18 IAHS,
Visakhapatnam, India, International Seminar on Watershed Development
- November 3 - 6 IAHS,
Moscow, Russia, Extreme Hydrological Events : Theory, Modelling, and Prediction
- November 6 - 7 IUGG/EMSEV,
Athens, Greece, Workshop on Earthquake Prediction
- November 7 - 11 China
Geophysical Society, Beijing, China, 6th China International Geo-electromagnetic
Workshop
- November 10 - 15 IAGA,
Moscow, Russia, Russian School on Electromagnetic Sounding of the Earth
- November 16 - 19 START
(IGBP, IGBP, IHDP), Trieste, Italy, 1st International Young Scientists Global
Change Conference
- December 3 - 6 IAHS/IHP,
Rome, Italy, International Symposium on The Basis of Civilization - Water
Science?
- December 8 - 12 AGU,
San Francisco, USA, AGU Fall Meeting
End of IUGG Electronic Journal Volume 3 Number 10 (October 1, 2003)
J. A. Joselyn, Secretary General [ http://www.IUGG.org ]
jjoselyn@cires.colorado.edu, fax:
1 303 497 3645.
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