The IUGG Electronic JournalVolume 4 No. 4 (April 1, 2004)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
1. IUGG General Assembly in 2007 The plans for the XXIV IUGG General Assembly in Perugia, Italy are well underway. The dates are July 2-13, 2007, and a web site has been opened at www.IUGG2007Perugia.it. The first circular is in preparation, and will be ready later this year. The current status and future plans of the Scientific Committee for the Lithosphere (SCL) and its International Lithosphere Programme (ILP) were discussed at a special meeting convened in Paris on February 7. IUGG President Uri Shamir and IUGS President Ed de Mulder, with the support of their respective Executive Bureaus, agreed to appoint Prof. Sierd Cloetingh (Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) to be President of ILP for the years 2004-2006. The secretariat of ILP is to be housed at the GFZ Institute in Potsdam, Germany, and a Secretary General for ILP is to be appointed from the GFZ staff. The IUGG International Association for Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) received an award of $35,000 from the International Council of Science (ICSU) in 2003 for their proposal "Rescue of old analogue magnetograms by converting to digital images." The project's outcome is that 177 station-years of 64,650 of old and historic magnetograms from 9 Russian, two Indian, and one German magnetic observatory are now converted to digital images, available at apollo.wdcb.ru/historic and swdcft49.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/film. The stations chosen were selected from a pre-IGY Catalog of Analogue Geomagnetic Data complied from the time period 1841-1960, and the most rare magnetograms (those existing in one copy only) were digitized first. The magnetogram conversion technique was developed by a team at Kyoto University, Japan. The hardware purchased with the project support is now available for the staff at the World Data Centres in India, Russia, and Japan for the follow-on conversion of analogue magnetograms into digital images in their routine work, as well as for specific rescue projects. Contributed by Dr. Vladimir Papitashvili, Principal Investigator The IAHS (International Association of Hydrological Sciences) Press has just announced 3 new publications. For further information about these publications including contents and price, please contact Mrs. Jill Gash (jilly@iahs.demon.co.uk). World Catalogue of Maximum Observed Floods (IAHS publ. 284) compiled by Reg Herschy. This is a revised edition of the 1984 Catalogue prepared by JA Rodier and M Roche. Erosion and Sediment Transport Measurement in Rivers: Technological and Methodological Advances (IAHS publ. 283) edited by J Bogen, T Fergus, and DE Walling. Erosion Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUBs): Integrating Methods and Techniques (IAHS Publ. 279) edited by DH de Boer, W Froehlich, T Mizuyama, and A Pietroniro. We are sorry to report that Christian Le Provost (France) died unexpectedly on 29 February 2004 of a heart attack. He was an acclaimed tide modeler, and the former President of the IAPSO Commission on Mean Sea Level and Tides. 6. IUGG-related meetings occurring during April-June 2004 A calendar of meetings of interest to IUGG disciplines (especially those organized or sponsored by IUGG Associations) is posted on the IUGG Web Site [ www.IUGG.org ]. Specific information about these meetings, including web links, can be found there. Individual Associations also list more meetings on their web sites appropriate to their disciplines. April 13-17, 2004 April 20-23, 2004 April 25-30, 2004 May 16-20, 2004 May 17-21, 2004 May 25-29, 2004 May 27-June 2, 2004 has changed to May 9-14, 2005 June 1-8, 2004 June 4-5, 2004 June 9-11, 2004 June 9-11, 2004 June 14-25, 2004 June 16-18, 2004 June 20-23, 2004 June 21-24, 2004 June 21-25, 2004 June 30-July 3, 2004 End of IUGG Electronic Journal Volume 4 Number 4 (April 1, 2004) |
