Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:55:10 -0700
From: Joann C Joselyn
The IUGG Electronic Journal
Volume 4 No. 3 (March 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
2. Short Report of the ICSU Unions Meeting
3. Commission on Mathematical Geophysics (CMG) meeting announced
4. IUGG Appointees to ICSU Panels
5. IUGG-related meetings occurring during March - May 2004
1. IUGG General Assembly in 2007
The XXIV IUGG General Assembly will be held in Perugia, Italy from July
2-13, 2007. These dates were agreed at a meeting on February 12-13 in
Perugia hosted by the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee, Dr. Lucio
Ubertini. To support the General Assembly, the LOC has established an
European Committee, chaired by Prof. Fernando Sanso, that is already
planning special events and seeking funding to make the 2007 General
Assembly an extraordinary success. More recently, IUGG President Uri
Shamir announced the appointment of the Chair of the GA2007 Scientific
Programme Committee: Prof. Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli. Prof. Rizzoli, now
teaching in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a physical
oceanographer and the immediate past President of the International
Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO).
2. Short Report of the ICSU Unions Meeting
IUGG President Dr. Uri Shamir and Secretary-General Dr. Jo Ann Joselyn
attended a meeting in Paris on February 9-10 of the scientific unions
that are members of ICSU. Twenty-five of the 27 member Unions sent
representatives to the meeting that was held in rooms within the
beautiful and historic French Académie des Sciences. Agenda items
included discussion of development of an ICSU strategic plan for
2006-2012, ICSU-UNESCO collaboration, and updates on the work in
progress on ICSU resolutions passed at their 2002 General Assembly.
Presentations were made on the International Polar Year by C. Rapley,
and the International Year of Planet Earth by E. DeMulder (including
information presented by Dr. M. Kuhn, Chair of the IUGG IGY+50
Committee). The date and place of the ICSU 28th General Assembly were
announced (Shanghai and Suzhou, China, 16-22 October 2005). ICSU has an
electronic newsletter, Insight, that can be downloaded from their web
site: http://icsu.org .
For IUGG, the opportunity to meet with and network with other Unions
proved very valuable. A separate meeting of the officers of the
Geo-Unions (IUGG plus the International Union of Geological Sciences -
IUGS, the International Geographical Union - IGU, and the International
Union of Soil Sciences - IUSS) was held before the ICSU meeting, and a
meeting of the consortium of Unions that are working together on an
initiative on Science for Health and Well-Being (also attended by P.
Hubert for IAHS) was held after the ICSU meeting. We also met with IUGS
separately regarding possible actions with regard to the International
Lithosphere Programme, and with the International Astronomical Union
(IAU) and the Union of Radio Science International (URSI) regarding the
Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Data Analysis Services
(FAGS). We look forward to continuing collaborations with these and
other Unions, especially the International Society of Photogrammetry and
Remote Sensing.
3. Commission on Mathematical Geophysics (CMG) meeting announced
The 25th IUGG Conference on Mathematical Geophysics will be held June
16-18, 2004, at Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. The theme
is Frontiers in Theoretical Earth Science. Contributions in new
problems, mathematical methods, and observations in need of theoretical
understanding are sought that are relevant to any aspect of Earth
sciences, at all spatial and temporal scales, ranging from the core and
mantle to the surface, oceans, and atmosphere.
Information regarding the program, registration, accommodation, etc.,
will be available at http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~mspeig/CMG2004/ .
4. IUGG Appointees to ICSU Panels
IUGG Bureau members have recently been named to advisory committees to
the International Council of Science (ICSU). Dr. Harsh Gupta has agreed
to serve on the ad hoc Expert Panel on Priority Area Assessment on
Capacity Building in Science, and Dr. Uri Shamir, who recently completed
service on the CSPR Assessment Panel on Environment and its Relation to
Sustainable Development, has agreed to serve on an ad hoc Committee on
Membership Issues.
5. IUGG-related meetings occurring during March - May 2004
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.
March 1 - 6 ICSU/WMO, Moscow, Russia, WCRP-JSC meeting
March 8 - 10 ESA/IAG, Frascati (Rome), Italy, 2nd International GOCE User
Workshop
March 22 - 24 ICSU, Bonn, Germany, 11th SC-IHDP Meeting
April 13 - 17 IUTAM, Muizenberg, Cape Town, South Africa, Workshop on
Capacity Building in the Mathematical Sciences
April 20 - 23 IAG, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, Chandler Wobble Workshop
April 25 - 30 EGU, Nice, France, EGU 1st General Assembly
May 17 - 21 AGU/CGU, Montreal, Canada, Joint meeting of the American and
Canadian Geophysical Unions
May 25 - 29 IAHS, Ohrid, FY Repub. Macedonia, Conference on Water
Observation & Information System for Decision Support (BALWOIS)
May 27 - June 2 SCOSTEP, Taipei, Taiwan, China, 11th International
Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy
June 4-5 IAHS/UNESCO, Paris, France, 7th Kovacs Colloquium / 7ème
Colloque Kovacs
Scales in Hydrology and Water Management Echelles en hydrologie et
gestion de l'eau
End of IUGG Electronic Journal Volume 4 Number 3 (March 2004)
J. A. Joselyn, Secretary General [http://www.IUGG.org]
secretariat@iugg.org fax: 1 303 497 3645