Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:52:11 -0600
From: Joann C Joselyn
The IUGG Electronic Journal
Volume 4 No. 5 (May 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. Democratic Republic of Congo now a member of IUGG
2. IUGG Annual Report for 2003
3. Updated 2004 IUGG Yearbook now available.
4. News from IUGS
5. IGY+50
6. Changes at the Secretariat
7. IUGG-related meetings occurring during May - July 2004
1. Democratic Republic of Congo now a member of IUGG
On 23 January 2004, Prof. Ndontoni Zana submitted an application for
Category 1 Membership on behalf of the Centre de Recherche en
Geophysique (CRG) of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The IUGG
Executive Committee welcomed this application, and it was placed before
the IUGG Adhering Bodies in regular status (dues paid) for a vote by
correspondence. The vote is now complete, and the application was
accepted unanimously. Congratulations to the new officers of the
National Committee for D.R. Congo. They are Prof. N. Zana (President),
J.M. Waku (Vice President), and R. L. Lubiku (Secretary General).
Correspondents to the Associations are Prof. D. Mangombi (IAG), M.F.
Moshi (IAGA), G. Gulemvuga (IAHS), S. Mukenge (IAMAS), N. Zana
(IASPEI),and M. Wafula (IAVCEI).
2. IUGG Annual Report for 2003
The Annual Report for 2003 is now posted on the IUGG Web page
(http://www.IUGG.org) under Publications. The annual reports from each
Association are included in this document. Copies of the Annual Report
have been distributed to all IUGG Adhering Members.
3. Updated 2004 IUGG Yearbook now available.
Updates to the IUGG Yearbook have been made and a revised edition has
been posted on the IUGG web site in PDF format. Changes include
corrections of errors, revised addresses, and other additions such as
information on our newest Adhering member - D.R.Congo. Please notify
the secretariat of changes that are needed as they are noticed. We are
now able to update the Yearbook on the web as necessary.
4. News from IUGS
Besides IUGG, the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) is
another of the "GeoUnions" within the International Council of Science.
IUGS and IUGG have many common interests and support each other's
activities to the advantage of both. Recently, Dr. Harsh Gupta, IUGG
Bureau member, attended the IUGS Executive Committee meeting in Oslo,
Norway. The minutes of that meeting, as well as copies of the IUGS
electronic bulletin, may be found on their web site: http://www.iugs.org .
5. IGY+50
There are a number of initiatives that have been proposed that are
intended to build on the heritage of the International Geophysical Year
(IGY) of 1957-58 and move forward to do new, global science. This issue
will highlight two of the initiatives. IUGG is willing to coordinate
the latest information about all of the programmes, especially with an
eye toward our General Assembly in 2007 when these initiatives will have
an opportunity to report their progress in celebration of the 50th
Anniversary of the IGY. Information as it becomes available on all of
these initiatives will be included in future issues of the IUGG E-Journal.
The Electronic Geophysical Year (eGY), 2007-2008, an IUGG/IAGA
initiative, is intended to bring geoscientific data and information
availability and world-wide access into the 21st Century. The eGY
concept was featured as the lead article in the 16 March 2004 EOS Trans.
Amer. Geophys. Un. (Vol. 85, No. 11). Partners joining in the
development of eGY are presently IUGS, the Scientific Committee for
Solar Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP), and the Society of Exploration
Geophysicists (SEG) who recently passed a resolution of support.
The International Year of Planet Earth (2005-2007) is a programme
originally proposed by the International Union of Geological Sciences
and UNESCO. IUGG is a full partner in IYPE, along with International
Geographical Union and the International Union of Soil Sciences. The
major scientific themes of IYPE include groundwater, health, cities,
natural hazards, natural resources, climate change, deep Earth, and the
oceans. An outreach component will inform policy-makers and the general
public of new results that impact the environment and human populations.
The protocols are being pursued to ask the United Nations declare an
International Year of Planet Earth in 2006. The IYPE brochure can be
downloaded from http://www.iugs.org/iugs/news/iype_02.htm. A web site
under development that is dedicated to IYPE is http://www.esfs.org
The June issue of the E-Journal will introduce the present activities of
the International Polar Year (IPY), the International Heliophysical Year
(IHY), and the SCOSTEP/CAWSES initiative.
6. Changes at the Secretariat
On 7 May 2004, Ryan Aucone will graduate from the University of
Colorado. He has been with the Office of the Secretariat in Boulder
since April 2002, and has been instrumental in maintaining the IUGG data
base, making the arrangements and taking the minutes of a myriad of
meetings, including the Bureau, Executive and Council meetings at the
Sapporo General Assembly, and producing the 2003 and 2004 IUGG
Yearbooks. He has done an excellent job, and we wish him the best for
the future.
Taking his place is Vidya Jayakar, a graduate student in Electrical
Engineering at the University of Colorado. She has her degree in
Telecommunication Engineering from the MS Ramaiah Institute of
Technology of the Visvesvaraiah Technological University, Bangalore,
India, and her interests include social service, wildlife and
conservation, and table tennis. She has been training with Ryan during
April, and is looking forward to her new duties. She will receive all
e-mail messages sent to secretariat@iugg.org .
The position of Assistant to the Office of the Secretariat is part-time
(no more than 20 hours/week) and is funded through a grant by the US
National Science Foundation to the University of Colorado Cooperative
Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES) in support
of the Office of the Secretariat.
7. IUGG-related meetings occurring during May - July 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.
May 16 - 20 EGU, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1st A von Humboldt International
Conference on the El Niño phenomenon and its global impact
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. MEETING RESCHEDULED TO MAY 9 -14, 2005.
June 1 - 8 IAMAS, Kos, Greece, Quadrennial Ozone Symposium of the
International Ozone Commission
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 MEETING RESCHEDULED TO SEPTEMBER 17-18, 2004.
June 9 - 11 IASPEI, Emmetten - Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, GeoMod2004 "From
Mountains to Sedimentary Basins: Modelling and Testing Geological Processes"
June 14 - 25 IASPEI, Golden, Colorado, USA, Summer School on Mathematical
Geophysics and Uncertainty in Earth Models
June 16 - 18 IUGG/CMG, New York, NY, USA, CMG2004: 25th IUGG Conference on
Mathematical Geophysics
June 20 - 23 Oulu, Finland, 1st International Symposium on Space Climate:
Direct & Indirect Measurements of Long-Term Solar Activity
June 21 - 24 IAVCEI, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, Volcanic Ash and Other
Airbourne Hazardous Materials
June 21 - 25 CLIVAR, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1st International CLIVAR
Science Conference
June 30 - July 3 IASPEI, Mizunami, Gifu, Japan, International Workshop on
Active Monitoring in the Solid Earth Geophysics
July 4 - July 9 SEDI, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, SEDI Symposium
July 5 - July 9 AOGS, Suntec, Singapore, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society
(AOGS) 1st Annual Meeting
July 12 - July 14 China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, 3rd
International Conference on Continental Earthquakes: Mechanism,
Prediction, Emergency Management, and Insurance (III ICCE)
July 12 - July 15 IAGA/ICMA, Bath, U.K., 2nd Workshop on the Vertical
Coupling in the Atmosphere/Ionosphere System
July 12 - July 16 IAHS/UNESCO/WMO, London, U.K., Hydrology: Science and
Practice for the 21st Century
July 12 - July 23 ISPRS, Istanbul, Turkey, 20th Congress of the
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
July 18 - July 2 EMSEV, Orlando, Florida USA, Acoustic Emissions, and
Crustal Stress and Exhalation
July 18 - July 25 COSPAR, Paris, France, 35th Scientific Assembly
July 18 - July 23 IAMAS, Bologna, Italy, International Cloud Physics Conference
July 19 - July 22 IAHS, Waterloo, Ontario Canada, GQ 2004: Bringing
Groundwater Quality Research to the Watershed Scale
July 20 - July 23 IAMAS, Yokohama, Japan, Workshop on the Solution of
Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere
July 21 - July 25 International Institute of Informatics and Systemics,
Orlando, Florida USA, 10th International Conference on Information
Systems Analysis and Synthesis: ISAS 2004 and CITSA 2004
July 25 - July 31 ICSU/SCAR, Bremen, Germany, XXVIII SCAR Open Science
Conference; "Antarctic and the Southern Ocean in the Global System"
July 26 - July 30 IAMAS, Kyoto, Japan, 16th International Conference on
Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols
End of IUGG Electronic Journal Volume 4 Number 5 (May 2004)
J. A. Joselyn, Secretary General [http://www.IUGG.org]
secretariat@iugg.org fax: 1 303 497 3645