Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:39:08 -0600
From: Joann C Joselyn
The IUGG Electronic Journal
Volume 4 No. 7 (July 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. GEOSS - a new international initiative
2. SWARM selected as an ESA Programme
3. The 2004 Geodesist's Handbook
4. IAHS's Tison Award for 2004
5. New publications from IAHS
6. IGY+50: Update on IYPE and IPY
7. IUGG-related meetings occurring during July - September 2004
1. GEOSS - a new international initiative
The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) is a 10-year
international plan to share Earth-observation data and to identify and
fill gaps in the data networks. A summit meeting, held in Tokyo in
April, was attended by representatives from governments of 47 nations as
well as Dr. Gerhard Beutler, President of the International Association
of Geodesy (IAG). IAG was accepted as a participating organization
through the advocacy of the German delegation. Dr. C. Reigber, Chair of
IAG's Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) project, is working
directly with the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) organizers with
regard to observations of "geometry and Earth dynamics" but expects to
be able to act as an informant between other GEO subgroups and the IUGG
Associations. We are fortunate that IAG was able to seize the
opportunity to make sure that the Earth observations that are critical
to IUGG disciplines are adequately considered in this new international
initiative. A report about the Tokyo summit can be found at the web
site http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEMTR077ESD_index_0.html , and
information about GEO is posted at http://earthobservations.org/ .
2. SWARM selected as an ESA Programme
On Friday May 28, the Earth Observation Programme Board of the European
Space Agency approved the mission SWARM - Earth's Magnetic Field and
Environment Explorers, for full implementation and launch in 2009 as
number 5 in ESA's Living Planet Programme. This mission, a
constellation of three satellites, during its 4-year operational phase
will complete the International Decade of Geopotential Field Research
that was announced in a resolution adopted by IAGA and IUGG and
initiated so successfully with the Danish satellite Ørsted. The Lead
Investigator of the mission proposal is Dr. Eigil Friis-Christensen, a
Vice President of the International Association of Geomagnetism and
Aeronomy (IAGA).
3. The 2004 Geodesist's Handbook
The International Association of Geodesy (IAG) has completed the 2004
Geodesist's Handbook, edited by Ole B. Andersen. The Handbook is
published every four years as a special issue of the Journal of Geodesy
(Vol. 77, Number 10-11, April 2004). It contains all of the current
organizational information regarding IAG, a report of the IAG activities
at the XXIII IUGG General Assembly in Sapporo, Japan in July 2003, and a
compendium of general information related to geodesy, such as a
discussion of fundamental parameters by E. Groten, a listing of the
Geodetic Data Centers, and educational institutions offering geodetic
instruction. Most of the information contained in the Handbook can be
found on the IAG web site: http://www.iag-aig.org
4. IAHS's Tison Award for 2004
The International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) will
present their Tison Award to Dr. Francis Chiew of the Cooperative
Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The IAHS Tison Award, which aims to promote excellence in research by
young hydrologists, is granted for an outstanding paper published by
IAHS in a period of two years previous to the deadline for nominations.
The winning paper, Global ENSO-streamflow teleconnection, streamflow
forecasting and interannual variability, was published by F.H.S. Chiew
and T.A. McMahon in Hydrological Sciences Journal, Vol. 47 (3), 505-522,
2002.
Nominations for the 2005 International Hydrology Prize and the Tison
award are invited. Please send them to the IAHS Secretary General
(iahs@ensmp.fr) by 31 December 2004.
5. New publications from IAHS
The IAHS (International Association of Hydrological Sciences) Press has
just announced the following new publications. For further information
including contents and price, please contact Mrs. Jill Gash
(jilly@iahs.demon.co.uk).
Wastewater Re-Use and Groundwater Quality (IAHS publ. 285, April 2004)
edited by J. Steenvoorden and T. Endreny.
The Basis of Civilization - Water Science? (IAHS publ. 286, July 2004)
edited by J.C. Rodda and L. Ubertini.
6. IGY+50: Update on IYPE and IPY
The International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) has added Soils as a 9th
Science Objective. The International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS),
also a full partner in IYPE, will take the lead to develop this theme.
Dr. Tom Beer, IUGG Vice President and Chair of the GeoRisk Commission,
has accepted responsibility to Chair the team that is developing the
Hazards Science Objective. Dr. Yoram Rubin, President of the IAHS
International Commission on Groundwater, is a member of the team that is
developing the Groundwater Science Objective, and Dr. Keith Alverson,
President of the IAMAS Commission on Climate, is a member of the team
that is developing the Climate Science Objective. The web site for IYPE
is http://www.esfs.org .
The International Polar Year 2007-2008 (IPY) has added several documents
to their web site including a summary of the report of the US National
Committee for the IPY, A Vision for International Polar Year 2007-2008.
This report, which includes the initiative's scientific challenges
that form the framework for IPY activities, can be found at
http://www.ipy.org or http://us-ipy.org .
7. IUGG-related meetings occurring during July - September 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.
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: Bring 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
August 1 - 6 SPARC, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 3rd SPARC
General Assembly
August 1 - 6 IASPEI, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, The 13th World
Conference on Earthquake Engineering
August 2 - 6 IAHS, Moscow, Russia, Int'l Symposium on Sediment Transfer
through the Fluvial System
August 2 - 6 IAG, Ottawa, Canada, 15th International Symposium of Earth
Tides "Probing the Earth at Subseismic Frequencies"
August 2 - 8 IAHS, Tallin, Estonia, Nordic Hydrology Conference
August 8 - 11 IAHS, Vancouver B.C., CANADA, 8th International Conference on
Precipitation
August 15 - 20 IGU, Glasgow, Scotland, 30th International Geographical
Congress
August 16 - 19 Nigerian Union of Planetary and Radio Sciences (NUPRS),
Lagos, Nigeria, International Workshop on Nigerian SAT 1 as a New Tool
for Economic Empowerment
August 20 - 28 IUGS, Florence, Italy, 32nd International Geologic Congress
August 30-31 IUGG, Boulder, Colorado USA, IUGG Bureau meeting
August 30 - September 4 IAG, Porto, Portugal, International Symposium on
Gravity, Geoid, and Space Missions (GGSM2004)
August 31 - September 2 IUGG, Boulder, Colorado USA, IUGG Executive Committee
September 5 - 9 IAGA/IASPEI/IAVCEI, La Londe les Maures, France, IV
International Workshop on Magnetic, Electric and Electromagnetic Methods
in Seismology and Volcanology
September 12 -17 IASPEI/ESC, Potsdam, Germany, 29th General Assembly of
the European Seismological Commission
September 13 -16 IAHS, Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic,
Finite-Element Models, MODFLOW, and More 2004: Solving Groundwater Problems
September 14 - 17 IAMAS/ICMA, Cambridge (Clare College), U.K., Meeting
of the Layered Phenomena in the Mesopause Region
September 17 - 18 IAHS/UNESCO, Paris, France, 7th Kovacs Colloquium /
7ème Colloque Kovacs Scales in Hydrology and Water Management Echelles
en hydrologie et gestion de l'eau
September 26 - 30 EMS and ECAC, Nice, France, 4th annual meeting of the
European Meteorological Society -and- 5th European Conference on Applied
Climatology
September 26 - October 1 IASPEI, Quebec, Canada, 11th International
Symposium on "Deep Structure of the Continents and their Margins:
Results from Reflection, Refraction and Teleseismic Seismology"
September 27 - October 1 IAHS, Berchtsgaden, Germany, International
Conference on Hydrology of Mountain Environments
September 27 - 30 SCOR, Venice, Italy, Scientific Committee on Oceanic
Research (SCOR) General Meeting
September 29 - October 1 IAGA, Roquetes, Spain, Workshop on Challenges
for Geomagnetism, Aeronomy and Seismology in the XXI Century
End of IUGG Electronic Journal Volume 4 Number 7 (July 2004)
J. A. Joselyn, Secretary General [http://www.IUGG.org]
secretariat@iugg.org fax: 1 303 497 3645