Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:36:06 -0600
From: Joann C Joselyn
Reply-To: jjoselyn@cires.colorado.edu
To: ec@iugg.org
Subject: IUGG E-Journal for August 2004
The IUGG Electronic Journal
Volume 4 No. 8 (August 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. ICSU Grants for 2005
2. ILP appointments
3. July ICSU Newsletter on-line
4. Call for Comments on IPY 2007-2008 Outline Science Plan
5. Awards and Honors
6. IUGG-related meetings occurring during August - October 2004
1. ICSU Grants for 2005
ICSU, with financial support from UNESCO, awards a number of grants
annually to support collaborative projects proposed by its members.
This "seed-corn funding" (maximum $100k) is often used to lever funding
from other sources and the competition for awards is intense. For 2005,
40 applications were received requesting a total of US $2,656,658.
However, the budget available under the grants programme for 2005 is
US$350,000, severely reduced from previous years owing to a number of
factors. Only 4 proposals could be funded although 3 other proposals
are on a "Waiting List" in the event that additional funds can be
raised. Four more proposals were highly rated, but cannot be funded due
to the lack of funds.
IUGG is pleased to announce that one of our proposals, through the
International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), was
successful. This proposal, initiated by the 2003 IUGG Council delegate
from Vietnam, Prof. Thi Kim Thoa Nguyen, is titled Augmenting
Groundwater Resources by Artificial Recharge in S.E. Asia. The
International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) co-sponsored this
winning proposal. It received $49,500.
In addition, three proposals sponsored or co-sponsored by IUGG are on
the "Highly-Rated" list. These are "An Assessment of Aerosol Effects on
Precipitation" (written by Roland List of the International Association
of Meteorological and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) and cosponsored by
WCRP); "Dynamics of Semi-Enclosed Marine Ecosystems: the integrated
effects of changes in sediment and nutrient inputs from land" (proposed
by SCOPE with strong support from Paola Rizzoli and the International
Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO) and SCOR;
and "Development of World Data Center Partner Sites" (proposed by the
ICSU Panel on World Data Centers and also co-sponsored by SCOSTEP).
2. ILP appointments
Prof. Dr. Sierd Cloetingh, President of the re-organized International
Lithosphere Programme (ILP) has announced that Prof. Dr. Jörg F.W.
Negendank (neg@gfz-potsdam.de) has accepted the position of Secretary
General. The Secretariat will be at GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam under
the direction of Dr. Lauterjung.
3. July ICSU Newsletter on-line
The July 2004 issue of ICSU Insight is now available through the ICSU
website : www.icsu.org. Upon opening the website, click on the tab
labeled Media Centre; then click on Resource Centre. You will then be
able to either print the newsletter or read it in your browser. The
sections of the Newsletter are
Strategic initiatives
Capacity building
Data and Information
Environment
Sustainable Development
Governance/Policy
People and Places
4. Call for Comments on IPY 2007-2008 Outline Science Plan
As part of preparations for the International Polar Year (IPY)
2007-2008, the ICSU Planning Group is seeking feedback on their Outline
Science Plan, which can be found at
http://www.ipy.org/concept/outline_science_plan.pdf . Comments on the
Outline Science Plan should be sent to Dr Cynan Ellis-Evans
(jcel@bas.ac.uk) before 30 August 2004. For more information on the
International Polar Year 2007-2008 please, visit http://www.ipy.org .
This Plan is the result of the synthesis by the Planning Group of inputs
from the polar community, and the details of this process are described
within the Outline Science Plan. The final Science Plan will be
delivered to the ICSU Executive Board with its final report in October 2004.
5. Awards and Honors
Prof. Véronique Dehant, Head of the Time, Earth Rotation, and Space
Geodesy section at the Royal Observatory of Belgium and President of IAG
Commission 3: Earth Rotation and Geodynamics, and her research group
received the prestigious 2003 Descartes Prize for outstanding results
from European collaborative research. The Prize was received for the
application: Pinpoint Positioning in a Wobbly World.
6. IUGG-related meetings occurring during August - October 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.
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 26 - 27 GeoRisk, Stockholm, Sweden, Risk Science, Society and
Sustainable Development, within the framework of the first EuroSciencer
Open Forum (ESOF2004)
August 30 - 31 IUGG, Boulder, Colorado USA, IUGG Bureau meeting
August 30 - September 3 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 21-23 IAG, Tangier, Morocco, 12th General Assembly of the WEGENER Project
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
October 4 - 8 AAAR, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, AAAR 23rd Annual Conference
October 11 - 14 IAPSO/SCOR, Victoria, Canada, Symposium on Ocean Mixing
October 13 - 25 IAGA, Hyderabad, India, 17th Electro Magnetic Induction
Workshop
October 13 - 16 SOLAS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Surface Ocean - Lower
Atmosphere Study Science
October 17 - 24 EGU, On board the Mediterranean Shipping Cruises vessel
"Opera," the Mediterranean, Catching Storms in the Mediterranean
October 18 - 21 IAHS, Yichang, China, Ninth International Symposium on
River Sedimentation
October 18 - 21 IASPEI/ASC, Yerevan, Armenia, 5th General Assembly of the
Asian Seismological Commission
October 25 - November 5 ICTP, Miramare - Trieste, Italy, 7th Workshop on
3-D Modeling of Seismic Waves Generation, Propagation and their Inversion
End of IUGG Electronic Journal Volume 4 Number 8 (August 2004)
J. A. Joselyn, Secretary General [http://www.IUGG.org]
secretariat@iugg.org fax: 1 303 497 3645