Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 15:34:09 -0600
From: Joann C Joselyn
Reply-To: jjoselyn@cires.colorado.edu
To: ec@iugg.org, fc@iugg.org
Subject: IUGG E-Journal for July, 2002
The IUGG Electronic Journal
Volume 2 No. 7 (July 1, 2002)
Contents
1. Official Notification of XXIII IUGG General Assembly has been posted
2. IAMAS represented at the Executive Council of the World
Meteorological Organization
3. IAHS represented at the Intergovernmental Council of the
International Hydrological Programme
4. IUGG Executives receive honors from the European Geophysical Society
5. SCAR wins the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
in 2002
6. IUGG-related meetings occurring during July - September 2002
1. Official Notification of XXIII IUGG General Assembly has been posted
The official notification of the XXIII IUGG General Assembly in Sapporo,
Japan (June 30-July 11, 2003) was mailed on June 17 to all IUGG Adhering
Bodies and National Committee Presidents and Secretaries-General. A
copy of the 2001 IUGG Annual Report was included in the packet.
2. IAMAS represented at the Executive Council of the World
Meteorological Organization
Prof. Roland List represented IAMAS at the 54th session of the Executive
Council of the World Meteorological Organization held in Geneva,
Switzerland, from 11-21 June, 2002.
3. IAHS represented at the Intergovernmental Council of the
International Hydrological Programme
Prof. K. Takeuchi and Prof. P. Hubert represented IAHS at the
Intergovernmental Council of the International Hydrological Programme
held at UNESCO in Paris, France, from 17 to 22 June, 2002. The IAHS
Bureau met prior to the Council.
4. IUGG Executives receive honors from the European Geophysical Society
IUGG officers, listed below, were well-represented among the 2002 awards
bestowed by the European Geophysical Society.
Dr. Georges Balmino, CNES/GRGS, France, received the EGS Vening Meinesz
Medal in recognition of his contributions in the fields of satellite
geodesy and the study of Earth's gravitational field. Dr. Balmino is
the former Secretary-General of IUGG (1991-1999).
Dr. Bengt Hultqvist, Swedish Institute of Physics, Sweden, received the
EGS Hannes Alfvén Medal in recognition of his important contributions to
auroral and magnetospheric physics and his leading role in initiating
and supporting space research projects both nationally and
internationally. Dr. Hultqvist is the Secretary-General of IAGA.
Prof. Christophe Reigber, Geoforschungs Zentrum Potsdam, Germany,
received the EGS Vening Meinesz Medal in recognition of his
contributions in the field of satellite geodesy and the study of Earth's
gravitational field. Prof. Reigber chairs the Directing Boards of IAG's
International GPS Service, and the International Earth Rotation Service.
He is also a Union Lecturer at the 2003 IUGG General Assembly.
5. SCAR wins the Prince of Asturias Award for International
Cooperation in 2002
The ICSU Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) has been
honored by the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation in
2002 for their international collaboration in Antarctica. SCAR was
established in 1958 with the 12 countries that were undertaking
Antarctic research during the International Geophysical Year (1957-58).
SCAR initiates, promotes, and coordinates scientific research in the
Antarctic system. The membership of SCAR is now 32 countries and the
Secretariat is at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of
Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The IUGG liaison to SCAR is Prof.
R. Schlich (France). For further information on SCAR, visit http://www.scar.org.
The Prince of Asturias Foundation, a non-profit organization that aims
to promote the Sciences, Technology, Concord, Arts, and Letters,
established annual awards in 1980 to honor individuals, groups, and
institutions whose achievements are examples for all mankind. Each
award is comprised of a diploma, Joan Miró sculpture, and a cash prize
of 50,000 Euros. HRH Crown Prince Felipe of Spain presents the awards
annually at a prestigious ceremony in Asturias, Spain. For further
information on the Prince of Asturias Awards, visit http://www.fpa.es.
6. IUGG-related meetings occurring during July - September 2002
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.
July 1-5 IAHS/IAHR, Cardiff, U.K., 5th International Conference on Hydroinformatics
July 1-5 UN, Moshi, Tanzania, International Conference to Mark the
International Year of Mountains (IYM2002)
July 1-6 IASPEI, Castle of Zahradky, Czech Republic, Workshop/Summer
School on the Structure and Tectonics of Active Convergent Margins
July 3-5 IASPEI, Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France, TeleGeo 2002 - Third Symposium
July 9- 12 AGU, Wellington, New Zealand, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting
July 15-26 ICSU/SCAR, Shanghai. China, XXVII SCAR Assembly
July 22-26 IUGG/SEDI, Lake Tahoe, California, USA, 8th Symposium of
Studies of Earth's Deep Interior
July 22-26 IAHS, Dresden, Germany, 3rd international Conference on Water
Resources and Environment Research (ICWRER)
August 17- 24 URSI, Maastricht, The Netherlands, XXVIIth General
Assembly of the Int'l Union of Radio Science
August 19-23 IAGA, Perth, Scotland, U.K., Mesospheric Clouds
August 24-28 IAGA/SPIE, Waikoloa, Hawaii, U.S.A., Innovative Telescopes
and Instrumentation for Solar Astrophysics (AS20)
August 26 - September 4 ICSU/UNESCO, Johannesburg, South Africa, Earth
Summit 2002 and Conference on Sustainable Development
August 26-30 International Glaciological Society, Chamonix Mont-Blanc,
France, International Symposium on Physical and Mechanical Processes in
Ice in Relation to Glacier and Ice-Sheet Modelling
August 26-30 IAG, Thessaloniki, Greece, 3rd Meeting of the International
Gravity and Geoid Commission
September 1-6 IASPEI/ESC, Genoa, Italy, 28th Assembly of the European
Seismological Commission
September 2-6 IAHS/UNESCO, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia,
International Symposium on the Structure, Function, and Management
Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary Systems
September 3-6 IAG, Bali, Indonesia, PORSEC 2002
September 3-6 IAGA/IASPEI/IAVCEI, Moscow, Russia, 3rd International
Workshop on Magnetic, Electric and Electromagnetic Methods in Seismology
and Volcanology
September 7-14 Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, Climate Variability,
Predictability, and Climate Risks
September 8-13 IAG, Wuhan, China, International Workshop on Satellite
Altimetry for Geodesy, Geophysics, and Oceanography
September 9-12 UNESCO/WMO/IAHS, Bremerhaven,Germany,International
Symposium on Lowlying Coastal Areas: Hydrology and Integrated Coastal
Zone Management
September 9-13 ICE/IASPEI, London, U.K., 12th European Conference on
Earthquake Engineering
September 10-13 IAHS, Beijing, China, Second International Symposium on
Flood Defense: the Prospect of Living with Floods in the 21st Century (ISFD'2002)
September 15-20 IAG, Wuhan, China, International Workshop on Satellite
Altimetry for Geodesy, Geophysics and Oceanography
September 18-20 IAHS/ICWRS, Beijing, China, International Workshop on
Vulnerability of Water Resources to Environmental Change
September 18-21 IAHS/IAHR/UNESCO, Warsaw, Poland, ICHE-2002:
International Conference on Hydro-Science and Hydro-Engineering
September 18-25 SPARC/IAMAS/IGAC, Crete, Greece, Atmospheric Chemistry
in the Earth System: from Regional Pollution to Global Change, and, 10th
Scientific Conference of the IAMAS Commission for Atmospheric Chemistry
and Global Pollution, and, 7th Scientific Conference of the
International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project
September 22-28 ICSU, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, General Assembly of
International Council for Science (ICSU)
September 29 - October 3 CODATA, Montreal, Canada, Frontiers of
Scientific and Technical Data
September 30 - October 12 IASPEI, Trieste, Italy, 6th Workshop on
Three-Dimensional Modelling of Seismic Waves Generation, Propagation and
their Inversion
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End of IUGG Electronic Journal Volume 2 Number 7 (July, 2002)
J. A. Joselyn, Secretary General [http://www.IUGG.org]
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