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BIOMETEOROLOGY BULLETIN International Society of Biometeorology www.biometeorolog y.org Volume 19, Number 2, 2017 CONTENTS EEDITORIAL 1. Editorial Dear members of the International 2. A message from President Society of Biometeorology, 3. Commissions and Study This year is a special for the Society: Groups a) members decided on a new 4. Councilor’s Report executive board for 2017-2020 https://www4.uwm.edu/isb/about_is 5. Tromp Scientific Award b/exec_board.cfm 2017 st b) the 21 International Congress of 6. Report from Brazilian Biometeorology was held in Congress of Biometeorology 03 - 07 September 2017 in Durham, United Kingdom 7. Conferences https://www.dur.ac.uk/ 8. Congratulations and c) the 22nd International Congress of 9. Review Biometeorology will be held in September 2020 in Jaboticabal, Brazil 10. Contributors ISSN 1022-9205 BIOMETEOROLOGY BULLETIN 2 IISSBB EEXECUTIVE BBOARD MMEMBERS 22001177--22002200 President Councilor (Africa) Pablo Fernández de Arróyabe Hernáez <[email protected]> Hesham H. Khalifa <[email protected]> President Elect Councilor (Asia) Marie R. Keatley <[email protected]> Hayati Koknaroglu <[email protected]> Past President Councilor (Europe) Mark D. Schwartz <[email protected]> Simon N. Gosling <[email protected]> Vice-Presidents Elena Grigorieva <[email protected]> Councilor (Latin America and the Caribbean) Scott Sheridan <[email protected]> Luis Bartolomé Lecha Estela <[email protected]> Editor-in-Chief Scott Sheridan <[email protected]> Councilor (Northern America) Jennifer Vanos <[email protected]> Secretary Michael Allen (USA) <[email protected]> Councilor (Oceania) Lynda Chambers <[email protected] > Treasurer John Gaughan <[email protected]> Observer to the Board Peter Höppe <[email protected]> Volume 19, Number 2, November 2017 International Society of Biometeorology BIOMETEOROLOGY BULLETIN 3 The updating of the existing ISB website is a A MESSAGE FROM clear priority for this new period, to enable A the new website to be a real tool for the ISB management. The new website should be PPRESIDENT useful in automatically dealing with matters such as memberships, updating of payments, voting, Commission’s management and Dear ISB members sharing of information and news based on I would like to thank to our Past President, distribution lists and social networks. On the Dist. Professor Mark Schwartz and the other other hand, the existence of online resources EB members for the work they have put into for ISB members training and learning can be the Society over the last triennium (2014- a good strategy to establish new connections 2017). I would also like to acknowledge among ISB members in different research Professor Glenn Mc Gregor for his effort in the topics. organization of the XXI Congress of the ISB in The need to make ISB more visible at the astonishing environment of Durham international institutions is also a relevant goal University. Many thanks to Scott Sheridan, to be reached during the new period 2017-20 Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of through the renewal of existing MoUs or Biometeorology, and to all the IJB field promoting the creation of new ones. The editors. They keep doing an excellent work inclusion of sessions on Biometeorology at and have taken the International Journal of other international conferences is also a good Biometeorology to a very high position in method to spread Biometeorology around different scientific fields. Finally, in this section different scientific groups. In the same way, of acknowledgments, I would like to express the promotion of capacity building actions in my gratitude to the Students and New low income countries, through collaborative Professionals Group (SNPG) for their activities actions with other international scientific since the group was created. They are bringing societies and organisations, is a matter to be fresh air and new ideas into the management considered a social responsibility of ISB. of ISB too. It is also very relevant to recognize the Tromp Foundation and the support given The positions of Regional Councillors have to the Society over many years. We look been on the EB for the last three years and the forward in continuing to work together in experience of this new EB structure is promoting Biometeorology. promising for the future of the Society. Promotion of regional actions based on There are emerging challenges in the world Regional Councillor’s initiatives should play an that ISB should be ready to confront. The new important role during this new period. conceptual and scientific frame of Global Change requires from biometeorologists more Finally, I would like to thank to all ISB interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research members for their support of our Society and than ever before to understand the encourage each of you to personally inform complexity of the interactions between other colleagues about the benefits of joining atmospheric processes and living organisms at ISB. It would be great if each ISB member multiple spatial and temporal scales. could bring into ISB just one new person in the Moreover, the digital divide generated by following three years. These individual actions technological revolution is also a threat to be can make ISB much stronger. avoided in any scientific discipline such as I am looking forward to seeing all of you in Biometeorology. Nevertheless, the digital era Jaboticabal, Brazil again in 2020. can be a great opportunity to develop more advanced biometeorological studies based on President of the International Society of new digital technologies and big data and Biometeorology cloud innovation. Prof. Pablo Fernandez de Arroyabe ISSN 1022-9205 BIOMETEOROLOGY BULLETIN 4 List of attendees: IISSBB:: RREPORTS FROM 1. Paul Beggs, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia 2. Alison Donnelly, University of Wisconsin- CCOMMISSIONS AND Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA 3. Alistair Nesbitt, Climate Wine Consulting, United STUDY GROUPS Kingdom S G 4. Christina Koppe, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany Notes on the Phenology Commission meeting 5. Helfried Scheifinger, Zentralanstalt für on the 4th Sept 2017 held at 21st International Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Austria Congress of Biometeorology 2017, Durham. 6. Jennifer Fitchett, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Mark Schwartz welcomed everyone to the 7. Junhu Dai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China meeting and thanked them for attending 8. Hamed Mehdipoor, University of Twente, and provided an outline of the meeting an Enschede, The Netherlands update on the Phenology 2018 9. Kjell Bolmgren, Swedish University of Conference: Marie Keatley Agricultural Sciences, Sweden an update on the Commission’s work on 10. Kyn Ran Kim, Korea Meteorological International Phenology Standards: Kjell Administration, Korea Bolmgren 11. Lang Weiguang, Peking University, China any other matters. 12. Liang Liang, University of Kentucky, Kentucky, USA 13. Lynda Chambers, Victoria, Australia Mark informed the meeting that he was 14. Marie Keatley, University of Melbourne, Victoria, stepping down as Chair of Commission and Australia nominated Marie Keatley as the new Chair. 15. Mark Schwartz, University of Wisconsin- There was a general consensus that for the Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA next three years (2017-2020) that Marie 16. Tim Sparks, Coventry University, United Kingdom Keatley, would be Chair with co-chairs Mark 17. Xiaoqiu Chen, Peking University, China Schwartz and Xiaoqiu Chen. 18. Zexing Tao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Volume 19, Number 2, November 2017 International Society of Biometeorology BIOMETEOROLOGY BULLETIN 5 Phenology 2018 Conference The Sessions are currently: Marie Keatley provided a short overview of Agricultural Phenology, Aerobiology, the progress on the Phenology 2018. Phenology and Conservation Biology, Phenology and Citizen Science, Phenological The Conference logo has been designed and Methods, Remote Sensing, Marine Science, the website http://phenology2018.com.au/ Tropical Phenology, Traditional Ecological has been live for approximately 9 months. Knowledge, Urban Phenology. Important dates are: She informed the meeting that if anyone - Early bird rate: July 9th attending the meeting or other Commission - Abstract notifications: June 11th - Abstracts close: May 7th members would be interested in being involved in the Program Committee that they contact her on [email protected]. It is envisaged that the Program Committee will assist also with the refereeing of abstracts and judging for the student oral and poster presentations. International Phenological Standards Sponsors to date are: At the last ISB Phenology Commission meeting (October 2015, Kusadesi, Turkey at the ISB, Dept. of Environment, Land, Water and Phenology 2015 conference), the Commission Planning (Victorian State Government) and decided to formally work toward the the School of Forest and Ecosystem Sciences, development of international standards. Kjell University of Melbourne. Springer has agreed Bolmgren was nominated as the lead. to sponsor book prizes. Consequently, Kjell provided an update on the Plant phenology ontology and how this would contribute to International Phenology Standards. Kjell informed the meeting that the working group had started discussions with the World Meteorological Organisation about: Bridging, converging and/or calibrating national and international monitoring protocols Develop a phenology ontology to enable machine-to-machine communication Internationally agreed