INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS UNION GEODESIQUE ET GEOPHYSIQUE INTERNATIONALE
XXVII General Assembly XXVIIème Assemblée Générale
8 - 18 July 2019
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Council Meeting Agenda Book
Session I: Tuesday, 9 July, 14:00-18:00 / 1ère Session: Mardi, 9 juillet, 14h-18h
Session II: Friday, 12 July, 9:00-13:00 / 2ème Session: Vendredi, 12 juillet, 9h-13h
Session III: Tuesday, 16 July, 14:00-18:00 / 3ème Session: Mardi, 16 juillet, 14h-18h
Council Meeting Venue: Palais des Congrès 5th Floor, Room 524AB Table of Contents
Session I: Tuesday, 9 July, 14:00-18:00 / 1ère Session: Mardi, 9 juillet, 14h-18h 6 1. Greetings; Presentation of the credentials; election of tellers / Salutations; Présentation des lettres d’accréditation; élection des scrutateurs 6 2. Approval of the Agenda / Approbation de l’ordre du jour 9 3. Approval of the minutes of the Council Meeting in Prague (2015) / Approbation du procès-verbal de la réunion du Conseil à Prague (2015) 13 4. Reports of the IUGG Officers / Rapports des officiers de l'UGGI 30 Quadrennial Report of the President (2015-2019) / Rapport quadriennal du Président (2015-2019) 30 Quadrennial Report of the Secretary General (2015-2019) / Rapport quadriennal du Secrétaire Général (2015-2019) 37 Quadrennial Report of the Treasurer (2015-2019) / Rapport quadriennal du Trésorier (2015-2019) 48 Quadrennial Report of the Vice-President (2015-2019) / Rapport quadriennal du Vice-président (2015-2019) 57 4.4.1. Commission on Climate and Environmental Change (CCEC) / Commission sur le changements climatiques et environnementaux 59 4.4.2. Commission on Mathematical Geophysics (CMG) / Commission sur la géophysique mathématique 69 4.4.3. Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability (GRC) / Commission sur les risques géophysiques et le développement durable 72 4.4.4. Committee on the Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior (SEDI) / Comité sur l’étude des profondeurs terrestres 79 4.4.5. Commission on Data and Information (UCDI) / Commission pour les données et l’information 83 4.4.6. Commission on Plantetary Sciences (UCPS) / Commission des sciences planétaires 88 Ratification of major decisions by the Bureau and Executive Committee 95 5. Matters of Membership / Affaires d’adhésion (A. Ismail-Zadeh) 96 Admission: Algeria as Regular Member (cat. 1) / Adhésion: Algérie comme membre régulier 96 Admission: Serbia as Associate Member (cat. A) / Adhésion: Serbie comme membre associé 96 Admission: Uruguay as Associate Member (cat. A) / Adhésion: Uruguay comme membre associé 96 Transfer: Macedonia, F.Y.R. from Regular to Associate Member / Transfert: Macédoine, A.R.Y. de membre régulier à membre associé 96
2 6. Report of the Nominating Committee / Rapport du comité des candidatures (Tom Beer) 97 7. Report on the proposals to host the XXVIII General Assembly in 2023 / Rapport sur les propositions pour l’Assemblée Générale XXVIII en 2023 (Eduard Petrovsky) 98 8. Report of the Statutes and By-Laws (SBL) Committee on reformatting the IUGG SBL / Rapport de la Commission des Statuts et du Règlement sur le reformatage de l'UGGI de Statuts et du Règlement (Charles Fierz) 107 9. Report on scientific and educational programs / Rapport sur les programmes scientifiques et éducatifs 108 International Lithosphere Program / Programme international de la lithosphere 108 9.1.1. Quadrennial Report 2018 to the IUGG Secretariat for the International Lithosphere Program (ILP) period 2015-2018 108 9.1.2. Quadrennial Report of IUGG Liaison Officer for ILP (2015-2018) 114 Science Education Program (cooperation with the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics - ICTP) / Programme d'enseignement des sciences (cooperation avec ICTP) 121
Session II: Friday, 12 July, 9:00-13:00 / 2ème Session: Vendredi, 12 juillet, 9h-13h 124 10. Greetings; Presentation of the credentials / Salutations; Présentation des lettres d’accréditation 124 11. Reports by Association Presidents / Rapports des présidents des Associations 124 International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) / Association Internationale des Sciences Cryosphériques (AISC) 125 International Association of Geodesy (IAG) / Association Internationale de Géodésie (AIG) 131 International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) / Association Internationale de Géomagnétisme et d’Aéronomie (AIGA) 137 International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) / Association Internationale des Sciences Hydrologiques (AISH) 141 International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) / Association Internationale de Météorologie et des Sciences de l’Atmosphère (AIMSA) 147 International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean (IAPSO) / Association Internationale des Sciences Physiques de l’Océan (AISPO) 153 International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI)/ Association Internationale de Sismologie et de physique de l’Intérieur de la Terre (AISPIT) 159 International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) / Association Internationale de Volcanologie et de Chimie de l’Intérieur de la Terre (AIVCIT) 164 12. Relations with the International Science Council (ISC) / Relations avec le CSI 169
3 13. Reports from liaisons to ISC Committees / Rapports des officiers de liaison avec des comités du CSI 183 Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) 183 Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) 190 Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) 192 Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) 194 Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) 195 Adoption of the Reports / Adoption des rapports 196 14. Reports from liaisons to intergovernmental and other organizations / Rapports des officiers de liaison avec des organisations intergouvernementales et autres organisms 197 Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency (CCTF) 197 Group on Earth Observations (GEO) 201 UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP) 204 UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) 205 Pan-American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH) 209 The United Nations Geospatial Information Section (UN-GIS) 213 World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) 214 World Meteorological Organization (WMO) 216 14.8.1. Report of IUGG Principal Liaison Officer to WMO 216 14.8.2. Report of IUGG/IAVCEI Liaison Officer to WMO 220 14.8.3. Report of IUGG/IAGA Liaison Officer to WMO 221 14.8.4. Report of IUGG/IAHS Liaison Officer to WMO CHy 222 14.8.5. The Partner Advisory Committee (PAC) of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) 223 Adoption of the Reports / Adoption des rapports 224 15. Report of the IUGG Finance Committee 2015-2019 / Rapport du Comité des finances de l’UGGI 2015-2019 225 16. Presentation of the 2020-2023 Budget / Présentation du budget 2020-2023 228
Session III: Tuesday, 16 July, 14:00-18:00 / 3ème Session: Mardi, 16 juillet, 14h-18h 229 17. Greetings; Presentation of the credentials / Salutations; Présentation des lettres d’accréditation 229 18. Adoption of the 2016-2019 Budget / Adoption du budget 2016-2019 229 19. Explanation of the procedure / Explication de la procédure Presentations and election of the IUGG Bureau and Finance Committee / Exposés et élection du Bureau et du Comité des finances de l'UGGI 229
4 Presentations by candidates for Officer positions: President, President-Elect, Secretary General, and Treasurer 229 Election of Officers 229 Presentations by candidates for the three positions of Ordinary Members of the Bureau 229 Elections of Ordinary members of the Bureau 229 Presentations by candidates for the Finance Committee 229 Elections of the Finance Committee 229 20. Presentations of the proposals to host the XXVIII General Assembly. Selection of the venue of the XXVIII General Assembly (2023) / Présentations des propositions pour accueillir la XXVIIIème Assemblée Générale. Sélection du lieu de la XXVIIIème Assemblée Générale (2023) 230 21. Renewal of the IUGG liaison officers for 2019-2023 / Renouvellement des officiers de liaison pour 2019-2023 230 22. Presentation and adoption of the Resolutions / Présentation et adoption des resolutions 230 Closing remarks / Remarques finales End of Council / Fin du Conseil Photo session / Séance Photo 230
5 Session I: Tuesday, 9 July, 14:00-18:00 / 1ère Session: Mardi, 9 juillet, 14h-18h
1. Greetings; Presentation of the credentials; election of tellers / Salutations; Présentation des lettres d’accréditation; élection des scrutateurs
COUNCIL DELEGATES, ALTERNATES, and LISTENERS (as of June 28, 2019) Albania Algeria Prof. Abdelkarim Yelles-Chaouche [email protected] [email protected] Argentina Agrim. Sergio Ruben Cimbaro [email protected] Dra. Corina Risso [email protected] Armenia Australia Prof. Matt King [email protected] Austria Prof. Johannes Böhm [email protected] Azerbaijan Belgium Dr. lr. Steven Dewitte [email protected] Bolivia Dr. Jose Telleria-Geiger [email protected] Bosnia & Herzegovina Brazil Dr. Roberto Teixeira Luz [email protected] Bulgaria Canada Prof. Gordon Young [email protected] Chile Lt.-Col. Eduard Cayul Aristondo [email protected] China Prof. Jianping Li [email protected] [email protected] China-Taipei Prof. Bor-Shouh Huang [email protected] Colombia Congo, D.R. Prof. Keto Tondozi [email protected] Dr. Mifundu Wafula [email protected] Costa Rica Dr. Marino Protti Quesada [email protected] [email protected] Croatia Acad. Mirko Orlic [email protected] Prof. Zvjezdana Bencetic Klaic [email protected] Czech Republic Prof. Eduard Petrovsky [email protected] Denmark Dr. Søren Gregersen [email protected] [email protected] Egypt Estonia
6 Finland Dr. Jyri Näränen [email protected] France Mr. Claude Boucher [email protected] Georgia Germany Prof. Jürgen Müller [email protected] Ghana Greece Prof. Ioannis A. Daglis [email protected] Hungary Prof. József Ádám [email protected] Dr. Laszlo Bozo [email protected] Iceland India Dr. Harsh Gupta [email protected] Indonesia Iran Prof. Mohammed Kazem Hafizi [email protected] Ireland Israel Prof. Colin Price [email protected] Italy Dr. Fausto Guzzetti [email protected] Japan Prof. Setsuya Nakada [email protected] Jordan Korea, Rep. Luxembourg Prof. Tonie van Dam [email protected] Macedonia, North Mauritius Mexico Dr. Miguel Angel Santoya [email protected] Morocco Mozambique Eng. Viriato Samboco [email protected] Mr. Manuel F. Kampine [email protected] Netherlands New Zealand Dr. David Rhoades [email protected] Nicaragua Nigeria Norway Dr. Liss Andreassen [email protected] Pakistan Peru Poland Prof. Jan Krynski [email protected] Portugal Romania Dr. Constantin Sava [email protected] Russia Prof. Anatoly Soloviev [email protected] Saudi Arabia Serbia
7 Slovakia Dr. Peter Vajda [email protected] Slovenia Dr. Polona Vreča [email protected] South Africa Spain Dr. Marcelino Valdez Perez de Vargas [email protected] Sweden Prof. Per Holmlund [email protected] Dr. Jonas Ågren [email protected] Switzerland Dr. Elmar Brockmann [email protected] Thailand Turkey Brigadier General Osman Alp [email protected] Mr. Murat Dağdeviren [email protected] United Kingdom Prof. Joanna Haigh [email protected] Dr. Jackie Kendrick [email protected] USA Prof. Steven McNutt [email protected] Prof. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou [email protected] Uruguay Vietnam
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XXVII General Assembly XXVIIème Assemblée Générale
8 - 18 July 2019 Montréal, Québec, Canada
Council Agenda / Ordre du jour du Conseil
Session I: Tuesday, 9 July, 14:00-18:00 / 1ère Session: Mardi, 9 juillet, 14h-18h
Session II: Friday, 12 July, 9:00-13:00 / 2ème Session: Vendredi, 12 juillet, 9h-13h
Session III: Tuesday, 16 July, 14:00-18:00 / 3ème Session: Mardi, 16 juillet, 14h-18h
9 Session I: Tuesday, 9 July, 14:00-18:00 / 1ère Session: Mardi, 9 juillet, 14h-18h
14:00 1. Greetings; Presentation of the credentials; election of tellers / Salutations; Présentation des letters d’accréditation; élection des scrutateurs
14:10 2. Approval of the Agenda / Approbation de l’ordre du jour
14:20 3. Approval of the minutes of the Council Meeting in Prague (2015) / Approbation du procès- verbal de la Réunion du Conseil à Prague (2015)
14:30 4. Reports of the IUGG Officers / Rapports des officiers de l'UGGI
‒ President / Président (Michael Sideris) ‒ Secretary General / Secrétaire Général (Alik Ismail-Zadeh) ‒ Treasurer / Trésorier (Aksel Hansen) ‒ Vice President / Vice-président (Kathryn Whaler) Reports of IUGG Union Commissions / Rapports des Comissions de l’Union ‒ Ratification of major decisions by the Bureau and Executive Committee / Ratification des principales décisions par le Bureau et le Comité Exécutif
15:40 Coffee Break / pause café
16:00 5. Matters of Membership/ Affaires d’adhésion (Alik Ismail-Zadeh)
• Ratifications of Admission / Ratifications de L'Admission • Lowering Category of Membership / Réduction de la catégorie de membres
16:10 6. Report of the Nominating Committee / Rapport du comité des candidatures (Tom Beer)
16:30 7. Report on the proposals to host the XXVIII General Assembly in 20231 / Rapport sur les propositions pour l’Assemblée Générale XXVIII en 2023 (Eduard Petrovsky)
17:00 8. Report of the Statutes and By-Laws (SBL) Committee on reformatting the IUGG SBL / Rapport de la Commission des Statuts et du Règlement sur le reformatage de l'UGGI de Statuts et du Règlement (Charles Fierz)
17:30 9. Report on scientific and educational programs / Rapport sur les programmes scientifiques et éducatifs
• International Lithosphere Program / Programme international de la lithosphere • Science Education Program (cooperation with the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics - ICTP) / Programme d'enseignement des sciences (cooperation avec ICTP)
1 The IUGG Site Comparison Committee will hold a hearing of the bids (proposals to host the XXVIII General Assembly of the IUGG in 2023) on 12 July 2019 after the Second Session of the Council meeting, which will be open for all Council Delegates. Based on the hearing of the bids, the Site Comparison Committee will prepare a shortlist of two candidate countries. The shortlisted bids will be presented at the third Session of the IUGG Council meeting on 16 July 2019.
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Session II: Friday, 12 July, 9:00-13:00 / 2ème Session: Vendredi, 12 juillet, 9h-13h
09:00 10. Greetings; Presentation of the credentials / Salutations; Présentation des lettres d’accréditation
09:10 11. Reports by Association Presidents (10 min each) / Rapports des présidents des associations (10 min chacun) • IACS / AISC • IAG / AIG • IAGA / AIGA • IAHS / AISH • IAMAS / AIMSA • IAPSO / AISPO • IASPEI / AISPIT • IAVCEI / AIVCIT
10:30 12. Relations with ISC / Relations avec le CSI (A. Ismail-Zadeh) • Summary of Matters Arising / Résumé des affaires qui s’élèvent
11:00 Coffee Break / pause café
11:15 13. Reports from liaisons to ISC Committees / Rapports des officiers de liaison avec des comités du CSI (A. Ismail-Zadeh) • Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) • Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) • Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) • Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) • Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) • World Data System (WDS) • Regional Office for Africa / Asia and the Pacific / Latin America and the Caribbean Adoption of the Reports / Adoption des rapports
11:30 14. Reports from liaisons to intergovernmental and other organizations / Rapports des officiers de liaison avec des organisations intergouvernementales et autres organisms (A. Ismail-Zadeh)
• Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency (CCTF) • Group on Earth Observations (GEO) • International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) • UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP) • UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) • Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Programme (IRDR) • Pan-American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH) • The United Nations Geospatial Information Section (UN-GIS) • World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) • World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Adoption of the Reports / Adoption des rapports
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11:50 15. Report of the IUGG Finance Committee / Rapport du Comité des finances de l’UGGI
12:20 16. Presentation of the 2020-2023 Budget / Présentation du budget 2020-2023 (Aksel Hansen)
Session III: Tuesday, 16 July, 14:00-18:00 / 3ème Session: Mardi, 16 juillet, 14h-18h Note: Any country wishing to present its national report during the period while votes are being counted should notify the Secretary-General by the end of the first session of the Council Meeting.
14:00 17. Greetings; Presentation of the credentials / Salutations; Présentation des lettres d’accréditation
14:10 18. Adoption of the 2020-2023 Budget / Adoption du budget 2020-2023 (Aksel Hansen)
14:30 19. Explanation of the procedure / Explication de la procédure (Alik Ismail-Zadeh). Presentations and election of the IUGG Bureau and Finance Committee / Exposés et élection du Bureau et du Comité des finances de l'UGGI • Presentations by candidates for Officer positions: President, President-Elect, Secretary General, and Treasurer (each candidate for an Officer position presents a statement for not more than 3 min) • Election of Officers • Presentations by candidates for the three positions of Ordinary Members of the Bureau (each candidate for an Ordinary Member position presents a statement for not more than 2 min) • Elections of Ordinary members of the Bureau • Presentations by candidates for the Finance Committee (each candidate for the position of Finance Committee Member presents a statement for not more than 2 min) • Elections of the Finance Committee
16:00 Coffee Break / pause café
16:15 20. Presentations of the proposals to host the XXVIII General Assembly. Selection of the venue of the XXVIII General Assembly (2023) / Présentations des propositions pour accueillir la XXVIIIème Assemblée Générale. Sélection du lieu de la XXVIIIème Assemblée Générale (2023)
17:30 21. Renewal of the IUGG liaison officers for 2019-2023 / Renouvellement des officiers de liaison pour 2019-2023
17:40 22. Presentation and adoption of the Resolutions / Présentation et adoption des resolutions
Closing remarks / Remarques finales End of Council Agenda / Fin de l’ordre du jour Photo session / Séance Photo
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3. Approval of the minutes of the Council Meeting in Prague (2015) / Approbation du procès-verbal de la réunion du Conseil à Prague (2015)
The Minutes of the Council Meeting in Prague were approved by the 2015 IUGG Council Delegates and published in Comptes Rendus of the XXVI IUGG General Assembly 2015 (Part I: Proceedings of the General Assembly, pp. 41-56). The document is available at the IUGG website: http://www.iugg.org/assemblies/2015prague/2015_Prague_CouncilMeeting_Minutes.pdf
MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL MEETINGS 26TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, 22-29 JUNE 2015
MINUTES OF THE FIRST SESSION MONDAY, 22 JUNE, 2015 (13:30 – 18:00), CONFERENCE HALL, PRAGUE CONGRESS CENTRE
PARTICIPANTS LISTENERS NATIONAL DELEGATES Brazil Denizar Blitzkow Argentina Corina Risso Georgia Tamaz Chelidze Australia Ian Jackson Thailand Krit Rammon Chris Rizos (alternate) Chaiwat Promthong Austria Georg Kaser Chainarong Puiaroon Canada Zoltan Hajnal
China Jianping Li MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE China-Taipei Shaw-Chen Liu Costa Rica Marino Protti President Harsh Gupta Czech Republic Vladimir Cermak Vice-President Michael Sideris Denmark Søren Gregersen Secretary General Alik Ismail-Zadeh Finland Elena Kozlovskaya Past President Tom Beer France Jonathan Chenal Treasurer Aksel Hansen Germany Jürgen Müller Bureau Member Isabelle Ansorge Iceland Kristin Vogfjörd Bureau Member Pierre Hubert India Vijay Prasad Dimri Bureau Member Kenji Satake Indonesia Hasanuddin Abidin President IACS Charles Fierz Dodi Sukmayadi (alternate) President IAG Chris Rizos Djaya Murjaya (alternate) President IAHS Hubert Savenije Ireland Alan Jones President IAMAS Athena Coustenis Israel Colin Price President IAPSO Eugene Morozov Italy Giuliano Panza President IASPEI Domenico Giardini Japan Setsuya Nakada President IAVCEI Ray Cas Luxembourg Tonie van Dam Mexico Avtandil Gogichaishvili MEMBERS OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE New Zealand David Rhoades Chair David Collins Norway Oddgeir Kristiansen
Poland Jan Krynski GUESTS OF THE PRESIDENT ATTENDING THE Romania Constantin Sava FIRST SESSION OF THE COUNCIL Russia Alexei Gvishiani Slovak Republic Miroslav Bielik Chair of World Climate Guy Brasseur South Africa Pieter Kotze Research Programme Sweden Per Holmlund IAHS Secretary General Christophe Cudennec Switzerland Adrian Wiget IUGG Secretariat Katrin Gundrum Turkey Metin Kesap Chair of Statutes and By- David Kerridge Hasan Yildiz (alternate) Laws Committee United Kingdom Harry Bryden IUGG Assistant Secretary Franz G. Kuglitsch United States of America Jeffrey Freymueller General Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Anh IAGA Secretary General Mioara Mandea
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President of International Gordon McBean Center, Potsdam in 2013, and Franz G. Kuglitsch Council for Science was appointed as the Executive Secretary/ Assistant Chair of Site Comparison Setsuya Nakada Secretary General of IUGG. The office is being run Committee to the satisfaction of all concerned. Chair of Nominating Uri Shamir Furthermore, he pointed out that good progress has Committee been made in developing a Strategic Plan for IUGG Ass. Director of BISO, Ester Sztein for the period 2016-2023. U.S. Nat. Acad. of Sciences He mentioned that IUGG set up the new Union 1. Greetings; Presentation of the credentials; Commission on Climatic and Environmental election of tellers Change (CCEC) in 2012. Its aim is to promote the scientific understanding of climate and The First Session of the Council Meeting was called environmental change, to boost research for to order at 13:30 and began with a roll call of reducing uncertainties in climate and environmental delegates. Delegates from 37 member countries models, and to encourage trans-disciplinary research were present at the opening. Delegates from 34 on related topics. member countries were eligible to vote. The total number of countries eligible to vote was 51 (70 On the recently much-debated issue of Individual minus 9 in observer status minus 10 in associate Membership of IUGG, Harsh Gupta pointed out that status). The quorum (17) was reached. considering the importance of this issue and the different opinions of the Union Associations, the Harsh Gupta welcomed all participants to the IUGG Bureau had decided to request the Union’s Council Meeting. Adhering Bodies and National Committees of the Vladimir Cermak, Council Delegate of the Czech Member Countries to express their opinion on Republic, proposed, seconded by Zoltan Hajnal, introducing an IUGG individual membership. The Council Delegate of Canada, three tellers for voting outcome has been analyzed and shall form the basis matters. The proposed tellers were Tom Beer, Katrin for discussion and further course of action. Gundrum, and Jianping Li. The Council Members To conclude, Harsh Gupta thanked for all the accepted the proposal. assistance he received as IUGG President. It was a
pleasure for him working for the IUGG Bureau for 2. Approval of the Agenda 16 years (as Bureau Member 1999-2007, Vice- The Agenda was approved. President 2007-2011, and President 2011-2015).
Secretary General Alik Ismail-Zadeh 3. Approval of the Minutes of the Council Meeting in Melbourne (2011) Alik Ismail-Zadeh summarized the activities of the Union since 2011 as detailed in his report in the The Minutes of the 2011 Council Meeting were Council Agenda Book. (Note: the quadrennial report distributed to the participants of the 2015 General of the Secretary General can be found in the Assembly for their comments, published in the Comptes Rendus of the 2015 IUGG General Comptes Rendus of the 25th General Assembly, and Assembly). also posted on the IUGG web page. The Minutes were approved. Among the activities related to the modernization of the Union, he especially highlighted the introduction 4. Brief Reports of the Officers of Affiliate and Honorary Membership as new categories of Union Membership and the setting-up President Harsh Gupta of four Union Committees (Committee on Harsh Gupta summarized his activities since 2011 as Membership Issues, on Capacity Building and detailed in his report in the Council Meeting Agenda Education, on Honor and Recognition, and on Book. (Note: the quadrennial report of the President Visioning). He further highlighted on the can be found in the Comptes Rendus of the 2015 development of the IUGG Grants Program and the IUGG General Assembly. initiation of a new science education program that was given a significant boost by signing an He especially highlighted the establishment of the agreement with the Abdus Salam International following union awards that are all awarded during Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). Another the General Assembly in Prague: highlight in connection with the establishment of the - IUGG Early Career Scientist Award Honor and Recognition program was the - IUGG Gold Medal introduction of three major awards to be bestowed - IUGG Fellowship for the first time during the General Assembly: the Early Career Scientist Award, the Union Fellow Harsh Gupta further stressed that the long-required award, and the Gold Medal to award Earth and space IUGG Secretariat was set up at the Helmholtz scientists for outstanding contributions to geodesy
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and geophysics and for unselfish international - Commission on Climatic and Environmental cooperation in research. In 2012, the enhancement Change (CCEC) of publication policy received substantial impetus - Commission on Data and Information (UCDI), from signing an agreement with the Cambridge - Commission on Geophysical Risk and University Press to develop a new series of special Sustainability (GRC), publications of the IUGG to publish peer-reviewed - Commission on Mathematical Geophysics books on perspectives and reviews in (CMG) multidisciplinary research. The first volume of this - Committee on the Study of the Earth’s Deep series, “Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks Interior (SEDI), and and Societal Implications” was published in 2014, - Working Group on History (WGH). and the second volume is planned for 2015. All Union Commissions and the Working Group Treasurer Aksel Hansen have been very active for the reporting period. Aksel Hansen summarized his report on the Ratification of major decisions by the Bureau and financial status of the Union as detailed in the Executive Committee Council Agenda Book. (Note: the quadrennial report Alik Ismail-Zadeh summarized the major decisions of the Treasurer can be found in the Comptes of the IUGG Bureau and Executive Committee as Rendus of the 2015 IUGG General Assembly). detailed on page 68 of the Council Meeting Agenda IUGG currently has 70 members, i.e., 60 Regular Book which were taken after the last Council Members (9 of them in observer status) and 10 Meeting during the 25th IUGG General Assembly in Associate Members. The Observers are: Belgium, 2011. The Bureau met three times during the term: Brazil, Bulgaria, Iran, Macedonia, Nicaragua, in Lauterbad, Germany (September 2012), in Nigeria, Philippines, and Thailand. The Associates Prague, Czech Republic (September 2013), and in are Albania, Armenia, Bolivia, Bosnia & Baku, Azerbaijan (June 2014). In addition, the Herzegovina, D.R. Congo, Georgia, Ghana, Bureau held a teleconference meeting in November Mauritius, Morocco, and Peru. 2014. The Executive Committee met in Melbourne, Australia, (July 2011), in Prague, Czech Republic The economic situation of IUGG is sound and the (September 2013), and at an extra-ordinary meeting net balance allows IUGG some flexibility. However, in Vienna, Austria (April 2015). differently than written in the Council Meeting Harsh Gupta pointed out that the Executive Agenda Book, it is expected that the total assets of Committee recommended a ratification of these IUGG as a union will be close to zero by the end of decisions by the Council by one single move. 2015. The new budget for 2016-2019 will again Motion was proposed by Marino Protti, Council allow for increased expenditures of the Union on Delegate of Costa Rica, and seconded by Ian scientific programs and grants. Jackson, Council Delegate of Australia. A vote by Still, it is very important that IUGG will be able to hand was conducted. The decisions were keep its present members in the Union and at the unanimously, with no abstention, ratified by the same time attract new members. Council.
Vice-President Michael Sideris 5. Matters of Membership Michael Sideris summarized his activities since Several new admissions of new members to IUGG 2011 as detailed in his report in the Council Agenda require a two-thirds absolute majority vote of the Book. (Note: the quadrennial report of the Vice- Council for final approval (IUGG Statute 18). President can be found in the Comptes Rendus of the 2015 IUGG General Assembly). The matters requiring votes were presented in detail in the Council Meeting Agenda Book. There was Review of IUGG Union Commissions and Working one vote for all matters of membership. A vote by Group ballot was conducted. Motion was proposed by Michael Sideris reported on the activities of the five Jeffrey Freymueller, Council Delegate of the US, Union Commissions and the activities of the Union seconded by Ian Jackson, Council Delegate of Working Group on History (WGH) established in Australia. Of the 33 valid votes, there were 32 2012. Detailed reports from the Union Commissions consents and one abstention. and Working Group can be found in the Council Admission of the following members was ratified: Agenda Book (Note: the quadrennial reports of the Union Commissions can be found in the Comptes - Saudi Arabia as Regular Member (Cat. 2) Rendus of the 2015 IUGG General Assembly). - Nicaragua as Regular Member (Cat. 1) The Commission for the Geological Map of the The five Union Commissions and the Union - World (CGMW) as Affiliate Member Working Group are: - The Young Earth Scientists (YES) Network as Affiliate Member
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- The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) as Kenji Satake (Japan) Affiliate Member Constantin Sava (Romania) The International Association for Mathematical - IUGG Finance Committee Geosciences (IAMG) as Affiliate Member - The International Association for Geoethics Position #1: Corina Risso (Argentina) (IAGETH) as Affiliate Member Position #2: Virendra Tiwari (India) - The International Consortium on Landslides Position #3 and #4: David Collins (UK) (ICL) as Affiliate Member Zoltan Hajnal (Canada) Jan Krynski (Poland) Transfer of Membership of the following members was ratified: Regarding the re-nomination of the Treasurer, Uri Shamir explained that this does not contradict By- - Albania from Regular Member (Cat. 1) to Law 10a because Aksel Hansen is the sole candidate Associate for this position and agreed to serve for another - Armenia from Regular Member (Cat. 1) to period if re-elected by the Council. Associate - Bosnia & Herzegovina from Regular Member Marino Protti, Council Delegate of Costa Rica, (Cat. 1) to Associate asked for possibilities to increase the number of - Greece from Regular Member (Cat. 3) to female candidates. Harsh Gupta urged the council Regular Member (Cat. 2) delegates to try to encourage the members to nominate more female candidates for the next Costa Rica changed from Associate to Regular elections. Uri Shamir added that there is not just a Membership (Cat. 1). Here, a vote of the Council gender, but also an important geographical and age was not required. issue. Alan Jones, Council Delegate of Ireland, noted the Votes on the nominated candidates will be taken in danger that small countries might leave the Union the third session of the Council Meeting. when introducing individual membership. Alik
Ismail-Zadeh responded that the Executive 7. Proposed Changes of Statutes and By-Laws Committee cannot decide on the introduction of Harsh Gupta invited David Kerridge, Chair of the individual membership but only the Council. He Statutes and By-Laws Committee, to present the added that a majority of the 27 responses on the report given in the Council Agenda Book. request of the IUGG President to the Union’s Adhering Bodies and National Committees of the Nine proposed changes to the Statutes and By-Laws Member Countries to give an opinion about the were received by the Statutes and By-Laws introduction of IUGG individual membership was Committee and were discussed in the Council. against the Union individual membership. Harsh Gupta advised to discuss these questions more They are: detailed later under point 7. Proposed Changes of Statutes and By-Laws. 1. Permanent delegates to IUGG Council – to allow the Adhering Bodies of Member Countries to 6. Report of the Nominating Committee appoint Delegates to IUGG Council for the Uri Shamir, Chair of the Nominating Committee, period between General Assemblies (normally gave the report of the Nominating Committee and for 4 years) so that the Council can vote introduced the nominees for the IUGG Bureau and electronically to make decisions as soon as the IUGG Finance Committee. need arises. As required by IUGG By-Laws 10b and 10c, one or 2. Electronic voting by IUGG Council – to allow two candidates have been nominated for each Council to vote electronically to improve the position. The positions and the nominated decision-making process within IUGG. candidates were: 3. Definition of National Committees – to define IUGG Bureau the composition of National Committees. President: Michael Sideris (Canada) 4. Gender criterion – to give instructions to the Vice-President: Kathy Whaler (UK) IUGG Nominating Committee to consider Secretary General: Alik Ismail-Zadeh (Germany/ gender balance when drawing up its list of Russia) candidates for election to the IUGG Bureau. Treasurer: Aksel Hansen (Denmark) Bureau Members (Positions #1, #2, #3): 5. Permission for Associate Members to speak at Isabelle Ansorge (South Africa) Council Meetings – to allow a representative of Pierre Hubert (France) an Associate Member to speak (without the right Jianping Li (China) to vote) at Council meetings. Chris Rizos (Australia)
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6. Expansion of the duties of the Finance Regarding the definition of National Committees, Committee - to introduce one of the Finance Constantin Sava, Council Delegate of Romania, Committee’s functions, reviewing the regretted that a distinct presidency definition with membership categories of Member Countries, statements on the election of vice-presidents was explicitly into the By-Laws as a formal duty. still missing. 7. Individual scientists and their eligibility for Regarding the gender criterion, Alan Jones, Council election – to allow individuals from countries in Delegate of Ireland, regretted that “age” was not Associate or Observer status or from non- included as a criterion. Michael Sideris asks to take Member countries to be elected to Association into consideration here that the Union is seeking - offices (except to the position of the Association not “prescribing” - balance. President because the Association President is a Relating to the individual scientists’ eligibility to member of the IUGG Executive Committee). elections, individual IUGG membership was 8. Assistants to the Secretary General and to the advocated by Ray Cas. Constantin Sava responded Treasurer – to place references to Assistants to that he could not understand the striving for the IUGG Secretary General and to the Treasurer individual membership, taking into account that in a single By-Law, rather than in two By-Laws IUGG is a Union of associations, and not a society as at present. of individuals. Søren Gregersen, Council Delegate of Denmark, added that the dangers of introducing 9. Minor (wording or orthographical) changes. individual membership would be more convincing The changes were proposed by the IUGG Bureau to him than the advantages. In this respect, Alan with the following exceptions: In the case of Change Jones voiced his worries that interdisciplinarity No. 5, the Bureau acted on a request of Costa Rica would suffer by more independent associations in and Change No. 6 was proposed by the United the end. Kingdom. Domenico Giardini regretted that the statutes and In the discussion of the changes, the following by-laws did not guarantee a better geographical points arose: distribution and gave the example that in many regional commissions, whole continents are not Regarding electronic voting, Alan Jones, Council reflected. Delegate of Ireland, wanted to know the difference between a permanent Council Delegate and a A vote on the proposed changes of the Statutes and National Correspondent. Harsh Gupta clarified that By-Laws will be taken in the third session of the the Adhering Bodies appoint the Council Delegates Council Meeting. for the Council Meeting, and these individuals have the power to vote for the next council term, whereas 8. Report on the proposals to host the XXVII a National Correspondent as correspondent to an General Assembly in 2019 Association has no vote. IUGG received two bids to host the XXVII General David Kerridge further confirmed Harsh Gupta’s Assembly in 2019 to be decided on: presumption that a delegate has a vote only during Montréal, Canada the years the country had paid its membership fees. - - New Delhi, India To answer a question of Marino Protti, Council Setsuya Nakada, Chair of the Site Evaluation Delegate of Costa Rica, David Kerridge stated that Committee, informed that the committee comprised the changes would be effective at the end of the the following members: Council Meeting. Chair: Setsuya Nakada Alan Jones, Council Delegate of Ireland, further Members: Ian Allison wanted to know which measures are planned if Peter Suhadolc technical prerequisites are not sufficient for Kathryn Whaler electronic voting in some countries. Alik Ismail-Zadeh (ex officio) Metin Kesap, Council Delegate of Turkey, asked if In the following report, both proposals were shortly electronic voting could be played off against introduced and compared against the criteria attendance to council meetings. Alik Ismail-Zadeh published in the Guidelines for IUGG General explained that there shall be many topics requiring a Assemblies (http://www.iugg.org/assemblies/). The meeting of the Council at IUGG General Site Evaluation Committee Members had also Assemblies; electronic voting will be used to make visited the proposed venues of the general assembly decisions on the urgent topics faster, not waiting for (S. Nakada visited Delhi, and K. Whaler Montreal). four years. For their evaluation, impressions gained during these visits were also taken into consideration.
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Alan Jones, Council Delegate of Ireland, asked if the Harry Bryden, Council Delegate of the UK, asked proposed assembly dates are fixed. Organizing a whether a General Assembly had ever taken place in General Assembly in March (as proposed by India) India or Canada. Harsh Gupta replied that IUGG would be difficult to make for many scientists General Assemblies have not been held in India, but because of university exams and many meetings. twice in Canada. Harsh Gupta noted India would be flexible to shift Each of the bidder countries will present their bids the days of the General Assembly to a period when at the third session of the Council Meeting. A vote more people have time to travel. on the host of the XXVII General Assembly will be Alexei Gvishiani, Council Delegate of Russia, asked taken directly after these presentations. that the bidders should account for weather The First Session of the Council Meeting closed at conditions at the proposed venues. 18:00
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MINUTES OF THE SECOND SESSION THURSDAY, 25 JUNE 2015 (8:30 – 12:00), CONFERENCE HALL, PRAGUE CONGRESS CENTRE
PARTICIPANTS MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NATIONAL DELEGATES President Harsh Gupta Argentina Corina Risso Vice-President Michael Sideris Australia Chris Rizos Secretary General Alik Ismail-Zadeh Austria Georg Kaser Past President Tom Beer Canada Zoltan Hajnal Treasurer Aksel Hansen Chile Rony Jara Lecanda Bureau Member Isabelle Ansorge Jaime Ramirez (alternate) Bureau Member Pierre Hubert China Jianping Li Bureau Member Kenji Satake Costa Rica Marino Protti President IACS Charles Fierz Croatia Mirko Orlic President IAG Chris Rizos Czech Republic Vladimir Cermak President IAGA Kathryn Whaler Denmark Søren Gregersen President IAHS Hubert Savenije Egypt Ahmed Abdel Hady President IAMAS Athena Coustenis Estonia Rein Room President IAPSO Eugene Morozov Finland Elena Kozlovskaya President IASPEI Domenico Giardini France Claude Boucher President IAVCEI Ray Cas Germany Jürgen Müller
Hungary Jozef Adam MEMBERS OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE Iceland Kristin Vogfjörd India Vijay Prasad Dimri Chair David Collins Indonesia Hasanuddin Abidin Dodi Sukmayadi (alternate) GUESTS OF THE PRESIDENT ATTENDING THE Djaya Murjaya (alternate) SECOND SESSION OF THE COUNCIL Ireland Alan Jones Vice-President ISPRS Orhan Altan Israel Colin Price American Geosciences Thomas J. Casadevall Italy Giuliano Panza Institute Japan Setsuya Nakada President of International Sierd Cloetingh Luxembourg Tonie van Dam Lithosphere Program Mexico Avtandil Gogichaishvili IUGG Secretariat Katrin Gundrum New Zealand David Rhoades IUGG Assistant Secretary Franz G. Kuglitsch Norway Oddgeir Kristiansen General Poland Jan Krynski IACS Secretary General Andrew Mackintosh Romania Constantin Sava IAGA Secretary General Mioara Mandea Russia Alexei Gvishiani President of International Gordon McBean Slovenia Matjaž Mikoš Council for Science Spain Jesus Gomes Gonzalez International Association Jennifer McKinley Sweden Per Holmlund on Mathematical Switzerland Adrian Wiget Geosciences Turkey Metin Kesap President of International Roland Oberhänsli Hasan Yildiz (alternate) Union of Geological United Kingdom Harry Bryden Sciences United States of America Jeffrey Freymueller IAPSO Secretary General Johan Rodhe Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Anh Ass. Director of BISO, Ester Sztein
U.S. Nat. Acad. of Sciences LISTENERS IAMAS Secretary General Hans Volkert Belgium Kris Vanneste The Second Session of the Council Meeting was Brazil Marcelo Sousa de called to order at 08:30 with a roll call of delegates. Assumpcao D.R. Congo Wafula Mifundu Delegates from 43 member countries were present, Georgia Tamaz Chelidze 37 eligible to vote. The total number of countries Nigeria Shakirudeen Odunuga eligible to vote was 51 (70 minus 9 in observer status Thailand Krit Rammon minus 10 in associate status). The quorum (17) was Chaiwat Promthong reached. Chainarong Puiaroon
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9. Strategic Plan for 2015-2023 He then especially highlighted DACA-13, the Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly 2013, “Air, Harsh Gupta invited Chris Rizos, Chair of the Ice & Process Interactions”. This joint scientific Visioning Committee, to present the first draft of the assembly of IACS and IAMAS with more than 950 IUGG Strategic Plan for 2015-2023 given in the participants from 52 countries in Davos, Switzerland Council Agenda Book. (Note: the draft “Towards a in July 2013 was excellently rated by the Strategic Plan for the IUGG” can be found in the participants. Council Meeting Agenda Book.) IACS established a number of new Working Groups Alan Jones, the Council Delegate of Ireland, wished and Standing Groups in the last four years. Charles for a better clarification of the attractiveness of Fierz highlighted the presently very active Working IUGG, especially to young scientists, and a clearer Group MICROSNOW (‘From quantitative differentiation between IUGG and IUGS. He noted stratigraphy to microstructure-based modelling of the number of members has been static for a long snow’; 2012–2016), or the WGs ‘Randolph Glacier time. Inventory and infrastructure for glacier monitoring’ Claude Boucher, the Council Delegate of France, (2014-2018) and ‘Glacier thickness estimation’ wished for better links to planetology or biological (2014-2018). sciences. In addition, IACS has Joint Bodies, i.e., Working Georg Kaser, the Council Delegate of Austria, Groups, Standing Groups, Steering Committees and wished to strengthen interdisciplinarity and to better jointly run with other international organizations promote joint sessions. (e.g. the World Glacier Monitoring Service; International Permafrost Association). IACS Ray Cas noted that for PhD students it is difficult to established an annual IACS Early Carrier Scientist access IUGG General Assemblies since they take Prize to be awarded for the first time in 2015. place only once in 4 years. A Joint IACS/International Glaciological Society Harry Bryden, the Council Delegate of the UK, (IGS)/World Climate Research Programme Climate missed a clear definition where IUGG wants to lead. and Cryosphere (CliC) Assembly will be held in It was decided to ask the National Delegates to Wellington, New Zealand, in February 2017. comment on the Draft Strategic Plan and to revise IAG Strategic Plan accordingly. Chris Rizos reported that the IAG has 65 National 10. Reports by Association Presidents Delegates and has elected a new Bureau and Executive Committee. The new officers of the IAG Council Delegates were asked to note the reports of Bureau for 2015-2019 are: the Associations available in the Council Agenda book. (Note: the quadrennial reports of the IUGG President: Harald Schuh (Germany) Associations can be found in the Comptes Rendus of Vice-President: Zuheir Altamimi (France) the 2015 IUGG General Assembly). Secretary General: Hermann Drewes (Germany) The IUGG Associations Presidents reported on the Chris Rizos highlighted the four IAG Commissions, activities of the associations from 2011-2015. the Inter-Commissions Committee, the 14 IAG
Services, the Communication and Outreach Branch IACS and the Global Geodetic Observing System Charles Fierz gave a report on the activities of IACS. (GGOS), which became a major component of IAG At present, there are 39 IACS national in the last years. correspondents in the national committees of IUGG. IAG maintains close cooperation with several Charles Fierz hoped that scientists in more member organizations within and outside IUGG. countries would become interested in collaboration within IACS and become a national correspondent IAG offers individual membership and currently has and he encouraged the delegates to propagate this around 200 members. The IAG Scientific Assembly IACS appeal in their countries. was held in Potsdam, Germany, in 2013. Besides the General Assembly, IAG sponsored many smaller Besides IACS activities described in the quadrennial scientific meetings. Altogether, IAG sponsored 65 report, Charles Fierz noted that IACS has also many symposia, meetings and workshops during the last collaborations within (e.g. IAVCEI/IACS Joint quadrennial. Commission on Volcano-Ice Interactions) and outside IUGG (especially with ICSU and UN At the 2015 IUGG General Assembly, IAG has bodies). contributed to 8 IAG led symposia, several joint symposia, 1 Union symposium, and 1 Union lecture.
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The next scientific assembly will be held jointly was held in 2013 jointly with IACS in Davos, with IAG in 2017, in Kobe, Japan. Switzerland. IAGA The next scientific assembly will be held jointly with IAGA and IAPSO in 2017, in Cape Town, Kathryn Whaler gave a report on the activities of South Africa. IAGA. She especially highlighted the IAGA Scientific Assembly held in Merida, Mexico, in IAPSO 2013 and the IAGA Book Series published in Eugene Morozov reported that IAPSO has 62 cooperation with Springer Sciences and Business national delegates and works mainly through Media B.V. biennial scientific assemblies, working groups, In the 2015 IUGG General Assembly, IAGA has commissions, services and website information. contributed to 43 IAGA-led symposia, several joint The last IAPSO Scientific Assembly was held symposia, 2 Union symposia, and 1 Union lecture. jointly with IAHS and IASPEI in Gothenburg, The next scientific assembly will be held jointly Sweden, in 2013. At the 2015 IUGG General with IAMAS and IAPSO in 2017, in Cape Town, Assembly, IAPSO has contributed to 13 IAPSO-led South Africa. symposia, 7 interdisciplinary symposia and the IAHS Union symposia. The next scientific assembly will be held jointly with IAMAS and IAPSO in 2017, in Hubert Savenije mentioned that IAHS has a global Cape Town, South Africa. network of individual members without voting rights. Ten International Commissions and three Eugene Morozov emphasized that IAPSO bodies are Working Groups initiate and conduct conferences, closely working together and several Working symposia, workshops, courses, publications and Groups collaborate with SCOR and other research programmes. international bodies. He mentioned that the IAHS 90th Anniversary He also highlighted the presentation of the Prince meeting was held in Delft, The Netherlands in 2012, Albert 1 Medal, which was awarded to Prof. Arnold and that the IAHS Scientific Assembly was held L. Gordon at the IAHS-IAMAS-IAPSO Assembly jointly with IAPSO and IASPEI in Gothenburg, in Gothenburg in 2013, and to Prof. Toshia Sweden, in 2013. Yamagata at this 2015 IUGG General Assembly. Hubert Savenije brought special attention to the IASPEI 2013-2022 Scientific Decade “Panta Rhei – Domenico Giardini reported that the last IASPEI Everything flows” being the major and extremely Scientific Assembly was held jointly with IAHS and successful initiative of IAHS. The “PUB – IAPSO in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2013. Prediction in Ungauged Basins Decade” resulted in the publication of major books in 2013. He reported that IASPEI has elected a new Bureau and Executive Committee. The new officers of the IAHS has a very strong publication output. From IASPEI Bureau for 2015-2019 are: 2012-2015, the IAHS Press published among others the Hydrological Sciences Journal, 27 Red Books, 4 President: Thorne Lay (USA) volumes in the Benchmark Series, and one special 1st Vice-President: Kenji Satake (Japan) publication. Three further Red Books are in 2nd Vice- Michelle Grobbelaar preparation for the current IUGG General President: (South Assembly. Secretary General: Africa) Johannes Schweitzer Hubert Savenije emphasized that IAHS strongly (Norway) cooperates with other international organizations IASPEI is currently active in 67 member countries. especially with UNESCO IHP, and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). He especially highlighted the scientific work done by the six commissions and the four regional The next IAHS Assembly will be held in Port commissions incl. the Asian Seismological Elizabeth, South Africa, in 2017. Commission (ASC), the European Seismological
Commission (ESC), the Latin American and IAMAS Caribbean Seismological Commission (LACSC), Athena Coustenis reported on the broad activities of and the African Seismological Commission (AfSC) IAMAS and its ten International Commissions of IASPEI, which are very active. Moreover IASPEI which carry out, coordinate, and communicate the participates in six inter-association activities. main research work. IASPEI issued many scientific products such as She mentioned that IAMAS currently has 300-350 technical standards and recommendations, expert members and that the last IAMAS Assembly seismological software, training courses, and earth
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models. Furthermore, IASPEI cooperated with IUGG had appointed two representatives to the ILP many international organizations, e.g., with the Bureau for the term 2011-2015, namely David Global Earthquake Model (GEM) project, the Jackson (USA) and Kalanchand Sain (India). Alan International Digital Earthquake Archives (IDEA) Green (Switzerland) is the joint IUGS/IUGG project, or with the International Seismological representative. Centre (ISC). ILP holds annual meetings, either during the EGU The next scientific assembly will be held jointly General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, or the AGU with IAG in 2017, in Kobe, Japan. Fall Meeting in San Francisco, USA, where the results and further tasks of its Task Forces and IAVCEI Regional Coordinating Committees are discussed. Ray Cas reported that IAVCEI has elected a new Furthermore, an ILP award is given to young Bureau and Executive Committee. For 2015-2019, excellent scientists active within the ILP Task the new President will be Donald Dingwell Forces. (Germany), and the new Secretary General will be Alik Ismail-Zadeh especially highlighted the Roberto Sulpizio (Italy). He highlighted the impressive publications list of ILP and its involvement of several women in the Executive contributions to the scientific program at IUGG Committee and reported that most of the IAVCEI General Assemblies and International Geological administration, correspondence and decision Congresses. ILP will celebrate its 35th anniversary making are done online. in 2015 in Potsdam, Germany. IAVCEI has more than 2,000 individual members The report on the ILP activities was approved including approximately 500 donor members who unanimously by the Council Delegates. also financially support IAVCEI activities. IAVCEI also accepts individual members from non IUGG Cooperation with the Abdus Salam International member countries. Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) IAVCEI activities are mainly done by its In 2011, ICTP and IUGG signed a memorandum of commissions and working groups. understanding to promote educational programs Ray Cas highlighted the successful conference related to geodesy and geophysics in the period series “Cities on Volcanoes”. The last IAVCEI 2012-2015. Scientific Assembly took place in Kagoshima, In this 4-year period, IUGG co-sponsored 24 Japan, in 2013. In general, more IAVCEI members educational events organized by ICTP with a total of attend the IAVCEI Assemblies than the IUGG USD 80,000. Assemblies. The next IAVCEI Scientific Assembly will take place in Portland, OR, USA, in 2017. 12. Relations with ICSU In addition, IAVCEI publishes the Bulletin of Alik Ismail-Zadeh summarized his report on the Volcanology, newsletter, book series, conference relations with the International Council for Science proceedings etc. (ICSU). A detailed report can be found in the Council Meeting Agenda Book. The Council Delegates were asked to approve the Alik Ismail-Zadeh highlighted the importance of (i) reports. The reports were approved unanimously. ICSU to promote interdisciplinary research, and (ii)
strengthening the collaboration between IUGG and 11. Report on scientific and educational other ICSU GeoUnions (e.g. IUGS). programs Alik Ismail-Zadeh welcomed Gordon McBean, Alik Ismail-Zadeh summarized the reports on the ICSU President, and underlined that several former activities of the International Lithosphere Program and present IUGG officers (still) have key roles (ILP) and the cooperation with the Abdus Salam within ICSU, e.g., Guoxiong Wu was elected International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). member to the Executive Board of ICSU (2011- Detailed reports can be found in the Council 2014), Tom Beer was selected as a member of the Meeting Agenda Book. (Note: the quadrennial ICSU Committee on Scientific Planning and Review report of the International Lithosphere Program can (CSPR) (2011-2014, 2014-2017). be found in the Comptes Rendus of the 2015 IUGG General Assembly). IUGG has been a very active participant in ICSU programs, IUGG people were selected to serve for International Lithosphere Program (ILP) several ICSU panels and working groups, e.g., in the ILP is a joint body of IUGG and the International Scientific Committee of the Integrated Research and Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). Disaster Risk, the Scientific Committee of the ICSU World Data System, the Scientific Committee of the ICSU Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban
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Environment, and the Scientific Committee on - UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Future Earth of the ICSU Regional Office for Africa. Commission (IOC), World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), Alik Ismail-Zadeh highlighted the IUGG - World Meteorological Organization (WMO), participation in the ICSU General Assemblies in - Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency 2011, 2013, and 2014 to further develop the links - (CCTF) between ICSU and IUGG, as well as the links Group on Earth Observations (GEO) between IUGG and the other nine GeoUnions of - No comments or questions were raised by the Council. ICSU (http://www.icsu-geounions.org). The reports of the liaisons were accepted unanimously. Alan Jones, Council Delegate of Ireland, suggested 15. Report of the IUGG Finance Committee that, at Council Meetings, there should be more time for discussing topics (e.g. IUGG Strategic Plan) and David Collins presented the report of the Finance much less time for presenting the content of the Committee which was distributed during his Agenda Book. presentation. He mentioned that the IUGG is doing well in maintaining the annual balances of roughly No further comments or questions were raised by the the funds necessary to support the Union’s Council. outgoings for one calendar year (USD 500,000 +/-
5%). The Finance Committee is concerned that out 13. Reports from Liaisons to ICSU of 70 IUGG member countries, only 50 are fully Commissions and Committees active members with subscriptions paid up to date, In order to conserve time, Alik Ismail-Zadeh and therefore suggested to consider adaptations in referred the Council to the reports in the Agenda the calculations of the membership category. Also, Book and only briefly reviewed each of the IUGG should try to (re-)gain more member organizations. He welcomed any comments and countries by explaining them the benefits of an questions by the Council. IUGG membership.
- Committee on Data for Science and The report of the Finance Committee was accepted Technology (CODATA), by the Council. - Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), - ICSU Regional Office for Africa, 16. Presentation of the 2016-2019 Budget ICSU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, - Aksel Hansen discussed the proposed budget. As ICSU Regional Office for Latin America and - recommended by the Finance Committee, the the Caribbean, reserve of the IUGG budget was set to Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research - approximately 1 year’s turnover. (SCAR), - Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research He highlighted the significant changes, then went (SCOR), through the budget line by line and answered - Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial questions as they were asked. Physics (SCOSTEP) A final vote to adopt the 2016-2019 Budget took ICSU-ISSC-UNISDR Scientific Committee on - place in the Third Session of the Council Meeting. Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR)
The new liaison officers were recommended and The Second Session of the Council Meeting closed voted on in the Third Session of the Council at 12:00. Meeting. No comments or questions were raised by the Council. The reports of the liaisons were accepted unanimously. 14. Reports from Liaisons to inter- governmental and other organizations Alik Ismail-Zadeh continued to briefly review on these reports in the Council Agenda Book.
- Cartographic Office of the United Nations, - International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), - Pan-American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH), - UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP),
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MINUTES OF THE THIRD SESSION MONDAY, 29 JUNE 2015 (15:00 – 18:00), CONFERENCE HALL, PRAGUE CONGRESS CENTRE
PARTICIPANTS Thailand Krit Rammon Chaiwat Promthong NATIONAL DELEGATES Chainarong Puiaroon Argentina Sergio Cimbaro Corina Risso (alternate) MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Australia Ian Jackson Chris Rizos (alternate) President Harsh Gupta Austria Georg Kaser Vice-President Michael Sideris Azerbaijan Ibrahim Guliyev Secretary General Alik Ismail-Zadeh Gulam Babayev (alternate) Past President Tom Beer Canada Zoltan Hajnal Treasurer Aksel Hansen Chile Rony Jara Lecanda Bureau Member Isabelle Ansorge Jaime Ramirez (alternate) Bureau Member Pierre Hubert China Jianping Li Bureau Member Kenji Satake Costa Rica Marino Protti President IACS Charles Fierz Croatia Mirko Orlic President IAG Chris Rizos Czech Republic Vladimir Cermak President IAGA Kathryn Whaler Denmark Søren Gregersen President IAHS Hubert Savenije Egypt Ahmed Abdel Hady President IAPSO Eugene Morozov Estonia Rein Room President IASPEI Domenico Giardini Finland Elena Kozlovskaya President IAVCEI Ray Cas France Claude Boucher Germany Jürgen Müller MEMBERS OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE Hungary Laszlo Bozo Chair David Collins Iceland Kristin Vogfjörd
India Vijay Prasad Dimri GUESTS OF THE PRESIDENT ATTENDING THE Indonesia Hasanuddin Abidin THIRD SESSION OF THE COUNCIL Dodi Sukmayadi (alternate) Djaya Murjaya (alternate) IAHS Secretary General Christophe Cudennec Ireland Alan Jones ICSU World Data System Michael Diepenbroek Israel Colin Price Manager Business Marc-André Gemme Italy Giuliano Panza Development, Convention Japan Setsuya Nakada and exhibition Centre Luxembourg Tonie van Dam Montréal Mexico Jose Luiz Macias Vazquez Secretary, Union Adelina Geyer Traver New Zealand David Rhoades Commission on Data and Norway Oddgeir Kristiansen Information Poland Jan Krynski IUGG Secretariat Katrin Gundrum Portugal Jorge Miguel Miranda Congress Director ISPRS Lena Halounovà Romania Constantin Sava Integrated Research on David Johnston Russia Anatoly Soloviev Disaster Risk Committee Slovak Republic Miroslav Bielik IUGG Assistant Secretary Franz G. Kuglitsch Spain Carmen Lopez General Sweden Per Holmlund President of the Federal Hans-Joachim Kümpel Switzerland Adrian Wiget Institute for Geosciences Turkey Metin Kesap and Natural Resources Hasan Yildiz (alternate) (BGR) United Kingdom Harry Bryden IAGA Secretary General Mioara Mandea United States of America Jeffrey Freymueller Presenter of the Indian Ajai Manglik Bid (IUGG 2019) LISTENERS International Association Jennifer McKinley on Mathematical Belgium Kris Vanneste Geosciences Brazil Marcelo Sousa de IAPSO Secretary General Johan Rodhe Assumpcao IASPEI Secretary General Peter Suhadolc D.R. Congo Wafula Mifundu Ass. Director of BISO, Ester Sztein Nigeria Shakirudeen Odunuga U.S. National Academy
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President of European Hans Thybo Aksel Hansen 42 0 0 Geosciences Union for Treasurer Candidate for Finance Virendra Mani Tiwari Isabelle Ansorge 31 Committee for Bureau Member IAMAS Ex-Officio John Turner Pierre Hubert 23 Member for Bureau Member Executive Director, Gordon Young Jianping Li 20 Canadian Geophysical for Bureau Member Union Chris Rizos 24 for Bureau Member The Third Session of the Council Meeting was called Kenji Satake for 11 to order at 15:00 with a roll call of delegates. Bureau Member Delegates from 43 member countries were present, Constantin Sava 15 39 eligible to vote. The quorum (17) was reached. Corina Risso 41 1 0 Delegates from Greece, China-Taipei, Slovenia, and for Finance South Africa had deposited their votes with the Committee IUGG President for matters to be taken up at the Zoltan Hajnal for 22 Third Session. Altogether, only 42 votes were cast. Finance Committee Tom Beer, Katrin Gundrum, and Jianping Li were Virendra Tiwari 37 0 4 appointed as tellers. for Finance Committee Harsh Gupta reminded the Council Delegates about David Collins 32 the Closing Ceremony taking place on 1 July from for Finance 16:30-18:00 followed by a farewell reception. Committee Jan Krynski 23 17. Adoption of the 2016-2019 Budget for Finance Committee The Council was asked to vote on the 2016-2019
Budget presented in the Second Session of the 19. Presentation of the preliminary proposal to Council Meeting. Votes on financial matters are host a World Geosciences Congress weighted by category. The results are given below. 2023/2024 in Germany For: 137 Against: 0 Abstain: 5 Hans Joachim Kümpel, President of the Federal The 2016-2019 Budget was adopted. Institute for Geoscience and Natural Resources (BGR), adhering body to IUGG, presented the 18. Election of IUGG Officers initiative to host a joint IUGG/IUGS Congress in Germany in the time frame 2023/24. The Council was asked to elect the IUGG Officers for the term 2016-2019. All candidates were He mentioned particularly that the estimated number announced in the First Session of the Council of participants is approximately 10,000-14,000, and Meeting. No further comments or questions were the congress should last 10 days. asked by the Council. This vote requires a simple Alan Jones, Council Delegate of Ireland, mentioned majority of all ballots cast. For the position of that the German plan for a joint IUGG/IUGS President, Michael Sideris was elected. For the congress is an excellent initiative, and he supported position of Vice-President, Kathryn Whaler was this initiative. elected. For the position of Secretary General, Alik Ismail-Zadeh was elected. For the position of Presentation of National Reports Treasurer, Aksel Hansen was elected. The three The Turkish National Committee for Geodesy and Bureau Members elected are Isabelle Ansorge, Geophysics was the only national committee, whose Pierre Hubert and Chris Rizos. David Collins, Jan representative requested a time for presentation of a Krynski, Corina Risso and Virendra Tiwari are the National Report. Harsh Gupta invited Hazan Yildiz, elected Finance Committee members for the term Council Delegate of Turkey, to present the report 2015-2019. The actual vote tallies are given below: during the time the votes were being cast. During his Candidate For Against Abstain presentation Hazan Yildiz mentioned particularly Michael Sideris 42 0 0 that the Turkish National Union of Geodesy and for President Geophysics decided to bid for hosting in Istanbul the Kathryn Whaler 40 0 2 IUGG General Assembly in 2023, and the Turkish for Vice-President government supported this initiative. Alik Ismail-Zadeh 39 1 2 for Secretary General
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20. Presentations of the proposals to host the 8. Assistants to 37 1 3 XXVII General Assembly. Selection of the the Secretary venue of the XXVII General Assembly. General and to the Treasurer The IUGG Bureau received two bids to host the XXVII IUGG General Assembly. One from Montreal, Canada, and one from New Delhi, India. 22. Renewal of the IUGG liaison officers for Harsh Gupta invited the presenters of both bids to 2015-2019 give a short presentation of ten minutes to the Alik Ismail-Zadeh presented the following table of Council. proposed liaison appointments to the Council. Harsh Gupta then asked the Council to approve the Following this, the Council was asked to vote on appointments and there was no dissent. Principle these two venues. The results were as follows: Liaisons are marked by bold: 2015 GA venue Votes Montreal, Canada 25 Organization Liaisons 2015-2019 New Delhi, India 17 Alexei D. Gvishiani (RUSSIA) CODATA Bernd Richter (GERMANY) The XXVII IUGG General Assembly will take place in Montreal, Canada. Andrew W. Yau (CANADA) COSPAR Geoffrey Blewitt (USA) 21. Vote on proposed changes of Statutes and Isabelle Ansorge (SOUTH By-Laws ROA AFRICA) Before the vote on each proposed change to the IUGG Statutes and By-Laws, David Kerridge ROAP Sukanta Roy (INDIA) answered last questions that arose. If Proposals 1 and 2 for changes to the Statutes and By-Laws are Jaime U. Fucugauchi ROLAC approved by the Council, the Council authorizes the (MEXICO) Secretary General to ask Adhering Bodies of Ian Allison (AUSTRALIA) Member Countries to appoint a Council Delegate, SCAR John Turner (UK) with the authority to vote, by 1 November 2015. All proposed changes were accepted by the Council. Denise Smythe-Wright (UK) SCOR The changes to the Statutes and By-Laws come into John Turner (UK) effect directly after the closure of the General Vladimir Kuznetsov Assembly. The results of each vote are given below SCOSTEP (RUSSIA) (on Statutes and By-Laws, altogether only 41 ballots were cast). Aude Chambodut (FRANCE) WDS Ruth E. Neilan (USA) Proposal For Against Abstain The U.N. 1. Permanent 39 1 1 Geospatial Hermann Drewes Delegates to the Information (GERMANY) IUGG Council Section 2. Electronic 40 1 0 Christophe Cudennec UNESCO- Voting by IUGG (FRANCE) IHP Council Georg Kaser (AUSTRIA) 3. Definition of 35 4 2 Stefania Sparnocchia UNESCO- National (ITALY) IOC Committees Eugene Morozov (RUSSIA) 4. Gender 38 2 1 John Eichelberger (USA) ICAO Criterion Arnau Folch (SPAIN) 5. Permission for 38 2 1 Associate IRDR Harsh Gupta (INDIA) Members to speak at Council Tom Beer (AUSTRALIA) WCRP 6. Expansion of 39 0 2 Richard Essery (UK) the duties of the Richard Biancale (FRANCE) Finance CCTF Committee Claude Boucher (FRANCE) 7. Individual 33 6 2 Scientists and PAIGH Laura Sanchez (GERMANY) their Eligibility for Election
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Arthur Askew Following brief discussion on the resolutions, Harsh (SWITZERLAND) Gupta asked the Council to vote on the Resolutions. Xiao Cunde (CHINA) The Resolutions passed with one abstention. WMO incl. Alan Thomson (UK) Closing remarks GFCS Christophe Cudennec (FRANCE) Upon suggestion of Marino Protti, Council delegate Joyce E. Penner (USA) of Costa Rica, Alik Ismail-Zadeh asked the delegates Arnau Folch (SPAIN) to meet outside for a group photo after the meeting. Alik Ismail-Zadeh Harsh Gupta thanked all Council Members, (GERMANY/RUSSIA) Committees and organizers of the General Assembly Group on Claude Boucher (FRANCE) for their help and assistance to make the Assembly Earth Mioara Mandea (FRANCE) such a success. He invited all Members to make their Observations Peter Fox (USA) comments for the improvement of future General (GEO) Hansjörg Kutterer Assemblies known to IUGG. (GERMANY) Göran Ekström (USA) Harsh Gupta declared that the Council of Delegates to the XXVI General Assembly was adjourned at 23. Presentation and adoption of the 18:00. Resolutions Tom Beer, Chair of the Resolutions Committee, began his report by introducing the members of the Resolutions Committee: Kusumita Arora, Domenico Giardini, Laura Sanchez, and Pierre Hubert. Associations had been asked to submit their Resolutions to the Resolutions Committee. Each Resolution was then examined by the Resolutions Committee and carefully considered by the IUGG Executive Committee before being brought to the Council. Seven Resolutions plus one traditional Resolution of Thanks of IUGG to all organizers of the 2015 General Assembly were put on screen, read and commented by Tom Beer. He welcomed questions and comments by the Council. All Resolutions were reviewed in British English. [The final versions of the Resolutions that were adopted will be presented in the Comptes Rendus as a separate section.] Resolution 1: Role of Ocean in Climate. Resolution 2: Future Satellite Gravity and Magnetic Mission Constellations. Resolution 3: Global Geodetic Reference Frame. Resolution 4: Real-time GNSS Augmentation of the Tsunami Early Warning System. Resolution 5: Geo-energy Resources. Resolution 6: Geoscience Co-operation. Resolution 7: International Scientific Activities and Cooperation. Resolution 8: Thanks. It was regretted that the resolutions were presented only during the very Council Meeting day when they are to be voted on, thus making real debate difficult. Tom Beer described the tight schedule and that the Resolutions Committee itself could discuss the resolutions version approved by the Executive Committee only this morning. Alik Ismail-Zadeh noted that the Bureau would look after an ease of this tight schedule in future.
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4. Reports of the IUGG Officers / Rapports des officiers de l'UGGI
Quadrennial Report of the President (2015-2019) / Rapport quadriennal du Président (2015-2019)
As 2019 marks one hundred years since the IUGG was established in Brussels in July 1919, activities in the 2015-2019 period focussed on the organization of the Centennial 27th General Assembly (GA) to be held in Montreal in July 2019, as well as on celebrating and promoting this important anniversary. This quadrennial has also been a very productive period with respect to modernizing the governance and operations of the Union, and its relationships with other scientific organizations. IUGG and its Associations At the 26th GA in 2015 in Prague, the Council approved changes to the Statutes and Bylaws that have improved the efficiency and decision-making processes (e.g., the term of Council Delegates is the full four-year period between two consecutive GAs, which allows the standing Council to vote electronically at any time the need arises and not just during GAs), as well as the inclusiveness of the Union (e.g., individual scientists, even from non-member countries, can now hold most elected positions). Also, important resolutions were passed in support of new infrastructure and research in Earth observation, ranging from new satellite systems to global and regional environmental risk monitoring. In 2016, the IUGG standing Council was officially established for the 2016-2019 period, with the task to consider, discuss and decide on major scientific proposals, initiatives, and urgent administrative issues of the Union. At the end of the same year, the Council approved unanimously the 2016-2023 Strategic Plan of the IUGG. In 2018, the Council approved unanimously the following significant changes to the Statutes and Bylaws: the Vice-President position was replaced by President-Elect, and duties of the President-Elect were defined; the number of members of the Finance Committee was reduced from 4 to 3; the IUGG Secretary General and Treasurer can hold office for a maximum of three terms; Bureau Members at large and Finance Committee members can hold office for a maximum of two terms; and the immediate Past President is now a voting member of the Executive Committee (EC). Important work on forming the Union’s 2016-2023 Strategic and Implementation Plans continued, and the implementation of actions for the 2016-2023 IUGG Strategic Plan developed by the Visioning Committee commenced in 2018. These Actions are: promote the IUGG to its constituents, and to geoscientists, policy makers and to society in general; encourage closer cooperation between the IUGG groups; encourage more effective engagement with sister organisations, and other partner agencies; assist under-represented geoscientists to more fully participate in international science activities; strengthen the effectiveness of Council, EC and Bureau; strengthen National Committees; promote fundamental research and education in the geosciences; and encourage countries to become a member of the IUGG. The IUGG Bureau met three times and the EC met two times during the quadrennial. The first meeting of the Bureau and the EC took place in Paris in June 2016, with main agenda items the Strategic Plan and its implementation, the proposed College of Fellows, the possible establishment of a network of Early Career Scientists, and issues related to the 2019 IUGG GA in Montreal, Canada. We were hosted by Dr. Patrick McKeever, then UNESCO’s Earth Sciences and Geo-Hazard Risk Reduction Section Head. Dr. Heide Hackmann, then ICSU’s Executive Director and current CEO of the ISC, attended the meeting and briefed the EC about ICSU’s activities and programs, and the proposed merger between ICSU and ISSC. The second Bureau and EC meetings took place at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal in September 2017, concurrently
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with the business meetings of the Finance Committee, the Scientific Program Committee for the 2019 IUGG GA, and the Task Force 100. The main agenda items were the organization and scientific program of the Centennial GA in 2019, iand the Union’s Strategic Plan and the actions for its implementation. The third IUGG Bureau meeting took place in October 2018 in Mexico City, hosted by El Colegio Nacional and Dr. Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi, and discussed the Union’s business (e.g., membership issues, candidates for officer positions, Early Career Scientist Awards, etc.) and the status of the preparations for the 27th GA. In 2017, the mid-year between IUGG GAs, all our Associations held very successful Scientific Assemblies (SAs), several of them jointly organized and addressing interdisciplinary scientific themes: the IACS SA in Wellington, New Zealand; the IAHS SA in Port Elizabeth, South Africa; the IASPEI-IAG joint SA in Kobe, Japan; the IAVCEI SA in Portland, Oregon, USA; and the IAGA-IAMAS-IAPSO joint SA in Cape Town, South Africa. Although I was able to personally attend only the SA in Kobe, I am indebted to the colleagues who represented me/IUGG at the other SAs, namely, Bureau members Chris Rizos and Pierre Hubert in Wellington and Port Elizabeth, respectively; IAVCEI Secretary General Roberto Sulpizio in Portland; and IUGG Vice President Kathy Whaler in Cape Town. Union Commissions and Committees In 2015, IUGG established a new Commission on Planetary Sciences, chaired by Prof. Shuanggen Jin (IAG, China), to promote and coordinate scientific studies of planets in our and in other solar systems. Three Union Committees were renewed in 2016 for the period 2016-2019 (Capacity Building and Education Committee, chaired by László Szarka; Honours and Recognition Committee, chaired by Athena Coustenis; Statutes and By-Laws Committee, chaired by Charles Fierz), and a new one, the Union Outreach Committee, was established, chaired by Kathy Whaler. The Union Commission on Data and Information (UCDI) was renewed for 2017-2019, chaired by Satheesh Shenoi, and John Labrecque was appointed Chair of the Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability. The Commission on Mathematical Geophysics, chaired by Yehuda Ben Zion, continued its successful series of conferences (2016 in Paris, France, and 2018, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), and the Commission on Climatic and Environmental Change (CCEC), chaired by Past IUGG President Tom Beer, coordinated, among other things, the monograph “Global Change and Future Earth: The Geoscience Perspective” published in the IUGG series of Cambridge University Press. The Visioning Committee, chaired by Chris Rizos, worked tirelessly during the quadrennial to finalize the 2016-2023 IUGG Strategic Plan and develop the Implementation Actions for it that were mentioned above; the compete documents for these are available on IUGG’s web site at http://www.iugg.org/special/IUGG_StrategicPlan_2016-2023.pdf and http://www.iugg.org/special/ IUGG_ImplementationActions4SP.pdf, respectively. A Task Force (TF100), also chaired Chris Rizos, was established to develop a program for the celebration of the Union’s Centennial Anniversary during the 2019 GA in Montreal, as well as other relevant activities. These include joint events/sessions with sister organizations (AGU, AOGS, EGU), national/regional celebrations organized by National Committees, the establishment of an Early Career Earth and Space Scientists Network, a set of articles on the History of the IUGG, and the IUGG Centenary Day event in July 2019 at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Specifics on these events are given in the Centennial Anniversary Celebrations section below. Our Statutes and By-Laws Committee worked very hard and submitted a set of proposed changes that will improve the operation and the governance of the Union, which have now been approved by the Council as already mentioned above. The Finance Committee was renewed in 2017 because of the unfortunate passing of its Chair, David Collins, and Jan Krynski stepped in as Chair of the Committee.
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Education and Outreach Throughout the quadrennial, IUGG continued its many international educational activities, was represented at many meetings, global forums and conferences (e.g., the Mathematical Geophysics conferences), and promoted the importance of science for decision making on issues such as climate change, risk reduction and resilience to disasters, and sustainable development. In June 2017, the IUGG Bureau issued a statement on “The Earth’s climate and responsibilities of scientists and their governments to promote sustainable development.” IUGG also continued to strengthen its cooperation with the scientific Unions and interdisciplinary bodies of the ISC such as the World Data System (WDS) Committee and CODATA, as well as with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), UNESCO, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). 2016 was the International Year for Global Understanding (IYGU), and it was co-sponsored by the IUGG. At the 47th Session of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) held in Paris in March 2018, IUGG was accepted as an Observer Organization. IUGG scientists and present and past officers contributed to Earth and space science education and to science policy issues related to disaster risk reduction and climate change. As an example, the Conference on Future Earth & Space Science and Education took place at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, in November 2015. The conference was attended by participants from 29 countries, and Harsh Gupta, I, Kathy Whaler and Alik Ismail-Zadeh, who also co-organized the conference, gave invited lectures. The participants also issued a declaration on strengthening of basic scientific research and science education, especially in the developing world. During the same conference, IUGG and ICTP renewed officially their agreement for continuous collaboration. IUGG awarded many grants to support workshops and training schools organized around the world by the ICTP every year. It also awarded grants to several regional research, development and educational projects supported by its Associations, such as: Data intensive systems analysis for geohazard studies; Determination of the Earth’s mathematical surface in Africa towards the realization of the International Height Reference System; Marine magnetics in remote areas: filling gaps together in education, research and observations; Seismological contributions to earthquake risk reduction; Training school for students and early career atmospheric scientists from Asian monsoon countries; and Training school on stratosphere-troposphere interactions. The IUGG Bureau dedicated the 2018 call to the IUGG Centennial and international cooperation in Earth and space sciences. The following initiatives/projects were funded: IUGG Centennial Celebration Activities in China; Implementation of the United Nations’ Resolution on the Global Geodetic Reference Frame (UN-GGRF) for Sustainable Development in Latin America; Geoscience education and outreach for sustainable transformational change in the Middle East and North Africa region; IAMAS-iCACGP/IGAC Early Career Short Course on atmospheric sciences and climate; Knowing Planet Earth: geoscience awareness across cultures and languages; and Fostering developed- developing country partnerships for the advancement of global volcano science. In 2016, the book Dynamics and Predictability of Large-Scale, High-Impact Weather and Climate Events, edited by Jianping Li, Richard Swinbank, Richard Grotjahn, and Hans Volkert, was published in the IUGG series of Cambridge University Press. In 2018, a new book, Global Change and Future Earth: The Geoscience Perspective, was published in the same Cambridge University Press series. Edited by Tom Beer, Jianping Li and Keith Alverson, the book demonstrates how geoscience research outputs can address the physical and societal impacts of climate change and contribute to the Future Earth programme co-sponsored by the ISC. I and Alberto Montanari, Vice President of the European Geosciences Union, contributed a chapter titled
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Satellite Hydrology and Future Earth. Many other geoscientists and current and past IUGG officers also contributed a diverse set of chapters to the 2016 and 2018 books. On several occasions, I had the opportunity to personally promote IUGG’s work to the international scientific community as well as to decision makers, highlighting in particular the importance of long-term Earth observations from space for climate change and hazards research. Some examples of these are invited/keynote addresses at the Side Event on Earth and Space Observations for Disaster Risk Assessment during the XIII GEO Plenary in St. Petersburg, Russia in November 2016 (talk title: ‘Hazards/Risks Observations in the IUGG and the GEO Work Program: not fully linked’); at the Opening session of the European Space Agency’s 4th Swarm Science Meeting and Geodetic Missions Workshop in Banff, Alberta, Canada in March 2017 (talk title: ‘Satellite Earth Observation and Geosciences’); and at Session 7: The Role of Earth Observations in Supporting the Paris Climate Agreement of the GEO Symposium in June 2018 in Geneva (talk title: ‘Earth Observation Applications and Challenges – The Geosciences/IUGG Perspective’), which comprised invited talks from officers of UNFCCC, IPCC, GCOS, WMO, CEOS, WCRP and IUGG. International Science Council (ISC, formerly ICSU) and the GeoUnions IUGG has a long history of collaboration with the International Council for Science, ICSU (now called International Science Council, ISC, as in 2018 ICSU merged with the International Social Sciences Council, ISSC, to form the ISC) and, during this quadrennial, it was actively involved in the programs of ICSU/ISC related to environment, disaster risks, scientific data, and health and well-being. In April 2016, the Scientific Unions of ICSU met in Paris, to debate a new strategic plan, changes to the election of ICSU’s Executive Board, as well as the future of ICSU and its relationship with the ISSC. I and our Secretary General (SG), Dr. Alik Ismail-Zadeh, attended this, and the following, meetings on behalf of IUGG. In October 2016, an extraordinary ICSU General Assembly was held in Oslo, Norway, and approved in principle the merger between ICSU and ISSC. It was at the Joint Meeting of ICSU and ISSC, held in October 2017 in Taipei, that it was decided to merge ICSU and ISSC into the ISC, a new organization representing all of science. ISC’s inaugural GA was held in July 2018 in Paris. A new Governing Board was elected, which, I am very pleased to report, includes Alik in the position of the first Secretary of the ISC. The new ISC President, Prof. Daya Reddy, and the ISC Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Heide Hackmann, have both accepted my invitations to attend our GA in Montreal and our centennial celebration at UNESCO in Paris, respectively. IUGG is also a member of the cluster of nine GeoUnions of the ISC, which promote Earth and Space Sciences within the ISC, but also in the UN and other international bodies. In addition, the GeoUnions collaborate amongst themselves and with other scientific Unions on various projects funded by the ISC. The current GeoUnion members are: the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the International Cartographic Association (ICA), International Geographical Union (IGU), the International Union of Quaternary Research (INQUA), the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS), and International Union of Radio Sciences (URSI). The Steering Committee of the GeoUnions meets typically the day before the General Assemblies and Scientific Unions Meetings of the SC, and it did so right before the meetings mentioned above. Additional meetings were held at the ICTP, Trieste, Italy, in November 2015, at GFZ in Potsdam, Germany, in September 2017, and in Istanbul, Turkey, in November 2018. IUGG was represented at these meetings by me and Alik, who was also the Chair of the GeoUnions Steering Committee until last year.
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Group on Earth Observations (GEO) GEO is a partnership of 105 Member Countries and 127 Participating Organizations (POs) promoting sustained Earth observations for informed decision making. In November 2015, the XII Plenary of GEO in Mexico City approved the establishment of the GEO Program Board (PB), and in 2016 I was elected a member of the newly established PB. My term actually ended at the end of 2017, but I was re-elected to the PB for another three- year period (2018-2020). It is also worth mentioning that the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), though its Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS), is now also elected on the PB for the same period, and thus the voice of geosciences has been strengthened in GEO. Although IUGG, IAG and several IUGG-related entities are POs of GEO, having IUGG participate in the PB gave a much broader picture of the international GEO activities, and increased the prospects for collaboration and future IUGG involvement in many of them. GEO is currently focussing its efforts on addressing the goals of three major international initiatives, namely the Paris Agreement, the Sendai framework and UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). I am contributing to the work of two PB Subgroups related to these focus areas, namely the Sendai Framework Subgroup and the Paris Agreement Subgroup. Clearly IUGG can play a much bigger role in, and become a key contributor to, these three focus areas, and therefore I would recommend that the future leadership of IUGG and its Associations and their Services explore options for a significantly higher involvement in GEO’s current and future flagships, initiatives and community activities. GEO holds three to four PB meetings, one Symposium and one Plenary/GEO Week per year, and since 2016 I attended almost all of them. I attended the XIII GEO Plenary in St. Petersburg, Russia, in November 2016 (representing ICSU) and the XV GEO Plenary and GEO Week in the fall of 2018 in Kyoto, Japan. During the XIII Plenary, our SG organized together with the Russian Agency on Hydro-Meteorology (RosHydroMet) a very well attended GEO Side Event on ‘Earth and Space Observations for Disaster Risk Assessment.’ As mentioned in the Education and Outreach section above, I gave a talk at this side event and participated in the panel discussions, and also gave another talk at the 2018 GEO Symposium in Geneva, Switzerland. Unfortunately, neither I nor our SG were able to attend the XIV GEO Plenary in Washington, DC, as it was held in October 2017 at the same time as the ICSU GA. The 2019 GEO Symposium will be held in Geneva, May 27-29, and the XVI GEO Week and Ministerial Summit will be held in Canberra, Australia, November 4-9, 2019. 2018 marked the end of the long and productive tenure of Dr. Barbara Ryan (USA) as the Director of the GEO Secretariat. The new Director is Prof. Gilberto Camara from Brazil. He has accepted my invitation to give a talk at the IUGG Centennial Celebration event at UNESCO in Paris in July 2019. Preparations for the 27th GA in Montreal and selection of award winners Preparations for our Centennial IUGG General Assembly (GA) Beyond 100: The next Century in Earth and Space Science, to be held in Montreal in July 2019, have been ongoing since 2017. For this purpose, I have appointed the members of the Nominating Committee (chair: Tom Beer), Resolutions Committee (Chair: Harsh Gupta), Site Comparison Committee (Chair: Eduard Petrowski), Fellow Selection Committee (Chair: Joyce E. Penner), Gold Medal Committee (Chair: Uri Shamir), and Early Career Scientist Awards Committee (Chair: Jenny Baeseman). The work of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC), chaired by Fiona Darbyshire, and the Scientific Program Committee (SPC), chaired by Spiros Pagiatakis and aided by the SGs of the eight Associations and the Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the IUGG, has progressed very well, including the organization and scheduling of sessions and special events, invitations to dignitaries, and the selection of Union lecturers. More specifically, I have invited nine prominent scientists to deliver Union Lecturers, including Dr. David
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Grimes, President of the World Meteorological Organization. They are: Waleed Abdalati (USA, IACS), David Grimes (Canada, IUGG), Ed Hawkins (UK, IAMAS), Kosuke Heki (Japan, IAG), Karen Kohfeld (Canada, IAPSO), Paolo Papale (Italy, IAVCEI), Vera Schlindwein (Germany, IASPEI), Veena Srinivasan (India, IAHS), and Lisa Tauxe (USA, IAGA). The ten winners of the Early Career Scientist awards, selected by Early Career Scientist Awards Committee for their outstanding research in Earth and space sciences and for international research cooperation, are: Juan Carlos Afonso (Australia; seismology), Amir AghaKouchak (USA; hydrology), Emilie Capron (UK; climatology), Ira Didenkulova (Russia; oceanography), Marie Dumont (France; cryospheric sciences), Binbin Ni (China; aeronomy), Katrin Schröder (Italy; oceanography), Flavia Tauro (Italy; hydrology), Takeshi Tsuji (Japan; seismology), and Qiuzhen Yin (Belgium; climatology). On the recommendation of the IUGG Fellows Selection Committee, the IUGG Bureau announced the seven Union Honorary Members/Fellows elected for their exceptional contributions to international cooperation in geodesy or geophysics and their eminence in the field of Earth and space sciences. They are: Anny Cazenave (France), Sierd Cloetingh; Shuanggen Jin (China); Barbara Romanowicz (France/USA); Soroosh Sorooshian (USA); Philip Woodworth (UK), and Jun Xia (China). The Gold Medal Committee selected Prof. William Richard Peltier (University of Toronto, Canada) as the 2019 IUGG Gold Medal winner for his pioneering and profound scientific contributions in deep Earth physics and climate system processes, and for his unselfish contributions to international scientific collaboration. All winners will be officially acknowledged and recognized during the Awards Ceremony of the centennial GA in Montreal. Centennial Anniversary Celebrations Task Force 100 developed various activities for the celebration of the Union’s Centennial Anniversary, such as the selection of distinguished guests and invited speakers and organization of the IUGG Centenary Day event on July 29, 2019, at UNESCO in Paris, the webpage of the IUGG Centennial (http://100.iugg.org), special medals, network of Early Career Earth & Space Scientists, etc. The material for the planned IUCC centennial book on the History of the IUGG will be published in a Special Issue of the open-access journal History of Geo- and Space Sciences. The Special Issue will be published electronically and will contain three IUGG papers, namely ‘IUGG: Beginning, Establishment and Early Development (1919-1939)’, ‘IUGG Evolves (1940-2000)’, and ‘IUGG in the 21st Century’, which have undergone review and will be published in June 2019. The first two papers are co-authored by Jo Ann Joselyn (1999-2007 IUGG SG) and Alik Ismail- Zadeh, who jointly lead this whole effort, while the third paper is jointly authored by Jo Ann Joselyn, Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Tom Beer, Harsh Gupta, Masaru Kono, Uri Shamir, me and Kathryn Whaler. Centennial celebration events took place in several countries in 2018. These included: the first Scientific Congress of the Turkish National Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, May 30 – June 2 in Izmir, where IUGG was represented by its Secretary General (SG), Alik Ismail-Zadeh, who made a presentation on 100 Years of History and Future Vision of the IUGG, and on Disaster Risk and Sustainability; the International Summit on Earth Sciences: Earth Sciences and Sustainable Development in Beijing on Aug. 21 and the 3rd Congress of China Geodesy and Geophysics in Lanzhou organized by the Chinese National Committee for IUGG, where Alik talked about the Centennial of International Cooperation in Earth & Space Sciences, and Paradigm Shift in Disaster Science – Transdisciplinary System Analysis with Action-Oriented Research, respectively; the Early Career Scientists Workshop on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate in Kagawa, Japan, Sept. 22-24; the 100 Years of Geophysics Symposium on Oct. 25 in Mexico City, where I and Alik gave invited talks on Satellite Earth Observation – Applications and Challenges, and Centennial Anniversary of International
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Cooperation in Earth & Space Sciences, respectively; the Annual Meeting of the Mexican Geophysical Union in Puerto Vallarta, Oct. 28 – Nov. 2, where IUGG was represented by Alik and our VP, Kathy Whaler; and the AGU-IUGG Centennial Symposium on Disaster Science: Risk Reduction, Resilience, Response and Recovery on Dec. 9 in Washington, DC, which was moderated by John LaBrecque, Chair of the Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability, and where I gave an opening talk on the IUGG and Disaster Science. During the 27th GA in Montreal in July 2019, besides the IUGG-planned celebrations for the GA, AGU and IUGG agreed to organize another joint Symposium on ‘Georisk Reduction: Science, Resources, and Governmental Action’ on July 14. IUGG is also organizing a high-level event at on July 29 at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris titled ‘International Cooperation in Earth and Space Sciences: Celebrating 100th anniversary of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics’, where dignitaries and Officers of UN and other international organizations have been invited as speakers or panel members; the tentative program is available at http://100.iugg.org/events/unesco_program_draft.pdf. Acknowledgements and Thanks I would like to thank all colleagues in the Bureau and Executive Committee of the IUGG for their support and collaboration in the period 2015-2019. Vice President Kathy Whaler has been a strong advocate for the Union and has regularly provided her support and advice to me, the Bureau and the EC. I am particularly grateful to the IUGG Secretary General, Alik Ismail-Zadeh, and the Executive Secretary / Assistant Secretary General, Franz Kuglitsch, for their unwavering commitment to the Union. Alik has served as IUGG SG for three terms (12 years) and I am sure past Presidents Harsh Gupta and Tom Beer would agree fully with me when I say that, without him it would be simply impossibly for IUGG to function properly and the job of the President would have been significantly more difficult. Treasurer Aksel Hansen has served in this position since 1999 and has done an outstanding job in keeping the finances of the Union in perfect order. During my term as President, he was aided by the members of the Finance Committee, expertly chaired by the late David Collins and currently by Jan Krynski. Members of the Bureau Isabelle Ansorge, Pierre Hubert and Chris Rizos provided valuable advice during the EC and Bureau deliberations. Success of the programs of the Associations and the Union would not have been possible without the tireless work of the Association Presidents and the Chairs of the Union Commissions and Committees. Their dedication to the Union is very much appreciated. I want to particularly acknowledge the work of Chris Rizos as Chair of the Visioning Committee and Task Force 100, who produced the 2016-2013 Strategic Plan and its Implementation Actions and coordinated and organized various events for the celebration of IUGG’s centennial anniversary. I also express my appreciation to the Associations' Secretaries General and the Science Program and Local Organizing Committees, chaired by Spiros Pagiatakis and Fiona Darbyshire, respectively, for their work on the organization of the 27th GA in Montreal, which, by all accounts, will be one of the most successful GAs of the Union. The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam has been hosting the IUGG Secretariat since 2013 and has been providing the positions of Franz Kuglitsch and his Assistant, Katrin Gundrum; this continuous support is gratefully acknowledged. For me, at the end of the Montreal GA it will be 8 years of involvement with the Bureau and 12 years of involvement with the EC of the IUGG. This has been a very rewarding and at times challenging experience, which I have enjoyed very much. I will be looking forward to serving our Union as Past President, and I wish every success to IUGG and its new leadership. Michael G. Sideris
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Quadrennial Report of the Secretary General (2015-2019) / Rapport quadriennal du Secrétaire Général (2015-2019)
The report covers the period from 3 July 2015 to 1 March 2019 and intends to summarize the administration and major activities of the Union. Detailed reports of the Secretary General can be found in IUGG Annual Reports (http://www.iugg.org/publications/reports/annual_rep.php) The International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) is one of the largest international geoscience unions, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2019. The Union membership is comprised of the National Adhering Bodies (National Members), which establish National Committees for Geodesy and Geophysics in their countries. The Union is financially supported by National Members that benefit from the knowledge, data, services, and scientific talent that are concentrated within IUGG. Although the Union is not an individual membership organization like professional societies of scientists (e.g., the American Geophysical Union (AGU), European Geosciences Union (EGU) or Asian Oceanic Geosciences Society (AOGS)), scientists from any country can take part in any activities of the Union and its Associations and are eligible to hold various positions within IUGG with the following exceptions: positions in the Bureau and the Finance Committee, and the positions of Presidents of the Associations can only be held by scientists from IUGG Member Countries. Actually IUGG is a home for all geoscientists worldwide, those who share the Union’s mission in advancing, promoting, and communicating knowledge of the Earth and its environment. As a member of the International Science Council (ISC, former ICSU), IUGG strongly supports its policy of non-discrimination by affirming the rights and freedom of scientists throughout the world to engage in international scientific activity without limitation by such factors as citizenship, religion, creed, political stance, ethnic origin, race, color, language, age or gender. IUGG is a union of eight International Associations, each dedicated to a specific scientific discipline, but with overlapping interests and complementary strengths: they are the International Associations of Cryospheric Science (IACS), Geodesy (IAG), Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA), Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS), Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO), Seismology and Physics of the Earth Interior (IASPEI), and Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth Interior (IAVCEI). At present, there are six Union Commissions and one Union Working Group that are dedicated to particular interdisciplinary topics: Commission on Climatic and Environmental Change (CCEC), Commission on Mathematical Geophysics (CMG), Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability (GRC), Commission on Study of the Earth's Deep Interior (SEDI), Commission on Data and Information (UCDI), Committee on Planetary Sciences (UCPS), and Working Group on History (WGH).
UNION ACTIVITIES Union activities during the past quadrennium are summarized below. • ADMINISTRATION IUGG Council. In 2016, the Council reviewed a draft Strategic Plan for 2016-2023, accepted the final document, and voted for approval of the new Member of the IUGG Finance Committee. In 2018, the Council discussed the changes to Statutes and By-Laws proposed by the Bureau, and voted for approval of the revised documents. IUGG Executive Committee and Bureau met at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, in 2016 and in Montreal, Canada, in 2017. Bureau met in the Mexico City, Mexico in 2018.
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• MEMBERSHIP. Algeria became a Regular Member, Serbia and Uruguay Associate Members of the Union. More: http://iugg.org/members. • STRATEGY. The first IUGG Strategic Plan (http://iugg.org/special/IUGG_StrategicPlan_2016-2023.pdf) was adopted by the IUGG Council in 2016 with the Implementation Plan (2016-2023): http://iugg.org/special/IUGG_ImplementationActions4SP.pdf. • NEW COMMISSION. IUGG established new Union Commission on Planetary Sciences to promote and coordinate scientific (physical, chemical, and mathematical) studies of planets in the solar system and around other stars. More: http://iugg.org/about/commissions. • NEW COMMITTEE. IUGG established the Union Committee on Outreach to organize and manage IUGG’s communication, promotion, public information and general outreach activities. More: http://iugg.org/administration/outreach_cmt.php • SCIENTIFIC ASSEMBLIES. Scientific Assemblies of IUGG Associations have been organized in 2017: by IACS in New Zealand, by IAG and IASPEI in Japan, by IAGA, IAMAS, and IAPSO in South Africa, by IAVCEI in the USA, and by IAHS in South Africa. More than 4,000 scientists participated in the assemblies from more than 100 countries. More: http://iugg.org/meetings/assemblies.php • IUGG SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS. IUGG Union Commissions held their scientific conferences/symposia: CMG conferences on mathematical geophysics in Paris, France (2016), and in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (2018); SEDI symposia in Nantes, France (2016) and in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (2018); CCEC workshop in Belval, Luxembourg (2016); GRC symposia in Washington, D.C., USA (2018); UCPS workshop in Berlin, Germany (2017), and in Wuhan, China (2018). More: http://iugg.org/about/commissions/ • IUGG CENTENARY. To celebrate the Centennial of the Union, IUGG established a Task Force 100 to develop a program for celebrations around the world for 2018-2019. In 2018, several conferences/symposia and a summer school for early career scientists were held in China, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, and the USA. The website (http://100.iugg.org) dedicated to the IUGG Centennial was launched. • PUBLICATIONS. The Second Volume of the Special Publication of the IUGG “Dynamics and Predictability of Global and Regional High-impact Weather and Climate Events” was published in 2016, and the Third Volume “Global Change and Future Earth” in 2018. More: http://www.iugg.org/publications/special/ A special volume on “The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics: From Different Spheres to a Common Globe” will be published in 2019 as a part of the peer- reviewed journal History of Geo- and Space Sciences. • PROGRAMS & PROJECTS. IUGG together with the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) continue to support the International Lithosphere Programme (ILP; https://www.scl-ilp.org/). IUGG awarded 12 grants to support scientific and outreach projects of importance to the international geophysical and geodetic community, which will explore new scientific ideas and develop future international initiatives. More: http://www.iugg.org/programs/grants_awarded.php • SPONSORED SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS. IUGG co-sponsored 47 scientific meetings (workshops, symposia, conferences) worldwide in 2015-2018. More: http://www.iugg.org/meetings/ sponsored.php • SCIENCE EDUCATION. IUGG and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, continued a fruitful cooperation in geophysical and geodetic science education. IUGG co-
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sponsored 24 science education events (schools and workshops) in 2015-2018. More: http://www.iugg.org/education/sponsored_activities.php • SCIENCE POLICY is essential components of IUGG activities related to dissemination of scientific knowledge among the countries and the public to promote resilience, sustainability, and peace. This activities include the dissemination of knowledge to UN agencies, G7 Science Ministers etc. More: http://iugg.org/policy • HONORS AND RECONGNITION. IUGG Gold Medal were awarded to Brian Hoskins (UK) in 2015 and to W. Richard Peltier (Canada) in 2019. Thirteen distinguished scientists were elected IUGG Fellows (Honorary Members) and 20 outstanding young scientists received IUGG Early Career Scientists Awards. More: http://www.iugg.org/honors/u_awards.php • STATEMENTS & GUIDELIENS. IUGG signed the Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025 declaration, issued Anti-Harassment Guidelines, and the statement “The Earth’s climate and responsibilities of scientists and their governments to promote sustainable development”. More: http://www.iugg.org/about/special.php • COOPERATION. IUGG continued to strengthen cooperation with many International Scientific Unions including those related to Earth and space sciences (GeoUnions) and ISC interdisciplinary bodies as well as with other international and intergovernmental organizations, such as the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) via the International Hydrological Program (IHP), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), and international Geoscience Program (IGCP), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and with national and regional professional societies such as AGU, AOGS, EGU, and some other international and intergovernmental organizations. More: http://www.iugg.org/about/liaisonsreps.php. Particularly, a) IUGG President and I took part in the extraordinary General Assembly of the International Council for Science (ICSU) held in Oslo, Norway (2016), at the ICSU General Assembly held in Taipei (2017), and inaugural General Assembly of the International Science Council in Paris, France (2018), and in the meeting of ICSU Scientific Unions in Paris, France, in 2016. I participated in the World Science Forum organized by ICSU and UNESCO and held in Amman, Jordan, in 2017. b) I participated in several meetings of the ISC GeoUnions Steering Committee held in Trieste, Italy (2015), in Paris, France (2016 and 2018), Potsdam, Germany (2017), Taipei (2017), and Istanbul, Turkey (2018). I chaired of the GeoUnions Steering Committee for 2014-2016. c) As a Council Member of the International Geoscience Program (2017-2018), I participated in the UNESCO meetings and evaluation of the grant program related to Geohazards. d) I participated in the GFCS workshop of the Intergovernmental Board on Climate Services held in Offenbach, Germany, in 2017. e) As GEO Principal representing IUGG, I participated in the GEO Plenary XII in St. Petersburg, Russia, organizing an IUGG-GEO side event on disaster risk reduction. f) I participated in the Disaster Risk Resilience Forum organized by Science Council of Japan, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), and ICSU in Tokyo, Japan, in 2017.
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g) I was invited to join the Scientific Program Committee for the 2017 and 2019 Science and Technology Conference of the Preparatory Commissions for Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), and participated in the work of the conferences representing IUGG.
ADMINISTRATION The Council The IUGG Council is a standing body of the Union. The Council of the Union consist of the Delegates, designated by the Adhering Bodies of the Member Countries, one Council Delegate for each Adhering Body. Major decision of the Council - To approve the IUGG Strategic Plan (2016-2023) (to be viewed at: http://www.iugg.org/special/IUGG_StrategicPlan_2016-2023.pdf) - To approve changes to the IUGG Statutes and By-Laws - To appoint an IUGG Liaison to the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) - To appoint an IUGG Liaison to the Partner Advisory Committee (PAC) of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) The Bureau The IUGG Bureau consists of the President: Michael Sideris (Canada) Vice-President: Kathryn Whaler (UK) Secretary General: Alik Ismail-Zadeh (Germany/Russia) Treasurer: Aksel W. Hansen (Denmark), and Members: Isabelle Ansorge (South Africa), Pierre Hubert (France), and Chris Rizos (Australia). The Bureau met three times during the term: in Paris, France (2016), in Montreal, Canada (2017), and in the Mexico City (2018). Major decisions of the Bureau Administration - To approve the revised version of the Guidelines on IUGG Administration. - To approve the draft Implementation Plan (2016-2023). - To approve the membership and the Terms of Reference of the IUGG Committees and request the Executive Committee to endorse them. - To approve the proposed membership of the IUGG Nominating Committee, Site Comparison Committee, and Resolution Committee. - To approve the revised Terms of Reference of the International Lithosphere Program (ILP), and to request the Executive Committee to endorse this decision. - To request the Statutes & By-Laws Committee to analyze the (professionally) reformatted IUGG Statutes & By-Laws, and to summarize the reformatted changes to be presented to the IUGG Council at its meeting in Montreal in 2019.
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- To recommend the IUGG Bureau (2019-2023) to terminate the IUGG Working Group on History (WGH) as the WGH’s mission is fulfilled. - To request the IUGG Site Comparison Committee to shortlist two bids, if four or more bids to host the IUGG General Assembly 2023 are received. Membership - To accept payments for multiple year memberships. - To explore the idea of introducing a new membership category for least developed countries. - To request the IUGG Executive Committee to approve the decision made by the Bureau Members to lower the price of one unit for least developed countries to USD 500. The IUGG Council should take the final decision. - To urge Adhering Bodies and Union Associations to add further nominations for members to the IUGG Bureau and Finance Committee (2019-2023) and to consider gender, discipline and regional balance. Science - To approve new IUGG projects (2016-2017). - To release the special call for the IUGG Grants Program (2018-2019). - To request the Executive Committee to call for nomination of candidates for the executive committee (EC) of the IUGG Union Commission on Data and Information (UCDI); and to co-opt IUGG Liaisons to CODATA and UCDI as members of the UCDI-EC. - To recommend the Executive Committee to request the Chair of the IUGG Working Group on History to provide information on (i) an outline of the history book dedicated to the 100th anniversary of IUGG, (ii) a report/plan about their ideas for the Centennial celebrations, and on the associated financial matters. Education - To recommend the IUGG Council to extend the IUGG-ICTP science education program for the next quadrennial (2020-2003). Honor and Recognition - To introduce “Certificate of Appreciation” and award it to scientists who offered exceptional service to IUGG. - To approve the recommendation of the Early Career Scientist Award Committee regarding the 2019 awardees - To remove the hard age limit of 40 years in the guidelines for the Early Career Scientist Award (2023), and instead focus on the achievements since the PhD was completed. - To approve the recommendation of the Fellows Selection Committee regarding the 2019 IUGG Fellows - To approve the recommendation of the Gold Medal Committee regarding the 2019 Gold Medalist Cooperation
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- To approve the Memorandum of Understanding between IUGG and AGU on joint celebration of the 100th anniversary. - To explore ways for organizing joint IUGG/AOGS and IUGG/EGU activities. - To sign a Memorandum of understanding between IUGG and the local organizers of an IUGG general assembly three years before the beginning of the General Assembly and to mention this in the guidelines for IUGG General Assemblies. - To request Associations to nominate liaisons and representatives to IUGG Partner organizations. The Executive Committee The IUGG Executive Committee consists of the Bureau, the immediate past President of IUGG (Dr. Harsh Gupta, India), and the Presidents of the IUGG Associations. Association Secretaries-General and the Chair of the IUGG Finance Committee are always invited to attend the meetings, with voice but without vote. The Executive Committee met twice in Paris, France (2016) and in Montreal, Canada (2017). Major decisions of the Executive Committee - To approve the IUGG Implementation Plan (2016-2023). - To ask the Associations to nominate candidates for the executive committee (EC) of the IUGG Union Commission on Data and Information (UCDI); and to co-opt IUGG Liaisons to CODATA and UCDI as members of the UCDI-EC. - To request the IUGG Working Group on History to accelerate the work on the history book and prepare a list of actions regarding the 2019 centennial. - To approve the Terms of Reference of the IUGG Committees. - To approve the revised ILP Terms of Reference. - To explore possibilities to develop an IUGG early-career scientist network starting from the Association level. - To approve joint IUGG-Association logos. - To approve the Memorandum of Understanding between IUGG and the 2019 LOC-Montreal. - To approve the agreement between IUGG and C-IN company (to be in charge of the scientific program of the IUGG2019). The Secretariat The Statutes and By-laws provide that the daily affairs of the Union are managed by an elected Secretary General who attends to correspondence, circulates information, preserves the records, prepares reports of the Union’s activities, and arranges meetings of the General Assembly, the Council, the Executive Committee and the Bureau, including preparing and distributing the agendas and the minutes of all their meetings. Additional activities of the Secretariat: • Produced the monthly IUGG E-Journal, the annual Yearbook, and the annual Report. • Maintained, redesigned and expanded the IUGG webpage. • Conducted ballots by correspondence concerning the Union admission. • Issued the calls for support of meetings and inter-disciplinary projects, and facilitated the awards.
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• Facilitated the work of the IUGG Commissions and Committees. • Revised the Guidelines on IUGG Administration. • Maintained close cooperation with the ICSU Secretariat and with GeoUnions Officers and promoted joint activities of IUGG with other international organizations. • Supported the Scientific Programme Committee and the Local Organizing Committee in preparations for the 2015 and 2019 General Assemblies. The Secretariat is hosted by the GFZ-Potsdam, Germany, and managed by the IUGG Secretary General and the Assistant Secretary General / Executive Secretary. The German Research Foundation (DFG) supports the IUGG Secretariat, and IUGG is very thankful for this generous support from GFZ-Potsdam ad DFG. IUGG Electronic Journal The E-Journal, an informal newsletter, was published and distributed monthly keeping IUGG Member National Committees informed about the activities of IUGG, its Associations and Commissions, and the actions of the IUGG Secretariat. Also the journal publishes feature articles, news from the International Science Council and the GeoUnions, news and reports related to IUGG scientific programs and co-sponsored scientific meetings, about awards and honors bestowed on IUGG scientists as well as obituaries, and a meeting calendar (http://www.iugg.org/publications/ejournals). IUGG Yearbook The IUGG Yearbook is a reference document of IUGG members, administrative officers, and Association and Union Commission officers that is updated annually and distributed free of charge. Each issue endeavors to update the contact information for hundreds of persons who are actively participating in IUGG scientific activities. Information is compiled throughout the year until end December. The Yearbooks are published and posted at the IUGG website at the beginning of the year (http://www.iugg.org/publications/yearbooks/). IUGG Annual Report The IUGG Annual Report summarizes the activities of the Union, IUGG Associations and Union and Inter- Unions Commissions. The Annual Reports are published and posted at the IUGG website (http://www.iugg.org/publications/reports/annual_rep.php). IUGG Webpage and social media The IUGG web site http://www.iugg.org, in English and French, was maintained by Dr. D. Krupsky, IUGG Web-master, and permanently updated for 2018. In addition, a new web site dedicated to the 100th anniversary of IUGG was developed (http://100.iugg.org) and linked to the main IUGG web site. To learn more about IUGG and to keep individuals updated on Union’s activities, the IUGG Secretariat maintains FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/InternationalUnionGeodesyGeophysics TWITTER: https://twitter.com/theIUGG, and YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgsIvZyuEJ-RA9JkZv3MN-w IUGG Web-Conferencing Software The Secretariat adopted a web-conferencing software for the IUGG, which supports real-time communication among IUGG Bureau and Executive Committee Members across geographically dispersed locations through:
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text-based instant messages, voice and video chat, online presentations, web conferences, and desktop sharing enables participants to increase communication, reduce travel expenses and conserve time, increase productivity, and accelerate the decision-making process.
IUGG Exhibition Booth To further increase the visibility of the IUGG and to promote the IUGG General Assembly 2019, the IUGG Secretariat together with LOC-Montreal organized an exhibition booth at the EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, the AOGS Annual Meeting 2018, Honolulu, USA, and the AGU Fall Meeting 2018, Washington, D.C., USA. The IUGG Brochure can be downloaded from the IUGG web site: http://www.iugg.org/about/brochure.pdf. Travel of the Secretary General Presence of IUGG officers at business and scientific meetings of IUGG, Union Associations, Union Commissions, National Committees, sister geoscience organizations and other international and intergovernmental organizations help to strengthen a cooperation between IUGG bodies and other organizations and to increase visibility of the Union. During the quadrennium, I attended the several important meetings on behalf of IUGG, which were supported by IUGG, the German Science Foundation (DFG) and from other sources. My special thanks go to DFG, which provided a travel support to the IUGG Secretary General for since 2008.
Place and date Event Trieste, Italy, 2-6 November IUGG-ICTP conference on Future of Earth and Space Science and 2015 Education San Francisco, USA, 14-18 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) December 2015 Geneva, Switzerland, 26-29 UNISDR Science and Technology Conference January 2016 Jena, Germany, 2 February Opening Ceremony of the International Year for Global 2016 Understanding Paris, France, 10-13 April Scientific Unions Meeting of the International Council for Science 2016 (ICSU) Vienna, Austria, 18-22 April General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2016 Paris, France, 5-10 June 2016 IUGG Conference on Mathematical Geophysics / IOC-UNESCO Executive Committee Meeting Paris, France, 16-18 June 2016 IUGG Bureau and Executive Committee meetings Geneva, Switzerland, 21-24 Executive Council Meeting of the World Meteorological June 2016 Organization (WMO) - Meeting with the WMO Secretary General Prof. P. Taalas - Meeting with the UNISDR Staff Members
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- Meeting with the IPCC Executive Secretary Mr. Abdalah Mokssit Cape Town, South Africa, 27 35th International Geological Congress August – 4 September 2016 St. Petersburg, Russia, 13-16 UArctic Congress September 2016 Nanjing, China, 23-25 Second Congress of China Geodesy and Geophysics September 2016 Luxemburg, 20-22 October IUGG-CCEC Workshop “Global Change and Future Earth” 2016 Oslo, Norway, 24-24 October Extraordinary ICSU General Assembly 2016 Frankfurt, Germany, 3 Annual Meeting of the German National Committee for Geodesy and November 2016 Geophysics St. Petersburg, Russian, 8-12 Plenary XIII of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) November 2016 San Francisco, USA, 12-16 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) December 2016 Paris, France, 20-22 February UNESCO-IGCP Council Meeting 2017 Vienna, Austria, 24-28 April General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2017 Cancun, Mexico, 22-26 May UNISDR Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2017 Ljubljana, Slovenia, 29 May - World Landslides Forum 2 June 2017 Offenbach, Germany, 19-20 Scoping workshop for the development of the GFCS June 2017 Vienna, Austria, 25-30 June CTBTO Science and Technology Conference 2017 Kobe, Japan, 29 July – 4 IAG-IASPEI Scientific Assembly August Potsdam, Germany, 1-2 ICSU GeoUnions Steering Committee meeting September 2017 Montreal, Canada, 18-23 IUGG Bureau, Executive Committee and Science Program September 2017 Committee meetings St. Petersburg, Russia, 8-13 ICSU-CODATA conference October 2017
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Taipei, 21-27 October 2017 General Assembly of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Frankfurt, Germany, 2 Annual Meeting of the German National Committee for Geodesy and November 2017 Geophysics Amman, Jordan, 6-10 World Science Forum November 2017 Tokyo, Japan, 23-25 UNISDR Global Forum on Science and Technology for Disaster November 2017 Resilience Paris, France, 29 November – UNESCO Conference on Landslides 2 December 2017 Paris, France, 14 December Meeting with the Secretary of the UNESCO International Geoscience 2017 Program Prof. Patrick McKeever Paris, France, 19-22 February UNESCO-IGCP Council Meeting 2018 Istanbul, Turkey, 18-21 March ISPRS-URSI International Conference “Geoinformation for Disaster 2018 Management” Vienna, Austria, 8-13 April General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2017 Izmir, Turkey, 30-31 May Congress of the Turkish Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 2018 Honolulu, USA, 3-8 June 2018 AOGS General Assembly Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 23- IUGG Conference on Mathematical Geophysics 28 June 2018 Paris, France, 2-6 July 2018 General Assembly of the International Science Council (ISC) Beijing / Lanzhou, China, 21- IUGG 100th Anniversary Celebration in China / Third China 25 August 2018 Congress on Geodesy and Geophysics Mexico City / Puerto Vallarta, IUGG Bureau Meeting Mesico, 24 October – 2 IUGG 100th Anniversary Celebration in Mexico November 2018 - Conference in Colegio Nacional, Mexico City - Mexican Geophysical Union Annual Meeting Istanbul, Turkey, 9-11 Steering Committee meeting of the ISC GeoUnions November 2018 Washington, D.C., USA, 8-14 AGU-IUGG Joint symposium on disaster science December 2018 AGU Fall Meeting 2018 Beijing, China, 25-27 IUGS International Forum on Deep-time Digital Earth February 2019
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It has been a great honor and a privilege to serve IUGG in this office since July 2007. I have benefited enormously from the guidance and assistance of the members of the IUGG Executive Committee during this period of time, especially President Tom Beer, President Harsh Gupta, President Michael Sideris, Vice President Kathy Whaler, and Treasurer Aksel Hansen. I am thankful to all Bureau Members for their cooperation and support. Also I am very grateful to the Association Presidents and Secretaries General for their contribution to our joint work for IUGG and Union Associations. I thank IUGG Council Members for confidence in electing me for the SG position. I am grateful to all IUGG distinguishes members, whom I had a pleasure to meet and to work in various Union’s activities. The office of the Secretary General has been hosted by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2008-2012) and by the GFZ-Potsdam (since 2012). The position of the Assistant Secretary General (ASG) was financially supported by grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and by GFZ. The GFZ’s generous offer permitted the hire of a full time ASG / Executive Secretary, who helped to manage the Union. It has been my pleasure to work with Ms. Simone Oswald (2008-2012) and with Dr. Franz Kuglitsch (since 2012), whose support of the duties of the Secretariat cannot be underestimated. I have appreciated Simone’s and Franz’s talent, punctuality, discipline, language skills, humor, and friendship. I have been benefited from the extraordinary experience of working with excellent scientists to promote the mission and goals of IUGG and Earth and space sciences worldwide. I thank the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Russian Academy of Sciences for their support of my voluntary work for IUGG. Without this support, I would not dedicate a part of my working time to the Union. Finally, I am very grateful to my family (my wife and son) for their understanding and love; although they were unhappy because of many travels on behalf of IUGG and spending my free time for IUGG activities, but they supported me in any difficult situation and encouraged me. For the last twelve years, I dedicated a part of my life to IUGG and its development. Although any retirement brings a pinch of sorrow, I am happy that the Union is in a good shape and pass this important position in the Union administration to another dedicated person. I am leaving the SG position, but not IUGG – I shall continue to serve the Union in another capacity. Thank you very much for your confidence. Alik Ismail-Zadeh Secretary General (2007-2019)
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Quadrennial Report of the Treasurer (2015-2019) / Rapport quadriennal du Trésorier (2015-2019)
To the National Committees for IUGG
IUGG Financial Report
Final accounting 2012 - 2015
and
Preliminary Report 2016 - 2019
to be presented at the XXVII General Assembly Montreal, Canada July 2019
Copenhagen, June, 2019
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Financial Report by the Treasurer
Introduction This report will be presented to the Council at the upcoming XXVII IUGG General Assembly in Montreal, Canada, July 2019. It contains a financial part and some statistical information about the status of the members of IUGG. Accounting and budget spreadsheets are enclosed as 3 attachments:
1) The final accounting of the 2012 – 2015 quadrennium (year by year + accumulated) compared to the budget see attachment 1
2) A preliminary accounting for the present quadrennium 2016 – 2019 (year by year + accumulated) see attachment 2
3) The 2016-2019 budget from Prague 2015 see attachment 3
This procedure for reporting on the finances is a continuation of what was done at the General Assemblies in Prague in 2015 and earlier.
With the General Assemblies normally taking place in the middle of the last year of a budget period it is not possible to give a full report on the finances of the quadrennium. Instead it is accepted to present it at the next GA together with a preliminary accounting for the present quadrennium. Therefore in Montreal the final accounting for the quadrennial report for 2012 – 2015 will be shown.
At the time of writing the preliminary report for 2016 - 2019 includes two columns for the year 2019: one column, P, accounting for the first 6 months plus a column, Q, showing an estimate of major remaining expenses for the last 6 months. This column is commented in column R.
For comparison the budget for the period 2016 to 2019 is given in attachment 3.
The final accounting for 2012 - 2015 As stated at the GA in Melbourne an undesired accumulation of funds took place for several years. This was clearly seen in the final accounting for the whole period 2008 - 2011. In Melbourne it was therefore decided to approve a budget for 2012 - 2015 that would lower the balance considerably. The balance was lowered by the end of 2015, but the deep cut was, however, not fully realized. All in all, the balance at the end of the period was more than USD 300,000 higher than anticipated in the budget from Melbourne (see attachment 1).
The reason for this difference is partly a higher incoming balance on January 1, 2012 than estimated in Melbourne, and partly because the resulting expenditure during the full period was lower. For instance, line 18.3 (liaison officers) and line 18.4 (International Scientific Programs) were both significantly lower than estimated in Melbourne. The amount allocated to liaison officers was already reduced in the approved budget for the present quadrennium, see budget from Prague.
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Preliminary accounting for 2016 - 2019 Overall view: Income/expenditures basically match the budget. The first 3 years of the budget period 2016 – 2019 show an income from members close to the budget. And also the expenditure follows the budget closely. The net result is a small surplus, but taking the uncertainty into account the accounting matches budget very well.
However, by inspection of attachment 2 one notices immediately the much higher balance by the end of the period. This is because we did not anticipate the incoming balance correctly in Prague.
The higher incoming balance and expenditures that follow the budget closely result in a higher outgoing balance too. The cost of the centennial celebrations in Paris on July 29, 2019 must be seen in the light of this difference.
The price of 1 unit: The price in 2019 of IUGG’s basic unit is USD 2,020, which is very close to the budget value of 2018!
The shift of one year happened because there was no increase using the US inflator index from 2015 to 2016.
Since 2004/2005 I have used a US Labor Department inflator index for September as the basis for calculation of the price of 1 unit for the following year. Over time the increase of the index is close to 2%, with 2009 - 2010 and 2015 - 2016 as exemptions.
The 2%/yr inflation rate is also used in the budget proposal for the coming period.
Membership issues and income: One country has withdrawn from IUGG in the present quadrennium. Three new members have been admitted in the same period. One paying member has moved to A-membership, one is expected to do the same in the near future. One country paid its long-term debt and is now a paid up member.
IUGG has 72 members (January 1, 2019). Please, see appendix 1 for details.
The union is gradually loosing units paid as dues by members. In the period 2008 - 2011 a total of 1102 units were paid. For the last complete period, the number is 1084. For the year 2018, the number is 258. It should be compared to the 276 in total for all paying members. The 2018 number will go up a little when members in debts hopefully will pay their dues in arrears.
Expenditures: If we compare budget and accounting line by line we notice a reasonably good match between the two set of numbers as a whole. However, some lines are above budget, others below.
There is one major difference. I will use line 11.6 to account for the expenses in connection with 100 yr celebration in Paris on July 29. This expenditure was not included in the budget. IUGG Bureau decided to organize the event in the light of the higher than budget balance brought forward from the previous period.
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IUGG has not received any ICSU grants during the present period. And the line will not be used in future budgets.
Balance: Based on the above analysis it is expected that the total assets of IUGG at union level will be close to USD 650.000 by the end of 2019 which is only a bit above one year’s turnover.
The US dollar has varied a lot during the last quadrennium, as usual one can say. This gives very variable buying power in different countries. It has been discussed if IUGG should change its basic currency to Euro, but no convincing arguments for a change have been put forward.
In general, one can say that the economical situation of IUGG is sound and that the net balance allows IUGG some flexibility.
However, it is very important that IUGG takes the necessary steps to keep its members in the union and at the same time attract new members. The problem of keeping the members in the union is becoming more and more visible. It needs the full attention of the union and the member countries.
Acknowledgements: I want to thank everybody I have been in contact with as IUGG Treasurer. In particular, I will send my sincere thanks to President Michael Sideris and the other members of the Bureau. I have always enjoyed the almost daily contact with Secretary General Alik Ismail-Zadeh and Executive Secretary Franz Kuglitsch. Also thanks to the Presidents and Secretary Generals/Treasurers of the Associations and the various union commissions and committees.
I have had a close and very good cooperation with the Finance Committee and its chairs: David Collins (2015-2016) and Jan Krynski (2016-2019). I want to express my deepest appreciation of the relationship.
Thanks also to my assistant Simon Jacobsen who have helped me in carrying out my daily duties.
Best regards
Aksel Walløe Hansen Treasurer, IUGG
Appendix 1) Membership statistics
Attachments: 1) final accounting 2012 – 2015 2) preliminary accounting 2016 – 2019 3) budget 2016 – 2019 approved in Prague 2015
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Appendix 1) Membership statistics
In the following a summary of the relevant membership information is given.
First of all as of January 1, 2019, IUGG has 72 member countries (2 up compared to 2015). IUGG has lost 1 member since early 2015, but we have welcomed 3 new members.
The Philippines have left the union. New Members are Algeria (cat 1), Serbia and Uruguay (cat A).
Recently, F.Y.R. Macedonia moved to cat A. Nicaragua is expected to follow soon.
New Zealand has moved to cat 2 in 2019.
The 72 members represent a total of 276 units. 14 members are A-members, 4 more than in 2015.
In early June 2019 we have received full payments from 48 members representing a total of 258 units for 2018. The missing units are distributed over 10 members with various lengths of time spent in observer status.
Membership table 2018/2019 Payments for 2018 and member distribution 2019 Category Units in Number Number Paid 2018 (June 2019) Category countries units numbers units A 0 14 0 1 1 18 18 14 14 2 2 16 32 12 24 3 3 5 15 3 9 4 5 6 30 6 30 5 7 3 21 3 21 6 10 5 50 5 50 7 15 1 15 1 15 8 20 3 60 3 60 9 25 10 30 11 35 1 35 1 35 12 40 13 45 14 50 Total 72 276 48 258 (number of units from paid-up members only) USD (2019 values) 557.520
10 members are in observer status, representing 17 units in arrears. The total amount of dues in arrears is USD 104,355 (June 10).
Over time, it is a substantial amount of money that is not paid by members in observer status. It happens often that these members withdraw without paying their debt.
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Status of IUGG Members, June 1, 2019 Countries in arrears with payments of dues are put in observer status, indicated in the table below with the first year without payment.
Member Country Category Member Country Category 14 adhering bodies in A 5 adhering bodies in 3 15 units Bolivia Argentina observer, 2018 Peru Austria Mauritius Brazil observer, 2016 Georgia Finland Albania South Africa Armenia D.R. Congo 16 adhering bodies in 2 32 units Ghana Chile Morocco Czech Republic Bosnia & Herzegovina Egypt Serbia Greece F.Y.R. Macedonia Hungary Uruguay Ireland Nicaragua Korea, South Mexico 1 adhering body in 11 35 units New Zealand new in cat 2 in 2019 USA Nigeria observer, 2015 Pakistan observer, 2018 3 adhering bodies in 8 60 units Poland Portugal Germany Saudi Arabia observer, 2016 Great Britain Thailand Japan Turkey
1 adhering body in 7 15 units France 18 adhering bodies in 1 18 units Azerbaijan observer, 2016 5 adhering bodies in 6 50 units Bulgaria Canada Colombia China Costa Rica India Croatia Italy Estonia Russia Iceland Indonesia observer, 2015 Iran observer, 2012 3 adhering bodies in 5 21 units Israel Australia Jordan observer, 2018 Spain Luxembourg Switzerland Mozambique New Zealand 6 adhering bodies in 4 30 units Romania Academia Sinica Slovak Republic Belgium Slovenia Denmark Vietnam observer, 2017 Netherlands Norway Sweden
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Attachment 1, Final accounting 2012-2015
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Attachment 2, preliminary accounting 2016-2019
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Attachment 3, IUGG Budget 2016 – 19
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Quadrennial Report of the Vice-President (2015-2019) / Rapport quadriennal du Vice-président (2015-2019)
As a member of IUGG’s Bureau and Executive Committee, I participated in all the Bureau and Executive Committee meetings, held in Prague, Czech Republic (2015), Paris, France (2016), Montreal, Canada (2017) and Mexico City, Mexico (2018). Immediately after my appointment as Vice-President, I was able to attend the Climatic and Environmental Change Union Commission meeting held during the General Assembly in Prague (2015). At the request of the President, I represented IUGG at the joint IAGA, IAMAS and IAPSO Scientific Assembly ‘Good Hope for Earth Sciences’ in Cape Town in August 2017, and delivered an address on behalf of the President at the Opening Ceremony. The event was held at Cape Town’s International Conference Centre, and was the first time the three Associations had met together for a joint assembly, resulting in over 1000 registrations from 64 countries. After the Bureau Meeting in Mexico City last year, at the invitation of the Mexico National Committee, I travelled to Puerto Vallarta for the annual meeting of the Mexican Geophysical Union. There I participated in a plenary panel discussion ‘Forum on 100 years of Geophysics’, with Alik Ismail-Zadeh (IUGG Secretary-General), Chris McEntee (Executive Director of the American Geophysical Union) and others, and gave a plenary lecture entitled ‘Late stage continental rifting in Ethiopia – magnetotellurics in multi-disciplinary studies’. I am organizing and will convene Union Symposium U09 at the General Assembly in Montreal later this year. This Symposium is by invitation only, designed to highlight the contributions of outstanding early career scientists within IUGG, and give them the opportunity to share experiences, successes, expectations, suggestions and/or concerns for the future of geosciences. All 10 recipients of IUGG’s Early Career Scientists Awards have been invited, along with two other early career researchers recommended by Associations. The Symposium will be held over two half days on July 12th-13th. I will represent the Union at a commemoration of Roland Eötvös, to be held in Budapest, Hungary on 8th April 2019, exactly one hundred years after his death. This is part of a memorial year ‘100th anniversary of Roland Eötvös (1848-1919), physicist, geophysicist, and innovator of higher education - Commemorated in association with UNESCO’. There is good synergy with the centenary of IUGG, since Eötvös had wide scientific interests in topics covered by the Union, and was very active in pre- IUGG international cooperation leading up to the formation of the Union. As an ex-officio member of the Statutes and By-Laws Committee, I participated in discussions that led up to the changes in Statutes and By-Laws approved by Council in 2018. The Committee is now being asked to look at reformatting the Statutes and By-Laws to make the documents clearer and easier to understand. The aim is to undertake a root-and-branch review of the entirety of the documents, which have been revised and modified many times in a piecemeal fashion, leading to different interpretations and possible inconsistencies. The Union Outreach Committee was formed at the last General Assembly, with the Vice President the ex-officio Chair. The Committee has a very broad remit, and it has been difficult to identify a distinctive presence separate from the actions of TF100, the task force that is planning the Union’s centenary celebrations. Apart from the Chair, members are all early career scientists, some still on fixed-term contracts; although generally enthusiastic, they do not have much time to devote to the Committee, nor do they have between them the range of experience to undertake all of the terms of reference. Bureau discussed the Committee’s terms of reference at its meeting last year, and suggested that its role might better be defined as generating ideas, and providing oversight, monitoring and assessment of activities
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within the Union, its Associations and Commissions around outreach. This could include evidence- gathering, ensuring there is no duplication in and coordinating activities, and increasing publicity. I communicated with some of the proposers of Inter-Association Symposium JA12 ‘Innovation in Geoscience education, outreach and citizen science’ to be held in Montreal about their plans; some of the convenors are already involved in some exciting initiatives. With other current and past members of the Bureau, I co-authored an article ‘IUGG in the 21st Century’, to appear in a Special Issue of History of Geo- and Space Sciences. The Vice-President also oversees the Union Commissions and the Working Group on History, which report individually below, so these comments are brief. A highlight for me has been the publication of the Climatic and Environmental Change Commission’s book ‘Global Change and Future Earth: The Geosciences Perspective’, part of the Cambridge University Press series of IUGG publications, though sadly the author of one chapter (and Commission member), Eigil Friis-Christensen, died as it went to press. The Chair of the Union Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability changed during 2017, and the new Chair took an active role in the successful joint IUGG-AGU symposium on disaster science in association with the AGU Fall 2018 meeting; this is part of the joint IUGG-AGU activities to celebrate the centenaries of both organisations under a Memorandum of Understanding. The Data and Information Commission has recently been re-established, and has already begun new activities, e.g. participating in Workshops organized by the ISC’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA). The Committee on Mathematical Geophysics and the Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior have continued their successful format of holding scientific meetings in the ‘off’ years, i.e. when no Scientific and General Assemblies take place. The Commission on Planetary Science was established at the General Assembly in Prague (2015). Its first main activity was a joint Symposium with the International Association of Planetary Sciences in Berlin, Germany entitled ‘Interdisciplinary observation and understanding of the Solar System’, with about 100 participants from 14 countries. Most of the Commissions are taking a lead in organizing Symposia at the 2019 General Assembly. At its meeting in 2018, the Bureau decided it was timely to review the Terms of Reference of the Commissions, and this will begin shortly, in close collaboration with each Commission. As past-President of IAGA, I remain a member of its Executive Committee, thereby also contributing indirectly to IUGG. Over my tenure as Vice President, I have also contributed to consultations and participated in sometimes intense discussions that have taken place – sometimes face-to-face, more often by e-mail – on various issues affecting the Union, its members, and the science we undertake and promote. One significant aspect has been the amalgamation of the International Council of Science (ICSU) with the International Social Science Council (ISSC) to form the International Science Council (ISC). The ISC is now established, including a Governing Board and Secretariat, and I commented on its document concerning its strategic challenges and how it intends to address them. As the ISC can be regarded as our (along with about 40 other international scientific Unions and Associations) ‘parent body’, I am very relieved that Alik Ismail-Zadeh has been elected its Secretary; if he brings a fraction of the energy and insight he has provided to the Union as its Secretary General over the last 12 years, it will be in safe hands. It has been my pleasure and privilege to work with him and the other Bureau and Executive Committee members to discharge my duties as Vice President. Kathryn Whaler, IUGG Vice President
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4.4.1. Commission on Climate and Environmental Change (CCEC) / Commission sur le changements climatiques et environnementaux
INTRODUCTION The Union Commission on Climatic and Environmental Change (CCEC) promotes the advancement of scientific understanding of climatic and environmental change; boosts research in reducing uncertainties in climate and environmental models, and defines criteria for collaborative trans-disciplinary research on climate and environmental change, by providing an all-Union perspective on climatic and environmental change, and making available the knowledge and insights developed through scientific research to the benefit of society and planet Earth. Appendix 1 gives the CCEC objectives and summarises the governance structure. See the web site at: http://www.ccec-iugg.org/
ADMINISTRATION Officers and members of the Commission were elected on 30 June 2015 during the Business Meeting held at the Prague General Assembly. Harry Bryden replaced Lawrence Mysak as the IAPSO representative. Domenico Giardini agreed to serve as IASPEI representative. Members of CCEC for the 2015-2019 quadrennium are given in the IUGG Yearbook and listed in Appendix 3. However, CCEC Executive Committee Member and IUGG Fellow Eigil Friis-Christensen passed away on 21st September 2018 after a severe illness. The October 2018 IUGG Newsletter published an obituary and all CCEC members offer condolences to his family.
2015 Business Meeting Left Photo: Clockwise in 2015 Business Meeting Right photo: Front: Tom Beer, seating position from Front:Kathy Whaler, Arthur Kathy WhalerRear (from left) Jianping Li, Guoxiong Askew, Steve Self, Eigil Friis-Christensen, Lawrence Wu, Arthur Askew, Keith Alverson, Steve Self, Mysak, Harry Bryden, Mike MacCracken, Jianping Li, Lawrence Mysak, , Eigil Friis-Christensen, Harry Guoxiong Wu, Keith Alverson, Tom Beer Bryden, Mike MacCracken.
ACTIVITIES CCEC activities during the past quadrennium were: At the IUGG General Assembly (GA) in Prague CCEC: (1) Organised and held a successful session (Session U1 “Future Earth and Sustainability”) (2) held its first business meeting to elect officers (3) organised and held a panel session on the WMO Global Framework for Climate Services. In addition, CCEC (4) finalised and documented the work of the Weather, Climate and Food Security (WeatCliFS) initiative by publishing a monograph titled: Global Change and Future Earth. (5) held the second CCEC
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Scientific Meeting in Luxembourg in 2015 (the first was in Beijing in 2013). (6) Interacted with representatives of other scientific unions and other IUGG scientific associations. Session U1 Future Earth and Sustainability at the Prague General Assembly This was an all-day session held on 23 June 2015 titled: Future Earth and Sustainability with only invited speakers as listed in Appendix 2. In addition to the invited oral contributions that were presented in the Plenary Hall of the Congress Centre, there were six contributed presentations that were organised as posters during the Assembly poster session. Poster Session for the U1 Symposium at the Prague General Assembly
Panel Discussion on Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) Co-sponsored by IUGG and WMO. On behalf of CCEC, Arthur Askew organised a panel discussion on GFCS that was held on Wednesday 24 June 1800-1930. The Panel drew an audience of approximately 80 participants. The panel was chaired by Dr Tom Beer, Chair of CCEC, and the other panelists (on stage) were: Arthur Askew (Introduction), Roger Pulwarty [NOAA, USA] who spoke on the Challenge to IUGG, Vlad Kattsov (WCRP) who spoke of the need for a dialogue between scientists and users, Harald Kunstmann (IAHS) who pointed out the numerous ways in which IAHS can assist WMO, including their Panta Rhei research program, and finally Filipe Lucio (WMO) who summarised the WMO position after he had heard the presentations and the audience discussion. The open discussion included statements from Roxana Bojaru (Romania), Mike MacCracken (USA), Pierre Hubert (IUGG Bureau), and Gordon McBean (ICSU President). Global Change and Future Earth: The Geosciences Perspective On 18 October 2018 Cambridge University Press published Global Change and Future Earth as the third title of the IUGG Series of publications. The Editors are Tom Beer, Jianping Li, Keith Alverson. When the International Council for Science (ICSU) initiated its new program called “Future Earth” by amalgamating a number of its interdisciplinary research efforts (www.futureearth.org/), the main CCEC research effort became one of examining how our activities could be Cover of the third volume of the IUGG included in Future Earth. We ran a global series of symposia Publication Series whose publication was titled: Weather, Climate and Food Security, and persuaded a major, long-term CCEC project
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the contributors to those symposia, as well as the eminent speakers at the U1 session of the Prague GA as well as other leaders of international scientific unions, and eminent scientists to write chapters. The Table of Contents is reproduced as Appendix 4. Second CCEC Scientific Meeting The second scientific meeting of the IUGG Commission on Climatic and Environmental Change (CCEC) took place at the Université du Luxembourg in Belval, Luxembourg from 21-22 October 2016. The meeting was conducted as a workshop of chapter authors of the monograph “Global Change and Future Earth: The Geosciences Perspective” described above. Sixteen authors from Austria, Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, England, Germany, India, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Turkey, and USA presented, discussed, and finalized the content and structure of their chapters and the monograph’s eight key sections as shown in Appendix 4.
Opening Session of the Second CCEC Scientific Meeting (photo: Y. Kontar) Fumiko Kasuga, Future Earth Global Hub Director, Japan, attended the meeting and gave an overview of Future Earth as an international global change research activity. This was followed by two days of presentations by the chapter authors in attendance. The meeting invited a social scientist Catherine Wong (University of Luxembourg), to provide a social science perspective on the proposed monograph, the work programme, the meeting, and the organization. The workshop was facilitated by the local host, CCEC Member Tonie van Dam, Vice Rector of the University of Luxembourg, whose hard work and organizational capacities were greatly appreciated by all participants. Financial support to assist was provided by IUGG and IAMAS. Interactions CCEC together with UNEP, IAMAS and the IAMAS commission on climate (ICCL), organised a session "Resilience: the science of adaptation to climate change" (M16) at the IAMAS/IAPSO/IAGA Congress in Capetown (29Aug-3Sep, 2017). An edited book of the same title was published by Elsevier in March 2018. See https://www.elsevier.com/books/resilience/zommers/978-0-12-811891-7 IAMAS and CCEC were co-sponsors of M18: Advances and Frontier challenges in Global Monsoon Studies, also at the Capetown Congress. Session AS1.18/CL3.09: The global monsoons in current, future and palaeoclimates and their role in extreme weather and climate events at the EGU 2017, April 23-28 was co-sponsored by CCEC. Session AS13: Seasonal to Decadal Climate Variability in Southeast Asia and Indo-pacific: Impact and Predictions at the AOGS 14th Annual Meeting, 6-11 August 2017, Singapore was also co-sponsored by CCEC
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Liaison with other Unions In March 2016, CCEC was represented by the CCEC Chair at a conference in New Delhi organised by the International Geographical Union (IGU). The proceedings of that conference have been published as a Springer monograph “Climate Change, Extreme Events and Disaster Risk Reduction” available at: http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319564685 The contribution of the CCEC Chair comprises Chapter 8: 2018’s IUGG Centennial Celebration Activities in China (20-27 August 2018, Beijing & Lanzhou) The Year 2019 is the 100th anniversary of IUGG. CCEC received funding from the IUGG Grants Program for activities under “2018’s IUGG Centennial Celebration Activities in China, 20-27 August 2018, Beijing & Lanzhou, China”, and collaborated with the Chinese National Committee for IUGG to organize successfully a high-level International Earth Sciences Summit, titled Earth Sciences and Sustainable Development. Through this summit, scientists and sustainable development managers together reviewed IUGG contributions globally and regionally using China, Closing ceremony of the International Summit on a big developing country as a case study, Earth Sciences – an IUGG Centennial activity summarized the advantages of Earth Sciences and organised by CCEC. CCEC Vice-Chair, Jianping Li, their role in serving society in a sustainable way, is presenting awards to the international panel and summed up major challenges for the future. 48th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-48) Prof. Jianping Li, CCEC Vice-Chair and ICCL Executive Secretary-General, attended the 48th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-48) and the 1st Joint Session of Working Groups I, II and III of the IPCC from 1 to 6 October 2018 at Incheon, Republic of Korea as the representative of IUGG and an observer in the sessions. CCEC has been requested to propose names for an official IUGG Liaison to IPCC.
FUTURE ACTIVITIES IUGG General Assembly, Montreal July 2019 CCEC is coordinating Union Session U01 “Achieving Sustainable Development: The Role for Earth Sciences”. Speakers from all IUGG associations and earth systems disciplines whose work is relevant to measuring progress towards, or helping to achieve, sustainable development goals are expected to participate. CCEC is organizing several other symposia as well, including JM01 (IAMAS, IAHS, IACS) “Adapting in the Anthropocene”, JM03 (IAMAS, IAHS) “Advances and Frontier Challenges in Global Monsoon Studies: Dynamics, Convection and Interactions with Hydrological and Land Surface Processes” and M20 (IAMAS) “EL NIÑO/Southern Oscillation and its Regional and Global Impacts”. The CCEF business meeting is presently scheduled for 3pm on Sunday 14 July 2019. Tom Beer, CCEC Chair
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Appendix 1: CCEC Objectives and Governance CCEC provides a focus for IUGG scientific expertise in climate and environment related areas across the breadth of all IUGG disciplines and associations. CCEC enables the breadth of IUGG expertise to be brought to bear at the global level through collaborating with, and underpinning the work of ICSU and other international organizations. It also enables the geographic spread of IUGG expertise to be brought to bear at the local level through involvement with national bodies in the organization of meetings and other activities. Objectives
. To build scientific capacity for responsibly addressing the broad, multi-disciplinary issues involved in climatic and environmental change;
. To provide useful information, understanding, and support to the public and governmental organizations;
. To interact and cooperate with outside activities that would benefit from the capabilities and resources of the IUGG Associations; and
. To strengthen links across the Scientific Associations within IUGG, to build new external links to organizations outside IUGG, to strengthen existing links to external organizations and to promote IUGG’s contribution to global change research. The following are current officers of the Commission: ‒ Chair: Tom Beer (Australia) ‒ Vice Chair: Jianping Li (China) ‒ Secretary-Treasurer: Keith Alverson (USA) The web site is at http://ccec-iugg.org Information about CCEC is also available on the main IUGG web page at: http://www.iugg.org/about/commissions/ccec.php
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Appendix 2: Session U1 of the IUGG General Assembly in Prague The Scientific Program Committee of the IUGG General Assembly accepted a CCEC proposal to organise a Union symposium (Symposium U1) that was held on 23 June 2015 titled: Future Earth and Sustainability with the following invited speakers (in order of their presentation): ‒ Tetsuzo Yasunari (IAMAS Executive Member), Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan - Monsoon Asia and Future Earth ‒ Guoxiong Wu (ICSU Executive Board),LASG Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China - Meteorology and Climate of Future Earth ‒ Bruce M. Campbell (Director, CCAFS) , International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), c/o University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark - Climate Change and Food Security ‒ Guy Brasseur, NCAR, Boulder, USA (Chair, WCRP JSC) - Climatic and Environmental Change ‒ Pavel Kabat (Director, IIASA), : International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Laxenburg, Austria - A Systems Approach to Future Earth ‒ Alberto Montanari (Director, Panta Rhei), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy - Urbanisation and Water Resources ‒ David Johnston (Chair, IRDR), , GNS Science/Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand - Future Earth and Disasters
Bruce M. Campbell (Director, CCAFS) during his presentation on Climate Change and Food Security
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Appendix 3: Membership Union Commission on Climatic and Environmental Change (CCEC): www.ccec-iugg.org
Chair: Tom Beer AUSTRALIA Vice-Chair: Jianping Li CHINA Secretary-Treasurer: Keith Alverson USA / JAPAN Executive Committee Members: Ian Allison AUSTRALIA Harry Bryden UK Eigil Friis-Christensen † DENMARK Domenico Giardini SWITZERLAND Michael C. MacCracken USA Setsuya Nakada JAPAN Dan Rosbjerg DENMARK Stephen Self USA / UK Michael G. Sideris CANADA Makoto Taniguchi JAPAN Tonie Van Dam LUXEMBOURG Guoxiong Wu CHINA Co-opted Member: Serhat Sensoy TURKEY
ALLISON Adjunct Professor T: 61 437 369 417 Dr. Ian Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems F: 61 3 6226 2440 Association Representative Member, Cooperative Research Centre [email protected] Union Commission on Climatic and Private Bag 80 Environmental Change (CCEC) Hobart, TAS, 7001 AUSTRALIA ALVERSON Director T: 81 6 6915 4581 Dr. Keith International Environmental Technology F: 81 6 6915 0304 Secretary-Treasurer, Union Commission Center [email protected] on Climatic and Environmental Change United Nations Environment Program [email protected] (CCEC) 2-110 Ryokuchi-koen Tsurumi-ku 538 0036 Osaka JAPAN BEER Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd T: 61 3 9381 2222 Dr. Tom G2/10-14 Hope St. M: 61 448 675 001 Chair, Union Commission on Climatic and Brunswick, VIC, 3056 [email protected] Environmental Change (CCEC); AUSTRALIA .au Honorary Member, Union Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability (GRC) BRYDEN University of Southampton T: 44 2380 596 437 Prof. Harry National Oceanography Centre [email protected] Association Representative Member, Southampton Union Commission on Climatic Empress Dock andEnvironmental Change (CCEC) Southampton, SO14 3ZH UK GIARDINI ETH Zurich T: 41 44 633 2610 Prof. Domenico Institute of Geophysics F: 41 44 633 1065 IASPEI Representative Member, Union NO H 69.1 [email protected] Commission on Climatic and Sonneggstrasse 5 Environmental Change (CCEC) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND LI Beijing Normal University T: 86 10 58806550 Dr. Prof. Jianping College of Global Change and Earth F: 86 10 58802219 Vice-Chair, Union Commission on System Science (GCESS) [email protected] Climatic and Environmental Change 19 Xinjiekouwai Street, Haidian (CCEC) Beijing, 100875 CHINA
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MacCRACKEN Chief Scientist for Climate Change T: 1 301 564 4255 Dr. Michael C. Programs F: 1 301 564 4255 Association Representative Member, Climate Institute [email protected] Union Commission on Climatic and 6308 Berkshire Drive Environmental Change (CCEC) Bethesda, MD, 20814 USA NAKADA University of Tokyo T: 81 3 5841 5695 Prof. Setsuya Earthquake Research Institute F: 81 3 3812 6979 Association Representative Member, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku [email protected] Union Commission on Climatic and Tokyo, 113-0032 Environmental Change (CCEC) JAPAN
ROSBJERG Technical University of Denmark T: 45 4525 1449 Prof. Dan Miljoevej, Building 113 F: 45 4593 2850 Association Representative Member, 2800 Kongens Lyngby [email protected] Union Commission on Climatic and DENMARK Environmental Change (CCEC) SELF US-Nuclear Regulatory Commission T: 1 510 865 6141 Dr. Stephen Mail Stop EBB-2B2 [email protected] Association Representative Member, Washington, DC, 20555 [email protected] Union Commission on Climatic and USA Environmental Change (CCEC) SENSOY Turkish State Meteorological Service T: 90 312 3022456 Mr. Serhat P.O. Box 401 T: 90 535 9723305 Co-opted Member, Union Commission on 06120 Ankara F: 90 312 3612371 Climatic and Environmental Change TURKEY [email protected] (CCEC) TANIGUCHI Research Institute for Humanity and T: 81 75 707 2255 Prof. Makoto Nature (RIHN) F: 81 75 707 2506 Association Representative Member, 457 Kamigamo, Motoyama, Kita-ku [email protected] Union Commission on Climatic and Kyoto, 603-8047 Environmental Change (CCEC) JAPAN VAN DAM University of Luxembourg T: 352 46 6644 6261 Prof. Dr. Tonie Faculté des Sciences, de la Technologie et F: 352 46 66 44 6261 Association Representative Member, de la Communication [email protected] Union Commission on Climatic and 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi Environmental Change (CCEC) 1359 Luxembourg LUXEMBOURG WU Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) T: 86 10 8299 5266 Dr. Prof. Guoxiong LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics F: 86 10 8299 5172 Association Representative Member, (IAP) [email protected] Union Commission on Climatic and No. 40 Huayanli, Beichenxilu Environmental Change (CCEC) Chaoyang Districs P.O. Box 9804 Beijing, 100029 CHINA
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4.4.2. Commission on Mathematical Geophysics (CMG) / Commission sur la géophysique mathématique
SUMMARY During 2015 – 2018 the commission was primarily working on organizing and convening the two biennial IUGG meetings on Mathematical Geophysics. In 2016 the commission organized and held the 31th biennial CMG meeting in Paris, France during June 6-10 at Université Pierre et Marie Curie. In 2018 the commission organized and held the 32nd biennial CMG meeting in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia during June 23-28. Business meetings were held during the conferences. The commission was also soliciting proposals for organizing the 33rd CMG meeting in 2020 and organizing the Union Symposium of the 2019 IUGG General Assembly.
ADMINISTRATION The administration of CMG remained the same during the quadrennial: Chair: Yehuda Ben Zion (USA); Vice-Chairs: Einat Aharonov (Israel) and Claudia Pasquero (Italy); Secretary General: Ilya Zaliapin (USA); Past Chair: Dan Rothman (USA) A CMG business meeting was held during the 31st CMG conference at the Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris, Room 108, June 9, 2016, 12:30 – 14:00. Attendance: Yehuda Ben-Zion (Chair), Alexander Feigin (Russia), Alik Ismail-Zadeh (IUGG Secretary General), Sang-Moon Lee (South Korea), Claudia Pasquero (Vice-Chair), Klaus Regenauer-Lieb (Australia), Malcolm Sambridge (IASPEI), Daniel Schertzer (IAHS), Gordon Swaters (IAPSO), Manolis Veveakis (Australia), Ilya Zaliapin (Secretary). The agenda included presentation of proposals to hold the 32nd CMG meeting in 2018, and a proposal from IUGG secretary general Dr. Ismail-Zadeh on celebrating 100th anniversary of the Union. The Commission received fixe excellent proposals. Considering the potential for close interaction between participants, expanding scientific collaborations, availability of sponsorship and support to young scientists, and overall readiness by the local organizing committee, the Committee and IUGG Association Representatives selected the proposal presented by Alexander Feigin, Russian Academy of Science. Executive Committee meeting on June 28, 2018 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The meeting was attended by Yehuda Ben-Zion (President), Ilya Zaliapin (Secretary General), and Alik Ismail-Zadeh (IUGG Secretary General). Agenda: 1) Selecting local organizing committee for CMG 2020, 2) Future CMG leadership and organization.
ACTIVITIES (most recent first) 32nd CMG biennial meeting in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia The IUGG Commission on Mathematical Geophysics (CMG) held its 32nd meeting during June 23-28. The local organizing committee was affiliated with the Federal Research Center Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS). The conference took place on a boat that cruised the Volga River with daily stops at historic sites. The meeting covered a range of current research topics in mathematical geophysics. The conference aimed at discussing key theoretical and observational aspects of solid earth, ocean, atmosphere, cryosphere, climate and other contemporary topics. The scientific program included 8 special sessions: Earth system modeling, Modeling and prediction of geophysical extremes, Global climate variability at different time scales, Mathematics of geophysical
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flows, Advances in analysis of continuous seismic and acoustic wavefields, Dynamics of earthquakes and faults, Computational Seismology and Geodynamics, and Mathematical modeling and Statistical Learning in Geosciences. The meeting featured invited plenary talk by Alexey Gvishiani, Director of the Geophysical Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Scientific Coordinating Council of the Federal Agency of Scientific organizations of Russia (FASO) and the Expert Council of the Russian Scientific Foundation, titled “Significant, strong and strongest earthquake-prone areas recognition: systems analysis aspects”.
CMG 2018 Meeting participants (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) Each session included talks by several invited speakers, as well as contributed talks and posters. The participants presented 70 talks, including 23 invited, and 15 poster presentations. The meeting was attended by over 70 researchers, postdocs, and students from 13 countries, including Russia (30), USA (14), Germany (5), France (4), and UK (4). The social program included a chamber music concert and multiple city tours. Additional information and book of abstracts is available at http://cmg2018.iapras.ru/ CMG biennial meeting 2016 in Paris, France The IUGG Commission on Mathematical Geophysics (CMG) held its 31st meeting during June 6-10 at Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France. This year’s meeting had a strong emphasis on computational and experimental science. In particular, it reached out to experimental science communities via a special session on “Experimental Geophysics”, which focused on bridging the gap between theory and field observation. The scientific program included 16 special sessions divided into four thematic blocks: Earth System and Planets, CMG 2016 Meeting participants (Paris, France) 70
Fluids and Granular Flows, Seismology, tectonics and Rock Mechanics, and Cross Disciplinary Approached, Methods, and Data. The meeting featured invited plenary talks by Maria T. Zuber, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on Advances in Planetary Gravity Mapping and by Chris Paola, Department of Earth Sciences and St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota on Using unscaled and partially scaled experiments in geophysics. Each session included talks by several invited speakers, as well as contributed talks and posters. The meeting was attended by 218 researchers, postdocs, and students from 23 countries, including France (98 participants), USA (24), UK (17), Australia (11), Netherlands (11), Germany (7), Switzerland (6) and many other (see Fig. 1). The social program included a field trip "Geology of Paris: the birth of a capital", organized by young geologists of IPGParis. The IUGG CMG 2016 local organizing committee: Philippe Claudin (CNRS, École Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles), Alexandre Fournier (Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris), Valérie Vidal (CNRS, École normale supérieure de Lyon), and Renaud Toussaint (CNRS, Institut de Physique du Globe, Strasbourg). Additional information and detailed meeting program is available at: https://cmg2016.sciencesconf.org/
FUTURE ACTIVITIES The Commission is organizing the 33rd CMG meeting in 2020. During 2018, organization proposals have been solicited from five groups. The commission will discuss the proposals and select the winner in 2019. The Commission is organizing the Union Symposium 03 “Mathematics of Planet Earth: The Science of Data” at the 27th General Assembly of IUGG that will take place in Montreal, Canada during July 8-18, 2019. Lead Convener: Ilya Zaliapin (CMG, USA) Co-Conveners: Yehuda Ben-Zion (CMG, USA), Malcolm Sambridge (IASPEI, Australia), Gordon Swaters (IAPSO, Canada), Shin-Chan Han (IAG, Australia). Scope: This symposium will highlight the elemental role that mathematical and statistical ideas play in the geosciences and encourage further research answering fundamental questions about our planet and dynamic environment. The symposium will showcase how different elements of Earth System science – including observations, data analysis, mathematical, physical, and computer modeling – facilitate a predictive understanding the Earth’s surface, interior, oceans and atmosphere. A particular focus will be on the emergence of data science and the ways artificial intelligence and machine learning play in data-driven geophysical knowledge discovery. The symposium will contribute to the international program Mathematics of Planet Earth. Invited Speakers: Felix Herrmann (Canada), Kenneth Golden (USA), Jurgen Kusche (Germany), Simon Papalaxiou (Canada), Anya Reading (Australia), Michel Stein (USA). Yehuda Ben-Zion, CMG Chair
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4.4.3. Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability (GRC) / Commission sur les risques géophysiques et le développement durable
INTRODUCTION
The IUGG Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability (IUGG GeoRisk Commission, or GRC) established by the IUGG Bureau in August 2000 is dedicated (i) to promoting scientific studies applied to the reduction of risk from natural hazards in an increasingly urbanized world and sustainability and (ii) to reducing death and destruction from natural and technological hazards by providing hazards data and information to emergency managers, policy-makers, scientists and the general public in the most timely and effective manner as possible. This includes the integration of knowledge concerning environmental, social and economic processes. The fundamental scope of this Commission is to facilitate communications between scientists via meetings, workshops and publications, as well as between scientists and decision makers, between scientists and the public, and between scientists and schools.
The GRC website is available at www.iugg-georisk.org.
Special efforts were expended by the GRC in recognition and celebration of the Centennial Years 2018- 2019 of the IUGG, AGU, and the US National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics. The AGU- IUGG agreed to jointly sponsor two successive meetings in association with the AGU 2018 Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C., USA, 10-14 December 2018 (Meeting 1: AGU-IUGG Centennial Symposium on Disaster Science: Risk Reduction, Resilience, Response, and Recovery and the 27th IUGG General Assembly in Montreal, Canada, 8-18 July 2019 (Meeting 2: Symposium on GeoRisk Reduction: Science, Resources, and Governmental Action). These meetings seek to create mechanisms for improved coordination between scientists, engineers, decision-makers, disaster managers, and financiers to address the challenges of the growing impacts of natural hazards upon society.
The meetings will (i) address genesis of natural mega-hazard events and resultant disasters; (ii) focus upon models for implementation and the building of partnerships for science-based disaster prevention, mitigation and recovery, and present exemplary case studies; (iii) bring together representatives of the scientific community, government agencies, policy experts, and commercial entities such as the insurance and banking sectors; (iv) focus upon the promotion of collaborations between new technologies for disaster early warning and improved forecast modelling; and (v) strive for the development of a holistic model for hazard and disaster mitigation.
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July 2015 - November 2017: The GRC Business meeting at the 26th IUGG General Assembly in Prague elected the following leadership: Executive Committee: Chair: Joan Marti (IAVCEI, Spain) Vice-Chair: John LaBrecque (IAG, USA) Vice-Chair: Vyacheslav Gusiakov (IAPSO, RUSSIA) Secretary-Treasurer: Paula Dunbar (IAPSO, USA) • Past Chair: Kuniyoshi Takeuchi (IAHS, JAPAN) [email protected] 72
• Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany (IASPEI, IRAN) • Michael Krautblatter (IACS, GERMANY) • Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade (IAPSO, PUERTO RICO) • Guy Brasseur (IAMAS, Germany) Members in Advisory Status • Kosuke Heki (IAG, Japan) • Stephen McNutt (IAVCEI, USA) • Martin Funk (IACS • David Boteler (IAGA, Canada) • Vladimir Kossobokov (IASPEI, Russia) • Tom Beer (IAMAS, Australia) • Ramesh Singh (IASPEI, USA)
November 1, 2017 - Present: The IUGG Bureau revised the GRC leadership on November 1, 2017 following the resignation of the Chair. Executive Committee: Chair: John LaBrecque (IAG, USA) Vice-Chair: Vyacheslav Gusiakov (IAPSO, RUSSIA) Vice-Chair: Alan Thomson (IAGA, UK) Secretary-Treasurer: Paula Dunbar (IAPSO, USA) • Past Chair: Joan Marti (IAVCEI, Spain) • Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany (IASPEI, IRAN) • Michael Krautblatter (IACS, GERMANY) • Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade (IAPSO, PUERTO RICO) • Chun-Chieh Wu (IAMAS, CHINA: ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IN TAIPEI) Members in Active Advisory Capacity: • Tom Beer (IAMAS, Australia, • Harsh Gupta (IASPEI, India) • Alik Ismail-Zadeh (IASPEI, Germany/ Russia) • Yekaterina Kontar (IACS, IAHS, USA) • Vladimir Kossobokov (IASPEI, Russia) • Gordon McBean (IAMAS, Canada) • Ramesh P. Singh (IASPEI, USA) • Linda Rowan (IAG, USA)
Business Meetings (2015-2019): 2015: Venue: 26th General Assembly: Purpose: Elect Executive Committee 2017: Venue: Internet: Purpose: Implement GRC reorganization, Plan for Centennial Symposia 2019: Venue: 27th General Assembly: Purpose: Elect Executive Committee
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Current GRC Financial Status: Paula Dunbar (GRC Treasurer):
The GRC financial statement for 2018 reflects a $10,000 allocation from the IUGG and a payment for the Webclyclopedia (the GRC website) as well as associated wire transfer fees. The balance as of April 1, 2019 is $14510.35. ACTIVITIES: 2015: ‒ Preparation and presentation of Union Symposium on Natural Hazards during the 26th General Assembly in Prague. ‒ The Introduction of IUGG Resolution #4 for the implementation of the GNSS Augmentation of Tsunami Early Warning Systems. 2016: The GRC activities concentrated on the endorsement and participation in risk reduction initiatives organized by other institutions that included: ‒ IASPEI-IAVCEI International Workshop on Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Barcelona, Spain, 7-9 November 2016; ‒ International Conference "Data Intensive System Analysis for Geohazard Studies", Sochi, Russia, 18- 21 July 2016; ‒ Plenary XIII of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-10 November 2016. ‒ We also note that Kuniyoshi Takeuchi (Japan, IAHS Past President and previous Chair of the GRC) was bestowed a certificate of appreciation by the Jakarta Office of the UNESCO International Hydrological Program in recognition of his long-term support and contributions to UNESCO Natural Science programs in Asia and the Pacific region, especially in the area of water management. 2017: ‒ The GRC participated in GTEWS 2017: GNSS Tsunami Early Warning Workshop in Sendai, Japan on July 25-27, 2017 co-sponsored by the IAG/GGOS, NASA, APRU, and the NEID of Tohoku University. The workshop explored the status and implementation of the GNSS Enhancement to Tsunami Early Warning as recommended by the 2015 IUGG General Assembly’s Resolution #4. Resolution #4 calls for the enhancement of “existing tsunami early warning systems with the augmentation of GNSS network observational systems. Resolution #4 recommends a focus upon the
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Pacific region because the high frequency of tsunami events constitutes a large risk to the region’s large populations and economies, by developing a prototype system, together with stakeholders, including scientific, operational, and emergency responders. The GTEWS 2017 workshop report is in preparation. The presentation viewgraphs and videos can be accessed at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s0c03xv34zfz7y4/2017%20GTEWS%20Program.pdf?dl=0
The GTEWS 2017 workshop explored the status and implementation of the GNSS Enhancement to Tsunami Early Warning as recommended by the 2015 IUGG General Assembly’s Resolution #4. The workshop was co-sponsored by the Global Geodetic Observing System of the IAG.
‒ John LaBrecque (GRC Chair) received the Gilbert F. White Distinguished Lecture Award from the AGU Natural Hazards Program (http://nh.agu.org/awards/gilbert-f-white-distinguished-lecture- award/ ). The Lecture entitled The New Geodesy: A Powerful Tool in the Mitigation of Natural Hazards was presented at the AGU 2017 Fall Meeting. The Lecture can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwwMAkdUt0o ‒ The GRC sponsored a Panel Discussion on Seismo-Geodesy- IAG-IASPEI meeting Kobe, Japan Session J04-7; The Promise and Challenges of Seismo-Geodesy for Earthquake and Tsunami Early Warning on August 4, 2017. ‒ The GRC led the development of a Memorandum of Understanding between the IUGG and the Science Diplomacy Center, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University to strengthen our efforts to build a global society more resilient to natural disasters by fostering international collaborations among natural hazards experts, while simultaneously strengthening diplomatic ties between countries with shared risks. ‒ The GRC is participating in the development of an MOU with AGU-IUGG-US National Academy for jointly sponsored meetings on Disaster Science during AGU 2018 Fall meeting and the IUGG 2019 General Assembly. ‒ A session Contribution of Science and Technology to Achieving the 2020 Sendai Target was co- organized at the United National Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in Cancun, Mexico, 25 May 2017. The session discussed the contribution of science and technology in achieving Target E of the Sendai Framework with a focus on illustrating how appropriate global, national and local disaster risk assessments and scientific analysis have been used to inform disaster risk reduction planning and monitoring at national and local levels. The concept note of the session can be
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downloaded from: https://www.unisdr.org/files/globalplatform/5922450322c17170519_Concept_ Note_of_ST_working_session-_2017_GP.pdf . ‒ A meeting of representatives of international and intergovernmental organizations dealing with disaster risk reduction was organized in Cancun during the Global Platform to discuss cooperation plans to further develop the initiative on disaster risk assessment. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Mexican Academy of Sciences; World Meteorological Organization (WMO); German Federal Foreign Office; Science Council of Japan; International Council for Science (ICSU); World Bank; United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR); United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). ‒ GRC participated in the Fourth World Landslide Forum held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in June 2017. Scientists, engineers, and policymakers working in the area of landslide technology, landslide disaster investigation and landslide remediation attended the Forum to share their work with the global community. A high-level panel discussion was held at the Forum with participation of IUGG. ‒ GRC participated in the Global Forum on Science and Technology for Disaster Resilience held in Tokyo, Japan, 23-25 November 2017.
GRC at the Global Forum on Science and Technology for Disaster Resilience, Tokyo, Japan, 23-25 November 2017. 1: Takashi Onishi, President of the Science Council of Japan, and Robert Glasser, Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction; 2: Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan; 3: Gordon McBean, President of the International Council for Sciences, IUGG Fellow, and GRC Advisory Member; 4: K. Satake, IUGG Bureau Member (2011-2015); 5: Group photo; 6: Irasema Alcantara-Ayala, Vice President, International Consortium on Landslides; 7: Shuaib Lwasa, Chair of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Scientific Committee; 8: Kuni Takeuchi, GRC Chair (2007-2015); and 9: Alik Ismail-Zadeh, IUGG Secretary General, and GRC Chair (2003-2007) (photos: T. Koike) ‒ GRC participated in the UNESCO Conference on Landslides organized by the International Consortium for Landslides (ILC) and the International Programme on Landslides. During the conference, ICL organized a business meeting related to the Sendai Partnerships in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Promotion of Landslide Science, signed in 2015 in Sendai, Japan, by several
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international and intergovernmental organizations including IUGG. GRC discussed possibilities to participate in the World Landslides Forum in Kyoto, Japan in 2020 and to organize a session of landslide-induced tsunamis. 2018: ‒ Preparation of reports for the GNSS Tsunami Early Warning (GTEWS 2017) Workshop in Sendai, Japan on July 25-27, 2017 co-sponsored by the IAG/GGOS, NASA, APRU, and the NEID of Tohoku University. The first report including presentation viewgraphs and videos can be accessed on the website of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities at: http://apru.org/resource/gnss-early-warning-report/ ‒ An updated report on GNSS Augmentation to Tsunami Early Warning as endorsed by the IUGG 2015 General Assembly Resolution #4 was prepared and accepted for publication in the GAR-19 report of the UNISDR with an expected release date of May, 2019. ‒ The GRC participated in the development of an MOU with AGU-IUGG-US National Academy for jointly sponsored meetings on Disaster Science during AGU 2018 Fall meeting and the IUGG 2019 General Assembly. The two meetings are intended as commemorate the Centennial celebrations of the AGU and IUGG and their growing importance to insuring the safety and sustainability of global society. ‒ The GRC led the development of a Memorandum of Understanding between the IUGG and the Science Diplomacy Center, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University to strengthen our efforts to build a global society more resilient to natural disasters by fostering international collaborations among natural hazards experts, while simultaneously strengthening diplomatic ties between countries with shared risks. ‒ The GRC worked closely with the AGU and the US National Committee for and Geophysics to organize and effect the AGU-IUGG Centennial Symposium on Disaster Science: Risk Reduction, Resilience, Response, and Recovery. The agenda, video recordings and a brief summary of the findings of the Centennial Workshop can be accessed here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rsdr6jd1gg7lmnd/DisasterScienceSymposium%20Draft%20Summary. docx?dl=0
Images from the AGU-IUGG Centennial Symposium on Disaster Science: Risk Reduction, Resilience, Response, and Recovery on December 9, 2018 during the American Geophysical Union’s 2018 Fall Meeting:
Welcoming introductions were presented at the AGU-IUGG Centennial Symposium on Disaster Science: Risk Reduction, Resilience, Response, and Recovery by Michael Sideris, President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and by Eric Davidson, President of the American Geophysical Institution. A stimulating keynote presentation by Marcia McNutt President of the National Academies of Science of the United States provided a strong introduction to the Workshop Agenda.
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Panel on Science in Disaster Risk Appraisal and Management: Left to Right: Ester Sztein, Laura Kong, Carlo Doglioni, Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Susan Cutter, David Applegate, John LaBrecque (Meeting Moderator)
Panel on Science for Risk Reduction, Resilience and Response to Disasters: Left to Right: Diego Melgar, John Ludden, Timothy Dixon, Yekaterina Kontar, Leah Salditch, Seth Stein
Panel on Dealing with Cascading Hazards That May Lead to a Regional or Global Disaster: Left to Right: Jay Wilson, Fernando Echavarria, Harold Magistrale, Anne Hoefler, Stephen McNutt, Linda Rowan
Panel on Understanding the Societal Impact of Severe Weather: Left to Right: Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Alice Hill, Stéphane Hallegatte, Bill Murtagh, Alan Thomson, Rick Murnane
Early 2019: ‒ The GRC is jointly organizing with the AGU and the USNC/GG the sequel joint AGU-IUGG-US National Academy Centennial Disaster Science meeting to be held as a daylong Union Symposium during the IUGG General Assembly in Montreal on July 14, 2019. The union symposium entitled “Georisk Reduction: Science, Resources, and Governmental Action” will include four panel discussion sessions with strong audience interaction. The GRC will participate in the preparation of a report summarizing the findings of these two centennial meetings on Disaster Science.
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4.4.4. Committee on the Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior (SEDI) / Comité sur l’étude des profondeurs terrestres
INTRODUCTION SEDI is an international scientific organization dedicated to the Study of the Earth's Deep Interior. The scope of SEDI includes the core and lower mantle, but interest may extend to the surface. The scientific questions and problems of interest to SEDI include: 1) the investigation of the origin, evolution, structure, geochemical and mineralogical composition of the inner core, outer core, mantle and crust, 2) the theoretical and observational investigation of core magnetohydrodynamics at all time scales, and the more general investigation of fluid rotational dynamics that can affect the core, 3) the investigation of mantle dynamics, both from a theoretical point of view and observational point of view, 4) the investigation of mechanical, electromagnetic, thermal and chemical interactions between the inner-core, outer core, mantle, crust and possibly the oceans and atmosphere on a planetary scale, with a particular emphasis on region boundaries, with the aim of understanding the Earth as a globally interacting system, 5) the thermodynamics of the Earth and the investigation of its long-term thermal evolution, and how it differs and compares to other planetary bodies. The SEDI website is available at www.sedigroup.org. Since 1987, SEDI has been a Union Commission of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). As such, it cuts across the traditional discipline-oriented bounds of the Associations of the IUGG [such as the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA), the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI), and the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)], which normally study the Earth from a particular point of view. The intent of SEDI is to amalgamate all sources of data and all points of view to generate the most coherent and consistent picture of the workings of the Earth's deep interior. ADMINISTRATION Over the 2015 to 2018 time window, SEDI has been chaired by Jonathan Aurnou (UCLA, USA), vice- chaired by Christine Thomas (U. Münster, Germany), with Michael Bergman (Simon’s Rock College, USA) acting as Secretary-General. SEDI’s membership has remained at about 600, as recorded on the email list used to broadcast information related to SEDI activities, upcoming meetings, funding opportunities, and academic openings.
MAIN ACTIVITIES (2015 – 2018) IUGG 2015 General Assembly The main activity in 2015 was the IUGG General assembly. At the IUGG 2015 General Assembly, several symposia were held that were closely related to SEDI interests. In particular, the Union Symposium U05 entitled “New Discoveries in Deep Interiors of Earth and Planets” was co-convened by Satoru Tanaka (SEDI), Dominique Jault (IAGA), Richard Gross (IAG), Thorn Lay (IASPEI), and John Gamble (IAVCEI). This was a well attended session, with good interdisciplinary discussions relevant to deep Earth processes and structure. In addition to a poster session, twelve invited speakers made oral presentations: Arwen Deuss “Seismic Inner Core Structure”; Steve Grand “Global Seismic Mantle Structure”; Gauthier Hulot “Satellite Observation of the Geomagnetic Field”; Hikaru Iwamori “Hemispherical Mantle Geochemical Heterogeneity”; Andy Jackson “Dynamo Simulations Without Viscosity”; Alexey Kuvshinov “Global and Regional Geo-Electromagnetic Mantle Structure”; Allen McNamara “Mantle Convection and
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ULVZs”; Yangxin Pan “Geomagnetic Field and Life”; Isabella Panet “Satellite Gravity”; Barbara Romanowicz “Global Mantle Seismic Structure”; Christopher Russell “Vesta and Ceres”; and Dave Stevenson “A Habitable Planet”. The Business Meeting was held on July 28th, 2015. The new chair and vice-chair and continuation of the secretary were approved. The new executive committee members were also approved. Finally, it was suggested that we consider creating an Associate Secretary position, in order to lower the workload taken on by the Secretary General. However, the creation of an Associate Secretary position has yet to be acted upon. SEDI Meeting 2016 (Nantes, France) The 15th Symposium of SEDI meeting was held in Nantes, France, from 24th to 29th July 2016. The Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique was in charge of the local organization. The symposium gathered 205 students and scientists coming from 20 different countries. As is usually the case with SEDI meetings, the meeting was organized by eight sessions led by discussion leaders. Each session had one keynote talk and two shorter more focused talks, followed by ample time for discussion of posters and key scientific issues. These eight sessions were: S1: Mantle – Observations, S2: Mantle – Modeling & Dynamics, S3: The Core-Mantle Boundary, S4: Inner Core, S5: Outer Core – Observations, S6: Outer Core – Dynamics, S7: Experiments, and S8: Other Planets. Highlights of the meeting included the Zatman Lecture on “Force balance and wave motion in Earth’s core” by Alex Fournier (IPGP) and the awarding of the Doornbos Prizes for outstanding work by early career scientists. At the meeting, the Doornbos Prizes were awarded to: ‒ Chris Davies, for linking core dynamics to paleomagnetic observations and seminal work on the geophysical implications of deep earth diffusivities; ‒ Kumiko Hori, for novel studies of core physics, including the development of a new tool to give us an independent source of information about the geomagnetic field; ‒ Shigehiko Tateno, for cutting edge experimental studies of the structure of deep Earth minerals made over the entire range of deep Earth conditions.
Participants in the 2016 SEDI Meeting in Nantes, France. Image credit: Benoit Langlais. The proceedings of the 2016 SEDI meeting were published in a special issue of the Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors. Jonathan Aurnou, Michael Bergman, Christine Thomas and Michael Le Bars (IRPHE, Marseille) joined the editorial team as Associate Editors. The business meeting was held on July 28th, 2016, and was attended by most of the participants. After a lively discussion, it was agreed that the location of the next (16th) SEDI international symposium would be left undecided until after the November 2016 US election. Based on the election results, the SEDI Executive Committee decided to hold the 2018 SEDI meeting in Edmonton, Canada, with Profs. Mathieu Dumberry and Moritz Heimpel as lead organizers.
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IAG-IASPEI Meeting 2017 The joint scientific assembly of IAG and IASPEI was held from July 30 to August 4, 2017, in Kobe, Japan. Various SEDI-related symposia (7 IAG, 27 IASPEI and 9 joint symposia) were convened there. IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Meeting 2017 The IAPSO/IAMAS/IAGA Joint Assembly was held from August 27 - September 1, 2017, in Cape Town, South Africa. It features over 60 total sessions covering a variety of SEDI-focussed topics. These sessions included “A02 - Earth’s core dynamics and planetary dynamos,” which featured 2 oral sessions with attendance of ~30 scientists in each session, and “Geomagnetic secular variation and rapid core dynamics,” which featured a single oral session attended by ~50 researchers. SEDI Meeting 2018 (Edmonton, Canada) The 2018 SEDI meeting was held in Edmonton, Canada from 8 to 13 of July, 2018. The lead local organizers at the University of Edmonton were Mathieu Dumberry and Moritz Heimpel, with 155 scientists in attendance. (https://sedi2018.sciencesconf.org)
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Moritz Heimpel joined the editorial team as Associate Editors, with Richard Holme (U. Liverpool) as lead editor of the special issue. The business meeting was held on July 12th, 2018, and was attended by most of the participants. Presentations were made for the next SEDI meeting to be held in Canberra, Australia, and in Taipei, Taiwan. Based on the straw poll at the business meeting and online polling results, the SEDI Executive Committee decided to hold the 2020 SEDI meeting in Taipei, as described further below.
FUTURE ACTIVITIES At this summer’s IUGG 2019 Centennial meeting in Montreal, there will a union session (U05) on Discoveries in the Deep Earth as well as multidisciplinary session (JA01) linked between IAGA/IASPEI/IAG. These sessions are co-chaired by Jon Aurnou (USA, IAG), Mike Bergman (USA, IAG), Carla Braitenberg (Italy, IAG), George Helffrich (Japan, IASPEI) and Christine Thomas (Germany, IASPEI). We will have our Business Meeting at IUGG 2019 as well. There elections will be held to consider Christine Thomas to become SEDI Chair and for Mathieu Dumberry (University of Alberta, Canada) to become SEDI Vice-Chair. In 2020, the SEDI meeting will be held at the Taiwan at the Institute of Earth Sciences (Academia Sinica) in Tapei. The local organizing committee is comprised of Frederic Deschamp and Ban-Yuan Kuo (co-leads) along with Wen-Che Yu, Wen-Pin Hsieh and Kenny Vilella. This will be SEDI’s first meeting held in Taiwan. Jonathan Aurnou, Chair, SEDI Christine Thomas, Vice-Chair, SEDI Mathieu Dumberry, Vice-Chair Elect, SEDI Michael Bergman, Secretary-General, SEDI
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4.4.5. Commission on Data and Information (UCDI) / Commission pour les données et l’information
INTRODUCTION In 2008 the IUGG established the Union Commission on Data and Information (hereafter UCDI) to provide IUGGs eight Associations an entity to deal with data and information issues at the Union level and engage with similar bodies in other Unions and Societies. Accordingly, UCDI is expected to enable a high level of cooperation within and between scientific communities. This cooperation is needed in order to ensure the availability of modern data and information systems and services, which are globally distributed, provide universal open access, and are sustainable. Hence, UCDI targets to provide a focused and single voice within IUGG, connecting all IUGG Associations and inter-Association bodies, connect IUGG and its scientists to other bodies/agencies/initiatives that have interest and responsibility on matters of geo- data, advocate and facilitate research and development in the growing field of informatics to improve data and information systems and practices, and promote open access to data and adoption of interoperable data sets. The UCDI website is available at www.iugg-ucdi.org
ADMINISTRATION Membership: Following the approval of the Bureau of IUGG, the President of IUGG appointed the following members on the Union Commission on Data and Information (UCDI) vide letter dated 13 February 2017. Chair: Satheesh Shenoi (India, IAPSO) Vice-Chair: Anatoly Soloviev (Russia, IAGA) Members: Sonia Maria Alves Costa (Brazil, IAG) Ellen Clarke (UK, IAGA) Michelle Guy (USA, IASPEI) Robert M. Key (USA, IAPSO) Silvia Massaro (Italy, IAVCEI) Yasuhiro Murayama (Japan, IAMAS) Bruce H. Raup (USA, IACS) Co-opted members: Aude Chambodut (France), WDS Executive Committee Alena Rybkina (Russia), CODATA Executive Committee Business Meetings: The newly appointed committee had its first meeting over telepresence on 3 April 2017. Eight members of UCDI attended the meeting. Dr. Alik Ismail Zadeh, Secretary General, IUGG and Dr. Franz Kuglitsch, Executive Secretary, IUGG also attended the meeting as observers and guides. The meeting discussed on the major items like the activities to be taken up by UCDI during the next two years, collaborations with other organizations, symposia/conferences to be organised by UCDI or in collaboration with other organisations, etc. It was decided that, though UCDI has no plans to set up the infrastructure for the generation or management of data, UCDI shall advocate on the cross utility of data available with various associations of IUGG. For example, the utility of geodetic data for ocean sciences and vice versa. It was also decided to work in close collaboration with WDC on formats and contents of meta-data. The meeting also decided to organise a session at the CODATA conference in St. Petersburg scheduled to be held in October 2017. No formal business meeting was held in 2018, but extensive discussions over email were held on specific issues and topics.
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ACTIVITIES (2017-2018) 2017 (i) Organised a session titled “Modern strategies for data collection and analysis for the better understanding of the Earth system” at the CODATA conference in St. Petersburg scheduled to be held during 8-13 October 2017. UCDI Vice-chair Anatoly Soloviev and UDCI member Ms. Silvia Massaro took the lead in organising the session. The international scientific conference of the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) “Global Challenges and Data-Driven Science” was held in St. Petersburg on 8-13 October 2017 (http://codata2017.gcras.ru/). The CODATA conference was held in the Russian Federation for the first time. It brought together more than 150 participants from 35 countries1. Among the participants were leading scientists, specialists in BIG DATA and modern methods of data processing, pattern recognition and data mining, data collection engineers and technologists. International multidisciplinary scientific dialogue between representatives of various fields of knowledge was held under the aegis of promoting Open data principles and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable) data. The conference covered a wide range of issues related to data science, including the collection and processing of large data amounts, the use of system analysis methods, machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms. During four days of the conference, more than 160 scientific presentations were delivered at 25 scientific sessions; several business meetings and workshops were held. The session “Modern strategies for data collection and analysis for the better understanding of the Earth system” (ID 10) was organized by the Union Commission for Data and Information (UCDI) established by the IUGG. The session provided modern insights into creation of integrated systems for Earth and environmental observations, their collection and analysis in order to manage efficiently the increasing data volumes and provide easy access to the research and civil communities. The session also considered the state-of-the-art and perspectives in data science relevant to Earth observations and environmental research. It brought together more than 30 scientists from South Africa, USA, Japan, Russian Federation and several European countries. The session was convened by the UCDI co-chair Dr. Anatoly Soloviev (Geophysical Center RAS, Russia).
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(ii) Participation in the First workshop on Data Standards for Science organized by CODATA in Paris during 19-21 June 2017. Dr. Alena Rybkina represented UCDI at the workshop. Twenty-five data experts and researchers attended the workshop. The general goal of the workshop was to consider an ambitious, coordinated programme of work to promote shared vocabularies and standards to enable data interoperability and integration. This initiative is expected to contribute to the integration between ICSU bodies/ICSU Programms/ISSC on the first stage and broader scientific community on the second stage. Dr. Alena Rybkina presented the past and future activities of UCDI and reported on its new membership and enthusiasm for future collaboration. UCDI’s decision to organize a special session at the St. Petersburg conference of CODATA also was reported. During the workshop, the gaps in the existing data infrastructure and possible technical solutions were discussed. In short term, a road map will be developed and distributed among the ICSU Unions. Though the initiative is very ambitious, the beginning of this long path is expected to acquaint the Unions on identifying their needs and the needs of ICSU in general. (iii) Participation in the Second workshop on “Science and the Digital Revolution: Data, Standards and Integration” organized by CODATA at the Royal Society in London during 13 to 15 November 2017. Ms. Silvia Massaro represented UCDI at the workshop. Main discussion in the workshop revolved around (i) to exploit emerging online data collections to unleash the potential for game-changing discoveries across the whole spectrum of research domains and (ii) on the development of user-friendly processes that enables linking and integration of datasets between disparate disciplinary areas in ways that are compatible with existing disciplinary standards. Basically, the outcome of the three-day meeting was expected to prepare a roadmap for better understanding the complex phenomena that are vital for the human condition and the planetary function through interdisciplinary collaboration in data-rich world. Hence, the discussions at the workshop stressed on mobilizing community support and advice for discipline-based initiatives to develop online data capacities and services, priorities for work on interdisciplinary data integration and projects, funding and coordination, and on the issues of international data governance. Presentations on the first day provided different case-studies from (i) specific disciplines (Earth observations; Health system; Food security; Resilience in cities; Natural disasters), (ii) interdisciplinary Research Areas and (iii) global monitoring and observation. The speakers highlighted on the major scientific questions on monitoring issues, the requirement of data from multiple disciplines, and the challenges of data interoperability and integration. The second day was devoted to explore how disciplines and interdisciplinary initiatives have addressed the specific challenges of interoperability and data integration. Example surveys, scientific impacts, tools necessary for effective data registration and sharing, etc. were explored to illustrate some case- studies and platforms for interoperability and data sharing. Finally as a possible next step towards providing a roadmap it was proposed to take up a pilot project to promote the integration and interoperability of scientific data, covering practices, support, coordination and governance. The final recommendations of the workshop include: • Identify interdisciplinary pilot projects; • Coordination of efforts: union and association liaisons, data science and standards organizations liaison, and other existing efforts; • Create timescales: updates on the work plans of unions and, community engagement; • Find funding: funding agencies, foundations, and international consortia; • Talk more efficiently with the Governance.
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2018 (i) UCDI Chair, Dr. Satheesh Shenoi attended the “Data and management workshop” held at the International Indian Ocean Science Conference 2018 in Jakarta, Indonesia during 18-23 March 2018. The workshop discussed about the ocean data management, common data formats, QC procedures and standards, interoperability and free exchange of data sets, etc. (ii) UCDI Co-chair Anatoly A. Soloviev visited the Federal Research Center “Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences” in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (http://www.iapras.ru/). The aim was to reveal the institute’s capabilities in the field of unique physical data assimilation and sharing with the broad scientific community, as well as to discuss prospects on equipping existing geophysical observatories with new instruments, developed by the institute. (iii) A.A. Soloviev participated in the 32nd Conference on Mathematical Geophysics (CMG) of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). The conference is held every two years, and in 2018 the venue was the ship “Nizhny Novgorod”, which cruised along Volga River from Nizhny Novgorod to Kalyazin and back (http://cmg2018.iapras.ru/) with the overall duration of 7 days. A.A. Soloviev delivered invited talk on the mathematical tools for analysis of ground based and satellite geomagnetic data streams for advanced monitoring of the Earth's magnetic field. The CMG conference traditionally focuses on the exchange of ideas and information in all areas of geophysics with an emphasis on the application of mathematics, statistics and computer science to geophysical problems. CMG promotes the development and application of mathematical methods and corresponding theoretical approaches for solving problems of the entire spectrum of geophysical disciplines.
Dr. A. Soloviev (UCDI vice chair, Russian national correspondent to IAGA), Prof. A. Gvishiani (Russian national delegate in IUGG) and Prof. A. Feygin (FRC IAP RAS) visiting multipetawatt femtosecond laser facilities at FRC IAP RAS (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). (iv) A.A. Soloviev is actively involved with The Earth Science Data Base project (http://esdb.wdcb.ru/) being developed in cooperation with the CODATA Task Group “Data Citation Standards and Practices”. The project aims at assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) to geophysical and other relevant data sets (geomagnetism, seismology, space physics, etc.). (v) Participation in the International CODATA 2018 Conference in Botswana during 5-8 November 2018. Ms. Silvia Massaro represented UCDI at the Conference and session on "Data collection and analysis for the study of the Earth’s system". (vi) Drs. Aude Chambodut and Yasuhiro Murayama participated in "Latin America and the Caribbean Scientific Data Management Workshop" at Brazilian Academy of Science, Rio de Janeiro, for 17-18
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April 2018 (http://lacworkshop.icsu-wds.org/). It was organized by ICSU-World Data System for discussions on the best practices in data management from both regional and global perspectives. Dr. Aude Chambodut played a role of a session chair at the workshop. (vii) Michelle Guy participated in the U.S. Geological Survey ISO Metadata Standard Workshop to propose content specifications to assist in authoring metadata records in the ISO 19115 family of standards for the U.S. Geological Survey and as a proposal for the broader scientific community. The Workshop was held in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA during July 10 through July 12, 2018 and included members from the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S National Center for Atmospheric Research. Workshop description and outcomes are available at https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5acd27a0e4b0e2c2dd155e01.
FUTURE ACTIVITIES (i) Organisation of union symposium (U04) titled "Data-driven science for Earth and Space exploration” (U04) at the XXVII General Assembly of the IUGG together with IAPSO, IAG, IAGA, IASPEI, IAVCEI, IAMAS, IACS, IAHS. Convenors – Dr. Satheesh Shenoi (IAPSO/UCDI, India), Sonia Costa (IAG, Brazil), Ellen Clarke (IAGA, UK), Michelle Guy (IASPEI, USA), Robert M. Key (IAPSO, USA), Silvia Massaro (IAVCEI, Italy), Yasuhiro Murayama (IAMAS, Japan), Bruce Raup (IACS, USA), Ashish Sharma (IAHS, Australia). (ii) Organization of Association Symposium (A18) titled “Dependable, Long-Term Geomagnetic Indices and Modern, Index-Based Services: 70th Anniversary Of the Kp Index”. Convener – Jurgen Matzka (Germany), Co-conveners – Anatoly Soloviev (Russia), Jeff Love (USA) (iii) Organization of Association Symposium (A22) titled “Significant Achievements in Magnetic Field Studies Induced by IUGG over Its 100-Year History”. Conveners – Justin Mabie (USA), Roman Krasnoperov (Russia) (iv) Organization of inter-Association Symposium (JA07) "Geoscience Data Licensing, Production, Publication, and Citation". Lead Convener – Masahito Nosé (Japan, IAGA), Co-conveners – Simon Flower (UK, IAGA), Yasuhiro Murayama (Japan, IAMAS), Helle Pedersen (France, IASPEI), Attilio Castellarin (Italy, IAHS), Gabriel Guimarães (Brazil, IAG), Toru Suzuki (Japan, IAPSO), Aude Chambodut (France, UCDI), Giuseppe Puglisi (Italy, IAVCEI) Satheesh Shenoi, UCDI Chair
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4.4.6. Commission on Plantetary Sciences (UCPS) / Commission des sciences planétaires
INTRODUCTION The IUGG Union Commission on Planetary Sciences (UCPS) was established by the IUGG Executive Committee in June 2015 to promote and coordinate scientific (physical, chemical, and mathematical) studies of planets in the solar system and around other stars. UCPS intends to advance planetary science through advocacy of solar system and extrasolar exploration, seeking insights on the origin, formation and evolution of planets and systems, including a search for habitable worlds beyond Earth. The UCPS together with other IUGG associations will share knowledge through scientific research and comparative studies between planetary objects and the Earth in the fields of atmosphere, surface and interior science. Additional information about UCPS can be found at http://202.127.29.4/geodesy/ucps. Objectives ‒ To advance and foster the study of scientific problems in the planetary sciences; ‒ To promote and coordinate international cooperation in planetary science, and promote planetary science activities in developing countries; ‒ To facilitate, on an international basis, discussion and publication of the results of the studies, research and work indicated above; ‒ To contribute to coordinating activities for future space missions.
ADMINISTRATION Executive Committee ‒ Shuanggen Jin (IAG, China) (Chair) ‒ Athena Coustenis (IAMAS, France) (Vice-Chair) ‒ Joern Helbert (IASPEI, Germany) (Vice-Chair) ‒ Scot Rafkin (IAMAS, USA) (Secretary/Treasurer)
EC Members ‒ Christine Schott Hvidberg (IACS, Denmark) ‒ Michael Purucker (IAGA, USA) ‒ Fabrizio Capaccioni (IAHS, Italy) ‒ Philippe Lognonne (IASPEI, France) ‒ Jose Luis Macias-Vasquez (IAVCEI, Mexico)
Members (NON-Executive Committee membership) ‒ Oliver Baur (Austria, IAG) ‒ Sanjay Limaye (USA) ‒ Jean-Pierre Bibring (France, IAHS) ‒ Jesus Martinez-Frias (Spain) ‒ Anil Bhardwaj (India) ‒ Jürgen Oberst (Germany) ‒ Shane Byrne (USA) ‒ Rosanna de Rosa (Italy) ‒ Nader Haghighipour (USA) ‒ Binod Sreenivasan (India, IAGA) ‒ Paul Hartogh (Germany) ‒ Darrell Strobel (USA) ‒ Masato Iguchi (Japan) ‒ Feng Tian (China, IAMAS) ‒ Wing-Huen Ip (Taiwan, China) ‒ Dmitri Titov (Germany) ‒ Takahiro Iwata (Japan) ‒ Pieter Visser (The Netherlands, IAG) ‒ Catherine Johnson (Canada, IAGA,)
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ACTIVITIES UCPS-AOGS Special Session: Recent advances in planetary exploration and geophysics, July 31 - August 5, 2016, Beijing, China, http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2016 To advance planetary sciences, the UCPS in collaboration with AOGS held a joint Special Session at the 13th Asia Oceania Geophysical Sciences Society Meeting: “Recent Planetary Exploration and Geophysics”. Papers on planetary atmosphere, geophysics, geodesy, magnetism, cryosphere, seismology, volcanology, the physics and chemistry of the interior of the planets in our solar system and around other stars, and future mission opportunities were presented and discussed. Conveners: Shuanggen Jin (SHAO, China) Jorn Helbert (DLR, Germany) Noriyuki Namiki (NAO, Japan) Wing-Huen Ip (NCU, Taiwan) Paul Hartogh (MPG, Germany)
AOGS session: Terrestrial Planetary Atmospheres and Their Evolution, July 31 - August 5, 2016, Beijing, China, http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2016 The AOGS held a session at the 13th Asia Oceana Geophysical Sciences Society Meeting relevant to the UCPS: “Terrestrial Planetary Atmospheres and Their Evolution”. Understanding the nature, variability, physical and chemical mechanisms, and the evolution of planetary atmospheres is a main component of planetary sciences. While the long-term evolution of our own planet is constrained by a wealth of geological/geochemical data, the evolutionary paths of other terrestrial planetary bodies in and outside our solar system must be reconstructed from less abundant planetary mission data and astronomical observations. The Discovery of exoplanets provides additional opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations between geoscientists, astronomers, and planetary scientists. Our understanding of the Earth and other planets can greatly benefit from comparative studies of terrestrial planetary atmospheres. This session welcomes both observational and theoretical studies relevant to current physical and chemical states of terrestrial planetary atmospheres in and outside of our solar system (including the Earth) and their evolution. Conveners: Feng Tian (Tsinghua University, China) Eric Chassefiere (Univ Paris-Sud, France) Yongyun Hu (Peking University, China)
Special Session SS7 4: The Effects of Solar and Stellar Magnetic Activity on Planets, at European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, 4-8 July 2016, Athens, Greece, http://eas.unige.ch/EWASS2015 The magnetic activity of cool stars in the form of flares, winds and coronal mass ejections have a direct impact on planets. This activity varies with the mass, age and rotation rate of the star and can be damaging for life, even in the case of a fairly inactive star like the Sun. During periods of intense solar activity, the solar wind is enhanced and geomagnetic storms produce auroras, disrupt radio transmissions, affect power grids, damage orbiting satellites, and can be hazardous to astronauts. By analogy, the magnetic activity of cool stars may be hazardous for the creation and development of life and is therefore of potential importance for habitability. In this Special Session, we aim to bring together observers/theoreticians whose diverse research interests are linked with solar and stellar activity and its effect on orbiting planets. Questions that will be addressed are:
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1) How do stellar magnetic activity influence the exoplanets orbiting main-sequence stars? 2) Which lessons learned from our own solar system can be incorporate in exoplanetary research? 3) How can stellar activity affect habitability? Scientific organizers: Heidi Korhonen, University of Turku, Finland Aline Vidotto, University of Geneva, Switzerland
COSPAR2016 - Scientific Event B0.2: Mars Exploration and Science, July 30 - August 7, 2016, Istanbul, Turkey, http://www.cospar-assembly.org Mars has been extensively explored by spacecraft. At present several orbiters (e.g., MRO, MAVEN, MOM, Mars Express) and the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers are exploring the Mars surface and atmosphere, history, and habitability. Additional missions to study the interior structure and the habitability of Mars are expected to fly by the time of COSPAR 2016 Assembly (e.g. InSight, Trace Gas Orbiter and they accompanying demonstration lander). This session is to mainly address new results on Mars exploration and science, including theory, methods, measurements, and findings as well as comparative studies with the Earth in the atmosphere, surface, and interiors. Papers describing future Mars missions, in flight or planned and simulated results are also welcome. Main Scientific Organizer (MSO): Shuanggen Jin (SHAO, China) Oleg Korablev (IKI, Russia)
1st IUGG Symposium on Planetary Science (IUGG-PS 2017) and 3rd IAPS Scientific Assembly (IAPS2017)-Interdisciplinary observation and understanding of the Solar System, July 3-5, 2017, Berlin, Germany, http://www.dlr.de/iugg-ps2017 The IUGG-PS 2017 and IAPS2017 brought together international scientists and engineers focused on interdisciplinary observation and understanding of the Solar System with 11 sessions. Topics include planetary geodesy, remote sensing, atmosphere, ionosphere/plasma physics, magnetic and gravity field, geomorphology, geophysics, geodynamics, geology, petrology, volcanology, geochemistry, interior physics, Life & Astrobiology. About 100 participants attended IUGG-PS 2017 from 14 countries with about 45 oral talks and 25 posters. The IUGG-PS 2017 provided a very good platform for progress presentations and detailed discussion as well as communication. Conveners: Prof. Shuanggen Jin, Dr. Jörn Helbert
Photos of the 1st IUGG Symposium on Planetary Science in July 2017, Berlin, Germany.
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Prof. Dr. Shuanggen Jin attended Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) Annual Meeting with co-organizing one Session “Exploration and Science of Mars and Venus” and was elected President of AOGS Planetary Science Section, 6-11 August, 2017, Singapore, http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2017 This session covers the study of the ionosphere, atmosphere, surface and interior of Mars and Venus. We invite abstracts on results from ground-based observations as well as recent and ongoing missions to Mars and Venus (e.g., ExoMars Mars Express, Venus Express, Mars Odyssey, MRO, MERs, Phoenix, Mars Science Laboratory, MAVEN, Indian Mars mission, etc.). Results were presented on measurements and theoretical models dealing with the ionospheric environment and its interaction with the solar wind; the atmospheric composition, dynamics and climate; the surface morphology, geology, geochemistry and mineralogy; the deep interior and subsurface structure of both Mars and Venus. The session included presentations on various aspects (like their scientific goals, long-term plans, technology etc.) of future missions and missions about to be launched to Mars and Venus (e.g , InSight, ExoMars Rover, Mangalyan-2, 2020 Chinese Mars Mission, Mars 2020, etc.). We also invite abstracts on comparative planetology of terrestrial planets. Both solicited talks and contributed presentations will be included in the program. Conveners: Dr. Varun Sheel (Physical Research Laboratory, India) Prof. Shuanggen Jin (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Dr. Takeshi Imamura (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Dr. Hideaki Miyamoto (University of Tokyo, Japan) Prof. Juergen Oberst (German Aerospace Center, Germany)
International Symposium on Asteroids and Comet Gravity and Interiors as Co-Chair, 17-18 December 2018, Wuhan, China. Asteroids and comets were leftovers from the formation of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. Shattered remnants of accreted planetesimals, or even made of never heated pristine materials, which contain important clues about the early our solar system and the origin of water and life on Earth. Studying on Asteroids and comets Gravity and Interiors is among the hottest topics in deep space exploration. The Rosetta spacecraft built by European Space Agency (ESA) finished its mission on 2016. The OSIRIS-REx mission operated by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was launched on 2016 to study the asteroid 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous asteroid, and return a sample to Earth in 2023. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched Hayabusa2 mission in 2014, which reached near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in 2018 and will also return a sample to Earth in 2020. A Chinese asteroid mission has also been put on the agenda, and several targets have been preliminary selected. The first International Symposium on Asteroids and comets Gravity and Interiors (SAGI 2018) was held on December 17-19, 2018, Wuhan, China. Co-Chairman: Prof. Long Xiao, China University Geoscience, China Prof. Shuanggen Jin, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS, China Prof. Jean-Pierre Barriot, Geodesy Observatory of Tahiti, Tahiti Organizers: State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University. Planetary Science Institute, China University of Geoscience (Wuhan). International Association of Planetary Science (IAPS) IUGG Union Commission on Planetary Sciences (UCPS).
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The topics were focused on precision orbit determination of the solar system asteroid probes, asteroid orbit determination (ephemeris), asteroid gravity field, internal structures and geological evolution. About 120 participants attended SAGI 2018 with two-day oral talk. The SAGI 2018 provided a very good platform for communication and discussion on Asteroids and comets Gravity and Interiors.
Group photo of International Symposium on Asteroids and Comet Gravity and Interiors in December 2018, Wuhan, China. AOGS Session: Science and Exploration of Mars and Venus, 2-10 June 2018, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA，http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2018 This session covers the study of the ionosphere, atmosphere, surface and interior of Mars and Venus. We invite abstracts on results from ground-based observations as well as recent and ongoing missions to Mars and Venus (e.g., ExoMars Mars Express, Venus Express, Mars Odyssey, MRO, MERs,Phoenix, Mars Science Laboratory, MAVEN, Indian Mars mission, etc.) We envisage having presentations on measurements and theoretical models dealing with the ionospheric environment and its interaction with the solar wind; the atmospheric composition, dynamics and climate; the surface morphology, geology, geochemistry and mineralogy; the deep interior and subsurface structure of both Mars and Venus. The session will also include presentations on various aspects (like their scientific goals, long-term plans, technology etc.) of future missions and missions about to be launched to Mars and Venus (e.g , InSight, ExoMars Rover, Mangalyan-2, 2020 Chinese Mars Mission, Mars 2020, etc.). We also invite abstracts on comparative planetology of terrestrial planets. Both solicited talks and contributed presentations will be included in the program. Conveners: Dr. Varun Sheel (Physical Research Laboratory, India) Prof. Shuanggen Jin (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Dr. Takeshi Imamura (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
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Prof. Dr. Shuanggen Jin attended Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) Annual Meeting and was appointed as President of AOGS Planetary Science Section, 2-10 June 2018, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2018
AOGS Council Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Publications Jin, S.G., N. Haghighipour, and W.-H. Ip (Eds.) (2015), Planetary Exploration and Science: Recent Results and Advances, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-662-45051-2, 340pp. Jin, S.G., and R. Barzaghi (Eds.) (2016), IAG Symposia Book Series: International Gravity Field Service General Assembly (IGFS2014), Shanghai, China, 30 June-6 July 2014, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-319-39819-8, 224pp. Jin, S.G. and J. Helbert (Eds.) (2018), Interdisciplinary Observation and Understanding of the Solar System, Special Issue in Planetary and Space Science, Elsevier Press, ISSN: 0032-0633, 163, pp. 1-114. More information can be seen at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/planetary-and- space-science/vol/163 Li, F., J. Yan, L. Xu, S.G. Jin, J. Rodriguez, and J. Dohm (2015), A 10 km-resolution gravity field model of Venus based on topography, Icarus, 247, 103-111, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.09.052. Wei, E., X. Li, S.G. Jin, and J. Liu (2015), Mission orbit determination and analysis of CE-2 with VLBI, J. Geomatics, 40(4), 6-9, doi: 10.14188/j.2095-6045.2015.04.002. Tenzer, R, M. Eshagh, and S.G. Jin (2015), Martian sub-crustal stress from gravity and topographic models, Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 425, 84-92, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.05.049. Wei, E., W. Yan, S.G. Jin, J. Wei, H. Kutoglu, X. Li, J. Adam, S. Frey, and J. Liu (2015), Contribution of simulated space VLBI to the Chang'E-1 orbit determination and EOPs estimation, Aerosp. Sci. Technol., 46, 256-263, doi: 10.1016/j.ast.2015.07.016. Calabia, A., and S.G. Jin (2016), New modes and mechanisms of thermospheric mass density variations from GRACE accelerometers, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 121(11), 11191-11212, doi: 10.1002/2016JA022594. Wei, E., Z. Li, C. Dong, J. Liu, and S.G. Jin (2016), Improvement of CE-3 Lander positioning and lunar libration parameters estimation based on VLBI observation, Bull. Surv. Mapp., 8, 1-5, doi: 10.13474/j.cnki.11-2246.2016.0244.
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Yang, Y., S.G. Jin, and Y. Xue (2016), Identification and geological evolution of hydrated minerals at Holden and Jezero craters, Mars using MRO CRISM hyperspectral data, J. Deep Space Explor., 3(2), 187-194, doi: 10.15982/j.issn.2095-7777.2016.02.015. Wei, E., X. Li, S.G. Jin, and J. Liu (2016), Effect of lunar gravity models on Chang'E-2 orbit determination using VLBI tracking data, Geod. Geodyn., 7(6), 406-415, doi: 10.1016/j.geog.2016.09.001. Calabia, A., and S.G. Jin (2016), Assessment of conservative force models from GRACE accelerometers and precise orbit determination, Aerosp. Sci. Technol., 49, 80-87, doi: 10.1016/j.ast.2015.11.034. Wei, E., S. Tang, S.G. Jin, and J. Liu (2016), Positioning results of lunar rover based on combined VLBI and Celestial Navigation, J. Geod. Geodyn., 36(8), 703-707. Liu, J., E. Wei, S.G. Jin, and J. Liu (2018), Absolute navigation and positioning of Mars rover using gravity-aided dead-reckoned odometry, J. Navig., doi: 10.1017/S0373463317000893. Gilmore, M. Email Author, Treiman, A., Helbert, J., Smrekar, S. (2017), Venus Surface Composition Constrained by Observation and Experiment, Space Sci. Rev., 212(3-4), 1511-1540. Mueller, N.T., Smrekar, S., Helbert, J., Stofan, E., Piccioni, G., Drossart, P. (2017), Search for active lava flows with VIRTIS on Venus Express, J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 122(5), 1021-1045. Liu, J.D., E. Wei, and S.G. Jin (2017), Cruise orbit determination of Mars from combined optical celestial techniques and X-ray pulsars, J. Navig., 70(4), 719-734, doi: 10.1017/S0373463316000874. Jin, S.G., and J. Helbert (2018), New advances in interdisciplinary observation and understanding of the Solar system, Planet. Space Sci., 163, 1-4, doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2018.10.005. Liu, J., and S.G. Jin (2018), Evaluation of Mars probe positioning using X-ray pulsars, celestial, gravity- aided and ground-based measurements, Planet. Space Sci., 163, 14-34, doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2018.06.014. Yan, J., X. Yang, M. Ye, T. Andert, W. Jin, F. Li, S.G. Jin, J.-P. Barriot (2018), Assessment of Phobos gravity field determination from both near polar and near equatorial orbital flyby data, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 481(4), 4361-4371, doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty2559. Barkin, Y., J. Ferrandiz, S.G. Jin, and M. Barkin (2018), Cassini's motions of the Moon and Mercury and possible excitations of free librations, Geod. Geodyn., 9(6), 474-484, doi: 10.1016/j.geog.2018.01.005. Yan, J., X. Yang, M. Ye, F. Li, S.G. Jin, W. Jin, J. Barriot, and H. Li (2018), New tracking modes and performance for Mars spacecraft orbit determination and lander positioning, Planet. Space Sci., 163, 5-13, doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2018.01.008. Liu, J., E. Wei, S.G. Jin, and J. Liu (2018), Absolute navigation and positioning of Mars rover using gravity-aided dead-reckoned odometry, J. Navig., 71(3), 530-546, doi: 10.1017/S0373463317000893.
FUTURE ACTIVITIES Session: Science and Exploration of Mars and Venus at AOGS 16th Annual Meeting, Jul 28- Aug 02, 2019, Singapore This session covers the study of the ionosphere, atmosphere, surface and interior of Mars and Venus. We invite abstracts on results from ground-based observations as well as recent and ongoing missions
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to Mars and Venus (e.g., ExoMars Mars Express, Venus Express, Mars Odyssey, MRO, MERs, Phoenix, Mars Science Laboratory, MAVEN, Indian Mars mission, etc.). We envisage having presentations on measurements and theoretical models dealing with the ionospheric environment and its interaction with the solar wind; the atmospheric composition, dynamics and climate; the surface morphology, geology, geochemistry and mineralogy; the deep interior and subsurface structure of both Mars and Venus. The session will also include presentations on various aspects (like their scientific goals, long-term plans, technology etc.) of future missions and missions about to be launched to Mars and Venus (e.g , InSight, ExoMars Rover, Mangalyan-2, 2020 Chinese Mars Mission, Mars 2020, etc.). We also invite abstracts on comparative planetology of terrestrial planets. Both solicited talks and contributed presentations will be included in the program. Conveners: Dr. Varun Sheel (Physical Research Laboratory, India) Dr. Takeshi Imamura (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Prof. Shuanggen Jin (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS, China)
Shuanggen Jin, UCPS Chair
Ratification of major decisions by the Bureau and Executive Committee
The Council will be asked to ratify the following major decisions of the IUGG Bureau and Executive Committee, see pages 40-42.
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5. Matters of Membership / Affaires d’adhésion (A. Ismail-Zadeh)
Admission: Algeria as Regular Member (cat. 1) / Adhésion: Algérie comme membre régulier
A letter of request from Algeria to re-join IUGG as a Regular Member, sent by Prof. Abdelkarim Yelles- Chaouche, Director of the Algerian Research Centre in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics (CRAAG), was received and forwarded to the IUGG Executive Committee on 14 April 2018. The Adhering Organization is the CRAAG. The President of the National Committee is Prof. Abdelkarim Yelles-Chaouche, and the Secretary General is Prof. Abdesslam Abtout. A ballot for a vote by correspondence was sent to the National Committees and Adhering Bodies on 25 April 2018. Prof. Yelles-Chaouche and Prof. Abtout were notified on 28 May 2018 that the voting was successful. The Council is asked to ratify the provisional vote.
Admission: Serbia as Associate Member (cat. A) / Adhésion: Serbie comme membre associé
A letter of request from Serbia to become an Associate Member of IUGG, sent by Prof. Milan Radovanivic, President of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijic” of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, was received and forwarded to the IUGG Executive Committee on 22 January 2018. The Adhering Organization is the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijic” of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The President of the National Committee is Dr. Aleksandra Nina, and the Secretary General is Dr. Ana Milanović Pešić. A ballot for a vote by correspondence was sent to the National Committees and Adhering Bodies on 15 February 2018. Prof. Nina and Prof. Milanović Pešić were notified on 19 March 2018 that the voting was successful. The Council is asked to ratify the provisional vote.
Admission: Uruguay as Associate Member (cat. A) / Adhésion: Uruguay comme membre associé
A letter of request from Uruguay to become an Associate Member of IUGG, sent by Cnl. Norbertino Suarez, Director of the Military Geographical Institute, was received and forwarded to the IUGG Executive Committee on 8 October 2018. The Adhering Organization is the Military Geographical Institute. The President of the National Committee is Cnl. Norbertino Suarez, and the Secretary General is Tte.1° Francisco Kellner. A ballot for a vote by correspondence was sent to the National Committees and Adhering Bodies on 15 October 2018. Cnl. Suarez and Tte.1° Kellner were notified on 19 November 2018 that the voting was successful. The Council is asked to ratify the provisional vote.
Transfer: Macedonia, F.Y.R. from Regular to Associate Member / Transfert: Macédoine, A.R.Y. de membre régulier à membre associé
A letter of request from Macedonia, F.Y.R. expressing the wish to change from Regular to Associate membership, sent by Prof. Nikola Jankulovski, Rector of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje which is the Macedonian Adhering Body to IUGG, was received and forwarded to the IUGG Executive Committee, the National Committees and Adhering Bodies on 3 July 2018. The Council is asked to vote on the transfer.
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6. Report of the Nominating Committee / Rapport du comité des candidatures (Tom Beer) The IUGG Nominating Committee selected the following candidates for consideration in the election at the 27th IUGG General Assembly in Montréal, Canada: President Kathryn WHALER (United Kingdom, IAGA)
President-Elect Chris RIZOS (Australia, IAG)
Secretary-General Aksel HANSEN (Denmark, IAMAS) Alexander RUDLOFF (Germany, ILP)
Treasurer Niels ANDERSEN (Denmark, IAG)
Bureau Members Position #1: Eduard PETROVSKY (Czech Republic, IAGA) Harald SCHUH (Germany, IAG) Position #2: Virendra TIWARI (India, IAG) Jun XIA (China, IAHS) Position #3: Stephen MCNUTT (USA, IAVCEI) Gordon YOUNG (Canada, IAHS)
Finance Committee Position #1: Corina RISSO (Argentina, IAVCEI)2 Position #2: József ÁDÁM (Hungary, IAG) Position #3: Priscilla GREW (USA, IAVCEI)
The nomination form for each candidate, incl. the profiles of the candidates and their motivation to be elected can be downloaded at http://iugg.org/dl2/open/b_fc_nominations/. According to the IUGG ByLaw 10b, re-nominations, from those previously nominated for the Bureau may be made over a period of 48 hours following the close of the first session of the Council meeting at the General Assembly (from 18:00, 9 July to 18:00, 11 July 2019). Such nominations must be submitted in written form to the Secretary General, supported by at least three members of the Council and accompanied by the same documentation as required with the original nominations (filled out Nomination Form). The Council Delegates shall be informed of these additional nominations at least 24 hours before the elections. Please note that no one can be a candidate for more than one position in the election. Elections shall be by secret ballot. According to the IUGG ByLaw 10c, the Council may add candidate(s) to the list of nominations for the Finance Committee during the General Assembly until three days prior to the elections. Candidates will be required to signify their acceptance of nomination and to provide a resumé outlining their suitability for serving on the Finance Committee. If you have any question concerning the nomination procedure, please contact Tom Beer, Chair of the IUGG Nominating Committee ([email protected]).
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7. Report on the proposals to host the XXVIII General Assembly in 2023 / Rapport sur les propositions pour l’Assemblée Générale XXVIII en 2023 (Eduard Petrovsky)
IUGG 2023 Bids Evaluation
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1 Official Bidders and Supporting Institutions 1.1 The official host body Greek National German National 7 Swiss IUGG Mexico Turkish National IUGG Committee Committee of universities and National Union of Geodesy Geodesy and research Committee and Geophysics Geophysics institutes related to IUGG research 1.2 Other supporting Available Available Available Available Available institutions 1.3 Government support to Free circulation is Free circulation is Free circulation is Addressed, free Turkey is member assure free circulation guaranteed. Visa guaranteed. guaranteed. circulation of ICSU, link to of scientists application Invitation letters Assistance of guaranteed; their membership procedure is and dedicated Swiss National for visa applicants is provided. Visa described, staff for visa Science invitation letters application invitation letters applications is Foundation with and assistance procedure will be issued by described. invitation letters are foreseen, described in LOC. is foreseen; detailed plan of detail, invitation Schengen area, visa application letters to visa general info on process applicants will be visa requirements issued. is described 2 Financial Aspects
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2.1 Possibilities for support Athens provided Potential Confirmed Several Only general from governmental, well specified sponsors are support of 190 supporting bodies comment that industrial, and information, mentioned. Berlin kCHF, including confirmed, but no this is planned commercial bodies in amounting some Messe reduced free public specific amount order to minimize 0.75 M EUR (~836 rental; 300 kEUR transport, about mentioned. registration fees kUSD, about 66% (~335 kUSD) 50% (112 kCHF Guadalajara of the room available to ~111 kUSD) Convention and rental). reduce discount of rental Visitors Bureau registration fees is offerred confirmed support of about 52 kUSD 2.2 Possibilities for fund- Ongoing Plan to support Ongoing Several potential Only general raising to support negotiations are 500 young negotiations are sources are comment that young scientists from mentioned scientists plus mentioned presented, but no this is planned developing countries to (without specific 100 more travel (about 100 kCHF, specific amounts attend the Assembly amounts). grants and free ~ 99 kUSD) are mentioned. entrance 2.3 Resources available for 250 kEUR (~279 No specific funds No specific funds No specific funds No specific funds the preparations kUSD) from are mentioned, are mentioned, are mentioned, are mentioned, leading up to the Government but support from institutes of the the host and official formal General Assembly and Bodies and several LOC members are related institutes support letters of for preparing the Foundations are organizations is ready to support are ready to the related Comptes Rendus already available. well presented by internal support by institutes are following the Assembly resources, staff internal presented and volunteers resources 3 Dates of the GA
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3.1 Proposed dates for an Assembly of 10 days in length, taking into account availability of facilities and suitability 04.07 27.07 13.07 07.07 of weather 27.06 - 26.06 - 10.07 - 03.07 - 28.06 Between 01 - in June, still teaching period for many participants 4 Venue and Around 4.1 Capacity to host max As regards the number of participants maximum who could attend expected number of participants, all the venues provide sufficient capacity. 4.2 Past history of Available Available Available Available 8 events are successful assemblies listed, not of held in the same venue scientific character, mostly of regional or national importance 4.3 Meeting facilities: Plenary 3500 pax, Up to 24 lecture 16 lecture rooms Plenary 2900 pax, Plenary about In Prague we used number of halls; rooms 9 rooms of 85+ rooms of enough of 100+ pax (incl. plus 21 rooms of 2700, 15 rooms 21 lecture rooms of various sizes and pax, 11 in Hilton capacity plus plenary 2500 sufficient capacity for 70+ pax, 12 full time plus 3 technical equipment; hotel for 100+ plenary (2500 pax); 14 rooms rooms for 20-50 part time poster facilities, etc. pax, plus 4 in pax), enough for 20-50 pax (1 pax. MICC and 5 in office rooms min. walk) Hilton for less pax
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4.4 Exhibition space All the venues provide enough space for exhibition. 4.5 Access for wheel- Wheel-chaired Wheel-chaired Wheel-chaired Wheel-chaired Wheel-chaired chaired people, health access access access access access and child care issues guaranteed, guaranteed, guaranteed, guaranteed, guaranteed, health and child health and child health and child health and child health and child care is foreseen care available care available care available care planned 4.5 Space and facilities for 8 rooms available Enough rooms 8 offices available Available See 4.3, 12 rooms the Bureau, Finance available for 20-50 pax. Committee and Association offices 4.6 Rooms for meetings of Not specified, Available See 4.3 Avaliable See 4.3 See above the Council, the some of the Executive Committee, smaller lecture the Bureau and the rooms would Finance Committee have to be used 4.7 Wi-Fi availability in Available Available Available Available Available Modern venue conference facilities provide wi-fi connection 4.8 Closeness of lunch close to lunch close to lunch short travel to close to lunch Izmir venue is break cafeterias, cafeterias, cafeterias, downtown is cafeterias, outside the city, restaurants, bars restaurants, bars restaurants, bars needed restaurants, bars but several options are available within the venue and some few tourist
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resources are nearby. 4.9 Distance to airport, Very good access Very good access Very close to no direct flights very few direct how many cities airport to busy to busy busy from abroad international serves, flight times and international international international except for USA, flights, remote costs from various airport airport airport need to change in airport (about 70 'typical' places, and Mexico City km away) transportation from airport to conference are 4.10 Safety of city, including (1) score 2.020, (1) score 1.531, (1) score 1.407, (1) score 2.583, (1) score 2.898, (1) According to for groups of or even 79 out of 163 17 out of 163 12 out of 163 140 out of 163 149 out of 163 the Global Peace lone females countries countries countries countries countries Index (2) Level 1 (2) Level 2 (2) Level 1 (2) Level 3 (Jalisco (2) Level 3 http://visionofhu (Greece, Normal (Germany, (Switzerland, state, Reconsider (Turkey, manity.org/index Precautions) Increased Normal Travel) Reconsider es/global-peace- Caution) Precautions) Travel) index/:
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hotels provide wi- fi connection 7 PCO/LOC 7.1 PCO and web-based Detailed leaflet of Well addressed, Several PCOs The bid No information program for handling AFEA PCO is K.I.T. Group is available, no mentiones on PCO is registration, abstract provided envisaged specific specific partner. available. etc. negotiations mentioned 7.2 Proposed social Available Available It is unclear, if Available Available program, excursions will be accompanying persons organized for the program accompanying persons, or only suggestions and contacts to travel agencies will be provided. 7.3 Proposed pre- and Available Information is Available Available Available All the bids post-conference tours, more general, provide enough programs without detail information, the bid of Berlin is more general, without details. 7.4 Association Banquet Available Available Available Available no specific possibilities information 7.5 Marketing and Social media, Well addressed Estimated cost in Plan presented Email lists, advertising strategies newsletters and the preliminary internet and at conference budget (page 58) social media. website. for promotion, Universities in printing, website, Turkey will be
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8. Report of the Statutes and By-Laws (SBL) Committee on reformatting the IUGG SBL / Rapport de la Commission des Statuts et du Règlement sur le reformatage de l'UGGI de Statuts et du Règlement (Charles Fierz)
The IUGG Statutes and By-Laws Committee consists of the following members: - Charles Barton (Australia) - Charles Fierz (Chair, Switzerland) - Jeff Freymueller (USA) - Anjay Manglik (India) - Kathy Whaler (ex-officio, UK) The Committee compared the reformatted version by Ms Mastrobattista (June 2017) of the IUGG Statutes and By-laws (SBL) to the current 2018 version. The Committee also accommodated the changes adopted in 2018 by the IUGG Council in this reformatted version. The Committee found this new version does a good job of improving the structure of the SBL, using good headings facilitating navigation. However, the reformatted version suffers from sufficient shortcomings that we do not see fit make specific recommendations to fix the problems in the time available, nor do we consider it worth attempting this approach. The shortcomings are numerous and found throughout the text, for example confusing language, which is sometimes barely comprehensible, or wording unsuitable for those who are not fluent in English. Furthermore, there are quite a few omissions, additions, conflicts, and open questions such that this new version cannot be presented simply as a reformatted version of the 2018 one. In summary, we cannot recommend to present the re-formatted version as such to the Council Delegates for their consideration at the General Assembly in Montréal. As a way forward, the Committee recommends: - a major re-write of the SBL using the reformatted version as a template to preserve its best features; - the re-written version should not change the meaning or intention of the existing 2018 SBL, but serve to clarify and improve the utility of the document; - the re-written version should become a fresh document, without detailed tracking of every change. However, any exceptions to the above should be highlighted and explained as well as any omissions or additions; - after due consultation by the Council Delegates and accommodation of requested changes, the re-written version to be accepted or rejected as a single entity and not trigger further major iterations. Charles Fierz Chair, IUGG Statutes and By-Laws Committee
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9. Report on scientific and educational programs / Rapport sur les programmes scientifiques et éducatifs
International Lithosphere Program / Programme international de la lithosphere
9.1.1. Quadrennial Report 2018 to the IUGG Secretariat for the International Lithosphere Program (ILP) period 2015-2018
INTRODUCTION The International Lithosphere Program (ILP) is a joint project of IUGG and IUGS and receives additional funding from several member states (see financial report). ILP seeks to elucidate the nature, dynamics, origin and evolution of the lithosphere through international, multidisciplinary geoscience research projects –Task Forces (TF) and Regional Coordinating Committees (CC) addressing major ILP themes: I. Geoscience of global change, II. Contemporary dynamics and deep processes, III. Continental lithosphere, IV. Oceanic lithosphere All TF and CC are led by international teams and supported by ILP with 4,000 Euro per year over a period of 5 years. This “seed money” is used by the project leaders to raise additional funds and build strong interfaces with other projects (ICDP, TOPO-EUROPE, MEDINA, etc.). Information on ILP is available at https://www.scl-ilp.org/
ADMINISTRATION ILP operates on the base of terms of reference and has an international Bureau. They meet regularly to monitor the progress and to select new projects in close consultation with the representatives of National Committees. The Bureau is chaired by the President with support from the Secretary General. The ILP Secretariat is located in the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam (GFZ-Potsdam) and is headed by the Executive Secretary A. Rudloff (Germany). The current ILP Bureau membership is presented below: President: H. Thybo Turkey Secretary General M. Scheck-Wenderoth Germany Representative of IUGG H. Gupta India Representative of IUGS K. Asch Germany Chair Committee National Representatives: A. Tibaldi Italy
Advisory Board: Ö. Adiyaman Lopes UNESCO S. Dong China C. Ebinger U.S.A. D. Mueller Australia H. Sato Japan The Bureau is also supported by the past president S. Cloetingh (The Netherlands) and by the associate members: J.-P. Burg (Switzerland), A. Morozov (Russia), F. Roure (France), M. Zoback (USA), and P. Mc Keever (UNESCO); by the lifetime members M. von Knorring (Sweden) and H. Gupta (India) as well as by Honorary President A. Green (Switzerland) and ILP Fellow J.F.W. Negendank (Germany). Throughout the reporting period the following changes with respect to administration have been implemented: ‒ President: H. Thybo took over responsibility from S. Cloetingh 2017 ‒ Secretary General: M. Scheck-Wenderoth was re-appointed for another term of 4 years 2017 108
‒ Representative of IUGG: H. Gupta replaced former representatives in the Bureau 2016 ‒ Representative of IUGG: C. Asch replaced former representatives in the Bureau 2016 ‒ Chair Committee National Representatives: A. Tibaldi replaced V.I. Pease 2017 ‒ New national committees were established in Hungary and Romania and delegates from Azerbaijan, Moldova, and Ukraine and Serbia raised their interest of joining ILP. ‒ Advisory Board: was established 2018 ‒ Task Forces and Coordinating Committees: A call for proposals for the funding period 2015- 2020 was open 2014-2015 and new projects were chosen by the bureau 2015 Bureau meetings ILP Bureau meetings were held during the ILP “35 years conference”, Potsdam, 23 September 2015 and at the EGU General Assembly in 2017 and 2018. Business meetings of ILP, Vienna, Austria, 2015-2018 The annual business meetings were held at EGU General Assembly every year and were attended by most of the PIs in ILP as well as by guests from IUGG and IUGS. A short report given by the president and SG as well as by representatives of IUGG and IUGS informed on new developments and all active TF and CC reported on their activities and plans. In the reporting period, the Flinn Hart Award went to Philippe Yamato, Rennes/France (2015, picture to the left) and to Mojtaba Rajabi, Adelaide/Australia (2016). In honour of Evgueni Burov - an enthusiastic researcher, scientist, teacher and contributor to ILP - a new medal was established for mid-career achievements that has been awarded for the first time 2018 to Francesca Funiciello – Italy. Reports to Executive Committee (EC) meetings of IUGG and IUGS ILP reports annually to both mother unions and the president or Secretary General seek to attend the respective EC meetings as observers. The SG has attended the IUGS EC meetings held in Vancouver 2015, during the 35th IGC congress in Cape Town 2016 and in Potsdam, 2018.
ACTIVITIES Scientific meetings, developments for the different TF and CC, selected publications: The ILP TF and CC have been visible at the large international meetings (EGU AGU, the 35th IGC in CapeTown). Moreover, most TF and CC contributed to specific conferences within their thematic fields and held dedicated smaller international workshops. Details are given in the annual reports. The publication activity was significant for most teams and some TF and CC produced Special Issues in peer-reviewed journals. A major science highlight was the 35th Anniversary meeting of ILP in Potsdam, where all TF and CC chairs have reported on the main achievements of the past 5 years. In addition keynotes have been presented by the presidents of IUGS, IUGG and EGU on where lithosphere research should move forward. Also each of the main themes of ILP has been elucidated by a key note presentation. Seed funding from ILP helped to initiate several collaborative projects such as the training network MEDYNA that joined North African and European countries, The ITN ZIP
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For the highlights of the individual TFs and CCs we refer to the annual reports and restrict this report to some highlights only. An appendix is attached with the list of most important publications of which many are in high level journals and several thematic Special Issues have collected overviews on the state of the art in their field. The joint meeting of the TOPO-EUROPE Programme and ILP Task Forces Sedimentary Basins (TF6), Subducted Lithosphere (TF4), Magma and lithosphere (TF2) in Clermont- Ferrand, 2-6 October 2016 attracted an international audience and led to a Special Issue summarizing the results. TF 1 CALE - Circum Arctic Lithosphere Evolution: (-2015). This project was successfully completed and one outcome was a Special Issue: Pease et al., 2014. Arctic lithosphere - A review. Tectonophysics 625. The network built in ILP now continues collaboration with industry funding.
Attendees of 35th Anniversary meeting of ILP in Potsdam
Participants at the Pre-Meeting field trip 'the Limagne Fault and the Chaîne des Puys', joint ILP – TOPO- EUROPE meeting, 2016
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TF 2 Volcanoes and society: Environment, health and public outreach (-2015). Structural and rheological constraints on magma migration, accumulation and eruption through the lithosphere (since 2015) Several workshops were organized and the scientific themes were continuously developed. Several high- level papers (see appendix) document both the broad international collaboration and the scientific advances. A new ITN network has been initiated and several Training Courses for Young Researchers were offered.
Unmanned aerial vehicle surveying a series of lava flows in northern Iceland (left) and Prehistoric tension fracture opened along the Northern Iceland Rift zone (right).
TF 3 Bridging the gap from micro-seismicity to large earthquakes (-2015). The seismic cycle at continental transforms from seismological observation and forward simulation (since 2015): This TF joins the expertise of 2 formerly independent task forces and that together have generated substantial progress. Major highlights were the initiation of the GONAF-observatory at the North Anatolian Fault and The World Stress Map database release 2016 (Heidbach et al., 2018).
ICDP-GONAF workshop 2015 NAFZ in the Istanbul/ Marmara Region (left) and World Stress Map release 2016
TF 4 Continental Collisional Orogens: From Atomic Scales to Mountain Buildings (-2015). Fate of the subducted continental lithosphere: insight through analytical mineralogy and microstructures (since 2015). The TF focused throughout the second phase increasingly on subducted continental lithosphere. A specific highlight was the 2016 International Conference on the Earth’s deep interior” – November 4-6, 2016 Wuhan.
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TF5 LAPBOX - The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary depth paradox (-2015) This TF was completed 2015 after a period of successful work.
TF 6 Sedimentary Basins Yearly dedicated workshops with associated field trips took place in Tokyo, Japan, (2015), Clermont-Ferrand, France (2016), Cyprus, Greece (2017, picture from field trip to the left) and at the International Sedimentological Congress 2018 in Quebec City, Canada. Several Special Issues were published and some are in preparation. This chain of yearly workshops is continuous for the past 15 years and has built a large international network meanwhile.
TF 7 3D Geo-mechanical modelling of geodynamic processes in the lithosphere (-2015) This TF joined forces with TF3.
TF 8 Lithosphere dynamics: interplays between models and data After initiating the TF, we lost E. Burov E. who was a key member of ILP and our community. In his memory ILP has created the E. Burov Medal. T. Gerya took over the TF leadership and continues in the spirit of high quality science. This is evident from the impressive list of papers in nature, science and other high level journals (see appendix).A Memorial Volume honouring Evgenii Burov appeared 2018 in Tectonophysics, Volume 746, Pages 1- 716.
TF 9 DISC - Deep Into the Subduction Channel (-2015)/ Subduction across scales (since 2015) An ITN project ZIP (Zooming in between plates) was successfully funded, initiated out of this TF. Several workshops and publications resulted from this
TF 10 The Unconventionals (-2015) This TF was completed 2015 after a period of successful work.
CC TopoEurope An ETN project SUBITOP (- Understanding subduction zone topography through modelling of coupled shallow and deep processes) was initiated out of this CC, several workshops were organized - and several Special volumes produced.
CC MEDYNA Mantle Dynamics and Plate Architecture beneath North Africa Is a network that joins scientists in North Africa in times of political challenges and helps to keep and build links also with the international community. The CC has organized several cross-country workshops, has a solid publication record and successfully attracted European funding to support young geoscientists.
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FUTURE ACTIVITIES ‒ Further implement science plan developed during the 35th ILP Anniversary Workshop and the subsequent Bureau Meeting for 2016-2020 ‒ Invite new Task Forces/Coordinating Committees ‒ Several sessions with TF and CC contributions at EGU-GA Vienna, 2018 ‒ Several workshops of individual task forces ‒ ILP Business and bureau meetings at EGU-GA in Vienna, April 2018 ‒ First E. Burov medal and respective medal lecture at EGU 2018 ‒ Strengthen links with other IUGG and IUGS programs
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9.1.2. Quadrennial Report of IUGG Liaison Officer for ILP (2015-2018)
Background The ILP was established in 1980 by the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) at the request of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). It was a natural sequel to a series of international cooperative projects in the geosciences that began with the International Geophysical Year in 1957-58 and continued with the Upper Mantle Project in the 1960's and the International Geodynamics Project (IGP) in the 1970's. In 1977, IUGG and IUGS established an inter-union task group to consider the possibility of a successor to the IGP for the 1980's. The task group invited suggestions and comments from the two unions and the national committees in the member countries. Their report, which was completed late in 1978, proposed a new project on the dynamics, origin, and evolution of the lithosphere. An inter-union steering committee, established in 1979 developed the organizational framework and constitution of the new program. These were approved by resolution of the ICSU Governing Board in September 1980, and the Inter-Union Commission on the Lithosphere (ICL) was established to implement the program. National members of ICSU were urged to establish national committees and to develop internal programs for the implementation through ILP. ILP continued to be supported by ICSU till 1995. ICSU decided in its 28th GA in Suzhou, China in October 1995 to do otherwise. Following is the text of this resolution: “The Executive Board, after consultation with relevant Unions, endorsed the PAA recommendation that FAGS and the SCL/ILP no longer be ICSU Interdisciplinary Bodies and recommended that responsibility for these be taken over by the relevant Unions. The Executive Board further recommended that the Advisory Committee on the Environment (ACE) be disbanded and that its functions be assumed by the CSPR Decision: to withdraw ICSU sponsorship from SCL/ILP and to recommend that responsibility would then shift to IUGG and IUGS; Since 1995 ILP is primarily supported by IUGG and IUGS. There was also a strong international support from the national members. During 1990’s there were ~ 40 countries as national members which has now come down to about a dozen. I have been involved in different capacities with ILP including Chair, Coordinating Committee, Seismology and Related Sciences in Africa; Chair, Steering Committee, Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program (G-SHAP); ILP Bureau Member and ILP Bureau Member for Life. In 2015 I was given the responsibility of liaising between IUGG and ILP. During the period 2015 and 2018, the following are the details of interactions.
2015 ILP Conference "Celebrating Excellence in Solid Earth Sciences" 21 - 23 September 2015, GFZ-Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, Germany "Celebrating Excellence in Solid Earth Sciences" was the topic of the ILP Conference to commemorate 35 years of its meaningful existence that was held during 21-23 September at Potsdam, Germany. It was attended by over 50 scientists in addition to ILP Task Forces members, ILP Coordinating Committee members and Bureau. The focus was to discuss the research findings, science plans, and new projects. Hans Thybo, President of the European Geosciences Unions (EGU), Harsh Gupta, IUGG Immediate Past President, and Roland Oberhänsli, IUGS President, delivered keynote lectures at the conference.
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In the ILP Bureau meeting was held on the 23 September 2015, there was a stress on ILP organizing joint sessions with IUGG (specifically with IASPEI and IAVCEI) and IUGS. A total of 9 new proposals were discussed, one of them was rated as AA and 8 as A. Hans Thybo was declared as President elect of ILP.
2016 ILP organized a Business Meeting at EGU on 18 April 2016. IUGG was represented by her Secretary General, Alik Ismail-Zadeh. He informed about ILP related activities of interest to IUGG. The next IUGG General Assembly shall be held at Montreal, Canada during 8 to 18 July 2019. President Cloetingh informed about the untimely loss of Evgenii Burov and establishment of Evgenii Burov Medal to honor his contributions. Secretary General Scheck-Wenderoth informed about the new terms of reference of ILP and corresponding changes in the ILP Bureau membership, launching of the new web site and over all progress of the ILP projects.
2017 The 2017 ILP Bureau meeting was held on 24 April 2017 during EGU 2017. A vary serious effort is being made to broaden the base of ILP by attracting more countries to join ILP. President Cloetingh made efforts to offer opportunities of partnership to eastern European countries such as Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and others. It was felt that efforts should also be made to attract countries from Africa and Latin America. There was a review of current projects. Efforts were made to attract younger scientists to the fold of ILP. Terms of reference of Burov Medal were finalized.
2018 The ILP Bureau meeting was held on 9 April 2018 at Vienna during EGU 2018. There was quite a bit of discussion on Resourcing Future Generations 2018 Symposia organized by IUGS to be held at Vancouver, Canada, 16-21 June 2018 and ILP’s active participation in the same. The question of ILP’s visibility was upper most. Terms of reference of Burov Medal were discussed once again. Financially ILP is on sound footing with a deposit of 130 K Euro.
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Two new proposals on “Minerals” and “Himalaya” were discussed in detail. It was considered appropriate to have a Coordinating Committee on “Himalaya” rather than having a Task Force.
Concluding Comments With very limited resources, over the years ILP has really done well. The number of symposia organized globally, participation of the young scientists and the scientific out come, etc. is really praiseworthy. I believe that there has been a considerable improvement in ILP out reach and productivity in the recent years. Credit goes to a very dynamic and committed team of ILP Office Bearers. I have enjoyed being involved with ILP and would like to thank IUGG for providing support to participate in ILP Bureau Meetings. Harsh Gupta IUGG Liaison Officer for ILP
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Appendix to ILP Quadrennial Report 2015-2018: List of most important publications
TF 1 CALE - Circum Arctic Lithosphere Evolution: (-2015) Pease, V., Drachev, S., Stephenson, R., Zhang, X. Arctic lithosphere - A review. Tectonophysics 625, 1-25, 2014. Schiffer, C., Balling, N., Jacobsen, B.H., Stephenson, R.A., Nielsen, S.B. Seismological evidence for a fossil subduction zone in the East Greenland Caledonides. Geology, 42, 311-314, doi: 10.1130/G35244.12014. Zhang et al., 2015. Provenance characteristics and regional implications of Neoproterozoic Timanian margin successions of Northern Norway. Precambrian Research, 268,153-167.
TF 2 Volcanoes and society: Environment, health and public outreach (-2015)/ Structural and rheological constraints on magma migration, accumulation and eruption through the lithosphere Tibaldi, A.; Bonali, F.L.; Corazzato, C., The diverging volcanic rift system, Tectonophysics, 611, 94-113, 2014. Breitkreuz, C., Rocchi, S. 2016: Physical Geology of Shallow Magmatic Systems Dikes, Sills and Laccoliths. Special Issue in the Series: Advances in Volcanology. Albert, H.; Costa, F.; Martí, J., “Years to weeks of seismic unrest and magmatic intrusions precede monogenetic eruptions”, Geology, 44(3), 211-214, 2016. Breard, E. C.; Lube, G.; Jones, J. R.; Dufek, J.; Cronin, S. J.; Valentine, G. A.; Moebis, A., 2016: Coupling of turbulent and non-turbulent flow regimes within pyroclastic density currents, Nature Geoscience. Song, W.; Lavallée, Y.; Hess, K. U.; Kueppers, U.; Cimarelli, C.; Dingwell, D. B., “Volcanic ash melting under conditions relevant to ash turbine interactions”, Nature Communications, 7, 2016. Tibaldi, A.; Bonali, F. L.; Pasquaré Mariotto, F. A., “Interaction between transform faults and rift systems: a combined field and experimental approach”, Frontiers in Earth Science, 4, 33, 2016. Avouris D.M., Carn S.A., Waite G.P. 2017: Triggering of volcanic degassing by large earthquakes. Geology. Karaoğlu, Ö., Elshaafi, A., Salah, M.K., Browning, J., Gudmundsson, A., 2017: Large-volume lava flows fed by a deep magmatic reservoir at Ağrı Dağı (Ararat) volcano, Eastern Turkey. Bulletin of Volcanology. Mueller, S.B., Kueppers, U., Ametsbichler, J., Cimarelli, C., Merrison, J.P., Poret, M., Wadsworth, F.B., Dingwell, D.B. 2017: Stability of volcanic ash aggregates and break-up processes. Scientific Reports-Nature.com. Tibaldi, A., Bonali, F.L. 2017: Intra-arc and back-arc volcano-tectonics: Magma pathways at Holocene Alaska- Aleutian volcanoes. Earth-Science Reviews.
TF 3 Bridging the gap from micro-seismicity to large earthquakes (-2015) The seismic cycle at continental transforms from seismological observation and forward simulation (since 2015): Ickrath, M., Bohnhoff, M., Bulut, F., Dresen, G. 2014: Stress rotation and recovery in conjunction with the 1999 Izmit Mw7.4 earthquake. Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1093/gji/ggt409 Bohnhoff M., Martinez Garzon P., Bulut F., Stierle E., Ben-Zion Y. 2016: Maximum earthquake magnitudes along different sections of the North Anatolian fault zone. - Tectonophysics, 674, p. 147-165, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.02.028 Rajabi M., M. Tingay and O. Heidbach 2016: The present-day stress field of New South Wales, Australia, Australian J. Earth Sci., 63(1), doi: 10.1080/08120099.08122016.01135821, 08120091-08120021. Bedford J., M. Moreno S. Li, O. Oncken, J. C. Baez, M. Bevis, O. Heidbach, and D. Lange 2016: Separating rapid relocking, afterslip, and viscoelastic relaxation: An application of the postseismic straightening method to the Maule 2010 cGPS data, J. Geophys. Res., 121, doi:10.1002/2016JB013093. Najdahmadi, S., Bohnhoff, M., Ben-Zion, Y. 2016: Bimaterial interfaces at the Karadere segment of the North Anatolian Fault, northwestern Turkey. - Journal of Geophysical Research, 121, 2, p. 931-950, doi: 10.1002/2015JB012601. Bohnhoff M., Wollin C., Domigall D., Küperkoch L., Martinez-Garzon P., Kwiatek G., Dresen G., Malin P.E. 2017: Repeating Marmara Sea Earthquakes: Indication for fault creep. Geophys. J. Int., 210, 332-339.. Li, S., Moreno, M., Bedford, J., Rosenau, M., Heidbach, O., Melnik, D., Oncken, O. 2017: Postseismic uplift of the Andes following the 2010 Maule earthquake: Implications for mantle rheology. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 1768–1776. doi:http://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071995. Rajabi, M., Tingay, M., Heidbach, O., Hillis, R., Reynolds, S. 2017: The present-day stress field of Australia. Earth Science Reviews, 168, 165-189. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.04.003. Heidbach, O., M. Rajabi, X. Cui, K. Fuchs, B. Müller, J. Reinecker, K. Reiter, M. Tingay, F. Wenzel, F. Xie, M. O. Ziegler, M.-L. Zoback, and M. D. Zoback. 2018, The World Stress Map database release 2016: Crustal stress pattern across scales. Tectonophysics, 744,484-498. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.07.007. Malin, P.E., Bohnhoff, M., Blümle, F., Dresen, G., Martinez-Garzon, P., Ceken, U., Yanik, K., Kartal, R.F., Kadarioglu, F.T.: An Emergent Failure Process for a M4.2 Earthquake Offshore Istanbul, Nat. Sci. Rep., 8:16176, doi:10.1038/s41598-018-34563-9,, 2018.
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TF 4 Continental Collisional Orogens: From Atomic Scales to Mountain Buildings (-2015) Fate of the subducted continental lithosphere: insight through analytical mineralogy and microstructures (since 2015) Dobrzhinetskaya, L., Wirth, R. and Green, H., 2014. “Diamonds in Earth’s oldest zircons from Jack Hills conglomerate, Australia, are contamination.“ EPSL, 387: 212-218. Nita, B.; Mauya, S.; Montagner, J-P. Anisotropic tomography of the European lithospheric structure from surface wave studies, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 17; 2016. DOI: 10.1002/2015GC006243 Faryad, S.W.; Colletta S.; Fingerb, F.; Sergeev., S.A; Čopjaková, R; Simane, P. The Kabul Block (Afghanistan), a segment of the Columbia Supercontinent, with a Neoproterozoic metamorphic overprint. Gondwana Research, 34, 221–240, DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2015.02.019; 2016. Zhang, L., Zhang, J.F., Jin, Z.M., 2016. Metamorphic P-T-water conditions of the Yushugou granulites form the southeastern Tianshan orogen: implications for Paleozoic accretionary orogeny. Gondwana Research, 29: 264-277. Jung, H; Cao, Y; Song, S.; Su, L; Niu, Y, Highly refractory peridotites in Songshugou, Qinling orogen: Insights into partial melting and melt/fluid–rock reactions in forearc mantle. Lithos, 252, 2016; DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.03.002 Liu, P., Massonne, H.J., Zhang, J.F., Wu, Y., Jin, Z.M. (2017): Intergranular coesite and coesite inclusions in dolomite from the Dabie Shan: constraints on the preservation of coesite in UHP rocks. Terra Nova, 29: 154-161. Xu, H.J., Zhang, J.F. (2017): Anatexis witnessed post-collisional evolution of the Dabie orogen, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 45: 278-296. Liu, W.L., Zhang, J.F., Barou, F. (2018): B-type olivine fabric induced by low temperature dissolution creep during serpentinization and deformation in mantle wedge. Tectonophysics, 722, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2017.10.025. Wang, L., Wang, S.J., Brown, M., Zhang, J.F., Peng, P., Jin, Z.M. (2018): On the survival of intergranular coesite in UHP eclogite. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, doi:10.1111/jmg.12288. Shi, F., Wang, Y.B., Yu, T., et al., 2018. Lower-crustal earthquakes in southern Tibet are linked to eclogitization of dry metastable granulite. Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/s41467-010-05964-1.
TF5 LAPBOX - The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary depth paradox (-2015) Levander, A., M.J. Bezada, F. Niu, E.D. Humphreys, I. Palomeras, S.M. Thurner, J. Masy, M. Schmitz, J. Gallart, R. Carbonell and S.M. Miller, Subduction-driven recycling of continental margin lithosphere, Nature Letter, Vol 515, 253, 13th November 2014
TF 6 Sedimentary Basins Gibson G., Manatschal G. and Roure F., eds., 2015. Sedimentary basins and crustal processes at extended and hyper-extented continental margins. Special volume, Geological Society, London. (This book will content about 15 chapters presented in 2012 during the Task Force 6 sessions at the World Geological Congress in Brisbane, Australia). Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Cacace, M., Maystrenko, Y., Cherubini, Y., Noack, V., Kaiser, B.-O., Sippel, J., Lewerenz, B. (2014): Models of heat transport in in the Central European Basin System: effective mechanisms at different scales. - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 55, p. 315-331, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.03.009 Cloetingh, S. and Haq, Bilal, 2015: Inherited landscapes and sea level change. Science, 347, 6220 Matenco, L., Munteanu, I., ter Borgh, M., Stanica, A., Tilita, M., Lericolais, G., Dinu, C., Oaie, G., The interplay between tectonics, sediment dynamics and gateways evolution in the Danube system from the Pannonian Basin to the western Black Sea. Science of The Total Environment 543, 807-827, 2016 Nader, F.H., 2016. Multi-scale Quantitative Diagenesis and Impacts on Heterogeneity of Carbonate Reservoir Rocks. Springer, ISBN: 978-3-319-46444-2, 146p. Sato, H., Ishiyama, T., Matenco, L., Nader, F.H. (2017): Evolution of fore-arc and back-arc sedimentary basins with focus on the Japan subduction system and its analogues. Tectonophysics Special Issue 710–711, 2017, dedicated to the ILP Sedimentary Basins Tokyo 2015, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.02.021, 19 topical papers. Vogt, K., Matenco, L., Cloetingh, S. (2017): Crustal mechanics control the geometry of mountain belts. Insights from numerical modelling. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 460, 12-21, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.11.016. Balázs, A., Matenco, L., Vogt, K., Cloetingh, S., Gerya, T., 2018. Extensional Polarity Change in Continental Rifts: Inferences From 3-D Numerical Modeling and Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 123, 8073-8094. Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Trumbull, R., Kukla, P (2017) progress in understanding passive continental margins. Tectonophysics Special Issue 716, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.04.018, 15 topical papers.
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TF 7 3D Geo-mechanical modelling of geodynamic processes in the lithosphere (-2015) Altmann, J. B., B. Müller, T. Müller, O. Heidbach, M. Tingay, and A. Weißhardt (2014), Pore pressure stress coupling in 3D and consequences for reservoir stress states and fault reactivation, Geothermics, 10.1016/j.geothermics.2014.1001.1004. Moreno, M., C. Haberland, O. Oncken, A. Rietbrock, S. Angiboust, and O. Heidbach (2014), Locking of the Chile subduction zone controlled by fluid pressure before the 2010 earthquake, Nature Geosciences, doi:10.1038/ngeo2102.
TF 8 Lithosphere dynamics: interplays between models and data Burov E. and T. Gerya, Asymmetric three-dimensional topography over mantle plumes, Nature, 513, 85-89, DOI: 10.1038/nature13703, 2014 Koptev, A., Calais, E., Burov, E., and S. Leroy, Dual continental rift systems generated by plume-lithosphere interaction, NATURE Geoscience, DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2015.02.002, 2015. Buiter, S.J.H., Schreurs, G., Albertz, M., Gerya, T.V., Kaus, B., Landry, W., le Pourhiet, L., Mishin, Y., Egholm, D.L., Cooke, M., Maillot, B., Thieulot, C., Crook, T., May, D., Souloumiac, P., Beaumont, C., Benchmarking numerical models of brittle thrust wedges, Journal of Structural Geology, 92, 140-177, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2016.03.003, 2016. Fischer, R.; Gerya, T., Early Earth plume-lid tectonics: A high-resolution 3D numerical modelling approach, Journal of Geodynamics, 100 Pages: 198-214, DOI: 10.1016/j.jog.2016.03.004, 2016. Fischer, R.; Gerya, T., Regimes of subduction and lithospheric dynamics in the Precambrian: 3D thermomechanical modelling, Gondwana Research, 37, 53-70, DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2016.06.002, 2016. Gerya, T., Origin, evolution, seismicity and models of oceanic and continental transform boundaries. In: Duarte, J., Schellart, W. (Eds.), Plate Boundaries and Natural Hazards, American Geophysical Union, Willey, ISBN: 978-1-119-05397-2, 2016. Koptev, A., Burov, E., Calais, E., Leroy, S., Gerya, T., Guillou-Frottier, L., Cloetingh, S., Contrasted continental rifting via plume-craton interaction: Applications to Central East African Rift, Geoscience Frontiers, 7/2, 221-236, DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2015.11.002, 2016. Chowdhury, P., Gerya, T., Chakraborty, S. (2017): Emergence of silicic continents as the lower crust peels off on a hot plate-tectonic Earth. Nature Geoscience, 10, 698-703. Gerya, T., Burov, E. (2017): Nucleation and evolution of ridge-ridge-ridge triple junctions: Thermomechanical model and geometrical theory. Tectonophysics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.10.020. Le Pourhiet, L., May, D.A., Huille, L., Watremez, L., Leroy, S. (2017): A genetic link between transform and hyper-extended margins. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 465, 184-192. Naliboff, J.B., Buiter, S.J.H., Peron-Pinvidic, G., Osmundsen, P.T., Tetreault, J. (2017): Complex fault interaction controls continental rifting. Nature Communications, 8, Article Number: 1179. Stern, R., Gerya, T. (2017): Subduction initiation in nature and models: A review. Tectonophysics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.10.014. Memorial Volume honouring Evgenii Burov. Edited by Fernando Ornelas Marques, Taras Gerya, Boris Kaus, Laurent Jolivet, Yuri Podladchikov Tectonophysics, Volume 746, Pages 1-716 (30 October 2018)
TF 9 DISC - Deep Into the Subduction Channel (-2015)/ Subduction across scales (since 2015) Burov, Evgene; Francois, Thomas; Agard, Philippe; et al., 2014. Rheological and geodynamic controls on the mechanisms of subduction and HP/UHP exhumation of crustal rocks during continental collision: Insights from numerical models. TECTONOPHYSICS Volume: 631 Special Issue: SI Pages: 212-250 Published: SEP 15 2014 Geoffroy, L., Burov, E., and P. Werner, Volcanic passive margins: another way to break up continents, Scientific Reports - NATURE, in press, 2015. Gerya T., Stern R.B., Baes M., Sobolev S.V., Whattam S.A., Plate tectonics on the Earth triggered by plume- induced subduction initiation, Nature, 527, 221–225, 2015 Bebout G.E., Penniston-Dorland S., Fluid and mass transfer at subduction interfaces—The field metamorphic record, Lithos, 249, 228–258, 2016 Agard P., Yamato P., Soret M., Prigent C., Guillot S., Plunder A., Dubacq B., Chauvet A., Monié P. Plate interface rheological switches during subduction infancy: control on slab penetration and metamorphic sole formation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 451, 208-220, 2016 Kohn, M.J., Penniston-Dorland, S.C. (2017): Diffusion: Obstacles and opportunities in petrochronology. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 83 (1), 103-152. Stern, R.J., Gerya, T. (2017): "Subduction initiation in nature and models: A review". Tectonophysics, Special Issue in Honor of E. Burov. Incel, S., et al. (2017): Laboratory earthquakes triggered during eclogitization of lawsonite-bearing blueschist. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 459, 320–331.
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Hunziker, D., Burg, J.P., Moulas, E., Reusser, E., Omrani, J. (2017): Formation and preservation of fresh lawsonite: Geothermobarometry of the North Makran Blueschists, southeast Iran. 1-25, DOI: 10.1111/jmg.12259.
TF 10 The Unconventionals (-2015) Bernard S., Horsfield B., “Thermal Maturation of Gas Shale Systems”, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 2014, 42:635–51, 2014
CC TopoEurope Tesauro, M; Kaban, MK; Mooney, WD; Cloetingh, S., 2014: A 3D model for the crustal structure of the North American Continent, TECTONOPHYSICS, Volume: 631, Pages: 65-86, Special Issue: SI, DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.04.016 Munteanu, I; Willingshofer, E; Matenco, L; Sokoutis, D; Cloetingh, S., 2014: Far-field contractional polarity changes in models and nature. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, Volume: 395, Pages: 101-115, DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.03.036 Cloetingh S., Tibaldi A. Dobrzhinetskaya L., Matenco L., Nader F., van Wijck de Vries B., 2018. From the deep Earth to the surface: A multiscale approach. Global and Planetary Change, Volume 171, Pages 1-322 (December 2018), Special Volume dedicated to the joint TOPO-EUROPE and ILP meeting, Clermont- Ferrand 2016 Matenco., L. (Ed)., 2018. TOPO-TRANSYLVANIA- a multididciplinary Earth Science initiative in Central Europe to tackle local and global challenges. Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica, v. 53, 323-553.
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Science Education Program (cooperation with the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics - ICTP) / Programme d'enseignement des sciences (cooperation avec ICTP)
One of the primary objectives of IUGG is to promote the study of the Earth and its environment. Such an objective necessarily includes activities related to science education, although the form of those activities varies widely. The important educational activities are capacity building and research meetings (e.g., workshops, schools, symposia and assembles). Within the IUGG components, dozens of scientific workshops and assemblies are held annually in countries distributed over the globe. These meetings have a strong educational aspect because young and otherwise financially-disadvantaged scientists, who cannot usually travel to international meetings, have the opportunity to gain exposure and present papers in professional forum. In addition, all of the Union's eight Associations maintain Internet web sites that enable public access to general and specific information about their activities. The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) took steps to enhance geophysical and geodetic education and science collaboration. In 2011, ICTP Director Fernando Quevedo and IUGG Secretary General Alik Ismail- Zadeh signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote educational programs related to geodesy and geophysics for the next quadrennium (2012-2015). Among other points, the agreement encourages collaboration in organization of advanced schools/workshops in geodesy and geophysics in ICTP or in economically less developed countries; in development of diploma courses related to Earth and space sciences; and in dissemination of information on educational and scientific meetings. In November 2015, ICTP Director Fernando Quevedo and IUGG President Michael Sideris signed a new Memorandum of Understanding to extend the previous agreement on the educational program related to geodesy and geophysics for 2016- 2019. Founded in 1964 by the late Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam, ICTP seeks to accomplish its mandate by providing scientists from developing countries with the ICTP Director F. Quevedo (right) and IUGG President M. Sideris continuing education and skills that they need to enjoy long and productive careers. ICTP has been a major force in stemming the scientific brain drain from the developing world. The impact of ICTP extends well beyond the Centre's facilities to virtually every corner of the Earth. The Earth System Physics (ESP) Section of ICTP studies a wide spectrum of the Earth system, from its fluid components (oceans and the atmosphere) to the planet's interior. IUGG co-sponsors science education events at ICTP Since 2012 IUGG awards annually grants to support science education events (workshops and training schools) organized by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding between IUGG and ICTP. The following activities have been sponsored by IUGG for 2015-2019:
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• International Space Weather Initiative Workshop, Trieste, Italy, 20-24 May • Workshop on Water Resources in Developing Countries, Trieste, Italy, 27 May - 7 June • Advanced School on Evaluating, Monitoring and Communicating Volcanic and Seismic Hazards in Sub-Saharan Africa, Kigali, Rwanda, June • Advanced School on American Monsoons - Progress and Future Plans, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 19- 23 August • Advanced Workshop on Earthquake Fault Mechanics, Trieste, Italy, 2-14 September • Workshop on Distilling Climate Information for Sectoral Applications, Manila, Philippines, 2- 6 December 2018
• Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment (IEHIA) on Air Pollution and Climate Change in Mediterranean Areas, Trieste, Italy, 23-27 April • Joint Summer School on Sustainable Development: Integrated Modelling Tools for Climate, Land Use, Energy and Water (CLEW) Strategies, Trieste, Italy, 4-29 June • Summer School in Seismology and Tectonic Geodesy, Tunisia • ICTP Summer School on Theory, Mechanisms and Hierarchical Modelling of Climate Dynamics: Multiple Equilibria in the Climate System, Trieste, Italy, 25 June - 5 July • The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School, Ghana, 30 July - 5 August • Second Advanced School on Regional Climate Modeling and Extreme Events over South America, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2017
• Conference on the Science of Climate Change: a focus on Central America and the Caribbean Islands, Antigua, Guatemala, 23-25 January • Extended Workshop on Space Weather Effects on GNSS Operations, Trieste, Italy, 22 May-2 June • Fourth Workshop on Water Resources in Developing Countries: Hydroclimate Modeling and Analysis Tools, Trieste, Italy, 12-23 June • ICTP-Rwanda Joint School on Subseasonal to Seasonal Weather and Climate Prediction, Kigali, Rwanda, 4-8 September • Workshop-Conference on Near-Fault Observations and Models for Earthquake Hazard Assessment, Trieste, Italy, 10-13 October • Workshop-Conference on Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards in Vietnam and Surroundings from Theory to Applications, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2016
• Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR Advanced School on Regional Climate Modeling over South America, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 15-19 February • Eighth ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models, ICTP, Italy, 23 May - 3 June • Earth System Physics: Summer School on Aerosol-Cloud Interactions, ICTP, Italy, 27 June - 1 July • Earth System Modelling School, Pune, India, 18-29 July • School on Recent Advances in Analysis of Multivariate Ecological Data: Theory and Practice, ICTP, Italy, 24-28 October • Second Workshop on Climate Change, Variability and Modeling over Central America and Mexico, Costa Rica, 7-11 November
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• Workshop on Ionospheric effects on SBAS and GBAS applications at Low Latitudes, ICTP, Italy, 2-13 March • School on Ocean Climate Modelling: Physical and Biogeochemical Dynamics of Semi-enclosed Seas, Ankara, Turkey, 7-15 September • Workshop on Earthquakes in the Zagros-Makran region: from Mechanics to Mitigation, Tehran, Iran, 21-31 May • Third Workshop on Water Resources in Developing Countries: Planning and Management in Face of Hydroclimatological Extremes and Variability, ICTP, Italy, 27 April – 8 May • Workshop on Modelling of Wildfires and their Environmental Impacts, ICTP, Italy, 22-26 June • Workshop on Uncertainty Quantification in Climate Modeling and Projection, ICTP, Italy, 13- 17 July • International School on Geothermal Exploration, ICTP, Italy, 7-12 December Future Earth and Space Science Education The International Conference "Future Earth and Space Science and Education" co-sponsored by ICTP and IUGG was held in ICTP, Trieste, Italy on 2-6 November 2015. The participants of the conference adopted the Declaration "Future Earth and Space Science Education", which aims to highlight the importance of Earth and space science education in future scientific progress and to reinforce the link between the scientific community, national governments and the public to contribute to sustainable development of society through scientific awareness and actions related to challenging problems of society. The declaration was endorsed by IUGG and several ICSU (now ISC) GeoUnions. The Declaration can be viewed and downloaded here: http://www.icsu-geounions.org/files/FutureESSE_Declaration.pdf
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Session II: Friday, 12 July, 9:00-13:00 / 2ème Session: Vendredi, 12 juillet, 9h-13h
10. Greetings; Presentation of the credentials / Salutations; Présentation des lettres d’accréditation
11. Reports by Association Presidents / Rapports des présidents des Associations
The reports contained in this section of the Agenda book are summaries of the annual reports prepared by each Association during the last quadrennium. Each year, their complete reports are included in the IUGG Annual Report that is posted on the IUGG web-site. Each Union Association maintains a web-site; links to these sites are shown on the IUGG index page. The Association web sites are a valuable source of information not only about the Association itself, but also about their scientific disciplines. During the quadrennium, the activities of the Associations were reported and discussed at the 2017 Executive Committee meetings with participation of the Association Secretaries General. These opportunities for the Association officers to compare challenges and solutions have proved to be quite valuable. Each Association holds a Scientific Assembly approximately 2 years following the IUGG General Assembly. The Scientific Assemblies convened after the XXVIth General Assembly, are listed below.
Association Year Location IACS 2017 Wellington, New Zealand IAG/IASPEI 2017 Kobe, Japan IAGA/IAMAS/IAPSO 2017 Cape Town, South Africa IAHS 2017 Porth Elizabeth, South Africa IAVCEI 2017 Portland, OR, USA
In addition, the Associations organized the scientific programme for the 27th General Assembly and managed the distribution of travel assistance grants. The Scientific Programme Committee met in Montréal (Canada) in 2017 and in Vienna (Austria) in 2018 and 2019, but carried out much of the work via the Internet.
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International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) / Association Internationale des Sciences Cryosphériques (AISC)
http://www.cryosphericsciences.org
INTRODUCTION The International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) is the eighth and youngest Association of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). IACS is concerned with snow and ice science, and it provides expert advice on cryospheric issues to governmental and non-governmental organisations. Most snow and ice research within IUGG was previously covered within the International Commission on Snow and Ice (ICSI), a commission of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS). The IUGG Council voted to establish IACS at the IUGG General Assembly in Perugia, Italy in 2007. This is hence the third Quadrennial report of IACS as an independent Association, the first having covered the period from 2007-2010, and the second from 2011-2014. The objectives of IACS are to: ‒ promote studies of cryospheric subsystems of the Earth solar systems, ‒ encourage research in the above subjects by members of the cryospheric community, national and international institutions and programmes, and individual countries through collaboration and international co-ordination, ‒ provide an opportunity on an international basis for discussion and publication of the results of the above research, ‒ promote education and public awareness on the cryosphere, and ‒ facilitate the standardisation of measurement or collection of data on cryospheric systems and of the analysis, archiving and publication of such data.
ADMINISTRATION The business of IACS is managed by a Bureau of elected officers. Members of the present Bureau were elected at the Plenary Administrative Session in Prague in 2015 and has mostly remained stable during the last quadrennium. The officers have been President (Charles Fierz until February 2017 whence he became immediate Past-President), President-Elect (Regine Hock – until February 2017 whence she became President), Secretary General (Andrew Mackintosh, New Zealand), three Vice-Presidents (Olga Solomina, Russia, replaced by Stanislav Kutuzov, Russia in May 2018; Xiao, Cunde, China, and Ian Allison, Australia) and the heads of five disciplinary Divisions (Glaciers and Ice Sheets, Liss Marie Andreassen, Norway; Snow and Avalanches, Ethan Greene, USA; Marine and Freshwater Ice, Hirouyuki Enomoto, Japan; Planetary and Other Ices of the Solar System, Christine Schott Hvidberg, Denmark; and Cryosphere, Atmosphere and Climate, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, France, deputised by Anais Orsi, France). The President, President Elect/Immediate Past President, and Secretary General make up the IACS Executive (EC). Most internal business of the Association and interaction with other scientific agencies is conducted by email. In addition, the EC conducts monthly teleconferences, which bureau members are invited to join. The Bureau meets in person once per year. Bureau meetings (BM) during this quadrennium were held in Prague, Czech Republic (BM11), by Video conference BM12),
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in Christchurch, New Zealand (BM13), and Davos Switzerland/and by videoconference (BM14). Minutes of these meetings are available on the IACS website, www.cryosphericsciences.org. A plenary meeting with the IACS stakeholders, and the cryospheric science community, was held in Prague in 2015, while an Open Bureau Meeting was held in Wellington in 2017. The current four-year term of most Bureau members finishes in July 2019, and a “nominating panel” of members independent of the Bureau (Ralf Greve, Japan, Barbara Stenni, Italy and Samuel Morrin, France) was established in November 2018 to identify suitable candidates for election to the Bureau. The nominating panel’s role is to ensure that candidates for the IACS Bureau provide a good coverage of world regions and cryospheric disciplines. The new slate of candidates will be circulated to National Committees at least three months prior to its Plenary Administrative Session, to be held in Montreal on Friday July 12th, 2019.
ACTIVITIES IACS Individual Membership In 2017, IACS established free individual membership. We now have 500 members who have signed up in under two years. We hope that individual membership is helping to create a stronger community around IACS, promoting its activities and its relationship with IUGG and its other seven constituent associations. Specifically, IACS members receive regular information about IACS activities and opportunities, and are eligible to engage in IACS activities and bodies. This includes the possibility of receiving IACS sponsorship and financial support for workshops, training schools, and other IACS- sponsored activities, as well as for the IACS early-career scientist prize (if members qualify). More information about IACS membership can be found here. Everybody is welcome to join, including members of other IUGG associations. New IACS website, Twitter account, and home for our archives In early 2019, IACS launched a completely redesigned website https://cryosphericsciences.org, culminating from months of work. Hosted by the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich, the new website is both more functional, modern and aesthetically pleasing, and we invite you to explore it. The website also displays IACS Twitter feed, from the IACS Twitter handle launched in September 2017. See https://twitter.com/iacscryo. Together, the website and twitter presence are helping to connect IACS to a larger community of engaged scholars and the public. IACS bureau members working on Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report Since October 2017, a team of six IACS officers, present and past, have been writing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on the Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, which will be published towards the end of 2019. IACS officers attended four Lead Author meetings (in Nadi, Fiji, October 2017, Quito, Ecuador, February 2018, Lanzhou, China, July 2018, Kazan, Russia in February 2019), and spent many intense months writing the report as part of the larger international team. The roles that IACS officers have played are as follows; IACS Head of Division IV Valerie Masson Delmotte is Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group I. IACS President Regine Hock is Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 2 ‘High Mountain Regions’. IACS Secretary General Andrew Mackintosh is Lead Author of Chapter 3 ‘Polar Regions’. IACS Division III head Hiroyuki Enomoto is Lead Author of Chapter 1 ‘Framing and Context of the Report’. IACS Vice President Xiao Cunde is Review Editor for Chapter 3 ‘Polar Regions’. Former IACS President Georg Kaser is Review Editor for Chapter 2 ‘High Mountain Regions’.
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IACS members on the Cotopaxi Volcano in Ecuador following the Second Lead Author Meeting for the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, February 2018. From left to right, President Regine Hock, Secretary General Andrew Mackintosh, Head of sea ice, lake ice and river ice Division Hiroyuki Enomoto, and co-chair of IACS MICROSNOW Working Group, Samuel Morin. Working and Standing Groups IACS facilitates the transfer of research methods and explores new avenues in cryospheric science through Standing Groups and Working Groups devoted to a theme or subject and composed of experts in the particular field of study. Here is a summary of IACS Working Group Activity during the last four years. - The MICROSNOW Working Group (2012-2016) held a series of very useful workshops and scientific intercomparison exercises. For more information, see here. - The Randolph Glacier Inventory and infrastructure for glacier monitoring Working Group (2014-2019) was the first to provide a globally comprehensive glacier inventory; in 2017, it released version 6.0 of its database (https://doi.org/10.7265/N5-RGI-60). - The IACS Working Group on Glacier ice thickness estimation (2014-2019) has been very successful, and has just had its second scientific output published in the leading journal Nature Geoscience. - The IACS Working Group on Debris Covered Glaciers was established in late 2018, and will extend until 2022. The aim of this group is to advance our understanding of how debris impacts glacier response to climate at the local, regional, and global scale. This is a necessary precursor to accurately represent debris-covered glaciers in models of regional runoff and sea-level change projections. The current Standing Groups (SG) are the Joint Commission on Volcano-Ice Interactions (with the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior - IAVCEI), Glacier and Permafrost Hazards in Mountains (GAPHAZ, a joint SG with the International Permafrost Association IPA), and the Steering Committee of the Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers (GTN-G). GAPHAZ also links IACS to the IUGG Union Commission on GeoRisk (M. Krautblatter is our representative). For a recent high-profile GAPHAZ output, please see their 2018 Nature Geoscience paper about a catastrophic glacier collapse in Tibet.
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International Symposium on the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, Wellington, NZ IACS held its 2017 scientific assembly from 12-17 February 2017 in Wellington, New Zealand. This meeting brought together three of the leading international associations focusing on the cryosphere; the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS), the International Glaciological Society (IGS) and the World Climate Research Programme Climate and Cryosphere Project (WCRP CliC). This conference was held at Victoria University of Wellington, Andrew Mackintosh’s home institution. Andrew chaired the Local Organising Committee while Ian Allison chaired the Scientific Steering Committee. Around 250 delegates from ~30 countries attended this conference. IACS provided travel grants to allow more than 15 early career scientists and scientists from developing countries to attend this meeting. Attendees included senior and chief editors of the journals Nature and Nature Climate Change respectively. About 30 delegates also attended the pre- and post-conference field trips to Tongariro and Aoraki/Mt Cook National Parks. Overall, this conference was a major success.
Delegates enjoying a meal on the mid conference field, International Symposium on the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, Wellington New Zealand, February 2017. Other meetings and symposia sponsored by IACS IACS supports events that are of interest to the cryospheric community. Our contributions are either to cover part of the travel costs of attendees (early career scientists and scientists from developing countries) or towards IACS awards for scientists in these categories. Below we list the meetings or events that we have sponsored between 2014-2018. 1. International Glaciology Society International Symposium on Glaciology in High Mountain Asia, 1-6 March 2015, Kathmandu Nepal. 2. First APECS World Summit: The Future of Polar Research, Sofia, Bulgaria, 6-8 June 2015. 3. 1st Snow Science Winter School, Sodankylä, Finland, 8-14 February 2015. 4. 2nd Snow Science Winter School, Preda, Switzerland, 14-20 February 2016. 5. World Glacier Monitoring Service Training Course for Glacier Mass Balance Measurements and Analysis, Bolivia, 10-16 July 2016. 6. International Summer School in Glaciology, McCarthy, AK, USA, June 2016. 7. 6th International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration, Reykjavik, Iceland, 5-9 September 2016.
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IACS supported the 2nd Snow Science Winter School in Preda and Davos, Switzerland, from 14 - 20 February 2016. The winter school provided high level training for 26 students from 11 countries. 8. International Glacial Seismology Training School, 11-17 June 2017, Fort Collins, CO, USA. 9. Past Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics (PAIS) conference, September 10-15, 2017, Trieste, Italy. 10. International Workshop on Cryospheric Change and Sustainable Development, 1-2 August 2017, Lanzhou, China. 11. From entering the field to taking the helm; perspectives of women in polar research. Panel Discussion at Polar2018 Meeting in Davos (15-26 June 2018). 12. International Summer School in Glaciology, McCarthy Alaska from June 5-15, 2018 13. International Workshop on Cryospheric Changes and their Regional and Global Impacts, Dunhuang China, from July 31 - August 1, 2018. 14. 4th Nordic Workshop on Cosmogenic Nuclides; Landscape development and geohazards. 4-6 June 2018, Norway. 15. 4th Snow Science Winter School at Col du Lautaret, France, from 11-17 February 2018.
IACS early career scientist award The IACS early career scientist award was initiated in 2016. This award is presented at bi-annual scientific assemblies (IACS, and IUGG General Assemblies). Information about the 2016 awardees can be found here. The next round of awards will be made in time for the 2019 Montreal IUGG General Assembly (deadline March 1st, 2019).
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Participants of the INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN GLACIOLOGY, supported by IACS and IUGG, and convened by IACS President Regine Hock. Wrangell Mountains Center, McCarthy, Alaska; 5-15 June 2018
FUTURE ACTIVITIES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 27th IUGG General Assembly, Montreal IACS is looking forward to participating in the GA in Montreal, where we will support around 30 cryosphere-related symposia including many joint with other IUGG associations. All IACS bureau positions (except for President) will be renewed, we will hold the IACS dinner known as Festa Cryospherica, and the winner of the IACS Early Career prize will be announced. IACS has begun planning for a joint meeting with IAMAS and IAPSO (MOCA-21) to be held in the Northern Hemisphere summer in Busan, South Korea.
Regine Hock, IACS President Andrew Mackintosh, IACS Secretary General
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International Association of Geodesy (IAG) / Association Internationale de Géodésie (AIG)
http://www.iag-aig.org
INTRODUCTION The objective of the IAG is to study all geodetic problems related to Earth observation and global change. This includes the establishment of reference systems, determination of the Earth gravity field, monitoring Earth rotation, positioning of surface points, and studies of crustal deformation, mass transport and sea level changes. To accomplish the objectives, IAG is divided into four Commissions, fourteen Scientific Services, the Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS), the Communication and Outreach Branch (COB), and the Inter-Commission Committee on Theory (ICCT). The administration is supervised by the Council and operated by the Bureau, the Executive Committee and the Office. The outreach is done by the COB. All these entities are in steady contact and inform about their activities through the IAG Newsletter and the bi-annual IAG Reports (Travaux de l’AIG). IAG Council The Council met during the IUGG General Assembly 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic, and the IAG- IASPEI Scientific Assembly 2017 in Kobe, Japan. The list of delegates forming the IAG Council was updated regularly in contact with the IUGG Secretariat. The Council was also informed by e-mail about activities of the Bureau and the Executive Committee. IAG Executive Committee (EC) The Executive Committee is composed by the IAG President, immediate Past-President, Vice-President, Secretary General, the four Commission Presidents, the Chairperson of GGOS, the President of the COB, three representatives of the Services, and two members at large. 7 EC meetings were held from July 2015 to the end of 2018: Prague, Czech Republic, July 2015, San Francisco, CA/USA, December 2015, Potsdam, Germany, April 2016, Vienna, Austria, April 2017, Kobe, Japan, July- August 2017, Vienna, Austria, April 2018, and Washington DC, USA, December 2018. Minutes are available for the EC members, and meeting summaries published in the IAG Newsletter (by e-mail, in the IAG Homepage IAG Executive Committee members at its meeting in Potsdam, April 2016
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http://www.iag-aig.org and in the IAG Office Homepage http://iag.dgfi.tum.de) and in IAG’s Journal of Geodesy. IAG Bureau The IAG Bureau, consisting of the President, the Vice-President and the Secretary General, had steady contact by e-mail, held teleconferences and met before EC meetings. The President and Secretary General participated in the IUGG Executive Committee Meetings. IAG Office The IAG Office assists the Secretary General in the administrative organization of all IAG business, meetings and events. This includes the budget management, the record keeping and fee accounting of the individual IAG membership, and the preparation and documentation of all Council and Executive Committee meetings with detailed minutes for the EC members and meeting summaries published in the IAG Newsletters and the IAG Homepage. Important activities were the preparation and execution of the joint IAG-IASPEI Scientific Assembly 2017, the edition of the Geodesist’s Handbook 2016 as the organizational guide of IAG with the complete description of the IAG structure (reports, terms of reference, documents), and the Mid-Term Reports 2015–2017 (Travaux de l’AIG Vol. 40). The account- ing of the Journal of Geodesy and the IAG Symposia series, both published by Springer, were supervised. Travel grants for young scientists to participate in IAG sponsored symposia were handled. Communication and Outreach Branch (COB) The task of the COB is the IAG public relation in particular by maintaining the IAG Homepage and publishing the monthly Newsletter online and in the Journal of Geodesy. It also keeps track of all IAG related events by the meetings calendar. The IAG newsletter is sent to all IAG Officers, individual members, the Presidents and Secretaries General of the IUGG Associations and liaison bodies. The COB prepared, printed and distributed the IAG leaflet and IAG brochure and participated in the preparation of the Geodesist’s Handbook 2016. Commissions and Inter-Commission Committee The four IAG Commissions (Reference Frames, Gravity Field, Earth Rotation and Geodynamics, Positioning and Applications) and the Inter-Commission Committee on Theory established their structure and scientific programme for the period 2015 – 2019 (published in the Geodesists’ Handbook 2016) and coordinated their implementation. They reported regularly to the EC and prepared the mid- term reports 2015 – 2017 for publication in the IAG Reports (Travaux de l’AIG). Each Commission maintained its individual Homepage and held several symposia, workshops and other meetings (see below). All of them organised a symposia at the IAG-IASPEI Scientific Assembly 2017 and planned symposia for the General Assembly 2019. Services There are thirteen IAG Services, which split into three general fields: geometry (IERS, IDS, IGS, ILRS, and IVS), gravity (IGFS, ICGEM, IDEMS, IGeS, IGETS and BGI) and overlapping (BIPM and PSMSL). All of them maintain their own Homepages and data servers and hold their administrative meetings (Directing Board or Governing Board, respectively). They published their structure and programme 2015 – 2019 in the Geodesists’ Handbook 2016, and the progress reports 2015 – 2017 in the IAG Reports (Travaux de l’AIG). Most of the Services held international meetings (see below). Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) The GGOS is IAG’s observing system to monitor the geodetic and the global geodynamic properties of the Earth as a system. A new structure was implemented during the period 2015 to 2018 and the Terms of Reference were updated. It includes a Consortium composed by representatives of the Commissions
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and Services, the Coordinating Board as the decision-making body, the Executive Committee, and the Science Panel. The scientific work of GGOS includes Bureaus, Focus Areas, and Working Groups. A new GGOS Coordinating Office was established for all organizational affairs, to maintain the GGOS website (www.ggos.org), an exhibit booth, and brochures and books. Informative GGOS days were held annually. Coordination with other organizations IAG maintains close cooperation with several organizations outside IUGG. There were frequent meetings with the Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea (ABLOS, together with IHO), Group on Earth Observation (GEO, with IAG as a participating organization), International Standards Organization (ISO, TC211 Geographic Information / Geomatics), United Nations Initiative on Global Information Management (UN-GGIM), United Nations GGIM Geospatial Societies (UN-GGIM-GS), United Nations Offices for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA, with Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response, UN-SPIDER, and International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems, ICG). Individual IAG membership At present IAG counts 207 individual members, students are free of charge. Meetings IAG sponsored meetings from July 2015 to December 2018 were: ‒ International DORIS Service (IDS) Analysis Working Group Meeting, Greenbelt, MD, USA, 15-16 October 2015. ‒ International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS) Analysis Working Group Meeting, Matera, Italy, 24 October 2015. ‒ International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS) Technical Workshop 2015, Matera, Italy, 26-30 October 2015. ‒ Latin American Reference System (SIRGAS) Symposium, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 18-20 November 2015. ‒ 9th International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology (MMT2015), Sydney, Australia, 9-11 December 2015. ‒ IGS Workshop, Sydney, Australia, February 15-19, 2016; ‒ 9th IVS General Meeting, Ekudeni (Johannesburg), South Africa, March 13-17, 2016; ‒ 3rd Joint Symposium on Deformation Monitoring, Vienna, Austria, March 30 – April 1, 2016; ‒ 4th IAG Symposium “Terrestrial gravimetry: Static and mobile measurements”, Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 12-15, 2016; ‒ European Reference Frame Symposium (EUREF 2016), San Sebastian, Spain, May, 25-27, 2016; ‒ 18th Geodynamics and Earth Tide Symposium 2016, Trieste, Italy, June 5-9, 2016; ‒ Joint IAU/IAG/IERS Symposium “Geodesy, Astronomy and Geophysics in Earth Rotation (GAGER2016)”, Wuhan, Hubei, China, July 18-23, 2016; ‒ Int. Symposium on Geodesy and Geodynamics (ISGG2016), Tianjin, China, July 22-26, 2016; ‒ 1st International Conference on GNSS+ (ICG+2016), Shanghai, China, July 27-30, 2016; ‒ IAG Commission 4 “Positioning and Applications” Symposium, Wroclaw, Poland, September 4-7, 2016; ‒ 18th General Assembly of WEGENER “Understanding earth deformation at plate boundaries”, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, September 12-15, 2016; ‒ 1st Joint Commission 2 and IGFS Meeting, International Symposium on Gravity, Geoid and Height Systems 2016 (GGHS2016), Thessaloniki, Greece, September 19-23, 2016;
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‒ First International Workshop on VLBI Observations of Near-field Targets, Bonn, Germany, October 5-6, 2016; ‒ 20th International Workshop on Laser Ranging, Potsdam, Germany, October 9-14, 2016; ‒ GGOS Days, Cambridge, MA, USA, October 24-28, 2016; ‒ IDS Workshop, La Rochelle, France, October Auditorium at the IAG-IASPEI Scientific Assembly, Kobe, July/August 2017 31 – November 1, 2016; ‒ Reference Frame for South and Central America Symposium (SIRGAS2016), Quito, Ecuador, November 16-18, 2016; ‒ 1st International Symposium - Applied Geomatics and Geospatial Solutions, Rosario, Argentina, April 3-7, 2017; ‒ 9th IVS Technical Operations Workshop, Westford, MA, USA, April 30 – May 4, 2017; ‒ EUREF 2017 Symposium, Wroclaw, Poland, May 17-19, 2017; ‒ DORIS Analysis Working Group Meeting, London, UK, May 22-24, 2017; ‒ 21st Meeting of the Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency, Sèvres, France, June 6-9, 2017; ‒ 1st IUGG Symposium on Planetary Science, Berlin, Germany, July 3-5, 2017; ‒ IGS Workshop 2017, University of Paris-Diderot, France, July 3-7, 2017; ‒ IAG/GGOS/IERS Unified Analysis Workshop, Paris-Diderot, France, July 10-12, 2017; ‒ 2017 GNSS Tsunami Early Warning System Workshop, Sendai, Japan, July 25-27, 2017; ‒ IAG and IASPEI Joint Scientific Assembly, Kobe, Japan, July 30 – August 4, 2017; ‒ Asia-Pacific Space Geodynamics Symposium, Shanghai, China, August 15-18, 2017; ‒ Workshop on Glacial Isostatic Adjustment and Elastic Deformation, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 5-7, 2017; ‒ 3rd COSPAR Symposium “Small Satellites for Space Research”, Jesu, South Korea, September 18-19, 2017; ‒ IAG Workshop “Satellite Geodesy for Climate Studies”, Bonn, Germany, September 19-21, 2017; ‒ Journées des Systèmes de Référence et de la Rotation Terrestre, Paris, France, September 25-27, 2017. The following IAG Schools were sponsored from July 2015 to June 2017: ‒ VII SIRGAS School on Reference Systems, Santo Domingo, Dominican Inaugural reception of the IAG-IASPEI Scientific Republic, 16-17 November 2015. Assembly, Kobe, July/August 2017 134
‒ 2nd IVS Training School on VLBI for Geodesy and Astrometry, Hartebeesthoek, South Africa, March 9-12, 2016; ‒ ISG Geoid School, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, June 6 – 10, 2016; ‒ SIRGAS School on Vertical Reference Systems, Quito, Ecuador, November 21 – 25, 2016; Publications The Journal of Geodesy, the official IAG scientific periodical with an Editor in Chief approved by the IAG Executive Committee, published continuously monthly issues in Springer-Verlag. The IAG Symposia Series published the following volumes 2015-2017: ‒ VIII Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy 2013, IAG Symposia Vol. 142, Springer 2016; ‒ IAG Scientific Assembly, Potsdam 2013, IAG Symposia Vol. 143, Springer 2016; ‒ 3rd International Gravity Field Symposium 2014, IAG Symposia Vol. 144, Springer 2017; ‒ International Symposium on Geodesy for Earthquake and Natural Hazards (GENAH), IAG Symposia Vol. 145, Springer 2017; ‒ IAG Commission 1 Symposium REFAG 2014, IAG Symposia Vol. 146, Springer 2016. The IAG Reports (Travaux de l’AIG) Vol. 39 (2015) and 40 (2017) include reports of all IAG components. Awards, anniversaries, obituaries The following medals and prices have been awarded: ‒ Levallois Medal to Rainer Rummel, Germany (2015); ‒ Bomford Prize to Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Japan (2015); ‒ Young Author Award to Xingxing Li, Germany (2015); ‒ Young Author Award to Olga Didova, The Netherlands (2016); ‒ 102 Travel Awards to young scientists for participating and presenting their research at 19 IAG sponsored symposia with a total of 58900 EURO. Obituaries were written for former IAG officers and outstanding geodesists who passed away: ‒ Bob Schutz, USA, 1940 – 2015; ‒ Suriya Tatevian, Russia, 1937 – 2015; ‒ Camil Gemael, Brazil, 1922 – 2015; ‒ Graciela Font, Argentina, 1940 – 2015; ‒ John Wahr, USA, 1951 – 2015; ‒ Alexander Kopaev, Russia, 1962 – 2016; ‒ Heinz Henneberg, Venezuela, 1926 – 2016; ‒ Hermann Seeger, Germany, 1934 – 2016; ‒ Barbara Kolaczek, Poland, 1931 – 2017; ‒ Bernard Guinot, France, 1925 – 2017; ‒ Dieter Lelgemann, Germany, 1939 – 2017; ‒ Klaus Linkwitz, Germany, 1927 – 2017; ‒ József Závoti, Hungary, 1949 – 2017; ‒ Yoshihide Kozai, Japan, 1928 – 2018; ‒ Marcin Barlik, Poland, 1944 – 2018; ‒ Jean O’Brien Dickey, USA, 1945 – 2018; ‒ Jean Kovalevsky, France, 1929 – 2018;
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PLANNED FUTURE ACTIVITIES Main activities in the coming period concern the implementation of the updated IAG strategy, a new IAG structure, the cooperation in the Subcommittee on Geodesy of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), and the next IAG Scientific Assembly in 2021. The Executive Committee wrote a strategy document 2019, which lists visions and options that may lead to a revision of the present Statutes and Bylaws, and presented it to the IAG Council at the General Assembly 2019. The new structure of the IAG shall include inter-association commissions or sub-commissions, i.e. with IASPEI and IAVCEI. IAG is represented in the UN-GGIM permanent Subcommittee on Geodesy. The main activity is the implementation of the Global Geodetic Reference Frame (GGRF). IAG strives to base the objectives on the IAG position paper, which is stating the geometric, gravimetric and height reference frames as the three principal components of the GGRF (https://iag.dgfi.tum.de/fileadmin/IAG- docs/GGRF_description_by_the_IAG_V2.pdf). Based on the responses to a call for bids, the IAG Council elected the Chinese Adhering Organization to host the next IAG Scientific Assembly 2021 in Beijing.
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International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) / Association Internationale de Géomagnétisme et d’Aéronomie (AIGA)
http://www.iaga-aiga.org
INTRODUCTION IAGA, the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (AIGA - Association Internationale de Géomagnétisme et d’Aéronomie) is one of the eight Associations of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). It is a non-governmental body funded through the subscriptions paid to IUGG by its Member Countries. IAGA has a long history and can trace its origins to the Commission for Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity, part of the International Meteorological Organisation, which was established in 1873. IAGA is the premier international scientific association promoting the study of terrestrial and planetary magnetism, and space physics. IAGA is concerned with the understanding and knowledge that result from studies of the magnetic and electrical properties of: • the Earth's core, mantle and crust • the middle and upper atmosphere • the ionosphere and the magnetosphere • the Sun, the solar wind, the planets and interplanetary bodies.
ADMINISTRATION In 2015, during the IUGG General Assembly, the Conference of Delegates elected a new Executive Committee for the quadrennium 2015-2019. The new leaders for the Divisions and Commissions and their Working Groups were appointed by the Executive Committee and confirmed by the Conference of Delegates. Important to note is that since 2015, IAGA moved from five to six Divisions and four Inter- divisional Commissions, each led by a Chair and a Co-Chair.
ACTIVITIES Outstanding frontiers of research in geomagnetism and aeronomy in the period 2015-2018 have included a wide range of new results, in diverse domains of Association activities. The increased interest in studying the Earth’s magnetic field is underlined by the Swarm satellite mission launched by ESA in 2013. This constellation of three satellites offers an unprecedented opportunity to achieve an improved separation between the internal and external magnetic field sources, a detailed mapping of the large- scale lithospheric magnetic field, and multi-point monitoring of magnetic disturbances and related aeronomic processes for space weather applications.
ASSEMBLIES 2015: The XXVIth IUGG General Assembly The IAGA programme efficiently run over the first part of the meeting, held in a conference centre which provided an excellent space for poster viewing and the exhibition, as well as plenty of varied sized rooms for oral presentations. This gave us the chance to catch up with latest developments in our
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own research, as well as take in some of the more inter-disciplinary topics. The meeting provided many opportunities for scientists to discuss different themes, over breaks, poster sessions, and the IAGA special dinner. 2017: The Joint IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Assembly The main event in 2017 was the Joint IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Scientific Assembly which officially closed on Friday 1st September 2017. The conference was a highly successful Joint Assembly organised at Cape Town’s CTICC, and the first of its kind between the three IUGG associations. Lasting a full 5 days, the Joint Assembly had a total of 1038 registrations (383 for IAGA). IAGA was indeed well represented, with 557 out of 1356 abstracts (the conference abstracts are available on the IAGA web).
2017: The IAGA awards ceremony: IAGA Shen Kuo Award for Interdisciplinary Achievements to Jeffrey Forbes, IAGA Long Service Medal to Jean Rasson; Young Scientist Award to Emma Douma (NZ), Katarzyna Dudzisz (PL) and Federico Gasperini (USA)
IAGA Awards & Honors In Prague and Cape Town it was a pleasure to recognise the achievements of IAGA scientists at all stages of their careers at the Open and Awards ceremonies: Recipients of the Shen Kuo Award for Interdisciplinary Achievements Jeffrey Forbes USA 2017 IAGA News 54 Daniel Baker USA 2015 IAGA News 52
Recipients of the IAGA Long Service Medal Jean Rasson Belgium 2017 IAGA News 54 Hans-Joachim Linthe Germany 2015 IAGA News 52 John Riddick UK 2015 IAGA News 52
Recipients of the IAGA Young Scientist Award Emma Douma NZ 2017 IAGA News 54 Katarzyna Dudzisz PL 2017 IAGA News 54 Federico Gasperini USA 2017 IAGA News 54 Erin Dawkins UK 2015 IAGA News 52
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Rémi Thiéblemont Germany 2015 IAGA News 52 Israel Silber Israel 2015 IAGA News 52 Maria Mendakiewicz Poland 2015 IAGA News 52
IAGA SCHOOLS The 2nd IAGA School The second IAGA School took place in Prague, June 15-21, 2015. The IAGA School was very successful, based on feedback received to date. Twenty-two students from 14 countries (of 13 nationalities) participated; most were nominated by Division and Working Group Chairs. Seven lectures, followed by practical and computational exercises, by distinguished experts covered a large variety of IAGA topics. All students stayed in same hotel; this greatly prompted friendship and networking among them. The whole event took place in a very informal and friendly — though hard-working! —atmosphere. Not only the students, but also the lecturers enjoyed the event very much. All the students became highly visible during the IUGG General Assembly. The 3rd IAGA School The third IAGA Summer School took place at SANSA Space Science in Hermanus, South Africa, from 20-26 August 2017 (the week before Scientific Assembly of IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA). The event was attended by 19 post-graduate students from 15 countries worldwide (e.g., Algeria, Brazil, Mexico, India, Japan, Russia, Poland, UK, South Africa). The attendees included students nominated for the IAGA Young Scientist Award, or nominated by the IAGA Division and Working Group leaders. Altogether 6 topics across all the disciplines of IAGA were covered by lectures given by experts in their fields. Lectures were accompanied by practical projects that students worked on in groups and presented on the last afternoon. Interactions among students and between students and lecturers were very friendly and informal, and friendships and networks were formed. Both, students and lecturers gave very positive feedback on the event.
2017: the 3rd IAGA school (Hermanus, South Africa)
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IAGA Sponsored Topical Meetings Over the four-year period (2015-2018) IAGA sponsored 25 topical meetings covering large parts of the IAGA science. The meetings were well distributed geographically to make them available to a larger number of scientists. The IAGA financial contributions were directed mainly at helping young and needy scientists attendance. IAGA Publications IAGA News 52-55, containing information about IAGA activities and the Executive Committee decisions have been distributed annually, and can be found on the IAGA website http://www.iugg.org/IAGA/iaga_pages/pubs_prods/public_relation.html. Similarly, there is much valuable information via the IAGA website http://www.iaga-aiga.org
PLANNED FUTURE ACTIVITIES 2019 seems to be a successful and productive year for IAGA. The IUGG General Assembly programme is looking strong, varied and inviting. The IUGG meeting in Montreal will give us the opportunity to celebrate the 100th anniversary of international cooperation in Earth and Space sciences. In addition to the IUGG Assembly, some other activities are planned. The most important will be the book “Geomagnetism, Aeronomy and Space Weather: A Journey from the Earth’s Core to the Sun” (edited by Mioara Mandea, Monika Korte, Andrew Yau and Eduard Petrovský), to be published by the Cambridge University Press. This book includes contributions by top world researchers in geomagnetism, aeronomy and space weather. To celebrate this centenary, a paper will be published in 2019 in HGSS (“Major role of IAGA in Understanding our Magnetic Planet” by Mioara Mandea and Eduard Petrovský). During 2019 IAGA will be involved in organising a few topical meetings.
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International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) / Association Internationale des Sciences Hydrologiques (AISH)
IAHS website: http://iahs.info
INTRODUCTION IAHS promotes the study of all aspects of hydrology through discussion, comparison, and publication of research results and through the initiation of research that requires international cooperation. IAHS Press publishes the Hydrological Sciences Journal (HSJ), the Proceedings of IAHS (PIAHS, open access, successor of the Red Book Series), the Benchmark Paper series, and other specialised publications. IAHS maintains strong connections with the International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO and with the Hydrology and Water Resources Programme of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), and is partner of the UN Water coordination mechanism. The following International Commissions, Working Groups and Initiative of IAHS conduct conferences, symposia, workshops, courses, and research programmes: • International Commission on Continental Erosion (ICCE) • International Commission on the Coupled Land-Atmosphere System (ICCLAS) • International Commission on Groundwater (ICGW) • International Commission on Remote Sensing (ICRS) • International Commission on Snow and Ice Hydrology (ICSIH) • International Commission on Statistical Hydrology (ICSH) • International Commission on Surface Water (ICSW) • International Commission on Tracers (ICT) • International Commission on Water Quality (ICWQ) • International Commission on Water Resources Systems (ICWRS) • Working Group MOXXI on Measuring and Observing in the XXIst century • Working Group CANDHY on Citizens AND HYdrology • Working Group on Education • Decadal Initiative Panta Rhei 2013-2022.
ADMINISTRATION Elections were held during the 2015 General Assembly. Every elected person took position immediately except Presidents of Association itself and of the 10 Commissions, who became Presidents elect and then acting Presidents during the 2017 Plenary in Port Elizabeth. At the Association level, Günter Blöschl (Austria) became President, after Hubert Savenije (The Netherlands). Bureau meetings have been held in Prague (2015), UNESCO – Paris (2016), Port Elizabeth (2017), Vienna (2018). Zbigniew Kundzewicz (Poland), Mike Acreman (United Kingdom) and Demetris Koustoyiannis (Greece) steped down from positions of co-editor of Hydrological Sciences Journal, respectively in 2015, 2017 and 2018; and Attilio Castellarin (Italy), Ross Woods (New Zealand) and Stacey Archfield (USA) became co-editors respectively in 2015, 2016 and 2018. The IAHS Press and executive secretariat keeps on benefitting of an excellent hosting by CEH in Wallingford (United Kingdom) and
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went through important changes. Cate Gardner retired from the IAHS Press office head after many years of services, and Claire Lupton has been recruited as the new executive secretary in 2015. Frances Watkins celebrated 25 years of services in editing articles of Hydrological Sciences Journal in 2018, and was joined by Sara Rafferty. As Charles Onstad (USA) stepped down from the position of treasurer in 2016, all the IAHS finances have been reorganized in the United Kingdom, Cate Gardner playing a key role as transitional Treasurer, until Kate Heal (United Kingdom) became Treasurer in 2018. The board of the IAHS UK Charity Limited was reorganized to reflect evolutions of the publication activity, of the IAHS Press staff, and of the financing organisation. In addition to changes in the association governance, trustees and secretary of the board with UK Citizenship have rotated – Des Walling, John Rodda, Gwyn Rees and Mike Acreman stepping down, Helen Houghton-Carr joining, Cate Gardner and Kate Heal chairing. The IAHS bureau set up in 2018 an Early Career Committee composed of one representative from every commission and chaired by Nilay Dogulu (Turkey); and a committee for Africa chaired by Gil Mahé (France, both President of ICSW and co-chair of UNESCO Friend).
IAHS bureau meeting, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 2017
ACTIVITIES In the frame of the IUGG 2015 General Assembly in Prague (Czech Republic), IAHS organized 21 Symposia and Workshops and co-convened several inter-association and union events. Miroslav Tesar has been a key focal point for IAHS in the Local Organizing Committee. WMO and UNESCO co- convened two of these symposia. The Xth Scientific Assembly of the Association was held in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, from 10 to 14 July 2017. The assembly was organized by the South African National Committee of the IAHS and
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Rhodes University, Grahamstown; ultimately by Denis Hughes, Graham Jewitt and their teams, in close cooperation with the IAHS secretariat. Waternet, a major Southern African regional network of universities and institutes in the field of integrated water resources management, has been involved as a key partner. The overall theme of the meeting was “Water and Development: Scientific Challenges in Addressing Societal Issues”. UNESCO, WMO and UNU co-convened several sessions, and UNESCO further inscribed a specific workshop on Hydro-diplomacy in the Assembly. Many efforts have been also dedicated to organize the IAHS programme and presence, as well as Joint events with sister Associations and UN partners (WMO, UNESCO, UNU), for the IUGG 2019 General Assembly in Montreal (Canada). Montpellier (France) has been selected in 2017 for the 2021 IAHS Scientific Assembly.
Group picture of the IAHS Assembly in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 2017
IAHS and its Commissions and Working Groups have (co-)organized many conferences across the World, in particular the following series: • STAHY International workshops on Statistical Hydrology in Québec (Canada), 2016; Warsaw (Poland), 2017; Adelaide (Australia), 2018; • ICCE Symposia on Erosion and Sedimentation in Exeter (United Kingdom), 2016; Moscow (Russia), 2018; • ICWRS Conferences on Water Resources Management in Bochum (Germany), 2016; Beijing (China), 2018; • HydroEco on HydroEcology in Vienna (Austria), 2015; Birmingham (United Kingdom), 2017; • GQ Conferences on Groundwater Quality in Shenzhen (China), 2016; • ICRS Conferences on Remote sensing applied to Hydrology in Cordoba (Spain), 2018; • Concerenced on Panta Rhei and development issues in Shenzhen (China), 2016; Gorgan (Iran), 2017); Harare (2018);
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• Panta Rhei sessions in EGU and AGU Assemblies every year, respectively in Vienna (Austria) and San Francisco / New Orleans / Washington DC (USA); • Summer schools on PUB – Prediction in Ungauged Basins in Vienna (Austria), every year: • MOXXI workshops at ESA, Frascati (Italy), 2016; WMO, Geneva (Switzerland), 2017; • WMO-IAHR-IAHS International hydrometry workshops in Queenstown (New Zealand), 2016; Grenoble (France), 2018; • UNESCO-IAHS Kovacs colloquium on ‘Water related SDGs’ and its evolution towards the SPIC – Science Policy Interface Colloquium in UNESCO, Paris (France), respectively in 2016 and 2018; the following stand alone events: • Colloque International sur les Ressources en Eau et le Développement Durable in Algiers (Algeria), 2016; • Drought in the Anthropocene Panta Rhei workshop in Freiburg (Germany), 2017; • Atlas Georesources International Congress in Hammamet (Tunisia), 2017, 2018; • Panta Rhei Symposium on comparative socio-hydrology of floods, droughts and water management in Beijing (China), 2018; • International Symposium of Eco-hydrology and water security in Xi’ian (China), 2018; and the following contributions to: • Freshwater sessions at the Pre-COP21 of the UN Convention against Climate Change, Our common future under climate change conference in Paris (France), 2015; • ESA 3rd Space for hydrology workshop in Frascati (Italy), 2015; • NISOLS, International symposium on land subsidence in Nagoya (Japan), 2015; • Waternet Symposia in Gaborone (Botswana), 2016; Swakopmund (Namibia), 2017; Livingstone (Zambia), 2018; • WMO Conference for Prosperity through Hydrological Services (HydroConference) in Geneva (Switzerland), 2018; • UNESCO Friend African large river basins hydrology in Hammamet (Tunisia), 2015; Algiers (Algeria), 2018; • UNESCO Friend World Conference in Beijing (China), 2018;
WMO, UNESCO, Taylor and Francis allocated funds to IAHS, and IAHS allocated proper funds to support delegates from countries in need to participate to the Assemblies. The IAHS bureau set up in 2018 a permanent mechanism to support early career scientists from disadvantaged countries to attend IAHS conferences, named SYSTA – Sivapalan Young Scientist Travel Award, named after Murugesu Sivapalan (Sri Lanka, USA). IAHS coordinated the IAHS-UNESCO-WMO International Hydrology Prize, Dooge and Volker Medals; and bestowed the Tison Award for young hydrologist every year. The Prize ceremonies were held during the 2015 Prague and 2017 Port Elizabeth Assemblies; and during the UNESCO-IAHS Kovacs colloquium in UNESCO Headquarters in 2016, and the WMO Conference for Prosperity through hydrological services in WMO Headquarters in 2018. IAHS Press published in cooperation with Taylor and Francis the Hydrological Sciences Journal, HSJ, increasing the number of annual issues from 12 to 16 in 2016. The bureau decided in 2015 to discontinue bilingualism of Hydrological Sciences Journal and the last paper in French was published in 2017. Promotion by “features articles” continues, with details disseminated in press releases and via IAHS social media. Featured articles and Tison Award papers are made free to view. All papers in volumes
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IAHS Panta Rhei Conference, Harare, Zimbabwe more than two years old automatically become open access. Any other paper can be open access from the online display, on Author’s paying principle. An Editorial retreat of HSJ was held with many of the Associate Editors, articulation with the bureau members, and support from Taylor and Francis, in Port Elizabeth in 2017. Three special issues have been published in 2015, (Evaluation of water resources with SWAT; Modelling temporally-variable catchments; African hydrology research); two in 2016 (Hydrology and Peace in the Middle East; Facets of Uncertainty); and three are under preparation (Hydrological change in Chinese rivers; Hydrological data: Opportunities and barriers; Advancing socio-hydrology: a synthesis of coupled human-water systems across disciplines). A special series of HSJ Opinion Papers directly linked to Panta Rhei was launched in 2016, and is lively with key papers and following up discussions and replies, on a broad range of stakes from socio-hydrology to experimental needs and Water-Energy-Food Nexus methods and epistemologies. IAHS Press also published the two last Red books of the series began in 1924 and supervised the transition in 2015 towards the new PIAHS open-access e-book series, in cooperation with Copernicus, with numbering and indexing in continuity with the Red Book series. Volumes are now published on a regular basis from IAHS Assemblies and conferences as well as as outcomes of partners’ events and initiatives. The IAHS TFDC (Task Force for Developing Countries) finished its action in distributing free of charge all IAHS publications to more than 60 selected Universities and Research Institutions of Africa, Asia, South-America and Eastern Europe since decades; as PIAHS volumes are now open access and digitized archives of the IAHS Red books have been made available within the recently relaunched website. Complimentary access to hydrologists from many countries in needs can have free online access to HSJ.
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The second and third joint editorials have been published in seven and eleven major hydrological journals, including HSJ and PIAHS: • Koutsoyiannis D. et al. 2016. Joint editorial – Fostering innovation and improving impact assessment for journal publications in hydrology. HSJ 61 (7) 1170-1173. • Quinn N. et al., 2018. Joint Editorial – Invigorating hydrological research through journal publications. HSJ 63 (8), 1113 – 1117. The continuation of the Panta Rhei intiative is well under way with coordinating teams operating over the 2015-2017 and 2017-2019 biennia, respectively chaired by Hillary McMillan (New Zealand, USA), and Giuliano di Baldassare (Italy, Sweden). Stand alone and joint events, a special series of conferences in emerging and developing countries, the opinion paper series in HSJ, labelled articles in other Journals, and the following progress article have been structuring the agenda-setting initiative: • McMillan et al., 2016. Panta Rhei 2013–2015: global perspectives on hydrology, society and change. HSJ 61 (7), 1174–1191. The MOXXI Working Group, chaired by Flavia Tauro (Italy) is transversal to most of the Commissions and ran three dedicated workshops, the two latter jointly with WMO Hydrohub, facilitating dialogue between academia, hydrometeorological operational services, and innovating companies. A MOXXI community article has been published: • Tauro F. et al., 2018. Measurements and observations in the XXI century (MOXXI): innovation and multi-disciplinarity to sense the hydrological cycle. HSJ 63 (2), 169–196. The CANDHY working group was created in 2017, chaired by Fernando Nardi (Italy), and joined the MOXXI working group in organising a workshop for early 2019 in New York City (USA). In Port Elizabeth, 2017, President Günter Blöschl initiated the UPH – Unsolved Problems in Hydrology initiative. IAHS coordinated the corporate process over 2017-2018 to identify the list of UPH, relying on an online forum, meetings, articulation with IAH - AGU - EGU divisions of hydrology, and the collective writing of an agenda setting article to be published in HSJ in 2019. The close cooperation of IAHS with UNESCO, WMO and the UN Water mechanism has been continued. We have especially contributed to the World Water Development Reports WDRR 2015- 2019, the UN-Task Force on Water and Climate; and attended the UNESCO IHP Intergovernmental Council and Bureau meetings (Paris, France – also as IUGG liaison), the WMO CHy Commission and Advisory Working Group Meetings (Geneva, Switzerland; Rome, Italy – also as IUGG liaison), the WMO HydroHub Innovation committee meetings (Geneva Switzerland, and remote), UN Water meetings (Geneva, Switzerland; Stockholm, Sweden; Roma, Italy; and remote), the HLPF meeting on progress of Agenda 2030 including Sustainable Development Goal 6 on Water (UN Headquarters, New York, USA). We have accompanied UNESCO IHP in the transition of the Kovacs colloquium towards the SPIC – Science Policy Interface Colloquium and provided a keynote on its first edition in June (Paris, France).
FUTURE ACTIVITES Important preparations have been made for the IUGG 2019 General Assembly and IAHS programme therein in Montreal, Canada.
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International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) / Association Internationale de Météorologie et des Sciences de l’Atmosphère (AIMSA)
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INTRODUCTION IAMAS is the specialized association of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) that deals with all aspects of the gaseous envelope around the Earth and other planets. The main research work is carried out, coordinated and communicated through IAMAS’s ten International Commissions (IC), which are in alphabetical order the: • International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (ICACGP) • International Commission on Atmospheric Electricity (ICAE) • International Commission on Climate (ICCL) • International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP) including the Committee on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (CNAA) • International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology (ICDM) • International Commission on the Middle Atmosphere (ICMA) • International Commission on Planetary Atmospheres and their Evolution (ICPAE) • International Commission on Polar Meteorology (ICPM) • International Ozone Commission (IOC) • International Radiation Commission (IRC) All the ICs, and IAMAS as a whole, play a leading role in global coordination, communication and discussion of the latest research through organization of and participation in a wide range of scientific meetings that are open to all scientists.
ADMINISTRATION 2015: John TURNER was elected to serve as president, and Joyce PENNER and Laura GALLARDO KLENNER as vice-presidents. Lisa ALEXANDER, Keith ALVERSON and Iracema CAVALCANTI were elected as new members at large. The immediate past-president Athéna COUSTENIS continues contributing her expertise and experience to assist with IAMAS matters. For the term 2015-2019, the IAMAS Executive Committee consists of the following officers: President: John Turner UK Vice-Presidents: Joyce Penner USA Laura Gallardo Klenner CHILE Immediate Past President: Athéna Coustenis FRANCE Secretary General: Teruyuki Nakajima JAPAN Deputy Secretary General: Peter Pilewski USA Assistant Secretary General (not voting): Yoshinobu Sasaki JAPAN Members at large: Daren Lu CHINA Colin Price ISRAEL Lisa Alexander AUSTRALIA Keith Alverson Kenya/USA Iracema Cavalcanti BRAZIL Commission presidents (ex officio): ICACGP: John P. Burrows GERMANY 147
ICAE: Daohong Wang JAPAN ICCL: Neil Holbrook AUSTRALIA ICCP: Andrea Flossmann FRANCE ICDM: Richard Grotjahn USA ICMA: Elisa Manzini GERMANY IOC: Christos Zerefos GREECE ICPAE: Sanjay Limaye USA ICPM: Tom Lachlan-Cope UK IRC: Werner Schmutz SWITZERLAND
2016: The 2016 Bureau meeting was held in April 2016 in Japan. The Bureau reviewed the IAMAS financial status and activities in 2015, and discussed important items related to the IAMAS management, the plan for future activities such as IAMAS program arrangement for the IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Assembly 2017, the host proposals for IAMAS Assembly 2021, and award nominations. New commission officers were elected as follows: ICCP: President Andrea Flossmann (Second term) Vice-President Greg McFarquhar Secretary Darrel Baumgardner (Second term) IO3C: President Sophie Godin-Beekman Vice-President Paul A. Newman Secretary Irina Petropavlovskikh IRC President B.J. Sohn Vice-President Peter Pilewskie Secretary Marcia Yamasoe
2017: The IAMAS Bureau elected Steven A. Ackerman (USA) as the new Deputy Secretary General, a replacement for Peter Pilewskie. The host of the 2021 IAMAS Science Assembly (Busan, South Korea) was selected. A new commission officer was elected as follows: ICDM: Vice-President Thomas Spengler
2018: The 2018 physical meeting of the Bureau was held in April 2018 at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK, hosted by the IAMAS President John Turner. The Bureau discussed important issues relating to the management of IAMAS, including finances, the website, revisions of the statutes, and the production of an IAMAS Strategic Plan that would consider developments over the next few years. It was envisioned that the plan would consider possible new commissions, outreach via social media and other means, links with other organizations, improving the regional presence of IAMAS and engagement with early career scientists. The plans for future activities such as the IUGG 2019 assembly and the 2019 officer elections were also considered. The positions of President (2019-2023), Secretary General (2019- 2027), two Vice-Presidents (2019-2023), and IAMAS Bureau Members (from left): Steven Ackerman, two Members-at-Large (2019-2027) will be open Deputy SG; John Turner, President; Joyce Penner, for election at the upcoming General Assembly Vice President; Athena Coustenis, Past President in Montreal.
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ACTIVITIES IUGG Assembly 2015: The 26th General Assembly of IUGG was held in Prague, Czech Republic over 22 June to 2 July 2015. The meeting was a great success with over 4,300 participants taking part, of which around 550 were associated with IAMAS. There were more than 5,300 presentations given in 202 symposia. IAMAS provided 22 scientific programmes. The 2015 IAMAS Early Career Scientist Medal was presented to Dr. Yuan Wang of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA at the IAMAS Executive Meeting. IAMAS Scientific Assembly 2017: The IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA 2017 joint Scientific Assembly was held successfully over 27 August - 1 September 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. The IAMAS-registered participants constituted 36% of the total attendees of more than 1,000 scientists from 64 countries. IAMAS supported the registration fee/accommodation of 21 young scientists and scientists from developing countries. IAMAS led four joint symposia. Fifteen IAMAS-only symposia were held. IAMAS Plenary Session 2017: The IAMAS Plenary Session was held on 31 August 2017 which was a great opportunity for the whole IAMAS community to meet together and discuss the possible future direction of the association. The highlight of the plenary session was the presentation of the 2017 IAMAS Early Career Scientist Medal to Corinna Hoose (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany). IAMAS Early Career Scientist Event 2017: An Early Career Scientist (ECS) Event was held on 31 August 2017 with about 40 scientists participated, including ECSs, officers of IAMAS and its commissions, mid-career scientists and scientists involved with other ECS organisations. The event was a mixture of talks and networking.
IAMAS Executive committee and National Delegates Corinna Hoose, the Medal Awardee
Website and Newsletter: The new official website of IAMAS was launched in January 2016. Also the
Newsletter “IAMAS Info-Email” was redesigned and made more readable and attractive, enhancing the interaction and the sharing of information with the commissions. The IAMAS Facebook presence and Early Career Scientists articles: The IAMAS SG Office has launched a new IAMAS Facebook “Page” to provide valuable information, including the latest issue of IAMAS Newsletter, introduction of Early Career Scientists, their activity report and upcoming events more frequently. A special program is a series of articles featuring Early Career Scientists. To date, the SG Office has posted seven articles on the Facebook Page. Publications: According to the MOU between IAMAS and Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS), AAS has published the articles:
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Special Issue: Impact of a Rapidly Changing Arctic on Eurasian Climate and Weather (Guest Editor Andrew Orr from ICPM) Special Issue: Aerosols, Clouds, Radiation, Precipitation, and Their Interactions (Guest Editors Teruyuki Nakajima and Byung-Ju Sohn from IRC) The 10th Antarctic meteorological observation, modeling, and forecasting workshop (ICPM) 3rd ANtarctic Gravity Wave Instrument Network (ANGWIN) science workshop (ICPM) The Quadrennial Ozone Symposium 2016 (IO3C) The International Radiation Symposium 2016 (IRC) Putting faces to names: Snapshots of two committee meetings, 95 years apart, emphasize continuous international cooperation in the atmospheric sciences (Hans Volkert, past Secretary General of IAMAS) Atmospheric precursors of and response to anomalous Arctic sea ice in CMIP5 models (James Screen, IAMAS Early Career Scientist Medalist) Aerosol microphysical and radiative effects on continental cloud ensembles (Yuan Wang, IAMAS Early Career Scientist Medalist) A new IASI channel selection and assessment of its impact on Met Office NWP forecasts (IRC) Report on IAMAS Activity since 2015 and the IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Scientific Assembly—Good Hope for Earth Sciences The 12th Workshop on Antarctic Meteorology and Climate (ICPM) IAMAS president John Turner is a guest editor of ongoing special issue “Antarctic Meteorology and Climate: Past, Present and Future” to be published in early 2020.
Highlights from the IAMAS International Commissions ICACGP (http://www.icacgp.org/) iCACGP organized two sessions: JM3 Geochemical Processes and Cycles; M06 Observations of Anthropogenic Aerosol-Cloud Interactions for IUGG Assembly 2015. The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) 2016 Science Conference was held in September 2016 in the USA. iCACGP organized the session M01 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics for the 21st Century with 44 oral presentations and 11 posters for Cape Town Assembly 2017. The Commission also supported The 3rd Atmospheric Composition and Asian Monsoon Workshop in China in 2017. iCACGP co-hosted the joint 14th iCACGP Quadrennial Symposium and 15th IGAC Science Conference in Japan, in September 2018, which celebrated the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Commission, and included a keynote presentation on the Commission’s history and awarding of the inaugural Paul Crutzen Early Career Award. ICAE (http://icae.jp/) ICAE has organized one session for the IUGG 2015 Assembly and one session for the IAPSO-IAMAS- IAGA Scientific Assembly 2017. ICAE successfully held the 16th International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity in June 2018 in Japan. Nearly 200 scientists from all over the world attended and over 250 presentations were given at the conference. ICCL (http://www.iccl-iamas.net/) ICCL (co-)organized and (co-)sponsored five IAMAS symposia for the IUGG 2015 Assembly. The 13th General Circulation Model Simulations of the East Asian Climate (EAC) workshop took place in China in March 2016 with about 100 participants. ICCL co-organized and co-sponsored five IAMAS symposia and one joint symposia at IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA 2017 Assembly in South Africa. ICCL organized Session AS1-27-CL4-06 “The global monsoons in current, future and palaeoclimates and their role in extreme weather and climate events” at EGU 2018 in Austria. Prof. Jianping Li, ICCL Executive Secretary-General, attended the IPCC-48 and the 1st Joint Session of Working Groups I, II and III of
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the IPCC in October 2018 in Korea as the representative of IUGG. Dr. Qiuzhen Yin, ICCL member, received the Early Career Scientist Awards of IUGG. ICCP (http://www.iccp-iamas.org/) ICCP co-organized four symposia at the IUGG 2015 Assembly. ICCP held its 17th 4-yearly International Conference in UK in July 2016 attending over 450 scientists from 26 countries. The EUFAR/IAMAS/IUGG/ICCP Workshop on Processing of Cloud Probe Data was held in July 2017 in Germany. The 20th International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols was held in Helsinki, Finland during 25- 30 June 2017. Workshop on Evaluation of Cloud Probe Processing Software was held in July 2018 in Canada. ICDM (http://icdm.atm.ucdavis.edu/ICDM.html) ICDM co-sponsored a workshop on “Dynamics of Atmosphere-Ice-Ocean Interactions in the High- Latitudes” held in Norway in 2015: three joint symposia and five IAMAS symposia at the IUGG 2015 Assembly. Commission members completed their book project, the second volume in the IUGG Special Publication Series with Cambridge University Press. ICDM co-sponsored the Workshop on Atmospheric Blocking held in UK in April 2016; three joint and eight IAMAS-only symposia for the IAPSO-IAMAS- IAGA Joint Assembly 2017 in South Africa; five Joint and seven IAMAS symposia for the 27th IUGG Assembly in Montreal in July 2019. The President assisted in developing the IAMAS Strategic Plan document. The commission promoted IAMAS and IUGG support for ‘The 8th GEWEX Science Conference’ held in Canada in 2018. ICMA (http://icma.iaa.es/) ICMA held the symposium on Middle Atmosphere Science for the IUGG 2015 Assembly. ICMA has also co-sponsored 4 symposia with IAGA. ICMA held the symposium on Middle Atmosphere Science for the IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Assembly 2017. ICMA also co-led the joint IAGA-IAMAS JA4 Solar- related Variability of the Atmosphere Symposium. The training school on Stratosphere-Troposphere Interactions was held in September 2017 at the University of Cape Town. ICMA sponsored two workshops; the 10th "Long-Term Changes and Trends in the Atmosphere" workshop, in May 2018 in China and the 4th International "ANtartic Gravity Wave Instruments Network" (ANGWIN) Workshop, in April 2018 in Brazil. IOC (http://www.io3c.org/) The 2016 Quadrennial Ozone Symposium (QOS-2016) was held in UK in September 2016. The Symposium had more than 300 participants from 39 countries, and featured six keynote talks, 75 oral presentations and 270 poster presentations. IOC organized the Symposium for the 30th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol in September 2017 in France. The proceedings were published in a special issue of Comptes-rendus Geosciences. ICPAE (http://icpae.iaps.inaf.it/) ICPAE has organized oral and poster sessions on terrestrial atmospheres and outer planet atmospheres during the IUGG 2015 Assembly. ICPAE was engaged in the sessions for the IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA 2017 Assembly in South Africa. ICPAE endorsed a proposal for funding of student travel support for the 74th Fujihara seminar, “International Conference on Venus” held in September 2018 in Japan. ICPM (http://www.icpm-iamas.aq/) ICPM hosted several sessions included Clouds, Precipitation and Aerosols and their Influence on Climate at High Latitudes for the IUGG 2015 Assembly. The 12th Antarctic Meteorological Observations, Modeling, and Forecasting Workshop (AMOMFW) was held in USA in June 2016. The 3rd Antarctic Gravity Wave Instrument Network (ANGWIN) Science Workshop was held in UK in April 2016. Several sessions sponsored and chaired by ICPM members at the 2017 Joint IAPSO-
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IAMAS-IAGA Assembly in South Africa. The 13th Workshop on Antarctic Meteorology and Climate (WAMC), co-hosted by ICPM, was held in USA, in July 2018. IRC (http://www.irc-iamas.org/) IRC organized five sessions in the symposia “Radiation in the Climate System” for the IUGG 2015 Assembly. The IRC International Radiation Symposium 2016 was held in New Zealand in April 2016. The Business Meeting 2017 was held during the IAMAS-IAPSO-IAGA Joint Assembly. The Business Meeting 2018 was held on July 2018 in Canada, in conjunction with the American Meteorological Society Radiation conference. The next quadrennial International Radiation Symposium, IRS2020 will be hosted by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Greece, in July 2020.
FUTURE ACTIVITIES IAMAS will hold a special symposium - Celebrating 100 years of IAMAS 1919 - 2019 - Past, Present and Future (M25) at the IUGG 2019 General Assembly in Montreal, Canada. All the commissions are engaged in the planning of the next IUGG General Assembly. IAMAS will lead ten joint sessions: ID Title of symposium JM1 Adapting in the Anthropocene (Featuring of ‘Anthropocene’) JM2 Anthropogenic changes in chemistry and physics of the Atmosphere: evidence and attribution studies JM3 Advances and Frontier Challenges in Global Monsoon Studies: Dynamics, Convection and Interactions with Hydrological and Land Surface Processes JM4 Hydrometeorologic and coastal extremes in current and future climates JM5 Ocean-atmosphere mechanisms of variability, change and predictability JM6 Recent advances in regional climate modelling JM7 Artificial Intelligence and Big data in weather and climate science JM8 Earth System Models: Assessing the Earth System’s State and Fate from Regional to Planetary Scales JM9 Satellite Remote Sensing: Vital Information on the Health of our Planet JM10 Atmospheric Water Generation IAMAS Bureau meetings will be held on 7th and 11th July, 2019. The IAMAS Scientific Assembly 2021, MOCA 2021, will be held in Busan, South Korea in collaboration with IAPSO and IACS. Its organizing meeting will be held at the IUGG GA by the IAMAS Bureau and the LOC. Submitted by Teruyuki Nakajima, IAMAS Secretary-General
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International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean (IAPSO) / Association Internationale des Sciences Physiques de l’Océan (AISPO)
http://iapso.iugg.org
INTRODUCTION IAPSO has the prime goal of ‘promoting the study of scientific problems relating to the oceans and the interactions taking places at the sea floor, coastal, and atmospheric boundaries insofar as such research is conducted by the use of mathematics, physics, and chemistry.’ IAPSO works mainly through 1) biennial scientific assemblies; 2) working groups; 3) commissions; 4) services and 5) website information. Of special importance to IAPSO is the involvement of scientists and students from developing countries in oceanographic activities. IAPSO maintains formal liaison with other scientific commissions and committees. These include ICSU's Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), and UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). For more information see http://iapso.iugg.org/.
ADMINISTRATION The 2015-2019 Bureau of IAPSO comprises: President: Denise Smythe-Wright, (UK) Past President: Eugene Morozov, (Russia) Secretary General: Stefania Sparnocchia (Italy) Treasurer: Ken Ridgway (Australia) The Executive Committee comprises the Bureau members and Vice-Presidents: Isabelle Ansorge (South Africa) Trevor McDougall (Australia) Members: Agatha de Boer (Sweden) Hans van Haren (The Netherlands) Toshiyuki Hibiya (Japan) Christa von Hildebrandt-Andrade (USA and Puerto Rico) Chris Meinen (USA) Satheesh Chandra Shenoi (India) The IAPSO office is located at the Institute of Marine Science of the National Research Council of Italy, Trieste and day-to-day business is managed by Secretary General (SG), Stefania Sparnocchia. The SG is responsible for the IAPSO website and in July, 2015 a new IAPSO page was created on the Facebook social network, with the aim of facilitating the spread of information to the community (see https://www.facebook.com/iapso.iugg.org). Together with the President, the SG also prepares and distributes a bi-annual Newsletter to IAPSO delegates and interested parties.
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Financial management is presently split between Australia and Sweden. The previous Secretary General, Johan Rodhe, was co-opted by the IAPSO executive to assists the Treasurer, Ken Ridgway, with day to day banking until the Assembly in Montreal, Canada, in 2019. IAPSO business meetings were conducted in person during Scientific Assemblies. Other business has been managed by email where appropriate.
ACTIVITIES Scientific Assemblies 2015 The principal activity in this year was the participation in the IUGG General Assembly in Prague (IUGG 2015), Czech Republic, from 22 June to 2 July. The meeting was characterized by the central theme: ‘Earth and Environmental Sciences for Future Generation’. The Assembly attracted 4231 registered delegates, including exhibitors, from 90 countries covering all five inhabited continents. IAPSO organized 12 IAPSO-only symposia (311 oral presentations and 120 posters), 5 IAPSO-lead Union and Association-Joint symposia (107 oral presentations and 75 posters) and 1 Union Lecture; with a total of 353 registered IAPSO delegates. In addition, IAPSO co-sponsored 6 Joint and 7 Union symposia. 2016 The principal activity in this year was the preparation of the Joint IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Assembly to be held in Cape Town South Africa, from 27 August - 1 September, 2017. The President and the Secretary General were active in the planning process and participated in several video conference and a site visit 16-18 May, 2016. During this visit, the Presidents and SGs of the 3 organizations were introduced to the conference organizers and shown around the venue and attractions. A preliminary list of sessions was drawn up and finalised during two video conferences. 2017 Three of IUGG's constituent Associations, IAPSO, IAMAS and IAGA, met for a Joint Scientific Assembly entitled ‘Good Hope for Earth Sciences’ in Cape Town, South Africa, during the week 27 August - 1 September, 2017. Details of the assembly can be found at http://www.iapso- iamas-iaga2017.com. The Assembly had a total of 1038 registrations from 64 different countries, although there were 57 'no-shows' despite having paid registration fees. About 230 participants registered as IAPSO scientists. The Assembly's opening day was marked by a joint plenary session with a lecture from each Association. The plenary lecturer for IAPSO, Dr Essam Yassin Mohammed (United Kingdom), emphasized the importance of investing in the blue economy, discussing the why and what of investing in marine and coastal ecosystems. Each Association offered a broad programme of lectures and posters, organized in parallel sessions. IAPSO organised 6 IAPSO-only symposia (107 oral presentations and 59 posters), 3 IAPSO-lead Association-Joint symposia (89 oral presentations and 43 posters). In addition IAPSO co- sponsored 5 Joint symposia lead by another Association (88 oral presentations and 29 posters). 2018 The principal activity during 2018 was preparation for the IUGG 2019 General Assembly to be held in Montreal, Canada, from 8 to 18 July, 2019. The Secretary General has been active in the planning process and participated in several video conference of the Scientific Programming Committee and attended a meeting in Vienna, Austria, on 8 April, 2018. IAPSO is sponsoring or co-sponsoring 31 symposia covering a wide range of topics. The program details can be found at the Assembly’s website: http://www.iugg2019montreal.com/p.html.
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At the Albert I Medal Ceremony during IUGG 2015 in Prague. Left to right: T. McDougall, H. L. Bryden, D. Smythe-Wright, T. Yamagata, W. Munk, E.G. Morozov, L.A. Mysak (Photo: Stefania Sparnocchia)
Working Groups, Commissions and Services IAPSO is sponsoring/co-sponsoring Working Groups, Commissions and Services relevant to its prime goal. Information on Working Groups, Commissions and Services, including their reports, are maintained and updated on the IAPSO website (http://iapso.iugg.org/working-groups29.html). Those active in the period of this report are: • IAPSO Early Career (EC) Scientist Working Group. Established during 2018, it has the main goal of supporting IAPSO to provide a significant platform for early career scientists to network and integrate into the scientific community. Chair: Alejandra Sanchez-Franks (United Kingdom). Vice- Chairs Robert Graham (Norway) and Malin Ödalen (Sweden). Website: http://iapso.iugg.org/working-groups29.html. The first IAPSO ECS networking event is scheduled during the IUGG 2019 General Assembly. • Joint Committee on the Properties of Seawater, JCS (with SCOR and IAPWS). Chair: Rich Pawlowicz (Canada). Vice-Chairs: Rainer Feistel (Germany) and Trevor McDougall (Australia) replaced by Steffen Seitz (Germany) in 2018. Website: http://www.teos-10.org/. Detailed information and reports are available on the IAPSO website (http://iapso.iugg.org/working- groups29.html). • Commission on Mean Sea Level and Tides (CMSLT). President: Gary T. Mitchum (USA). Website: http://iapso.iugg.org/working-groups29.html. • Joint Tsunami Commission (with IAPSO/IASPEI/IAVCEI). Chair: Dr. Vasily V. Titov (USA). Vice-Chairs: Fumihiko Imamura (Japan) and Ahmet Cevdet Yalçiner (Turkey). Secretary: Phil Cummins (Australia). IAPSO Representative: Efim Pelinovsky. Website: http://research.jisao.washington.edu/tsunamicommission/index.htm. • Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL), hosted by Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Director: Lesley J. Rickards (UK). IAPSO Liaison: Philip L. Woodworth (UK). Website: www. www.psmsl.org/.
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• IAPSO Standard Seawater Service, hosted by OSIL. Director: Richard Williams (UK). Website: www.osil.co.uk. Medals IAPSO delivers three prizes in the form of medals every two years. • The Prince Albert I Medal is an award offered by the Foundation Rainier III of Monaco to a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to the enhancement and advancement of the physical and/or chemical sciences of the oceans. It is awarded to a most prominent scientist chosen by a specially appointed IAPSO Award Committee. The award ceremony is held at an IAPSO Assembly, where the recipient delivers the Prince Albert I Medal Memorial Lecture. The first medal was presented in 2001. • The Eugene LaFond Medal is awarded to an ocean scientist from a developing country making a presentation (poster or oral) in an IAPSO-sponsored or co-sponsored symposium at the IUGG or IAPSO assemblies. The first medal was presented in 2007. • Starting from 2019, IAPSO will present the Early Career Scientist Medal to honour Early Career Scientists for their outstanding research in the physical or chemical sciences of the oceans, and for their cooperation in international research. It will be presented by the IAPSO President, at the biannual IAPSO Assembly, where the Awardee will be expected to give a talk on a scientific topic of their own choice. • The Prince Albert I Medal 2015 was awarded to Emeritus Professor Toshio Yamagata (Japan) for ‘his ground-breaking work and exceptional contribution to our understanding of El Niño/Southern Oscillation and the newly discovered Indian Ocean Dipole’. The Award ceremony took place on June 29, during IUGG 2015 in Prague, when Prof. Yamagata gave the Albert I Memorial Lecture. • The Eugene LaFond Medal 2015 was awarded to Dr. Sana Ben Ismail (Tunisia) for her oral presentation ‘Surface circulation features along the Tunisian coast (central Mediterranean sea): the Atlantic Tunisian current’ delivered within the IAPSO symposium ‘Physics and Biogeochemistry of Semi-Enclosed and Shelf Seas’ during the IUGG 2015 General Assembly. • The Prince Albert I Medal 2017 was awarded to Prof. Lynne Talley (United States) for ‘her seminal contributions to our understanding of all ocean basins, including landmark discoveries in the Pacific, Atlantic and Southern Oceans’. The Award ceremony took place on August 30, during the Joint Assembly in Cape Town, when Prof. Talley delivered the Albert I Memorial Lecture ‘A case for sustained observations of the ocean: observing the overturning circulation and its variability’.
Prof. Talley and Dr. Durgadoo showing their awards at the Medal Award Ceremony, Cape Town August 31st, 2017 (Photo: Sara Durante)
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• The Eugene LaFond Medal 2017 was awarded to Dr. Jonathan Durgadoo (Mauritius) for his oral presentation ‘Indian Ocean sources of Agulhas leakage’, delivered within the IAPSO-IAMAS joint symposium ‘The Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2) and related oceanic and coupled Atmospheric research in the Indian Ocean’ during the Joint Assembly in Cape Town. The next medals will be delivered during the 2019 IUGG General Assembly in Montreal.
SCOR Administration and collaboration IAPSO participates in the activities of ICSU's Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and has maintained its formal relations with SCOR during the period. An important part of the co-operation with SCOR is the formation of joint working groups. Each year IAPSO EC members are involved in the evaluation of proposals for SCOR Working Group funding. The IAPSO President participated in the SCOR Annual Meetings held in Goa India, 6-9 December 2015, in Sopot, Poland, 5-7 September 2016, in Cape Town, South Africa, 4-6 September 2017, and in Plymouth UK, 4-7 September 2018. The primary topic during these meetings was to hear reports of current working groups and other SCOR related organizations and to decide which of the new proposals to fund. A working group of experts on the Future of the Ocean and its Seas was established in November 2015 jointly by IAPSO and SCOR in response to the marine science issues raised by the G7 Science Ministers in October 2015. The group completed its work in April 2016 by producing the report - Future of the Ocean and its Seas: a non-governmental scientific perspective on seven marine research issues of G7 interest (Marine Litter, Ocean Acidification, Biodiversity Loss, De-oxygenation, Ocean Warming, Ecosystem degradation, Deep-sea mining). The report was submitted to the Science Ministers prior to their meeting in Japan, May 2016. A copy of the report can be found at http://www.icsu.org/news- centre/news/pdf/Report%20to%20G7%20SMins%20on%20FOSs.pdf. IUGG/IAPSO support to scientific meetings IAPSO endorsed nine scientific meetings that were supported by IUGG in 2016, 2017 and 2018: • The workshop Arctic Subarctic Ocean Flux Study (ASOF), held on 30-31 March 2016 in Lerici, Italy. • The 48th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics, held on 23-27 May 2016 in Liège, Belgium. • The conference A connected ocean – the challenge of observation data integration, held on 11-12 October 2016 in Brest, France. • The IndOOS Review Workshop, held from 30 January to 1 February 2017 in Perth, Australia. • The conference Past Antarctic Ice Sheet (PAIS), held from 10 to 16 September 2017 in Trieste, Italy. • The workshop THEMES 2017 - Physics and biogeochemistry of marine environments: multiscale analysis of past and present variability, held on 15-17 November 2017 in Venice, Italy. • The 2nd IndOOS Review Workshop, held from 21 to 23 March 2018 in Jakarta, Indonesia. • The International Conference Understanding the Problems of Inland Waters: Case Study for the Caspian Basin, held from 12 to 14 May 2018 in Baku, Azerbaijan. • The X Jornadas Nacionales de Ciencias del Mar (Conference on Science of Seas), hosted by the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and held from 30 July to 3 August 2018.
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Participants of the X Jornadas Nacionales de Ciencias del Mar, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 30 July - 3 August 2018 (Photo: Martin Saraceno)
PLANNED FUTURE ACTIVITIES/ ANNOUNCEMENTS The following activities are scheduled for 2019 and beyond: • Participation in the 27th IUGG General Assembly, July 8-18, 2019, at the Palais des Congrès in Montréal, Québec, Canada. • Participation in the 2019 SCOR Annual Meeting in Toyama, Japan, from 23 to 25 September 2019 • Organization of the next Joint Assembly with IAMAS and IACS in Busan, Republic of Korea, in 2021.
Submitted by Stefania Sparnocchia, IAPSO Secretary General Denise Smythe-Wright, IAPSO President
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International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI)/ Association Internationale de Sismologie et de physique de l’Intérieur de la Terre (AISPIT)
http://iaspei.org
INTRODUCTION The International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior (IASPEI) is the leading international association promoting studies in seismology, earthquake processes, propagation of seismic waves, and structure and ongoing geodynamical processes within the Earth’s interior. IASPEI achieves its goals primarily through scientific conferences organized by IASPEI and its Commissions, but also sponsors other international initiatives, fosters international cooperation, both in monitoring of seismic sources and research, and education activities, especially in countries that are working towards full scientific development. During 2015 and 2017, most of the IASPEI efforts were directed towards the IUGG2015 General Assembly in Prague, Czech Republic and the First Joint Scientific Assembly of IASPEI together with IAG in Kobe, Japan, 2017. During 2016 and 2018, most of the IASPEI efforts were directed towards the General Assemblies of IASPEI's four Regional Commissions (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Caribbean), which were sponsored by IASPEI and IUGG. In addition, several scientific workshops have been supported or sponsored by IASPEI and several ongoing projects continued.
ADMINISTRATION EC & Bureau meetings The IASPEI Bureau and Executive Committee met several times in Prague during the GA in June/July 2015 and twice during the Scientific Assembly in Kobe in 2017. In September 2016 and in December 2018, the IASPEI Bureau met via phone conference. Several e-mails regarding important questions on financial support or business to be solved immediately have been exchanged with the members of the Bureau and ExeCom throughout each year. Information about the actual Members of IASPEI Bureau and Executive Committee and Commission Chairs and National Correspondents can be found on the IASPEI website (http://iaspei.org). Changes in administration (setting up of new Commissions, Working Groups, etc., or termination of old Commissions, Working Groups, etc.) During the GA in Prague in 2015, the name of the IASPEI Commission on Earthquake Source Modeling and Monitoring for Prediction was changed to Commission on Earthquake Generation Process – Physics, Modeling and Monitoring for Forecast and a new Commission was established with the title Commission on Earthquake Source Mechanics (ESM).
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The members of the IASPEI Bureau 2011 – 15 (elected in Melbourne, 2011) and 2015 – 2019 (elected in Prague, 2015). (Photo: courtesy M. Pirli) During the Joint Scientific Assembly of IAG and IASPEI in Kobe, Japan a new inter-association working group for “Seismo-Geodesy” was initiated. Other matters Website. The IASPEI website has the address http://iaspei.org. The website is managed by the International Seismological Centre in Thatcham, UK. Statutes. After discussing the possibility of personal membership in IUGG Associations, the Statutes and By-laws of IASPEI were modified during the GA in Prague and the SA in Kobe. The IASPEI Statutes and By-laws are available for download from the IASPEI website. IASPEI is registered as a Norwegian organisation (Norwegian Org. Number 916 047 495). Newsletters. IASPEI Newsletters have been regularly sent as pdf-file attachments to more than 3000 e- mail addresses (status 2018). The Newsletters are also available for downloading from the IASPEI website. Four issues were distributed in 2015, 2016 and 2017 and five issues in 2018.
ACTIVITIES Scientific Assemblies, Workshops/Symposia etc. During the years 2015 – 2018, IASPEI organized and (financially) supported the following Assemblies, Conferences, Workshops and Summer Schools. Some of them were in addition financially supported directly by IUGG. 2015 38th IASPEI General Assembly in Prague, Czech Republic This IASPEI GA (http://www.iaspei.org/assemblies-conferences) had 505 officially registered as IASPEI delegates. The scientific program included 13 IASPEI, 16 Inter-Association symposia with IASPEI participation and an ad-hoc symposium about the Nepal 2015 Earthquake. ECGS Workshop on “Earthquake and Induced Multi-hazard early warning and rapid response” IASPEI supported this workshop which was held 18 – 20 November 2015 in Luxembourg (http://www.ecgs.lu/eewrr2015/).
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IRIS workshop “Managing Data from Seismic Networks” IASPEI supported this workshop, also via donations received for this purpose, which was held Hanoi, 9 – 15 September 2015 with 37 participants from 19 countries. 2016 1st General Assembly of the African Seismological Commission (AfSC) The first GA of the AfSC was held during a Nile cruise in Egypt, 2 – 5 April 2016. The assembly had 92 participants and was followed by the “2nd African Workshop on Seismic Hazard” (6 – 9 April 2016). 2nd General Assembly of the Latin America and Caribbean Seismological Commission (LACSC) The second GA of the LACSC was held in San José, Costa Rica, 20 – 22 June 2016. The assembly had 207 participants. A one-week course on “Seismic Moment Inversion” was given before the assembly. 35th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission (ESC) The ESC GA was held in Trieste, Italy, 4 – 9 September 2016. The assembly had 536 participants. A one-week “School on Seismology beyond Textbooks” was organized before the assembly (29 August – 3 September 2016). 11th General Assembly of the Asian Seismological Commission (ASC) The 11th ASC GA was held in Melbourne, Australia, 25 – 27 November 2016. The assembly had 45 participants. A workshop on “Seismological Contributions to Earthquake Risk Reduction” was organized before the assembly. Xth International Workshop on “Physics and Forecasting of Rock Destruction” (http://www.xmsc.ru) IASPEI supported this workshop, which was held in Apatity, Murmansk region, Russia, 13 – 17 June 2016. 2017 39th IASPEI Scientific Assembly and First Joint Scientific Assembly of IAG and IASPEI The 39th IASPEI Assembly (http://www.iaspei.org/assemblies-conferences) was held as Joint Assembly with the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) at the Kobe International Conference Center, Japan, from July 30 through August 4, 2017. The conference had 1107 registered participants from 65 different countries of which 747 gave IASPEI as their primary Association. The scientific program consisted in total of 43 symposia (7 IAG, 27 IASPEI and 9 Joint Symposia).
Opening of the First Joint IAG-IASPEI Scientific Assembly in Kobe in 2017. (Photo: courtesy K. Satake)
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IRIS Workshop “Managing Data for Seismic Networks” This workshop was held in Pretoria, South Africa, 20 – 26 August 2017 (http://ds.iris.edu/ds/workshops/). 12th International Seismological Workshop "Modern Methods of Processing and Interpretation of Seismological Data" This workshop was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 11 – 15 September 2017. 6th Scientific Biennial Conference “Problems of Complex Geophysical Monitoring of the Russian Far East” This Conference was held Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, 1 – 7 October 2017 (http:// www.emsd.ru/en/conf2017/). 2nd Cargèse “School on Seismogenesis” This summer school was held in Cargèse, France, 2 – 6 October, 2017 (http://earthquakes2. sciencesconf.org/). 2018 2nd General Assembly of the African Seismological Commission (AfSC) The second AfSC GA was held in Al Hoceima, Morocco, 23 – 25 April 2018. The assembly had about 150 participants and was followed by three training courses on “Seismotectonics”, “Analysis of Seismic Signals” and “Usage of Radar Images” (26 – 27 April 2018). 12th General Assembly of the Asian Seismological Commission (ASC) The 12th ASC GA with 129 ASC participants was held in Chengdu, China, 12 – 14 May 2018, jointly organized with the International Conference for the Decade Memory of the Wenchuan Earthquake, and as part of the 4th International Conference on Continental Earthquakes. A pre-conference, four weeks long training course entitled “The North-Central Asian Earthquake Observation Techniques” was presented from April 16 to May 11, 2018. 3rd General Assembly of the Latin America and Caribbean Seismological Commission (LACSC) The third GA of the LACSC had been planned to be in Puerto Rico, jointly with the Seismological Society of America (SSA). However, due to the devastating impacts of hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017, LACSC and SSA decided to move the meeting to Miami, USA, 14 – 17 May 2018. The assembly had 122 participants from LACSC countries. 36th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission (ESC) The 36th ESC GA was held in Valletta, Malta, 2 – 7 September 2018. The assembly had 802 participants. The one-week Peter Bormann Young Seismologist Training Course, entitled “Array Seismology”, was organized before the assembly (27 – 31 August 2018). Activities of Association Commissions, Working Groups, Divisions, Services etc. In 2014, a rigorously updated and amended electronic second edition of the IASPEI New Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice, NMSOP-2, was completed and put online, thanks to the efforts of the late Peter Bormann. This version, as well as future ones, are professionally maintained, further developed and edited by the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences under a long-term commitment and the auspices of IASPEI and its Commission on Seismological Observation and Interpretation (CoSOI). All versions are freely available and downloadable from the website of the GFZ Library (http://bib.telegrafenberg.de/publizieren/vertrieb/nmsop/). Several colleagues have worked on translations of the Manual or parts of it from English to their language. During the last years, efforts were made to translate the whole Manual to Russian and Arabic.
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Scientific Programs, Projects, Publications The IDEA (International Digital Earthquake Archives) project of the Committee for Preservation of WWSSN and Historical Seismograms (also called Seismoarchives: Seismogram Archives of Significant Earthquakes of the World), continued its mission. The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) is archiving the scanned seismograms. During the General Assembly in Prague it was decided that Graziano Ferrari (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy) take over the IDEA Project from W.H.K. Lee. A project for scanning old Batavia seismograms continued in 2015 – 2017. During the whole quadrennium, IASPEI continued to support the Inter-Associations working group “Electromagnetic Studies of Earthquakes and Volcanoes (EMSEV)” (http://emsev-iugg.org/) jointly organized together with the International Associations of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) and Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI). Awards The IASPEI Medal is awarded for distinguished contributions in seismology: for sustaining IASPEI goals and activities and for scientific merits in the field of seismology and physics of the Earth's interior. The Medal is awarded every 2nd year during the IASPEI Assemblies. During IASPEI General Assembly in Prague, the 2015 IASPEI medal was awarded to Willie H.K. LEE. During the IASPEI Scientific Assembly in Kobe, the 2017 IASPEI medal was awarded to the former IASPEI President and former Secretary General of IASPEI Eric Robert ENGDAHL. In 2016, the IASPEI Bureau established an IASPEI Early Career Scientist Award program aimed at engaging excellent young researchers in the IASPEI community. Each of the four IASPEI Regional Commissions was asked to select one Early Career researcher (graduate student, postdoctoral research, pre-tenure faculty member) from their commission at each even-year Assembly of that Regional Commission. In 2018, the first three awards were given by the AfSC to Sofia BENAMRI, Morocco, by the LACSC to Esteban CHAVES, Costa Rica and by the ESC to Roseanne CLEMENT, UK. Obituaries Obituaries for prominent scientists were regularly published in the IASPEI Newsletters and on the IASPEI website (http://www.iaspei.org/about/bios-obituaries).
FUTURE ACTIVITIES ‒ In 2019, the main focus will be on the 40th General Assembly of the Association during the Centennial General Assembly of the IUGG in Montreal, Canada in July 2019. ‒ In 2020, the IASPEI main activity will be again concentrate on the General Assemblies of the four regional commissions of IASPEI (AfSC, ASC, ESC, LACSC). Some preparation work will already be ongoing in 2019. ‒ The 2021 41st Scientific Assembly of IASPEI is planned as a joint assembly together with IAGA, to be held in Hyderabad, India in August 2021.
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International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) / Association Internationale de Volcanologie et de Chimie de l’Intérieur de la Terre (AIVCIT)
http://www.IAVCEIvolcano.org
ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR THE PERIOD 2016-2018 INTRODUCTION At the First General Assembly of IUGG (Rome, 1922), the Section de Vulcanologie became one of the constituent sections of the Union. This name was changed into Association Internationale de Vulcanologie at the Fourth General Assembly (Stockholm, 1930). It took its present name at the Moscow General Assembly (1971). The IAVCEI is the primary international focus for research in volcanology and for efforts to mitigate volcanic disasters. Scientists also participate in IAVCEI research in closely related disciplines, such as igneous geochemistry and petrology, geochronology, volcanogenic mineral deposits, and the physics of the generation and ascent of magmas in the upper mantle and crust. Work is carried out in the following special Commissions: - Chemistry of Volcanic Gases - Cities and Volcanoes - COSIV-Statistics in Volcanology - Arcs Magmatism - Collapse Calderas - Explosive Volcanism - Large Igneous Provinces - Monogenetic Volcanism - Remote Sensing - Submarine Volcanism - Tephra Hazard Modelling - Volcanic Lakes - Volcanic Hazards and Risk - Volcanogenic Sediments - Volcano Geoheritage and Protected Volcanic Landscapes - Volcano Geology - Volcano Geodesy - International Volcanic Health Hazard Network - Working Group on Volcano Acoustics - World Organisation on Volcano Observatories The members oft he executive Committee for the 2015-2019 term are: President Donald Bruce Dingwell Germany Secretary General Roberto Sulpizio Italy
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Vice-President Patrick Allard France Vice-President Shanaka Da Silva USA Immediate Past President Raymond Cas Australia Members Eliza Calder UK Jan Lindsay N. Zealand Michael Ort USA Lizzette Rodriguez Puertorico This report will summarise the activities carried out between 2016 and 2018, which is the period I (as SG) have been in duty.
ADMINISTRATION IAVCEI Executive Committee activities - Revision of IAVCEI Finances, funding support, and potential funding sources and strategies. - Update of the IAVCEI Commissions and Working Groups, conducted by the two Vice-Presidents and approved by the EC, in which active commissions have been identified and several inactive commissions have been deactivated. - Creation of subdomains in the IAVCEIvolcano domain for hosting the commission’s webpages - Continuous updating of web site. Publication of a Facebook page and Twitter messages. - Update of the Editorial Board of Bulletin of Volcanology - Creation of a sub-domain for BV in the IAVCEIvolcano domain - Revision and publication of rules for IAVCEI prizes and awards Discussion on the current state of IAVCEI and its relationships with IUGG - Adoption of the Principle of Freedom of Participation in Learned Societies following the submission of Proposal to Modernise IUGG and ICSU to IUGG and ICSU, focussing on adoption of self- governance of the associations - Agreement of the need to reintroduce compulsory individual membership fees along the lines of the AGU membership fee structure, to ensure the dramatic decline in financial reserves between end 2013 and 2014 is arrested
ACTIVITIES Members - In 2016 the membership fee was reintroduced for IAVCEI. This induced a lowering in the number of IAVCEI members, which was in the order of 800 people at the end of 2016. Among them, the life members are 90, around 500 regular members and around 200 student members. - In 2017 and 2018 the IAVCEI membership grew constantly to more than 1000 members. Among them, the life members are 100, around 600 regular members and around 300 student members. Webpage - After the complete redrawn of web page in 2015, the refurbishment of IAVCEI web page has been continued, and now the site contains more info about IAVCEI activity, structure and initiatives.
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Newsletters - Publication of newsletters was constant during the 2016-2018 period. Four issues of the newsletter "IAVCEI News" have been published through the website, during 2016, 4 during 2017, and 4 during 2018. Meetings, workshops and courses The following meetings, workshops, and courses have been (co-) organised or sponsored by one (or more) of the IAVCEI commissions: 2016: - Cities on Volcanoes 9 (COV9). Understanding volcanoes and society: the key for risk mitigation, November 20-25, 2016 Puerto Varas, Chile - 6th International Maar Congress, Changchun (China) in July 30–August 3, 2016 - 3rd Workshop on Volcano Geology, Etna and Aeolian Islands (Italy), July 3-10, 2016 - Chapman Conference on Submarine Volcanism: New Approaches and Research Frontiers. Hobart (Tasmania, Australia), January 30-February 3, 2017 - 5th International Post-graduate Course of Volcanology, Olot, Girona, Spain, 12-25 October 2016 http://www.gvb-csic.es/CURSO/CURSO_OLOT/Home.html - XXIII Central Andes Volcanological Field Course, Universidad Nacional de Salta – Salta – Argentina, November, 11-21, 2016, http://www.unsa.edu.ar/~geonorte/cursos/curvol2014.htm
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- 10th International AIV summer school, September 2-9, 2017, Bolsena, Italy - 6th International Post-graduate Course of Volcanology, Olot, Girona, Spain, 12-25 October 2017 http://www.gvb-csic.es/CURSO/CURSO_OLOT/Home.html - XXIV Central Andes Volcanological Field Course, Universidad Nacional de Salta – Salta – Argentina, November, 11-21, 2017, http://www.unsa.edu.ar/~geonorte/cursos/curvol2014.htm
Award ceremony at Scientific Assembly in Portland, August 2017 2018: - IAVCEI COV10, Naples (Italy), September 2-7, 2018 - 4th International Workshop on Volcano Geology, October 3-6, 2017, Romania - 13th CCVG workshop, September 24-October 3, 2017, Ecuador. - 11th International AIV summer school, August 28-September 4, 2018, Bolsena, Italy
- Final ceremony at COV10, Naples, September 2018
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- 7th International Post-graduate Course of Volcanology, Olot, Girona, Spain, 12-25 October 2018 http://www.gvb-csic.es/CURSO/CURSO_OLOT/Home.html - 7th International Maar Conference, May 21-28, 2018, Olot, Catalunya, Spain - 7th International Workshop on Collapse Calderas, Toba (Indonesia), September 21-28, 2018 - 1st IAVCEI/GVM Workshop “From volcanic hazard to risk assessment” Geneva (Switzerland), 27 – 28 June 2018 - 1st IASPEI/IAVCEI Inter-Association Commission on “Volcano Seismology & Acoustics” La Réunion (France), September 29th – October 4th, 2018
FUTURE ACTIVITIES - Organization of meetings and workshops from IAVCEI commissions - Financial support to International schools - 2020: organization of 11th Cities on Volcanoes meeting in Crete (Greece) - 2021: organization of Scientific Assembly in Rotorua, New Zealand
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12. Relations with the International Science Council (ISC) / Relations avec le CSI
Report 2015-2018 Preamble The root of the International Science Council (ISC) extends to the beginning of the 20th century. The predecessor of ISC was the International Research Council established in 1919 together with IUGG and six other unions international scientific unions of astronomy, biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and radio sciences formed. The council was established with four main objectives: “(a) to coordinate international efforts in the different branches of science and its applications; (b) to initiate the formation of international associations or unions deemed to be useful to the progress of science; (c) to direct international scientific action in subjects which do not fall within the province of any existing association; and (d) to enter, through the proper channels, into relations with the governments of the countries adhering to the council to recommend the study of questions falling within the competence of the council”. With a growth of international scientific activities of the unions formed within the IRC and recognition of the fact that the driving force of the council became the scientific spirit of the unions rather than the national interests of the Member countries, the IRC was transformed in 1931 into the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU). The principal aim of ICSU was to promote international scientific activity in different branches of science and interdisciplinary research, such as international polar research, biogeosciences, science of climate change and disaster risks, and data science. Several major interdisciplinary international programs such as the International Geophysical Year, World Climate Research Program, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk and Future Earth were initiated and developed by ICSU. The scope of international scientific collaboration has changed over the past hundred years from the development of pure scientific research through economic and military development to sustainable development. The importance of the understanding and appreciation of science in society has never been greater, as humanity faces the challenge of living sustainably on our planet. In 2018, ICSU (subsequently renamed the International Council for Science) merged with the International Social Science Council to create the International Science Council (ISC). The new Council, which brings together natural and social scientists from all over the world and more than 180 national and international scientific organizations, is today the largest international non-governmental science organization designed to defend the inherent value of science using all means of science policy and diplomacy, and to provide a powerful and credible voice for science at a time when this voice faces unprecedent threats. ISC advises decision makers and practitioners on the use of science in achieving ambitious agendas for the 21st century. Also, among the Council’s goals is the promotion of science diplomacy at all levels and of open public engagement with science. Not least, the ISC strives to uphold the principles of freedom and responsibility in science. As a Founding Union Member of ISC and its predecessors, IUGG has been promoting many activities of the Council since 1919. The report below highlights IUGG involvements into various ISC activities [both scientific and administrative] since 2015.
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2015 IUGG in the ISC[ICSU] GeoUnions The GeoUnions (GUs, http://www.icsu-geounions.org) is a network of representatives of nine ISC international scientific unions dealing with Earth and space sciences. The GUs established a Steering Committee in 2004 (in Paris, France) to promote the sciences worldwide, to communicate and to coordinates scientific activities of individual unions, and to speak on behalf of GUs members to the ISC Governing Board, ISC Members and ISC interdisciplinary bodies and at international level, especially to the United Nations organizations and other global stakeholders. The current Members of the GUs are: • the International Astronomical Union (IAU), • the International Cartographical Association (ICA), • the International Geographical Union (IGU), • the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), • the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), • the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), • the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), • the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS), and • the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).
GeoUnions meeting in Trieste, Italy The Steering Committee of GeoUnions was hosted by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy and met on 6-7 November 2015. Representatives of eight Unions reported on the progress made since the last business meeting in Auckland, New Zealand (August 2014). They considered a relationship with the International Council for Science (ICSU, in 2015), particularly discussed the information flow within ICSU and interactions with ICSU Executive Board and Secretariat. The GeoUnions urge close cooperation between the ICSU scientific programs (such as Future Earth) and the GeoUnions programs. In the light of ICSU revising its Grants Programme, GeoUnions leaders agreed to develop a joint grant application for a long-term project on Earth and space science education. GeoUnions discussed their interaction with ICSU Regional Offices and logistical assistance of the Offices in organizing various scientific, education and outreach events. Edith Madela- Mntla, Director of the ICSU Regional Office for Africa, mentioned that GeoUnions have developed very good cooperation in the Africa region, and the Regional Office remains committed to assisting with the activities of Unions. Alik Ismail-Zadeh (IUGG) reported on the efforts made by the GeoUnions to prepare a synthesis paper on disaster risk science and risk assessment for the U.N. Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Sendai, Japan, March 2015. A summary for policymakers was distributed to the representatives of national governments attending the U.N. conference in Sendai. Orhan Altan (ISPRS) mentioned the successful disaster risk management projects of ISPRS with GeoUnions and UNOOSA. Joos Droogleever Fortuijn (IGU) reported on the recent development related to the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU). IYGU addresses global sustainability of local actions and the culturally different pathways to a sustainable world. Sustainable development is a global challenge, but solving it requires transforming the local. After the UNESCO General Assembly endorsed the International Year to become a United Nations Year, ICSU, the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) jointly announced that 2016 would be the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU). The opening ceremony will be held in Jena, Germany, on 2 February 2016. Roland Oberhänsli (IUGS) informed the meeting about the
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Group photo of the participants of the GeoUnions meeting on 7 November 2015: (left-to-right) Madhu Chandra (URSI representative), Allan Ashworth (INQUA President), Harsh Gupta (IUGG Past President), Brian Chase (INQUA Secretary General), Joos Droogleever Fortuijn (IGU Vice President), Alik Ismail-Zadeh (IUGG Secretary General, Chair of the GeoUnions Steering Committee), Michael Sideris (IUGG President), Orhan Altan (ISPRS First Vice President), Paul Cannon (URSI President), and Roland Oberhänsli (IUGS President). (Photo: A. Ismail-Zadeh) recent paper “Geosciences for Future Earth Research” written by experts of several international organizations including GeoUnions. This paper is a commentary on the contents of the three themes, nine subthemes and 62 research priorities as distinguished in the Future Earth’s Strategic Research Agenda 2014. The comments in this paper also point to the issues where solid Earth science expertise may help to improve the scientific quality of the potential outcomes of the research agenda, in line with the Future Earth 2025 Vision that aims to link disciplines and knowledge systems to achieve its goals. A few administration issues were resolved: Alik Ismail-Zadeh will continue as Chair of the GeoUnions Steering Committee, and Allan Ashworth (INQUA) was elected Vice Chair for the next two years.
2016 Future of the Seas and Oceans: IUGG-ICSU response to the G7 Science Ministers proposal A special report for policymakers on the ocean and its seas has been submitted to the G7 Science and Technology Ministers ahead of their meeting in Tsukuba City, Japan, 15-17 May 2016 (http://www.icsu- geounions.org/files/Report_toG7SMs_FOSs_lr.pdf). The report was prepared by a non-governmental international expert group coordinated by IUGG via IAPSO and by ICSU via its Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), and focuses on seven critical marine research issues including (i) plastic pollution of the marine environment, (ii) deep-sea mining, (iii) ocean acidification, (iv) ocean warming, (v) de-oxygenation, (vi) biodiversity loss, and (vii) marine ecosystem degradation. The report came in response to concern expressed by the G7 Science Ministers on these issues at their meeting in Berlin, Germany, last year. There was a direct call to the international scientific community
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“to understand the ocean as a whole through international scientific cooperation”. Although the report was not tabled formally at the Ministerial Meeting because of some procedural requirements, the Communique highlights the importance of global observations and research on oceans and seas to support taking actions, which agrees with the recommendations proposed by the international expert group. The Ministers reaffirmed the importance of further scientific work to “better understand the extent and impacts of marine litter, which contributes to the implementation of the priority measures identified by the G7 Toyama Environment Ministers’ Meeting”. Also the Ministers recognized “the importance of strengthening the resilience of societies to hazards and disasters”, and acknowledged that “Open Science can change the way research and development (R&D) is undertaken, with emerging findings leading to far greater global collaboration and encouraging a much broader range of participants and stakeholders.” ICSU Scientific Unions meeting The triennial meeting of the International Council for Science's Union Members took place at the Fondation Simone et Cino del Duca in Paris, France on 12-13 April 2016. At the meeting, representatives from the Union Members heard updates about its activities since the General Assembly in Auckland in 2014, shared their own reports on major activities, and discussed the way forward for the Council and the Unions in the next 18 months until the General Assembly in Taipei in October 2017. A particular focus of the discussion was the ongoing process to develop a new strategic plan for the organization. The discussion covered many topics including two central questions: What are the new or emerging global challenges that the international scientific community should be helping to solve? And what kind of actions could the Council take to address those challenges? The meeting also provided the opportunity for participants to network informally with members of the Council's Executive Board and the Directors of several of its interdisciplinary bodies. GeoUnions meeting in Paris, France The GeoUnions (GUs) Steering Committee met in Paris, France on 11 April 2016 on the occasion of the ICSU Scientific Unions meeting. The meeting was hosted by the Société Géologique de France at Maison de la Géologie. Representatives of nine Unions participated in the meeting. Alik Ismail-Zadeh (IUGG Secretary General) chaired the Steering Committee meeting. The IUGG President Michael Sideris represented IUGG. The representatives of GUs discussed the important topics related to the Agenda of the Scientific Unions Meeting (held on 12-13 April). The major topics were: (i) the challenges and opportunities for ICSU and scientific Unions within a shifting global scientific landscape; (ii) the place of ICSU and its Unions in the world scientific community; (iii) the role of Unions in the activities of ICSU interdisciplinary bodies; (iv) the benefits of Unions being under the ICSU umbrella and the benefits of ICSU having Unions as Members; (v) “Open Data Campaign”, a new initiative of the Science International (a coalition of ICSU with other international science organizations); (vi) the future of the relationship between ICSU and the International Social Sciences Council (ISSC); (vii) the cooperation with Future Earth and other ICSU interdisciplinary bodies. David Black, ICSU Secretary General, attended the meeting and took part in the discussions related to the ICSU Executive Board’s proposal about the changes in the procedure of voting for the Executive Board membership.
2017 ICSU & ISSC strategy workshop on the future of science An ICSU Perspective. The International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC) hosted a high-level meeting of scientists and experts in Paris on 30 and 31 January 2017 to discuss the future of a proposed new organization that would result from a merger of the ISSC and ICSU. The workshop kicked off with a high-level panel discussion on “Setting the challenge: the future
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for global science.” The panel consisted of Craig Calhoun (President of the Berggruen Institute, Los Angeles, USA), Philip Campbell (Editor-in-Chief, Nature, London, UK), Robert Dijkgraaf (Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, USA), Nada Al-Nashif (Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO, Paris, France), Helga Nowotny (Professor Emerita of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland), and Flavia Schlegel (Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences at UNESCO Paris, France). The workshop was moderated by Andy Martin, Firetail Company (London, UK). There were about 25 participants including officers of the two Councils. Harsh Gupta (IUGG Immediate Past President) was invited to attend the workshop. Major issues discussed were the future of science, and important priorities for a new council. It was mentioned that fundamental research remains critical in the work of the new council; inter- and trans- disciplinary co-productive research should become more focused bringing together natural and social scientists. However, bridging them is a great challenge, because of the existence of diverse incentives and methodological standards. The new council should construct new ways for cooperation, should avoid covering an expansive scientific terrain shallowly and concentrate its efforts on the promotion of more focused research. The new council would be well positioned to be engaged in monitoring of Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) progress. There was debate around the importance of the UN’s Agenda 2030 on sustainable development as a “signature” program, as well as the challenge of tackling new topics such as artificial intelligence. Other important priorities could be scientific standards, ethics, and openness (particularly data openness). According to Thomas Rosswall (a former Executive Director of the ICSU), an advocacy role for the council is needed, “but it needs to demonstrate impact”. Participants saw a role for the new council in upholding the universality of science and freedom of scientific exchange (Source: ICSU website). An IUGG Perspective. ICSU or a new body to come will face several challenges. First, the majority of active scientists do not know what ICSU or ISSC stands for and what the Councils are doing for science promotion. One of the major priorities of the new body should be high visibility in the world of scientists. This new Council should work for scientists via its scientific unions and national academies/research councils and for science policy via UN agencies. Second, scientists, especially early-career scientists, belong to their professional societies and participate in the activities of these societies. Usually, they are less interested in promoting international science. Third, presently, there are many international bodies3 and inter-governmental institutions4 dealing with various aspects of scientific and technological development. What would be the unique role of the new Council for science? Should it become a stronger voice for international science? These and many other challenges including those mentioned above should be carefully considered by the ICSU-ISSC Strategy Working Group, which intends to prepare the strategy document to become the official strategy for the new merged organization (Alik Ismail-Zadeh, IUGG Secretary General) 32nd ICSU General Assembly, Taipei, 2017 On 26 October 2017 at the joint general assembly of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC) members of both world’s leading scientific councils agreed to merge and create a new organization to be named “International Science Council”. The new
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council will provide a stronger foundation for advancing science across the disciplinary spectrum and in all parts of the world, and promote its vital role in shaping humanity’s future on planet Earth. It brings together the current members of ICSU and ISSC, including 40 international scientific unions and associations, and more than 140 national and regional organizations such as academies and research councils. The organization will be launched at a founding General Assembly to be held in Paris, France in 2018. Its mission will be to serve as the global voice of science, providing leadership in catalyzing, incubating and coordinating international action on issues of major public concern. The final vote count in favor of the merger was 97.6% (ICSU) and 90% (ISSC). It came at the end of four days of intensive discussions on issues ranging from the new strategy, statutes and governance arrangements and the legal framework. Gordon McBean, ICSU President and IUGG Fellow, said: “ICSU has been a pioneer in the 20th century for interdisciplinary science programs and policy impact. I am immensely proud that our members have voted to endorse this historic merger which carves out a new space for our proud historic legacy - to be the global voice of all sciences in a digitally connected world.” Alberto Martinelli, ISSC President, said: “This vote comes at a crucial moment for science. Now more than ever before, a powerful and credible voice is needed to advocate the value and values of all science to society. The challenge of living sustainably and equitably in a rapidly changing world means that the need for scientific understanding has never been greater. The unified science council will champion all the sciences and their role in responding to today’s global challenges.” (Source: Press Release of ICSU and ISSC). IUGG President Michael Sideris and Secretary General Alik Ismail-Zadeh attended the ICSU General Assembly and took part in the joint ICSU-ISSC General Assembly.
Participants of the ICSU-ISSC joint general assembly (photo: ICSU) GeoUnions meeting in Potsdam, Germany The GeoUnions network was formed in Paris, France, in 2004 with the aim to promote Earth and space sciences worldwide, to communicate and coordinate scientific activities of its individual unions, to enhance their operations based on the knowledge about and experiences of other unions, and to speak on behalf of Geounions to ICSU, UN organizations, and other global stakeholders (http://www.icsu- geounions.org). The Steering Committee of the nine International Geoscience Unions (GeoUnions) of the International Council for Science (ICSU) met on 1 September 2017 at the GFZ Potsdam, Germany. Chaired by the IUGG Secretary General, Alik Ismail-Zadeh, the officers of GeoUnions discussed important issues related to a possible merger of ICSU and the International Social Science Council (ISSC). The agenda
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GeoUnions meeting participants from left to right: Franz Kuglitsch (IUGG), Menno-Jan Kraak (ICA), Alik Ismail- Zadeh (IUGG), Michael Sideris (IUGG), Paul Cannon (URSI), William Cavazza (IUGS), Orhan Altan (ICSU), Lena Halounova (ISPRS), Allan Ashworth (INQUA), Reinhard Hüttl (GFZ Scientific Executive Director), and Rainer Horn (IUSS) (photo: A. Ismail-Zadeh) included topics related to advancing science as a global public good and to the 32nd ICSU General Assembly and Joint Meeting of the ICSU and ISSC membership to be held in Taipei, ROC, in October 2017. GeoUnions meeting in Taipei The GeoUnions of ICSU (http://www.icsu-geounions.org) met in Taipei, Republic of China, on 21 October 2017 to discuss the possible merger of ICSU and ISSC and future relationships with the (new) council. The meeting was chaired by Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Chair of the GeoUnions Steering Committee. The representatives of the GeoUnions attending the meeting agreed to make the following joint
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statement at the ICSU General Assembly: “The GeoUnions, an interdisciplinary consortium of nine ICSU International Scientific Unions, belonging to the Earth and Space Science Unions cluster, Physics/Chemistry/Mathematics Unions cluster, and the Social Science cluster, make the following statement. Considering the importance of the unified voice of science and challenging problems which society faces, the GeoUnions is in favor of the merger of two Councils: the International Council for Science and the International Social Science Council, and considers that the new title of the council should be the “International Science Council”. The GeoUnions call on the other Scientific Unions and National Members to vote in favor of the merger. Meanwhile, the GeoUnions consider that the merger provides possibilities for strengthening the cooperation between the Scientific Unions/Associations, National Members and interdisciplinary bodies. • There has been a trend over the last few decades for ICSU to progressively distance itself from its member Unions. The merger provides an opportunity to reset this. ICSU and the new Council is largely underpinned by the expertise of its component Unions and Associations and this expertise should be better used. One way to do that is to ensure that the Council provides financial and logistic support to the Unions to enable them to reciprocally support the Council. • The role of the international Scientific Unions/Associations should not be restricted to paragraph 5.4 “An engaged membership” within the document JM5 “Advancing science as a global public good”, but considered more broadly. For example, representatives of both Scientific Unions clusters and National Members (representing different regions) should be a part of the new Council Governing Board either as elected members of the Board or as coopted Members. The Unions and National Members should feel that they are part of the Council and not passive observers. • An annual increase in Union and National Member dues of 2% to ICSU has been proposed and approved. This is higher than the annual increase in the dues, which some Unions feel able to request from their National Members. This creates downward pressure on Union activities, activities which underpin ICSU. This inconsistency makes no sense, and the GeoUnions propose that the creation of a new Council is an ideal opportunity to rationalize this issue by informally linking the ICSU inflation rates to the inflation that the Unions impose on the adhering national bodies.
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• The GeoUnions were disappointed to see that the ICSU flagship program reports make either no, or only passing, reference to Union activities in the same fields. The GeoUnions request that this be rectified in the reporting associated with the 2018 Council General Assembly. By so doing the flagship programs will be motivated to communication with the Unions.” Allan Ashworth (INQUA) and Lena Halounova (ISPRS) are elected as new Chair and Vice Chair of the GeoUnions Steering Committee. CODATA 2017 Conference “Global Challenges and Data-Driven Science” The Conference “Global Challenges and Data-Driven Science” of the ICSU Committee on Data (CODATA) was held in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from 8 to 13 October 2017. This event brought together more than 150 research scientists and recognized experts in the field of data from 35 countries of the world, including France, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, USA, Canada, China, Russia, Japan, India, South Africa, Nigeria and others. The wide geographical coverage represented by the participants testifies to the scientific significance and high level of the conference. The conference covered a wide range of issues related to data science, including the collection and processing of large amounts of data, the use of methods of system analysis, machine learning and algorithms for artificial intelligence. Over 160 presentations at 25 scientific sessions, several business meetings and workshops took place during the conference. IUGG co-sponsored the Conference and the IUGG Union Commission on Data and Information (UCDI) organized a session at the Conference entitled: “Modern Strategies for Data Collection and Analysis for the Better Understanding of the Earth System” (lead convener: A. Soloviev, Vice Chair of the UCDI). The IUGG Secretary-General Alik Ismail-Zadeh and Bureau Member Isabelle Ansorge participated in the Conference (reported by Alik Ismail-Zadeh). World Science Forum, Amman, Jordan The World Science Forum (WSF) was held in Jordan from 7 to 11 November 2017. Over 2500 science leaders from over 120 countries gathered at the WSF to call for a more responsible and ethical use of innovation to address the social and economic relevance, influence, and responsibilities of science. The WSF series was inspired by the success of the meeting “World Conference on Science for the Twenty- First Century: a New Commitment” held 26 June - 1 July 1999 in Budapest, Hungary, and convened by UNESCO and the International Council for Science (ICSU), in co-operation with other partners. Driven by the need for a forum for discussion between the scientific community and society, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in partnership with UNESCO and ICSU established a series of follow-up events called WSF. This time the WSF was held in Jordan, its first time in the Middle East region. IUGG Secretary General Alik Ismail-Zadeh attended the WSF. The Opening Ceremony of the Forum was attended by the King of Jordan and the President of Hungary. The Forum was welcomed by Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, Chair, World Science Forum; László Lovász, President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Gordon McBean, ICSU President; Rush D. Holt, CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). A Plenary Session “Science for Peace” was moderated by Michio Kaku, Theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, renowned futurist, and popularizer of science, City University of New York. A keynote lecture was given Prince El Hassan bin Talal, Chair of the Jordan Higher Council for Science and Technology. Among the speakers were: Irina Bokova, Director-General, UNESCO (video message); Grace Naledi Pandor, Minister of Science and Technology, South Africa; Mark Ferguson, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of Ireland; Michinari Hamaguchi, President, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST); and Lassina Zerbo, Executive Secretary, Preparatory Commission for Comprehensive Nuclear- Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). Among many noteworthy sessions and panel discussions, two events organized by ICSU should be mentioned. The thematic session “The Future of the Universality of Science” was organized by the ICSU
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Commission on Freedom and Responsibility of Science. The universality of science in its broadest sense is about developing a truly global scientific community based on equity and non-discrimination. It is also about ensuring that science is trusted and valued by societies across the world. As such, it incorporates issues related to the conduct of science; capacity building; science education and literacy; access to data and information and the relationship between science and society. A Plenary Session “Energy and Water Nexus – Intelligent Management for Sustainability and Fairness” examined the most acute resource challenges in the host region through the critical interdependency of water and energy security. Water scarcity in Jordan and the Levant has the potential to further compromise social and political stability of the region. Scientists have a role to play in developing better management systems through enhanced cooperation, knowledge exchange and institutional strengthening; improving water conservation and energy efficiency; building local capacity in water and energy sectors; and working together on transboundary resource sharing to build regional resilience. Opening channels of communication between states where there is political tension can, in turn, help to build trust and promote cooperation on other issues. Two IUGG experts, Prof. Gordon McBean, IUGG Fellow and ICSU President, and Prof. András Szöllösi-Nagy, Water World Council, participated in the panel discussion. More information on the Forum can be found at: https://worldscienceforum.org/ Trans-disciplinary Research for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding The International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) and the International Union for Quaternary Sciences (INQUA) won one of three major grants of the International Council for Sciences (Euro 300,000 for 3 years) to promote trans-disciplinary research in climate studies entitled “TROP-ICSU: Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding”. This project proposal was supported by a number of international organizations including IUGG. Educating forthcoming generations about the causes and effects of global climate change is imperative since implementing solutions depends on an informed public. Research efforts, mostly in the domains of planetary science, ecology and evolutionary biology along with mathematical tools of big data analysis, have been initiated the world over to identify key factors that affect the ecosystem functions and services. These efforts need to be scaled up substantially and rapidly, requiring a whole new generation of multidisciplinary scientists, policymakers, and administrators. The project intends to identify, through a consultative mechanism, most relevant curricula and efficient pedagogical tools, outreach and citizen science programs to study the impact of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services and the ways to address these problems in the coming years. Keith Alverson (Japan), Secretary of the IUGG Commission for Climatic and Environmental Change (CCEC) will co-ordinate IUGG input for the project. Global Forum on Science and Technology for Disaster Resilience The Global Forum on Science and Technology for Disaster Resilience was held in Tokyo, Japan, from 23 to 26 November. The Forum was organized by the Science Council of Japan (SCJ), the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), the Scientific Programme “Integrated Research on Disaster Risk” (IRDR), the International Council for Sciences (ICSU), and co-sponsored by several international and national organizations including IUGG. The objectives of the Forum were to pursue steady implementation of the four priorities for action of the 2015 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and to develop a plan for actions. H.E. Dr. Robert Glaser, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of UNISDR, participated in the Forum. The Crown Prince of Japan Naruhito attended the Closing Ceremony of the Forum. The Forum considered seven basic topics: Understanding disaster risk; strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk; investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience; “Build Back Better” in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction; promotion of interdisciplinary collaboration; strengthening of national platforms; and the concept of periodic synthesis reporting. To promote the use
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of science in DRR policy making and to promote coordination among scientific and technological research activities at national, regional and global levels, synthesis of scientific evidence should be produced in a timely, accessible and policy-relevant manner. This includes comprehensive knowledge on the state of science and technology related to the identification of disaster risks, the assessment of the socio-economic impact of disasters, and the approaches to substantial reduction of human and economic losses that should be presented in a clear, easy-to-understand way for the worldwide application of disaster risk reduction policies. Integrated synthesis reports should be produced periodically (i.e., mid-term and final reports during the period of the Sendai Framework) and by thematic areas of work under the Sendai Framework priorities for action by coordinating international scientific and technological research initiatives. Collaboration should be strengthened not only among the disaster risk reduction community but also with other areas closely related to disaster risk reduction, such as those concerning climate change mitigation and adaptation measures and the achievement of the sustainable development goals. IUGG Secretary General Alik Ismail-Zadeh participated in the Plenary Panel on “Periodic synthesis report on the state of science and technology for disaster risk reduction”. The Forum concluded by accepting the statement “Science and technology action for a disaster-resilient world”. The Global Forum on Science and Technology for Disaster Resilience 2017 in Tokyo provided the best opportunity to ascertain the contribution and future actions through discussion among global scientists and to share the message with all stakeholders, including policy makers and the private sector. In support of the implementation of the Science and Technology Roadmap, the following needs under the four priorities for action of the Sendai Framework were identified to be urgently addressed: - To develop a system for collection, archiving, management, analysis, modeling and using of data concerning disaster risk and disaster damage and losses. In support of policy makers and practice, to establish and use reliable scientific frameworks for evaluating disaster risk on a regular basis, as a function of the identification and assessment of hazards, vulnerability, and exposure including single and concatenated events. The use of scientific tools, including geospatial information systems, should be promoted for providing and sharing disaster risk information at different scales before, during and after disasters. - To contribute to strengthening disaster risk governance to reduce disaster risk. - To encourage investment in disaster risk reduction for resilience and to develop and implement tailor- made methods to assess disaster risks and share those among relevant government agencies and key stakeholders including international financial institutions and the private sector at large as the main investor in all countries. - To promote "Build Back Better" in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction. - To promote and implement interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration. To assess anthropogenic and technological risks as well as disaster risks associated with natural hazards, we should develop innovative approaches and technologies for risk assessment from both interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives including the humanities and social sciences. - To produce periodic synthesis reports on the state of science and technology for risk-sensitive development and investment. To understand and measure the status and progress of science and technology in disaster risk reduction, we propose producing periodic synthesis reports in collaboration between “cognizing” science and “designing” science in a transdisciplinary way as well as to enhance resilience by promoting evidence-based policies for disaster risk reduction that clearly factor in prediction, prevention and response strategies. - To contribute to national platforms for more effective use of science and technology.
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Increased disaster risk demands an urgent response. Inaction is no longer an option. The support of all stakeholders is strongly requested.
2018 Inaugural General Assembly of the International Science Council
Maison des Océans, the venue of the inaugural ISC General Assembly (photo: S. Cassanas for ISC) On 4 July 2018, the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC) merged to form the International Science Council (ISC), a unique global non- governmental scientific organization representing both the natural and social sciences, bringing together 141 Member Organizations (national and regional academies, research councils), 39 Member Unions and Associations (international scientific organizations), and 29 Affiliated Members. The ISC General Assembly opened with addresses from Catherine Brechignac, Secretaire Perpetuel of the French Academy of Sciences, and Prince Albert II of Monaco, who particularly welcomed participants of the assembly in the “Maison des Océans” built in 1911 for dissemination of knowledge on the oceans under supervision of Prince Albert I (who served IUGG as the first Vice President, 1919-1922). The main item of business for the meeting was the election of a Governing Board to lead the Council. The ISC Governing Board consists of 6 Officers and 10 Ordinary Members. In total, 74 people were placed on the ballots for voting (20 for the Officer positions and 54 for the Ordinary Member positions). The following people were elected by the Council’s Members to the Officer positions of the ISC Governing Board: President: Daya Reddy, mathematics, South Africa; President-elect (to become ISC President in 2021): Peter Gluckman, health science/science policy, New Zealand; Vice Presidents: Elisa Reis, sociology, Brazil; Jinghai Li, engineering, China: China Association of Science and Technology; Secretary: Alik Ismail-Zadeh, geophysics, Germany/Russia; Treasurer: Renée van Kessel, anthropology, The Netherlands. The following people were elected as Ordinary Members of the ISC Governing Board: Geoffrey Boulton, geology, UK; Melody Burkins, environmental sciences /science policy, USA; Saths Cooper, psychology, South Africa; Anna Davies, geography, Ireland; Pearl Dykstra, sociology, The Netherlands; Sirimali Fernando, health science, Sri Lanka; Ruth Fincher, geography, Australia; James
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C. Liao, chemical engineering, China: Academia Sinica in Taipei; Natalia Tarasova, chemistry, Russia; and Martin Visbeck, oceanography, Germany. The ISC founding was celebrated on 5 July 2018 with a Science Day at the Maison des Océans in Paris, featuring leading scientists showcasing the range of issues the new organization will be working on. The program (https://council.science/events/international-science-day) included addresses by high-level representatives of the French government and the United Nations, as well as by the first ISC President. “The importance of deliberative scientific understanding to society has never been greater,” said Thierry Coulhon, Advisor for Education, Higher Education, Research and Innovation to the French President. “The challenge for this Council and for our academies as well is to make the voice of science heard by those taking decisions, to promote reasoning, logical systematic analysis, quantitative evidence and rigorous thinking in place of emotions in a world dominated by opinions, beliefs, ready-to-think ideas and off-the-shelf solutions,” said Sébastien Candel, Président of the Académie des sciences. Craig Calhoun, former president of the Berggruen Institute, gave a wide-ranging talk on the need for a voice for science in today’s world. Ismail Serageldin, founding director of the Library of Alexandria, pointed out that freedom and science were indissociable. “History shows that scientific progress and freedom always walk together,” he said, adding “There is no science without freedom and no freedom without science.” Esther Duflo, development economist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), spoke about science fighting poverty, and deconstructed multiple poverty myths such as “giving away money is bad”. Cédric Villani, a member of the French National Assembly and the French Academy of Sciences, gave a closing keynote which focused on insights from his perspective of moving from science into politics. “Often what seems to be debates about technology turn out to be debates about the shape of society.” The event was livestreamed and can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFEuO8ptWZQ&feature=player_embedded The host of the inaugural ISC General Assembly was the French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences), which provided not only an excellent scientific environment but also organized wonderful cultural events in the evenings. On 4 July the Academy invited all participants to the classical concert in the building of the Institut de France and on 5 July for a reception at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. GeoUnions meeting in Paris, France On the occasion of the Inaugural General Assembly, the Steering Committee of the ISC GeoUnions (9 international scientific unions dealing with Earth and space sciences; http://www.icsu-geounions.org) met on 2 July at the Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN) in Paris, France, to elaborate their future relationship within the framework of the new Council. The attendees discussed the role of GeoUnions in the Council and future collaboration with social science unions/associations. Also, they considered several proposals for the new initiatives mentioned in the ISC General Assembly’s documents: namely, the future of scientific publishing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, science and the making of sustainable urban living, indigenous and local knowledge systems, mental health, science education, and collaborative research for the 21st century. The meeting’s participants considered also the possibility of mapping the GeoUnions’ scientific interests onto the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in order to identify common goals and targets and to put forward new initiatives contributing to the SDGs. It was agreed that representatives of the GeoUnions should meet to discuss new initiatives in more detail. ISPRS extended an invitation to GeoUnions to hold the next Steering Committee meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. GeoUnions meeting in Istanbul, Turkey The GeoUnions Steering Committee met on 9 and 10 November 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss future joint activities in the framework of the new International Science Council (ISC). The Officers of the GeoUnions introduced their current activities and highlighted the types of memberships in their
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Unions, discussed budget construction, constraints, and how the budget is used. The GeoUnions Officers explored possible new joint ISC/GeoUnions initiatives. ISC options for project development and sponsoring were discussed. Several ideas have been explored including “Digital Earth”, and further development of the Earth and Space Science Education initiative. Some time was dedicated to drafting the basic ideas of the educational proposal, defining its goal as geoscience for sustainable development; conditions, which would require partnership with ISC members and the proposal to be inter- and trans- disciplinarity by its nature; it should be in the framework of the four new ISC challenge domains; and address students, peers, society, decision makers, NGOs, and other stakeholders. The project should cover history, present and future, measurement techniques, data discovery and management, theory, and its impact on Earth, space and society. Also, GeoUnions identified several other topics for joint activities: geoscience and developing nations; early career scientists in geosciences; and women in geosciences. Gi4DM 2018 Conference, Istanbul, Turkey Gi4DM 2018 Conference was organized by the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) in Istanbul, Turkey from 18 to 21 March 2018, and co-sponsored by IUGG, the International Union of Radio Sciences (URSI), International Geographical Union (IGU), and International Cartographic Association (ICA). The conference addressed diverse topics related to methodologies and technologies within a unique platform keeping participants up to date with the latest advances in geoinformation applicable to disaster management. In total, there were 133 participants from many countries of the world; 77 papers were presented at 13 oral sessions, and 19 papers were selected for poster presentations. The sessions provided a unique platform for wider discussions on disaster risk reduction and management. On 18 March, a day-workshop on “Application-based Approach to Disaster Management and the Role of Radar Remote Sensing” was organized with 29 participants, who were introduced to theory and applications related to radar remote sensing in disaster management. The Opening Ceremony of the Conference was held on 19 March. Participants of the conference were welcomed by Orhan Altan, principal organizer of the conference; Paul Cannon, Immediate Past President of URSI; Christian Heipke, President of ISPRS; and Osman Alp, President of the Turkish General Command of Mapping of the Ministry of National Defense. Plenary talks were delivered by Deren Li on “Ten Years of Persistence Hard Working - Chinese Natural Disaster Monitoring, Assessment and Emergency Response System Based on Remote Sensing”; Alik Ismail- Zadeh on “Science-based Geohazard Risk Reduction”; Ed Parsons on “Disasters or Disaster Management in the age of Ambient Location”; and Steven Ramage on “Disaster Risk Reduction: The Sendai Framework and the GEO Work Programme”. Two best poster awards were presented to Aikaterini Karagianni, Ilias Lazos, and Alexandros Chatzipetrosvon of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for the paper “Remote sensing techniques in disaster management: Amynteon mine landslides, Greece” and Duygu Akyürek, Öykü Koç, Ece Miray Akbaba, and Filiz Sunar of the Istanbul Technical University for the paper “Land Use/Land Cover Change Detection Using Multi-Temporal Satellite Dataset: A Case Study In Istanbul New Airport”. The next Gi4DM will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2019 (Reported by Orhan Altan, co-organizer of the Conference). Alik Ismail-Zadeh IUGG Secretary General
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13. Reports from liaisons to ISC Committees / Rapports des officiers de liaison avec des comités du CSI
Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)
With this report, the major results we achieved in collaboration between CODATA and IUGG for the period 2015-2018 were highlighted. Among activities that are strongly associated with the Union Commission on Data and Information (UCDI) since 2018 and IUGG in general, the focus is on the following important events:
1. International conference “Data Intensive System Analysis for Geohazard Studies” 18–21 July 2016, Sochi region, Mountain cluster, Russia The international conference “Data Intensive System Analysis for Geohazard Studies”, that was held on 18–21 July 2016 in Rosa Khutor village, Adler district of the city of Sochi, has been completed. The Conference was organized by Geophysical Center RAS, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Austria). The co- organizers of the Conference were Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA ICSU), Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA), Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, National University of Science and Technology "MISiS", National Geophysical Committee of RAS, CSA innovative group. The Conference Chair was Alexey Gvishiani (Academician of the RAS, Director of GC RAS, Professor, Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics) and the Co-chair was Pavel Kabat (Director General and Chief Executive Officer of IIASA), Professor). The Conference brought together research scientists, observers, computer experts, practitioners, technical end-users and decision makers concerned with monitoring of the Earth's environment, detection of hazards, data analysis and modeling, vulnerability and risk assessment. More than 140 scientists and specialists from 14 countries (Russia, USA, UK, Finland, Switzerland, France, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Italy, South Africa, Iran, India, Uzbekistan) have participated in the Conference. The Conference in Sochi was devoted to implementation of Systems Analysis embracing a sophisticated data analysis and holistic Earth science approach in order to get comprehensive information on the phenomena of different degrees of hazard and on the multi-scale extremes. The topics, discussed during the Conference, included observations, detection and modeling of geophysical extremes; development, implementation and maintenance of methods and instruments for monitoring; evolution of natural systems towards extreme conditions; assessment of global- and local-scale hazardous phenomena; challenges in data processing and analysis using pattern recognition, statistical and other methods relevant to large data processing; applications of geo-databases and GIS. Separately, it should be noted that the results of 16 projects, financed by the grants of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF), were presented at the Conference.
2. 50th General Assembly of CODATA, WDS Forum, SciDataCon and International data forum, 11-15 September 2016 CODATA conference SciDataCon was held 11-15 September 2016 and co-organized by World Data System (WDS) and Research Data Alliance (RDA) in the framework of the International Data Week (IDW) in Denver, CO, USA. This event united more than 800 participants. The theme of this landmark
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event is ‘From Big Data to Open Data: Mobilizing the Data Revolution’. IDW started with CODATA general assembly and WDS members forum. It was followed by SciDataCon on 12-13 September, International Data Forum on 14 September and RDA's 8th Plenary Meeting on 15-17 September. The 50th General Assembly of CODATA was organized on 11 September 2016. Among the participants of the CODATA GA was over 50 participants including 28 voting delegates from India, USA, Finland, Japan, Israel, Korea, Australia, Russia, Kenya, Taiwan, China, Ukraine, Canada, UK and unions IUGG, IUPAC, IUCR, IAU, IUPAP, ICSTI, RDA, ICSU-WDS and WFCC as well as observers. The general assembly was organized in the Sheraton Denver Hotel, the venue of the International Data Week 2016. The GA started with the presentation by executive director of CODATA Simon Hodson. He lightened the CODATA activities for the past two years. Data citation issues were presented as an example of a big impact on small budget. National members of CODATA were actively involved in this project and organized totally eight Data Citation workshops in India, Russia, USA etc. He was encouraging CODATA members and TG representors to adopt this model in their activities. He also stressed out the collaboration with GEO and the Data management principles that will be produced soon in the framework of this activity. He presented relaunch of the Data Science journal. The DS Journal is getting more successful and articles were publishing in a steady rate for the last year. Afterwards CODATA president Prof. Geoffrey Boulton, who was elected on the 49th General Assembly, made presentation regarding the development of CODATA from 60s to nowadays - the vision, strategy and key activities for 2016-2018. The presentation gathered all CODATA activities for the last 50 years. The emergent issues were defined: principles, policies and practice; frontiers of data science; capacity building; governance. It was noted that ICSU established the office in the Latin America and CODATA is willing to launch the initiative to explore the regional data issues. Heide Hackmann the executive director of ICSU gave a talk regarding global scale of ICSU activity. The key topic of her talk was the development of the Open data platforms: Africa and Latin America to build strong regional system. It is important to note that among the participants of the GA were many representors from Africa that in many ways reflect the increasing activity of CODATA in developing countries: the Africa open platform initiative and PASTD task group activities. After the general presentation the voting procedure for the election of the CODATA task groups and members of the Executive Committee took place. As the result 8 task groups were elected. Here is the list of CODATA TG 2017-2018: Renewed task groups (TG): 1. Practice and Impact of Digital Data Citation 2. Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk Research (LODGD) 3. Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries (PASTD) 4. Earth and Space Science Data Interoperability (ESSDI) New TG: 1. Coordinating Data Standards amongst Scientific Unions 2. Building Foundational Training in Research Data Science 3. Agriculture Data, Knowledge for Learning and Innovation 4. Citizen Science and the Validation, Curation, and Management of Crowdsourced Data (with WDS) The CODATA Executive committee was elected as follows: 1. Jane Hunter, Australia 2. Paul Laughton, RSA 3. DT Lee, China: Taipei
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4. Jianhui LI, China 5. Alena Rybkina, Russia 6. Paul Uhlir, USA 7. Joseph Muliaro Wafula, Kenya 8. Mary Zborowski, Canada On the position of the CODATA treasurer was re-elected John Broome (Canada) and on the position of the Secretary General was elected Bonnie Carroll (USA). The past secretary general Sarah Graves had been a member of CODATA EC and Secretary General for overall 8 years and according to the CODATA Constitution was not able to be re-elected. The same day WDS Forum took place. It united more than 100 participants. The Forum consisted of two parts: a Scientific Session, which will be an opportunity for both the WDS-SC to report to Members on the status of WDS-related activities, and WDS Regular and Network Members to give oral and poster presentations updating their organizations' activities over the previous two years; A Plenary Session, which will provide a formal mechanism for membership consultation, and where membership issues can be discussed. The key presentations were focused on Data Publishing Services, Knowledge Networks. The general discussion concerned following issues: Funding Sustainability and Domain Repositories; A Threatened Future? The Experience of WDC-SILSO; OECD study on Business Models. The general discussion also stressed out the lack of the financial support of world data centers. Nowadays the internalization of the existing repositories should be considered with the focus on the shared infrastructure. The SciDataCon 2016 and International Data Forum were held the same venue on 12-15 September. More than 600 participants arrived to Denver to discuss data issues around the ‘Data Revolution’ and the recent data-driven transformation of research and the responses to these issues in the conduct of research. The SciDataCon program included more than 50 sessions on various research studies: Data citation, BIG DATA, Data policy, Legal Interoperability of Research Data, Earth and Space data interoperability, Data in developing countries etc. Among key-note speakers were Elaine Faustman (Professor and Director, Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication, University of Washington), Simon Cox (Research Scientist, Environmental Informatics, CSIRO Land and Water, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia), Christine L. Borgman (Distinguished Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA). The increasing importance of individual contribution to CODATA was mentioned In terms of data production and data management. Thus the individual membership in CODATA will be considered in nearest future. Also the importance of the cooperation with universities was widely discussed. In 10-20 years the training of undergraduate students will be crucial. The International Data Forum was one day event with a number of plenary talks and discussions mostly focused on availability of raw data, new data standards, examination of data, linkage of semantic data as the prime target for science. The theme of IDF was “Data for the Public Good: Responsibilities, Opportunities and Dangers in a Data Aware Society”. The potential data-contingent transformations in civil society, government, health, education, and science were discussed. Among speakers were Philip Bourne (Associate Director for Data Science, National Institutes of Health), Edit Herczog (European Parliament; Managing Director for Vision & Values SPRL), Myron P. Gutmann (University of Colorado Boulder) and Takashi Onishi (President of Science Council of Japan (SCJ)). The IDF was followed by RDA 8th Plenary Meeting which I participated partly. The aim of the conference was to network and collaborate with colleagues and peers in various disciplines, and make concrete progress in technical and social areas on topics related to research data sharing and exchange. Besides keynote talks by leading members of the community, important features of the RDA Plenary
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include the highlighting of organizations who have adopted RDA’s outputs, meetings of Working Groups and Interest Groups, and ‘Birds of a Feather’ discussions, which explore new potential working or interest group topics. It is important to note that International Data week co-organized by CODATA, WDS and RDA had clearly reflected the difference between three independent organizations. While WDS is working in straight collaboration with data repositories, CODATA is primarily aimed at fundamental issues in data research: data policy, data citation and interoperability. In its turn RDA is directly focused on technical issues of data research and its implementation.
3. “Global challenges and data-driven science”, 8-13 October 2017, Saint Petersburg, Russia Necessary linkage was provided to the fact that IUGG and CODATA became co-organizers of the important international conference “Global challenges and data-driven science” that was held on 8–13 October 2017 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Conference brought together more than 150 participants from 35 countries. Among the participants were leading scientists, specialists in BIG DATA and modern methods of data processing, image recognition and intelligent data analysis, data collection engineers and technologists. International multidisciplinary scientific dialogue between representatives of various fields of knowledge was held under the aegis of promoting of Open data principles and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable) data. The conference covered a wide range of issues related to data sciences, including the collection and processing of large amounts of data, the use of methods of system analysis, machine learning and algorithms of artificial intelligence. During four days of the conference, more than 160 scientific presentations were shown at 25 scientific sessions, several business meetings and workshops were held. The relevant thematic sessions of the conference provided cutting edge insights into creation of integrated systems for Earth and environmental observations, their data collection and analysis in order to manage efficiently the increasing data volumes and provide easy access to the research and civil communities. The speakers considered the state-of-the-art and perspectives in data science relevant to Earth observations and environmental research. The special session was organized by UCDI "Modern strategies for data collection and analysis for the better understanding of the Earth system" at the framework of the conference. The moderator of the session was Anatoly Solovyev. The following presentations were made: 1. Masahito Nosé (Kyoto University) Information about geomagnetic disturbances derived from Global Geomagnetic Observation Network: AE Index, DST Index, and WP Index 2. Pierre J Cilliers (South African National Space Agency). The multiple uses of archived data from the global navigational satellite system reference receivers. 3. Paul Lotoaniu (University of Colorado). The NOAA GOES-16 satellite space weather data and products 4. Esther Hanson-Eduok. Investigation of effects of coronal mass ejection on ionospheric total electron content over south eastern, nigeria 5. Anatoly Soloviev (Geophysical Center RAS). Recent achievements in geomagnetic data analysis for advanced monitoring of the earth's magnetic field. 6. Aleksandr Potapov (Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS). Using interplanetary satellite data to identify the passage of the solar wind structures through the earth's magnetosphere
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7. Sergej Belov (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University). Obtaining observational data of the characteristics of the earth's surface in the short-wave range of radio waves. 8. Valery Petrov (IZMIRAN). Portable system for magnetic sensors calibration 9. Alexander Tatarinov (Geological Institute SB RUS). New achievements in fundamental and applied researches of the “cold” earth degassing 10. Dmitri Kondrashov (University of California, Los Angeles). Data-driven climate modeling and prediction As a result of the conference, new international scientific groups were formed for further cooperation in the field of Big Data. The wide geographical coverage represented by the conference participants attests to the high profile, quality and scientific significance of this event. The conference was the first, experimental and successful attempt to bring together data specialists and scientists on the regional scale from various domains. Data issues in the modern world are characterized by their increasing importance and their growing complexity. Such international events provide higher visibility for existing studies and confront the community with the new goals and challenges. We are now in a position to build an effective system for integrating and managing research needs. Growing utilitarian importance of science diplomacy is reflected in various international science activities and CODATA international conference in St. Petersburg played important role in this dimension.
4. Series of meeting on CODATA Data Standards initiative On behalf of IUGG Alena Rybkina participated on the first inter-union workshop on Data Standards, which was held in the ICSU office in Paris 19-21 June 2017. It was the first workshop since the establishment of the Task Group “Coordinating Data Standards amongst Scientific Unions” during the CODATA general assembly in Denver 2016. Along with data experts and researchers (in total about 25 participants), the representors from the funding agencies took part in the conversation. Among the key participants Heide Hackmann, Simon Cox, John Rumble, John Helliwell, Joachim Wackerow, Bill Michener and others. CODATA was represented by Geoffrey Boulton, Simon Hodson, John Broom. At the framework of the workshop Alena Rybkina made presentation on the past and future activities of UCDI and indicated its new membership and enthusiasm for future collaboration. Among the 2017 goals the Saint Petersburg conference and UCDI session accordingly were stressed out. The general goal of the workshop was to consider an ambitious, coordinated programme of work to promote shared vocabularies and standards to enable data interoperability and integration. This initiative was aimed to contribute to the integration between ICSU bodies/ICSU Programmes/ISSC on the first stage and broader scientific community on the second as indicated before the establishment of ISC. During the workshop the gaps in the existing data infrastructure and possible technical solutions were discussed. Among the major decisions was the creation of the pilot projects to address the Data integration needs. At the framework of these pilots newly established group worked together with relevant domain experts to develop proposals for major cross-disciplinary data integration projects to advance solutions for three important global challenges in infectious disease, sustainable cities, and disaster risk reduction. While these pilot projects will not lead to complete solutions, they were aimed to determine the resource requirements and further investment needing to be made to address these and other global challenges, including many that are central to achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. First results of the Pilot projects were represented on the CODATA Workshop on Advancing Interdisciplinary Global Challenges Research Through Data Integration which took place in CNIC, Beijing, 30-31 July 2018. Alena Rybkina took place in this workshop as the CODATA EC member. It
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should be noted that the foundational stages of this programme were generously supported by the Chinese Association for Science and Technology. After its further development at the Beijing meeting, the developed initiative will be presented to the ISC for its endorsement as a strategic programme of the new Council. The initiative also aims to promote the engagement of disciplinary communities, as represented by International Scientific Unions, with the development and governance of standards, particularly with respect to interdisciplinary research and interoperability. Among possible prospective IUGG could provide its own pilot project to indicate the need of the Interoperability in the field of Earth and Space data to analyze at first why so far interoperability did not make the case, try to identify the gaps, and propose the ways to fill the gaps.
5. 31th General Assembly of CODATA in Gaborone, Botswana, 9-10 November, 2018 CODATA General Assembly took place on 9-10 November 2018 at the University of Botswana in Gaborone. This year GA was represented by delegates from 17 national members (Australia, Botswana, Canada, China, Finland, India, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mongolia, Netherlands, Russia, South Africa, China, UK, USA), 8 Unions (IUGG, IUPAC, IGU, IUPESM, IUCr, IUPsyS, IUTox, IUBS) and co-opted members (WDS, ICSTI, RDA, WCCF). Altogether more than 25 participants and observers. The first day of the GA began with the reporting session. First was the report from the CODATA executive director Simon Hodson on the past activities. Among new principal activities for the last two years were indicated Data Integration Iniative and African Open Science Platform. That was stressed out in addition to well progressive CODATA initiatives such as summer schools for young scientists and Data Science Journal that were launched couple of years ago. Presentation by Simon Hodoson was followed up with the financial report by CODATA treasurer John Broom and the report from the CODATA president Geoffrey Boulton on CODATA Strategic plan. Regarding the financial report for the first time CODATA reported positive budget at the end of 2017. The deficit that appeared for many years was balanced. The session was finalized with the discussion about national membership activities and priorities led by Bonnie Carroll. The second part of the day was devoted to the revised constitution. The proposed new constitution retains largely the same structure as the previous version but has been updated throughout. The Executive Committee had attempted to simplify and normalize the language and the new version of the document was distributed among CODATA members in advance. More substantively, adjustments have been made to membership categories and to specific governance timescales to allow CODATA to function more effectively and efficiently. The discussion on the received formal amendments from IUCr and US national committee took place on GA. Among principal issues was the membership of the Unions. The importance of the engagement of ISC bodies was highlighted by all the GA members. It was concluded that Unions are free from membership dues to CODATA and do note vote on the financial matters. In addition to that the suggestion from the US national committee to increase number of the Executive members from 8 to 10 people was also endorsed. New version of the Constitution will be posted shortly. On 10 November, the second day of the GA, Elections took place. This year was the last year of the Geoffrey Boulton position as the CODATA president. The Elections Page and Candidates statements can be found at http://www.codata.org/events/general-assembly/general-assembly-2018/codata- elections-2018. Two candidates were nominated to take this role for the next four years. The first candidate Tony Roy was nominated by UK. Tony is the Chief Data Scientist of the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL). He was also a Vice President in Microsoft Research.
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The second candidate, nominated by USA, was Barend Mons. He was involved in the early days of RDA and (GO) FAIR initiatives. Since 2012 he is a Professor in Bio-Semantics at the Department of Human Genetics at the Leiden University Medical Centre. In 2014, Barend initiated the FAIR data initiative and in 2015, he was appointed Chair of the European Commission's High Level Expert Group for the “European Open Science Cloud”, from which he retired by the end of 2016. Presently, Barend is co-leading the GO FAIR initiative, an initiative to kick start developments towards the Internet of FAIR data and services, which will also contribute to the implementation of components of the European Open Science Cloud. Since 2017 Barend is heading the International Support and Coordination office of the GO FAIR initiative. After the short presentation by both candidates the election took place. With 17 votes against 10 Barend Mons was elected as the new president of CODATA. His candidacy was also supported by IUGG. It was then proceeded with the election of the two vice-presidents. This year CODATA had three candidates: Alena Rybkina (Russia), Niv Ahituv (Israel) and Jianhui LI (China). Each candidate had a short presentation and discussion. With more than 50% of votes Alena Rybkina and Jianhui LI were elected as new CODATA vice-presidents. The executive committee was also mostly renovated after the voting procedure. The new EC is following: Toshihiro Ashino (Japan) Ernie Boyko (Canada) Simon Cox (Australia) Richard Hartshorn (New Zealand) Daisy Selemetsala (South Africa) Joseph Wafula (Kenia) Tyng-Ruey Chuang (Taipei) Virginia Murray (UK). The second day of the GA was finalized with the election of the new Task Groups. The work of Task Groups is one of the important ways through which CODATA achieves its strategic objectives. Proposals were assessed by the Executive Committee which presented recommendations to the General Assembly. Totally nine proposals were considered. Among them five proposals for new Task Groups were submitted and four existing Task Groups applied for renewal. All the task groups except the “Data Literacy for Researchers and Academics from Low and Middle Income Countries” were endorsed by the GA. The final list of the CODATA 2019-2020 TG is following: 1. Advanced mathematical tools for data-driven applied systems 2. Applying Data Integration and Data Science Tools toward Research of Urban Life and Smart Cities 3. Digital Representation of Units of Measure (DRUM) 4. Improving Data Access and Reusability (IDAR-TG). 5. Agriculture Data, Knowledge for Learning and Innovation 6. CODATA–WDS TG on Citizen Science for the SDGs – Aligning Citizen Science outcomes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 7. Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk Research (LODGD) 8. Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in/for/with Developing Countries (PASTD) Alexei Gvishiani, IUGG liaison to CODATA Alena Rybkina, UCDI liaison to CODATA
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Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
This Quadrennial Report covers the period of 2015-2018, and summarizes my liaison activity as an IUGG Liaison Officer with the International Committee of Space Research (COSPAR). Basic Information on the Activities of COSPAR The mission of COSPAR is Service to the International Space Science Community in their pursuit of international space research without impediment from geopolitical tensions or differences. This mission includes Service to Developed Space Programs and Service to Developing Space Programs. • COSPAR achieves its objectives in these three areas of Service primarily through the organization of scientific assemblies and publications, “to promote international level scientific research in space” and “to provide a forum open to all scientists”. In particular, COSPAR: • Produces two peer-reviewed publications (journals), Advances in Space Research and Life Sciences in Space Research, in which all international space scientists can disseminate the results of their research; • Publishes Roadmaps, which document the state of particular disciplines and potential scientific opportunities, to influence the planning processes of space agencies; • Convenes biennial Assemblies, for the international space research community to share scientific results and discuss cooperative projects and for space agencies to share their plans; • Convenes the Panel on Planetary Protection, to insure the protection of pristine planetary environments from human contamination by planetary exploration missions; • Organizes Symposia on broad, interdisciplinary topics to promote space research and development in nations with developing space programs; • Organizes Capacity Building Workshops and Fellowships, to allow build capacity among young scientists and to extend the benefits of participation in space research to developing nations. Attendance of Business Meetings During the 2015-2018 period, two COSPAR General Assemblies were originally planned in which business meetings of the COSPAR Bureau were to be held: the 41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey, in July-August 2016, and the 42th Scientific Assembly in Pasadena, California, USA in July 2018. Unfortunately, the 2016 Assembly was canceled due to the political unrest in Turkey at the time. Although I did attend the 2018 Assembly, I was unable to attend the Bureau Meeting due to an unforeseen and unavoidable schedule conflict. Joint Activities with COSPAR During the 2015-2018 period, there were to my knowledge no joint scientific meetings with COSPAR that were formally co-sponsored by IUGG and/or its Associations. However, there was strong participation by IUGG scientists, especially IAGA and IAMAS scientists, in both the organization and attendance of the 3nd COSPAR Symposium (in Jeju, Korea in September 2017) and several of the Commission C and D symposia in COSPAR 2018, respectively.
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Contacts with COSPAR Officers and Members Contacts with COSPAR bureau members, national representatives, and members have been mostly at the informal level and via emails. The majority of these contacts were related to the promotion of the IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Tri-Association Assembly 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa, the upcoming IUGG Assembly in July 2019 in Montreal, Canada, the 2017 and 2019 IAGA International Schools, and the IUGG 100 Anniversary books. Interventions Related to Geophysics and Geodesy There have been to my knowledge no interventions into any discussions related to geophysics and geodesy in business meetings, teleconferences, or e-mail correspondences. Nominations of IUGG Scientists During the 2015-2018 period, Professor Kathryn Whaler, UK, was nominated by IUGG for the COSPAR Nordberg 2018 Award. However, the nomination was unsuccessful. I was also nominated by IUGG for COSPAR Bureau membership for the 2018-2022 term; the nomination was unsuccessful. Other Liaison Activity There was periodic, informal liaison with relevant COSPAR Scientific Commissions officers (chairs and co-chairs), mostly via emails, and focused on participation of IUGG scientists in COSPAR meetings and publication activities and vice versa. Andrew W. Yau, IUGG liaison to COSPAR
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Background The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is an Interdisciplinary Body of the International Science Council (ISC). SCAR was formed in March 1958 as an outcome of the International Geophysical Year 1957-58 and following a recommendation from the Special Committee for the International Geophysical Year (CSAGI). The vision of SCAR is to establish through scientific research and international cooperation a broad understanding of the nature of Antarctica, the role of Antarctica in the Earth System, and the effects of global change on Antarctica. It initiates, promotes and co-ordinates scientific research across a wide area of disciplines in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. SCAR also provides international, independent scientific advice to the Antarctic Treaty system and other bodies. Like other ISC Interdisciplinary Bodies, SCAR is self-sufficient and independent in terms of day-to-day operations and financing, and has its own Secretariat based in Cambridge, UK. SCAR has three categories of membership: Full Members (currently 32 nations), ISC scientific Union Members (9 unions) and Associate Members (12 nations). Union members are those ISC scientific unions that have an interest in Antarctic research, and include IUGG.
Relevance of SCAR science to IUGG SCAR organizes the planning and coordination of Antarctic and Southern Ocean regional research through three discipline-based Scientific Groups (SGs) on Physical Sciences, Geosciences and Life Sciences. Recognising the increasing importance of the humanities and social sciences community within Antarctic research, the SCAR Delegates established a Standing Committee on Humanities and Social Sciences in June 2018. The work undertaken within the SG Physical Sciences is of relevance to the IUGG Associations IAMAS, IAPSO, IACS, IAHS and IAGA; and that undertaken within the SG Geosciences is of relevance to the IUGG Associations IAG, IASPEI and IAVCEI. High priority topical research areas are addressed by SCAR through its "flagship" Scientific Research Programmes (SRPs), of which there are currently five. The current SRPs of most relevance to IUGG interests are Antarctic Climate Change in the 21st Century (http://www.scar.org/srp/antclim21), Solid Earth Response and influence on Cryosphere Evolution (http://www.scar.org/srp/serce) and Past Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics (http://www.scar.org/srp/pais). The current SRPs will end in 2020 and planning for the next generation of programmes, which include “Near-term Variability and Prediction of the Antarctic Climate System” and “Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics and Global Sea Level” has begun. These two interdisciplinary themes were identified as scientific priorities from the 2014 SCAR Antarctic and Southern Ocean “Horizon Scan”. The SCAR Scientific Groups also initiate Action and Expert Groups to address specific research topics within their discipline.
Interactions between SCAR, IUGG and other scientific organizations IUGG is a Union Member of SCAR and has regularly attended the biennial SCAR Delegates Meetings with voting rights (on non-financial matters). The Executive Committee of IUGG appointed Prof. Ian Allison (IACS) as the IUGG representative to SCAR for this Quadrennial, with Prof John Turner (IAMAS) as the alternate. A Letter of Agreement between the IUGG International Association of Cryospheric Science, SCAR and the International Arctic Science Council (IASC, an ISC Scientific Associate), originally signed in 2008, was renewed for a further 5 years in April 2013. This, recognizing that the three ISC "affiliated" organizations share common interests and practices, agreed that they would combine their efforts in
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selected fields and activities so as to raise the level of impact of all three organisation, in making scientific advances and of advising policy makers, as well as avoiding duplication "taking into account … the lessons learned from the International Polar Year 2007-2008." SCAR is a co-sponsor of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) project. CliC aims to “...understand and represent the role of the cryosphere in Earth’s climate system and to assess and quantify the impacts that climate variability and change have on components of the cryosphere and its overall stability, and the consequences of these impacts for the climate system...” and thus has close links to the goals and objectives of IACS (as well as IAMAS and IAPSO). SCAR also co-sponsors, with SCOR (the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research) and IUGG/IAPSO, the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS). This is an international initiative (evolving from the International Polar Year 2007-2008) with the mission to coordinate and expand the efforts of all nations and programmes that gather data from the Southern Ocean, with the specific aim of developing a coherent and efficient observing system that will deliver the multi-disciplinary observations required to address key scientific and societal challenges. A SOOS International Project Office is hosted by Australia and a Science and Implementation Strategy has been published.
SCAR business meetings and planning activities SCAR Delegates Meetings are held every two years to elect office bearers, conduct administrative business and to formulate SCAR scientific policy and strategy. The XXXIV biennial SCAR Delegates' Meeting was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 29-30 August 2016 and the XXXV Meeting was held in Davos, Switzerland, 24-26 June 2018 on the 60th anniversary of the foundation of SCAR. Ian Allison attended both meeting as the formal IUGG Delegate and as an IACS observer. The 2020 SCAR Delegates Meeting and Open Science Conference will be held in Hobart, Australia.
SCAR Scientific meetings The seventh SCAR Open Science Conference on "Antarctica in the Global Earth System: from the Poles to the Tropics“ was held in Kuala Lumpur preceding the XXXIV Delegates' Meeting. The eighth Open Science Conference was held in conjunction with the International Arctic Science Committee in Davos prior to the XXXV Delegates Meeting on a bi-polar theme, “Where the Poles come together”. Both Open Science Conferences covered a broad and multi-disciplinary range of scientific sessions, attracting about 800 and 2500 participants respectively from around 50 nations. Both these OSCs included a poster session on activities of SCAR scientific groups and their partners. A poster on the collaborative links between IUGG and SCAR was presented at this session in Kuala Lumpur. An updated version of that plus a second poster on links between the IUGG International Association of Cryospheric Sciences and SCAR were presented in Davos. These posters were kept on display for the whole of the OSC, as well as during the Delegates Meeting. Over 50 planning and discussion meetings of SCAR Action and Expert Groups and related scientific groups were also held in the margins of both the OSCs and over the weekends before and afterwards.
Other IUGG -SCAR Liaison activities Liaison activities additional to those at the SCAR Delegates Meetings and OSCs have included providing comment on the draft SCAR Strategic Plan 2017-2022, providing a report updating IUGG activities relevant to SCAR, and nomination of several prominent female geophysical scientists for a “wikibomb” organized to raise the profile of women Antarctic scientists on Wikipedia. Most present cooperation and exchange between SCAR and IUGG occurs at the level of individual scientists with involvement in both bodies. This includes organization of Antarctic-related symposia at 193
SCAR and IUGG conferences. There is scope to develop stronger formal links, particularly with activities of the SCAR Action and Expert Groups. These could include links with SCAR groups on clouds and aerosols, climate change and environment, sea ice processes and climate, GNSS research, ice cores, ice sheets, Sun-Earth relationships, Antarctic snow, magnetic anomaly mapping, Antarctic volcanism, and geodetic infrastructure.
Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR)
The IAPSO President is an ex officio member of the executive committee of SCOR so in that capacity Dr Denise Smythe-Wright attended the annual EC meetings in Goa, India 7-9 December 2015; SOPOT, Poland, 5-7 September 2016; Cape Town, South Africa 4-6 September 2017; and Plymouth, UK 4-7 September, 2018. An additional task of IAPSO, each year, is to review the submitted proposals for SCOR working group funding. Prior to all the above meetings, the President solicited the views of the entire IAPSO executive committee and submitted their prioritization and comments to the SCOR secretariat. At the SCOR meeting she presented the IAPSO views on each proposal and had the additional task of championing at least one of the submitted proposals (not necessarily any prioritized by IAPSO) to the attendees by summarizing the topic, giving its main advantages/disadvantages and a collation of the views from the global SCOR community. She is also the rapporteur for the IAPWS/SCOR/IAPSO Joint Committee on Seawater. In 2015/2016, additional to the executive committee responsibilities, Dr Smythe-Wright and Professor Peter Burkill (then President of SCOR) joined forces to instigate an initiative in response to the marine science issues raised by the G7 Science Ministers in the communiqué arising from their meeting in October 2015 (http://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/english/others/communique_en.html). Together the Presidents mustered fourteen international experts to address the following issues: • Marine Litter • Ocean Acidification • Biodiversity Loss • Deoxygenation • Ocean Warming • Ecosystem degradation • Deepsea mining. The resulting report, Future of the Ocean and its Seas: a non-governmental scientific perspective on seven marine research issues of G7 interest, was completed in April 2016 and submitted to the Science Ministers prior to their meeting in Japan, May 2016. A copy of the report can be found at http://www.iugg.org/policy/Report_FutureOcean_G7_2016.pdf. At their meeting the Science Ministers proposed a way forward and the lead for this was taken by the UK Department of Business Innovation and Skills (UK BIS) working with the UK National Oceanography Centre and a working group with representatives of all G7 countries was set up. A follow up meeting of this Working Group was held at the National Oceanography Centre in November, 2016. The focus of the work is on observations and while IAPSO-SCOR are not formally part of this initiative the President of IAPSO is keeping a close eye on events to ensure that, if appropriate, IAPSO-SCOR input continues. Finally, at the launch of the second SCOR – IOC sponsored International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2) in Goa, 30 November – 4 December, 2015, Dr Smythe-Wright offered the support of IAPSO to the project by suggesting that IIOE-2 held a scientific session at the IUGG assembly in Cape Town alongside IAPSO and IAMAS. This offer was gratefully received as it gave the project free access to the conference facilities and also opened up the possibility of travel grants for scientists from developing countries. The joint session held in Cape Town 27 August – 1 September, 2017 was a huge success. Denise Smythe-Wright, IUGG Liaison to SCOR
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Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP)
SCOSTEP is an ISC Interdisciplinary Body tasked with the responsibility to organize long-term scientific programs in solar terrestrial physics. "Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact (VarSITI)" (http://www.varsiti.org/) is that program for the period 2014 – 2018. During 2015-2018 many workshops and conferences on the VarSITI program were held and the main was the 14th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium at York University, Toronto, Canada, July 9-13, 2018. SCOSTEP has initiated work on the Next Scientific Program to be launched in 2019. The conferences sponsored by SCOSTEP in cooperation with IAGA/IUGG: ‒ The symposium "Energetic Particle Precipitation into the Atmosphere: Sources and Atmospheric Impact" was held during the 26th IUGG General Assembly in Prague on 26 June 2015. ‒ The symposium "Long-term trends in stratosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere" was held during the 26th IUGG General Assembly (22 June – 2 July, 2015). ‒ IAGA-IV Symposium on “Influence of short and long term solar variability on climate”, Hurghada, Egypt, 20-24 March 2016. The SCOSTEP Visiting Scholar (SVS) program is to provide training to young scientists and graduate students from developing countries in well-established solar terrestrial physics laboratories and institutions, for periods of between one and three months. The competition for the SCOSTEP SVS Program has increased significantly. Selected scholars have started their visit or about to start. SCOSTEP is a permanent observer at the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS). During last years SCOSTEP’s President, Scientific Secretary and leading scientists had given some presentations on the sessions of the STSC (Scientific and Technical Subcommittee) UN COPUOS on SCOSTEP/VarSITI program and others SCOSTEP activities. The Presentations can be found on the SCOSTEP website. As the IUGG representative to SCOSTEP, I attended all SCOSTEP Bureau Meetings in the period 2015-2018 and reported on current activities of IUGG: ‒ June 21, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic + IUGG General Assembly (Two reports). ‒ April 25, 2016, Toronto, Canada. ‒ April 29, 2017, Vienna, Austria. Reports on recent activities by SCOSTEP’s affiliates (IUGG). ‒ April 13, 2018, Vienna, Austria. Reports on recent activities by SCOSTEP’s affiliates (IUGG). I participated in a number of the conferences related with IUGG/IAGA topics: ‒ China-Russia Joint Space Science Workshop, 19-20 января 2015, Beijing, China, ‒ UN COPUOS Expert Group on Space Weather", February 4th, 2015. Vienna, Austria, ‒ 52nd UNCOPUOS/STSC Meeting, February 05th, 2015. Vienna, Austria, ‒ 26th IUGG General Assembly, Prague, June 22-30, 2015, ‒ 22nd ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) "Workshop on Space Security", Beijing China, 30 November -- 2 December, 2015, and a number of scientific conferences were carried out with my participation as a member of the Scientific Organizing Committees: ‒ COSPAR session D-2.3 “Coordinated Observations and Modeling of Accelerated Particles at the Sun and in the Inner Heliosphere”. COSPAR, July 30-August 7, 2016, Istanbul, Turkey, ‒ "Impact of Space Weather on Earth" COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop, August 15 – 26, 2016, Paratunka, Kamchatka, Russia. http://cospar2016.ikir.ru/cospar-content/committee/, 195
‒ Russian Conference "Heliogeophysical Research in Arctic", September 19-23, 2016, Murmansk, Russia, ‒ SCOSTEP Second VarSITI Symposium, July 10-15, 2017, Irkutsk, Russia. http://varsiti2017.iszf.irk.ru/images/Poster_VarSITI2017.pdf, ‒ SCOSTEP 14th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium, July 9 – 13, 2018, Toronto, Canada. http://www.scostepevents.ca/sessions-and-abstracts/scientific-organizing-committee. I was working in the interests of IUGG/IAGA as the Chairman of the Section on Geomagnetism and Aeronomy of the Russian National Geophysical Committee. I took part in the discussions concerning the SCOSTEP current activity, realization of the VarSITI (Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact) SCOSTEP Program which covers a wide range of topics that fall within the scope of interests of IUGG/IAGA. Two sections of this Program which were developed with my participation, namely, SEE (Solar Evolution and Extrema) and ISEST (International Study of Earth-Affecting Solar transients) aimed at the study of the impact of solar transient and extreme phenomena on the Earth and geomagnetic field. These problems relate to the field of research of two IUGG/IAGA Divisions - Division IV (Solar Wind and Interplanetary Field) and Division III (Magnetospheric Phenomena). The section of the Program entitled ROSMIC (Role of the Sun and the Middle atmosphere/thermosphere/ionosphere in Climate) is also closely related to IUGG/IAGA, in particular, Division II (Aeronomic Phenomena). The section entitled SpeCIMEN (Specification and Prediction of the Coupled Inner-Magnetospheric Environment) deals with the response of the inner magnetosphere to variations in the solar wind, which is a topic covered by the IUGG/IAGA Division III (Magnetospheric Phenomena). Thus, the interests of IUGG/IAGA as a whole and its particular Divisions (I, II, and III) are widely represented in the current research SCOSTEP Program. In 2016 I participated in the development of a Future Directions for Solar-Terrestrial Physics as a basic of the new SCOSTEP research program proposing a number of directions which are actual within the scope of IUGG/IAGA topics - the study of the trigger mechanisms of solar flares and coronal mass ejection which are responsible for the magnetic storms on the Earth, etc. I was a deputy Chairman of the SCOSTEP Award Committee (2015-2018) and act as a representative of SCOSTEP Bureau in this Committee. The Committee awards three SCOSTEP medals (SCOSTEP Science Award, Young Scientist Award, SCOSTEP Service Award). Among winners there are three scientists who are closely related to IUGG/IAGA topics (Young Scientist Award 2016, B.A.Garter, Geomagnetism and Ionosphere. SCOSTEP Service Award 2017, M.A. Geller, Atmosphere. SCOSTEP Science Award 2018, J.M.Forbes, Magnetosphere and Atmosphere). As the Editor in Chief of the Russian Journal "Geomagnetism and Aeronomy", I have been working on increasing the publishing activity and rating of the journal, which meets the interests of IUGG/IAGA. As a member of the Expert Group "C" (Space Weather) of the Working Group on Long-Term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space of United Nations Organization during 2015, I participated in the work of the above-mentioned Expert Group representing the IUGG/IAGA topical interests. Vladimir Kuznetsov, IUGG liaison to SCOSTEP
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Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency (CCTF)
The Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency (CCTF) is one of the consultative committees of the International Committee for Weights and Measurements (CIPM). Its domain includes all aspects related to time and frequency. In addition to national delegates, CCTF members include representatives of some international organizations. This is the case of IUGG, as well as the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and the International Union for Radio-Sciences (URSI). Presently the IUGG representatives to CCTF are Richard Biancale (France)(deceased in 2019) and Claude Boucher (France), both acting as IUGG liaisons. Meetings Two meetings were held during the 2015-2019 period, both attended by Claude Boucher. The 20th meeting of CCTF was held at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), Sèvres (France) on September 17 and 18 2015. Among the numerous activities discussed during this meeting, some are of more direct connection with IUGG: • Item 9 Redefinition of UTC • Item 10.1 Report of the IERS Conventions Product Center • Item 10.2 Actions for the international recognition of the International Terrestrial Reference System and Frame • Item 11 GNSS The 21th meeting took place at BIPM on June 8 and 9 2017. Again, some items of special interest for IUGG: • Item 6.5 Report on the International committee for GNSS • Item 9.1 Report on IERS Conventions • Item 9.2 Report on IAG working group on relativistic geodesy
Major common topics of interest UTC This is a long term topic of discussion within the International Union of Telecommunications. The possible redefinition of UTC is still pending. ITRS The General Conference for Weights and Measures (Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures, CGPM) in 2011, considering the significant and increasing number of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), that the proliferation of time and geodesy reference systems in use in these navigation systems creates ambiguities for users, rendering their interoperability more difficult; and considering that the adoption of a common reference system is beneficial for users, adopted a resolution recommending that “the ITRS, as defined by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) and realized by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS), be
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adopted as the unique international reference system for terrestrial reference frames for all metrological applications ». (Resolution 9, 24th CGPM, 2011) Following this view, the involvement of the metrology community was rediscussed during the 20th CCTF meeting at point 10.2 where I had the opportunity to present a memo which is given in appendix. No specific action was decided, in particular, the involvement for ISO was not explicitly approved, following general rules adopted by CGPM (only activities related to fundamental metrology). Relativistic geodesy Following discussions between IAG and BIPM, a Joint Working Group of IAG has been established, JWG 2.3 ‘Relativistic geodesy: First steps towards a new geodetic technique’, chaired by Jakob Flury (Germany) and co-chaired bu Gerard Petit (BIPM), to which I belong. The objectives of the Working Group are to:
• Act as interface between groups in geodesy (gravity fields, reference frames...) and in time and frequency metrology (clock development, clock comparisons ...);
• Provide a platform to promote the further development and application of relativistic geodesy, e.g. in physics, astronomy and other fields of geodesy and metrology;
• Foster the geodetic interests in the realization of the concept of relativistic geodesy;
• Develop an optimal strategy for the installation and analysis of clock networks and for the combination of clock data with classical geodetic data (e.g. for height systems);
• Advocate the implementation of a clock network of sufficient capability to obtain data products essential for geodetic applications;
• Study the use of clock networks in space;
• Provide relevant information for the geodetic community including key contacts and links;
• Organize meetings and sessions on relativistic geodesy;
• Prepare a document on the perspectives and applications of relativistic geodesy.
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Appendix: Actions for the recognition of the International Terrestrial Reference System and Frame Claude Boucher IUGG liaison to CCTF The International Terrestrial Reference System (ITRS) is the recommended Terrestrial Reference System (TRS) for the geoscience community, thanks to a resolution adopted by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) during its General Assembly of Perugia in 2007. The ITRS is also recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The General Conference in Weights and Measures (CGPM) (Resolution 9, 24th Meeting of the CGPM) recommends the adoption of the ITRS as the unique terrestrial reference system for all metrological applications. In the frame of the Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) project of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), one of the IUGG associations, a working group on the ITRS standard was established in 2008 to investigate the strategy to obtain the adoption by the International Standardization Organization (ISO) of a standardization document related to the ITRS. Following the initial work done by the group, a proposal was submitted to ISO by France. This proposal was a New Work Item Proposal (NWIP) related to the ITRS submitted to the ISO TC 211 on Geographical information, to which IAG is a liaison. ISO finally decided that a preliminary study demonstrating the importance of geodetic references at large was necessary before going further in the direction of the initial proposal. A project (19161) was therefore established within ISO TC211 WG4 and chaired by myself. The project report was finalized in January 2015, reviewed and finally submitted to the WG4 for approval and decision of further actions. The report ends with some recommendations: ‒ To develop a standard related to the ITRS ‒ To make further studies about the interest and feasibility of a standard on vertical references ‒ To make similar action for the universal identification of geodetic stations ‒ To work to improve geodetic terminology, including update of existing standards Metrology was one of the domains discussed in the 19161 report. It is therefore useful to quote here some sentences: “The CGPM in 2011, considering the significant and increasing number of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), that the proliferation of time and geodesy reference systems in use in these navigation systems creates ambiguities for users, rendering their interoperability more difficult; and considering that the adoption of a common reference system is beneficial for users, adopted a resolution recommending that “the ITRS, as defined by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) and realized by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS), be adopted as the unique international reference system for terrestrial reference frames for all metrological applications ». The adoption of this resolution by the CGPM (Resolution 9, 24th CGPM, 2011, http://www.bipm.org/en/worldwide-metrology/cgpm/resolutions.html), puts in evidence the necessity of using a standard terrestrial reference in metrology. Impact of the geodetic references on time and frequency metrology The foundations of time and frequency metrology are ‒ the realization of the SI unit of time, based on an atomic transition at the level of a few parts in 1016,
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‒ the construction and dissemination of atomic time scales based on the SI second. International Atomic Time (TAI) is a coordinate time scale defined in a geocentric reference frame which unit is the SI second as realized on the rotating geoid. The transformation between proper time (provided by an individual clock in a laboratory) to TAI, requires the actual value of the gravity potential of the geoid. In the practical transformation, the orthometric height of the clock is a parameter, together with the average value of gravity between the geoid and the clock. The best clocks (primary and secondary frequency standards) realize the SI second with a few parts in 1016 accuracy. Assuming that the geoid, the reference level of the height system and the height are all measured with an uncertainty below one metre, it is possible to realize TAI as defined. However, the situation will change when considering clock accuracy of order 10-17 and below, for which uncertainty of order 1 cm or below is needed. Accurate clocks can also be useful to geodesy, provided that accurate frequency transfer techniques are developed for comparing clocks accurate to 10-17 level. Under these conditions, accurate frequency comparisons could provide a means of computing the difference of gravity potential between the locations of the clocks.” Following the recommendation of the report, France reiterated its proposal of a NWIP on ITRS, which is hopefully on the way of approval by ISO TC211. Therefore, it is highly desirable that the BIPM join the future working group as liaison, through ISO TC211 to which the BIPM must adhere. Its role should be in particular to take care of the adequacy of the future text of the standard with the concerns of the metrological community.
Document submitted to the 20th meeting of the CCTF in Sevres on September 17-18 2015
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Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
Established in 2005 the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is a global partnership of governments and organizations that envisions “a future wherein decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations”. GEO Member governments include 105 nations, the European Commission, and 127 Participating Organizations comprised of international bodies with a mandate in Earth observations (including IUGG, the International Association of Geodesy [IAG], the Global Geodetic Observing System [GGOS], the
International Ozone Commission [IO3C] of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences [IAMAS[, and the International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth Interior [IASPEI]). Although IUGG participated in the work of GEO via the above mentioned Union/Association bodies, IUGG was invited to join GEO in 2013, and becomes a GEO Participating Organization in 2014. The GEO community is creating a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) that will link Earth observation resources world-wide across multiple Societal Benefit Areas - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Sustainability, Disaster Resilience, Energy and Mineral Resources Management, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture, Infrastructure & Transportation Management, Public Health Surveillance, Sustainable Urban Development, Water Resources Management - and make those resources available for better informed decision-making. The XII Plenary of GEO was held 11-12 November 2015 in Mexico City, Mexico. The following topics were considered at the meeting: (i) GEO recognized Vietnam, Ecuador, Zimbabwe, Somalia, and Kenya as new Members; (ii) GEO approved the Mexico City Declaration; (iii) GEOSS implementation 2005-2015 and Report of the Sixth and Summative Evaluation of GEOSS Implementation; (iv) the lessons learned from GEO’s First Decade; (v) the GEO Strategic Plan for 2016-2025; (vi) new Programme Board appointments; (vii) revised criteria for Observers and Participating Organizations; (vii) GEO engagement with stakeholders; (viii) Work Programme for 2016; (ix) updates to Rules of Procedure; and (x) the budget for 2016. The Russian Federation agreed to host the GEO-XIII Plenary in St. Petersburg. The XIII Plenary of GEO was held 7-10 November 2016 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The GEO Plenary was held on 9 and 10 November 2016 and was one of the best attended plenaries of GEO. After the Opening ceremony and welcome addresses from the Russian organizers and GEO officers, two panel sessions were held, both dedicated to advancing the GEO vision. These sessions focused on progress towards GEO Strategic objectives and Ministerial commitments. They concerned the challenges and opportunities in ongoing and emerging GEO efforts in support of the GEO objectives and commitments – from user- and policy-driven initiatives to foundational efforts to build GEOSS. The first panel included representatives from GEO Initiatives and Flagships covering the full spectrum of actors from policy and decision makers to those involved in advisory and implementation roles. The second panel included representatives of the Teams currently involved in the foundational components of GEOSS, including coordination of Earth observations; data sharing; and development of tools to improve delivery and use of Earth observation data and information. Each panelist addressed challenges and opportunities in the development and implementation of the activities. The final session of the day was dedicated to relationships with industry. This session included representatives from the commercial sector: data providers, providers of value-added services, and downstream-user sectors. The Panel discussed challenges and opportunities related to commercial sector engagement in GEO, from contributing or benefiting from existing GEO efforts to exploring opportunities for new collaborations. The Plenary discussed ways of strengthening stakeholder engagement. IUGG intervened in the discussion proposing that ways should not only be limited to multidisciplinary cooperation, but also
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involve inter- and transdisciplinary co-produced approaches. The Chair of the Programme Board presented a report and discussed how UN Sustainable Development Goals have been analyzed with respect to the activities of GEO and GEOSS. The Plenary then continued with routine work and in accordance with the agenda. It was decided that the next plenaries will be held in Washington, D.C., USA in 2017, and in Kyoto, Japan in 2018.
GGOS booth at the GEO Plenary XIII IUGG E-Poster at the GEO Plenary XIII Photos: A. Ismail-Zadeh Together with the Russian Agency on Hydro-Meteorology (RosHydroMet), I organized a GEO Side Event on Earth and Space Observation for Disaster Risk Assessment. The major motivation of the session was to alert the community to the importance of data observations for disaster risk reduction rather than only for disaster management after events have occurred. Despite major advances in knowledge of disaster risks and of disasters caused by natural hazards, the number and severity of disasters are increasing. Global Earth and space observations can significantly assist in reducing disasters by monitoring the Earth’s surface and its space environment. Early warning systems augmented by real-time monitoring and observing hurricanes, severe storms, tornados, flooding, landslides, volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis as well as monitoring the mobility of people and development of infrastructure would help in scientific analysis and the assessment of disaster risks. The panel was moderated by Alik Ismail-Zadeh (IUGG Secretary General) and Vladimir Kattsov (RosHydroMet and the Vice Chair of the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme). The following experts participated in the panel: (i) Shirish Ravan (India), Senior Program Officer, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UN-SPIDER); (ii) Lars-Peter Riishojgaard (USA), Project Manager, Observing and Information Systems Department, World Meteorological Organization (WMO); (iii) Michael Sideris (Canada), IUGG President, and GEO Programme Board Member; (iv) Günter Stangl (Austria), Senior Expert, GGOS/IAG; and (v) Christos Zerefos (Greece), Academy of Athens, and the IO3C Immediate Past President. Major questions, which the panelists addressed in their talks were (i) how observations from space and ground can assist in disaster risk assessment, and (ii) how cooperation between countries and international/intergovernmental organizations should be strengthened to assist in disaster risk assessment and reduction? After the talks, panelists answered questions and comments from the participants. About 50 international experts attended the Panel, among them David Grimes, WMO President; Vladimir Frolov, RosHydroMet President; and Olga Gershenzon, President of the RBS Signal Company (dealing with disaster early warning). This side event highlighted the importance of Earth observations and risk assessments in disaster risk reduction. In 2016, the GEO Executive Committee selected and appointed experts to the newly established Programme Board (PB) based on the nominations received from GEO Member Countries and Participating Organizations. Nominated by IUGG, Michael Sideris was selected to be a member of the GEO PB (2016-2017) and reappointed as a Member for another three‐year period (2018-2020). In this 202
capacity, Sideris attended PB meetings (one meeting was attended by Mioara Mandea, a GEO Liaison) as well as the 2016 Work Programme Symposium in Geneva, Switzerland. He contributed to the work of two PB subgroups: the Sendai Framework Subgroup and the Paris Agreement Subgroup. Unfortunately, neither I nor Michael Sideris were able to attend the XIV GEO Plenary in Washington, DC, as it was held in October 2017 at the same time as the ICSU General Assembly in Taipei. Also I could not participate in the XV GEO Plenary in Kyoto, Japan in November 2018, because of the IUGG Bureau meeting and side events related to the IUGG Centennial celebration in Mexico. Michael Sideris attended the GEO Plenary in Kyoto. A close contact was established to Dr. Barbara Ryan (Director of the GEO Secretariat, 2015-2018) and to Prof. Gilberto Camara (Director of the GEO Secretariat, 2018-present). Prof. Camara was invited to the IUGG Centennial Day to be held in UNESCO, Paris, France on 29 July 2019. Additional information on the work of GEO and its Programme Board is presented in the report by IUGG President Michael Sideris. Recommendations - IUGG to strengthen cooperation with GEO and its Member and Participating Organizations via joint projects on Earth observation and analysis - IUGG to appoint Michael Sideris as IUGG Principal Liaison to GEO, Mioara Mandea and Richard Gross as co-Liaisons. Alik Ismail-Zadeh, IUGG Principal Liaison to GEO
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UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP)
I have many interactions with UNESCO IHP and the secretariat in my capacity of Secretary General of IAHS. I always recall my additional role as IUGG liaison, even if this is not always explicitly acknowledged in UNESCO documents. I have attended the UNESCO IHP Intergovernmental Council meetings (June 2016, June 2018); as well as the IHP bureau meetings (April 2016, February 2018) – all in UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France. I have co-organized the IAHS-UNESCO Kovacs colloquium in June 2016 on the topic of “Water-related SDGs”; and accompanied UNESCO IHP in the transformation of the Kovacs series into a new SPIC – Science Policy Interface Colloquium, with a first edition in June 2018 where I gave one of the two keynotes as responses from the scientific perspective to 15 Ministers. I contributed to the following UNESCO events and initiative: - Invited talk at the UNESCO IHP Anniversary event in the frame of the COP21 of the UN Convention against Climate Change (December 2015) Le Bourget, France. - The Asian water cycle symposium and IFI conference organized by UNESCO Category 2 Center ICHARM (March 2016) in Tokyo, Japan; a seminar in ICHARM facilities (March 2016) in Tsukuba; - Remote meetings and panelist twice in side events organized by ICHARM on IFI – the International Flood Initiative in UNESCO, Paris, France. - Remote meeting on the IDI – International Drought Initiative - Invited talk at the UNESCO Science-Policy dialogue on water security (October 2017), Paris, France. - UNESCO-WMO side event in the UN HLPF 2018, reviewing the progress of some SDGs, including SDG6 on water (July 2018), UN Headquarters, New York, USA. I facilitated and contributed to the following: - The secretariat and ceremonies of the annual IAHS-UNESCO-WMO International Hydrology Prize, Dooge and Volker medals - The articulation of the IAHS community with the UNESCO Friend Programme - The co-convening by UNESCO of sessions, side events and publication of proceedings in PIAHS in the frame of the IAHS 2017 Assembly, and of the IUGG 2019 Assembly - The IAHS-UNESCO-WMO-Allenvi co-organisation of the freshwater sessions in the frame of the scientific conference in Paris, prior to the COP21 of the UN Convention against Climate Change - The annual World Water Development Reports coordinated by UNESCO (WWAP) on behalf of UN Water, the UN coordination mechanism on water issues, often as co-author of chapters with UNESCO colleagues.
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UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (http://ioc-unesco.org/) promotes international cooperation and coordinates programs in marine research, services, observation systems, hazard mitigation and capacity development in order to learn more and better manage the nature and resources of the ocean and coastal areas. Through the application of this knowledge the IOC aims to improve management practices and the decision-making process of its Member States, foster sustainable development and protect the marine environment. In addition, the IOC strives to further develop ocean governance, which necessitates strengthening the institutional capacity of Member States in marine scientific research and ocean management. IOC organizes Executive Council meetings every year and Sessions of its Assembly every two years. The following sessions were completed in the reporting period: ‒ The 48th Session of IOC Executive Council, 16 June 2015 ‒ The 28th Session of the IOC Assembly, 18 - 25 June 2015 ‒ The 49th Session of the IOC Exec Council, 7–10 June 2016 ‒ The 50th Session of the IOC Exec Council, 20 June 2017 ‒ The 29th Session of the IOC Assembly, 21–29 June 2017 ‒ The 51th Session of the IOC Exec Council, 3–6 July 2018 (For detailed information on each session: http://ioc-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_content& view=category&layout=blog&id=29&Itemid=124). As side events of the of the 28th Assembly and the 49th Session of the Exec Council, the IOC organized the Ocean Science Day on June 17, 2015 and the World Oceans Day on June 8, 2016. The objective of the Ocean Science Day (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single- view/news/current_challenges_and_emerging_issues_of_ocean_science/) was to further increase the visibility and understanding of ocean science, current challenges and emerging issues and was organized around four themes: 1) Oceans, Health and Wellbeing (IOC Anton Bruun Memorial Lecture, 2015, by Lora E. Fleming); 2) Glider challenge: High resolution for 4D oceanic measurements; 3) International expeditions: From the Indian Ocean to the World Ocean and back in 50 years (IOC N.K. Panikkar Memorial Lecture, 2015, by John Field); and 4) The scientific challenges in the Arctic The World Oceans Day, held every June 8th, is the United Nations-recognized day of ocean celebration and action (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/oceans-day). People all over our blue planet organize celebrations to support action to protect the ocean. In honour of World Oceans Day 2016, themed “Healthy Ocean, Healthy Planet”, the IOC organized a session on June 8, 2016, including round tables, exhibitions and a UNESCO Campus for youth, as well as the traditional Roger Revelle Memorial Lecture dedicated this year to the issue of ocean acidification and delivered by Professor Ken Caldeira (Carnegie Institution for Science, USA). The Roger Revelle Memorial Lecture is devoted to a talk by a distinguished scientist whose contribution to oceanography and society was widely recognized or ought to be acknowledged. It is named in honour of Roger Revelle, a pioneer in oceanography and in global ocean science cooperation who spearheaded efforts to investigate the mechanisms and consequences of climate change. He was President of IAPSO (1963-1967) and one of the founders of the IOC.
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The 2018 IOC Roger Revelle Memorial Lecture was presented during the 51th Session of the IOC Exec Council by Professor Walter Munk. Professor Munk dedicated his lecture to Roger Revelle, his mentor and friend, and major founder of modern oceanography. Walter Munk’s presentation celebrated almost a hundred years of oceanography, and his extended audience included the IOC Executive Council, guests and viewers all over the world, who watched via live stream. Professor Munk was awarded the IOC Roger Revelle Memorial Medal in honour of his lifetime achievements in ocean science. Summary of the IOC activities in 2015-2016 ‒ Work on ocean observations, data/information management, and tsunami warnings; ‒ Continuation of the activities of the Caribbean Tsunami Information Centre; ‒ Major IOC contribution to the decisions of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Conference of the Parties (COP21); ‒ Development and start of implementation of the IOC Capacity Development Strategy; ‒ Development of the IOC Communication Strategy; ‒ Contribution to the initial UN debates on the role of ocean science and observations in protection of biodiversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction; ‒ Contribution of IOC to the work of UN-Oceans; ‒ Active regional activities in the IOC Sub-commissions; ‒ Successful start of the 2nd International Indian Ocean Expedition; ‒ Stronger coordination between IOC global programmes and regional activities; ‒ Progress of work on the Global Ocean Science Report. The Report describes specific activities structured according to the six IOC “functions”: Function A: Ocean research. Function B: Observing system / data management. Function C: Early warning and services. Function D: Assessment and Information for policy. Function E: Sustainable management and governance. Function F: Capacity Development. The main IOC activities were related to: ‒ World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). ‒ Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) ‒ Intergovernmental Coordination Group, Tsunami Warning Systems ‒ IOC-SCOR research programme Global Harmful Algal Bloom ‒ IOC Contributes to the Sensai framework for disaster risk reduction ‒ Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals ‒ Small Island Developing States ‒ Second International Indian Ocean Expedition ‒ Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) ‒ General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) IOC elaborated the document "The Future of the IOC"
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Summary of the IOC activities in 2016-2017 Work of IOC sub-commissions IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific IOC Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions IOC Sub-Commission for Africa and the Adjacent Island States IOC Regional Committee for the Central Indian Ocean The session considered the roadmap for the document "The Future of the Ocean" The Assembly agreed that the IOC must maintain a focus on areas where it makes a unique contribution by fostering sustained ocean observations and, and in particular, their application and use for society and policy-making. IOC’s demonstrated success in organizing tsunami early warning systems between the scientific community and emergency response services is a perfect example of the Commission’s ability to foster linkages between various disciplines and sectors. Effective capacity development in fields such as operational oceanography, data and information management and related services, and adaptation to climate change is instrumental in addressing the difficulties of developing countries and SIDS. IOC’s Regional Subsidiary Bodies are key vehicles of this priority task. The IOC’s key function enabling the transfer of marine technology consistent with the IOC Criteria and Guidelines is of paramount importance due to the ever-increasing role of new technologies in ocean science such as the transition from ship-based observations to the use of autonomous robotic systems to measure geochemical parameters etc. Action plans need to be focused on the development of innovative management that combines research, observations, services, enabling policies and sharing of best practices. The session considered the document on the Proposal of an International (UN) Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable development. It was emphasized the importance of the first edition of the IOC Global Ocean Science Report (GOSR) on 8 June 2017. The Report assesses for the first time the status and trends in ocean science capacity around the world for generating the knowledge needed to ensure a healthy, sustainable ocean and to fully harness the potential of the ocean for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Summary of the IOC activities in 2017-2018 Goals of sustainable development 1. Reduce marine pollution 2. Manage & protect of marine & coastal ecosystems 3. Address impacts of ocean acidification 4. Eliminate overfishing, manage stocks scientifically 5. Conserve > 10% of coastal and marine areas (by 2020) 6. Prohibit harmful fisheries subsidies (by 2020) 7. Ensure economic benefits to small island developing states (vulnerable territories) (SIDS) and least developed countries (LDC) from sustainable use of marine resources. Prepare UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). Function A Developing science content of the Decade Developing networks + cooperation (ICSU, SCOR, Future Earth, WCRP) Ocean Acidification (with IAEA), GOAON Blue Carbon Initiative (with IUCN, CI, a number of Governments) Ocean Oxygen (GO2NE) Phytoplankton Trends (TrendsPO)
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Marine Ecological Time Series (IGMETS) Ocean and climate – a major theme Plastics and microsplastics – e.g. via GESAMP Harmful Algal Blooms (desalination), with SCOR Global Ocean Science Report Active regional work, especially in WESTPAC Function B: Observing systems; Data and Information Management Function C: Early Warning, Tsunami; Early Warning, Harmful Algae Blooms Function D: Assessments and Information for Policy Function E: Sustainable Management/ Governance Function F: Capacity Development Functions of IOC Regional Committees a. Sub Commission for Africa and the Adjacent Island States b. Caribbean and Adjacent Regions c. Central Indian Ocean Global Ocean Observing System- 2030 Strategy Blueprint for system design Essential Ocean Variables Expansion of GOOS to include Biogeochemistry and Biology Streamlined Governance World Climate Research Programme The next decade • Build on 40 years of climate research coordination • Societal needs are evolving • Research in a new, broader “operational/service/policy” landscape: Evolving Capabilities of the Argo Profiling Float Network Requested Action of IOC Executive Council • The Argo Steering Team asks the IOC Member States to approve for global implementation the inclusion of the six new parameters (Oxygen, pH, Nitrate, Chlorophyll, Backscatter, Irradiance) on Argo floats • Measurement of these six new parameters will be carried out fully respecting the rights of coastal states Ocean Literacy Ocean Literacy means understanding the ocean’s influence on you and your influence on the ocean. An ocean literate person is able to: ∗ Understand the importance of the ocean to humankind ∗ Can communicate about the ocean in a meaningful way ∗ Is able to make informed and responsible decisions regarding the ocean and its resources Current needs ‒ Developments in ocean research that is effectively considered by decision-makers in order to affect real policy change ‒ Effective science-policy interface ‒ Transform ocean knowledge into ocean action ‒ Strengthen partnerships and networks
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‒ Engage all ocean stakeholders ‒ Innovative communication and information tools ‒ Empower youth ‒ In ocean science, research, policy, economy Resolution on the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development has been adopted. Stefania Sparnocchia, IUGG Liaison to IOC Eugene Morozov, IUGG Liaison to IOC
Pan-American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH)
The Pan-American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH) is a technical and scientific body of the Organization of American States (OAS) specializing in the areas of cartography, geography, history and geophysics. Since 1928, the organization has promoted collaboration throughout the Americas by sponsoring conferences, publishing journals and organizing workshops. Comprising over 21 member states represented by their respective officers, PAIGH encourages, coordinates and publicizes cartographic, geographic, geophysical, and historical studies as well as related sciences of interest to the Americas. The structure of PAIGH is based on the four commissions – Cartography, Geography, History, and Geophysics. These commissions are the organs responsible for developing and executing the scientific and technical programs of PAIGH, approved by the General Assembly or the Directing Council. They also promote and coordinate the scientific and technical development in their respective fields in the Member States. Each of PAIGH’s member countries names a National Section to represent the state in the various bodies of PAIGH. The cooperation of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) with PAIGH concentrates on the Cartography Commission and the Geophysics Commission. A recent milestone in this cooperation is the project Monitoring crustal deformation and the ionosphere by GPS in the Caribbean granted in 2013 by the IUGG with the support of IAG (International Association of Geodesy), IASPEI (International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior), and IAGA (International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy). Although this project was granted in 2013, capacity building activities, training and derived-regional projects extended to 2017 (see below symposia/schools/workshops in Dominican Republic and Costa Rica). The activities promoted by the IUGG within and its Associations within the granted project were strongly supported by PAIGH with additional funding to increase the number of participants. In the particular case of the Cartography Commission, there is a strong cooperation with the PAIGH Working Group on the Geocentric Reference System for the Americas (Sistema de Referencia Geocéntrico para las Américas, SIRGAS), which is likewise a Sub-commission of the IAG. At present, emphasis is placed on the 2016-2020 Joint Action Plan to Expedite the Development of the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) of the Americas, which specifies three focal points: Geocentric Reference System for the Americas (SIRGAS, jointly with IAG); Regional Committee of the United Nations on Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UNGGIM: Americas) (former Permanent Committee on Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Americas (CP-IDEA) of the UN Regional Cartographic Conferences for the Americas, UNRCC/A); Regional initiative of spatial data producers in Latin America and the Caribbean (GeoSUR).
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The objective is to define and to realise a unique reference frame of well-marked observation stations with three-dimensional, time-dependent coordinates for all the Americas, which serves for ordnance survey, cadastre, geo-information, precise navigation, geodynamic studies etc. The participation of the joint IAG/PAIGH initiative SIRGAS in this activity is fundamental as it provides the adequate support to develop and combine all scientific and practical activities related to precise geo-referencing and navigation, Earth sciences research, and multidisciplinary applications. Essentially, SIRGAS furnishes the fundamental layer (the geodetic reference frame) for the geospatial data infrastructure in the region. Consequently, SIRGAS permanently assists the Regional Committee UN-GGIM: Americas, whose main objective at present is to promote the UN Resolution on the Global Geodetic Reference Frame for Sustainable Development, adopted at the UN General Assembly on 26th of February, 2015; i.e., the establishment of the Global Geodetic Reference Frame (GGRF). From this perspective, the IUGG Liaison Officer to PAIGH coordinated the formulation of a proposal for the IUGG Grants Program special call 2018-2019 called “Implementation of the United Nations’ Resolution on the Global Geodetic Reference Frame (UN-GGRF) for Sustainable Development in Latin America”. This proposal is leaded by the IAG with the support of IASPEI and is subscribed by five IUGG National Adhering Bodies (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Costa Rica). The main activity of this proposal is the realization of a workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina in the week of September 20, 2019. In addition to the participation of key speakers promoting the international cooperation in Geosciences and the establishment of the GGRF, this workshop is supported by PAIGH and SIRGAS. Activities, achievements and new challenges to be faced by SIRGAS are discussed in annual symposia sponsored by IAG and PAIGH. The IUGG liaison officer contributed with oral and poster presentations in the following meetings: Symposium SIRGAS2015. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. November 18 - 20, 2015 (148 attendants from 19 countries). The realisation of this symposium in Santo Domingo is a consequence of the project granted by the IUGG in 2013 (see above). Symposium SIRGAS2016. Quito, Ecuador. November 16 - 18, 2016 (217 attendants from 14 countries). Symposium SIRGAS2017. Mendoza, Argentina. November 27- 30, 2017 (128 attendants from 16 countries). Symposium SIRGAS2018. Aguascalientes, México. October 8 -12, 2018 (97 attendants from 18 countries). In connection with these symposia, there were Workshops and Schools held for scientific exchange and capacity building: SIRGAS school on Reference Systems. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. November 16 - 17, 2015 (60 attendants from 19 countries); the IUGG Liaison Officer to PAIGH acted as lecturer. The realisation of this school Santo Domingo is a consequence of the project granted by the IUGG in 2013 (see above). Fourth workshop of the SIRGAS-WGIII (Vertical Datum). Quito, Ecuador. May 21 - 25, 2016 (44 attendants from 10 countries); the IUGG Liaison Officer to PAIGH acted as lecturer. Fifth workshop of the SIRGAS-WGIII (Vertical Datum). Heredia, Costa Rica. November 6 - 10, 2017 (35 attendants from five countries). The realisation of this workshop in Costa Rica is a consequence of the project granted by the IUGG in 2013 (see above). SIRGAS workshop on real-time GNSS positioning. Mendoza, Argentina. November 22- 24, 2017 (50 attendants from 12 countries).
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SIRGAS workshop on SLR in Latin America. Mendoza, Argentina. November 30 - December 1, 2017 (43 attendants from 10 countries). Sixth workshop of the SIRGAS-WGIII (Vertical Datum). Aguascalientes, Mexico. October 15 - 18, 2018 (35 attendants from 10 countries).
Attendants to the SIRGAS school on Reference Systems. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Nov. 16 - 17, 2015. The realisation of this school is a consequence of the project “Monitoring crustal deformation and the ionosphere by GPS in the Caribbean” granted in 2013 by the IUGG and supported by IAG, IASPEI and IAGA.
Attendants to the PAIGH/IAG Symposium SIRGAS2018, Aguascalientes, México, October 8 – 12, 2018 (delegates from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Spain, Slovakia, Uruguay, USA, and Venezuela).
The principal objectives of the PAIGH Geophysics Commission concentrate on the following policy: Establish lively and rapid communication between the directive of the Geophysics Commission and the community of the area. Promote the lively exchange between institutions of PAIGH Member States in order to study and resolve problems in their interests. Continue with a great emphasis on the politics of formation of human resources and the obtainment of resources necessary for postgraduate level study.
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Contact agencies and centres of superior study for the obtainment of Masters- and Doctorate-level grants in the different disciplines of Geophysics and establish respective bilateral agreements. Propose that the Commission, by means of their Committees, assumes responsibility to update the directory of professionals that work in corresponding disciplines in Member States. Continue the publication of the Geophysics Journal and encourage its distribution in digital form. Examine the effectiveness of the Geophysics Journal through an analysis of publication standards, including its distribution, in order to explore possible formatting modifications and innovations to obtain a higher popularity and growth in scientific level. Incite the publication of the results of projects financed by the Commission in scientific journals. Promote the development of interdisciplinary multinational projects between the distinct Commissions of PAIGH. The main projects sponsored by the PAIGH Geophysics Commission in the period 2015 - 2018 may be summarised by the following: Geophysical research and lithological mapping in the Santa Lucia Basin, Uruguay. Study of avalanches and debris flows in the Sillapaca volcanic complex, Puno Region, Peru. Volcanic hazards around the Santa Ana Volcano, El Salvador. Collection of records of active tectonics, paleosisms and hydrology for the analysis of the interactions between tectonic and climatic processes in the sub-Andean region of the Andean countries. Paleomagnetic study of Nicaragua: tectonic and geodynamic evolution from the Cretaceous to the Miocene. Bathymetric, hydrographic and topographic study of the base of Lake Coatepeque, El Salvador, using a mono-beam and a SONAR lateral scan. Towards an integrated geospatial information system in Mesoamerica for adaptation to climate change and natural risk management. Integrated analysis of sedimentary provenience in Silurian-Devonian units of the Paraná Basin. Application of remote sensing techniques to the geomorphological and sedimentological study of the deposits of pyroclastic density currents associated with the eruption of Mount Santa Helena on May 18, 1980. Analysis of continental water variations in the Pantanal hydrographic system through the GRACE satellite mission. To strengthen the cooperation between IUGG and PAIGH, the IUGG Liaison Officer to PAIGH, in agreement with Marcelo Assumpção, member of the Executive Committee of IASPEI, proposed the realization of a joint symposium of SIRGAS and the IASPEI Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission (LACSC). PAIGH and SIRGAS are evaluating the feasibility of this proposal. Laura Sánchez, IUGG Liaison to PAIGH
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The United Nations Geospatial Information Section (UN-GIS)
The former United Nations Cartographic Section used to deal with basic topics of the cartographic representation of the Earth in global and regional scales, e.g. the unification of cartographic (geodetic) reference systems, which are scientifically studied by IUGG Associations and Commissions. For this purpose, Regional Cartographic Conferences (UNRCC) were held in various regions, regularly for the Americas (the 10th UNRCC in New York, USA, August 2013, as the latest) and for Asia-Pacific (the 20th UNRCC in Jesu Island, Republic of Korea, October 2015, as the latest). The IUGG Representative participated in such conferences and contributed data and results, which entered into UNRCC resolutions, e.g. the unification of regional reference systems aligned to the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF). In February 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Resolution “A Global Geodetic Reference Frame for Sustainable Development” (GGRF) within the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), which had been established at the 47th UN Plenary in July 2011. The GGRF is “a generic term describing the framework, which allows users to precisely determine and express locations on the Earth, as well as to quantify changes of the Earth in space and time”. These are the principle topics of interest for IUGG dealt with by the former UN Cartographic Section. In August 2016, the UN-GGIM resolved to create a permanent Subcommittee on Geodesy, where the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) is involved. Continental UN-GGIM Committees for Asia-Pacific, Arab States, Africa, Americas, and Europe treat of the regional aspects. The UN ECOSOC Resolution 2016/27-10 “decides that the substantive mandates and obligations of the United Nations Regional Cartographic Conferences for Asia and the Pacific and for the Americas shall be assumed by the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) at the global level, and their technical and substantive activities at the regional and national levels assumed by the Regional Committee of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Asia and the Pacific and the Regional Committee of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas, respectively”. The UN Cartographic Section was renamed “United Nations Geospatial Information Section” and concentrates on the collection of general global and regional geographic maps, thematic maps and mission maps. Due to the significant structural changes described above, and as the UN Geospatial Information Section (formerly Cartographic Section) is now concentrating on the production of cartographic maps, which is not a major topic of IUGG associations, the undersigned recommends discontinuing the IUGG representation, and to concentrate on an IUGG liaison to the UN-GGIM. Hermann Drewes, IUGG Liaison to UN-GIS
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World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
Basic information on the activities of WCRP The World Climate Research Program (WCRP) is the major mechanism for the coordination and promotion of climate science and its applications. It is supported by UNESCO’s IOC, ISC (formerly ICSU) and the WMO. The WCRP establishes and coordinates major internationally coordinated research activities. Longstanding major programs are Climate and Cryosphere Program (CliC), the Climate Variability and Predictability Program (CLIVAR), Global Energy and Water Experiment (GEWEX) and the Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate Program (SPARC) to which a program on regional downscaling (CORDEX) has been added. WCRP coordinates CMIP (the Climate Modelling Inter-comparison Project), which provides the multi-model ensembles of past and future climate simulations required by IPCC assessments. WMO, IOC and ISC each appoint a representative to the Joint Scientific Committee (JSC), the governing body of WCRP. At the start of the liaison period, the Chair was Prof. Guy P. Brasseur, and David Carlson was the Director of WCRP. David Carlson resigned in June 2017 and the position of Director remains unfilled primarily because the sponsors awaited the results of a major strategic review of WCRP. This was finalised in August 2018 and may be found at: https://council.science/cms/2018/08/ WCRP_Report_full_screen_20180827.pdf though the position of Director continues to be vacant as at January 2019.
Attendance of the business meetings The first and only WCRP Open Science Conference was held in 2010. Business meetings of WCRP are thus the annual JSC meeting. IUGG Liaisons, as noted in parentheses, attended the JSC meetings in 2015 in Geneva (Tom Beer), in 2016 in Geneva (Richard Essery), in 2017 in Paris (Tom Beer) but were unable to attend the 2018 JSC meeting in Nanjing.
Joint activities The major joint activity during the Quadrennium was that both IUGG and the CLIVAR program of WCRP were sponsors of the ICTP Summer School on Climate Dynamics, held at Trieste in June/July 2018. The International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) of IUGG and the CliC program of WCRP were two of the three sponsors of the International Symposium on Cryosphere in a Changing Climate held in Wellington, New Zealand in February 2017.
Promotion of IUGG activities related to WCRP; During the 2017 JSC meeting we requested, and were granted, a speaking slot to inform JSC members of relevant IUGG activities. The presentation may be found at: https://www.wcrp-climate.org/JSC38/presentations/IUGG_JSC38.pdf
Review of WCRP and the WCRP Strategic Plan The two most significant events during the quadrennium were: (1) the review of WCRP chaired by Julia Slingo, that may be found at: https://council.science/cms /2018/08/WCRP_Report_full_screen_20180827.pdf and (2) the development of a new WCRP Strategic Plan in the light of the review committee recommendations. See: https://www.wcrp-climate.org/resources/wcrp-sp.
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IUGG provided comments on the draft strategic plan noting, in particular, that the “Grand Challenges” have been dropped. It was also noted that the draft strategic plan failed sufficiently to: • demarcate WCRP work and the work of the scientific programme Future Earth. • deal with the relationship with WMO. • comment on governance, itself a vexing issue because the success of WCRP led to the WCRP governance model being the “standard” governance model for all interdisciplinary bodies. The WCRP model consists of a Joint Science Committee – JSC – that is responsible for everything: finance, administration, science, planning. This model failed badly for IRDR, and is probably no longer appropriate for WCRP.
IUGG scientist involvement in WCRP The organizational structure of WCRP consists of: The WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC); two Advisory councils: the WCRP Modelling Advisory Council (WMAC) and the WCRP Data Advisory Council (WDAC); WCRP Working Groups; WCRP Core Projects; and (at present) WCRP Grand Challenges. Many IUGG scientists are involved in these activities. For example, Lisa Alexander a member of the IAMAS Executive has been appointed to the JSC as from 2019.
Comments Having WCRP Liaisons who have only observer status to the JSC meetings is not an optimum arrangement. It is very strongly recommended that in future the first priority in the choice of an IUGG Liaison to WCRP should be to seek a member of the JSC who is also an officer of IUGG or one of its associations. Tom Beer, IUGG Liaison to WCRP Richard Essery, IUGG Liaison to WCRP
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World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
14.8.1. Report of IUGG Principal Liaison Officer to WMO 1. In July 2015 IUGG appointed me Principal Liaison Officer of the Union with WMO, together with five Alternate Liaison Officers each representing one of the Associations most closely associated with the work of the Organization. 2. In this capacity, I have attended a total of ten WMO meetings over the past four years: eight in Geneva, one in the UK and one in Rome. I have submitted reports of each of these meetings. This report presents an overview of the work of the various bodies concerned which is of interest to the Union.
WMO Congress 3. The World Meteorological Congress is the supreme governing body of WMO. It meets every four years to review the past work of the Organization, set plans for the future and agree on a budget to support this work. I attended Seventeenth Congress, which was held in Geneva in May/June 2015. 4. Congress re-elected David Grimes (Canada), Antonio Moura (Brazil), Mieczyslaw Ostojski (Poland) and Abdalah Mokssit (Morocco) unopposed to the posts of President and First, Second and Third Vice- Presidents respectively. Unfortunately, none of the three Vice-Presidents have been able to complete their four-year terms. 5. Michel Jarraud (France) came to the end of his 12 years as Secretary General of WMO at the end of 2015. He could not be re-appointed and so Congress elected Petteri Taalas (Finland) to take the office from 1 January 2016. In the final round of voting, he defeated Elena Manaenkova (Russia), the first woman to have stood for election to the post. She was subsequently appointed as Deputy Secretary General. 6. No contentious issues of interest to IUGG were raised during the Congress meeting. I established good links with representatives of the five Union Associations most concerned, making routine statements on behalf of IAMAS, IAVCEI, IAHS and IACS. Charles Fierz (IACS) joined me for two days for the discussion on high mountain and polar research and was a panellist at a side event on the subject. 7. Good progress with the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) was reported and it was accepted as an established part of WMO’s programme. However, one major problem arose, namely with regard to data exchange. It is clear that data exchange is still a very difficult topic on which to find agreement, begging the question as to whether there really has been any progress in this regard over the past 20 years. 8. Despite the difficult financial situation currently faced by many countries, Congress approved a budget which was 2% above the previous level. 9. In summary, IUGG’s has very good and broad ranging relations with WMO. These links stretch back to the 1950 as regards IAMAS and IAHS, those with IAVCEI and IACS being added only in recent years.
WMO Executive Council 10. The Executive Council (EC) is elected by Congress to oversee the work of the Organization in the four years between Congress sessions. I attended the four meetings of EC subsequent to Seventeenth Congress, namely those in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
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11. I intervened on various occasions. Usually to bring to the attention of the meeting the importance of keeping the many scientific NGO’s with which WMO co-operates informed of developments which could impact these co-operative ventures. Two such developments were public private engagement and proposals of the SG to make major changes to the internal structure of WMO. The second of these was based on a request by Congress that EC review the structure and operations of WMO. 12. It is understandable that a new SG would want to make changes. However, I well recall Patrick Obasi, SG for some 20 years, expressing his frustration in the 1990s that whenever he wanted to change something, he was advised not to do so because it would challenge the vested interests of powerful countries or individuals. Nevertheless, as I have reported at length before, the last couple of years have seen proposals put forward for a major re-structuring of the Organization’s subsidiary bodies: the eight Technical Commissions and the six Regional Associations. The current structure has remained almost unchanged for 50 years and a number of leading countries support the desire of the SG to reduce the number of these bodies, all of which are themselves intergovernmental, in order to simplify matters, ensure greater inter-disciplinary co-operation and save costs. The impact of such changes would be far reaching and, I suggest, far more complex than the proponents at first realized. 13. The task of reviewing the current structure and making proposals for change has been given by EC to a Working Group on Strategic and Operational Planning (SOP). This has met a number of times and has found great difficulty in agreeing on what to propose. One move has been to delay any action regarding the Regional Associations by four years so as to focus attention on the Technical Commissions. In my experience over the 50 years that I have been involved with WMO, the Regional Associations have cost a lot in financial and human resources but have produced little of real value. I was not surprised therefore when I heard rumours that they might be abolished. More recently, however, they are being proposed as the main actors in maintaining a number of WMO activities, which gives me great concern. 14. One element in the plans for restructuring is a move to rationalize the various research-related branches within the Secretariat under the leadership of a Chief Scientist. Pavel Kavat, a well-known hydrologist and a former Director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg took up the position on 1 September last year. I met with him last year before he took up the post and we had a useful discussion during the recent session of WMO’s Commission for Hydrology (CHy). 15. In paragraphs 17 to 20 below I address at some length the special challenge posed by the WMO’s water-related programmes. In addition to this, the total set of proposals for change being put to Congress are lengthy and complex and raise many questions for IUGG as to how we will be able to maintain our close cooperation with the Organization. There is no doubt as to WMO’s desire to maintain its links with IUGG but, for example, if the changes are approved by Congress next year, how many representatives should IUGG send to meetings of the new commissions, if established as proposed? Should we send three: one each from IAMAS, IAHS and IACS? Or, how will we maintain our long- standing links with WMO’s hydrological activities if CHy is disbanded and we face a gap of one or two years before new bodies assume responsibility for these activities? 16. Finally, it is not at all sure how Congress will react to any of these proposals for change. It could reject all of them or accept only a small subset. So it would be unwise for IUGG to act in advance of the final decisions of Congress. Luckily Congress will meet in advance of the Montreal Assembly and so I will be able to report on the final outcome in time for this to be taken into account by IUGG when it makes its own decisions. It is important to note that Congress is expected to meet again in 2020 at an extraordinary session to follow-up on the decisions it takes this year. So the whole revision process will not be complete for another 18 months.
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Commission for Hydrology (CHy) 17. One of the major sticking points with the changes to the structure of WMO has been that, up until now, there has been no explicit provision for replacing the CHy. This is important because seven of the eight current Commissions are concerned with activities that are conducted at national level by National Meteorological Services and so the heads of those services are in a good position to appoint experts to deal with such matters at international level. On the other hand, in two-thirds of countries, responsibility for operational hydrology lies principally outside the meteorological services and so CHy has been seen over the years as the point of entry and focus for the hydrological community within WMO. The long- standing and close ties with IAHS are one example of this. Remove CHy and hydrologists will have difficulty finding where they belong and there is a risk that they will go elsewhere to find an intergovernmental forum. Over the past couple of years many from the hydrological community, including the President of IAHS, have protested at this situation but without any success in changing the proposals that were put to EC last year. 18. The protests have born some fruit, however, as there would now appear to be widespread acceptance of the need for the situation pertaining to hydrology to be considered further. As a result, an extraordinary session of CHy (CHy-Ext) was held in Geneva from 11 to 14 February 2019. I represented IUGG at the session and Christophe Cudennec attended on behalf of IAHS. The agenda for the meeting was limited to a consideration of the participation of WMO in the Global Water Agenda and of ways to integrate hydrological activities in the new structure of WMO. 19. Documentation for CHy-Ext included a proposal for the establishment of an Intergovernmental Hydrological Assembly as the principal advisor to Congress on water-related matters. This proposal only survived the session by being watered down to an open committee of Congress that would meet during each session of Congress and be composed of those Hydrological Advisors attending the session. However, the proposal is also that Members of WMO would ensure that these Advisors are high-level managers of National Hydrological Services, thus terminating the practice by which many Members designate only meteorologists that have a passing interest in hydrology. 20. CHy-Ext broke records as regards the number of participants and the number of countries represented attending a CHy session. This was a clear indication of the desire of National Hydrological Services to see WMO’s hydrology programme retained and their role in its management strengthened. However, while CHy-Ext has made clear proposals to Congress, the SOP will now comment on them and could well argue against some of them. 21. The second element in the proposal was the establishment of a Bureau that would meet annually to oversee WMO’s water-related activities. This has been retained in the form of a joint Congress/EC Working Group on Operational Hydrology. For these new structures to work, it will be necessary to be very specific as to what aspects of hydrology WMO sees as its own and so it is proposed that the term “operational hydrology” be resurrected and clearly defined.
Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) 22. The GFCS was launched by WMO in 2011 as an international inter-agency initiative. I have followed its progress from the very beginning and represented IUGG at a large number of GFCS meetings, in particular those of its Partner Advisory Committee (PAC). Some of the members of PAC, such as the World Bank, are spending billions of dollars on GFCS-related projects in developing countries while others, such as IUGG, have no budgets for such work but are still made welcome. 23. WMO has clearly done an excellent job in promoting the concept of climate services and the need for such services is now widely recognized. However, the very manner in which WMO organized the
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governance of GFCS and the reluctance of countries and international organizations to provide funds to the WMO Secretariat have raised serious concerns as to its future. 24. There is no doubt that the GFCS is “of interest” to a number of IUGG Associations, but over the years I found it difficult to get the Associations to become more actively involved. My efforts culminated in a workshop that I organized in Prague in 2015 as part of the IUGG Assembly. I invited the most relevant Associations to send a representative to inform the meeting of their relevant interests and activities. Not all responded, one accepted the invitation and then forgot to attend. The discussions were interesting but, try as I might, I could not get any concrete proposals as to what more IUGG could do to support the GFCS. So I proposed to the Bureau that, while I continued to believe that it was important that IUGG maintain its link with GFCS, it would be good to appoint a new representative who could fulfil the role more effectively. This led to the appointment of Roger Pulwarty who has taken on the task with enthusiasm and to great effect. 25. Roger attended the 8th and 9th PAC meetings, held in Oslo in April and in Rome in October 2018. These meetings addressed concerns over the nature of funding proposals and the manner in which they were presented, the role of the secretariat in view of its limited resources and the overall governance, financing and management of the GFCS. PAC supported proposals to terminate the Intergovernmental Board on Climate Services (IBCS) but strongly supported retaining the PAC without which, it was argued, there would be a real risk of losing partner participation and excluding some organizations from supporting the GFCS in the future.
Commission for Climatology 26. WMO’s Commission for Climatology (CCl) met for its seventeenth session in Geneva in April 2018. I represented IUGG as the session. Naturally, I was ready to transmit to CCl any views and requests that IUGG might have. In the event, I received no requests to make interventions on behalf of the Union or any of its member Associations and so, for the very first time, I attended a WMO meeting and said nothing. In fact, CCl had a very short agenda and there was no obvious place for me to say anything even if I had wanted to. 27. When I attended the 17th session of WMO’s Commission for Atmospheric Sciences in October last year, I was interested to note that it met for a total of one day and adopted no plans for the future because it expected to be terminated as an intergovernmental commission within the next couple of years. I was therefore happy to attend CCl-17 if only to see what approach they would take. 28. The Commission decided to hold its next session in 2022, but I have to add a note of caution to this because in June this year WMO Congress could well terminate the Commission altogether. In fact, WMO faces the challenge of how it will co-ordinate its climate-related activities in the light of the structural changes referred to above. This will be a complicated task and will certainly not be completed before Congress meets in June this year.
Final Remarks 29. The week before the CHy-Ext session Michael Sideris, as President of IUGG, was attending a meeting in the WMO Secretariat. This gave me the opportunity of arranging for him to meet the SG and offer a personal invitation to the celebration that will be held in Paris in July. Unfortunately, he has since indicated that he will not be able to accept the invitation himself. However, he has designated his Deputy to attend in his place. And so it was very fortunate that I was able to introduce Michael to Irena Manaekova as we left the SG’s office. 30. Over the years I have been very fortunate in the opportunities that I have had to serve the international geophysical community, in particular my fellow hydrologists. After nearly years 30
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working with the WMO Secretariat, I became President of IAHS and then, for the past ten years I have acted as Liaison Officer for IUGG with WMO. This has given me the possibility of staying in touch with the international projects and, above all, the colleagues with whom I have worked over many decades. However, it is now time to pass the baton back to IUGG so that a younger person can ensure that this important link between IUGG and WMO is maintained. These are interesting times for us all, but in particular for WMO. There is every hope that the Union can be of assistance to the Organization as it seeks to redefine how best to fulfil its mandate and in return IUGG can benefit from being involved in the many activities that WMO leads at intergovernmental level. 31. I expect to stay on in Geneva for many years to come and I will always be happy to assist the Union in any way that I can because of my proximity to the headquarters of WMO and the many other international organizations based in the city. Arthur Askew, IUGG Principal Liaision to WMO
14.8.2. Report of IUGG/IAVCEI Liaison Officer to WMO
1. Participation in the IUGG-WMO Volcanic Ash Scientific Advisory Group (VASAG). VASAG was established under the auspices of WMO and IUGG to address requests for specific advice or assistance from the ICAO International Airways Volcano Watch Operations Group (IAVWOPSG) and/or other relevant stakeholders. The VASAG was endorsed by the 5th WMO International Workshop on Volcanic Ash (Santiago de Chile, March 2010) and by the WMO 62-EC (Geneva, June 2010). Its Terms of Reference (ToR) were approved during the WMO 64-EC (Geneva, June 2012). After 2 years, the 66-EC (Geneva, June 2014) encouraged the VASAG to review its ToR on the basis of the existing Working Arrangements between WMO and IUGG (WMO-No.60, Chapter V) to assign VASAG a status of “joint committee”. • Attendance to the 7th WMO International Workshop on Volcanic Ash (Anchorage, Alaska, 19-23 October 2015) followed by the VASAG-6 meeting (Anchorage, Alaska, 23-24 October 2015). • Attendance to the VASAG-7 meeting (Vancouver, US, 21-23 August 2017) by teleconference. • Attendance to the 6th Volcanic Ash Advisory center best practice workshop followed by the VASAG-8 meeting (Wellington, New Zealand, 5-9 November 2018) by teleconference. • Co-authoring of the report “Global development and use of quantitative volcanic ash contamination information and forecasts” prepared by the WMO/IUGG VASAG at the request of the International Civil Aviation Organization Meteorology Panel Working Group on Meteorological Operations Groups (ICAO METP WG-MOG) and the International Airways Volcano Watch (IAVW) work stream. • All meeting reports available at: http://www.wmo.int/aemp/Final-Reports
2. Participation in business meetings of the organization • Attendance to the 26th IUGG General Assembly (Prague, Czech Republic, June 22-July 2, 2015), including the organization of IVACEI Workshops VW02 (Best Practices and Recommendations for Tephra Measurements) and VW04 (Remote Sensing and Modelling of Volcanic Ash in Latin America). • Attendance to the 9th IAVCEI-Commission on Volcanic Lakes Workshop (Yaoundé, Cameroon, 13-23 March 2016)
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• Attendance to Cities on Volcanoes 9 (Cov9) meeting (Puerto Varas, Chile, 20-25 November 2016). Coordination activities between IUGG-WMO VASAG and IAVCEI Commission’s activities. • Participation in the IAVCEI 2017 Scientific Assembly (Portland, US, 14-18 August 2017). • Attendance to Cities on Volcanoes 10 (Cov9) meeting (Naples, Italy, 2-7 September 2018). • Foreseen attendance to the 27th IUGG General Assembly (Montréal, Canada, 8-18 July 2019), including the co-organization of the inter-association (IAG, IAGA, IAMAS, IAVCEI) symposia JG05 (Remote Sensing and Modelling of the Atmosphere) 3. Other meetings and interventions representing IUGG/IAVCEI • Activities as leader of the IAVCEI Commission on Tephra Hazard Modelling (2015-2017 only). In particular, creation of a database resulting from a joint effort between the IUGG-WMO VASAG and the Commission and co-lead by B. Stunder (NOAA), L. Mastin (USGS) and M. Pavolonis (NOAA). • Contribution to the NATO impact of Volcanic Ash Clouds on Military Operations Specialists’ Meeting (AVT-272) (Vilnius, Lithuania, April 2017). • EUROVOLC workshop on Communication strategies between Volcano Observatories and the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centres in Europe (UK Met Office, Exeter, 5-7 February 2019). Arnau Folch, IUGG/IAVCEI Liaision to WMO
14.8.3. Report of IUGG/IAGA Liaison Officer to WMO
Basic information on the activities of the organization where you represent IUGG WMO initiatives in space weather monitoring standards and monitoring networks.
Attendance of the business meetings (General Assemblies, Executive Committee meetings, etc) of the organization Several invitations were received to represent IAGA at WMO congresses, regional meetings, special sector meetings and Executive Council meetings. Due to lack of travel funding and very limited relevance of WMO activities at these meetings to the IAGA sphere, attendance was not deemed to be good use of institute resources.
Contacts with the officers of the organization and with the members (national and Union) of the organization in order to promote IUGG activities related to this organization I have had interaction with WMO delegates and members on the margins of COPUOS space weather initiatives, for example in person at the UN in Vienna, 2016, where I presented on UK geomagnetic activities and research in relation to space weather.
Any other activity of yours as an IUGG Liaison Officer See reference to COPUOS above. I am continuing to provide expert comment on behalf of IAGA and in my role as chair of INTERMAGNET to the COPUOS technical committee on space weather, chaired by Prof. Ian Mann, University of Alberta, Canada. This committee interacts with the WMO on various levels. A. Thomson, IUGG/IAGA Liaision to WMO
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14.8.4. Report of IUGG/IAHS Liaison Officer to WMO CHy
I have many interactions with WMO CHy – The Commission for Hydrology and the secretariat in my capacity of Secretary General of IAHS. I always recall my additional role as IUGG liaison, even if this is not always explicitly acknowledged in WMO documents. I have attended the WMO CHy meetings (December 2016; February 2019) ; as well as the Advisory Working Group meetings (March 2017; October 2018) – all in WMO Headquarters, Geneva Switzerland, but once (2016) in Rome, Italy. I am to attend part of the WMO Congress in June 2019, and to co-chair therein a segment on the long term ambition about scientific articulation with the WMO reorganization, in Geneva, Switzerland. I contributed to the following WMO events and initiatives: - UNESCO-WMO side event in the UN HLPF 2018, reviewing the progress of some SDGs, including SDG6 on water (July 2018), UN Headquarters, New York, USA - WMO Global Conference “Prosperity through hydrological services”, Geneva Switzerland, May 2018 as an organizing committee member - Innovation committee of WMO Hydrohub (face to face meetings in December 2017, October 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland – many remote meetings) - Steering Committee of the GRDC (Global Runoff Data Center) under the auspices of WMO, in Koblenz, Germany (June 2017) I facilitated and contributed to the following: - The secretariat and ceremonies of the annual IAHS-UNESCO-WMO International Hydrology Prize, Dooge and Volker medals - The co-convening by WMO of sessions, side events and publication of proceedings in PIAHS in the frame of the IAHS 2017 Assembly, and of the IUGG 2019 Assembly - The articulation of the IAHS MOXXI (Monitoring and Observing the XXIst century) working group and the WMO Hydrohub, on metrological innovation and capacity building, especially through joint workshops in Rome, Italy (December 2016), in WMO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland (December 2017) and in New York City (February 2019). - The IAHS-UNESCO-WMO-Allenvi co-organisation of the freshwater sessions in the frame of the scientific conference in Paris, France, prior to the COP21 of the UN Convention against Climate Change - The annual World Water Development Reports coordinated by UNESCO (WWAP) on behalf of UN Water, the UN coordination mechanism on water issues, often as co-author of chapters with WMO colleagues - The UN Water Task Force on Water and Climate Change coordinated by WMO - Participation of WMO in the Special Issue of Hydrological Sciences Journal on Hydrological data: Opportunities and barriers
Christophe Cudennec, IUGG/IAHS Liaison to WMO CHy
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14.8.5. The Partner Advisory Committee (PAC) of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS)
Overarching observations: • The Partner Advisory Committee (PAC) plays an important role in providing a coordination platform for partners of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) (http://gfcs.wmo.int/) • The PAC facilitates linkages between GCFS and global agendas • The PAC now has 21 members • The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) was invited to join the PAC, with a network of researchers and scientific associations which can help the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in supporting the decisions based upon sound scientific data and information.
Meetings 1. I attended the 8th PAC (PAC-8) meeting in Oslo Norway 5-6, April 2018. During the meeting it was generally agreed that climate services proposals submitted to funding mechanisms, e.g. the Green Climate Fund (GCF), by various actors lacked a clear climate rationale i.e. proposals not sufficiently specific in addressing the climate challenge, did not conform to basic requirements or standards, and did not sufficiently include national authorities and hydro-meteorological institutions in their development. In addition, proposals did not address, in an integrated manner, systemic issues related to coordination and effective development and application of weather and climate information and services in support of decision making for adaptation and mitigation The main body of the meeting concerned reviews of proposed models for governance, financing and management of the GFCS (noting that staffing etc. were the internal concern of the WMO and the GFCS) identified as needed by the GFCS Midterm Review and several external advisory bodies. The Midterm Review was requested by the Intergovernmental Board on Climate Services (IBCS) and completed in 2017. At the end of the meeting the PAC recommended that GFCS principally focus on 3 areas: (i) technical guidance and support; (ii) knowledge management and brokering and (iii) creating connectivity between partners and dialogue. Monitoring and evaluation and fund raising remain management functions were also discussed as critical but not decided upon at the meeting. I was invited to present on the Commission on Climatology’s activities in leading the Climate Services Information System-Implementation Coordination. Interestingly, while this presentation was extremely well-received, I was surprised to learn that this was in fact the first time that the PAC had requested a presentation on the contribution of any WMO Commission to the development of climate services, much less the scientific and observational basis of such services. The PAC recommended that the GFCS organize a technical meeting, prior to or as part of the next PAC- 9, to raise awareness of technical advances and developments in service delivery
2. I attended 9th PAC (PAC-9) meeting held in Rome (22-23 October 2018), which included a Technical Conference on the first day, as recommended during PAC-8. At the request of the Chair of the PAC and the Director of the GFCS I presented an overview of advances in climate science and services in the US and the Caribbean during the PAC Technical Conference.
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PAC members were further requested to attend the follow-up meeting (24-25 October, 2018) of the Management Committee of Intergovernmental Board on Climate Services (IBCS). The Committee reviewed the Taskforce Report on the Governance, Financing and Management of the GFCS. Two critical issues emerged from the PAC and IBCS meetings:
• The signature of an Expert Service Agreement between WMO and the Green Climate Fund, through which the WMO will develop the methodology for enhancing the science basis for the climate rationale for GCF-funded activities. The Climate rationale provides scientific underpinning for evidence-based climate action decision making,
• The PAC agreed to the dissolution of the IBCS Management Committee (as recommended in the Midterm Review but strongly recommended maintaining the PAC to ensure consistent engagement of partners in the transition period and to safeguard its advisory role in order to better ensure the smooth transition and implementation of the GFCS into the new Governance structure. Dissolving the PAC as the only formal structure for partner engagement presented an unacceptable risk of losing partner participation and excluding some members of the PAC from supporting the GFCS in the future. This was agreed to by all in attendance. It was noted that there was a need to maintain focus on developing a governance model that enables engagement of the broad constellation of climate service actors in delivering on the vision of the GFCS.
Consolidated PAC Statement on Management Recommendations: Recommendation 1: The PAC agrees to changes of the GFCS Secretariat, recognizing existing staff cannot deliver on the expected priorities, and recommends refocusing attention on the four proposed priority functions of the GFCS Secretariat. The PAC acknowledged that staff matters of the GFCS Secretariat are the responsibility of WMO, subject to WMO rules and procedures. Recommendation 2: The PAC acknowledged the proposed priority tasks of the GFCS Secretariat, noting that the current tasks are provided only as examples and that there is a need to consider alignment with the tasks with those provided in the Priority Needs for the Operationalization of the GFCS, better define the tasks, and establish metrics to evaluate performance. Recommendation 3: The PAC agrees with support to strengthen the regional focus and better involvement of regional organizations along with RCC to further strengthen the regional processes. Recommendation 4: The PAC recommended that the process for soliciting interest of other organizations to host the GFCS Secretariat should be accelerated, however there was not unanimous consensus among PAC members on this point. Roger S. Pulwarty, IUGG liaison to PAC/GFCS
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15. Report of the IUGG Finance Committee 2015-2019 / Rapport du Comité des finances de l’UGGI 2015-2019
The Finance Committee elected for the period 2015 (end of the GA) – 2019 (end of the GA) (David Collins – Chair, Jan Krynski, Corina Risso, Vivendra Tivari) held one meeting in Prague at the end of the General Assembly in 2015. After the unfortunate passing of David Collins in 2016, Nasser Abou Ashour (Ain Shams University, Geophysics Department, Egypt) has been approved by the IUGG Executive Committee in October 2016 to be the new member of the FC and Jan Krynski has been elected to chair the Finance Committee. The restructured FC held several meetings in four sessions in Montreal in 2017 in parallel with meetings of the Bureau and Executive, and there are planned three sessions during the Montreal General Assembly in 2019. All four members attended all the meetings, and were joined by the Treasurer on each occasion. The Chair of the Committee discussed current financial issues of IUGG with the Treasurer at three meetings: in Copenhagen in 2017, in Warsaw in 2018, and in Potsdam in 2019 during which numerous issues related to IUGG finances, procedures and guidelines, membership, the role of FC, and main FC activities were discussed. He also took up invitation to Bureau in Paris in 2016 (David Collins) and in Mexico City in 2018 (Jan Krynski). The Finance Committee has widely discussed together with the Treasurer the role of FC in IUGG. Summarizing, FC should act as a sparring partner for the Treasurer, give advices to the Bureau concerning membership issues and the financial aspects of the work of the Bureau. The FC will report to the Executive Committee and to the Council at GA, in a short and condensed way. In the Prague FC meeting during the GA in 2015, the Budget for the 2016-2019 quadrennium (the four calendar years 2016 – 2019) was reviewed after it had been approved by Council, useful for reaffirming principles and introducing the two new members of the FC to the structure of the balance sheet. The budget for 2016-2019 is balanced meaning Expenditure ~ Income. However, already the accounting for 2015 showed that the incoming balance for 2016 was estimated much too low in Prague. This has an effect on the overall accounting for the whole period. The financial health of the Union ultimately depends on income from the member states. At Prague and in the Montreal sessions, FC reviewed membership categories of the member states. In fact, review of membership categories occupied by individual countries has been one of the major items of discussion by the FC. FC has not only considered individual cases but also looked at the wider issue of factors affecting country membership, financial or otherwise. Number of IUGG member countries is low as compared with many scientific unions. Urgent need for starting activities towards attracting new IUGG members was expressed in the FC report to Executive in 2018 in Mexico City. It was suggested to take actions by the Bureau to elaborate a pamphlet (brochure) indicating clearly the benefits from becoming the members of IUGG. A systematic approach to recruit new IUGG members was also presented. The principles behind the allocation of countries to categories of memberships with differing levels of units payable are intended to reflect both the ability of a member state to pay and its activity within IUGG taken as the number of participants from the country These two measures are assessed using standardized scores of gross national product of a member state and the lower 3 of the numbers of participants from the state attending the last four General Assemblies. These scores are then weighted on a 50–50 basis. Allocation of countries to categories is based on a regression line between the equally weighted scores and the number of units payable (excluding two major member states). This method dates from 2001 but appears to the FC to remain useful, but consideration will need to be given to several aspects:
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• Implementation of a gradual raise of the financial contribution between the neighbouring categories); • Lowering the entering membership (or subscription) fee for new IUGG Members applying for Category 1 as their first pay category, and its implementation; • Dealing with countries having outstanding debt; • Increase of practical efficiency of the rules concerning the membership – proposed changes in the section III Finance of the IUGG Statutes. Relevant recommendations have been presented in the FC report to the Executive in Montreal in 2017. In the course of the quadrennium FC was reviewing on annual basis the issue of membership categories indicating member countries for raising the category, member countries of category A to be urged to become paying members of IUGG, and countries that should be addressed to join IUGG. Relevant recommendation with respective lists of the countries as well as the individual letters to the countries appealed to raise their category has been presented in the FC report to the Executive in Montreal in 2017 and then in Mexico City in 2018. Starting in 2017 FC was over viewing finances of IUGG on a regular basis. Also issues of fund raising for covering regular expenses of IUGG were discussed. FC recommended IUGG Bureau in Montreal in 2017 to take actions towards creating a committee for finding funds to support the IUGG activities as well as to hire a professional person to find appropriate organizations that could contribute to IUGG expenses. A need to put focus on the accounting/reporting by IUGG Commissions as well as for improvements of the way IUGG handle grants were addressed. FC reviewed the expenses concerning the celebration events of 100 anniversary of IUGG in Paris in July 2019 considering, in particular, the consequences of this expenditure on financial politics of IUGG in next years. To achieve consistency as well as better transparency of the Associations’ reports their homogenization is needed. As the first step FC suggested Bureau to request Associations to explicitly state that an audit has been done, for instance in connection with a coming IUGG General Assembly. It is, however, difficult to expect all to comply with the same template for accounting. The issue of IUGG grants was discussed by FC in terms of information in the application on how the money will be spent and of the acceptance of expenditures since no rules in that matter exist. Balance between being very explicit in formulating the spending of money (no flexibility for the grant receiver) and no formulation at all (we must accept all expenditures) should be determined. Common form for all IUGG bodies to fill in when they report/accounting will make more transparent and clear the report/accounting, and simplify the procedure the same set up for Associations, Commissions and other bodies with a budget/accounting responsibilities. In particular the issue of the accounting process, namely the audits in IUGG as a way for the Union and its members to oversee the financial reports from the treasurer and the financial details in general was discussed. The “real” audit of IUGG is done on the regular basis by a professional company, which is not however the case of associations. The FC indicated the need for professional audit of associations at least once every 4 years, the same for everybody (preferably before the GAs) to comply with the accounting procedure of IUGG. Annual allocations to IUGG Commissions like CMG and SEDI, which are fixed for a quadrennium. Some IUGG bodies accumulate the annual allocation for several years without presenting a budget for how they are planning to use them. FC suggests to determine the amount of the allocation according to need.
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At the most recent FC meeting during the GA in Montreal in 2019 the following issues are to be discussed: • the Financial Report for 2015-2018; • accounts for 2016 – 2019 to date plus remaining expenses; • the Budget for the 2020 – 2023 quadrennium; • financial issues and expenditures of IUGG2019 GA; (catering, Tourism Montreal, grant scheme, registration, hotel and Pres. Dinner, the gift from ECCC) • IUGG membership; (general information on current situation, membership for least developed countries, attracting countries to apply for membership, issues of countries in debt) • new ideas for the future role of FC; (concept of new membership issue committee) • FC Reports to IUGG EC/Council. FC hopes it has offered the Treasurer sufficient support as well as critically discussing budgeted finance and actual out-turns. Thanks go to the Treasurer and all members of the FC for making the meetings lively with stimulating discussions. Jan Krynski, Chair Finance Committee
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16. Presentation of the 2020-2023 Budget / Présentation du budget 2020-2023 IUGG Budget 2020 - 23
Mexico City, October 25, 2018
All figures, except the value and number of units, are in thousands of US dollars
Year 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2020-2023 2016 - 2019 2012-2015 Estimated unit value $2.020 $2.060 $2.100 $2.140 $2.180 $2.060-$2.180 $1.940-$2.050 $1.800-$1.900 Estimated number of units 265 265 265 265 265 1060 1080 1100
INCOME Budget Budget Budget 2020 2021 2022 2023 2020-2023 2016-2019 2012-2015 1. MEMBERSHIP DUES 535,3 545,9 556,5 567,1 577,7 2247,2 2157 2036 2. ASSEMBLY SURCHARGE 20,0 20,0 20 20 3. SALES OF PUBLICATIONS etc. 0,2 0,2 0,2 0,2 0,8 1 1 4. MISCELLANEOUS (interest) 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0 50 5. ISC GRANTS 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0 30 6. TOTAL INCOME 546,1 556,7 567,3 597,9 2.268,0 2.178 2.137
7. INCOMING BALANCE 2020 600,0 600,0 603,0 591,2 604,8
EXPENDITURES Budget Budget Budget 2020 2021 2022 2023 2020-2023 2016-2019 2012-2015 11. ADMINISTRATION 94,0 114,0 94,0 120,0 422,0 400 470 12. NEW INITIATIVES 70,0 70,0 70,0 70,0 280,0 160 240 13. ASSEMBLIES 0,0 0,0 0,0 110,0 110,0 70 160 14. SYMPOSIA 25,0 25,0 25,0 0,0 75,0 60 90 15. ASSOCIATIONS 267,7 273,0 278,3 283,6 1102,4 1059 998 16. DUES 32,0 32,0 32,0 32,0 128,0 120 100 17. ISC GRANTS 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0 0 18. UNION ACTIVITIES 44,0 44,0 44,0 44,0 176,0 204 372 19. FEES 8,0 8,0 8,0 8,0 32,0 32 32 20. CONTINGENCIES 2,5 2,5 2,5 2,5 10,0 10 20 21. TOTAL EXPENDITURES 543,2 568,5 553,8 670,1 2.335,4 2.201 2.482
22. OUTGOING BALANCE 2023 603,0 591,2 604,8 532,6 532,6
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Session III: Tuesday, 16 July, 14:00-18:00 / 3ème Session: Mardi, 16 juillet, 14h-18h
Note: Any country wishing to present their national reports during the period while votes are being counted should notify the Secretary-General by the end of the first session of the Council meeting (9 July 2019).
17. Greetings; Presentation of the credentials / Salutations; Présentation des lettres d’accréditation
18. Adoption of the 2016-2019 Budget / Adoption du budget 2016-2019
19. Explanation of the procedure / Explication de la procédure Presentations and election of the IUGG Bureau and Finance Committee / Exposés et élection du Bureau et du Comité des finances de l'UGGI
Presentations by candidates for Officer positions: President, President-Elect, Secretary General, and Treasurer
Election of Officers
Presentations by candidates for the three positions of Ordinary Members of the Bureau
Elections of Ordinary members of the Bureau
Presentations by candidates for the Finance Committee
Elections of the Finance Committee
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20. Presentations of the proposals to host the XXVIII General Assembly. Selection of the venue of the XXVIII General Assembly (2023) / Présentations des propositions pour accueillir la XXVIIIème Assemblée Générale. Sélection du lieu de la XXVIIIème Assemblée Générale (2023)
21. Renewal of the IUGG liaison officers for 2019-2023 / Renouvellement des officiers de liaison pour 2019-2023
22. Presentation and adoption of the Resolutions / Présentation et adoption des resolutions
Closing remarks / Remarques finales End of Council / Fin du Conseil Photo session / Séance Photo
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