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The International Association of Geodesy Historical Overview Historical Overview The International Association of Geodesy Historical Overview H. Drewes1 ∙ J. Adám2 The history of the International Association of Geodesy Erdmessung”, “Association Géodésique Internationale”). goes back to April 1862 when the Central European Arc At the Constitutive Assembly of the International Research Measurement (“Mitteleuropäische Gradmessung”) was Council (IRC) in Brussels, July 1919, the “Section initiated at a “preliminary consultation” of representatives Geodesy” was one of the constituents of the International of the states of Prussia, Austria and Saxony in Berlin. At Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) and held its the end of the year, 16 countries had joined the project. Constitutive Assembly during the first IUGG General The first General Conference was held in Berlin, October Assembly in Rome, April-May 1922. The name was 1864, with delegates from 14 countries. In 1867 it was changed to “Association of Geodesy” in Stockholm, expanded to the European Arc Measurement and in 1886 August 1930, and to the present name in July 1946. The to the International Geodetic Association (“Internationale following summarises the historic development. Table 1 General Conferences / General Assemblies of the International Association of Geodesy and predecessors No Venue Year No Venue Year I. General Conferences Ic. Internationale Erdmessung - Association Géodésique Ia. Mitteleuropäische Gradmessung - Central European Internationale – Int. Geodetic Association (1886-1922) Arc Measurement (1862-1867) 9 Paris, France 1889 1 Berlin, Prussia 1864 10 Brussels, Belgium 1892 2 Berlin, Prussia 1867 11 Berlin, German Empire 1895 Ib. Europäische Gradmessung - European Arc 12 Stuttgart, German Empire 1898 Measurement (1867-1886) 13 Paris, France 1900 3 Vienna, Austria-Hungary 1871 14 Copenhagen, Denmark 1903 4 Dresden, German Empire 1874 15 Budapest, Austria-Hungary 1906 5 Stuttgart, German Empire 1877 16 Cambridge, United Kingdom 1909 6 Munich, German Empire 1880 17 Hamburg, German Empire 1912 7 Rome, Italy 1883 II. General Assemblies of the Section and Association 8 Berlin, German Empire 1886 of Geodesy at the General Assemblies of the IUGG IIa. IUGG Section of Geodesy (1919-1930) □ Hermann Drewes 18 Rome, Italy (Constitutive Assembly) 1922 [email protected] 19 Madrid, Spain 1924 1 Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Univ. München (DGFI-TUM), Arcisstr. 21, 80333 München, Germany 20 Prague, Czechoslovakia 1927 2 Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, 1521 Budapest, Hungary 21 Stockholm, Sweden 1930 H. Drewes, J. Adám Table 1 continued No Venue Participants: IUGG IAG Year No Venue Participants: IUGG IAG Year IIb. IUGG Association of Geodesy (1930-1946) 32 Moscow, USSR 2577 449 1971 22 Lisbon, Portugal 200 1933 33 Grenoble, France 2564 398 1975 23 Edinburgh, UK 344 1936 34 Canberra, Australia 1944 278 1979 24 Washington, USA 805 1939 35 Hamburg, F.R. Germany 3204 472 1983 IIc. IUGG International Association of Geodesy (1946-…) 36 Vancouver, Canada 3939 420 1987 25 Oslo, Norway 368 1948 37 Vienna, Austria 4331 594 1991 26 Brussels, Belgium 918 1951 38 Boulder, USA 4481 567 1995 27 Rome, Italy 923 1954 39 Birmingham, UK 4052 478 1999 28 Toronto, Canada 1165 1957 40 Sapporo, Japan 4151 407 2003 29 Helsinki, Finland 1375 1960 41 Perugia, Italy 4351 433 2007 30 Berkeley, USA 1938 1963 42 Melbourne, Australia 3392 370 2011 31 Zurich/Lucerne, 2200 357 1967 43 Prague, Czech Republic 4231 534 2015 Switzerland 44 Montreal, Canada 2019 Table 2 Scientific Assemblies of the International Association of Geodesy No Venue Date Number of Attendees 1 Tokyo, Japan May 7-15,1982 200 2 Edinburgh, UK August 3-12,1989 355 3 Beijing, China August 8-13,1993 340 4 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil September 3-9,1997 250 5 Budapest, Hungary September 2-7, 2001 461 6 Cairns, Australia August 22-26, 2005 (joint with IAPSO and IABO) IAG: 145 (in all: 724) 7 Buenos Aires, Argentina August 31- Sept. 4, 2009 363 8 Potsdam, Germany September 1-6, 2013 538 9 Kobe, Japan July 30 – August 4, 2017 (joint with IASPEI) Table 3 Presidents of the International Association of Geodesy and predecessors No Period Position Name Residence Ia. Mitteleuropäische Gradmessung (1862-1867), Europ. Gradmessung (European Arc Measurement) (1867-1886) 1 1864-1868 President of the Permanent Commission Peter Andreas Hansen Gotha, Thuringia 2 1869-1874 President of the Permanent Commission August von Fligely Vienna, Austria-Hungary 3 1874-1886 President of the Permanent Commission Carlos Ibañez de Ibero Madrid, Spain Ib. Internat. Erdmessung - Association Géodésique Internationale (International Geodetic Association) (1886-1917) 3 1887-1891 President of the Association Carlos Ibañez de Ibero Madrid, Spain 4 1892-1902 President of the Association Hervé A. E. A. Faye Paris, France 5 1903-1917 President of the Association Léon J. A. Bassot Paris, France Ic. Reduced Geodetic Association among Neutral States (1917-1922) 6 1917-1922 President of the Reduced Association Raul Gautier Geneva, Switzerland Historical Overview Table 3 continued No Period Position Name Residence IIa. IUGG Section of Geodesy (1919-1930) 7 1922-1933 President of the Section William Bowie Washington, USA IIb. IUGG Association of Geodesy (1930-1946) 8 1933-1946 President of the Association Felix A. Vening-Meinesz Amersfoort, The Netherlands IIc. International Association of Geodesy (IAG) of the IUGG (1946-…) 9 1946-1951 President of the IAG Walter D. Lambert Washington, USA 10 1951-1954 President of the IAG Carl F. Bäschlin Zurich, Switzerland 11 1954-1957 President of the IAG James de Graaf Hunter London, United Kingdom 12 1957-1960 President of the IAG Gino Cassinis Milan, Italy 13 1960-1963 President of the IAG Charles A. Whitten Washington, USA 14 1963-1967 President of the IAG Guy Bomford London, United Kingdom 15 1967-1971 President of the IAG Antonio Marussi Trieste, Italy 16 1971-1975 President of the IAG Youri D. Boulanger Moscow, USSR 17 1975-1979 President of the IAG Tauno J. Kukkamäki Helsinki, Finland 18 1979-1983 President of the IAG Helmut Moritz Graz, Austria 19 1983-1987 President of the IAG Peter V. Angus-Leppan Kensington, Australia 20 1987-1991 President of the IAG Ivan I. Mueller Columbus, USA 21 1991-1995 President of the IAG Wolfgang Torge Hannover, Germany 22 1995-1999 President of the IAG Klaus-Peter Schwarz Calgary, Canada 23 1999-2003 President of the IAG Fernandó Sansó Milan, Italy 24 2003-2007 President of the IAG Gerhard Beutler Bern, Switzerland 25 2007-2011 President of the IAG Michael G. Sideris Calgary, Canada 26 2011-2015 President of the IAG Chris Rizos Sydney, Australia 27 2015-2019 President of the IAG Harald Schuh Potsdam, Germany Table 4 Permanent Secretaries / Secretaries General of the International Association of Geodesy and predecessors No Period Position Name Residence Ia. Internationale Erdmessung - Association Géodésique Internationale (International Geodetic Association) (1886-1917) and Reduced Geodetic Association among Neutral States (1917-1922) 1 1886-1900 Permanent Secretary Adolf Hirsch Neuchatel, Switzerland 2 1900-1921 Permanent Secretary H. G. van de Sande-Bakhuysen Leiden, The Netherlands Ib. IUGG Section of Geodesy (1919-1930) and IUGG Association of Geodesy (1930-1946) 3 1922-1946 Secretary General Georges Perrier Paris, France Ic. International Association of Geodesy of the IUGG (1946-…) 4 1946-1960 Secretary General Pierre Tardi Paris, France 5 1960-1975 Secretary General Jean-Jacques Levallois Paris, France 6 1975-1991 Secretary General Michel Louis Paris, France 7 1991-1995 Secretary General Claude Boucher Paris, France 8 1995-2007 Secretary General Carl Christian Tscherning Copenhagen, Denmark 9 2007-2019 Secretary General Hermann Drewes Munich, Germany H. Drewes, J. Adám Table 5 Central Bureau (since 2007 Office) of the International Association of Geodesy and predecessors No Period Host Institute Name of Director Residence 1 1864 – 1885 Royal Prussian Geodetic Institute Johann Jacob Baeyer Potsdam, Prussia 2 1886 – 1917 Friedrich Robert Helmert Potsdam, Germany 3 1917 – 1922 J. H. Louis Krüger (p.p.) Potsdam, Germany 4 1922 – 1946 Institut Géographique National (IGN) Georges Perrier Paris, France 5 1946 – 1960 Pierre Tardi Paris, France 6 1960 – 1975 Jean-Jacques Levallois Paris, France 7 1975 – 1991 Michel Louis Paris, France 8 1991 – 1995 Claude Boucher Paris, France 9 1995 – 2007 Niels Bohr Institute, Department of Carl Christian Tscherning Copenhagen, Denmark Geophysics, University of Copenhagen 10 2007 – Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut Hermann Drewes Munich, Germany Table 6 Editors in Chief of Official Journals of the International Association of Geodesy and predecessors No Journal Period Name of Editor-in-Chief Residence I.1 Bulletin Géodésique 1922 – 1945 Georges Perrier Paris, France I.2 1946 – 1951 Pierre Tardi Paris, France I.3 1952 – 1964 Jean-Jacques Levallois Paris, France I.4 1965 – 1975 Michel Louis Paris, France I.5 1975 – 1986 Ivan I. Mueller Columbus, USA I.6 1987 – 1995 Carl Christian Tscherning Copenhagen, Denmark II.1 Manuscripta Geodaetica 1976 – 1980 Ivan I. Mueller Columbus, USA II.2 1980 – 1982 Peter Meissl Graz, Austria II.3 1982 – 1988 Erwin Groten Darmstadt, F.R. Germany Clyde C. Goad Columbus, USA II.4 1989 – 1991 Erik W. Grafarend Stuttgart, Germany II.5 1991 – 1995 Petr Vaniček New Brunswick, Canada III.1 Journal of Geodesy 1995 – 2003 Peter J. G. Teunissen Delft, The Netherlands III.2 2003 – 2007 William E. Featherstone Perth, Australia
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