No. 101 December 2020 IAMGIAMG NewsletterNewsletter Official Newsletter of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences Contents ow, what a strange year! WYet with international Submit nominationS for 2021 GeorGeS matheron Lectur- travel stopped, conferences er and 2022 iamG diStinGuiShed Lecturer ................. 1 postponed, and campuses diStinGuiShed Lecturer updateS ....................................... 1 closed we’ve adapted. As can preSident’S forum .............................................................. 3 be expected, we’re a little light on news. Hopefully 2021 is a much better year worldwide! In member newS ...................................................................... 4 the meantime, hopefully you enjoy the cartoons below. paSt preSident prof Jenny mcKinLey eLection to the iuGS I’d like to welcome Peter Dowd and our new IAMG council and executive counciL ......................................................... 4 thank Jenny McKinley and a our outgoing council for all their SprinGer encycLopedia of mathematicaL GeoScienceS .. 4 hard work over the last four years. prince SuLtan bin abduLaziz internationaL Katie Silversides water prize .................................................................... 4 <> ieee GeoScience and remote SenSinG Society (GrSS) diS- tinGuiShed Lecturer (dL) ............................................. 4 diverSity and incLuSion in GeoScience ............................. 4 Student newS ...................................................................... 5 nancy Student chapter ..................................................... 5 abStractS from 2019 reSearch Grant reportS ............. 5 upcominG meetinGS ............................................................. 6 iamG JournaL contentS ................................................. 6-11 Submit nominations for 2021 Georges Matheron Lecturer and 2022 IAMG Distinguished Lecturer For details about prerequisites for nominations please see the IAMG web site http://www.iamg.org/ and click on Awards Proposals should include a curriculum vitae and a short From Himelblog fun classroom biology (2020) statement summarizing the relevant qualifications of the nominee. Deadline 31 December 2020, email nominations to [email protected] <> Distinguished Lecturer Updates The IAMG 2020 Distinguished Lecturer, Professor Peter Atkinson, will continue his lectures into 2021 due to Covid-19. His presentations for 2020 were: IAMG Student Chapter Freiberg, 12th November. Title: Implications of the PSF for downscaling and data fusion in remote sensing International Geospatial Week, Colombia, 26th November. From https://the-earth-story.com/post/87286624757/amp Title: Trends in geospatial data science and remote sensing IAMG is on LinkedIn, Twitter The IAMG 2021 Distinguished Lecturer is Jaime Gómez- and Facebook! Hernández. Please contact Jaime or Peter if you are interested in arranging a lecture. <> The mission of the IAMG is to promote, worldwide, the advancement of mathematics, statistics and informatics in the Geosciences IAMG Newsletter No. 101 International Association for Mathematical Geosciences IAMG Office (official address) 611 Pennsylvania Av, SE #440 Washington, DC 20003-4303, USA E-mail: [email protected] Tel. Messages: +1-832-380-8833 Fax: +1-800-983-1346 Website: IAMG.org Officers of the Executive Committee Councilors President: Peter Dowd Jie Zhao School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, School of the Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of University of Adelaide, Australia, Tel. 618 8313 4543, Geosciences, Beijing (CUGB) Tel: +(86) 135-2070-9895 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Vice President: Christien Thiart Renguang Zuo University of Cape Town, Department of Statistical Sciences, State key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Private Bag, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa, Tel: 27-21-650-3223, fax: Resources (GPMR), China University of Geosciences (CUG), 27-21-650-4773, Wuhan 430074, China, Tel:+86-13667264536 Email: christien.thiart[at]uct.ac.za Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Secretary General: Juliana Leung Pauline Collon School of Mining & Petroleum Engineering, cole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie - Université de Lorraine, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta GeoRessources UMR 7359, RING - Research for Integrative Tel. (780) 492-3338 Numerical Geology, Tel: (00 33) 3 72 74 45 23 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Treasurer: Madalyn Blondes Alessandra Menafoglio USGS Eastern Energy Resources Science Center USA MOX - Dept. of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Tel: +1 703-648-6509, Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133, Milan – Italy, Tel: +39 02 2399 4642 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Natalie Caciagli Other Voting Council Members Barrick Gold Corp and Mineral Exploration Research Centre at Laurentian, University, Canada. Past President: Jennifer McKinley School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Karel Hron Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN, UK Palacky University Olomouc Czech Republic, Tel: +39 02 2399 Tel: 44 (0)28 90973827 4642 Email: j.mckinley[at]qub.ac.uk Email: [email protected] Special IGC Councilor: Jonggeun Choe Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Seoul National University (SNU), Korea, Tel: 880-8081 Email: [email protected] Editors Committee Chairs Mathematical Geosciences Roussos Dimitrakopoulos Awards Committee: Xiaogang “Marshall” Ma Department of Mining, Metals and Materials Engineering, Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho, 875 McGill University, Montreal H3A 2A7, Canada Perimeter Drive MS 1010, Moscow, ID 83844-1010, United States, Tel: +1 514 398-4986, E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +1.208.885.6592, E-mail: max[at]uidaho.edu Computers & Geosciences Pauline Collon Curriculum Quality Committee: Julián Ortiz University of Lorraine National Graduate School of Geology, Department of Mining Engineering, Queen’s University Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada Tel: +33 3 72 74 45 23, E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 613-533-2910, Email: [email protected] Dario Grana University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA, Lectures Committee: Christien Thiart Tel: +1 307-223-2079, [email protected] University of Cape Town, Department of Statistical Sciences, Derek Karssenberg Private Bag, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa, Tel: 27-21-650-3223, Faculty of Geosciences. Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS fax: 27-21-650-4773, E-mail: christien.thiart[at]uct.ac.za UTRECHT, The Netherlands, [email protected] Meetings Committee: Helmut Schaeben Natural Resources Research John Carranza Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, University of KwaZulu-Natal Bernhard-von-Cotta Str. 2, 09596 Freiberg, Germany Durban, South Africa Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Outreach Committee: Eric Grunsky Applied Computing and Geosciences Eric Grunsky China University of Geosciences Beijing, China see address above Dept. Earth & Environmental Sciences, Univ. Waterloo, Canada IAMG Newsletter and Website Katherine Silversides E-mail: [email protected] Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Jaime Gómez Hernández University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Publications Committee: Tel: +61 2 9351 7907, E-mail: [email protected] Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica, 46071 Valencia, Spain, Tel: 963879614 (Ext.:79614) E-mail: jgomez[at]upv.es Archivist Students Affairs Committee: Ute Mueller Graeme F. Bonham-Carter Edith Cowan University, Joondalup Campus, JO5.208 110 Aaron Merrick Drive, Merrickville, ON K0G 1N0, Canada 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup WA 6027, Australia Tel: +1 (613) 269-7980 Tel: +61863045272, E-mail: u.mueller[at]ecu.edu.au E-mail: Graeme.bc1[at]gmail.com - 2 - IAMG Newsletter No. 101 PRESIDENT’S FORUM Dear IAMG Members, for the Government of the state in which I live. We This is my first letter as President of IAMG and, on have four meetings a year to which we invite a scientist behalf of the new Council, my first duty is to thank to make a presentation to politicians on a specific Jennifer McKinley and the members of the previous policy-related topic with the expectation that it might Council for the work they have done over the past four inform policy. Some of these meetings have focussed years and for the very strong and healthy state in which on matters directly relevant to the mathematical they have left the IAMG. My second duty is to thank the geosciences. There are similar initiatives in other chairs and members of the various Council committees states in Australia and in other counties. It is somewhat for their significant contributions to the operation of the more difficult to do this on the global scale of IAMG, IAMG during the tenure of the previous Council. but perhaps we could exchange views and strategies on how this might be fostered at the local or regional Your new Council was formally installed area. It would be particularly useful to on 1st September 2020. Some of us, hear from IAMG members who have been including me, are new to the Council and involved in successfully informing policy its committees and we are in the process and/or in successfully contributing to the of familiarising ourselves with the structure public understanding of science relevant and operation of the IAMG. to policy. As a priority, I want to ensure as wide a Through the