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Volume 5 No. 1 (January 1, 2005)

This short, informal newsletter is intended to keep IUGG Member National

Committees informed about the activities of the IUGG Associations, and

actions of the IUGG Secretariat. Past issues are posted on the IUGG Web

site. Please forward this message to those who will benefit from the

information. Your comments are welcome.

But first, more information on the Indian Ocean Tsunami Disasters.

Dr. V.K. Gusiakov (Russia) has assembled the initial geophysical

information related to the December 26, 2004 earthquake and tsunami

event and has made it available at the following URL:

http://tsun.sscc.ru/tsulab/20041226.htm. Temporarily, until more

sophisticated Internet resource is established, this will be a joint

IUGG/TC-ITIC-ICG/ITSU site dedicated to this event. The site will be

upgraded as soon as new information becomes available.

Contents

1. Happy New Year!

The IUGG Yearbook for 2005 is in press

The Comptes Rendus of the XXIII IUGG General Assembly is done

2. Initiatives selected for IUGG support in 2005

3. IGY+50 Developments

4. New Officers named for the Union Commission on GeoRisk

5. Report of the SCOR General Meeting

6. The State of the Planet: Frontiers and Challenges in Geophysics

7. IUGG-related meetings occurring during January - March 2005

1. Happy New Year!

The IUGG Yearbook for 2005 is in press

The Comptes Rendus of the XXIII IUGG General Assembly is finished

Thanks to all of the Adhering Body National Committees and the

Associations for helping to update the information in the IUGG Yearbook!

Assistant Secretary General Katina Rogers completed the master copy of

the 2005 Yearbook on 9 December. It is posted on the IUGG Website

(http://www.IUGG.org), and will be printed and distributed by the end of

January. During 2005, updates to addresses and other information in the

Yearbook should be sent to the Secretariat (secretariat@iugg.org) as

soon as they are known; our goal is to update the Web copy of the

Yearbook periodically throughout the year.

Thanks also to the 2003 IUGG General Assembly Local Organizing Committee

members Kiyoshi Suyehiro and Masataka Kinoshita, for their continuing

commitment to IUGG to publish the Comptes Rendus. Copies have now been

mailed to all registrants at the Sapporo Assembly, and the entire

publication can be downloaded from the IUGG web site. We are grateful

for their work to produce this record of the Proceedings of the General

Assembly.

Best Wishes to everyone for a healthy and prosperous New Year!

2. Initiatives selected for IUGG support in 2005

At the 1999 General Assembly, an "opportunity fund" was established in

the IUGG budget to support proposals for inter-Association initiatives

that particularly benefit developing countries. For 2005, a total of

$25,000 was awarded to the four new projects and their sponsors, listed

below.

Formulation Activities of the Electronic Geophysical Year (eGY). IAGA,

endorsed as a Union initiative by the IUGG Executive Committee in

September 2004.

Distribution of the proceedings of the 2003 IUGG Tsunami Symposium to

tsunami warning centers in countries around the Pacific. Tsunami

Commission (IASPEI/IAPSO/IAVCEI)

Development of a comprehensive historical earthquake and tsunami

database for the South-West Pacific. GeoRisk Commission

WMO/GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment) Working Group

support. IAHS/IAMAS

3. IGY+50 Developments

Planning for the International Year of Planet Earth is progressing.

Brochures are now available for several of the science themes (Health,

Hazards, Climate, Resources, and Deep Earth), and their Outreach

Programme; these can be downloaded from http://www.esfs.org . The

brochures speak of invitations to geoscientists to propose projects to

be conducted within the framework of the International Year, although

these forms are not yet ready. Brochures are in progress for the other

science themes (Megacities, Ocean, and Groundwater), and two additional

themes are under development (Soils, and Life).

The second issue of EGY News (November 2004) has been released. It

contains information articles such as eGY nomenclature, reports of past

planning meetings, and notices of future meetings. It can be downloaded

from http://www.egy.org or upon request, new issues can be e-mailed

automatically.

It is agreed that studies of the coupled Sun-Earth system within the

International Heliospheric Year (IHY) initiative will be a focus of

annual basic science workshops under the auspices of the UN Committee on

the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. The IHY North American Community

Science Planning Workshop will be held in Boulder, Colorado USA, 16-18

February 2005. Details about the meeting are posted at

http://ihy.gsfc.nasa.gov/events/feb2005_workshop.shtml

4. New Officers named for the Union Commission on GeoRisk

At the recent meeting in Hyderabad, India, of the Union Commission on

Geophysical Risk and Sustainability (GeoRisk), the following new

officers began their work.

President:

Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Geophysical Institute, University of Karlsruhe,

Germany, and the International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory

and Mathematical Geophysics, Moscow, Russia

Secretary General: Gerd Tetzlaff, Institute of Meteorology, University of Leipzig,

Germany

Vice-Presidents:

Ramesh Singh, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, India, and the School of Computational Sciences, George

Mason University, Virginia, USA; and

Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yamanishi University, Japan

Treasurer: Paula Dunbar, National Geophysical Data Center, USA.

The Past President and Honorary Commission Member is Tom Beer, CSIRO

Environmental Risk Network, AUSTRALIA; and Commission Members are

Hermann Drewes (IAG), Harsh Gupta (IUGG Bureau), Viacheslav Gusiakov

(Tsunami Commission), Kosuke Heki (IAG), A.W. Jayawardena (IAHS), Susan

McLean (IAGA), Evgeny Kontar (IAPSO), Vladimir Kossobokov (IASPEI), Uri

Shamir (IUGG President), and Zhongliang Wu (IASPEI). The GeoRisk

Webmaster is Dmitry Krupsky (Russia).

5. Report of the SCOR General Meeting

The XXVIth General Meeting of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic

Research (SCOR) was held 27-30 September 2004 at the CNR-Istituto di

Scienze Marine (ISMAR) in Venice, Italy. Michael MacCracken and Paola

Rizzoli attended on behalf of IUGG. Actions taken include the following.

1. Bjørn Sundby (Canada) was elected president of SCOR for a four-year

term. Victor Akulichev (Russia) began a two-year term as a SCOR

Vice-President and Ilana Wainer (Brazil) was reappointed as a Co-opted

Member of the Executive Committee for the period 2004-2006. The other

Co-opted Member position will be left vacant for now.

2. Working groups are the primary means through which SCOR contributes

to advancing understanding of the ocean. Two working groups were

disbanded after completing their tasks; 6 working groups were continued,

two new working groups were approved. The 2005 call for WG proposals

will emphasize physical oceanography and marine geology and geophysics

activities.

3. SCOR will coordinate the participation of SCOR co-sponsored and

SCOR-affiliated projects for the International Polar Year (IPY), and

will offer assistance in future planning.

4. SCOR is continuing its efforts to strengthen the capabilities and

involvement of ocean research groups in the developing world. One

particular activity is to encourage formation of Regional Graduate

Schools of Oceanography.

5. The 2005 meeting of the SCOR Executive Committee will be held in

Cairns, Australia during the week following the joint IAGA/IAPSO/IABO

meeting in late August.

6. The 2006 SCOR General Assembly will be held in Chile. A committee was

formed to plan SCOR's 50th Anniversary meeting in 2008 in Woods Hole,

Massachusetts, where the first SCOR meeting was held.

[This news article was extracted from the liaison report by M. MacCracken]

6. The State of the Planet: Frontiers and Challenges in Geophysics

This book, a new release by the American Geophysical Union, is derived

from the prestigious Union Symposia at the 2003 (Sapporo) IUGG General

Assembly. Edited by R.S.J. Sparks and C.J. Hawkesworth, this volume

contains 30 papers by leading scientists in IUGG disciplines and is

written for specialists and non-specialists alike. The list price is

$70; AGU members receive a discount. To order, either follow the

directions on the AGU website (http://www.agu.org/) under Publications, or send

an e-mail message to orders@agu.org. IUGG will purchase 100 copies to

be distributed by IAVCEI to learning institutions in the developing world.

7. IUGG-related meetings occurring during January - March 2005

A calendar of meetings of interest to IUGG disciplines (especially those

organized or sponsored by IUGG Associations) is posted on the IUGG Web

Site [http://www.IUGG.org]. Specific information about these meetings,

including web links, can be found there. Individual Associations also

list more meetings on their web sites appropriate to their disciplines.

January 13- 15 UNESCO, Paris, France, Physics for Tomorrow, the Launch

Conference of the UN International Year of Physics 2005

January 17 - 23 IAG/IASPEI, Trieste, Italy, Joint Capacity Building

Workshop on Deformation Measurements and Understanding Natural Hazards

in Developing Countries

January 18 - 22 UN-ISDR, Kobe, Japan, World Conference on Disaster Reduction

January 31 - February 5 IAG, Budapest, Hungary, International IGeS Geoid School

February 7 - 11 SCOPE, New Delhi, India, SCOPE XIIth General Assembly

February 23 - 25 IAHS, Bonn, Germany, International Conference on

Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change: A

North-South Analysis

March 15 - 17 IAGA/EMSEV, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan, International Workshop on

Seismo Electromagnetics

March 17 - 19 IAG, Jaén, Spain, International Symposium on Geodetic

Deformation Monitoring: From Geophysical to Geodetic Roles

March 21 - 23 ISPRS, Delft, The Netherlands, The First International

Symposium on Geo-information for Disaster Management

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Addition information on the IUGG Response to the December 26, 2004, Indian Ocean Tsunami Disasters

quantitative estimates of the extent and severity of the disaster; and 4. That the reduction of predictive uncertainty is the most important

charts of natural hazards, vulnerability, and risk assessments; and 2. That regional disaster management centers be established where they

End of IUGG Electronic Journal Volume 5 Number 1a (January 11, 2005) J. A. Joselyn, Secretary General [http://www.IUGG.org]

Volume 5 No. 2 (February 1, 2005)

This short, informal newsletter is intended to keep IUGG Member National
Committees informed about the activities of the IUGG Associations, and
actions of the IUGG Secretariat. Past issues are posted on the IUGG Web
site. Please forward this message to those who will benefit from the
information. Your comments are welcome.

Contents

1. Continuing news on the Indian Ocean disaster
2. New web address for the GeoRisk Commission
3. Additional meetings selected for IUGG support
4. December 2004 ICSU Newsletter on-line
5. IGY+50 Developments
6. Honors and Awards
7. IUGG-related meetings occurring during February - April 2005

1. Continuing news on the Indian Ocean Disaster

Dr. Tom Beer, IUGG Vice-President, attended the January 18-22 meeting of
the UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR). He presented the
IUGG statement (IUGG E-Journal Special Issue of 11 January 2005 or
http://www.iugg.org/eres.html ) to the Special Plenary Session on the
Indian Ocean Disaster: risk reduction for a safer future, on Thursday
January 20. He also convened a meeting of the GeoUnions Hazards
Initiative and assisted Gordon McBean with a planning meeting for an
ICSU Hazards programme. Reports from both of these meetings are
forthcoming.

The Union of Geological Sciences has prepared a resolution on the recent
earthquake and tsunami disaster. Their statement can be found on the
following web site:
http://www.iugs.org/iugs/news/iugs_hazards_statement.htm . The
International Council of Science (ICSU) has also prepared a statement.
This statement was published in a January 2005 special issue of ICSU
Insight which can be found on their web site as indicated in news item 4
below, and which is also posted on their index page. The International
Geographical Union has prepared a resolution that will be posted soon on
their web site: http://www.igu-net.org .

A collected file of web links concerned with the Indian Ocean Tsunami
will soon be posted by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
(Vienna) at the Web Site for Space Technology and Disaster Management.
The address is http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SAP/stdm .

2. New web address for the GeoRisk Commission

The IUGG Union Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability
(GeoRisk) has a new web-address: http://www.iugg-georisk.org
The web-page is also updated and slightly restructured:
- several links to "hazards" sites are added in the section "Disciplines";
- links to the NGDC interactive maps of hazards is inserted to the main
panel;
- the 2004 Hyderabad business meeting report is now located at the
section "Newsletters and Reports".

Dr. Alik Ismail-Zadeh wishes to thank web master Dima Krupsky for his
work to make this transformation happen quickly.

3. Additional meetings selected for IUGG support

IUGG co-sponsors symposia and meetings appropriate to our disciplines of
study. $20,000 (USD) is allocated annually to assist meetings, and
especially to support the participation of young scientists and
scientists from developing countries. Support for four meetings was
announced in the December 2004 IUGG E-Journal. Allocations have now
been made for 2 more meetings as shown below. All funds available are
now spent.

International Tsunami Symposium 2005, June 27-29, 2005, Crete, Greece

HeadWater 2005: 6th International Conference on Hydrology, Ecology, and
Water Resources in Headwaters, June 20-23, 2005, Bergen, Norway

4. December 2004 ICSU Newsletter on-line

The December 2004 issue of ICSU Insight is now available through the
ICSU website : www.icsu.org. Upon opening the website, click on the tab
labeled Media Centre; then click on Resource Centre. You will then be
able to either print the newsletter or read it in your browser.

5. IGY+50 Developments

eGY (Electronic Geophysical Year)
Daniel Baker, Chair of the eGY Task Force, announced the appointment of
an eGY Secretary -Dr. Bill Peterson. Bill has a background in space
plasma physics and is based at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space
Physics (LASP) in Boulder, Colorado USA. He can be reached at
Bill.Peterson@lasp.colorado.edu; Office tel: +1-303-492 0686;
Facsimile: +1-303-492 6444. His role is that of coordinator and
Secretary General - handling correspondence, finance, and supervising
the execution of eGY business.

The recent tsunami and earthquake disaster has illuminated the need for
better information and information delivery systems for natural hazards.
In particular, a partnership agreement between eGY and the IUGS-UNESCO
initiative on the International Year of Planet Earth will be signed
soon. IUGG is a full partner of this initiative and Dr. Tom Beer is
spearheading the special theme on Hazards. Brochures on the Hazards
theme, as well as other of the themes, are available to be downloaded
from http://www.esfs.org.

A Union session (U08) titled eGY: e-Science for Geoscience will be held
at the 23-27 May 2005 AGU/SEG/AAS-SPD-NABS Joint Assembly in New
Orleans, Louisiana USA. Session convenors are Dan Baker, Charlie
Barton, and Brian Spies.

The latest information about eGY activities can be found in the January
2005 issue of eGY News (No. 4). It can be downloaded from
http://www.egy.org/ .

IHY (International Heliospherical Year)
The latest information about IHY activities can be found in the 28
January 2005 issue of the IHY Newsletter (Volume 4). Download this
newsletter from http://ihy.gsfc.nasa.gov/newsroom/newsroom.sthml .
Information includes an IHY Overview, and the sessions on IHY science
that will be held at the May 2005 New Orleans meeting as well as the IHY
science sessions that are being organized at the EGU meeting April 24-29
in Vienna, Austria, and at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania
Geosciences Society (AOGS) in Singapore June 20-24.

IHY is now represented within the International Astronomical Union, and
is partnering with the United Nations and ESA in planning a joint
workshop on Basic Space Science at the United Arab Emirates University,
20-23 November 2005.

Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES)
CAWSES is supporting the New Orleans Joint Assembly Union session (U08),
eGY: e-Science for Geoscience, and will convene several sessions at the
AOGS (Singapore) meeting in June. Two workshops will be convened at the
International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy, ISEA-11, Taipei, Taiwan,
ROC May 9-14, 2005.

6. Honors and Awards

Harsh Gupta (Department of Ocean Development, India, Bureau Member of
IUGG) received the 'National Mineral Award for Excellence - 2002' from
the Union Minister of Mines in a glittering presentation ceremony at New
Delhi on 17 December 2004. This lifetime achievement award - the fourth
awarded so far since its inception by the Government of India - was
conferred upon Dr. Gupta for his outstanding contributions in the fields
of seismology and ocean sciences.

David Gubbins (University of Leeds, UK, immediate past Chair of the
Union Commission on the Study of the Deep Interior of the Earth, SEDI),
received the 2004 John Adam Fleming Medal from the American Geophysical
Union at their Awards Ceremony in December 2004. The medal recognizes
original research and technical leadership in geomagnetism, atmospheric
electricity, aeronomy, space physics, and related sciences.

7. IUGG-related meetings occurring during February - April 2005

A calendar of meetings of interest to IUGG disciplines (especially those
organized or sponsored by IUGG Associations) is posted on the IUGG Web
Site [www.IUGG.org]. Specific information about these meetings,
including web links, can be found there. Individual Associations also
list more meetings on their web sites appropriate to their disciplines.

January 31 - February 5 IAG, Budapest, Hungary, International IGeS Geoid
School

February 7 - 11 SCOPE, New Delhi, India, SCOPE XIIth General Assembly

February 23 - 25 IAHS, Bonn, Germany, International Conference on
Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change: A
North-South Analysis

February 28 - March 6 IASPEI, Palmanova, Italy, IRIS-ORFEUS Workshop:
Understanding and Managing Information from Seismological Networks

March 1 - 5 IAG, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, International
Workshop
on Deformation and Gravity Change: Indicators of Isostasy, Tectonics,
Volcanism and Climate Change

March 15 - 17 IAGA/EMSEV, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan, International
Workshop on
Seismo Electromagnetics

March 17 - 19 IAG, Jaén, Spain, International Symposium on
Geodetic
Deformation Monitoring: From Geophysical to Geodetic Roles

March 21 - 23 ISPRS, Delft, The Netherlands, The First
International
Symposium on Geo-information for Disaster Management

April 1 - 9 IAVCEI, Sal Island, Cape Verde, Workshop on Ocean Island
Volcanism

April 4 - 9 IAHS, Foz de Iguassu, Brazil, Scientific Assembly

April 11 -15 WCRP/CliC, Beijing, China, 1st CliC International Science
Conference: Cryosphere, the Frozen Frontier of Climate Science

April 24 - 29 EGU, Vienna, Austria, EGU General Assembly

Volume 5 No. 3 (March 1, 2005)

This short, informal newsletter is intended to keep IUGG Member National
Committees informed about the activities of the IUGG Associations, and
actions of the IUGG Secretariat. Past issues are posted on the IUGG Web
site. Please forward this message to those who will benefit from the
information. Your comments are welcome.

Contents

1. IERS Technical Notes 31 and 32
2. ICSU Call for Nominations
3. IGY+50 Developments
4. Honors and Awards
5. In Memoriam: Serguei Balassanian (1948-2004)
6. Report from the SCOPE General Assembly
7. IUGG-related meetings occurring during March - May 2005

1. IERS Technical Notes 31 and 32

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS)
has recently published the following Technical Notes. Online versions
of these documents can be found at
http://www.iers.org/iers/publications/tn/ .

No. 31: C. Boucher, Z. Altamimi, P. Sillard, and M. Feissel-Vernier: The
ITRF2000.

No. 32: D.D. McCarthy and G. Petit (eds.): IERS Conventions (2003).

2. ICSU Call for Nominations

Nominations for ICSU Officers and members of the Executive Board are now
open. These include the President-Elect, Vice-President for Scientific
Planning and Review, Vice-President for External Relations, Secretary
General and Treasurer of ICSU and for Ordinary Members of the Executive
Board. IUGG may submit one name per office, for consideration by the
Nominating Committee. New officers will be elected at the 28th General
Assembly in Shanghai and Suzhou, China, 17-21 October 2005. For
additional information, please contact the IUGG Secretariat.

3. IGY+50 Developments

eGY (Electronic Geophysical Year)
A planning meeting was held in Boulder, Colorado, 14-15 February.
Information about eGY and the meeting can be accessed on the eGY
website: http://www.egy.org .

IHY (International Heliophysical Year)
A North American Science Community Planning Workshop was held in
Boulder, Colorado, 16-18 February. Information about IHY and the
meeting can be accessed from the IHY web site: http://ihy.gsfc.nasa.gov .

An important part of IHY activities will be preserving the history and
memory of the International Geophysical Year 1957-58. IHY has set up a
History Initiative with the following goals:
* identifying and recognizing planners of and participants in the first IGY,
* preserving memoirs, articles, photographs, and all items of historical
significance for the IGY,
* making these items available to historians, researchers, etc.,
* serving as a contact service for these activities,
* spreading awareness of the history of geophysics, and
* planning special events and "reunions."

To this end, IHY has established the IGY "Gold" Club to identify
participants from the first IGY (gold symbolizing the 50th anniversary).
To join the Gold Club, three requirements must be met:
* You must have been a participant in the first IGY
* You must contribute an item of historical significance to the
initiative. It can be a letter, a recollection, an article, a
photograph, etc.
* You must be willing to have that item made publicly available to
historians, librarians, and other people interested in investigating and
preserving the history of geophysics.

"Gold club" participants will be rewarded with a special "IGY Gold
Anniversary" certificate of recognition and a special commemorative "IGY
Gold" lapel pin specially designed for the 50th anniversary of IGY.
Only members of the IGY Gold club will be issued this pin. To nominate
a colleague or yourself, send an e-mail message to
Barbara.J.Thompson@nasa.gov.

4. Honors and Awards

Members of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
have recently achieved success. A team from the University of
California, Berkeley, led by Prof. Yoram Rubin, was selected as the US
National Center for Hydrological Synthesis. In Japan, Prof. Kuni
Takeuchi's program "Research and Education on Integrated River Basin
Management in Asian Monsoon Region, " was designated as a 21st Century
Center of Excellence.

The American Geophysical Union has named their 2005 Fellows. The
following scientists active within IUGG were among those elected.
Congratulations to all!

Georges Balmino (France), past Secretary General of IUGG

Bruce Buffett (Canada/USA), Chair of the IUGG Union Commission on
Studies of Earth's Deep Interior (SEDI)

Devendra Lal (USA), past President of IUGG (1983-87)

Kathryn Whaler (Scotland, UK), member of IAGA Executive Committee

Vladimir Zharkov (Russia), member of Advisory Committee, SEDI

5. In Memoriam: Serguei Balassanian (1948-2004)

Prof. Serguei Balassanian, Yerevan State University, died on November
23, 2004, as a result of an automobile accident. Prof. Balassanian was
President of the IUGG National Committee for the Republic of Armenia and
the Armenian Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth, and
also President of the IASPEI Asian Seismological Commission. He was a
renowned authority in the field of natural hazards and risks.
Additional information can be found on the IASPEI web site under Recent
Changes.

6. Report from the SCOPE General Assembly

The XIIth General Assembly of the ICSU Scientific Committee on Problems
of the Environment (SCOPE) was held in New Delhi, India, from 8-11
February 2005. Dr. N.J. Peters attended on behalf of IUGG. The
officers of SCOPE were elected for the 2005-2008 term, reports were
received, and a number of resolutions were passed. SCOPE organizes its
work within 3 clusters: Management of Societal and Natural Resources,
Ecosystems and Biodiversity, and Health and Environment. IUGG is
actively involved in projects within the first two clusters. Reports
from the General Assembly are available from the IUGG Secretariat.

7. IUGG-related meetings occurring during March - May 2005

A calendar of meetings of interest to IUGG disciplines (especially those
organized or sponsored by IUGG Associations) is posted on the IUGG Web
Site [www.IUGG.org]. Specific information about these meetings,
including web links, can be found there. Individual Associations also
list more meetings on their web sites appropriate to their disciplines.

March 1 - 5 IAG, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, International Workshop
on Deformation and Gravity Change: Indicators of Isostasy, Tectonics,
Volcanism and Climate Change

March 15 - 17 IAGA/EMSEV, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan, International Workshop on
Seismo Electromagnetics

March 17 - 19 IAG, Ja?n, Spain, International Symposium on Geodetic
Deformation Monitoring: From Geophysical to Geodetic Roles

March 21 - 23 ISPRS, Delft, The Netherlands, The First International
Symposium on Geo-information for Disaster Management

April 1 - 9 IAVCEI, Sal Island, Cape Verde, Workshop on Ocean Island Volcanism

April 4 - 9 IAHS, Foz de Iguassu, Brazil, Scientific Assembly

April 11 -15 WCRP/CliC, Beijing, China, 1st CliC International Science
Conference: Cryosphere, the Frozen Frontier of Climate Science

April 24 - 29 EGU, Vienna, Austria, EGU General Assembly

May 3 - 5 URSI, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 11th International Ionospheric
Effects Symposium

May 9 - 14 SCOSTEP, Taipei, Taiwan, China, 11th International Symposium on
Equatorial Aeronomy

May 16 - 19 Egyptian Geophysical Society, Cairo, Egypt, Imaging the Future:
Cairo 2005 2nd International Petroleum Conference

May 16 - 20 EGU/CIIFEN, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1st Alexander von Humboldt
International Conference on the El Ni?o phenomenon and its global impact

May 18 - 20 NMIJ/BIPM, Tsukuba, Japan, NMIJ-BIPM Workshop on the Impact of
Information Technology on Metrology

May 22 - 26 UN/Algeria/ESA, Algiers, Algeria, International Seminar on the
Use of Space Technology for Disaster Management: Prevention and
Management of Natural Disasters

May 23 - 27 AGUSEG/, New Orleans, LA, USA Joint Meeting

May 25 - 28 IAHS, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 3rd International Symposium on
flood Defense: Floods, from Defense to Management

End of IUGG Electronic Journal Volume 5 Number 3 (March 2005)
J. A. Joselyn, Secretary General [http://www.IUGG.org]
secretariat@iugg.org fax: 1 303 497 3645

Volume 5 No. 4 (April 1, 2005)

This short, informal newsletter is intended to keep IUGG Member National
Committees informed about the activities of the IUGG Associations, and
actions of the IUGG Secretariat. Past issues are posted on the IUGG Web
site. Please forward this message to those who will benefit from the
information. Your comments are welcome.

Contents

1. IUGG Annual Report for 2004
2. IUGS Executive Committee meeting
3. IGY+50 Developments
4. Honors and Awards
5. Summer School on Gravimetric Methods
6. News from ICSU
7. IUGG-related meetings occurring during March - May 2005

1. IUGG Annual Report for 2004

The IUGG 2004 Annual Report will be posted on the IUGG web site during
the week of April 4 under Publications/reports. Printed copies will be
mailed to all Adhering Bodies, and can be sent on request to the
Secretariat.

2. IUGS Executive Committee meeting

The Executive Committee of the International Union of Geological
Sciences (IUGS) met in Vilnius, Lithuania, on March 18-21. In the
tradition of collaboration among the Geounions, Uri Shamir was invited
to attend the first two days of the meeting during which matters of
common interest to the two Unions were discussed. Among them were the
various components of the 50th anniversary of the International
Geophysical Year, especially the International Year of Planet Earth, the
proposed ICSU strategic plan, and the agenda items to be considered at
the upcoming ICSU General Assembly.

3. IGY+50 Developments

International Year of Planet Earth
The United Republic of Tanzania recently presented a draft Resolution on
the International Year of Planet Earth to be included as item 57 on the
Agenda of the 171st meeting of UNESCO's Executive Board, to be held in
April in Paris. This constitutes a major step towards realization of the
proclamation of the International Year by the General Assembly of the
United Nations, later this year. Dr. Felix Totue (Cameroon), who chairs
the Geological Society of Africa, has joined the Management Team. The
number of nations supporting the International Year at the highest
political level has grown to 16. Moreover, several more letters of
support from Earth Science communities around the world have been
received, including a supportive joint position paper by the UK and USA
National Committees.

All Key Text Teams have now presented their draft texts for the
scientific brochures. The Ocean brochure will be printed soon, followed
by brochures on the 'Soils' and 'Megacities' themes. The downloadable
status of brochures may be checked by visiting the website at
www.esfs.org . The Management Team agreed to reprint the Resources
brochure to provide a better balance between coverage of fossil fuels
and mineral resources. Generous support has been received from several
European geological surveys to make possible printing of the brochures.
A business plan and prospectus for the International Year has recently
been printed and can be found on home page named above.

eGY (Electronic Geophysical Year)
eGY (http://www.egy.org) and the International Year of Planet Earth
(http://www.esfs.org/ ) have formed a strategic alliance to facilitate
collaborative scientific research and development and other programs of
the highest international standing.

The eGY Task Force and a number of enthusiasts met at LASP (Boulder,
Colorado) on February 14-15, 2005. This was the last meeting of the Task
Force, which was disbanded (with great thanks for the hard work for
eGY), and the group identified the new management structure of the eGY
initiative. The eGY International Committee will lead the initiative
through 2005-2008, with the working Secretariat at LASP. The eGY will
also include National Representatives as identified. The full text of
Minutes is available at http://www.egy.org.

eGY International Committee:
Charlie Barton Chair
Dan Baker Co-Chair
Ferris Webster WDC Panel liaison
Herb Kroehl CODATA liaison
Bob Chen CODATA
Liu Chuang CODATA
Alan Rodger IPY liaison
Barbara Thompson IHY liaison
Ed de Mulder IYPE liaison
Working Group Leaders:
Paul Berkman Data Integration/Knowledge Discovery
Volodya Papitashvili Virtual Observatories Census
Herb Kroehl Best Practices and Standards
Emily CoBabe-Ammann Education and Public Outreach
eGY Secretariat:
Dan Baker Executive Director
Bill Peterson Secretary
Marissa Rusinek eGY Communications Manager
Emily CoBabe-Ammann Media & PR

4. Honors and Awards

Yoram Rubin, Professor of Civil Environmental Engineering at the
University of California and President of the IAHS International
Commission on Groundwater, received the Hydrology Section Award at the
December 2004 American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco,
California.

5. Summer School on Gravimetric Methods

The international Gravimetric Bureau (BGI, France), the International
Center for Earth Tides (ICET, Belgium) and the Institute of Astronomy
and Geodesy (IAG, Spain) are organizing a Summer School about
"microgravimetry methods: static and dynamics aspects" in Lanzarote,
October 23-28, 2005. The Web link is http://bgi.cnes.fr, and the
request for information email is bernard.langellier@cnes.fr. Please
note that the registration is strictly limited to 24 students.
JP Barriot, Director of BGI

6. News from ICSU

The following items were taken from the ICSU web site: http:://icsu.org
. Please visit this website for more items of interest.

The World Climate Research Programme is looking for a Director. This
opportunity is with the World Meteorological Organization (Vacancy
Notice No. 1601) and details about the application, due by 10 May, can
be found on the ICSU web site and at http://www.wmo.int/web/hrm. The
position will begin on 1 November. It is a 2-year appointment with the
possibility of renewal. Also listed on http://www.wmo.int/web/hrm is
Director, Group on Earth Observations, for which the primary
responsibility is the overall coordination of the development and
implementation of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)
work plan. This is Vacancy Notice 1602 and the closing date is 15
April. The position will begin on 1 July and is also a 2-year
appointment with the possibility of renewal.

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) has been admitted as
an ICSU International Scientific Associate. IUGG endorsed their
application and we are pleased to welcome them into the ICSU family.

The draft report of the Priority Area Assessment (PAA) on Capacity
Building in Science has been distributed to the ICSU Members for comment.

7. IUGG-related meetings occurring during April - June 2005

A calendar of meetings of interest to IUGG disciplines (especially those
organized or sponsored by IUGG Associations) is posted on the IUGG Web
Site [www.IUGG.org]. Specific information about these meetings,
including web links, can be found there. Individual Associations also
list more meetings on their web sites appropriate to their disciplines.

April 1 - 9 IAVCEI, Sal Island, Cape Verde, Workshop on Ocean Island
Volcanism

April 4 - 9 IAHS, Foz de Iguassu, Brazil, Scientific Assembly

April 11 -15 WCRP/CliC, Beijing, China, 1st CliC International Science
Conference: Cryosphere, the Frozen Frontier of Climate Science

April 24 - 29 EGU, Vienna, Austria, EGU General Assembly

May 3 - 5 URSI, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 11th International
Ionospheric
Effects Symposium

May 9 - 14 SCOSTEP, Taipei, Taiwan, China, 11th International Symposium
on
Equatorial Aeronomy

May 16 - 19 Egyptian Geophysical Society, Cairo, Egypt, Imaging the
Future:
Cairo 2005 2nd International Petroleum Conference

May 16 - 20 EGU/CIIFEN, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1st Alexander von Humboldt
International Conference on the El Niño phenomenon and its global impact

May 18 - 20 NMIJ/BIPM, Tsukuba, Japan, NMIJ-BIPM Workshop on the Impact
of
Information Technology on Metrology

May 22 - 26 UN/Algeria/ESA, Algiers, Algeria, International Seminar on
the
Use of Space Technology for Disaster Management: Prevention and
Management of Natural Disasters

May 23 - 27 AGU/SEG/NABS/AAS, New Orleans, LA, USA Joint Meeting

May 25 - 28 IAHS, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 3rd International Symposium
on
flood Defense: Floods, from Defense to Management

June 6 - 9 IAHS, The Hague, Netherlands, ModelCARE2005: 5th
International
Conference on Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modeling - From
Uncertainty to Decision Making

June 6 - 10 UNESCO/IOC, Paris, France, International Ocean Research
Conference

June 13 - 18 IAGA/IASPEI/IAVCEI, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Geodynamics and
Environmental Problems of High-Mountain Regions in the XXI Century

June 20 - 23 IAHS, Bergen, Norway, HeadWater2005: 6th International
Conference on Hydrology, Ecology, and Water Resources in Headwaters

June 20 - 24 AOGS, Singapore, Singapore, AOGS 2005, the Asia Oceania
Geosciences Society's 2nd Annual Meeting

June 20 - 24 WCRP/GEWEX, Orange County, California, USA, 5th
International
Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle

June 27 - 29 ITC, Chania City, Crete Island, Greece, 22nd IUGG
International
Tsunami Symposium

June 27 -July 1 CAWSES, Monte Porzio Catone, Rome, Italy, Solar Variability
and Earth Climate

End of IUGG Electronic Journal Volume 5 Number 4 (April 2005)
J. A. Joselyn, Secretary General [http://www.IUGG.org]
secretariat@iugg.org fax: 1 303 497 3645

Volume 5 No. 5 (May 1, 2005)

This short, informal newsletter is intended to keep IUGG Member National
Committees informed about the activities of the IUGG Associations, and
actions of the IUGG Secretariat. Past issues are posted on the IUGG Web
site. Please forward this message to those who will benefit from the
information. Your comments are welcome.

Contents

1. Meeting of the IUGG Finance Committee
2. New Address for Masaru Kono
3. IGY+50 Developments
4. In Memoriam
5. ICSU Regional Office for Africa
6. IUGG-related meetings occurring during May - July 2005

1. Meeting of the IUGG Finance Committee

The Chair of the Finance Committee, Dr. Michael Hamlin, arranged for a
meeting of the committee members in Vienna, Austria, on 30 April.
Discussions included a review of IUGG expenditures, category allocations
of IUGG members, and other issues regarding income including
fundraising. A report will be prepared for presentation at the
September IUGG Bureau and Executive Committee meetings in Perugia, Italy.

2. New Address for Masaru Kono

Dr. Masaru Kono, past-President of IUGG and member of the Executive
Committee, retired from Okayama University in March. Congratulations!
His new address follows:
Masaru Kono
Professor emeritus, Okayama University
Professor emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yayoi-cho 2-4-4, Nakano-ku,
Tokyo 164-0013, Japan
Email: mkono@eskiyolcu.com Tel & Fax : +81-3-3375-0525

3. IGY+50 Developments

International Polar Year
Dr. David Carlson has been selected as the Executive Director of the
International Programme Office of the IPY. The Office resides at the
British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, England. In 1991, Dr. Carlson
joined the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research to lead the
International Programme Office for TOGA-COARE (Tropical Ocean Global
Atmosphere - Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment), which
focused on the western Pacific tropical warm ocean pool because of that
region's influence on global atmospheric circulation and on global
climate variability. From 1994-2003, Dr. Carlson directed the
Atmospheric Technology Division within the National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.

International Year of Planet Earth
On April 28. UNESCO's Executive Board approved a Draft Resolution on the
International Year of Planet Earth that recommends that the UN proclaim
an International Year of Planet Earth for 2007. The resolution will be
taken up at the October meeting of the United National General Assembly.

The Business Plan and a Status Report (as of 5 April 2005) for the
International Year are available on the Planet Earth, Earth Sciences for
Society web page. Look for these reports at the bottom of the home page
at http://www.esfs.org.

eGY (Electronic Geophysical Year)
eGY (http://www.egy.org) and the International Polar Year are discussing
ways in which eGY might contribute to IPY programs. In addition, ORFEUS
(Observatories and Research Facilities for EUropean Seismology) has sent
a letter to eGY inviting collaboration on the specific goals of
promoting the use of real-time data within universities, stimulating
outreach activities to schools, and enabling knowledge transfer to
developing countries, as well as promoting collaboration with other
geophysical data exchange facilities in Europe.

International Heliophysical Year (IHY)
IHY held an open meeting on April 28 at the EGU-2005 meeting in Vienna,
and expects to hold regional and international coordination meetings on
June 6-8 in Sozopol, Bulgaria; during the June 20-24 AOGS meeting in
Singapore; and on July 22-23 during the IAGA meeting in Toulouse,
France. A mini-workshop on IHY, eGY, and IPY will be convened in
association with the GEM/CEDAR meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA) on
28 June. For updates and other information on IHY activities, consult
their website: http://ihy/gsfc.nasa.gov .

4. In Memoriam

Word has been received that Dr. Vladimir Ivanovici, At-Large member of
the IAMAS Executive Committee, IAMAS Correspondent from Romania, and
Director of the National Meteorological Administration in Bucharest, has
passed away. He was widely respected, published numerous papers and had
received prestigious awards. We deeply regret the loss of a remarkable
scientist and close collaborator.

5. ICSU Regional Office for Africa

Professor Sospeter Muhongo has been appointed Executive Director of the
ICSU Regional Office for Africa. He is Professor of Geology at the
University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and a fellow of the Third World
Academy of Science (TWAS). He has received numerous awards and
international recognition. A dedicated web-site for the regional office
will open in April at the address http://www.icsu-africa.org .

Information regarding other ICSU (International Council for Science)
activities can be found in their April Newsletter, ICSU Insight, which
can be downloaded from the website http://www.icsu.org . Click on Media
Centre.

6. IUGG-related meetings occurring during May - July 2005

A calendar of meetings of interest to IUGG disciplines (especially those
organized or sponsored by IUGG Associations) is posted on the IUGG Web
Site [www.IUGG.org]. Specific information about these meetings,
including web links, can be found there. Individual Associations also
list more meetings on their web sites appropriate to their disciplines.

May 3 - 5 URSI, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 11th International
Ionospheric
Effects Symposium

May 9 - 14 SCOSTEP, Taipei, Taiwan, China, 11th International Symposium
on
Equatorial Aeronomy

May 16 - 19 Egyptian Geophysical Society, Cairo, Egypt, Imaging the
Future:
Cairo 2005 2nd International Petroleum Conference

May 16 - 20 EGU/CIIFEN, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1st Alexander von Humboldt
International Conference on the El Niño phenomenon and its global impact

May 18 - 20 NMIJ/BIPM, Tsukuba, Japan, NMIJ-BIPM Workshop on the Impact
of
Information Technology on Metrology

May 19 - 20 IAHS, Budapest, Hungary, River Basin Management: Progress
towards implementation of the European Water Framework Directive

May 22 - 26 UN/Algeria/ESA, Algiers, Algeria, International Seminar on
the
Use of Space Technology for Disaster Management: Prevention and
Management of Natural Disasters

May 23 - 27 AGU/SEG/NABS/AAS, New Orleans, LA, USA Joint Meeting

May 25 - 28 IAHS, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 3rd International Symposium
on
flood Defense: Floods, from Defense to Management

June 6 - 9 IAHS, The Hague, Netherlands, ModelCARE2005: 5th
International
Conference on Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modeling - From
Uncertainty to Decision Making

June 6 - 10 UNESCO/IOC, Paris, France, International Ocean Research
Conference

June 13 - 18 IAGA/IASPEI/IAVCEI, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Geodynamics and
Environmental Problems of High-Mountain Regions in the XXI Century

June 20 - 23 IAHS, Bergen, Norway, HeadWater2005: 6th International
Conference on Hydrology, Ecology, and Water Resources in Headwaters

June 20 - 24 AOGS, Singapore, Singapore, AOGS 2005, the Asia Oceania
Geosciences Society's 2nd Annual Meeting

June 20 - 24 WCRP/GEWEX, Orange County, California, USA, 5th
International
Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle

June 27 - 29 ITC, Chania City, Crete Island, Greece, 22nd IUGG
International
Tsunami Symposium

June 27 -July 1 CAWSES, Monte Porzio Catone, Rome, Italy, Solar Variability
and Earth Climate

July 3 - 6 IUGG/UNESCO/AGU/EMI, Baku, Azerbaijan, International
Workshop on
Recent Geodynamics, Georisk and Sustainable Development in the Black Sea
to Caspian Region

July 9 - 16 ICC, A Coruña, Spain, ICC2005 Conference

July 18 - 29 IAGA, Toulouse, France, 10th Scientific Assembly,
www.IUGG.org/IAGA

Advance attention is directed to the remaining Association Assemblies in
2005
August 2 - 11 IAMAS, Beijing, China. www.IAMAS.org

August 22 - 25 IAG/IAPSO, Cairns, Australia, www.dynamicplanet2005.com/

October 2 - 8 IASPEI, Santiago, Chile, www.igm.cl/iaspei/iaspei.htm

End of IUGG Electronic Journal Volume 5 Number 5 (May 2005)
J. A. Joselyn, Secretary General [http://www.IUGG.org]
secretariat@iugg.org fax: 1 303 497 3645

Volume 5 No. 8 (August 1, 2005)

This short, informal newsletter is intended to keep IUGG Member National
Committees informed about the activities of the IUGG Associations, and
actions of the IUGG Secretariat. Past issues are posted on the IUGG Web
site. Please forward this message to those who will benefit from the
information. Your comments are welcome.

Contents

1. Report of the 2005 Tsunami Symposium on Crete island, Greece
2. Report of the IUGG/UNESCO/AGU workshop in Baku, Azerbaijan
3. ICSU News
4. IGY+50 Developments
5. IUGG-related meetings occurring during August - October 2005

1. Report of the 2005 Tsunami Symposium on Crete island, Greece

The 22nd International Tsunami Symposium, organized by the IUGG Tsunami
Commission in association with the National Observatory of Athens,
Greece, was held in the city of Chania, Crete island, from 27 to 29 June
2005. Ninety scientists from more than 20 countries attended. More than
fifteen participants from India, Sri Lanka and other countries were able
to participate thanks to the financial support of IUGG and the Local
Organizing Committee. The 86 papers presented covered all aspects of
tsunami science, technology and risk mitigation organized under four
major sessions: (a) Mediterranean Sea Tsunamis, (b) The Indian Ocean
Earthquakes and Tsunamis, (c) Tsunami Technology and Society, (d)
Miscellaneous. The first three sessions were introduced by a key-note
lecture. Symposium papers will be peer reviewed and will appear in two
special issues of international journals: Annales of Geophysics for
papers about European tsunamis, Pure and Applied Geophysics for Indian
Ocean tsunamis and other topics.

On the afternoon of June 29th, a Symposium field-trip was organized in
the coastal site of Phalasarna, northwest Crete, where archaeological
and geological evidence exist about the large historical earthquake and
tsunami of 21 July 365 AD. During a pre-Symposium optional tour on 26th
June, some of the participants had the opportunity to visit the famous
Minoan (2nd millennium BC) palace of Knossos, the archaeological museum,
and the coastal Minoan settlement of Amnissos, and to understand what is
the archaeological and geological evidence about the large
pre-historical (~1630 BC) Minoan tsunami, its generation from the
collapse of the volcanic cone of Santorini and its possible link with
the decline of the Minoan civilization.

Article contributed by G. Papadopoulos

2. Report of the IUGG/UNESCO/AGU workshop in Baku, Azerbaijan

The International Workshop "Recent Geodynamics, Georisk and Sustainable
Development of the Black Sea to Caspian Sea Region," held in Baku,
Azerbaijan from 3 to 6 July 2005, was organized by the IUGG Commission
on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability in association with the
International Hydrological Program of UNESCO, the American Geophysical
Union, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg Academy of
Sciences and Humanities, and the Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative.
About fifty scientists from 12 countries attended, and 19 invited
speakers delivered talks at the workshop that was supported by IUGG,
UNESCO, and ExxonMobil Company.

The Workshop brought people of natural, social and political sciences
together with representatives of industry, governments, and mass media
to prepare the social and political background for sustainable
development in the Black Sea to Caspian Sea region. The invited and
contributed presentations dealt with the recent geodynamics of the
region, natural hazards (earthquakes, mud volcanoes, landslides, rapid
sea level changes), associated risks, and mitigation of the impacts of
geohazards on society. Peer-reviewed Workshop papers are to be published
by the American Institute of Physics in early 2006. The Program and
Abstracts of the Workshop can be downloaded from:
http://www.iugg-georisk.org/events/workshops/baku2005/program_abstracts.pdf.

The Workshop participants adopted recommendations to governments,
relevant UN agencies, ICSU bodies, and funding institutions. The text of
the Baku Workshop's recommendations can be found at
http://www.iugg-georisk.org/events/workshops/baku2005/wsrecommend.pdf

The Workshop participants visited active mud volcanoes of the Absheron
peninsula, Azerbaijan. Despite their present "peaceful" activity, the
dynamics of mud volcanoes are quite complicated. One of the mud
volcano's eruptions in the middle of XXth century is considered as a
large event: gas and mud fountain from the Earth's interior rose to
about 1000 m above the orifice of the volcano, and a big area was
covered by mud lavas.

Article contributed by Alik Ismail-Zadeh

3. News from the International Council for Science (ICSU)

The ICSU Grants for 2006 have been announced. Two of the grant proposals
for which IUGG was a co-applicant were successful. They are "Science for
Health and Well-Being" submitted by the International Union of
Biological Sciences (IUBS), and "Dynamics of semi-enclosed marine
ecosystems: the integrated effects of changes in sediment and nutrient
inputs from land" submitted by the Scientific Committee on Problems of
the Environment (SCOPE). For the latter proposal, Prof. Paola Rizzoli,
past-President of IAPSO, is a co-Investigator, as is Robert Duce,
past-President of both IAMAS and SCOR. Each proposal was awarded
$50,000, the maximum allocation for 2006 grants.

The inauguration ceremony for the ICSU Regional Office for Africa,
located in Pretoria, South Africa, will be held on 1 September. The
Director is Professor Sospeter M. Muhongo. The Vision, Mission, and
Objectives of the Office, along with other announcements and news items,
can be found at http://www.icsu-africa.org. Professor Charles Merry,
Chair of the IUGG National Committee for South Africa, will represent
IUGG at the ceremony.

At the upcoming ICSU General Assembly in October, it will be proposed
that the ICSU Standing Committee on Freedom in the Conduct of Science
(SCFCS) should be replaced by a new Committee on Universality. Under the
aegis of the ICSU Executive Board, the Committee will have both policy
development and management responsibilities relating to the Principle of
Universality of Science. This encompasses the rights of scientists both
to freely associate and to freely pursue their science, and the
responsibilities incumbent in these rights. Nominations are now being
sought for members of this committee. Please contact the IUGG
secretariat (secretariat@iugg.org) for more information and to obtain a
nomination form. Nominations from IUGG must be coordinated through the
Secretariat and must be received by 31 August.

Also at the ICSU General Assembly, a new ICSU International Programme on
"Natural and Human-Induced Environmental Hazards" will be proposed. In
March, ICSU issued a call for nominations for persons to serve on an ad
hoc Scoping Group to review present activities and define the scientific
goals for the new Programme. IUGG submitted a number of nominations, and
Dr. Tom Beer, IUGG Vice-President and former Chair of the GeoRisk
Commission, was selected for the Scoping Group. The Group is chaired by
Professor Gordon McBean, who was a member of the IUGG Bureau from 1987-1995.

4. IGY+50 Developments

International Heliophysical Year (IHY)
The IHY is an international programme of global research to understand
the external drivers of the space environment and climate, continuing
the tradition of previous International years. A recent short,
introductory article about IHY written by Richard Harrison, Andy Breen,
Barbara Bromage, and Joe Davila can be downloaded from
http://ihy.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/AAG46327.pdf
For information about United Nations Basic Space Science Initiative
(UNBSSI) in celebration of the International Heliophysical Year (IHY
2007), visit
http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SAP/bss/ihy2007/index.html
The "IGY Gold" nomination form (for those persons who participated in
the scientific activities of IGY 1957) is now online at
http://ihy.gsfc.nasa.gov/igy_gold_reg.shtml .
For updated general information about the IHY, including the 23 July IHY
News Note #6, visit the website http://ihy2007.org/

electronic Geophysical Year (eGY)
The July 2005 issue of the eGY News (No. 9) has been posted on their web
site http://www.egy.org . Items of interest include a resolution of
endorsement by the Council of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society
(AOGS), and listings of upcoming meetings, symposia, and presentations
as well as short reports from past meetings.

5. IUGG-related meetings occurring during August - October 2005

A calendar of meetings of interest to IUGG disciplines (especially those
organized or sponsored by IUGG Associations) is posted on the IUGG Web
Site [www.IUGG.org]. Specific information about these meetings,
including web links, can be found there. Individual Associations also
list more meetings on their web sites appropriate to their disciplines.

August 2 - 11 IAMAS, Beijing, China, Scientific Assembly

August 10 - 12 IGBP, Beijing, China, 2nd PAGES (Past Global Changes)
Open Science Meeting

August 21 - 27 IAHS, Stockholm, Sweden, World Water Week, Seminar on:
Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB): Data, Science and Policy

August 22 - 25 IAG/IAPSO/IABO, Cairns, Australia, Joint Scientific Assembly

August 23 - 25 EMSEV/Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Sumatra Island,
Indonesia, Workshop on the earthquake and tsunami in Padang

August 24 - 27 NUPRS, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Nigerian Union of
Planetary Sciences (NUPRS) International Conference on Early Warning for
Tsunamis in the Gulf of Guinea

September 5 - 7 IAHS, Gauteng, South Africa, 12th South African National
Hydrology Symposium: Managing Water for People and the Environment

September 6 - 10 ICSU/IUGS Como, Italy, Dark Nature: Rapid Natural
Changes and Human Responses - Final Conference Session on
Paleoseismology, Seismic Hazard, and the INQUA Scale Project

September 7 - 9 ISPRS, Trier, Germany, 1st International Conference on
Remote Sensing and Geomatics in the Assessment and Monitoring of Land
Degradation and Desertification

September 7 -10 IAHS, Menton, France, 6th EWRA International Conference:
Sharing a common vision for our water resources

September 8 - 14 IASPEI, Erice Sicily, Italy, 9th International Workshop
on Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics

September 9 - 11 IUGG, Perugia, Italy, IUGG Executive Committee meeting

September 11 - 17 NATO, Resort Village Borovetz, Bulgaria, Earthquake
Monitoring and Seismic Hazard Mitigation in Balkan Countries

September 12 - 13 IUGG, Perugia, Italy, 2007 General Assembly Scientific
Programme Committee meeting

September 12 - 15 FIG, Qingdao, China, 12th International Symposium on
Deformation Measurement

September 12 - 16 ECAM, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 5th Meeting of the
European Meteorological Society

September 14 -16 CODATA, Berlin, Germany, ISGI 2005 - International
CODATA Symposium on Generalization of Information

September 14- 19 IAHS, Belgrade & Kotor, Serbia, Water Resources &
Environmental Problems in Karst - Cvijic 2005

September 17 - 23 IAHS, Guangzhou and Three Gorges, China
International Conference on Reservoir Operation and River Management (ICROM)

September 19 - 25 IAHS, Irkutsk, Russia, 2nd International Conference on
Fundamental Problems of Investigation and Use of Water Resources

September 26 - 28 IASPEI, Madrid, Spain, Workshop on Fracture Dynamics:
Theory and applications to earthquakes; in honour of Prof. A. Udias

October 2 - 8 IASPEI, Santiago, Chile, IASPEI 33rd General Assembly

October 3 - 5 IAG/FIG/ISPRS, Vienna, Austria, 7th Conference on Optical
3-D Measurement Techniques

October 3 - 15 IASPEI/ICTP, Miramare-Trieste, Italy, 8th Workshop on
Non-linear Dynamics and Earthquake Prediction

October 9 - 13 IHDP, Bonn, Germany, 6th Open Meeting of the Global
Environmental Change Research Community

October 9 - 12 IUGG/BGS, Bucharest, Romania, 4th Congress of the Balkan
Geophysical Society

October 17 - 21 IAC, Fukuoka, Japan, 56th International Astronautical
Congress

October 17 - 22 ICSU, Shanghai, China, 27th General Assembly

October 23 - 28 IAHS, Shanghai, China, 7th International Symposium on
Land Subsidence

October 23 -28 IAG/BGI/ICET, Lanzarote, Canaries Archipelago, Summer
School on Micro-gravimetric methods: static and dynamic aspects

October 23 - 29 URSI, New Delhi, India, URSI General Assembly

October 31 - November 2 UNESCO, IUPAP, Durban, South Africa, World
Conference on Physics and Sustainable Development

October 31- November 3 ASOVIG & LUZ, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 2nd
International Congress in Geodesy and Cartography; 1st Iberoamerican
Symposium on Recent Earth Crust Movements

End of IUGG Electronic Journal Volume 5 Number 8 (August 2005)
J. A. Joselyn, Secretary General [http://www.IUGG.org]
secretariat@iugg.org fax: 1 303 497 3645

Volume 5 No. 9 (September 1, 2005)

This short, informal newsletter is intended to keep IUGG Member National
Committees informed about the activities of the IUGG Associations, and
actions of the IUGG Secretariat. Past issues are posted on the IUGG Web
site. Please forward this message to those who will benefit from the
information. Your comments are welcome.

Contents

1. IUGG Web site to be updated September 12
2. Report of the IAGA Scientific Assembly in Toulouse, France, July
18-29, 2005
3. IGY+50 Developments
4. First CAWSES Global Tidal Campaign and Second CAWSES Space Weather
and Atmospheric Coupling Campaign
5. IUGG-related meetings occurring during September ? November 2005

1. IUGG Web site to be updated September 12

The IUGG Web site was designed by and is maintained by the University of
Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
(CIRES). Kathy Zellers, our CIRES Webmaster, has worked with IUGG
Assistant Secretary General Katina Rogers to restructure our home page
and to update the content throughout the site, including a search
engine. The release date for the new site is set for September 12. The
French language site is still under construction, but will be completed
soon. We trust that you will enjoy the improvements!

2. Report of the IAGA Scientific Assembly in Toulouse, France, July
18-29, 2005

The 'Comit? National Francais de G?od?sie et G?ophysique' (CNFGG) and
the Local Organising Committee under the leadership of Roland Schlich,
Michel Blanc and Michel Menvielle organised a very good meeting in a
most suitable Conference Centre: Pierre Baudis in central Toulouse.
There were 61 scientific symposia covering all parts of the scientific
fields of IAGA and of ICMA, which was a partner in organising the
Assembly. In addition, a large number of planning and 'business'
meetings were held. 886 persons attended.

Two of the most important decisions taken during the Assembly by the
Conference of Delegates of the Member Countries were the following:
1) The 11th Scientific Assembly of IAGA in 2009 will take place in
Sopron, Hungary, preliminarily on August 23-29.
2) Future IAGA assemblies will be one week long (6 full working days)
and the preceding Sunday will be used for administrative meetings.

A number of Resolutions were passed by the Assembly Delegates. Only the
titles of these resolutions are listed here, but the full text can be
obtained from the IAGA Secretary General.
Resolution 1 Open access to scientific data
Resolution 2 Data rescue
Resolution 3 International Decade of Geopotential Field Research:
availability of data and models
Resolution 4 Continuity and rapid production of auroral electrojet indices
Resolution 5 International Year initiatives celebrating the IGY
Resolution 6 Geomagnetic observations in Russia
Resolution 7 Resolution to maintain ground-based observatories to
support magnetospheric/ionospheric dynamics research
Resolution 8 Resolution of thanks

Article contributed by Bengt Hultqvist

3. IGY+50 Developments

A joint meeting of the various Geo-Years (I*Y): IPY ? the International
Polar Year; IYPE ? International Year of Planet Earth; IHY ?
International Heliophysical Year; and eGY ? electronic Geophysical Year,
will be held at the Villa Celimontana in Rome on 7 September. The Villa
Celimontana is the Secretariat for the International Geographical Union,
and representatives of all of the GeoUnions were invited to attend as
well as a representative from the SCOSTEP program CAWSES ? Climate and
Weather of the Sun-Earth System.

International Year of Planet Earth
Procedures are in progress to modify the UNESCO Draft Resolution on the
Proclamation of the Year of Planet Earth, passed unopposed by the UNESCO
Executive Board in April, to change the effective year of the
proclamation to 2008 instead of 2007. It is expected that this matter
will be taken up at the UN General Assembly in October. Several new
founding partners have joined the Management Team for the Year. These
include the International Union for Quaternary Research, the American
Geological Institute, and the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists. A Development Committee responsible for fundraising has been
formed. Expressions of Interest (EoI) for the ten science themes
(Climate Change, Deep Earth, Earth and health, Groundwater, Hazards,
Life, Megacities, Ocean, Resources, and Soil), and the Outreach
Programme are now invited. The Overview document (Planet Earth in our
Hands) and brochures on most of the themes as well as the EoI forms may
be downloaded from the website: http://www.yearofplanetearth.org or
www.esfs.org .

electronic Geophysical Year (eGY)
A new eGY Working Group on Data Rescue and Preservation has been formed;
Jeffrey Love (USGS, Golden Colorado) is the Chair. Those interested in
this working group should contact Jeffrey at jlove@usgs.gov. A regional
eGY Committee in India will be established. Prof. Aswathanarayana,
Hyderabad, India, is the Chair. For more news about eGY including recent
EPO (education and public outreach) activities, please visit the website
http://www.egy.org and download eGY News No. 10 (August 2005), edited by
Marissa Rusinek.

4. First CAWSES Global Tidal Campaign and Second CAWSES Space Weather
and Atmospheric Coupling Campaign

CAWSES ? Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System - is a
comprehensive international scientific program of the ICSU Scientific
Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) planned for 2004-2008.
One component of the program, the first Global Tidal Campaign, September
1 ? October 31, 2005, is expected to identify and stimulate observations
that will contribute to understanding the sources and propagation
characteristics of migrating and non-migrating atmospheric tides
throughout the atmosphere. Another component, the second Space Weather
Campaign, is timed to coincide with the Incoherent Scatter Radar
operations that combines the efforts of an ongoing Lower Thermosphere
Coupling Studies campaign and a Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Thermosphere
campaign. More information on these efforts can be found on the CAWSES
web site at http://www.bu.edu/cawses under the campaigns tab.

5. IUGG-related meetings occurring during September ? November 2005

A calendar of meetings of interest to IUGG disciplines (especially those
organized or sponsored by IUGG Associations) is posted on the IUGG Web
Site [www.IUGG.org]. Specific information about these meetings,
including web links, can be found there. Individual Associations also
list more meetings on their web sites appropriate to their disciplines.

September 5 ? 7 IAHS, Gauteng, South Africa, 12th South African National
Hydrology Symposium: Managing Water for People and the Environment

September 7 ? 9 ISPRS, Trier, Germany, 1st International Conference on
Remote Sensing and Geomatics in the Assessment and Monitoring of Land
Degradation and Desertification

September 7 ?10 IAHS, Menton, France, 6th EWRA International Conference:
Sharing a common vision for our water resources

September 8 ? 11 IUGG, Perugia, Italy, IUGG Bureau and Executive
Committee meetings

September 8 ? 14 IASPEI, Erice Sicily, Italy, 9th International Workshop
on Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics

September 12 - 13 IUGG, Perugia, Italy, 2007 General Assembly Scientific
Programme Committee meeting

September 12 ? 15 FIG, Qingdao, China, 12th International Symposium on
Deformation Measurement

September 14 ?16 CODATA, Berlin, Germany, ISGI 2005 - International
CODATA Symposium on Generalization of Information

September 14- 19 IAHS, Belgrade & Kotor, Serbia, Water Resources &
Environmental Problems in Karst - Cvijic 2005

September 17 ? 23 IAHS, Guangzhou and Three Gorges, China
International Conference on Reservoir Operation and River Management (ICROM)

September 19 ? 24 IAVCEI/IASPEI, Saint Guadeloupe, France, Annual
Workshop of the European Seismological Commission ? Quantifying Volcanic
Activity

September 19 ? 25 IAHS, Irkutsk, Russia, 2nd International Conference on
Fundamental Problems of Investigation and Use of Water Resources

October 2 ? 8 IASPEI, Santiago, Chile, Scientific Assembly

October 3 ? 5 IAG/FIG/ISPRS, Vienna, Austria, 7th Conference on Optical
3-D Measurement Techniques

October 3 ? 15 IASPEI/ICTP, Miramare-Trieste, Italy, 8th Workshop on
Non-linear Dynamics and Earthquake Prediction

October 9 ? 13 IHDP, Bonn, Germany, 6th Open Meeting of the Global
Environmental Change Research Community

October 9 ? 12 IUGG/BGS, Bucharest, Romania, 4th Congress of the Balkan
Geophysical Society

October 17 ? 22 ICSU, Shanghai, China, 27th General Assembly

October 23 ? 28 IAHS, Shanghai, China, 7th International Symposium on
Land Subsidence

October 23 ?28 IAG/BGI/ICET, Lanzarote, Canaries Archipelago, Summer
School on Micro-gravimetric methods: static and dynamic aspects

October 23 ? 29 URSI, New Delhi, India, URSI General Assembly

October 31 - November 3 ASOVIG & LUZ, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 2nd
International Congress in Geodesy and Cartography; 1st Iberoamerican
Symposium on Recent Earth Crust Movements

November 1 ? 3 IASPEI, Lisbon, Portugal, International Conference on the
250th Anniversary of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake

November 3 ? 4 EMSEV, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, EMSEV 2005 Workshop

November 10 ? 12 UNESCO/ICSU, Budapest, Hungary, World Science Forum

November 20 ? 25 UN/ESA, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates, Workshop on Basic
Space Science with special emphasis on the IHY

November 22 ? 24 IAHS, Montpellier, France, International Seminar in the
UNESCO-IHP-FRIEND program: Climatic and Anthropogenic Impacts on the
Variability of Water Resources

November 25 ? 27 IASPEI, Tanta, Egypt, 4th International Symposium on
Geophysics

End of IUGG Electronic Journal Volume 5 Number 9 (September 2005)
J. A. Joselyn, Secretary General [http://www.IUGG.org]
secretariat@iugg.org fax: 1 303 497 3645

Volume 5 No. 10 (October 1, 2005)

This short, informal newsletter is intended to keep IUGG Member National
Committees informed about the activities of the IUGG Associations, and
actions of the IUGG Secretariat. Past issues are posted on the IUGG Web
site. Please forward this message to those who will benefit from the
information. Your comments are welcome.

Contents

1. IUGG Executive Committee Meeting Report
2. Call for Invitations to Host the 2011 IUGG General Assembly
3. Disaster Management of Rare Events
4. Meeting of the International Year Programs, Rome, 6-7 September 2005
5. IAPSO Honors and Awards
6. IUGG-related meetings occurring during October – December 2005

1. IUGG Executive Committee Meeting Report

From 9-11 September 2005, the IUGG Executive Committee (EC) met in
Perugia, Italy, the site of the 2007 IUGG General Assembly. The Local
Organizing Committee, chaired by Prof. Lucio Ubertini, excelled in their
efforts to host a most successful meeting of the EC and also a follow-on
meeting of the 2007 General Assembly Scientific Programme Committee,
chaired by Prof. Paola Rizzoli. The EC meeting was preceded by a meeting
of the IUGG Bureau. Prof. Michael Hamlin, Chair of the IUGG Finance
Committee, attended the Bureau and EC meetings during discussions of
financial matters. Quite a number of decisions were made and actions
assigned during these 3 separate meetings. A few of the decisions from
the EC meeting are reported below. Others will be included in future
issues of the E-Journal.

The EC agreed unanimously to support the petition of the Union
Commission on Cryospheric Sciences to become an Association. The matter
will be proposed to the 2007 IUGG Council in Perugia for a final vote.

The EC reaffirmed their decision made at the 2004 meeting in Boulder to
establish a committee to impartially review and evaluate all bids that
may be received to host the 2011 General Assembly. That decision was
modified to clarify that all proposals received will be presented to the
Council for their selection.

The EC reaffirmed their support of the concept of an IUGG project on
GeoSciences in Africa, and decided to suspend the call for
interdisciplinary initiatives in developing countries (IUGG Budget line
18.1) for the next two years in order to accumulate a fund of $50K to be
used to enable initial activity and especially to leverage fund-raising
from external sources.

2. Call for Invitations to Host the 2011 IUGG General Assembly

Invitations to host the 2011 General Assembly are now being accepted and
must be received by January 2006. The guidelines for proposals are
posted on the recently updated IUGG website, or can be received directly
from the IUGG Secretariat (secretariat@iugg.org). To find the guidelines
on the web site (http://www.IUGG.org), click on the general heading of
General Assemblies. The IUGG Council, at their 2007 meeting in Perugia,
will make the final selection among the invitations that may be received.

3. Disaster Management of Rare Events

The human and environmental disasters caused by the earthquake/tsunami
of December 2004 and the recent coastal flooding caused by Atlantic and
Gulf Coast hurricanes have brought into sharp focus the vulnerability of
our urban populations, both in developed and developing countries, to
extreme natural events. The members of the IUGG Union Commission on
Geophysical Risk and Sustainability, chaired by Alik Ismail-Zadeh, and
the leaders of our IUGG Associations are engaged in discussions
concerning the various issues involved in a natural disaster such as
accurate assessments of the risks from various phenomena including
volcanoes and landslides (hazard maps), costly but economically feasible
engineering solutions, and general public education and preparedness. Of
course, these discussions must be held within the context of societal
realities. As scientists, we can contribute our understanding of both
long and short-term geophysical/geographical risks as political leaders
balance how to sustain and protect their citizens not only from
earthquakes and floods, but also from the ravages of drought and poverty.

4. Meeting of the International Year Programs, Rome, 6-7 September 2005

Leaders of the International Polar Year, the International Year of
Planet Earth, the International Heliophysical Year, and the Electronic
Geophysical Year (eGY) met at the Villa Celimontana (IGU’s “Home of
Geography”) to explore areas for collaboration. The four programs view
themselves as mutually supportive, and expressed a strong desire for
cooperation and continuing dialog. This is set out in a formal agreement
– the “Celimontana Declaration”. Two particular areas were identified
for cooperation: Data and Information Systems, and Education and Public
Outreach. The scientific bodies represented at the meeting included the
International Geographical Union (IGU), IUGG, the International Society
for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), IUGG Union Commission on
Cryospheric Sciences (UCCS), the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), the
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the ICSU Panel on World Data
Centers, ICSU Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), and the
Geological Society of London.

Article contributed by Charles Barton, President of IAGA and Chair of eGY

5. IAPSO Honors and Awards

The International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans
(IAPSO) is pleased to announce that the 2005 Eugene LaFond Medal for
Oceanography in a Developing Country has been awarded to Maria del
Carmen Grados of the Instituto del Mar del Peru (IMARPE), Callao, Peru.
In an oral and a poster presentation at the Joint IAG/IAPSO/IABO
Assembly in Cairns, Australia, she presented an end-to-end program of
research and monitoring to address the physical environment, fishery
impacts, and fishery management in the oceans off Peru. The presentation
covered the observing system, climatological data analysis,
interpretation of interannual variability in the oceans and the fishery
impacts. An outcome of this work is a clear change in the impact of El
Niño on regional fisheries. Both the 1972 and 1997 El Niño events had a
large impact, but the improved observation and management system meant
that recovery occurred in about two years as opposed to 15 years.

The 2005 Prince Albert I Medal was awarded to Prof. Dr. Friedrich
Schott, Kiel University at the 2005 IAG/IAPSO/IABO Joint Assembly in
Cairns, Australia. The Medal citation commended Prof. Schott for his
unique and brilliant combination of major observational programs and
dynamical insight that has unraveled the basic physics and the
variability of many key regions of the World's oceans. In particular,
his descriptions of the circulation of the Indian Ocean and the
subtropical Atlantic, along with their western boundary currents, have
provided the foundation for further large-scale international programs
on the role of the ocean in climate. Prof. Schott has also been a leader
in observing and understanding the key processes of deep convection in
the Labrador, Greenland, and Mediterranean Seas. Prof. Schott is known
for his discovery, with Hank Stommel, of the "beta spiral," a
fundamental feature of ocean currents, has made major contributions to
our understanding of higher frequency phenomena such as internal tides.
Prof. Schott has been a tireless contributor and leader in international
programs such as the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), the
Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), and the Climate Variability and
Predictability Study (CLIVAR), and in spearheading Germany's major
contributions to these programs.

6. IUGG-related meetings occurring during October – December 2005

A calendar of meetings of interest to IUGG disciplines (especially those
organized or sponsored by IUGG Associations) is posted on the IUGG Web
Site [www.IUGG.org]. Specific information about these meetings,
including web links, can be found there. Individual Associations also
list more meetings on their web sites appropriate to their disciplines.

October 2 – 8 IASPEI, Santiago, Chile, Scientific Assembly

October 3 – 5 IAG/FIG/ISPRS, Vienna, Austria, 7th Conference on Optical
3-D Measurement Techniques

October 3 – 15 IASPEI/ICTP, Miramare-Trieste, Italy, 8th Workshop on
Non-linear Dynamics and Earthquake Prediction

October 9 – 13 IHDP, Bonn, Germany, 6th Open Meeting of the Global
Environmental Change Research Community

October 9 – 12 IUGG/BGS, Bucharest, Romania, 4th Congress of the Balkan
Geophysical Society

October 15 – 21 IAVCEI, Tenerife, Spain, Workshop on Caldera Volcanism:
Analysis, Modeling and Response

October 17 – 22 ICSU, Shanghai, China, 27th General Assembly

October 23 – 28 IAHS, Shanghai, China, 7th International Symposium on
Land Subsidence

October 23 –28 IAG/BGI/ICET, Lanzarote, Canaries Archipelago, Summer
School on Micro-gravimetric methods: static and dynamic aspects

October 23 – 29 URSI, New Delhi, India, URSI General Assembly

October 30 - November 1 IAHS, Nanjing, China, International Symposium on
Methodology in Hydrology

October 31 - November 3 ASOVIG & LUZ, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 2nd
International Congress in Geodesy and Cartography; 1st Iberoamerican
Symposium on Recent Earth Crust Movements

November 1 – 3 IASPEI, Lisbon, Portugal, International Conference on the
250th Anniversary of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake

November 3 – 4 EMSEV, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, EMSEV 2005 Workshop

November 10 – 12 UNESCO/ICSU, Budapest, Hungary, World Science Forum

November 10 – 14 IAGA, Chengdu, China, Seventh China International
Geo-Electromagnetic Workshop

November 16 – 20 IAVCEI, Tagaytay City, Philippines, Chapman Conference
on the Effects of Basement, Structure, and Statigraphic Heritages on
Volcano Behavior.

November 20 – 25 UN/ESA, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates, Workshop on Basic
Space Science with special emphasis on the IHY

November 22 – 24 IAHS, Montpellier, France, International Seminar in the
UNESCO-IHP-FRIEND program: Climatic and Anthropogenic Impacts on the
Variability of Water Resources

November 25 – 27 IASPEI, Tanta, Egypt, 4th International Symposium on
Geophysics

December 5 – 9 AGU, San Francisco, California, USA, Fall Meeting

December 7 – 9 Indian Geophysical Union, Bhopal, India, 42nd Convention
on Earth System Processes related to Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanic
Eruptions

End of IUGG Electronic Journal Volume 5 Number 10 (October 2005)
J. A. Joselyn, Secretary General [http://www.IUGG.org]
secretariat@iugg.org fax: 1 303 497 3645