Gy. Tóth | 2020-07-24

July 2020

General Announcements

  • Jürgen Müller appointed Chair of the IUGG 2023 Scientific Committee
  • IAG General Assembly 2021
  • Journal of Geodesy continues to improve

Meeting Announcements

  • International Autumn School "NEROGRAV"

Meeting Calendar

IAG Sponsored Meetings

  • 2nd International Symposium of Commission 4: Positioning and Applications
  • International Autumn School "NEROGRAV"
  • International Workshop on GNSS Ionosphere (IWGI2020)
  • International DORIS Service Workshop (Virtual Workshop)
  • 22nd International Workshop on Laser Ranging
  • 43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly
  • EUREF 2021 Symposium
  • 19th International Symposium on Geodynamics and Earth Tides (G-ET Symposium 2021)
  • IAG Scientific Assembly
  • IGS Workshop "IGS 2021: Science from Earth to Space"

IAG Related Meetings

  • International Symposium on Satellite Navigation (ISSN 2020)
  • 22nd meeting of the Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency (CCTF)
  • AOGS Annual 18th Meeting

General Announcements

Jürgen Müller appointed Chair of the IUGG2023 Scientific Committee

The IUGG Executive Committee unanimously endorsed the appointment of Prof. Jürgen Müller to the position of the Chair of the Scientific Program Committee (SPC) for the IUGG General Assembly 2023 (IUGG2023) to be held in Berlin. Jürgen has been President of the German National Committee since 2012 and IAG National Correspondent for Germany since 2005.

The SPC consists of the Chair, nine Members (Secretaries General of the eight Union Associations plus the IUGG Secretary General) and the IUGG President (ex-officio).

The SPC for IUGG2023 will include the following members:

  • Chair: Jürgen Müller (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)
  • IACS Secretary General: Richard Essery (The University of Edinburgh, UK)
  • IAG Secretary General: Markku Poutanen (National Land Survey of Finland)
  • IAGA Secretary General: Monika Korte (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences)
  • IAHS Secretary General: Christophe Cudennec (Agrocampus Ouest, France)
  • IAMAS Secretary General: Steve Ackerman (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
  • IAPSO Secretary General: Stefania Sparnocchia (CNR-ISMAR Institute of Marine Sciences, Italy)
  • IASPEI Secretary General: Johannes Schweitzer (NORSAR, Norway)
  • IAVCEI Secretary General: Roberto Sulpizio (University of Bari, Italy)
  • IUGG Secretary General: Alexander Rudloff (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences)
  • IUGG President: Kathy Whaler (The University of Edinburgh, UK)

Source: IUGG Electronic Journal 20(7), 1 July 2020

IAG General Assembly 2021

IAG Scientific Assembly will be organized in Beijing on June 28 - July 3, 2021. The host organizations are Chinese Society for Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography (CSGPC), Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping (CASM), and Chinese National Committee for IAG (CNC-IAG). There will be seven symposia:

  • Symposium 1: Reference Frames (Organizer Christopher Kotsakis), 
  • Symposium 2: Gravity and Gravity Field (Organizer Adrian Jäggi) divided in two sub-symposia on Static and Time-variable gravity field, 
  • Symposium 3: Earth Rotation and Geodynamics (Organizer Janusz Bogusz), 
  • Symposium 4: Positioning and applications (Organizer Allison Kealy), 
  • Symposium 5: Observation Systems and IAG Services (Organizer Basara Miyahara), 
  • Symposium 6: Applications of Geodetic Techniques to Geohazards (Organizers John LaBrecque, Allison Craddock), and 
  • Symposium 7: Inter-Commission Committees and Project Symposium (Organizers Pavel Novák, Annette Eicker, Yuanxi Yang, Jürgen Müller).

MARKKU POUTANEN
IAG Secretary General

Journal of Geodesy continues to improve

Journal of Geodesy ranks now as number 8 in the category Geosciences, Multidisciplinary, considering that there are 200 journals in this category. Impact Factor of the journal now (2019) is 4.806 and increased the IF 2018 which was 4.528.


IAG COB

Meeting Announcements

International Autumn School "NEROGRAV"

The International Autumn School "NEROGRAV" will take place 5-9 October 2020 in Bad Neuenahr (near Bonn), Germany. The school is organized by the Research Unit NEROGRAV (New Refined Observations of Climate Change from Spaceborne Gravity Missions) which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It will educate a group of 35 Ph.D. students and junior scientists in state of the art satellite gravimetry data processing and applications of mass transport data in Earth system sciences related with the global water cycle, the oceans, the cryosphere or the atmosphere.

Participation Fee will be 295 EUR, all details incl. flyer are available at https://www.bgu.tum.de/iapg/nerograv/. There are some vacant places. Please register as soon as possible not to miss the school!

Jürgen Kusche  and Frank Flechtner

Meetings Calendar

IAG Sponsored Meetings

IAG Related Meetings

Further details are available in the IAG Event Calendar at: http://www.iag-aig.org/events.



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