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Takuji Nakamura - Vice-Chair: Scientific commission on space studies of the upper atmosphere of the earth and planets
in 1995 and 1999, respectively, and at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as Visiting Professor in 2000.
the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Beijing in 1958. From 1958 to the present day, he has worked in the Institute of Mechanics for the first 20 years following his graduation as a research assistant, then from 1978 to 1984 as an Associated Professor, with the responsibility as a teacher of Ph.D. students, thereafter as full professor. In addition, Professor Hu served as Chief Scientist and Deputy Director General of the Establishment of Space Science and Application (of the Chinese Academy of Sciences CAS) between 1992 and 1994. The prime focus of his academic interest from 1989 onwards has been basic microgravity research.
In 1995, Wen-Rui Hu was elected an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Science, and he became a corresponding member of the International Astronautics Academy (IAA) in 1996 and a full member thereof in 2001.
Takuji N a k a m u r a - Vice-Chair: Scientific C o m m i s s i o n on Space Studies of the U p p e r A t m o s p h e r e of the Earth and Planets
Among the responsibilities that he has undertaken, Professor Hu cites a study of the global character of the solar terrestrial system in the 22 "d solar circle (1987-1991), service on the space processing and microgravity applications committee of the International Federation of Astronautics, member (from 1988 to the present day) of an Expert Committee of Aerospace - National High Technology Development Programme (19871991), Vice-Chairman o f a CAS Committee on Space Science and Application (1989-1992), member o f the Chinese National Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (1991-1994) and of the CAS Space Science Committee (1999-2002), President of the National Society of Microgravity Science and Application (1991-2001), member o f the IAA Small Satellite Committee (1991-present), ViceChairman of the CAS Committee of Mechanics (1992-2002), and Vice-President of the Chinese Society of Space Science (19962001).
akuji Nakamura is currently Associate Professor of the Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH) in Kyoto University, Japan.
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He served as Vice-Chaimaan o f COSPAR Scientific Commission G from 1996 to 2000 and was re-elected to that position for a further four years in 2004.
He was born on 2 April 1961 in Kobe, Japan, and received his first (B.E.), second (M.E.) and third (Ph.D.) degrees in electronic engineering from Kyoto University in 1984, 1986 and 1992, respectively. For three years between 1986 and 1989, he worked for Communication Equipment Works, Mitsubishi Electric Co., following which he moved back to Kyoto University as a Research Associate of the Radio Atmospheric Science Centre
Professor Hu spent time at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado (1981-1982) as a senior scientist, at Waseda University and Kyushu Universities in Japan as a research professor -
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(RASC). He became Associate Professor of the RASC in 1998. His major research interests have been system design and signal processing of atmospheric radars, radar and optical remote sensing techniques of the atmosphere, the dynamics and aeronomy of the Earth's atmosphere, and radio scattering mechanism of meteor phenomena.
data. He is a co-investigator of several magnetic and electric field instruments on ongoing and future magnetospheric spacecraft missions (including Cluster-H, Double Star, and THEMIS).
[ Brief Notes
CryoSat Replacement
Joachim Vogt - Vice-Chair: Panel on Capacity Building
t a recent meeting of ESA's Earth Observation Programme Board, which took place at ESA's Headquarters in Paris on 23 and 24 February, ESA received the green light from its Member States to build and launch a CryoSat recovery mission, CryoSat-2.
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[From an ESA Release, 24 February 2006; see also SRT 164, p. 23]
International Geophysical Calendar for 2006 he 2006 International Geophysical Celendar, issued under the auspices of the International Space Environment Service, is now available on-line at www.isesspaceweather.org.
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fter studying geophysics and mathematics at the University of KNn, Joachim Vogt received his diploma in geophysics in 1993. Between 1993 and 1998, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, near Mfinchen - first as a doctoral student and subsequently, after finishing his thesis, as acting head of the Auroral Imaging Group. From 1999 to 2001 he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology in Braunschweig and in the fall of 2001 he joined the International University Bremen as a member of the initial faculty at this new institution. His areas of interest include magnetohydrodynamic simulations of space plasmas, the theory of coupling processes in the Earth's magnetosphere, auroral imaging, and the analysis of spacecraft
New Director of the BNSC
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n 2 February 2006, the Minister for Science and Innovation of the UK Government announced that Dr David Williams had been appointed as the next Director General of the British National Space Centre (BNSC), the first to be appointed as a consequence of an open competition since the creation of the BNSC in 1985. The BNSC is the UK Government body responsible for UK civil space policy, charged with helping to gain the best possible scientific, economic and social benefits from putting space to work. The BNSC is a partnership of eleven Government Departments and Research Councils with an interest in the development or use of civil
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the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Beijing in 1958. From 1958 to the present day, he has worked in the Institute of Mechanics for the first 20 years following his graduation as a research assistant, then from 1978 to 1984 as an Associated Professor, with the responsibility as a teacher of Ph.D. students, thereafter as full professor. In addition, Professor Hu served as Chief Scientist and Deputy Director General of the Establishment of Space Science and Application (of the Chinese Academy of Sciences CAS) between 1992 and 1994. The prime focus of his academic interest from 1989 onwards has been basic microgravity research.
In 1995, Wen-Rui Hu was elected an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Science, and he became a corresponding member of the International Astronautics Academy (IAA) in 1996 and a full member thereof in 2001.
Takuji N a k a m u r a - Vice-Chair: Scientific C o m m i s s i o n on Space Studies of the U p p e r A t m o s p h e r e of the Earth and Planets
Among the responsibilities that he has undertaken, Professor Hu cites a study of the global character of the solar terrestrial system in the 22 "d solar circle (1987-1991), service on the space processing and microgravity applications committee of the International Federation of Astronautics, member (from 1988 to the present day) of an Expert Committee of Aerospace - National High Technology Development Programme (19871991), Vice-Chairman o f a CAS Committee on Space Science and Application (1989-1992), member o f the Chinese National Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (1991-1994) and of the CAS Space Science Committee (1999-2002), President of the National Society of Microgravity Science and Application (1991-2001), member o f the IAA Small Satellite Committee (1991-present), ViceChairman of the CAS Committee of Mechanics (1992-2002), and Vice-President of the Chinese Society of Space Science (19962001).
akuji Nakamura is currently Associate Professor of the Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH) in Kyoto University, Japan.
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He served as Vice-Chaimaan o f COSPAR Scientific Commission G from 1996 to 2000 and was re-elected to that position for a further four years in 2004.
He was born on 2 April 1961 in Kobe, Japan, and received his first (B.E.), second (M.E.) and third (Ph.D.) degrees in electronic engineering from Kyoto University in 1984, 1986 and 1992, respectively. For three years between 1986 and 1989, he worked for Communication Equipment Works, Mitsubishi Electric Co., following which he moved back to Kyoto University as a Research Associate of the Radio Atmospheric Science Centre
Professor Hu spent time at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado (1981-1982) as a senior scientist, at Waseda University and Kyushu Universities in Japan as a research professor -
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(RASC). He became Associate Professor of the RASC in 1998. His major research interests have been system design and signal processing of atmospheric radars, radar and optical remote sensing techniques of the atmosphere, the dynamics and aeronomy of the Earth's atmosphere, and radio scattering mechanism of meteor phenomena.
data. He is a co-investigator of several magnetic and electric field instruments on ongoing and future magnetospheric spacecraft missions (including Cluster-H, Double Star, and THEMIS).
[ Brief Notes
CryoSat Replacement
Joachim Vogt - Vice-Chair: Panel on Capacity Building
t a recent meeting of ESA's Earth Observation Programme Board, which took place at ESA's Headquarters in Paris on 23 and 24 February, ESA received the green light from its Member States to build and launch a CryoSat recovery mission, CryoSat-2.
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[From an ESA Release, 24 February 2006; see also SRT 164, p. 23]
International Geophysical Calendar for 2006 he 2006 International Geophysical Celendar, issued under the auspices of the International Space Environment Service, is now available on-line at www.isesspaceweather.org.
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fter studying geophysics and mathematics at the University of KNn, Joachim Vogt received his diploma in geophysics in 1993. Between 1993 and 1998, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, near Mfinchen - first as a doctoral student and subsequently, after finishing his thesis, as acting head of the Auroral Imaging Group. From 1999 to 2001 he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology in Braunschweig and in the fall of 2001 he joined the International University Bremen as a member of the initial faculty at this new institution. His areas of interest include magnetohydrodynamic simulations of space plasmas, the theory of coupling processes in the Earth's magnetosphere, auroral imaging, and the analysis of spacecraft
New Director of the BNSC
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n 2 February 2006, the Minister for Science and Innovation of the UK Government announced that Dr David Williams had been appointed as the next Director General of the British National Space Centre (BNSC), the first to be appointed as a consequence of an open competition since the creation of the BNSC in 1985. The BNSC is the UK Government body responsible for UK civil space policy, charged with helping to gain the best possible scientific, economic and social benefits from putting space to work. The BNSC is a partnership of eleven Government Departments and Research Councils with an interest in the development or use of civil
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