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Committee on climatic changes and the ocean
Delegates at the 78th ESA Council meeting, held on 22 and 23 June 1987, unanimously elected Mr Henrik Grage from Denmark as their new Chairman for a period of two years. Mr Grage, 46, has been involved in space matters for the last 17 years and hitherto had been Chairman of the ESA Industrial Policy Committee. After graduating with a law degree in 1966, Mr Grage started his career in the Danish Ministry of Education and Research. During his involvement with European space activities, he has been Chairman of the ESA International Relations Advisory Committee and Vice-Chairman of the ESA Council. Mr Grage succeeds Mr H. Atkinson (UK) who completed his three-year term with the 78th ESA Council meeting.
3.3. MANDATE OF ESA DIRECTOR-GENERAL PROLONGED”’
At its 78th session on 22 and 23 June 1987, the ESA Council decided to prolong the mandate of its Director General, Professor Reimar Lust, for two additional years, i.e. from 1 September 1988 to 31 August 1990. Professor Liist, 64, who succeeded Mr E. Quistgaard (Denmark), took up office in September 1984, having been appointed for a term of four years. A physicist by profession, Professor Liist, had been Scientific Director of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) from 1962 to 1964, one of the predecessor organizations of ESA. Prior to moving to ESA in Paris, R. Lust had spent 12 years as President of the Max Planck Gesellschaft promoting science in the Federal Republic of Germany.
3.4. COMMITTEE ON CLIMATIC CHANGES AND THE OCEANtq
The scientific plan for the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) was published in September 1986. The Experiment will be focused on three core projects, each of which was discussed at major workshops in 1986: (1) global description, November, Washington, DC; (2) the Southern Ocean, May, Bremerhaven, FRG; (3) gyre dynamics, September, London, UK. Special data sets are being assembled and analyses of indicators of climate variability are already being produced from the results of studies within the framework of the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) experiment which is expected to end in 1994. “‘Edited extract from ESA News Release No. 13.23 June 1987. “‘Edited extract from ESA News Release No. 14,26 June 1987. @‘Extract from IUGG Chronicle No. 185, May 1987.
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The joint SCOR-IOC Committee on Climatic Changes and the Ocean held its 7th meeting in Paris from 14 to 20 January 1987. The primary task of the meeting was to evamate the development and implementation of the two experiments outlined above. Two new endeavours were studied: (1) an Oceanic CO, Monitoring and Research Programme, and (2) Coupled OceanAtmosphere Boundary Layer Research. The Officers of CCC0 and the Joint Scientific Committee for the WCRP have both expressed concern that no overall strategy has been developed to study the ocean-atmosphere coupling. It was decided that the Scientific Steering Groups for TOGA and WOCE will consider this problem and determine which studies should be undertaken in the two experiments.
3.5. INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ASTRONAUTICS5
The IA4 has announced Committees:
that the following are officers of its Scientific
Committee on Space Sciences G. Haerendel (FRG)
Chairman
Committee on International Space Plans and Policies Chairman R. Lust (FRG) Co-Chairman T. Paine (USA) Co-Chairman R. Sagdeev (USSR) Committee on Life Sciences (Joint with the IAF) Chairman 0. G. Gazer&o (USSR) Co-Chairman K. E. Klein (FRG) Committee on Benefits to Society from Space Activities Chairman E. Galloway (USA) Committee on the Economics of Space Operations Chairman D. E. Koelle (FRG) Co-Chairman J. S. Greenberg (USA) Committee on Interstellar Space Exploration L. R. Shepherd (UK) I. M. Yavorskaya-Shapshall (USSR)
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No. 5, June 1987.
Chairman Co-Chairman
3.3. MANDATE OF ESA DIRECTOR-GENERAL PROLONGED”’
At its 78th session on 22 and 23 June 1987, the ESA Council decided to prolong the mandate of its Director General, Professor Reimar Lust, for two additional years, i.e. from 1 September 1988 to 31 August 1990. Professor Liist, 64, who succeeded Mr E. Quistgaard (Denmark), took up office in September 1984, having been appointed for a term of four years. A physicist by profession, Professor Liist, had been Scientific Director of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) from 1962 to 1964, one of the predecessor organizations of ESA. Prior to moving to ESA in Paris, R. Lust had spent 12 years as President of the Max Planck Gesellschaft promoting science in the Federal Republic of Germany.
3.4. COMMITTEE ON CLIMATIC CHANGES AND THE OCEANtq
The scientific plan for the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) was published in September 1986. The Experiment will be focused on three core projects, each of which was discussed at major workshops in 1986: (1) global description, November, Washington, DC; (2) the Southern Ocean, May, Bremerhaven, FRG; (3) gyre dynamics, September, London, UK. Special data sets are being assembled and analyses of indicators of climate variability are already being produced from the results of studies within the framework of the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) experiment which is expected to end in 1994. “‘Edited extract from ESA News Release No. 13.23 June 1987. “‘Edited extract from ESA News Release No. 14,26 June 1987. @‘Extract from IUGG Chronicle No. 185, May 1987.
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The joint SCOR-IOC Committee on Climatic Changes and the Ocean held its 7th meeting in Paris from 14 to 20 January 1987. The primary task of the meeting was to evamate the development and implementation of the two experiments outlined above. Two new endeavours were studied: (1) an Oceanic CO, Monitoring and Research Programme, and (2) Coupled OceanAtmosphere Boundary Layer Research. The Officers of CCC0 and the Joint Scientific Committee for the WCRP have both expressed concern that no overall strategy has been developed to study the ocean-atmosphere coupling. It was decided that the Scientific Steering Groups for TOGA and WOCE will consider this problem and determine which studies should be undertaken in the two experiments.
3.5. INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ASTRONAUTICS5
The IA4 has announced Committees:
that the following are officers of its Scientific
Committee on Space Sciences G. Haerendel (FRG)
Chairman
Committee on International Space Plans and Policies Chairman R. Lust (FRG) Co-Chairman T. Paine (USA) Co-Chairman R. Sagdeev (USSR) Committee on Life Sciences (Joint with the IAF) Chairman 0. G. Gazer&o (USSR) Co-Chairman K. E. Klein (FRG) Committee on Benefits to Society from Space Activities Chairman E. Galloway (USA) Committee on the Economics of Space Operations Chairman D. E. Koelle (FRG) Co-Chairman J. S. Greenberg (USA) Committee on Interstellar Space Exploration L. R. Shepherd (UK) I. M. Yavorskaya-Shapshall (USSR)
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from IAA Newsletter
No. 5, June 1987.
Chairman Co-Chairman