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Kazuo Shiokawa — Vice-Chair of Sub-Commission CI — Earth's upper atmosphere and ionosphere
member at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) where he worked on flight dynamics and mission planning aspects of the remote sensing satellite ERS-1.
First light observations from each instrument have been released, demonstrating that the instruments are working perfectly. An image from the XRT instrument is shown, above.
In 1988, he returned to ESOC where he has been working since. Apart from astrodynamics in general and the modelling of non-gravitational perturbations, his main interest lies in the area of space debris environment models, and in the assessment of related collision risks in orbit and impact risks on the ground. In his current position, he is the focal point within ESA for space debris matters, and he represents ESA in the InterAgency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC).
For more information on Hinode, see http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/enterp/missions/solar -b/index.shtml.
COSPAR Community n this section of Space Research Today, we include inter alia biographies of COSPAR personalities - principally officers of COSPAR.
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Dr Klinkrad is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. He has served as a member of working groups and panels of AIAA, COSPAR, ECSS, IAA, IADC, IAG, ISO and UNCOPUOS. He became chair of the PEDAS panel in 2005, and has since been the main scientific organizer of related COSPAR sessions on space debris. He has been a lecturer on space debris at the Braunschweig University of Technology since 2001, and has published a textbook on this topic in 2006.
H e i n e r K l i n k r a d - Chair: P a n e l on Potential Environmentally Detrimental Activities in S p a c e
Kazuo Shiokawa - Vice-Chair of SubCommission C1 - Earth's Upper Atmosphere and Ionosphere
r Heiner Klinkrad is acting Head of the ESA Space Debris Office at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), in Darmstadt, Germany. He was born in M611n, Germany, on 19 January 1953 and graduated from the Braunschweig University of Technology in aeronautical engineering in 1980. From the same university, he received his PhD in 1984. In 1980, he joined the European Space Agency as a visiting scientist at ESOC. In 1983, he became an ESA staff
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operated Biosphere 2, the 3.15 acre (ca. 1.28 hectares) materially-closed facility near Tucson, Arizona, the world's first laboratory for global ecology (www.biospheres.com). Mark was a member of the eight person 'biospherian' crew for the first two-year closure experiment (1991-1993). His research inside included litterfall and decomposition in the tropical biomes, population dynamics and biomass increase, fodder production in the sustainable high-production agricultural system, and the constructed wetland sewage treatment system.
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rofessor Kazuo Shiokawa is an associate professor of the SolarTerrestrial Environment Laboratory at Nagoya University, Japan, working in the Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Environment Division. His field is the physics of the upper atmosphere including auroral phenomena. He is Vice-Chair of Sub-Commission C 1, which is concerned with the Earth's upper atmosphere and ionosphere. Mark Nelson - Vice-Chair of SubC o m m i s s i o n F4 - N a t u r a l a n d A r t i f i c i a l Ecosystems
r Mark Nelson was a founding director of the Institute of Ecotechnics and has worked for several decades in closed ecological system research, ecological engineering, the restoration of damaged ecosystems, desert agriculture and 'orchardry', and wastewater recycling. He is Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Ecotechnics (www.ecotechnics.edu), a UK non-profit organization, which acts in a consultative capacity to several demonstration projects working in challenging biomes around the world. He is also Vice-Chairman of Global Ecotechnics Corp. and head of Wastewater Gardens International.
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Working with the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation, a division of the Biosphere Foundation (www.biospherefoundation.org), Mark has helped pioneer a new ecological approach to sewage treatment 'Wastewater Gardens®' which are constructed subsurface flow wetlands; over 90 such systems have been created in Mexico, Bali & Sulawesi, Indonesia, Western Australia, Spain, Poland, the Bahamas, the Philippines and the United States since 1996 (www.wastewatergardens.com).
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Beginning in the 1970s, Dr Nelson worked in the high desert grassland south of Santa Fe, New Mexico where he made hundreds of tons of compost, planted over a thousand fruit and wind-break trees, creating an oasis in previously overgrazed and eroded country. Since 1978, he has worked in the semi-arid tropical savannah of West Australia where he helped start Savannah Systems P/L a project centred on the pasture regeneration and enrichment of a 5000 acre (2023 hectare) property in the Kimberley region.
He has served as Director of Space and Environmental Applications for Space Biospheres Ventures, which created and
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First light observations from each instrument have been released, demonstrating that the instruments are working perfectly. An image from the XRT instrument is shown, above.
In 1988, he returned to ESOC where he has been working since. Apart from astrodynamics in general and the modelling of non-gravitational perturbations, his main interest lies in the area of space debris environment models, and in the assessment of related collision risks in orbit and impact risks on the ground. In his current position, he is the focal point within ESA for space debris matters, and he represents ESA in the InterAgency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC).
For more information on Hinode, see http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/enterp/missions/solar -b/index.shtml.
COSPAR Community n this section of Space Research Today, we include inter alia biographies of COSPAR personalities - principally officers of COSPAR.
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Dr Klinkrad is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. He has served as a member of working groups and panels of AIAA, COSPAR, ECSS, IAA, IADC, IAG, ISO and UNCOPUOS. He became chair of the PEDAS panel in 2005, and has since been the main scientific organizer of related COSPAR sessions on space debris. He has been a lecturer on space debris at the Braunschweig University of Technology since 2001, and has published a textbook on this topic in 2006.
H e i n e r K l i n k r a d - Chair: P a n e l on Potential Environmentally Detrimental Activities in S p a c e
Kazuo Shiokawa - Vice-Chair of SubCommission C1 - Earth's Upper Atmosphere and Ionosphere
r Heiner Klinkrad is acting Head of the ESA Space Debris Office at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), in Darmstadt, Germany. He was born in M611n, Germany, on 19 January 1953 and graduated from the Braunschweig University of Technology in aeronautical engineering in 1980. From the same university, he received his PhD in 1984. In 1980, he joined the European Space Agency as a visiting scientist at ESOC. In 1983, he became an ESA staff
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operated Biosphere 2, the 3.15 acre (ca. 1.28 hectares) materially-closed facility near Tucson, Arizona, the world's first laboratory for global ecology (www.biospheres.com). Mark was a member of the eight person 'biospherian' crew for the first two-year closure experiment (1991-1993). His research inside included litterfall and decomposition in the tropical biomes, population dynamics and biomass increase, fodder production in the sustainable high-production agricultural system, and the constructed wetland sewage treatment system.
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rofessor Kazuo Shiokawa is an associate professor of the SolarTerrestrial Environment Laboratory at Nagoya University, Japan, working in the Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Environment Division. His field is the physics of the upper atmosphere including auroral phenomena. He is Vice-Chair of Sub-Commission C 1, which is concerned with the Earth's upper atmosphere and ionosphere. Mark Nelson - Vice-Chair of SubC o m m i s s i o n F4 - N a t u r a l a n d A r t i f i c i a l Ecosystems
r Mark Nelson was a founding director of the Institute of Ecotechnics and has worked for several decades in closed ecological system research, ecological engineering, the restoration of damaged ecosystems, desert agriculture and 'orchardry', and wastewater recycling. He is Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Ecotechnics (www.ecotechnics.edu), a UK non-profit organization, which acts in a consultative capacity to several demonstration projects working in challenging biomes around the world. He is also Vice-Chairman of Global Ecotechnics Corp. and head of Wastewater Gardens International.
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Working with the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation, a division of the Biosphere Foundation (www.biospherefoundation.org), Mark has helped pioneer a new ecological approach to sewage treatment 'Wastewater Gardens®' which are constructed subsurface flow wetlands; over 90 such systems have been created in Mexico, Bali & Sulawesi, Indonesia, Western Australia, Spain, Poland, the Bahamas, the Philippines and the United States since 1996 (www.wastewatergardens.com).
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Beginning in the 1970s, Dr Nelson worked in the high desert grassland south of Santa Fe, New Mexico where he made hundreds of tons of compost, planted over a thousand fruit and wind-break trees, creating an oasis in previously overgrazed and eroded country. Since 1978, he has worked in the semi-arid tropical savannah of West Australia where he helped start Savannah Systems P/L a project centred on the pasture regeneration and enrichment of a 5000 acre (2023 hectare) property in the Kimberley region.
He has served as Director of Space and Environmental Applications for Space Biospheres Ventures, which created and
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