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The COSPAR Capacity-Building Programme – Call for Workshop Proposals
2012 will present an ideal opportunity for participants and Commissions to generate ideas, and the March deadline has been set to allow a few months after the Assembly for proposals to be worked up. Additional details are available from: http://cosparhq.cnes.fr/Meetings/ Workshops.htm. The programme objectives are quite specific and it is important that proposals should be consistent with them. The description of the programme includes information on the selection criteria. Proposals can be submitted at any time to the Chair of the Panel for Capacity Building, Mariano Mendez: ([email protected]).
University professor and is currently a professor of the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her major research interests include ocean dynamics of phytoplankton blooms, global environmental changes, and natural hazards. Dr Tang collaborates with many international scientific organizations. She is the President-Elect of the Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Association, Councillor of the AGU, and member of the Board of Directors of PACON International. She has collaborated on several UNEP projects. Currently, she is the Vice-Chair of the COSPAR Sub-Commission A2: Ocean Dynamics and Productivity. Dr Tang has published approximately 70 papers in international journals as well as a book Remote Sensing of the Changing Oceans (see book review, this issue). She has received numerous awards for her success, including the Zayed Award Diploma, Ocean Service Awards, and the national honorary title of China - National 3•8 Red-banner Pacesetter. Dr Tang received her PhD from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and has conducted research and taught in Hong Kong, the USA, Japan and South Korea. In 2004, she returned to China with the ‘100 Talents Programme’ of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In Memoriam Mustafa Chahine [1935-2011]
The COSPAR Capacity-Building Programme – Call for Workshop Proposals
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n important COSPAR activity is the Committee’s Capacity Building Programme, which consists of a programme of about three training workshops for young space scientists in developing countries in each 2-year period, together with a related scheme of 5-10 COSPAR fellowships each year. Substantial grants are available for each supported workshop. All COSPAR Associates may make proposals for workshops, from which a selection is made by a sub-group of the Panel for Capacity Building. Selection rounds occur annually and embrace all the proposals received by 15 March of any given year. The Mysore Assembly in July
r Moustafa (Mous) Chahine, Chief Scientist of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 17 years and the recipient of many honours from international scientific organizations, passed away on 23 March 2011. An active participant in COSPAR, Dr Chahine was, until recently, a member of its Awards Committee. In 2002, he received COSPAR’s William Nordberg Medal. Born on 1 January 1935, in Beirut, Lebanon, Mous Chahine came to the USA to attend the University of Washington, where he earned his BSc in 1956. After receiving his PhD in 1960 from the University of California at
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University professor and is currently a professor of the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her major research interests include ocean dynamics of phytoplankton blooms, global environmental changes, and natural hazards. Dr Tang collaborates with many international scientific organizations. She is the President-Elect of the Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Association, Councillor of the AGU, and member of the Board of Directors of PACON International. She has collaborated on several UNEP projects. Currently, she is the Vice-Chair of the COSPAR Sub-Commission A2: Ocean Dynamics and Productivity. Dr Tang has published approximately 70 papers in international journals as well as a book Remote Sensing of the Changing Oceans (see book review, this issue). She has received numerous awards for her success, including the Zayed Award Diploma, Ocean Service Awards, and the national honorary title of China - National 3•8 Red-banner Pacesetter. Dr Tang received her PhD from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and has conducted research and taught in Hong Kong, the USA, Japan and South Korea. In 2004, she returned to China with the ‘100 Talents Programme’ of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In Memoriam Mustafa Chahine [1935-2011]
The COSPAR Capacity-Building Programme – Call for Workshop Proposals
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n important COSPAR activity is the Committee’s Capacity Building Programme, which consists of a programme of about three training workshops for young space scientists in developing countries in each 2-year period, together with a related scheme of 5-10 COSPAR fellowships each year. Substantial grants are available for each supported workshop. All COSPAR Associates may make proposals for workshops, from which a selection is made by a sub-group of the Panel for Capacity Building. Selection rounds occur annually and embrace all the proposals received by 15 March of any given year. The Mysore Assembly in July
r Moustafa (Mous) Chahine, Chief Scientist of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 17 years and the recipient of many honours from international scientific organizations, passed away on 23 March 2011. An active participant in COSPAR, Dr Chahine was, until recently, a member of its Awards Committee. In 2002, he received COSPAR’s William Nordberg Medal. Born on 1 January 1935, in Beirut, Lebanon, Mous Chahine came to the USA to attend the University of Washington, where he earned his BSc in 1956. After receiving his PhD in 1960 from the University of California at
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