No. 36 - 2021-02-12: Prince Albert I Medalist 2021 and other information from IAPSO

No. 36 - 2021-02-12: Prince Albert I Medalist 2021 and other information from IAPSO
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OPEN LETTER TO NC AND EC and other IAPSO Scientists

By Stefania Sparnocchia, IAPSO Secretary General
12 February 2021

 

 Open Letter

1. Prince Albert I Medal 2021
2. Online Seminar Series (IACS, IAMAS, IAPSO)
3. Eugene LaFond Medal
4. Early Career Scientist Medals
5. Change of IAPSO Statutes and By-Laws
6. New Joint Commission on Ice-Ocean Interactions (JCIOI) with IACS
7. 2021 Call for SCOR Working Groups
8. Contacting IAPSO

1. Prince Albert I Medal 2021

Prof. Carl Wunsch, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography, Emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the Prince Albert I Medal recipient 2021, in recognition of his groundbreaking contributions to the development of modern physical oceanography.

Prof. Wunsch pioneered the use of satellite altimetry, was the intellectual and creative driving force behind the World Ocean Circulation Experiment, established the modern practice of global ocean state estimation to synthesize observations and models, contributed seminal studies to improve our understanding of the global ocean circulation and its role in climate, and with Walter Munk, invented acoustic ocean tomography and established the contemporary paradigm of the global overturning circulation as a mechanically-driven phenomenon.

His commitment to education produced a list of former students, postdoctoral researchers, and collaborators that reads like a Who's Who of Physical Oceanography.

2. Online Seminar Series (IACS, IAMAS, IAPSO)

A series of online seminars organized by IACS, IAMAS and IAPSO will take place in the week from 19 to 23 July 2021, replacing the Joint Scientific Assembly in Busan, cancelled due to the COVID-induced uncertainty surrounding international travel.

The program is being finalized and will be distributed soon. It will be organized with 3 invited talks per day for 4 days. Wednesday 21 July 2021 will be dedicated to early career scientists who have received awards from the three Associations this year.

3. Eugene LaFond Medal

The Eugene LaFond Medal is awarded to an ocean scientist from a developing country making a presentation (poster or oral) during an IAPSO-sponsored or co-sponsored symposium at the IUGG or IAPSO assemblies.

Given the cancellation of the Assembly in 2021, a medal will not be awarded this year.

4. Early Career Scientist Medals

The call for nominations for the Early Career Scientist Medals 2021 in Physical ocean science and Chemical ocean science is open until 15 February, 2021.

The Awardees will make a presentation of their work during the ECS session of the IACS-IAMAS-IAPSO Online Seminar Series, scheduled for 21 July 2021.

5. Change of IAPSO Statutes and By-Laws

In recent years the IAPSO EC has felt constrained by the number of its members in relation to the ability to include representatives from all areas of the world and also younger scientists. So a change of the IAPSO Statute 8 and By-Law 8 was proposed to the Member delegates to increase the number of the Members at Large of the EC from six to eight, including an early career scientist, whose formal role will be to chair the IAPSO Early Career Scientists Working Group.

This change has been voted electronically between 31 August 2020 and 30 November 2020 and approved. In the first instance the two new places have been filled by co-option, approved by the vote of delegates, and Dr. Rick Lumpkin and Dr. Alejandra Sanchez-Franks were appointed as members of the IAPSO Executive Committee until 2023.

6. New Joint Commission on Ice-Ocean Interactions (JCIOI) with IACS

Following a meeting in Montreal in July 2019, IAPSO and IACS decided to set up this joint commission and work has been done to establish it during 2020. The Commission was formally established in January 2021.

JCIOI aims to address knowledge gaps, by globally coordinating and engaging in research and development related to understanding, observing and modelling ice-ocean interactions. This will include research under ice shelves, at the ice-ocean front in tidewater glaciers, and at the sea surface in the marginal ice zone.

JCIOI will develop ties with international working groups to exchange knowledge and engage with the wider ice-ocean research community. Key activities will include development of a framework to reconcile numerical model estimates of ocean-driven ice mass loss with observations, to engage with groups developing broad-scale observational networks in Antarctica and Greenland, and to facilitate improvement of the representation of ice-ocean interactions in numerical models.

The Joint Commission is co-chaired by Dr Felicity McCormack (IAPSO) and Dr Isabel Nias (IACS).

7. 2021 Call for SCOR Working Groups

The SCOR Secretariat invites proposals for new working groups to commence activities in late 2021.
Deadline for submission: 30 April 2021.
Click here http://scor-int.org/work/groups/proposals/ for the full call, guidelines, a template, and more information.

8. Contacting IAPSO

The Secretary-General is the main point of contact for all matters concerning IAPSO.

Dr. Stefania Sparnocchia
CNR - Istituto di Scienze Marine
Area Science Park - Basovizza - Edificio Q2
Strada Statale 14 - Km. 163.5
I-34149 Trieste, Italy

E-mail: iapso.sg@gmail.com
Website: http://iapso.iugg.org/

Open Letters archive: http://iapso.iugg.org/iapso-open-letters-archive-art.html

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