Agenda GBM Berlin 2023

Agenda of IAPSO General Business Meeting
Friday, July 14 2023, 18:30 - 20:00, Berlin, Germany

Room M1, City Cube, Level 3

Participants: National Delegates, Executive Committee Members and invited guests

 1. Introduction of IAPSO Executive Committee (EC) and National Delegates

 2. Approval of the agenda

 3. Approval of the minutes of the GBM in Montreal, Canada, on July 11, 2019 .................... [Annex 1]

 4. Election of new Executive Committee Members for 2023-2027 .................... [Annex 2]

• Presentation by Nominations Committee Chair Denise Smythe-Wright.       
• The election is ruled by IAPSO Statutes 12 to 17 (https://iapso-ocean.org/about-iapso/information/statutes-and-by-laws.html). 
  

 5. Adoption of the IAPSO action plan to implement IUGG Resolution_1 on Reducing the Carbon Footprint by the Research Community (Trevor McDougall, President) .................... [Annex 3]

 6. Reports on actions taken by the IAPSO EC and Officers (Trevor McDougall, President) 

1. Establishment of the Joint Commission on Ice-Ocean Interactions (JCIOI, joint with IACS).
2. Establishment of the IAPSO Best Practice Study Groups.
3. 2021 and 2023 Awards (Prince Albert I Medals, IAPSO ECS Medals)
4. 2023 Eugene LaFond Medal; process update.
5. Award committee for 2025 Prince Albert I Medal; generation of nominations.
6. Award committee for 2025 IAPSO Early Career Scientist Medals; generation of nominations.
7. Other matters arising from Executive Committee meetings.

 7. IAPSO finance report (Ken Ridgway, Treasurer)

1. Quadrennial and interim financial reports 2019-2022 .................... [Annex 4]
2. Budget 2023 – 2025 .................... [Annex 5]

 8. Report on IAPSO activities 2019-2022 (Stefania Sparnocchia, Secretary General)

1. Quadrennial Report ....................  [Annex 6]
2. Report on the IUGG General Assembly in Montreal 2019, Attendees, number of symposia and presentations, IAPSO grants  .................... [Annex 7] 
3. Preliminary report  on the IUGG General Assembly 2023 in Berlin.

 9. Reports from IAPSO Commissions, Services, and Working Groups 

• Joint Committee on the Properties of Seawater (JCS) with SCOR and IAPWS .................... [Annex 8]
• Commission on Mean Sea Level and Tides (CMSLT)
• Joint Tsunami Commission with IASPEI and IAVCEI .................... [Annex 9] 
• Joint Commission on Ice-Ocean Interactions (JCIOI, joint with IACS) .................... [Annex 10] 
• Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level .................... [Annex 11]
• IAPSO Standard Seawater Service .................... [Annex 12]
• IAPSO Early Career (EC) Scientist Working Group .................... [Annex 13]

10. Plans for the next Joint Scientific Assembly (Prof. Young Ho Kim, NC Republic of Korea and member of BACO25 LOC)

11. Update on the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade, IAPSO EC member)

12. Call for any resolutions

13. Other Business