Draft Agenda GBM Berlin 2023

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

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. Slate of candidates will be sent to the National Correspondents one month prior to the meeting. The election is ruled by IAPSO Statutes 12 to 17 (https://iapso-ocean.org/about-iapso/information/statutes-and-by-laws.html). Call for nominations: https://iapso-ocean.org/component/acym/archive/164-no-45-2022-11-10-call-for-nominations-for-the-iapso-executive-committee-2023-2027.html?userid=-&tmpl=component
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)
Establishment of the Joint Commission on Ice-Ocean Interactions (JCIOI, joint with IACS). Establishment of the IAPSO Best Practice Study Groups. 2021 and 2023 Awards (Prince Albert I Medals, IAPSO ECS Medals) 2023 Eugene LaFond Medal; process update. Award committee for 2025 Prince Albert I Medal; generation of nominations. Award committee for 2025 IAPSO Early Career Scientist Medals; generation of nominations. Other matters arising from Executive Committee meetings.
7. IAPSO finance report (Ken Ridgway)
a. Quadrennial and interim financial reports 2019-2022	Annex 4
b. Budget 2023 – 2025	Annex 5
8. Report on IAPSO activities 2019-2022 (Stefania Sparnocchia, Secretary General)	Annex 6
9. Reports from IAPSO Commissions, Services, and Working Groups [Reports will be uploaded as soon as available, see also the IAPSO website]
Commissions and Committes
- Joint Committee on the Properties of Seawater (JCS) with SCOR and IAPWS	Report
- Commission on Mean Sea Level and Tides (CMSLT)
- Joint Tsunami Commission with IASPEI and IAVCEI
- Joint Commission on Ice-Ocean Interactions (JCIOI, joint with IACS)
Permanent Services
- Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level	Report
- IAPSO Standard Seawater Service
Working Groups
- IAPSO Early Career (EC) Scientist Working Group
10. Update on the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade, IAPSO EC member)
11. Report on the IUGG General Assembly in Montreal 2019, Attendees, number of symposia and presentations, IAPSO grants (Stefania Sparnocchia)	Annex 7
12. Preliminary report on the IUGG General Assembly 2023 in Berlin. Plans for the next Joint Scientific Assembly (Stefania Sparnocchia)
13. Call for any resolutions
14. Other Business

Annex 1: Minutes of the GBM in Montreal, Canada, on July 11, 2019

Annex 2: Election of new Executive Committee Members for 2023-2027, Slate of candidates

Annex 3: IAPSO action plan to implement IUGG Resolution_1 on Reducing the Carbon Footprint by the Research Community

Annex 4: Quadrennial and interim financial reports 2019-2022

Annex 5: IAPSO Biennial Budget 2023 – 2025

Annex 6: Quadrennial Report IAPSO’s activities in 2019-2022 ; Interim annual reports: 2019 , 2020 , 2021 , 2022

Annex 7: Report on the IUGG General Assembly in Montreal 2019

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