The IUGG President appointed members to several Union Committees for the 27th IUGG General Assembly (Montreal, Canada, 9-18 July 2019) responsible for
(i) selections of the candidates to be included in the ballot for the election of the IUGG Bureau and Finance Committee (Nominating Committee);
(ii) for comparison of the sites proposed for the next IUGG General Assembly (Site Comparison Committee);
(iii) for resolutions of the IUGG General Assembly (Resolution Committee);
as well as to three award committees:
(iv) the Gold Medal Committee;
(v) the Fellow Selection Committee;
and (vi) the Early Career Scientist Award Committee.
Below is the membership of the committees.
Nominating Committee
• Tom Beer (Australia, IAMAS), Chair
• Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi (Mexico, IAGA)
• Michelle Grobbelaar (South Africa, IASPEI)
• Kuniyoshi Takeuchi (Japan, IAHS)
Site Comparison Committee
• Eduard Petrovsky (Czech Republic, IAGA), Chair
• Xiao Cunde (China, IACS)
• Laura Gallardo Klenner (Chile, IAMAS)
• Stefania Sparnocchia (Italy, IAPSO)
• Alik Ismail-Zadeh (Germany/Russia, IUGG, ex-officio)
Resolution Committee
• Harsh Gupta (India, IASPEI), Chair
• Zuheir Altamimi (France, IAG)
• Ray Cas (Australia, IAVCEI)
• Georgia Destouni (Sweden, IAHS)
• Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade (USA, IAPSO)
Gold Medal Committee
• Uri Shamir (Israel, IAHS), Chair
• Jeffrey Freymueller (USA, IAG)
• Brian Hoskins (UK, IAMAS)
• Valerie Masson-Delmotte (France, IACS)
• Trevor McDougall (Australia, IAPSO)
• Inez Staciarini Batista (Brazil, IAGA)
• Roberto Sulpizio (Italy, IAVCEI)
• Zhongliang Wu (China, IASPEI)
• Alik Ismail-Zadeh (Germany/Russia, IUGG, ex-officio)
Fellow Selection Committee
• Joyce E. Penner (USA, IAMAS), Chair
• Members: Hugo Delgado Granados (Mexico, IAVCEI)
• Monika Korte (Germany, IAGA)
• Eugene Morozov (Russia, IAPSO)
• Kenji Satake (Japan, IASPEI)
• Chris Rizos (Australia, IUGG, ex-officio)
Early Career Scientist Award Committee
• Jenny Baeseman (USA, IACS), Chair
• Gregory Foltz (USA, IAPSO)
• Salvatore Grimaldi (Italy, IAHS)
• Futoshi Takahashi (Japan, IAGA)
• Thorsten Wagener (UK, IUGG, Chair of the Capacity Building and
Education Committee)