Structure of the International Association of Geodesy

For the period 1999-2003

Bureau

President Fernando Sanso (Italy)

First Vice President Gerhard Beutler(Switzerland)

Secretary General C. C. Tscherning (Denmark)

Second Vice President Denizar Blitzkow (Brasil)

Attends any meeting of the Bureau on invitation of the President.

Excecutive committee.

	The Bureau and the Second Vice President
	The Past President: K.-P. Schwarz
	The Section Presidents:

Section I: Positioning

President: Alan Dodson, U

Secretary: Chris Rizos, Australia

Claude Boucher (France)

Section II: Advanced Space Technology

President: C. K. Shum (USA)

Secretary: Pascal Willis (France)

Comm VIII: H. Drewes (Germany)

Section III: Determination of the Gravity Field

President: Michael G. Sideris (Canada)

Secretary: Gerd Boedecker (Germany)

Comm XIII: Martin Vermeer (Finland)

Section IV: General Theory and Methodology

President: Bernhard Heck (Germany)

Secretary: Christopher Jekeli (USA)

Yuanxi Yang (China)

Section V: Geodynamics

President: Clark Wilson (USA)

Secretary: Veronique Dehant (Belgium)

Comm V: President: Shuzo Takemoto(Japan)

Comm XIV President: S. Zerbini (Italy)

Other officiers

Editor in Chief of the Jounal of Geodesy

P. J. G. Teunissen (The Netherlands)

Assistant Secretaries of the Association

Ole Baltazar Andersen (Denmark)

Kristian Keller (Denmark)

Honorary Presidents:

H. Moritz (Austria).

P. V. Angus-Leppan (Australia)

I.. I. Mueller (USA)

W. Torge (Germany)

K.-P. Schwarz (Canada)

Honorary Secretaries General

J.-J. Levallois (France)

M. Louis (France)

Secretaries on the sections and the other officiers may attend any meeting of the Excutive Committee of the Association in an advisory capacity.

Sections, Commissions, Special Commissions, Special Study Groups, International Services.

Section I: Positioning

President: Alan Dodson, U

Secretary: Chris Rizos, Australia

Commissions of Section I:

Comm X: Global and Regional Geodetic Networks

President: Claude Boucher (France)

Special Commissions of Section I:

SC4: Application of Geodesy to Engineering

President: Heribert Kahmen (Austria)

Secretaries: Zhenglu Zhang (China)

Günther Retscher (Austria)

Special Study Groups of Section I:

SSG 1.179: Wide Area Modelling for Precise Satellite Positioning

Chair: S Han (Australia)

SSG 1.180: GPS as an atmospheric remote sensing tool

Chair: H van der Marel (The Netherlands)

SSG 1.181: Regional Permanent Arrays

Chair: R. Weber (Austria)

SSG 1.182: Multipath Mitigation

Chair: M P Stewart (Australia)

Section II: Advanced Space Technology

President: C. K. Shum (USA)

Secretary: Pascal Willis (France)

Commissions of Section II:

Comm VIII: International Coordination Of Space Techniques For Geodesy And Geodynamics (CSTG)

President: H. Drewes (Germany)

Secretary: W. Bosch (Germany)

Special Commissions of Section II:

SC7: Satellite Gravity Field Missions

Chair: Karl-Heinz Ilk (Germany)

Co-Chair: Pieter Visser (The Netherlands)

Secretary: Jürgen Kusche (Germany)

Special Study Groups of Section II:

SSG 2.162: Precise Orbits Using Multiple Space Techniques

Chair R. Scharroo (The Netherlands)

SSG 2.183: Spaceborne Interferometry Techniques

Chair: Ramon Hanssen (The Netherlands)

SSG 2.192: Spaceborne GNS Atmosphere Sounding

Chair: Rob Kursinski (USA)

Co-chair: Klemens Hocke (Germany)

SSG 2.193: Gravity field missions: calibration and validation

Chair: Pieter Visser (The Netherlands),

Co-chair: Christopher Jekeli (USA)

SSG 2.194: GPS Water Level Measurements

Chair: Gerry Mader (USA)

Co-chairs: Tilo Schöne (Germany)

Doug Martin (USA)

International Services of Section II:

IGS International GPS Service

Chair: Christopher Reigber (Germany)

Director of the CB: Ruth Neilan (USA)

ILRS The International Laser Ranging Service

Chair of the Governing Board:

John Degnan (USA)

Director of the Central Bureau:

John Bosworth (USA)

IVS International VLBI Service

for Geodesy and Astrometry

Directing Board Chair: W. Schlüter (Germany)

Section III: Determination of the Gravity Field

President: Michael G. Sideris (Canada)

Secretary: Gerd Boedecker (Germany)

Commissions of Section III:

Comm XIII: International Gravity and Geoid

President: Martin Vermeer (Finland)

Special Study Groups of Section III:

SSG 3.167: Regional Land and Marine Geoid Modelling

Chair: I.N. Tziavos (Greece)

SSG 3.177: Synthetic Modelling of the Earth’s Gravity Field

Chair: Will Featherstone (Australia)

SSG 3.184: Use of Remote Sensing Techniques for Validating Heights and Depths

Chair: Philippa Berry (UK)

SSG 3.185: Merging data from dedicated satellite missions with other gravimetric data

Chair: Nico Sneeuw (Germany)

SSG 3.186: Altimetry data processing for gravity, geoid and sea surface topography determination

Chair: C. Hwang (Taiwan)

International Services of Section III:

BGI International Gravimetric Bureau

Director: J-P. Barriot (France)

IGeS International Geoid Service

Director: F. Sansò (Italy)

Section IV: General Theory and Methodology

President: Bernhard Heck (Germany)

Secretary: Christopher Jekeli (USA)

Yuanxi Yang (China)

Special Commissions of Section IV:

SC1: Mathematical and Physical Foundations of Geodesy

Chair: P. Holota (Czech Republic)

Special Study Groups of Section IV:

SSG 4.187: Wavelets in Geodesy and Geodynamics

Chair: W. Keller (Germany)

SSG 4.188: Mass Density from Joint Inverse Gravity Modelling

Chair: G. Strykowski (Denmark)

SSG 4.189: Dynamic theories of deformation and gravity fields

Chair: D. Wolf (Germany)

SSG 4.190: Non-probabilistic assessment in geodetic data analysis

Chair: H. Kutterer (Germany)

SSG 4.191: Theory of Fundamental Height Systems

Chair: C.Jekeli (USA)

Section V: Geodynamics

President: Clark Wilson (USA)

Secretary: Veronique Dehant (Belgium)

Commissions of Section V:

Comm V: Earth Tides

President: Shuzo Takemoto(Japan)

Vice-President: Jacques Hinderer(France)

Secretary: Oliver Francis(Belgium)

Comm XIV Crustal Deformation

President: S. Zerbini (Italy)

Vice-Presidents: B. Richter (Germany)

H.G. Kahle (Switzerland)

Secretary: T. Van Dam (USA)

Special Commissions of Section V:

SC3: Fundamental Parameters

Chair: E. Groten

SC8: Sea Level and Ice Sheets

President: Michael Bevis (USA)

Vice President: Reinhard Dietrich (Germany)

Joint Working Groups of Section V:

IAG/IAPSO Joint Working Group

Geodetic Effects of Non-Tidal Oceanic Processes

Chair: R. S. Gross (USA)

International Services of Section V:

IERS International Earth Rotation Service

Chair: Christoph Reigber

Director, Central Bureau, Daniel Gambis

PSMSL The Permanent Service For Mean Sea Level

Director: P. L. Woodworth (UK)

BIPM Bureau International des Poids et Mesures - Time Section

Director Time Section : E.F. Arias (BIPM)

Out of Section:

ABLOS Committees reporting to the Bureau:

Committee Geodetic and Marine Geo-Scientific Aspects of the Law of the Sea Chair: Bjorn Geirr Harsson