To: Dr. JoAnn Joselyn, Secretary General, IUGG. Info: IAG Bureau. Subject: IAG Report for 1999. (1) Central Bureau activities. The Bureau publishes a bi-monthly newsletter, which is printed in the Journal of Geodesy. This is with the Journal distributed to all national representatives and the members of the IAG Executive Committee. The newsletter includes a listing of all geodetic publications (provided by the IAG Bibliographic Service). It also includes updates to the Geodesists Handbook and meeting reports. The central bureau maintains the IAG home-page, and updates a database of adresses. (2) The Executive Committee (EC). The EC had several meetings. The first was held 23 and 23 March 1999 in Paris. The main item was the preparation of the IUGG/IAG General Assembly, i.e. selection of papers During the IUGG/IAG General Assembly in August several meetings were held. The EC established new Special Study Groups (SSG) and elected their presidents. It appointed representatives of IAG to external bodies. The new EC had a meeting 29/30 November in Como, Italy. Here the working programs of the SSG, Commissions and Special Commissions were approved. A new Committee for the Developing Countries was established. (3) Symposia and meetings. (3.1) IUGG/IAG General Assembly. The biggest event was the IUGG/IAG General Assembly in Birmingham, 18 - 30 july 1999. This meeting is considered too long, so IAG has reduced it own program to only 4+3 weekdays. This program covered presentations of reports and scientific papers for the 5 IAG Sections in the 4 first days, and the last 3 days were devoted to s symposium "Geodesy beyond 2000 - The challenges of the first decade". All reports have been published in "Travaux de l'Association Internationale de Geodesie", on a CD-ROM. A few copies will be made available in print. Selected scientific papers will be published in the IAG Symposia Series, published by Springer Verlag. National reports were distributed at the general assembly. However many were available on electronic form, and are now lavailable through links to the IAG home-page. Besides having its own symposia, IAG also took part in a number of inter- association symposia, and several IAG committees had meetings during the assembly as well. During the IAG General Assembly the Council had meetings where the new EC was elected, the auditors reported on the accounts, and a new budget was approved. The council also adopted a number of resolutions. The council approved the proposal that a special committee should be established to review the IAG structure. An account of the administrative meetings will be published in the Geodesists Handbook, to be published in the spring of 2000. (3.2) Other meetings. Conference on technical aspects of maritime boundary delineations and delimination including UNCLOS articles 76 (ABLOS), Sept. 9-10 1999, Monaco. GPS 99, 18-22 Oct. 1999 in Tsukuba, Japan. (4) Educational Activities: The 3.rd Geoid School was held in Milano, Feb. 15-19 1999. Another one was planned to take place in Malaysia, but had to be postponed. An Educational Working Group was established at the EC meeting in November, aiming at preparing the foundation for further coordinated educational activities. (5) Services: The International GPS Service has elected a new directing board. Several of the other services has members of directing boards which have changed due to the new elections in Birmingham. (6) Coordination with organisations within surveying, cartography and remote sensing. IAG has been a member of the International Union of Surveying and Mapping. This organisation was dissolved in the fall of 1999. New ways of facilitating the cooperation is being considered. C.C.Tscherning Secretary General ----------------------------------------------------------------------- International Association of Geodesy internet: iag@gfy.ku.dk Central Bureau, Phone: +45 35320600 c/o Department of Geophysics Fax: +45 35365357 . Juliane Maries vej 30, DK-2100 Copenhagen Oe. Denmark WWW: http://www.gfy.ku.dk/~iag/