Scientific Assemblies

 

Commission on Mean Sea Level and Tides

President: Gary T. Mitchum
Professor and Associate Dean
College of Marine Science
University of South Florida
140 Seventh Ave. South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
USA
Tel: 1-727-553-3941
Fax: 1-727.553-1189
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Vice President: Dr. Simon Holgate
Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level
National Oceanography Centre
Liverpool L3 5DA
United Kingdom
Tel. +44 151 795 4800
Fax. +44 151 795 4801
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Website: www.pol.ac.uk/psmsl/

Annual Report 2011 (512 Kb)

Commission on Groundwater Seawater Interactions

Discontinued in 2005

 

Commission on Sea Ice

Discontinued in 2003
Activities Report 1995 - 1999

Activities Report 1991 - 1995


Tsunami Commission (Joint with IASPEI and IAVCEI)

Chair: Dr. Vasily V. Titov
Chief Scientist, NOAA Center for Tsunami Research
Office: PMEL, Bldg 3, Rm 2072, NOAA Sand Point
USA
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Phone:  1-206-526-4536
Fax: 1-206-526-6485
Secretary: Phil Cummins, Australia

IAPSO representative: Professor Efim Pelinovsky
Department of Nonlinear Geophysical Processes
Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
46 Uljanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Russia
Phone: +7-831-4164839
Fax: +7-831-4365976
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http://www.hse.ru/org/persons/25372803

Websites: www.iaspei.org/commissions/JCT.html
www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/jtc/tsunamicommission.html

 

GeoRisk Commission - Joint with IAMAS, IAHS, IASPEI, IAVCEI

Website www.iugg-georisk.org/
Annual report 2002

Active Working groups

The working groups are normally financed for 3 years

SCOR/WCRP/IAPSO Working Group 136 Climatic importance of the Greater Agulhas System (2009-)

Co-Chairs: Lisa Beal (USA) and Arne Biastoch (Germany)

Website: www.scor-int.org/Working_Groups/wg136.htm
WG136_annual report 2011  (600 Kb)

On the role of the Agulhas system in ocean circulation and climate, Nature 2011 (753 Kb)

SCOR/IAPSO Working Group 133 OceanScope (2008-)

Co-Chairs: Tom Rossby (USA) and Kuh Kim (Korea)

Website: www.scor-int.org/Working_Groups/wg133.htm

Past Working Groups

SCOR/IAPSO Working Group 129 on Deep Ocean Exchange with the Shelf (DOES) (2006-)

Chair: Dr. John Johnson, United Kingdom
Vice-Chair: Piers Chapman, USA

Website: www.scor-int.org/Working_Groups/wg129.htm

Workshop October 6-8 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Workshop Poster (PDF)
Download the report here
(PDF, 226 K)
Workshop (web site)

 WG 129 report 2011 (30 kb)

 Preface WG 129 Special Issue in Ocean Sci. (2011  Bytes)

SCOR/IAPSO Working Group 127 on Thermodynamics and Equation of State of Seawater (2005-)

Chair: Dr. Trevor McDougall, Australia

Website: www.scor-int.org/Working_Groups/wg127.htm

SCOR/LOICZ/IAPSO Working Group 122 on Mechanisms of Sediment retention in Estuaries (2003-)

Co-Chairs: Dr. Gerardo Perillo, Argentina, and Jams Syvitsky, USA

Website www.scor-int.org/Working_Groups/wg122.htm

 

IAPSO/SCOR Joint Working Group 121 on Ocean Mixing (2002-)

Chair: Robin D. Muench
Earth & Space Research
1910 Fairview East, Suit 102
Seattle, WA 98102-3620, USA

Website www.scor-int.org/Working_Groups/wg121.htm

 

IAG/ IAPSO Joint Working Group on Geodetic Effects of Nontidal Oceanic Processes (1999-2003)

 

IASPEI/IAPSO/IAGA International Ocean Network (ION)

Chair: Yoshiyuki Kaneda, Japan
Secretary: Heinrich Villinger, Germany

IAPSO Representative: Dr. Satheesh C. Shenoi
Director, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS)
(Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India)
"Ocean Valley"
Pragathi Nagar (BO), Nizampet (SO)
Hyderabad - 500 090
Ph. 040-2389 5000 (Off.); 040 65743155 (Res.); 09441013377 (Mobile)
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http://www.incois.gov.in

 ION report 2007-2011 (2.77 Mb)

 

OTHER SERVICES

Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level

Dr. Lesley Richard
Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
6 Brownlow Street
Liverpool L3 5DA
UK

tel. 44-151-795-4800
fax. 44-151-795-4801
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Website http://www.pol.ac.uk/psmsl/


PSMSL
GLOSS Bulletin

 

IAPSO Standard Seawater Service

Paul Ridout
Director, IAPSO Standard Seawater Service
OSIL
Culkin House
C8 Endeavour Business Park
Penner Road
Havant
Hampshire
PO9 1QN
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0) 2392 488 240
Fax: +44 (0) 2392 488 241
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Website www.osil.co.uk