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Committee on International Participation
2008–2010 term
Chair
Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi, Universidad Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
Members
Laike Asfaw, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Fumihiko Imamura, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Alik Ismail Zadeh, Universitat Karslruhe, Germany
Alison Ord, CSIRO, Australia
Laszlo Szarka, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Sopron, Hungary
Marina Stepanova, Universidad de Santiago, Chile
Akpofure Taigbenu, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Stefano Vignudelli, CNR, Pisa, Italy
Pinar Yilmaz, ExxonMobil Exploration Company, Houston, USA
Dongliang Yuan, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Staff Liaison
Vacant
Committee Charge
The Committee on International Participation (CIP) is responsible for guiding AGU's efforts to promote and facilitate scientific cooperation in Earth and space science on global scale. With more than 35 % of our members from over 120 countries, beyond North America, it is important to better assure that all members are well served regardless of geographic constraints and to work cooperatively with the other national, regional and international scientific societies in which their members participate.
CIP provides advice and support to other AGU committees regarding international involvements and perspectives for their activities. The committee will also work to develop partnerships with societies and relationships with individuals that are productive for our science. AGU supports and collaborates in international programs. AGU is an international partner of the International Year of Planet Earth, in recognition of the critical role our science could play for the generations to come. Pressing problems in Earth system sciences like global changes, natural hazards and resource limitation can be successfully considered only by adopting an international perspective.
Actions to be undertaken are:
- organizing a one-stop website that has input from society contributors that want to help distribute information to the benefit of the community;
- a face book facility solely for Earth, atmosphere, ocean and space scientists;
- preparing statements on the current state of scientific knowledge in selected areas relevant to society, so that the final statements can be used by the scientific community worldwide.
CIP will also interact with other societies to support the growth of students in a variety of environments so that they become an active part of the worldwide community, and thus enhance the flow of excellence into the ranks of our science. CIP will evaluate the Berkner Grant applications helping international students to attend the Union's Spring meetings, as an action to provide motivation opportunities to attract and keep best students in Earth sciences. The Union needs to find ways to better serve its members from countries with low-speed internet facilities and other inadequate infrastructure. CIP will help AGU to better cooperate and partner with other societies on getting policy makers worldwide to use the best available science.
–October 2008