Communication and Outreach Branch
Objectives
The Communication and Outreach Branch (COB) provides the Association with communication, educational/public information and outreach links to the membership, to other scientific Associations and to the world as a whole.
The Communication and Outreach Branch:
- promotes the recognition and usefulness of geodesy in general and IAG in particular;
- publishes informational materials, such as regular newsletters, brochures, leaflets;
- supports membership development;
- acts as a general information service within the Association;
- develops and supports outreach activities.
We also assist the IAG Secretary General in:
- maintaining the IAG Website and social media presence;
- setting up Association schools;
- setting up meetings and conferences.
Program of activities
- COB develops and maintains the official IAG website and the IAG Newsletter published electronically monthly as well as the printed version published in the Journal of Geodesy.
- We also organize and edit the montly column in the GIM International magazine devoted to IAG affairs and Geodesy in general.
- COB operates the Social Media Accounts of IAG.
- COB supports the promotional activities of IAG with publishing brochures and handouts on geodesy as well as the Association.
Steering Committee
- COB President: Szabolcs Rózsa (Hungary)
- Ex officio voting members:
- IAG Secretary General: Daniela Thaller (Germany)
- Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Geodesy: Jürgen Kusche (Germany)
- Editor-in-Chief of the IAG Symposia Series: Jeff Freymueller (USA)
- other voting members:
- Martin Sehnal (Austria), COB Secretary
- Gyula Tóth (Hungary), Editor of the IAG Newsletter
- Anne Joergensen (Norway, UN-GGCE)
- Husein Abd-Elmotaal (Egypt)
- Nancy Wolfe-Kotary (USA)
- TBD (South America)
- TBD (Asia Pacific)
- permanent guests (non-voting):
- Richard Gross (USA), IAG President
- Peter Theunissen (Netherlands), IAG Vice President
- Zuheir Altamimi (France), IAG Immediate-Past President
COB Office
IAG Communication and Outreach Branch
c/o Department of Geodesy and Surveying
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
P.O.Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
