According to the latest Clarivate report, our journal Environmental Modelling & Software (ENSO) has achieved another increase in its impact factor, up to 5.471 in 2021 (from 5.288 in 2020). In addition, the SCOPUS/Elsevier-associated CiteScore for 2021 is 9.5 (up from 9.4 in 2020). This ongoing success would not be possible without all editors, reviewers and of course all iEMSs members and friends submitting state-of-the-art manuscripts and supporting the review process.
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The elections committee, consisting of Peter Khaiter (Chair), Sue Cuddy, Georgii Alexandrov and Min Chan, has reported the outcomes of the 2022 elections to the Biennial General Meeting on 23 June. BGM participants have ratified the results, as follows:
New Office:
President: Stefan Reis
Secretary: Takuya Iwanaga
Treasurer: Ioannis Athanasiadis
Vice-Presidents (4): Marina Erechtchoukova, Min Chen, Nigel Quinn, Andrea Rizzoli
New Board (21):
Georgii Alexandrov, Daniel P. Ames, Susan Cuddy, Anthony Jakeman, Jiping Jiang, Peter Khaiter, Christopher Knightes, Nagesh Kolagani, Junzhi Liu, Giorgio Mannina, Pouyan Nejadhashemi, Chengzhi Qing, Saman Razavi, Vidya Samadi, Val Snow, Willem Vervoort, Alexey A. Voinov, Dali Wang, Wenyan Wu, Fengyuan Zhang, Ke Zhang
A first meeting of the new Board and Office will be scheduled for late July/early August to establish the priorities, committees and working topics for the coming two years. On behalf of the Society, I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to any Office or Board members completing their terms this year and cordially welcome all new Board members and officers into their roles.
The International Environmental Modelling & Software Society, on behalf of its members, strongly condemns the attack on Ukraine and expresses its support for our Ukrainian colleagues. This violent invasion of a sovereign country is an attack on the fundamental values of democracy and freedom, on which academic freedom and academic cooperation are based. We stand in solidarity with everyone who opposes war and armed conflict, anywhere, at any time. In particular, we stand with those bravely defending their homes and families in Ukraine, and those who defy the Russian government’s bans, protesting and openly opposing the war.
Stefan Reis, President iEMSs
According to the latest journal Impact Factor (IF) released by Clarivate, EMS’s IF has risen to 5.288 in 2020 from 4.807 in 2019. Not only that, but EMS’s CiteScore has increased to 9.4 in 2020 from 9 in 2019.
This achievement is the best reward for all the hard work authors, reviewers and editors have done in the past, but it is also the beginning of our journey to the next milestone. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to the whole community for your outstanding contributions to the EMS.
We are delighted to announce that the 2022 iEMSs Biennial Meeting will be held in Brussels in the week of 4th – 8th of July, and we look forward to the excellent team around Ann van Griensven and Jiri Nossent to welcome us all in person in July this year.
The theme for the conference is “Environmental Modelling and Software for science based decision making” and we hope to see a lot of exciting new developments to support a sustainable future.
Please consult the iEMSs2022 website for details about the sessions and other information about the conference: https://www.iemss2022.com
Sessions are now open for abstract submissions as well, please check them out here.
Please note:
- Abstracts are submitted to sessions only.
- Workshop presentations are organized by each workshop organizer individually.
- We still welcome workshop proposals.
- Abstract Submission Deadline: February 15, 2022
Please, follow @iEMSsNews on Twitter for updates as we progress towards convening in July.
Looking forward to welcoming everyone to Brussels!!
For more information or specific questions on the conference, please email info@iemss2022.com
A group of iEMSs members joined forces to write a position paper on Open Web-Distributed Integrated Geographic Modelling and Simulation to Enable Broader Participation and Applications.
The paper has appeared on the Elsevier journal Earth-Science Reviews and it is open access.
The abstract follows:
Thirty scientists have written an open letter to Science advocating for increased transparency in the modelling behind COVID-19. Among these, our President, Dan Ames, together with some of our distinguished members, has signed on behalf of our Society.
Read the full article here:
http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.abb8637
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and its consequences, the iEMSs2020 Organizing Committee and iEMSs board have decided to postpone the iEMSs2020 conference!
The conference will now be organized as a partial on-site – partial on-line conference from 14th till 18th September 2020.
The Organizing Committee is working hard to reschedule the conference and to reset the different milestones.
We ask you for some patience and will inform you when additional information becomes available.
Please, consult the iEMSs 2020 website for the latest information and details about the conference.
The International Environmental Modelling and Software Society and Hydrology Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel are honored to host and invite you to the 10th iEMSs Conference in Brussels, Belgium in 2020.
Please visit the website http://www.iemss2020.com
Aims & scope
The aim of the conference is to enhance sustainable resource by bringing together researchers, stake holders and decision makers engaged with environmental modelling, software and related topics, in order to exchange information, improve cooperation, promote interdisciplinarity and stimulate developments.
Deadlines
- The Call for Sessions & Workshops is now open! Proposals are due by 1 December 2019.
- Abstract Submission: 15 December 2019 – 1 February 2020
- Online registration: 1 April – 31 May 2020
The 1st Regional Conference on Environmental Modeling and Software (Asian Region), held on May 18-20, 2019 in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, was a great success. With the topic of “Modelling for Environmental Sustainability: Asia’s Next Great Challenge”, this conference was organized by the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, the Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment (Ministry of Education of PRC), and the School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University. Co-organisers were the Professional Committee of Geographic Information Modelling and Analysis (the Geographical Society of China), the Virtual Geographic Environment Committee (Chinese National Committee of International Society for Digital Earth), the Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, the State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base of Geographical Environment Evolution (Jiangsu Province), the Jiangsu Society for Geodesy Photogrammetry and Cartography, the Jiangsu Association for the Sciences of Remote sensing and Geographic Information System, the Geographical Society of Jiangsu Province, the National Data Sharing and Service Platform for Earth System (China), the Jiangsu Institute of Geographic Information Institute.