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One year to go to iEMSs 2024

Dear iEMSs Members and Friends,

We are just a year away from our next Biennial Conference, which will take place in East Lansing, Michigan, hosted by your colleagues at MSU. You can find more information on the conference on the website here, and we will keep updating this site with all the details as they emerge. Make sure you mark your calendars for next year.

We are still calling for workshop proposals and are currently assessing all session proposals received, to put together an exciting programme for everyone. Registration for the conference and the call for abstracts will open after the summer. So please watch this space and get in touch with us if you have any thoughts or suggestions.

Please share and advertise the conference widely in your networks! We look forward to seeing you all in East Lansing next year.

Office

The iEMSs Office (2022-2024)

President 

Stefan Reis, DLR Projektträger, Germany

Secretary

Takuya Iwanaga, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia

Treasurer

Ioannis Athanasiadis, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Vice -presidents

  • Marina Erechtchoukova, York University, Canada
  • Min Chen, Nanjing Normal University, China
  • Nigel W.T. Quinn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
  • Andrea Rizzoli, IDSIA USI-SUPSI, Switzerland

Arbitrators

Carlo Lepori, IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland
Andrea-Emilio Rizzoli
, IDSIA USI/SUPSI, Switzerland

The iEMSs Board and the iEMSs Office are in charge for 2 years, new elections will be held in 2024, before the iEMSs 2024 biennial meeting.

Past-presidents

2016-2020 Dan Ames, Brigham Young University, United States

2012-2016: Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, IDSIA, Switzerland

2008-2012: Alexey Voinov, ITC, U Twente, The Netherlands

2004-2008: Giorgio Guariso, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, EU

2000-2004: Anthony J. Jakeman, Australian National University, Australia.

Board

The iEMSs Board of Directors (2022-2024)

In addition to the Office members, the following iEMSs members compose the Board of Directors:

  • Alexandrov, Georgii
  • Ames, Daniel
  • Cuddy, Susan
  • Jakeman, Anthony
  • Jian, Jiping
  • Khaiter, Peter
  • Knightes, Christopher
  • Kolagani, Nagesh
  • Liu, Junzhi
  • Mannina, Giorgio
  • Nejadhashemi, Pouyan
  • Qin, Chengzhi
  • Razavi, Saman
  • Samadi, Vidya
  • Snow, Val
  • Vervoort, Willem
  • Voinov, Alexey
  • Wang, Dali
  • Wu, Wenyan
  • Zhang, Fengyuan
  • Zhang, Ke

The iEMSs Board  are in charge for 2 years, new elections will be held in 2024, prior to the Biennial Meeting.

Results of the 2022 Elections

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.

Obituary: Dr James (Jim) Ascough III

A tribute in memory of Dr. James (Jim) C. Ascough II

Timothy R.Green, Olaf David, Holger R.Maier

This is a tribute to Dr. Jim Ascough, who was an enthusiastic member, officer and medalist of the International Environmental Modelling & Software Society (iEMSs). Sadly, Jim died of a heart attack on 1 December 2016. This shocked his family, friends and colleagues, who knew Jim as an active person who rarely lacked energy for any endeavor. Jim is survived by his wife, Dr. Lois Deer-Ascough (Deer-Ascough et al., 1995; Ascough et al., 1998), son TJ (age 22) and daughter Katie (age 18).

Outside of work, Jim was fully engaged as a husband and father, who expressed his love to his family in words and actions. Even during the work day, it was not uncommon to hear Jim talking on the phone to one of his kids or his wife. He was an active participant in their school and athletic activities, even coaching soccer and playing tennis with his children. The family took vacations together, attended church regularly, and participated in many outdoor activities, like hiking in the Rocky Mountains.

New iEMSs Board and Office (2014-2016)

The iEMSs is proud to announce the new Board and Office for the biennium 2014-2016

The iEMSs Office

President:

  • Andrea Rizzoli (Switzerland)

Vice-Presidents:

  • Dan Ames (USA)
  • Peter Khaiter (Canada)
  • Stefan Reis (UK)
  • Susan Cuddy (Australia)

Secretary:

  • Marina Erechtchoukova (Canada)

Treasurer:

  • Ioannis Athanasiadis (Greece)

The Board for the next biennium will be composed by:

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how iEMSs uses and protects any information that you give iEMSs when you use this website. iEMSs is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. iEMSs may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 7th of May, 2012.

 

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

  • name and job title
  • contact information including email address
  • demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
  • other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • Internal record keeping.
  • We may use the information to improve our products and services.
  • We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

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Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
  • if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to us.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.You may request details of personal information which we hold about you.  If you would like a copy of the information held on you please contact us.If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

New iEMSs Fellows

Dear IEMSS members,

As you may recall, in every odd-numbered year, the Society confers three Fellowship for: “Unselfish dedication to promoting the aims of the Society, and for outstanding contributions to environmental modelling and software.”

It is my pleasure to announce the 2011 IEMSS Fellows.

The awardees are

Susan Cuddy, ANU and CSIRO, Australia

Carlo Giupponi, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy

and

Richard Sojda, USGS, USA

They have been unanimously recommended by the five members of the Awards Committee and then approved by Society Board.

Our congratulations to the awardees!

Alexey Voinov, iEMSs President

on behalf of the Awards Committee

Tony Jakeman Chair, Awards Committe, and Members: Kristina Voigt, Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Pete Loucks, Giorgio Guariso

and the Society Board.

IEMSS Student and Young Researcher Network

Dear members and other environmental modellers!

We are happy to announce the launch of the IEMSS Student and Young Researcher Network!!!

The networks aims to promote collaboration and exchange of ideas among young researchers working in the domain of environmental modelling as well as interactions with senior environmental modellers.

The Network’s website is: https://sites.google.com/site/iemssnetwork/home It is still in a beta version. All members, especially students, are welcome to suggest and add further content.

For more information please contact Network coordinators: Anna Cord and Francesco Falcieri.