The TROP ICSU project was represented at four sessions on climate change education at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 24) in Katowice, Poland, on 13 and 14 December, 2018.
The 6th International Conference on Plants & Environmental Pollution (ICPEP-6) took place in Lucknow, India, from 27-30 November 2018. IUBS supported participation of 42 young scientists in this conference.
The TROP ICSU team conducted a workshop for teachers at Kampala, Uganda, in November 2018 with enthusiastic and valuable support from our partner, the African Union of Conservationists (AUC). Over 60 high school teachers and over 70 university teachers participated in the workshop.
On October 14, Global Biodiversity and Health Big Data (BHBD) Alliance was launched at Beijing Institute of Genomics in Beijing. Representatives from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Russia, Singapore, and the United States attended the inauguration ceremony, which was witnessed by officials from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Science and Technology.
Prof. Yiming Bao of Beijing Institute of Genomics was elected as the Chairperson of the Alliance.
Meeting of IUBS's Executive Committee (f.l.t.r.): Hiroyuki Takeda, LS Shashidhara, Regine Jahn, Alexey Kotov, Lily Rodriguez, Yongbiao Xue, Santiago Merino The Board of the IUBS met at the Museo Nacional de Ciencas Naturales in Madrid, Spain, 10-11 July 2018. They discussed how to proceed with IUBS's agenda, set in the General Assembly.
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IUBS, as a member organisation, attended the Funding General Assembly of the ICS (International Science Council), that launched in July 2018 as the result of a merger between the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC).
25th International Diatom Symposium, was organized in Seminaries and Botanical Garden Berlin, Germany, from 25th to 30th June 2018 by the International Society for Diatom Research (ISDR).
Workshop in Davos. Photo: IUBSAndres Barbosa organized a workshop between IUBS and Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) during the Polar 2018, SCAR & IASC (International Arctic Science Committee) Conference, in Davos Switzerland, 15 - 18 June 2018. The aim was to discuss the interaction between IUBS programmes such as BCGC and iCCB with SCAR and how IUBS could participate in the new programmes implemented by SCAR.
The TROP ICSU project (Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding) is conducting a preliminary survey to understand how topics in climate science are currently discussed in the classroom in different parts of the world. It would take approximately 8-10 minutes to complete the short survey available in several languages (English, Catalàn, Chinese, Français, Deutsch, Hindi, Italiano, Japanese, Español).
Please participate in the Survey:
The 2018 Global Survey of Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Scientists as been launched on May 1st, 2018. The survey in the project "A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences - How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?" will be open for answers until October 31st, 2018. You are welcome to forward this link to the survey to your colleagues, men and women.
Welcome to the Global Survey of Scientists: English
Bienvenue dans l’enquête mondiale destinée aux scientifiques: French
Welcome to the Global Survey of Scientists: Chinese
Welcome to the Global Survey of Scientists: Russian
Bienvenido/a a la Encuesta mundial de científicos y científicas: Spanish
The meeting took place at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and at the Institut Henri Poincaré. Photo: IUBSMembers of the project "A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?" met in Paris, France, and representatives of the partner unions gathered in Paris on June 11-12 2018. They reflected on the project’s status and discussed the next steps and actions to be taken.
Participants of the 2nd Working Group meeting (f.l.t.r.): Daniel Waiswa, Rahul Chopra, Boram lee, France Caron, Aparna Joshi, sigbert Huber, Anita Nagarajan, Chris King, Nathalie Fomproix, Daniel Ramos, LS Shashidhara. Photo: IUBSThe 2nd Working Group meeting of the "Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding (TROP-ICSU)" project took place in Paris on 25-26 April 2018.
Participants
France Caron (IMU), Rahul Chopa (implementation team), Miguel Clusener-Godt (UNESCO), Nathalie Fomproix (IUBS), Richard Glover (ICSU ROA), Sigbert Huber (IUSS), Aparna Joshi (implementation team), Chris King (IUGS), Boram Lee (WCRP), Anita Nagarajan (implementation team), Daniel Ramos (Imaginary), LS Shashidhara (IUBS), Daniel Waiswa (AUC)
Via Skype: Allan Ashworth (INQUA), Keith Alverson (IUGG), Barbara Birli (IUSS), Veronica Iniguez (UTPL), Sepo Hachigonta (NRF), Mika Rekola (IUFRO)
Discussion
The project progress and roadmap was presented on the first day of ISC General Assembly on 3 July in Paris, several members of ISC, who are not yet involved in the project also attended the meeting.
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International Symposium on Pollination, taking place at the Botanical Gardens in Berlin (Dahlem), Germany, from 16-20 April 2018. Organized by the International Commission on Plant Pollinator Relations (ICPPR).
Details on the conference website
International Symposium on Ciliate Biology, will take place in New Delhi, India, from 4-6 April 2018.
The supporting International Society of Protistologists (ISOP) is one of IUBS's scientific members.
Details on the conference website
Meeting in Geneva. Photo: IUBSThe team of the "Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding (TROP-ICSU)" project had a meeting with WCRP and WMO in Geneva on 21-22 February 2018. It presented the project and seeked partnership especially for the quality control of the teaching tools.
