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COSPAR 2018 Status Report to the SSB
Gregg Vane SSB Fall Mee/ng November 3, 2015
Topics
1. COSPAR background and rela/onship with SSB
2. The COSPAR-‐2018 Pasadena team
3. Pasadena mee/ng venue
4. Ac/vi/es for 2015-‐2016
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Overview of COSPAR
• Origin: Established by the International Council for Science (ICSU) in 1958 as an outgrowth of the International Geophysical Year and the launch of Sputnik 1.
• Goals: To promote international scientific research in space, with emphasis on the exchange of results, information and opinions, and to provide a forum, open to all scientists, for the discussion of problems that may affect scientific space research.
• Mechanisms: COSPAR addresses its goals by sponsoring scientific
assemblies, symposia, etc.
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COSPAR Governance
COSPAR Council
COSPAR Bureau
Representatives from national member organizations (e.g. NAS/SSB) and international scientific unions.Elected officials whooversee business and operations
International Council for
Science
Representatives from national member organizations and international scientific unions
COSPAR Scientific
Commissions and Panels
Vehicles via which scientists participate in COSPAR activities
COSPAR Scientific Advisory
Committee
Advises President on scientific activities (COSPAR’s SSB)
COSPAR and the SSB
• The SSB is the U.S. National Committee for COSPAR
• NRC appoints U.S. Representative to COSPAR based on SSB nomination
• U.S. Representative was automatically one of COSPAR two vice presidents (second vice president appointed by the Soviet Academy of Sciences) until democracy won the day in 1994. Since then, the U.S. Representative position has been held by:
• Louis J. Lanzerotti (1994-2002)• Edward C. Stone (2002-2010)• Robert P. Lin (2010-2012) • Len Fisk (2012-2014, elected President of COSPAR in 2014)• Charlie Kennel (2014 - )
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COSPAR Scientific Structure• SC A—Space Studies of the Earth’s Surface, Meteorology and Climate
• SC B—Space Studies of the Earth-Moon System, Planets, and Small Bodies [and Exoplanets]
• SC C—Space Studies on the Upper Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets including Reference Atmospheres [and Exoplanets]
• SC D—Space Plasmas in the Solar System, Including Magnetosphere
• SC E—Astrophysics from Space – sub-commission on Exoplanets
• SC F—Life Sciences as Related to Space [home to Astrobiology]
• SC G—Materials Sciences in Space
• SC H—Fundamental Physics in Space
Plus 11 special purpose panels devoted to, e.g., Capacity Building, Space Weather, Planetary Protection, and Exploration
COSPAR Scien/fic Assemblies
• Ist—London, U.K., 1958• 5th—Washington, D.C. USA, 1962• 14th —Seattle, WA, USA, 1971• 19th—Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1976• 29th—Washington, D.C., USA, 1992• 32nd—Nagoya, Japan, 1998• 34th—Houston, USA, 2002• 35th—Paris, France, 2004• 36th—Beijing, China, 2006• 37th—Montreal, Canada, 2008• 38th—Bremen, Germany, 2010• 39th—Mysore, India, 2012• 40th—Moscow, Russia, 2-8 August 2014
• 41st—Istanbul, Turkey, 2016• 42nd—Pasadena, CA, USA, 2018
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The Pasadena COSPAR Team
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Tom Prince, Caltech, Professor of Astrophysics • COSPAR 2018 SPC Chair
Rosaly Lopes, JPL, Manager of Planetary Science Sec/on • COSPAR 2018 Deputy SPC
Chair
Gregg Vane, JPL, Chief Strategist, Solar System Explora/on • COSPAR 2018 LOC Chair
Caltech Infrared Processing and Analysis Center • Campus “home” for COSPAR 2018 • David Imel is our “chancellor of the exchequer”
ICS is our Professional Conference Organizer (PCO) • Comprised of a team of 50+ professionals • Several dozen conferences each year • Fluency in three dozen languages
The ICS Execu/ve Team
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Examples of recent ICS conferences
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Pasadena Mee/ng Venue Pasadena Conven
NORTH AT TOP
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Mee/ng Room Status
• Total mee/ng room count including all Pasadena Conven/on Center, Sheraton and Hilton Hotels capaci/es now exceeds the 2010 COSPAR Bremen Assembly by about 20 mee/ng rooms
• Total sea/ng capacity now exceeds Bremen by about 30%
• Bremen used for comparison because it hosted the largest Scien/fic Assembly to date
• Complete details including no/onal match-‐ups between rooms and room func/ons have been provided as a Word Doc to the COSPAR Bureau
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Financial Agreement Between Pasadena LOC and COSPAR December 2014 Revised
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Pasadena 2018 compared with similar conferences in 2018 $US unless otherwise noted
Item Pasadena 2018 Moscow proposal
Pasadena 2018 December 2014 Revised
Moscow "2018" EGU "2018" Vienna Budget
AGU "2018" San Francisco
Full-‐fee: Early 750 700 684 624 602 full-‐fee: Regular 900 850 836 676 715 Full-‐fee: On-‐site 1050 950 988 676 715 Student: Early 175 175 190 357 304 Student: Regular 250 225 266 403 416 Student: On-‐Site 350 275 266 403 416 Accompanying: Early 175 175 152 122 n/a Accompanying: Regular 250 225 228 122 n/a Acompanying: On-‐Site 350 275 304 122 n/a 2014 US daily lodging allowance for comparison
138 351 220 251
COSPAR Rebate 300,000 Euros 275,000 Euros COSPAR Grants Program 35,000 Euros 35,500 Euros
Note: Moscow, EGU and AGU inflated from 2014 to 2018 at 0.03 per year Note: EGU and AGU have neither Opening Recep/ons nor Conference Bags Note: Should COSPAR 2018 exceed 3,500 ahendees and yield a financial surplus, Caltech and COSPAR will agree upon a division of proceeds all of which will go toward suppor/ng students in space sciences at Caltech and COSPAR.
Plans for the next year
• Solicit addi/onal sponsors • Contract with new hotels coming on line • Fully engage at the 2016 Assembly in Istanbul
– The program for 2018 is established at the 2016 Assembly – Pasadena team is working ac/vely with colleagues around the world to seed the 2016 Commission Business Mee/ngs with Scien/fic Events for 2018
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