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ICAE Fall 2003 News Letter

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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NEWS FROM THE COMMISSION

The 12th Conference on Atmospheric Electricity was held on 9-13 June in Versailles, France. 150 scientists from 27 countries participated in this Conference. The photo of the Conference is available on the Website:

http://www.atmospheric-electricity.org/

The proceedings edited by ONERA (Paris) gathered 240 selected papers.

During the conference in Versailles several Commission meetings were held to choose the venue of the next conference and to elect new members and new officers.
The next ICAE Conference, will be held in 2007 in Beijing, China.

Several members of the Commission stepped down:

Lothar H. Runhke,
USA,
former Commission President,

Hannes Tammet,
Estonia

R. Jayaratne,
Botswana

Serge Chauzy,
France,
Secretary of the Commission

Many thanks to all of them for their participation to the commission and a special thank to Serge Chauzy who just achieved a tremendous work as Secretary of the Commission.

New members were elected:

James E. Dye,
USA

Xiushu Qie,
China,

Serge Soula,
France

Osmar Pinto,
Brazil

New Honorary members:

Lothar H. Runhke,
USA

Hannes Tammet,
Estonia

Toshio Ogawa,
Japan

New Officers:

Serge Soula,
France,
has been elected as Secretary of ICAE

Pierre Laroche,
France,
has been re-elected for a second, and last term, as President of ICAE

For more information about ICAE see the website:

http://www.atmospheric-electricity.org/

AWARDS

The National Lightning Safety Institute (NLSI), Louisville CO announces the 2003 recipients of the Annual Lightning Safety Recognition Awards. Recognized are those groups and individuals who provide leadership for lightning safety issues and who serve as role models for others. This year's Awards are in several categories:

US Government Service (Organization) Award
The NOAA Lightning Safety Awareness Week (LSAW) Team.
For three years of initiative in developing effective campaigns which have achieved heightened awareness about lightning safety throughout the USA.
See: www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov

US Government Service (Individual) Award
Steve Hodanish, NOAA Warning Coordination Meteorologist Pueblo Colorado. For accomplishments in promulgating lightning safety information through the Pueblo NOAA website www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/LTG.html and for personal volunteer efforts with local, state and federal groups.

Individual (International) Award
Hartono Zainal Abidin, Lightning Research Sdn Bhd, Kuala
Lumpur Malaysia. For conclusive studies into conventional and unconventional engineering practices for lightning protection as they apply to the Malaysian infrastructure and for leadership within the local, national and regional IEEE organizations.
See more information at:
http://202.186.86.35/special/online/hartono/default.html

Individual (International) Award
Chandima Gomes PhD, Dept. Physics, University of Colombo Sri Lanka. For leadership in hosting educational conferences about lightning safety issues in Sri Lanka and the South Asia regional area and for teaching excellence at the University of Colombo Department of Physics.
Further details may be read at:
www.sundayobserver.lk/2005/05/18/new25.html

FELLOWSHIP

V.A. Rakov has been elected Fellow of AMS "for outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or Next oceanic or hydrologic sciences, or their applications, during a substantial period of years" and Fellow of IEEE "for contributions to the understanding of lightning discharge phenomena"

NEW BOOK

New Monograph: "Lightning: Physics and Effects", Cambridge University Press, 687 p., 2003, V.A. Rakov and M.A. Uman.
Available at :
http://titles.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521583276

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