Activity Locator (Last Updated: 9 July 2015)

Axford Lectures | Section Business Meetings & Distinguished Lectures | Scientific Program

Time

SUNDAY, 02 AUGUST 2015. Society Business & Conference Registration Opens!

12:30 - 14:00 2015 General Election Preparatory Meeting (MR310)
Welcome Lunch & Debrief by Secretary General
Required Attendance: All Candidates & Council Members
Team Briefing & Welcome Lunch (MR308)
Required Attendance: All Student Volunteers & Staff
14:00 - 15:00 Conference Registration (L3)
Opens at 14:00; Closes at 17:00
15:00 - 17:00 Pre-conference AOGS Council Meeting (MR310)
Required Attendance: All Council Members

Time

MONDAY, 03 AUGUST 2015. All Happening on SUNTEC Level 3 & 4

08:00 - 18:30 Conference Registration (Level 3 Foyer)
08:30 - 10:30 Oral Presentations (L3 Meeting Rooms) Exhibition & Poster Build Up (08:30 to 14:00) Closed Session (MR307)
09:00 - 13:00
ICSU-ROAP Mtg
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee/Tea (Level 3 Foyer)
11:00 - 12:30 Oral Presentations (L3 Meeting Rooms)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break (Own Arrangement)
14:00 - 15:30 Oral Presentations (Level 3 Meeting Rooms) Exhibitor Booth Dressing
(15:00 to 18:00)

Exhibition Opens (18:00 to 21:00)
15:30 - 16:00 AOGS2016 in Beijing - Townhall Session (L4 - Hall 404)
Join us for High Tea served in time-honoured Beijing Tradition!
16:00 - 16:30 2015 General Election Candidates - Meet & Greet Session Closed Session (MR312)
17:30 - 19:00
APHW Mtg

Closed Session (MR312)
12:30 - 14:00
APHW Business Meeting & Networking Lunch
16:30 - 18:30 Opening & Axford Lectures (L4 - Hall 404)

AL-1 │ Van-Thanh-Van NGUYEN, McGill University
"Linking Climate Change to Hydrological Impact and Adaptation Studies:
Recent Advances in Modelling of Hydrologic Processes over a Wide Range of Space and Time Scales”


AL-2 │Stephan ULAMEC, German Aerospace Center, Space Operations & Astronaut Training
"Training"Rosetta and Philae, mission to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko"
18:30 - 19:30 General Assembly (L4 - Hall 404)
19:30 - 21:00 Welcome Reception (L3 - Exhibition Hall) - Proudly Sponsored by SUNTEC Singapore Hyperwall Openings at NASA Booth │19:00 - 20:00
6 x 10-Min Presentations on Planetary, Earth,
Precipitation, Ocean, Fire, Climate Change

Time

TUESDAY, 04 AUGUST 2015. All Happening on SUNTEC Level 3!

08:00 - 17:00 Conference Registration
09:00 - 17:00 General Election - Cast Your Votes at AOGS Balloting Booth (Next to Registration)
08:30 - 10:30 Oral Presentations All Day Exhibition
& Poster Display
Poster Presentation
HS & ST
(16:00 - 18:00)

Poster Set-up
from 10:30
& Must be
Completed
by 12:30

Poster Tear Down
from 18:00
& Must be
Completed
by 18:30
School Visits
& Student
Workshops at NASA Booth (10:30 - 17:00) Exhibition Hall
10:30 - 11:00 Take A Break! Coffee/Tea Served in Exhibition Hall 10:30 - 11:00│Hyperwall Talks at NASA Booth
11:00 - 12:30 Oral Presentations
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break (Own Arrangement)
AOGS-NASA Public Lectures (MR326)
PL-1 │ Jack KAYE, AOGS Honorary Member &
Associate Director of Research,
NASA Earth Science Division, NASA HQ

"From Space Observation to Earth Science Systems"
PL-2 │ James GREEN, Director of Planetary Science Division, NASA HQ
"Worlds Seen for the First Time - Ceres and Pluto"
HS Section
Business Meeting & Networking Lunch (MR311)
ST Section
Business Meeting & Networking Lunch (MR325)
14:00 - 15:30 Oral Presentations
HS Distinguished Lectures (MR311)

HS-DL 1 │Philippe GOURBESVILLE,
Nice Sophia University
"Hydroinformatics vs information system:
challenges and opportunities"

HS-DL 2 │ Mikiyasu NAKAYAMA, University of Tokyo
"Beyond Land-for-Land: Towards New Paradigm of Resettlement Policy"

ST Distinguished Lectures (MR325)

ST-DL 1 │Mangalathayil Ali ABDU,
National Institute for Space Research
"Electrodynamics of ionospheric weather
over low latitudes"

ST-DL 2 │Rumi NAKAMURA, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Privatdozent at University of Graz
"Dynamics of the near-Earth's magnetotail"

15:30 - 16:00 Take A Break! Coffee/Tea Served in Exhibition Hall 15:30 - 16:00 │Hyperwalk Talks at NASA Booth
16:00 - 18:00 It's Beer Time! Poster Presentations HS, ST (Exhibition Hall)
Oral Presentations
18:00 - 19:00 AOGS2015 Axford Medalist Special Lecture (MR325)
SS-L1 │ Gary ZANK, Eminent Scholar and Distinguished Professor, Department of Space Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville,
Chair of the Department of Space Science and the Director of the Center of Space Physics and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR)

"Faltering Steps into the Galaxy"

Time

WEDNESDAY, 05 AUGUST 2015. All Happening on SUNTEC Level 3!

08:00 - 17:00 Conference Registration
09:00 - 17:00 General Election - Cast Your Votes at AOGS Balloting Booth (Next to Registration)
08:30 - 10:30 Oral Presentations All Day Exhibition
& Poster Display
Poster Presentation
AS & BG
(16:00-18:00)

Poster Set-up
from 10:30
& Must be
Completed
by 12:30

Poster Tear Down
from 18:00
& Must be
Completed
by 18:30
School Visits
& Student
Workshops at NASA Booth
(10:30 - 17:00)
Exhibition Hall
10:30 - 11:00 Have A Break! Coffee/Tea Served in Exhibition Hall 10:35 - 10:55 │Hyperwall Talk at NASA Booth
11:00 - 12:30 Oral Presentations Public Lecture (MR325)
11:30 - 12:15 │Adam SWITZER,
Nanyang Technological University
"Tropical Cyclones in a warmer world"
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break (Own Arrangement)
BG Section
Business Meeting & Networking Lunch (MR311)
AS Section
Business Meeting & Networking Lunch (MR325)
14:00 - 15:30 Oral Presentations 14:00 - 15:30│Special Session
SS01 NASA Earth Science (MR330)
BG Distinguished Lectures (MR311)

BG-DL 1 │Xiaotang JU,China Agricultural University
"The Terrestrial Nitrogen Cycle and Climate Change"

BG-DL 2 │ Naomi HARADA, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
"Marine phytoplankton -
its various functions on the Earth"

AS Distinguished Lectures (MR325)

AS-DL 1 │In-Sik KANG, Seoul National University
"Cloud Microphysics: An essential componentof GCM for simulation of extreme precipitation"

15:30 - 16:00 Have A Break! Coffee/Tea Served in Exhibition Hall 15:35 - 15:55 │ Hyperwall Talk at NASA Booth
16:00 - 18:00 It's Beer Time! Poster Presentations AS, BG (Exhibition Hall)
Oral Presentations
18:00 - 19:00 AOGS-NASA Panel Session (MR325) - "Frontiers in Space-Based Sciences"
Masaki FUJIMOTO, Director,
Department of Solar System Sciences, and
Director for International Strategy and Coordination, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science,
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS/JAXA)

Shuanggen JIN, Head of Satellite Navigation & Remote Sensing Group, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jack KAYE, AOGS Honorary Membe
Associate Director of Research,
NASA Earth Science Division, NASA HQ

Jann-Yeng LIU, Professor
Graduate Institute of Space Science,
National Central University


Time

THURSDAY, 06 AUGUST 2015. All Happening on SUNTEC Level 3!

08:00 - 17:00 Conference Registration
09:00 - 17:00 General Election - Cast Your Votes at AOGS Balloting Booth (Next to Registration)
08:30 - 10:30 Oral Presentations All Day Exhibition
& Poster Display
Poster Presentation
OS & IG
(16:00 - 18:00)

Poster Set-up
from 10:30
& Must be
Completed
by 12:30

Poster Tear Down
from 18:00
& Must be
Completed
by 18:30
School Visits
& Student
Workshops at
NASA Booth
(10:30 - 17:00)
Exhibition Hall
10:30 - 11:00 Have A Break! Coffee/Tea Served in Exhibition Hall 10:35 - 10:55│Hyperwall Talk at NASA Booth
11:00 - 12:30 Oral Presentations Public Lectures (MR312)

11:00 - 11:45│ Long CAO, Zhejiang University
"Ocean acidification:
another CO2-induced environmental probem"

11:45 - 12:30 │Robin ROBERTSON,
University of New South Wales, Canberra
"Down Under the Ice:
The Ocean's Role in Melting (and Freezing)"

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break (Own Arrangement) 13:00 - 14:00 │ Hyperwalk Talks at NASA Booth
OS Section
Business Meeting & Networking Lunch (MR311)
IG Section
Business Meeting & Networking Lunch (MR325)
14:00 - 15:30 Oral Presentations
OS Distinguished Lectures (MR311)

OS-DL 1 │Craig STEVENS, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) & University of Auckland
"Contextualizing the Turbulent Microscale
in Global Ocean Processes:
Spanning Ten Orders of Magnitude"

OS-DL 2 │Peter STEINBERG, University of New South Wales; Sydney Institute of Marine Sciences; Singapore Centre for Environmental Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
"Kelp, the underwater forests of the world: environmental change, natural enemies and restoration"

IG Distinguished Lectures (MR325)

IG-DL 1 │Hamish J. CAMPBELL, GNS Science
"Zealandia: the seventh continent"

IG-DL 2│Shailesh NAYAK,
Earth System Science Organization (ESSO)
& Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)

"Public policy for integrating Geosciences Research
to Sciences: The Indian perspective"

15:30 - 16:00 Have A Break! Coffee/Tea Served in Exhibition Hall 15:35 - 15:55 │Hyperwall Talk at NASA Booth
16:00 - 18:00 It's Beer Time! Poster Presentations OS, IG (Level 3 - Exhibition Hall)
Oral Presentations
18:00 - 21:30 Convener's Dinner (Ticketed Function) - Please Gather at the Registration Area
Coach Departs from 18:00; Last Coach Departs at 18:30
Venue: "The Line" at Shangri-la Hotel , Singapore Add: 22 Orange Grove Road, Singapore (Tel: 6737 3644)

Time

FRIDAY, 07 AUGUST 2015. All Happening at SUNTEC Level 3!

08:00 - 17:00 Conference Registration
09:00 - 14:30 General Election - Cast Your Votes at AOGS Balloting Booth (Next to Registration)
08:30 - 10:30 Oral Presentations All Day Exhibition
& Poster Display
Poster Presentation
PS & SE
(16:00-18:00)

Poster Set-up
from 10:30
& Must be
Completed
by 12:30

Poster Tear Down
from 18:00
& Must be
Completed
by 18:30
10:30 - 11:00 Have A Break! Coffee/Tea Served in Exhibition Hall 10:30 - 11:00 │Hyperwall Talks at NASA Booth
11:00 - 12:30 Oral Presentations Public Lectures (MR324)

11:00 - 11:45│Faith CHAN,
University of Nottingham Ningbo, Ningbo
"Coastal mega-cities in East Asia: transformation, success and environmental challenges"

11:45 - 12:30 │ Benoit TAISNE, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University
"The Sound of Nature’s Fury"

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break (Own Arrangement)
SE Section
Business Meeting & Networking Lunch (MR311)
PS Section
Business Meeting & Networking Lunch (MR325)
14:00 - 15:30 Oral Presentations Closed Session (MR308)
14:30 - 17-00
Vote Counting Announce Election Results
SE Distinguished Lectures (MR311)

SE-DL1│Peter CLIFT, Lousiana State University
"Formation and Fill of Continental Margin Basins
Around the South China Sea:
A New Form of Climate-Tectonic Interaction"

SE-DL2│Danny Hilman NATAWIDJAJA,
Indonesian Institute of Sciences
"The Sundaland plate boundary:
earthquakes, volcanoes, and gold"

PS Distinguished Lectures (MR325)

PS-DL1│Maria T. ZUBER,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The Lunar Interior Revealed from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission"

PS-DL2│Ichiro YOSHIKAWA, University of Tokyo
"Planetary Exploration by
Plasma Imaging Technique"

15:30 - 16:00 Have A Break! Coffee/Tea Served in Exhibition Hall
16:00 - 18:00 It's Beer Time! Poster Presentations PS, SE (Exhibition Hall)
Oral Presentations
18:00 - 21:00 Tear Down & Ship-out

Time

SATURDAY, 08 AUGUST 2015.

09:00 - 12:00 Post-conference AOGS Council Meeting & Farewell Lunch (MR309)
Required Attendance: Newly Elected Office Bearers & AOGS Council Members