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AOGS Election of Office Bearers - 2010 to 2012
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Yue-Gau Chen (CV)
Professor
Department of Geosciences
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
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AOGS is an academic platform to bring together the individual scientists who are working on or interested in geosciences of Asia and Oceania. Since this area holds the largest population in the world, the abundant interactions between human activities and environmental processes are considered as opportunities to promote the relevant sciences. For this concern, AOGS such a regional society therefore has better chances than the other world societies. On the other hand, natural processes or events may work or occur across national borders. AOGS hence has the mission to bring local results onto international stage and to complete the international scientific puzzles. Over the past years, AOGS has done many successful jobs to establish international projects and to framework individual scientists from different corners all around the world. It has not only accelerated the scientific development of Asia and Oceania, but also substantially benefited the people living over here. Its further growth is highly expected.
Studies on solid earth are defined as to explore the natural character and its related processes within the globe. It has long been well-known as Earth materials, Earth history and Earth dynamics. Among them the most popular theory is the plate tectonics, which has been proposed over half a century. Although the working rates of the natural processes within solid earth are mostly much longer than the human life time, some high frequency events do exist and may cause fatal hazards. For instance, in the past decade large earthquakes happened from Japan to Sumatra and from Pacific through Tibet to Mid-East. Also, many active volcanoes erupted from islands located in Pacific and East Asia. The uncountable losses caused by all those natural events are believed to be reduced if the related sciences can be promoted with experience accumulation event by event. The way to speed up the knowledge accumulation is to share experiences from different places. The solid-earth section of AOGS plays a role for sharing the knowledge and really made progress in the past a few years. I hope to keep the moment that has been built up already to explore the processes within solid earth including both long-term evolution and short-term event. However, other approaches toward the gray zone between lithosphere and hydrosphere or atmosphere are also welcomed.
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