Dear Colleagues The registration tab of The IGU Extraordinary Centennial Congress 2022 scheduled at Paris during 18th July 2022 to 22nd July 2022 is now hidden. From now on, if participants who have submitted an abstract and are confirmed, e.g. colleagues who may be informed of their financial support late, they should contact the organisation [...]
The Parvati Foundation, an international non-profit is leading the creation of the Marine Arctic Peace Sanctuary (MAPS) to protect one of the most important global life support systems, the Arctic Ocean. As the Arctic ice recedes year by year, global consequences multiply. While there is still a window of opportunity to avert total catastrophe, an [...]
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The 2021 International Association for Promoting Geoethics has awarded the Geoethics Medal to IGU Vice-President Iain Hay. The citation reads as follows: Iain Hay has pioneered the field of geographies of domination and oppression in a lifetime’s work acknowledged by a rare Doctor of Letters (University of Canterbury 2009). His research unmasks unintended and insidious [...]
IGU has great pleasure to release the calls of nominations of the candidates for the following four IGU Honors & Awards in 2022 on behalf of the IGU Executive Committee. Click on the links below to access the nomination forms. The IGU Lauréat d’honneur, established to recognize individuals who have achieved particular distinction or who [...]
At the recent General Assembly (virtual) of the International Science Council (ISC), geographer Professor Maria Paradiso was nominated by the IGU and subsequently elected as a member of the ISC Governing Board. Professor Paradiso is a long-standing supporter of the IGU and has worked incredibly hard over many years to promote our aims and objectives. [...]
IGU regrets to announce the death of Professor Antoine Bailly, former chair, and long-time steering committee member of the IGU Commission on Applied Geography. The communication below is from ProfessorLise Bourdeau-Lepage, President of the ASSOCIATION de SCIENCE RÉGIONALE De LANGUE FRANÇAISE It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I write to inform [...]
Dear IGU Colleagues “Warning: An e-mail message containing an attachment link (.XLSX file) using Email Id similar to Professor R. B Singh (Secretary General and Treasurer, IGU) is being circulated known to be used by "phishers" to attempt to steal your password or other sensitive information. Treat this message with caution and do not click [...]
The 2nd national forum on geographic modeling and simulation（and the launch ceremony of the training course on domestic geographical analysis models) was successfully completed The 2nd national forum on geographic modeling and simulation (and the launch ceremony of the training course on domestic geographical analysis models) was successfully held in Nanjing Normal University during Jan [...]
Dear Colleagues Department of Geography, Faculty of Earth Sciences is organizing the IGU India International conference (Virtual), 2020 on “Global to Local Sustainability & Future Earth” involving IGU commissions from 18th to 20th December 2020 at MLSU, Udaipur, India Register to Participate: Link for Registration- https://bit.ly/3kMHwAy Website: www.mlsu.ac.in Conference Brochure: IGU Udaipur brochure 2020 Contact [...]
