HOST & SPONSORS

The Science council of Japan and sixteen Japanese scientific societies will host IUGG2003, the XXIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.

Hosts

• Science Council of Japan
• The Geodetic Society of Japan
• Seismological Society of Japan (Japanese Only)
• The Volcanological Society of Japan
• Meteorological Society of Japan
• Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences
• Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources
• The Japanese Association of Hydrological Sciences
• The Japanese Society of Snow and Ice (Japanese Only)
• The Oceanographic Society of Japan
• The Japanese Society for Planetary Science (Japanese Only)
• The Japanese Society for Limnology
• Japan Society of Civil Engineers
• Japanese Association of Groundwater Hydrology
• The Balneological Society of Japan
• Japan Society of Erosion Control Engineering
• The Geochemical Society of Japan (Japanese Only)

Special Support

• Hokkaido Prefecture
• City of Sapporo

Support

• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
• Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
• Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
• Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren)
• National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
• Independent Administrative Institution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
• Japanese Forestry Society (Japanese Only)
• NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
• Hokkaido Board of Education
• Sapporo Board of Education

IUGG Associations

• International Association of Geodesy (IAG)
• International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA)
• International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
• International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS)
• International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO)
• Internaional Association of Seismology and Physics of trhe Earth's Interior (IASPEI)
• International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)