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EWC’98 Officers

International Advisory Board

William J. R. Alexander
IDNDR-Scientific and Technical Committee (STC), Sub-Committee on Early Warning, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa

Miriam Baltuck
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Lead Scientist, Solid Earth Branch, NASA, USA, currently at Yaralumla, Australia

Cyril E. Berridge
Caribbean Meteorological Organization, Port of Spain, Trinidad

Michael E. Blackford
UNESCO/IOC International Tsunami Information Center, Hawaii, USA

Zhangli Chen
State Seismological Bureau of China, Beijing, China

Rainer Dombrowsky
National Weather Service, Silver Springs, USA

James Dooge
University College Dublin, Ireland

Thomas E. Downing
Environmental Change Unit, School of Geography, Oxford, United Kingdom

Rolando Duran
Centro de Coordination para la Prevencion de Desastres Naturales en America Central (CEPREDENAC), Panama

Juan Manuel Espinoza-Aranda
Centro de Instrumentacion y Registro Sismico, A.C., Del. Benito Juarez, Mexico

Johann Georg Goldammer
Fire Ecology Research Group, Max Planck-Institute, University of Freiburg, Germany

Robert M. Hamilton
IDNDR-Scientific and Technical Committee (Chair), Subcommittee on Natural Disasters Reduction, Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, American National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, USA

Hans Kienholz
International Association of Geomorphology (IAG), Mountain Hazards Project, University of Bern, Switzerland

William H. K. Lee
US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, USA

Sir James Lighthill †
WMO/ICSU Tropical Cyclone Disasters, University College London, United Kingdom

Isaac O. Nyambok
University of Nairobi, Regional Center for the Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program (GSHAP), Member of IDNDR-STC, Kenya

Raymundo S. Punongbayan
Philippine Institute of Volcanology & Seismology, Quezon City, Philippines

Robert I. Tilling
US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, USA

Seiya Uyeda
RIKEN International Frontier Program, Tokai University, Earthquake Prediction Research Center, ICSU IDNDR Scientific Committee on Earthquake Research, Shimizu, Japan

Fritjof Voss
Technical University of Berlin, Dept. Geography, Germany

John Zillman
Dept. of Environment, Sport and Territories, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia


Programme Committee

Franz Wolfgang Eder
Division of Earth Sciences, UNESCO, Paris

Detlev Frömming
DWD German Weather Service, Germany

Günter Hölter
Deutscher Caritasverband, Germany

Terry Jeggle
UN-OCHA, IDNDR Secretariat, Geneva

Robert Landis
World Weather Watch Department, WMO, Geneva

Erich Plate
German National Committee for the IDNDR

Christoph Reigber
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany

Alexander von Rom
Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany

Hermann Schmitz-Wenzel
German National Committee for the IDNDR and IDNDR Scientific and Technical Committee

Wolfgang Steinborn
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany

Gerd Tetzlaff
Meteorological Institute, University of Leipzig, Germany

Herman Th. Verstappen
ICSU-SC/IDNDR, IGU, International Institute for Aerospace Survey & Earth Sciences, The Netherlands

Jochen Zschau
(Chairman), GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany


Local Organising Committee

Jochen Zschau
(Chairman),GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany

Erich Plate
German National Committee for the IDNDR, Germany

Christian Eikenberg
German National Committee for the IDNDR, Germany

Peter Bormann
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany

Andreas Küppers
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany

K. Steven Peiris
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany