National Committee of Geological Sciences of Belgium

Comité national des Sciences géologiques

Nationaal Comité voor geologische Wetenschappen

Mission

The mission of the various national scientific committees of Belgium is to promote and coordonnate both at national and international levels the activities of their relevant disciplines. They have been created by the "Classe des Sciences de l'Académie Royale de Belgique" and the "Klasse der Wtenschappen van de Koninklijke Academie van België". There are members for Belgium of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU).

The National Committee of Geological Sciences of Belgium has close relationships with the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) which is also a member of ICSU. IUGS is a non-governmental organization that promotes and encourages the study of Geological problems, especially those of world-wide significance, and supports and facilities international and interdisciplinary cooperation in earth sciences. A major part of IUGS effort goes into mutidisciplinary international Joint Programs, e.g. : International Geological Correlation Program (IGCP), Inter-Union Commission on the Lithosphere (ICL), Geological Applications of Remote Sensing (GARS), Mineral Deposit Modelling, Earth Processes and Golbal Change, Circum-Atlantic Project, etc.

Composition

Executive Committee (Bureau) :

Voorzitter / Président
A. HERBOSCH
Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l'Environnement-CP 160/02
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Av. F. Roosevelt, 50
B-1050 Brussel, België

Secrétaire / Secretaris
P. MUCHEZ
KUL
Celestijnenlaan, 200c
B-3001 Heverlee, België

Membres:

• Fréderic Boulvain
• Philippe Claeys
• Leon Dejonghe
• Eric Groessens
• Alain Herbosch
• Dominique Laduron
• Pieter Laga
• Johan Lavreau
• Luc Lebbe
• Philippe Muchez
• Etienne Steurbaut
• Noel Vandenberghe
• Peter Van den haute
• Jacqueline Vander Auwera
• Sara Vandycke
• Jacques Verniers

Honorary members :·

P. Sartenaer,· A. Delmer,· F. Gullentops, M. Streel, J. Thorez,· G. Ubaghs.

Representatives to international organizations

• W. De Vos : member of the International Lithosphere Program (ILP).
• P. Bultynck : chairman of the International subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy.
• P. Bultynck : member of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
• E. Groessens : member of the International Commission on History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO).
• J. Verniers : member of Europrobe.
• L. Dejonghe : Belgian representative to IGCP/UNESCO.

National Commission of Stratigraphy

The national commission of stratigraphy of Belgium refers to the National Committee of Geological Sciences for matters dealing with the stratigraphy of Belgium. The commission is subdivided in sub-commissions corresponding to the main systems of the geological time table.

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  Date de dernière mise à jour : 16/1/2008
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