1. A Brief Overview of URSI
W. Ross Stone
URSI Assistant Secretary General (Publications)
1446 Vista Claridad
La Jolla, CA USA
Tel: 1 (858) ; Fax: 1 (858) or

2. URSI International Union of Radio Science Founded 1913/1919
One of 27 scientific Unions in ICSU: International Council for Science
44 nations/regions are members
Radio science: Knowledge and study of all aspects of EM fields and waves

3. URSI URSI: non-governmental, non-profit
International stimulation and coordination:
Studies
Research
Applications
Scientific exchange
Communication

4. URSI Objectives
Encourage and promote radio science and applications for benefit of humanity
Encourage adoption of common measurement methods, inter-comparison, and standardization

5. URSI Objectives Stimulate and coordinate studies:
Telecommunication using guided and unguided EM waves
Generation, emission, radiation, propagation, reception, and detection of fields, waves, and processing of signals in them

6. URSI Objectives
Represent radio science to the general public, and to public and private organizations

7. URSI Organization
Governed by Council: representatives of Member “territories”
URSI Board:
President
Past President
Four Vice Presidents
Secretary General

8. URSI: 10 Commissions A: Electromagnetic Metrology B: Fields and Waves
C: Radio-Communication Systems and Signal Processing
D: Electronics and Photonics
E: Electromagnetic Noise and Interference

9. URSI: 10 Commissions F: Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing
G: Ionospheric Radio and Propagation
H: Waves in Plasmas
J: Radio Astronomy
K: Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine

10. URSI Representation “Territories” have representative on Council
“Territories” have representative on each of 10 Commissions
Organization in most National Committees mirrors that of URSI

11. Participation in URSI
Individual radio scientists welcome to participate
In National Committees
In national and international Commissions
At triennial General Assemblies
In sponsored scientific meetings
Publication in URSI publications

12. URSI Publications Radio Science Bulletin Radio Science Quarterly
Peer-reviewed, abstracted and indexed
Papers of broader interest
Radio Science
AGU publication; URSI sponsored

13. URSI Publications Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
Elsevier publication
URSI sponsored
Wireless Networks
Baltzer Science Publishers

14. Be an URSI Radio Scientist
Join network of over 2200 Radio Scientists
Receive Radio Science Bulletin
Reduced subscriptions to Radio Science, JASTP, Wireless Networks
Reduced registration fees at certain URSI-sponsored symposia
40 Euros per triennium

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