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Book Review : “A Natural History of Time”

This excellent book must now be regarded as the preferred starting point for anyone wishing to understand the history of efforts to know the earth’s age.

7 New Books

Carbon Footprint of Nations website wins recognition

How much carbon does your country emit - and where does it come from? Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Professor Edgar Hertwich and colleague Glen Peters wanted to know the answer to that question - and created a website to do so.

Some interesting pages on volcanos

The pages refer to research projects, some completed and some ongoing, and is for general interest.

Geoscience Information For Teachers (GIFT) workshops 2010

A short Report on the GIFT workshops organised this year by the EGU Committee on Education

Issue #31 08 July 2010

German Chair for ESA Council

Paris, 22 June 2005.- Sigmar Wittig, currently Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), is the new Chair of the ESA Council for the next two years (as from 1 July).

Professor Wittig was unanimously elected at the 179th Council meeting, held at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany on 21-22 June. He will take over from Mr Per Tegnér of Sweden, whose term of office ends on 30 June.

Born on 25 February 1940 in Nimptsch, Sigmar Wittig studied mechanical engineering and was awarded a PhD from the University of Aachen. After nine years in the United States (1967 - 1976), he worked for many years (1976 - 2002) as professor and head of the institute for thermal turbomachinery at the University of Karlsruhe, eventually becoming University President in 1994.

In March 2002, he was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board of the DLR and has been Head of the German Delegation to ESA since then.

ESA PR 35-2005