RECENT ACTIVITIES OF THE REGIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (RAC)

The Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) has been established in 2018 to promote the attendance and participation in the AOGS annual meetings by researchers and students from the ASEAN countries and India that constitute the largest population of the AOGS geographic area. In addition, RAC is interested in building research networks on scientific issues of common interest and importance in the Asian geoscience community. In spite of the COVID 19 pandemic, we have gradually introduced a number of projects that will form the building blocks of the RAC program in the coming years. These include the launch of new publications, the organization of working groups on the coastal zone risk mitigation and management and on the low-latitudinal ionospheric research, respectively. Furthermore, it is planned that a series of satellite meetings on topical areas of interest to the local scientific communities will be organized in coordination with the Scientific Sections in complement to the AOGS annual meetings.