News from the last EURASAP
Committee Meetings

An EURASAP Committee meeting took place during the days of the 23rd ITM/CCMS on Air Pollution Modelling and its Application, 28 September - 2 October, 1998 at Riviera Holiday Club, Varna, Bulgaria. On this occasion this time Peter Builtjes, Ekaterina Batchvarova, Carlos Borrego, Bernard Fisher and Sven-Erik Gryning were present.

According to the usual agenda, reports of the Chairman and the Treasurer for the period after the meeting in 1997 in Roskilde, Denmark were approved. Then the EURASAP future was discussed in an open way, pointing out that the main objective from the first years of EURASAP - organising small worksh ops in order to intensify the collaboration in Air pollution sciences within the whole of Europe - is now an objective of many other programmes and initiatives. But the success of the last EURASAP Workshop on "The Determination of the Mixing Height - Current Progress and Problems" at Risoe, Denmark in 1997 was also evident. Another objective of EURASAP was the support for other conferences - and this one was also met by the support given to the 22nd ITM, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1997 and the 23rd ITM, Varna, Bulgaria, 1998; and the 5th Harmonisation Conference at Rhodes, Greece, 1998. The focus of EURASAP activities - the Newsletter of EURASAP edited by Bernard Fisher has been issued regularly and kept the interest of the members.

Nevertheless some change seemed to be needed in running EURASAP as the overall duties of the Committee members have been enlarged during the past 10 years and EURASAP could not keep the same priority.

A suggestion in this direction was to change Editor, as the Newsletter is the most time consuming activity and Ekaterina Batchvarova volunteered to investigate if and how this can be done in Bulgaria.

A difficulty in running EURASAP during the last years was the existence of two accounts (in U.K. and the Netherlands). Consequently, it was not easy to oversee the membership.

Some more effort is now needed in order to attract young scientists' interest to the Association and a way to work towards this is to keep the Internet page of EURASAP updated.

By the end of 1998 it was clear that Ekaterina Batchvarova could work on these three topics at NIMH, provided some help from EURASAP for PC-equipment was given in addition to the direct printing and postage cost for the Newsletter.

In March, the first Virtual or Internet meeting of the EURASAP Committee was organised and the decision was taken.

Now we start to issue the Newsletter close to the East End of Europe - and we hope to succeed with the help of all members, who are welcome to express their scientific interests, views on the role of the Association, and requirements for the Newsletter and the Internet page. All opinions will be considered and published.

Maybe the next millennium will bring new objectives to EURASAP - here we can open a discussion for the future of the Association that will be carried out and followed on the pages of the Newsletter and the Web.

The Editor

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