INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS UNION GEODESIQUE ET GEOPHYSIQUE INTERNATIONALE

IUGG – The People at the Forefront (XVIII) Trevor McDougall, President of the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO), 2019-2023 Trevor McDougall is a member of the IUGG Executive Committee, being the President of IAPSO (the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans). [...] He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and in 2018 was made a Companion of the Order of Australia. [...] We even owe high-speed, long-distance communications, which allow us to coordinate the fight against the pandemic and reduce interruptions in education, economic activities and even the practice of science, to the discovery and study of electromagnetic waves and optic fibres during the 19th century, and to the development of algorithms and computers codes during the 20th century. [...] Early on he took the opportunities offered by the Internet to facilitate the open archiving of publications and the networking of scientists, in particular with the setting and mastering of the francophone portal . [...] He was particularly involved and efficient in facilitating the functioning of the Association, the emergence of digitisation, the digital rescue and open archiving of the IAHS publication series, the shaping of the agenda-setting PUB – Prediction in Ungauged Basin decade, the partnership with UN Agencies (in particular UNESCO IHP and WMO CHy).