(meteorobs) Fwd: [MIAC-L] MIAC status news

[stange34 at sbcglobal.net]

Disturbing news.

MIAC and the entire Canadian effort is something of a role model to the rest 
of the world in my opinion.

I do not believe the U.S. has anything like it in place. Ours seems to be an 
isolated effort without any central command, or place to even discuss meteor 
related subjects of wide range & instrumentation.

Other than AMS, and occasionally on this forum, and Chris's Colorado effort, 
there does not seem to be any place to even announce an important Bolide 
that could be recoverable.

YCSentinel


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Majden" <epmajden at shaw.ca>
Sent: 2007/11/26 12:09
Subject: (meteorobs) Fwd: [MIAC-L] MIAC status news


> Forwarded with the permission of Dr. Martin Beech
>
> Ed Majden
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Martin Beech <Martin.Beech at uregina.ca>
>> Date: November 26, 2007 8:41:06 AM PST
>> To:MIAC
>> Subject: [MIAC-L] MIAC status news
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> There is some important news concerning MIAC that I would like to pass
>> on to all Associate Members.  As is the way of such things I have some
>> good news and I have some bad news. Perhaps I should begin with the
>> bad,
>> or not so good, news. MIAC is no longer being funded or recognized as
>> an
>> advisory agency to the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). In short the AC
>> part
>> of MIAC no longer applies. On the brighter side for the Canadian
>> planetary science community, the CSA has established two Discipline
>> Working Groups (DWG) that to some extent replace MIAC. One, the small
>> body DWG, is concerned with solar system exploration in general, and
>> the
>> other, the astromaterials DWG is concerned with the analysis of solar
>> system materials. The DWGs have no funding for actual fieldwork,
>> however.
>>
>> The first meeting of the DWGs was held earlier this month and since the
>> various (now ex) committee members of MIAC were nearly all in
>> attendance
>> some time was spent on trying to workout how to keep MIAC going, and on
>> how to keep the whole infrastructure for reporting and contacting
>> volunteers in place. Firstly it was suggested that we stick with the
>> acronym MIAC, but it is now understood to stand for Meteorite Impact
>> Analysis Community. Hopefully we will be able to keep the fireball
>> reporting webpage active and run the information webpages as a general
>> resource guide for anyone wishing to report a meteorite find or fall.
>> At
>> some stage we will probably want volunteers to make their contact
>> information available on the web page so that they can be contacted as
>> regional advisors should a meteorite dropping event take place.
>>
>> At this stage I would encourage people to voice (email) their thoughts
>> to the MIAC list server, and I will keep you informed as best I can
>> upon
>> future developments.
>>
>> With best wishes,
>>
>> Martin Beech (ex MIAC Chair)
>> Campion College, The University of Regina,
>> Regina, SK, Canada S4S 0A2
>>
>>
>> November 24th, 2007
>>
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