Bylaws
Bylaws 1 - Duties of the officers of the ISES
Bylaws 2 - Roles and responsibilities for the members of the ISES
Bylaws 3 - ISES standards for member institutions
Bylaw 1: Duties of the officers of the ISES
The duties of the Director include:
- Coordinate ISES activities
- Organize and conduct business meetings
- Serve as liaison with international organizations such as ICSU and the WMO
- Facilitate the election process for new officers
- Publicize ISES at international meetings and through publications
The duties of the Deputy Director include:
- Act in place of the Director as needed
- Track the activities of the ISES centers and produce the ISES annual report
- Encourage the transition of new research results into operations
- Schedule activities for selecting new members
- Establish working groups for improving space weather services
The duties of the Secretary for World Days include:
- Production and distribution of the International Geophysical Calendar
- Solicit inputs from the scientific community for the International
- Geophysical Calendar (IGC)
The duties of the Secretary for Space Weather include:
- Coordinate data interchange between centers
- Assist in facilitating the exchange of new space environment data
- Investigate new methods of data interchange
- Assist in the development of standard ISES products
- Document and maintain the ISES standards for data and product exchange
Bylaw 2: Roles and responsibilities for the members of the ISES
ISES Directing Board is to:
- Oversee the work of the ISES centers
- Set the vision and develop the short-term plans and long-term goals of ISES
- Approve the selection of new members
- Develop new and improved methods of operation
- Organize workshops to improve space weather services
- Provide leadership in identifying research and product needs
- Revise the ISES Constitution and Bylaws as needed
Members are to:
- Collect and coordinate space environment data from their geographical area
- Provide timely, free, exchange of data, information, and techniques with
- other Members and affiliated institutions
- Provide space weather forecasts and warning services for local users,
- including a daily GEOALERT
- Assist the public in understanding space weather
- Assist users in space weather related activities
Associate Warning Centers are to:
- Collect and coordinate space environment data from their geographical area
- Coordinate forecast and warning services with their affiliated RWC
- Provide timely, free, exchange of data, information, and techniques with
- other Members and affiliated institutions
- Provide space weather forecasts and warning services for local users
- Assist the public in understanding space weather
- Assist users in space weather related activities
Collaborative Expert Centers (CEC) are to:
- Encourage and support the development of space weather services
- Contribute expertise in space weather forecasting
- Promote space weather services in centers not affiliated with ISES
The World Warning Agency for Space Weather is to:
- Monitor and coordinate the interchange of selected data and products between Members
- Produce and issue the WWA GEOALERT
- Coordinate the development of standard products and data codes for ISES
Bylaw 3: ISES standards for member institutions
Members (RWC) and Associate Warning Centers (AWCs) must:
- Have endorsement by their national government as space weather service providers
- Coordinate systematic collection of data within their geographical area
- Allow timely, free exchange of data and products with other Members and the public
- Provide near-real-time space weather forecasts and warning services for local users
- Exchange forecasts with other ISES Centers
- AWCs must have affiliation with an existing RWC
Collaborative Expert Centers (CEC) must:
- Have demonstrated expertise in space weather services
- Allow timely, free exchange of data and products with other Members and the public