A few weeks ago, I wrote about the meeting in Baveno to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the birth of the Copernicus programme. I wrote about how interesting it was to compare notes and perspectives on what happened at the event 20 years ago. At the event, it was a particular pleasure to meet Claes Goren Borg who was the EARSC chairman in 1998 and Marcello Ricottilli who was chairman from 2000 to 2003. As a result, we had the 3 chairs from 1991 through to 2003 all together in the meeting! I was chairman from 1991 to 1996, Claes Goren was chair from 1997 to 2000, and then Marcello to 2003. |
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A little bit of EARSC history shown in the picture
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- and that set me thinking! For some time, I have been meaning to write about the history of EARSC. If ; why not do this as a series of blogs? I hope that others who have been involved with the Association can comment and add their views, we should be able to recreate a fairly detailed picture which could maybe take its place on Wikipedia. Let me start at the beginning……..
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