Mission Statement for Solid Earth Sciences (SE) Section Presidency 2024-2026
Fuqiong Huang, China Earthquake Networks Center, CEA, MEMC, Beijing, China
With the greatest of per-capita growth of science investment, the greatest growth of population and economic, as well as
the greatest growth of death toll and economic losses of the planet due to natural hazards, the Asia-Oceania region

is now facing increasingly strained dependencies on natural resources, food and freshwater security, andexposure and particularly vulnerable to a multitude of Solid Earth processes and natural hazards. The AOGS
science community plays a crucial role helping to formulate a sustainable road map for growth in theregion through science and technology, and increasingly lead the way for human prosperity on planet
Earth. Recent occurred strong earthquakes in Afghanistan, long lasting flooding in Pakistan, violent volcano
erupting in Hunga Tonga, as well as the tragic wild fire in Australia, and so on, the disaster chain leave for
AOGS science community new challenges and opportunities.
I am immensely humbled to be nominated for election to the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society’s Solid
Earth Sciences (SE) Section Presidency. I have served as section secretary since 2007, with a brief
interruption in 2016-2017. As section secretary, I actively and positively cooperated with section
presidents to support the program development through award and lecture nominations, as “emergency”
convener/chair during the pandemic years of virtual conferences, and supporting mentorship development
initiatives like MTE (Meet-The-Experts) and as a thoughtful, caring, knowledgeable, and professional
student best poster (SBP) judge. With interactions with AOGS through positively joining the activities, I
obtain growing up personally and deep inside knowledge of AOGS and deeply care for AOGS’ mission.
Through lecturing for the seminar on ‘Meteorological and Earthquake Forecast, Mitigation and Relief’ fordeveloping countries, sponsored by World Meteorological Organization Regional Training Center of Nanjing
China, in Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (2014-2021), where the participants camefrom more than 30 countries, and through mining scientific data during performing as national
representative of International Seismological Centre, as well as through social surveying on science literacyof natural hazards, I have learned much about the most potential natural disasters of Asia-Oceania region. I
truly enjoy advocacy for AOGS and offer myself to serve the needs of AOGS and the AOGS science
community to strengthen the ties within and beyond the Solid Earth science section at AOGS.
My vision to strengthen AOGS and the Solid Earth section includes to:a) Strengthen the Solid Earth section within, by encouraging members to organize Solid Earth sessions atthe annual meeting, by encouraging increased collaboration across Solid Earth sub-disciplines andcountry boundaries, and through outreach activities. I will try to engage researchers in government andacademia who can contribute to and benefit from AOGS/SE activities, both from within and beyond theAsia Oceania region.
b) Strengthen cross-disciplinary science initiatives between SE and other sections, by engaging indiscussion across sections of AOGS. I will work toward fostering integrating and synergetic ideas forsessions, advocacy, and promoting cross-disciplinary research, especially in the field of disaster chain ofnatural hazards.
c) Strengthen AOGS by working with the Executive Committee to identify strategic initiatives and actions,by supporting the AOGS journal Geoscience Letters by ensuring high quality contributions, and byforging and strengthening the bonds with SE-equivalent sections of sister organizations (AGU, EGU, JPGU,others) to explore possible coordinated activities.
d) Strengthen AOGS by working with the Executive Committee to explore and advance concepts of supportfor young researchers and students to attend and contribute to the annual meetings, explore
partnership programs, and continue to engage regional stakeholders like NGOs, industry, local
government organizations, and the primary/secondary educational sector.