IASPEI/IAVCEI/IAGA/IAPSO/IAMAS/IAHS International Heat Flow Commission

Scope

The International Heat Flow Commission (IHFC) is a commission of, and operates generally under guidelines set by, the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI). The International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) and the International Association of the Physical Sciences of the Ocean (IASPO) are co-sponsors of and participate in the activities of the Committee.

Objectives

The Objectives of IHFC are to promote either alone or in co-operation with other international scientific organizations all aspects of geothermal research as they pertain to the missions of the parent and co-sponsoring associations. Included in these activities are:

• Developing and recommending standards and techniques for the determination of all parameters necessary to geothermal research, such as thermophysical properties of materials, underground temperatures, quantification of geothermal energy resources, etc.;
• Gathering, estimating quality and publishing of heat flow density data as well as other geothermal data of interest;
• Organizing or co-sponsoring international scientific meetings and expeditions as necessary;
• Initiating or co-sponsoring the publication of monographs about specific aspects of geothermal problems;
• Creating Working Groups (WG) as necessary for investigating and reporting on specific geothermal problems.

Officers

• Chair: Massimo Verdoya (Italy)
• Vice Chair: Sukanta Roy (India)
• Past Chair: Shaopeng Huang (China)
• Secretary: Andrea F?rster (Germany)
• Vice Secretary: Robert Harris (USA)

Website

• http://www.ihfc-iugg.org/

Members

• Artemieva, Irina (Denmark)
• Chiozzi, Paolo (Italy)
• Dedecek, Petr (Czech Republic)
• Demezhko, Dmitry (Russia)
• Fuchs, Sven (Germany)
• Gola, Gianluca (Italy)
• Gosnold, William (USA)
• Hamza, Valiya (Brasil)
• Hasterok, Derrik (Australia)
• He, Lijuan (China)
• Kohl, Thomas (Germany)
• Lee, Youngmin (Korea)
• Liu, Shaowen (China)
• Nagaraju, Podugu (India)
• Negrete-Aranda, Raquel (Mexico)
• Poort, Jeffrey (France)
• Tanaka, Akiko (Japan)
• Vakhitova, Guzel (Russia)

Reports

• International Heat Flow Commission (IHFC) - Report 2015 ‐ 2019
• Minutes of the IHFC Business Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 15, 2019
• Minutes of the IHFC Business Meeting, Kobe, Japan, August 3, 2017
• Minutes of the IHFC Business Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, June 30, 2015
• IHFC Report - March 2013
• International Heat Flow Commission (IHFC) - Quadriennium Report 2007 ‐ 2011