Scientists serving as regional coordinators for the IHY initiative are listed below. Please contact your national or regional coordinator for information on local IHY activities, or check the IHY events page for information on events in your area. If you are interested in serving as a national coordinator, please contact us at ihy@ihy.gsfc.nasa.gov and/or contact your regional coordinator.

Please contact Barbara Thompson for updates or changes.

REGIONAL COORDINATORS
REGION	PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES	REGIONAL COORDINATOR	INSTITUTE / LOCATION
Africa	Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia	Marius POTGIETER	North-West University, SOUTH AFRICA
Eastern Asia and the Pacific	Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand	Chi WANG	Laboratory for Space Weather, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CHINA
Western Europe IHY-EUROPE Home Page	Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom	Chair: J.-L. BOUGERET, Co-Chair: C. BRIAND IHY-EUROPE Organizing Committee	Observatoire de Paris at Meudon, FRANCE
Balkan/Black Sea Region IHY-Balkan/Black Sea Home Page	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnja-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Turkey, Ukraine	Chair: Katya GEORGIEVA IHY-Balkan/Black Sea Organizers	Solar-Terrestrial Influences Lab, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia BULGARIA
Latin America and Caribbean IHY-Latin America Home Page	Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Peru	C. MANDRINI and J.-P. RAULIN	IAFE, ARGENTINA MacKenzie University, BRAZIL
North America	United States and Canada	Donald M. HASSLER	Southwest Research Institute, Boulder CO, USA
Eastern Europe and Central Asia	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan	A. STEPANOV	Pulkovo Observatory, RUSSIA
Western Asia	Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanan, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen	Professor Hamid M. K. AL-NAIMIY	University of Sharjah, UAE