Gérard Petit has been awarded the EFTF Award 2010: Gérard of the BIPM Time, Frequency and Gravimetry Department received this important award "for his outstanding contributions to the elaboration of time scales including the investigations of the influence of General Relativity to space-time references and primary frequency standards". He was presented with the award at the 24th European Frequency and Time Forum (Noordwijk, the Netherlands, 12-16 April 2010)
– See List of EFTF awards and winners

KCDB Newsletter: Issue 13 (June 2010) is now available
– June 2010

World Metrology Day (20 May 2010): This year's theme is "Measurements in Science and Technology... a bridge to innovation". We invite you to read the message from the Director of the BIPM, and download the promotional products from our World Metrology Day website.
– See www.worldmetrologyday.org

New Associate of the CGPM: Bangladesh: As of 29 March 2010, the People's Republic of Bangladesh is an Associate of the CGPM.
– See also: How to become an Associate

Job vacancy: Executive Secretary of the JCRB.
– Closing date for applications: 1 August 2010.

New signatory of the CIPM MRA: WMO: The World Meterological Organization (WMO) has become the second intergovernmental organization to join the CIPM MRA. On behalf of the WMO, Michel Jarraud (WMO Secretary General) signed the CIPM MRA on 1 April 2010, during the WMO-BIPM Workshop on Measurement Challenges for Global Observation Systems for Climate Change Monitoring, a major event held in Geneva from 30 March to 1 April 2010.
– See the full list of participants in the CIPM MRA