The objective of the ILP Task Force VIII is to coordinate the Global Heat Flow Data Assessment Project in order to provide a quality controlled, authenticated global database of heat flow values and other thermal data. This project supports the International Heat Flow Commission (IHFC) whose mission includes promoting geothermal research and maintaining and disseminating the Global Heat Flow Database to the global community of Earth Scientists. To this end, screening, assessing and updating of each data entry compiled in the Global Heat Flow Database since 1939 is required. All project collaborators contribute with the revision of selected papers in this process.

ILP Task Force Leaders
All ILP Task Force Leaders could have been contacted regarding the assessment project. In the beginning, each of the six was managing the revision of publications from a different region. With the successful funding of the WHDB project, the time-demanding job of controlling the assessed data was mainly conducted by WHDB project staff and the TF focussed on the community building and and outreach activities.

• Sven Fuchs (Germany) | Massimo Verdoya (Italy) | Raquel Negrete Aranda (Mexico) | Shaowen Liu (China) | Robert Harris (U.S.A.) | Graeme Beardsmore (Australia)