| Date: | 2008-12-25 01:57:00 | |
| Sender: | Richard Gross <Richard Gross <Richard.Gross@jpl.nasa.gov>> | |
| Subject: | [SLR-Mail] No. 1741: EGU Session G8 | |
| Author: | Richard Gross | |
| Content: | ******************************************************************************** SLR Electronic Mail 2008-12-25 01:57:00 UTC Message No. 1741 ******************************************************************************** Author: Richard Gross Subject: EGU Session G8 Dear Colleagues - As part of the 2009 General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union that will be held in Vienna, Austria during 19-24 April 2009, Hans-Peter Plag, Markus Rothacher and I are convening session G8 on ”The Global Geodetic Observing System: Ground and Space-based Infrastructure for Earth Science”. The description of the session is given below. We would like to draw your attention to this session and encourage you to participate in it. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 13 January 2009. Hope to see you in Vienna! Best regards, Richard Gross, Hans-Peter Plag, Markus Rothacher ................................. G8: The Global Geodetic Observing System: Ground and Space-based Infrastructure for Earth Science The Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) provides measurements of the time varying gravity, rotation, and shape of the Earth using instruments located on the ground and in space. These measurements need to be accurate to better than a part per billion in order to advance our understanding of the underlying processes that are causing the Earth´s rotation, gravity, and shape to change. Mass transport in the global water cycle, sea level change, and crustal deformation associated with geohazards are examples of particularly demanding applications of geodetic measurement systems. Designing the ground- and space-based instruments that are needed to provide geodetic measurements of the accuracy and stability required for these and other applications are an ongoing challenge for GGOS. This session will be a forum for discussing demanding scientific applications of global geodetic measurement systems and the ground- and space-based infrastructure that is needed to fulfill those demands. Richard S. Gross Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mail Stop 238-600 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109, USA Tel.: +1 818-354-4010 Fax: +1 818-393-4965 E-mail: Richard.Gross@jpl.nasa.gov Hans-Peter Plag Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and Seismological Laboratory Universiy of Nevada, Reno Mailstop 178 NV, 89557 Reno United States of America Tel.: +1 775-784-6691 Fax: +1 775-784-1709 E-mail: hpplag@unr.edu Markus Rothacher Department 1: Geodesy & Remote Sensing Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Telegrafenberg A 17, 14473 Potsdam, Germany Tel.: +49 (0)331/288-1100 Fax: +49 (0)331/288-1111 E-mail: rothacher@gfz-potsdam.de From: Richard Gross ******************************************************************************** |