************************************************************************ IERS Message No. 89 May 31, 2006 ************************************************************************ GGOS now official member of IGOS-P Dear Colleagues, in his mail reporting on GGOS being accepted as partner in the Integrated Global Observing Strategy Partnership (IGOS-P), Markus Rothacher kindly thanked me for the effort I put into the establishment of a relationship between GGOS and IGOS-P. It is true, it was some effort: Since 1998, when I had the chance to listen to a presentation on the then emerging Partnership, I have 'advertised' IGOS and IGOS-P in the geodetic community, realizing that this Partnership would take a leading role in Earth observation and the building of global observation systems. And since several years, I have similarily 'advertised' the work of the IAG Services and, more recently, GGOS to the Earth observation community outside of geodesy, namely, IGOS-P and GEO. But the reason for GGOS being accepted as partner in IGOS-P is not my little contribution. The sole reason is the extremely good work you all have been doing in the frame of the IAG Services and GGOS. Again and again, when I presented the geodetic contribution to Earth observation in various meetings, I have received very positive feedback on the work done by the geodetic community. With your support for and contributions to the IAG Services, you all have made it very easy for me to convince the partners in IGOS-P, the United Nations' agencies, space agencies, funding agencies, scientific organisations, and the global observing systems, that GGOS is a partner equal to the other observing systems such as GCOS, GTOS, and GOOS. Not only that, having gained more insight into the state of global Earth observation I dare say that the IAG Services and GGOS are in many aspects in an advanced position in terms of organisation, level of service, products, and continuity, and increasingly in a position to be a role model for others. It is an honor for me to represent GGOS in IGOS-P. I would like to thank you very much for the good work that makes it a pleasure. With my best regards Hans-Peter Plag Vice-chair of the GGOS Steering Committee Prof. Markus Rothacher wrote: ********************************************************************** GGOS Mail 23 May 15:19:21 PDT 2006 Message Number 14 ********************************************************************** Author: Markus Rothacher Dear Colleagues, I am very glad to announce that this morning, 23.05.06, during the 13th IGOS-P meeting in Geneva, GGOS was officially accepted as a member of IGOS-P. I think that this is really great news for GGOS and IAG and I would like to thank all those that contributed to make this happen, especially Hans-Peter Plag for his continuous effort in this direction and Gerhard Beutler for supporting this activity. In addition, as a second piece of very good news, IGOS-P has agreed that GGOS develops its own theme on "Earth System Dynamics". The proposal for a theme of our own (geodesy) was very positively received by the members of IGOS-P and found considerable support. The next step will therefore be to make an official theme proposal to IGOS-P. This certainly means a lot of work and will require contributions from all of you, but it will considerably increase the visibility of all our work ... With best regards, Markus Rothacher Chair of GGOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Dr. Markus Rothacher Phone : ++49-331-288-1101 GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) Fax : ++49-331-288-1111 Dept.1: Geodesy & Remote Sensing E-mail: rothacher@gfz-potsdam.de Telegrafenberg A17 D-14473 Potsdam / Germany ************************************************************************ IERS Messages are edited and distributed by the IERS Central Bureau. To subscribe or unsubscribe, please write to . Archives: http://www.iers.org/iers/publications/messages/ ************************************************************************