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IERS Message No. 226                                      April 08, 2013
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Change in the IERS Central Bureau


To the IERS community,

After the changes at the beginning of this year (see IERS Message No.
222), another transition occurred on April 1st. Daniela Thaller was
named Director of the IERS Central Bureau by the host organization, the
German Federal Agency of Cartography and Geodesy (BKG). Daniela Thaller,
who has formerly been with the Technical University of Munich, the
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, and the Astronomical Institute of the
University of Bern, will also head BKG's Section of Fundamental Geodesy,
Combination of Space Geodesy. Daniela has been Chair of the IERS Working
Group on SINEX Format since 2011.

The former Director of the Central Bureau, Bernd Richter, is now head of
BKG's Department of Geoinformation. I would like to thank him for his
outstanding work for the IERS which began on 1 January 2001, a span of
more than 12 years. As the GGOS representative, he will remain a member
of the IERS Directing Board.

Brian Luzum
Chair, IERS Directing Board


Dear colleagues,

After the reorganisation of IERS in 2000, it was my privilege to serve
the community as Director of the IERS Central Bureau for more than a
dozen years. This time brought a wealth of interesting encounters with
colleagues at IERS Workshops and Directing Board meetings. It was a time
of discussions about the best ways to further develop the IERS' main
products, the Earth Orientation Parameters and reference frames. The
Global Geophysical Fluids Center has been reorganised, new working
groups were established and former groups closed. The most challenging
question for IERS is how to handle the combination of observations from
different techniques. Daniela Thaller as representative of the next
generation of geodesists and being experienced in combination studies
will bring her own views to this discussion.

I would like to thank all colleagues in the IERS community for their
fruitful cooperation over the past years.

Bernd Richter


Dear colleagues in the IERS community,

I am happy to take over the position as Director of the IERS Central
Bureau starting April 1st.

My predecessor Bernd Richter established the IERS Central Bureau at BKG
in 2001 and I would like to thank him for his work as Director of the
IERS Central Bureau, as well as, for many discussions that we had about
topics related to the IERS during the past years. The two colleagues
here at BKG supporting the IERS Central Bureau for many years, namely
Wolfgang Dick and Sabine Bachmann, will continue their work for the IERS
Central Bureau and I would like to thank them for their support for the
IERS and their help to introduce me to the daily work of the IERS
Central Bureau.

As my field of work covered mainly the combination of the space-geodetic
techniques for more than ten years, I hope that I can bring some
experience to the community in order to further improve the products of
the IERS and to satisfy the needs of the customers of the IERS in the
future as well.

I look forward to work in close cooperation with the IERS Directing
Board, especially its chair Brian Luzum, the IERS Analysis Coordinator
Tom Herring, and all individuals contributing to the IERS. The input of
all of them is needed to keep the IERS as a successful service for the
scientific community.

Daniela Thaller,
Director IERS Central Bureau


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