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IERS Message No. 301                                       June 27, 2016
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GGOS Session at AGU Fall Meeting 2016


Dear Colleagues -

As part of the 2016 Fall Meeting of the AGU that will be held in San
Francisco, California during 12-16 December 2016 there will be a session
on "The Global Geodetic Observing System: Ground and Space-based
Geometric and Gravimetric Infrastructure for Earth Science". The
description of the session is given below. 

On behalf if the conveners I would like to draw your attention to this
session and encourage you to participate in it. We are developing a rich
session that will showcase the improvements to the geodetic observing
systems that are being planned or that are currently underway. I hope
that you will be able to join us in San Francisco for this exciting
session. More information about the 2016 Fall Meeting can be obtained
from its web site at <http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016>.

Please note that abstracts must be submitted to AGU by August 3, 2016.

Hope to see you in San Francisco!

Best regards,
Richard Gross

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Session ID# 12771: The Global Geodetic Observing System: Ground and
Space-based Geometric and Gravimetric Infrastructure for Earth Science


The Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) provides measurements of the
time varying gravity, rotation, and shape of the Earth using geodetic
and gravimetric 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 and climate change, and
crustal deformation associated with geohazards are examples of
particularly demanding applications of geodetic and gravimetric
measurement systems. Designing and deploying the ground and space-based
instruments that are needed to provide geodetic and gravimetric
measurements of the accuracy and stability required are an ongoing
challenge for GGOS. This session will be a forum for discussing the
current status and future plans of the evolving ground and space-based
geodetic and gravimetric measurement systems.

Conveners:

Richard Gross
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
richard.gross [at] jpl.nasa.gov

Erricos Pavlis
Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC
epavlis [at] umbc.edu

Mike Pearlman
Center for Astrophysics
mpearlman [at] cfa.harvard.edu 


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