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UNAVCO Science Workshop March 8-11, 2010

February 2, 2010

The 2010 UNAVCO Science Workshop will be held at the Millennium Harvest House in Boulder, Colorado. This 2.5 day workshop will include science sessions, poster presentations, breakout discussions and informal meetings along with a field trip. There will also be a dinner with a plenary lecture by Bernard Minster, who will provide us with a historical perspective on space geodesy and its applications to geophysics, from the early days to the latest NRC study. The full-day Teaching Geodesy in the 21st Century – an "On the Cutting Edge" Follow-on Workshop will be held on Monday, March 8.
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LARISSA 2010

February 2, 2010

LARISSA: Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica is a National Science Foundation funded initiative that brings an international, interdisciplinary team together to address a significant regional problem with global change implications, the abrupt environmental change in Antarctica's Larsen Ice Shelf System. Six CGPS sites are planned for installation in early 2010 – three on bedrock on the east (Weddell Sea) side of the Peninsula, and three on outlet glaciers from the Bruce Plateau. The bedrock CGPS stations are also a part of the POLENET IPY project.
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PBO GPS Stations 'Capture' Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake, Northern California Jan 9, 2010

February 19, 2010

On Jan 9, 2010, a Magnitude (M) 6.5 earthquake occurred offshore of Northern California ~ 30 miles WSW of Eureka, CA (Figure 1). As reported by the USGS, the event occurred within the Gorda Plate on a near vertical fault plane oriented ~ N 47 E. This region of the Gorda Plate is subjected to intense compressive stresses by oblique-convergence of the northwestward migrating Pacific Plate. The resulting internal deformation of the Gorda Plate is manifested primarily by intraplate strike-slip events on vertical NE-oriented faults. Strike-slip motion of the NE-oriented Gorda plate faults is left-lateral, antithetic to the right-lateral NW-oriented faults of the San Andreas fault system.
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UNAVCO Hosts Online GPS Workshop for Faculty in Texas

February 26, 2010

Using online tools, UNAVCO Education Specialist Shelley Olds facilitated a three-hour workshop entitled GPS Geodesy as Windows on Earth: Discoveries using GPS and other Geodetic Techniques on February 3, 2010 during the Earth and Space Science 4X4 series of workshops provided by the Region 12 Education Center in Central Texas. This series prepares teachers with the content knowledge and pedagogical techniques to integrate data into teaching for the new Texas senior capstone science course in Earth and Space Science.
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Mw=8.8 Chile Earthquake - UNAVCO Event Response

February 28, 2010

In response to community requests after the Mw=8.8 Chile Earthquake 2/27/2010, UNAVCO is compiling data sets and is preparing permanent and campaign GPS hardware for anticipated deployment to the Chile region. For up-to-date information about UNAVCO's event response please see our Event Reponse page.
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