Message from the President:

During 2008, UNAVCO renewed its mission and strategic objectives through a community-based strategic planning process, and produced the 2009-2013 plan Positioning UNAVCO: Advancing Science Through Geodesy. This process also renewed community commitment to the university consortium, which is uniquely positioned to advance and support science community goals.

We see opportunity at every turn: to support EarthScope science as data sets mature, to advance community interests in expanded LiDAR and InSAR data acquisition; to influence monumentation standards and open data protocols as civic and commercial real-time GPS networks proliferate around the world; to support a burgeoning demand for TLS technology; to improve data access and analysis with web services and cyberinfrastructure; to expand the use of autonomous integrated geodetic networks to new scientific targets, new geographic settings, and new science disciplines; and to bring emerging data sets and technologies to the attention of investigators in many research areas such as atmospheric science and hydrology. In a climate that requires efficient and effective use of human and fiscal resources, this landscape of opportunity challenges us to be disciplined, selective, and focused in advancing science through geodesy.

In 2009, The UNAVCO Board, Advisory Committees, and staff are using the plan to set priority, guide decision-making, and focus resource allocation. As we begin the second year of the 2008-2012 UNAVCO Community and Facility cooperative agreement, the first year of EarthScope Operations and Maintenance, and the maturation of activities related to the International Polar Year, the community science portfolio continues to expand, as does the community geodesy toolbox, and opportunities for transformative and integrative science.

M. Meghan Miller, President

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