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2010 UNAVCO Science Workshop

February 2, 2010

The 2010 UNAVCO Science Workshop will be held at the Millennium Harvest House in Boulder, Colorado. This 2 and 1/2 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 geoophysics, 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

January - February, 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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Akutan Island GPS Update - Alaska

January 28, 2010

The tiny Aleutian village of Akutan, perched precariously under Akutan volcano, hosts one of the most important data telemetry sites in the entire Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) network. Data from 18 stations (four GPS stations/two tiltmeters on Unimak Island and eight GPS stations/four tiltmeters on Akutan ) converge in this village where they are uploaded through the Internet to the PBO Archive in Boulder.
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In the News: UNAVCO Community Science is "What’s Hot"

January 22, 2010

Recent tectonic activity around the world has sparked a rise in news coverage regarding the UNAVCO science community. We'd like to take this opportunity to remind you how to stay in tune with UNAVCO news.
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UNAVCO Event Response - Mw=7 Haiti Earthquake

January 15, 2010

In response to community requests after the Mw=7 Haiti Earthquake 1/12/2010, UNAVCO has compiled data sets and is preparing campaign GPS and TLS hardware for anticipated deployment to the Haiti region. For up-to-date information about UNAVCO's event response please see our Event Reponse page. Louis Obenson, a field engineer from the Haiti Civil Protection is shown above configuring a GPS receiver during a 2003 GPS campaign in Haiti run by E. Calais.
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