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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The tenth IVS General Meeting will be held in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, Norway in
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">early June 2018. As part of this event in the high Arctic, the local host of the Norwegian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Mapping Authority (NMA) will officially inaugurate the new twin radio telescopes at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Ny-Alesund. The inauguration event will be organized as a day trip via boat from the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">town of Longyearbyen to Ny-Alesund. The opening of the Earth Observatory at Ny-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Alesund is the first step of establishing this high Artic location as a core site for global<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">geodesy as envisioned by the UN-GGIM with co-located VLBI, SLR, GNSS, DORIS, and
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">gravimetric instruments.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">NMA has prepared a video about what to expect at this high latitude location:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> <a href="http://video.kartverket.no/the-10th-ivs-general-meeting">
http://video.kartverket.no/the-10th-ivs-general-meeting</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Further details are listed in the Second Announcement (see below) and are available<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">on the meeting Web site.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Please note that the deadlines for abstract submission and registration are approaching<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">fast, i.e., the last day for registration and abstract submission for this event is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> February 25, 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If you intend to be part of this event, please register by this date.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Best regards, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dirk Behrend<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">IVS Coordinating Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> IVSmail [<a href="mailto:ivsmail-bounces@lists.nasa.gov">mailto:ivsmail-bounces@lists.nasa.gov</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Behrend, Dirk (GSFC-61A.0)[NVI INC]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 15, 2018 12:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> IVSmail <<a href="mailto:ivsmail@lists.nasa.gov">ivsmail@lists.nasa.gov</a>>;
<a href="mailto:evntech@jb.man.ac.uk">evntech@jb.man.ac.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:vlbi@listmgr.nrao.edu">
vlbi@listmgr.nrao.edu</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Anne Kristin Moen Frivold <<a href="mailto:Anne.Frivold@kartverket.no">Anne.Frivold@kartverket.no</a>>; Per Erik Opseth <<a href="mailto:Per.Erik.Opseth@kartverket.no">Per.Erik.Opseth@kartverket.no</a>>;
<a href="mailto:ivs2018@kartverket.no">ivs2018@kartverket.no</a>; Reidun Kittelsrud <<a href="mailto:Reidun.Kittelsrud@kartverket.no">Reidun.Kittelsrud@kartverket.no</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [IVSmail] IVS 2018 General Meeting: Second Announcement<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> ===========================================================</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> 2018 General Meeting</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> ===========================================================</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> June 3-9, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, Norway</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span>
<a href="http://www.ivs2018.no/"><span style="font-family:Consolas">http://www.ivs2018.no/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">The tenth General Meeting of the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Astrometry (IVS) will be held during the week of June 3-9, 2018, in Longyearbyen,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Spitsbergen, Norway. All IVS Associate Members and individuals who have interests<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">in the application of VLBI in the fields of geodesy, Earth sciences, and astrometry
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">are invited to attend the meeting.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">The keynote of the tenth GM is the contribution of the VLBI Global Observing System
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">(VGOS) to the Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) in its endeavor to render<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">sustainable development possible under the theme “Global Geodesy and the Role of
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">VGOS – Fundamental to Sustainable Development.” The United Nations recognized the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">importance of geospatial information to address global challenges with creating<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">a UN-GGIM Subcommittee on Geodesy and following through with a roadmap to implement
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">a Global Geodetic Reference Frame (GGRF). The space-geodetic techniques of VLBI,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">GPS, SLR, and DORIS will be fundamental for an accurate, accessible and sustainable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">GGRF to support science and society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">The meeting host is Kartverket (the Norwegian Mapping Authority, NMA). Details
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">about the meeting including the program, accommodations, registration, and abstract
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">submission is available at the meeting Web site:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><a href="http://www.ivs2018.no/"><span style="font-family:Consolas">http://www.ivs2018.no/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Poster and oral papers may be contributed for presentation at the General
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Meeting. Contributions are not restricted to IVS Associate Members but may
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">be contributed by anyone attending the meeting. The deadline for submission
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">of abstracts is February 25. Please follow the abstract submission instructions
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">at:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><a href="https://ivs2018.kartverket.no/event/1/abstracts/"><span style="font-family:Consolas">https://ivs2018.kartverket.no/event/1/abstracts/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">The meeting will be held at the Kulturhuset in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Norway, the main town of the island archipelago of Svalbard:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><a href="http://www.ivs2018.no/"><span style="font-family:Consolas">http://www.ivs2018.no/</span></a><span style="font-family:Consolas"> >> Accommodation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">The deadline for registering for the meeting is February 25, 2018. The early bird<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">rate is available until January 31, 2018. Please register</span>
<span style="font-family:Consolas">using the form available at:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><a href="http://www.ivs2018.no/"><span style="font-family:Consolas">http://www.ivs2018.no/</span></a><span style="font-family:Consolas"> >> Registration</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">The registration fee is NOK 7000 (early bird rate until January 31) or NOK 9000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">(regular). The registration fee includes conference materials, conference lunches,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">the conference banquet, coffee breaks, the boat trip to Ny Alesund, and the Proceedings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">volume. For student participants, the registration fee is reduced to
</span>NOK 5000<span style="font-family:Consolas">. If you <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">want to take advantage of the student support, please send an
</span> <span style="font-family:Consolas">electronic copy of your <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">valid student ID to the LOC (</span><a href="mailto:ivs2018@kartverket.no"><span style="font-family:Consolas">ivs2018@kartverket.no</span></a><span style="font-family:Consolas">) as a PDF or JPG file.
Please title<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">your message in the subject line as “STUDENT IVS2018”.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">For further information contact any member of the Local Organizing Committee,
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">the Program Committee, or the Coordinating Center.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">Per Erik Opseth Dirk Behrend</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">for the Local Organizing Committee IVS Coordinating Center</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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