<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:107%">Dear IGS Community, <br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br><span style="line-height:107%"><span></span></span></font></span></div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:107%">We are pleased to announce that Dr. </span><span>Ignacio (Nacho) Romero</span><span style="line-height:107%"> has been appointed as the new IGS RINEX Chair!<span></span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">Dr. Romero is a
Navigation Engineer at the Navigation Support Office of the European Space
Agency in Darmstadt, Germany. Nacho holds a PhD in Astrodynamics from Cranfield
University, UK, and BSc and MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University.
Nacho has been working on GNSS POD and data issues in ESA and been a member of
the IGS since 1999. Since 2009, Nacho has served as the IGS Infrastructure
Committee (IC) Chair, coordinating the infrastructure elements across the IGS
to ensure the data, products and formats are readily available to all IGS users
by ensuring IGS stations, data centers, quality controls and formats are
properly organized. As IC Chair, Nacho prepared and helped to coordinate and
implement the transition (2015-2017) of the IGS to full RINEX 3 data acceptance
to facilitate multi-GNSS data and products support. Nacho, succeeds Ken McLeod
as the RINEX WG Chair.<span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
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