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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Last week during the 57A Governing Board (GB) Meeting, the GB Members elected
and appointed 4 new members for the IGS GB. Please join us in
welcoming our newest members for the 2021-2023 period.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span>1)<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></b><b>Dr. Elisabetta D’Anastasio</b> as <u>new IERS representative and
Appointed Member of the Governing Board</u>. Dr. D’Anastasio works as part of
the Science Operations and Data team at GNS Science. She possesses 20 years of
experience in working with geodetic data applied to geophysics and geohazards monitoring,
and has led the development and operations of continuous GNSS networks at
national scale and the development of automated systems for GNSS data, metadata
and products generation. <span></span></span></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span>2)<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></b><b>Dr. José Antonio Tarrío-Mosquera</b><u> as Appointed Member of the Governing
Board</u>. Dr.
Tarrío-Mosquera is an academic researcher at the University of Santiago de
Chile and a current member of SIRGAS. He possesses over 20 years of experience
in GNSS and Geodesy, particularly in active and passive
geodetic surveys with scientific processing of GNSS observables.<span></span></span></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span>3)<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></b><b>Capt. Benjamin Patrick Michael</b><u> as the new Data Center Coordinator</u>. Capt Michael currently serves as the
Manager for the Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS), NASA’s world
premier repository of space geodynamics and space geodesy data, and previously
was on the faculty of the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. His
current research interests are varied and include: nucleation of high
temperature materials, energy transfer in planetary atmospheres and the
application of space geodetics to terrestrial geodynamical phenomena.<span></span></span></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span>4)<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></b><b><u>Dr. Salim Masoumi</u></b><u> as our new co-Analysis Center
Coordinator</u>. Dr.
Masoumi is a GNSS Analyst at Geoscience Australia, and obtained his PhD from
The Australian National University in 2017. His research includes modeling of
tropospheric horizontal gradients in GPS for weather applications, application
of GNSS-RO for tropopause studies, and GNSS-RO applications for electron
density retrieval.<span></span></span></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">We would like to acknowledge the following members for
extensions to their GB terms for the 2021-2024 period.<span></span></span></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Dr. Qile Zhao </b>(Wuhan
University, China) as an Appointed Member of the GB <span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Dr. Paul Rebischung</b>
(Institut National de l’Information Géographique et Forestière, France) as
IGS Reference Frame Coordinator<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Dr. Simon Banville</b>
(Natural Resources Canada / Ressources naturelles Canada) as the PPP-AR
Working Group Chair<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Dr. Tim Springer</b> (ESA/European
Space Operations Center, Germany) as the IGMA-IGS Joint GNSS Monitoring
and Assessment Trial Project and Satellite Vehicle Orbit Dynamics Working
Group Chair<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Dr. Oliver Montenbruck</b>
(Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Germany) as the Multi-GNSS
Working Group Chair<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Dr. André Hauschild</b>
(Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt,Germany) as the Real-time
Working Group Chair<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Dr. Tilo Schöne</b> (Deutsches
GeoForschungsZentrum, Germany) as the TIGA Working Group Chair<span> </span><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Dr. Andrzej Krankowski</b>
(University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland) as our Ionosphere
Working Group Chair<span> </span><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Dr. Arturo Villiger</b>
(Astronomical Institute, University of Bern,Switzerland) as the Antenna
Working Group Chair<span> </span><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Dr. Stefan Schaer</b> (Federal
Office of Topography, Switzerland) as the Calibration & Bias Working
Group Chair<span></span></span></li></ul><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Finally, we would like to wish a happy retirement to
colleagues Chuck Meertens and Carey Noll and thank them one more time for the
many years of service to the IGS and the GNSS community in general.<span> </span><span></span></span></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Wishing you a Happy Holiday and a joyful New Year. Best
wishes from your colleagues at IGS Central Bureau. As always, feel free to
contact if you have any questions at<span> </span><a href="mailto:cb@igs.org" style="text-decoration:underline">cb@igs.org</a> <span></span></span></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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