[IGSMAIL-5369]: Re: GGOS now official member of IGOS-P

[Craig Dobson]

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IGS Electronic Mail      30 May 08:29:05 PDT 2006      Message Number 5369
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Author: Craig Dobson

All,
Hans-Peter Plag did a terrific job representing GGOS to the IGOS Partners.
Welcome aboard.  Also, IGOS Geohazards is very pleased with the outcome and
the representation of GGOS on the Geohazards Theme Joint Committee which met
today.
Craig Dobson


On 5/24/06 10:29 AM, "Ruth Neilan" <ruth.neilan at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> Author: Ruth Neilan, on behalf of the GGOS Steering Committee
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> Dear colleagues:
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> This is excellent news!   The Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS), the key
> effort of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) is fully accepted as
> a member of the Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS). 
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> And invited to prepare a theme, 'Earth System Dynamics'.
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> Best regards to to all for this collective effort, and certainly much work
> ahead as the theme will be developed. 
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> Thanks to Markus Rothacher and Hans-Peter Plag for an excellent outcome this
> week, preceded by significant effort over the past years, and with many thanks
> as well to the first GGOS Chair, Prof. Chris Reigber.
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> For links to these activities:
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> http://www.ggos.org/ 
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> http://www.igospartners.org/index.htm
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>
> sincerely,
>
> Ruth Neilan
>
> (Vice Chair of GGOS)
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: "Prof. Markus Rothacher" <rothacher at gfz-potsdam.de>
>> Date: May 23, 2006 3:18:31 PM PDT
>> To: ggos at igscb.jpl.nasa.gov
>> Subject: [GGOS-14] GGOS now official member of IGOS-P
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>> GGOS Mail                23 May 15:19:21 PDT 2006      Message Number 14
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>> Author: Markus Rothacher
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>> Dear Colleagues,
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>> I am very glad to announce that this morning, 23.05.06, during the
>> 13th IGOS-P meeting in Geneva, GGOS was officially accepted as a member
>> of IGOS-P. I think that this is really great news for GGOS and IAG
>> and I would like to thank all those that contributed to make this
>> happen, especially Hans-Peter Plag for his continuous effort
>> in this direction and Gerhard Beutler for supporting this activity.
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>> In addition, as a second piece of very good news, IGOS-P has agreed that
>> GGOS develops its own theme on "Earth System Dynamics". The proposal
>> for a theme of our own (geodesy) was very positively received by the
>> members of IGOS-P and found considerable support. The next step will
>> therefore be to make an official theme proposal to IGOS-P. This
>> certainly means a lot of work and will require contributions from
>> all of you, but it will considerably increase the visibility of all our
>> work ...
>>
>> With best regards,
>>                            Markus Rothacher
>>                            Chair of GGOS
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>> Prof. Dr. Markus Rothacher              Phone : ++49-331-288-1101
>> GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ)      Fax   : ++49-331-288-1111
>> Dept.1: Geodesy & Remote Sensing        E-mail: rothacher at gfz-potsdam.de
>> Telegrafenberg A17
>> D-14473 Potsdam / Germany
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