[IGSMAIL-6015]: Re: [IVSmail] Werner Gurtner

[Ya. S. Yatskiv]

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IGS Electronic Mail      30 Oct 11:45:27 PDT 2009      Message Number 6015
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Author: Ya. S. Yatskiv

Dear Colleagues,
It is very sad news and great missing for our community.
Yaroslav Yatskiv


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carey Noll" <Carey.Noll at nasa.gov>
To: "SLRMail SLRMail" <slrmail at dgfi.badw-muenchen.de>; "IGSMail" 
<igsmail at igscb.jpl.nasa.gov>; "IVSMail" <ivsmail at ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov>; 
"DORISMail DORISMail" <dorismail at cls.fr>
Cc: "Steve Kenyon" <Steve.C.Kenyon at nga.mil>; "Michael Pearlman" 
<mpearlman at cfa.harvard.edu>; "Zuheir Altamimi" <zuheir.altamimi at ign.fr>; 
"Bernd Richter" <bernd.richter at bkg.bund.de>; "Markus Rothacher" 
<markus.rothacher at ethz.ch>; "Carey Noll" <Carey.Noll at nasa.gov>; "Rene 
Forsberg" <rf at spacecenter.dk>
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:01 PM
Subject: [IVSmail] Werner Gurtner


> Author: Mike Pearlman and Carey Noll/ILRS Central Bureau
>
> We are very sad to inform you that our colleague Werner
> Gurtner passed away on Saturday, October 24, 2009 after
> a long illness. Werner was the chair of the ILRS Governing
> Board since 2002 and one of the founding members of the
> IGS. He was responsible for the development of the SLR
> station at Zimmerwald. Werner was also a key author of
> the RINEX format which he continued to work on until very
> recently. He will be greatly missed by the global geodetic
> community.
>
> Mike and Carey.
> -----
> Ms. Carey Noll
> Manager, Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS)
> Secretary, ILRS Central Bureau
> NASA GSFC
> Code 690
> Greenbelt, MD 20771
> USA
>
> E-mail:  Carey.Noll at nasa.gov
> Voice: (301) 614-6542
> Fax: (301) 614-6015
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>
>
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