[IGSMAIL-7965] ILRS Virtual World Tour 2020: First Circular

[Noll, Carey E. (GSFC-61A0)]

Dear Colleagues,

In place of an ILRS workshop this November, the ILRS wanted to take the opportunity to try something different and to look in detail at a selection of stations in the global network. 
Therefore, we are planning an online ‘Virtual World Tour’, to be held November 2-6, 2020, to remotely visit 5 stations in 5 days, stopping at:

- Graz, Austria
- Greenbelt MD, USA
- Simosato, Japan
- Yarragadee, Australia
- Zimmerwald, Switzerland

Each two-hour session will consist of an introductory presentation about the station followed by a tour of the site highlighting instrumentation, software, safety, automation, operations, as well as current issues and future plans. We hope to include a mixture of pre-recorded and live presentations in these sessions. There will also be opportunities for questions.

A preliminary website is available at: https://cddis.nasa.gov/ILRS_Virtual_World_Tour_2020/index.html. This website will be updated with additional details soon.  

We are currently reviewing software to determine the best tool to use for holding these virtual meetings. We also hope to generate recordings of the sessions and make them available on the workshop website.

Workshop Organizers:
- Toshimichi Otsubo/Hitotsubashi University, Japan
- Randall Carman/Geoscience Australia, Australia
- Evan Hoffman/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
- Carey Noll/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
- Michael Pearlman/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA
- Daniela Thaller/Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Germany
- Matthew Wilkinson/NERC Space Geodesy Facility Herstmonceux, UK

Regards,
Carey.
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Ms. Carey Noll
Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS)
Secretary, ILRS Central Bureau
Secretary, GGOS Bureau for Networks and Observations
 
NASA GSFC
Code 61A
Greenbelt, MD 20771
USA
 
E-mail:  Carey.Noll at nasa.gov
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