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UNAVCO Strategic Plan 2009-2013

UNAVCO Strategic Plan 2009-2013

January 27, 2008

UNAVCO has released a new Strategic Plan, a document that will guide the organization’s activities over the next five years. The Strategic Plan offers a new mission statement for the organization: UNAVCO, a non-profit membership-governed consortium, facilitates geoscience research and education using geodesy. The plan also presents seven strategies that will position UNAVCO to advance geoscience research and education....
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Galapagos Permanent Station Installations

Galapagos Permanent Station Installations

January 2009

UNAVCO Engineer Abe Morrison along with Principal Investigator (PI) Bill Chadwick from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, installed 2 additional Permanent GPS stations in an existing network inside of Volcano Sierra Negra. One of the new stations went inside the caldera and one on the rim. The volcano is on Isabella Island in the Galapagos Archipelago about 650 miles off the coast of Ecuador.
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EarthScope PBO Instruments Aid in Monitoring Recent Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm

EarthScope PBO Instruments Aid in Monitoring Recent Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm

February 18, 2009

EarthScope seismic, strain and GPS data are currently aiding scientists in interpreting the ongoing earthquake swarm under Yellowstone National Park that began on December 27, 2008 and ended in early January, 2009. Scientists are carefully studying the seismic and GPS data to evaluate the cause of this swarm that appears to have been related to hydrothermal and tectonic processes.
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New Game Incorporates EarthScope Science: Volcano Island

New Game Incorporates EarthScope Science: Volcano Island

December 1, 2008

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (HSCA), supported by the National Science Foundation, has developed an interactive game, Volcano Island, aimed at middle school students to teach about EarthScope-related science. One of the developers of the game, Emma Hill, is a member of the UNAVCO Education and Outreach Advisory Committee.
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UNAVCO Polar Support Offers Scientists a New Look at Glaciology

UNAVCO Polar Support Offers Scientists a New Look at Glaciology

March 31, 2009

New advances in understanding the dynamics of ice sheets in the most remote polar regions of the world have been made possible by technological advances in GPS systems. Eight new GPS stations, designed and built by UNAVCO as a result of the 3 year NSF funded Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Project Collaborative Research: Development of a Power and Communication System for Remote Autonomous GPS and Seismic Stations in Antarctica, were recently deployed on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Antarctic Plateau as part of 5 high-profile glaciological research projects.
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