Delivered-To: igsmail@igscb.jpl.nasa.gov Message-Id: Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:05:14 -0700 To: IGS Mail From: Yehuda Bock Subject: [IGSMAIL-5196]: AGU Session G08: High Rate GPS and Natural Hazards Cc: Yehuda Bock , Herb Dragert Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-igsmail Precedence: bulk ****************************************************************************** IGS Electronic Mail 29 Aug 14:39:12 PDT 2005 Message Number 5196 ****************************************************************************** Author: Yehuda Bock and Herb Dragert Call for Papers, AGU Special Session G08: High-Rate GPS: Contributions to Natural Hazards Mitigation We request contributions to a special session on the role of high-rate GPS in natural hazards mitigation: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm05/review/?pageRequest=search&show=detail&sessid=262 The devastating 2004 Great Sumatra-Andaman Islands earthquake and subsequent tsunami focused the world's attention on glaring deficiencies in our abilities to mitigate natural hazards. One tool that has shown great promise is high-rate (1 Hz or greater) continuous GPS networks that are being established globally and regionally along active plate boundary zones, for example in Japan, California, Sumatra, and the Pacific Northwest. Often data and precise site positions are available in real-time (1 s latency), making these networks ideal for providing input to early warning systems for large earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and landslides. We invite contributions for active efforts in these areas and examples of how these methods are being or can be applied to natural hazards mitigation. Please contact one of the conveners for more information. Yehuda Bock Scripps Institution of Oceanography ybock@ucsd.edu Herb Dragert Pacific Geosciences Center hdragert@NRCan.gc.ca -- *********************************************** Yehuda Bock e-mail: ybock@ucsd.edu Research Geodesist Phone: (858) 534-5292 & Senior Lecturer Fax: (858) 534-9873 WWW: http://sopac.ucsd.edu/; http://csrc.ucsd.edu/ Director, Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center (SOPAC) Director, California Spatial Reference Center (CSRC) Address: University of California San Diego Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics 9500 Gilman Drive DEPT 0225 La Jolla, CA 92093-0225 FedEx Address: Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Scripps Institution of Oceanography 8785 Biological Grade, Room 4208 La Jolla, CA 92037 ***********************************************