SCAR GSSG - What's New

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Updated: Thu 13 Oct 2005

WHAT'S NEW

This page details upcoming meetings, workshops, announcements, publications, other material and archived material

Upcoming Meetings

The Geoscience Standing Scientific Group (GSSG) proposes the following meetings in 2002-2004:

Antarctic Geodesy Symposium 2002 (AGS'02) in Wellington, New Zealand, 25-27 November 2002;
Antarctic Geodesy sessions at EGS/EUG/AGU – Nice, France – April 2003
Antarctic Geodesy sessions at IUGG – Sapporo, Japan - July 2003
ISAES symposium – Potsdam, Germany – September 2003. [Summary of GSSG and ISAES meetings in Potsdam]
Antarctic Geodesy Symposium (AGS'03) – Ukraine – September 2003
Antarctic Geodesy sessions at EGU - Nice, France – April 2004
XXVIII SCAR meeting – Bremen, Germany – July 2004

Other related meetings in 2002-2004:

XXV Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) and Committee on Environmental Protection (CEP) meeting, Warsaw, Poland, 10-20 September, 2002
IAG International Symposium on Recent Crustal Deformations in South America and Surrounding Areas will be held in Santiago, Chile, from October 21-25 2002
Structure and Evolution of the Antarctic Plate 2003, Boulder, Colorado, March 3-5, 2003
8th International Permafrost Conference (IPA) in Bern Switzerland, July 2003
The 32nd International Geological Congress (32IGC) will be held in Florence, Italy, from August 20 to 28, 2004

Workshops

The GSSG proposes the following workshops in 2002-2004:

Place Names workshop – Freiburg, Germany – April 2003 [to be held in conjunction with the workshop below]
GI Technical experts workshop – Freiburg, Germany – April 2003
Cybercartographic Atlas workshop – Ottawa, Canada – October 2003
East Antarctic Regional GIS workshop – Wuhan, China – November 2004

Announcements

GeoReach Newsletter, Volume 3, Number 1 - March 2004 or in PDF format (approx 344 Kb)
Summary of GSSG and ISAES meetings in Potsdam, September, 2003
Report on Impacts of Marine Acoustic Technology on the Antarctic Environment is now available. [3.2 Mb PDF document]
Summary of Antarctic Geodesy Symposium 2002 (AGS'02) is now available.
Edition 2 of the Guidelines on GPS monumentation are available - incorporating examples from the Italian VLNDEF network.
The Antarctic Protected Area Information Archive is now available - courtesy of Environmental Resource Assessments in the UK.
Coordinates for Winter 2002 stations are now available
Documentation from WG-Geosciences meeting at XXVII SCAR meeting in Shanghai is now available.
Documentation from Geoscience Standing Scientific Group (GSSG) meeting at XXVII SCAR meeting in Shanghai is now available.
The SCAR map catalogue can be found on the web at: www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=3805
Or you can search the map catalogue at: aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/search_mapcat.cfm
Any queries should be directed to Mr Henk Brolsma, Mapping Officer, Australian Antarctic Division.
An on-line Geodetic Control database is now available. If you think there is important data missing please email Glenn Johnstone and tell him how he can get it!
List of contacts for the exchange of Antarctic maps, charts and geographic publications is now available.
List of Antarctic map distributors for SCAR member countries is now available.
GIANT Program Permanent Geoscientific Observatories project. There are now almost 70 pages - one for each site - containing information such as location, occupation records, photos, history of the site, ITRF coordinates, etc.
There are now 9 different types of Permanent Observatories. Below is a listing of those pages that have been recently updated:
- PRARE:
- GLONASS:
- Absolute Gravity:
- DORIS:
- GPS:
- Tide Gauges:
- VLBI:
- Geomagnetic:
- Seismic:

Publications

"Proceedings of the Third Antarctic Geodesy Symposium 2001" have been published in a SCAR Report - Number 21. Hard copies are available from the Executive Officer or can be found at the SCAR web site.
Espinoza, D. (2002) "Temporary Monitoring of Reference Landmarks in the Antarctic - MHTRA", Facultad de Ingeniería Geográfica y Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, Lima, Peru.
Braun M., Vogt S. 2001 "King George Island, Satellite Image Map" Institut Für Physische Geographie (IPG), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and Laboratório de Pesquisas Antárticas e Glaciológicas (LAPAG), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. More information can also be found at "Antarctic Science", Vol 13, No.1, pp 41-52. Copies of the map can be ordered (for 15 USDollars + freight) from IPG or LAPAG
Amalvict M., Hinderer J. & Luck B. 2001 "First absolute gravity measurements at the French station Dumont d’Urville (Antarctica)" , IAG Symposia vol. 123, M. Sideris (ed.), Gravity, Geoid and Geodynamics 2000, Springer Heidelberg, 373-377.
"Proceedings of the Second Antarctic Geodesy Symposium 1999" have been published in a SCAR Report - Number 20. Hard copies are available from the Executive Officer or can be found at the SCAR web site.
Proceedings of the International GIS Workshop on Antarctic King George Island have been published in the "Geo-spatial Information Science Quarterly, Vol 4, Number 2, produced by the Wuhan University Journals Press. Inquiries about copies of the journal can be directed to journal@wtusm.edu.cn

Other Material

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Archived Material

The former Working Group on Geodesy & Geographic Information had a number of newsletters from the 2000-2002 period:

Newsletter 1 - August 2000 [17 Kb]
Newsletter 2 - November 2000 [12 Kb]
Newsletter 3 - September 2001 [16 Kb]
Newsletter 4 - January 2002 [17 Kb]

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