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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

• 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

• GeoReach Newsletter, Volume 2, Number 4 - November 2003 or in PDF format (approx 216 Kb)
• GeoReach Newsletter, Volume 2, Number 3 - August 2003 or in PDF format (approx 215 Kb)
• GeoReach Newsletter, Volume 2, Number 2 - April 2003 or in PDF format (approx 173 Kb)
• GeoReach Newsletter, Volume 2, Number 1 - January 2003 or in PDF format (approx 105 Kb)
• GeoReach Newsletter, Volume 1, Number 1 - October 2002 or in PDF format (approx 264 Kb)

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]