Geodesy



Advances in Geodetic Mapping of Earth: Insights from NASA’s Satellite Laser Altimetry Missions (ICESat, ICESat-2, and GEDI) and the Path to EDGE
Primary Convener:  Helen Amanda Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Convener:  John David Armston, University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States


Advances in Seafloor Geodesy: From Technology Development to Science and Engineering Applications
Primary Convener:  Surui Xie, University of Houston, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Shun-ichi Watanabe, Japan Coast Guard, Tokyo, Japan, John DeSanto, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Andrew Vern Newman, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States
Student/Early Career Conveners:  John DeSanto, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Surui Xie, University of Houston, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States


Advancing Surface Topography and Vegetation Science: Resolution Needs and Measurements for Understanding Earth’s Changing Surface
Primary Convener:  Andrea Donnellan, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Convener:  Craig Len Glennie, University of Houston, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, Houston, TX, United States


Advancing in remote sensing data to study geological phenomena
Primary Convener:  Federico Rabuffi, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
Conveners:  Cheolhee Yoo, Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea, Malvina Silvestri, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma, Italy and Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Federico Galetto, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma, Italy


Advancing the Geodesy Workforce: Skills, Training Pathways, and Emerging Applications Across Sectors
Primary Convener:  Tammy K Bravo, EarthScope Consortium, Washington DC, United States
Conveners:  Michael Hubenthal, EarthScope Consortium, Washington DC, United States and Julie Elliott, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States


GGOS Contribution to Improving the Accuracy, Consistency and Availability of Essential Geodetic Products and Standards for the Earth and the Moon
Primary Convener:  Jose M. Ferrandiz, University of Alicante, UAVAC, Applied Mathematics & Aerospace Engineering Dept., Alicante, Spain
Conveners:  Richard S Gross, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Martin Sehnal, BEV Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying, Vienna, Austria


GIML: Geodesy Informed Machine Learning
Primary Convener:  Srinivas V Bettadpur, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  R Steven Nerem, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Shin-Chan Han, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States


GNSS Positioning for National Spatial Reference System Modernization: Tools, Products, and Applications
Primary Convener:  Brian Weaver, Oregon State University, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Daniel R Roman, National Geodetic Survey, HQ, Silver Spring, United States and Christopher E Parrish, Oregon State University, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States


Geodesy for Climate Research
Primary Convener:  Anna Klos, Military University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland
Conveners:  Susanna Werth, Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States and Henryk Dobslaw, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Student/Early Career Convener:  Grace Carlson, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States


Global Applications of Volcano Geodesy
Primary Convener:  Dr. D. Sarah Stamps, PhD, Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States
Conveners:  Emily K. Montgomery-Brown, USGS, Cascades Volcano Observatory, Menlo Park, United States and Rebecca Bussard, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States


Grand Challenges for Geodetic Science and Engineering in 21st-Century Society
Primary Convener:  Jeremy Maurer, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Earth Sciences and Engineering, Rolla, MO, United States
Conveners:  Benjamin R Phillips, South Summit Science LLC, Washington, United States, Donna J Charlevoix, EarthScope Consortium, Engagement, Boulder, United States, Linda Foster, ESRI, Redlands, CA, United States and Stephen Merkowitz, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Measurements and Modeling of the Earth's Response to Surface Mass Variability
Primary Convener:  Yuning Fu, Bowling Green State University, School of Earth, Environment and Society, Bowling Green, United States
Conveners:  Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, Christopher W Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Surendra Adhikari, California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Esther O Oyedele, Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States


Plate Motion, Continental Deformation, and Interseismic Strain Accumulation
Primary Convener:  Donald F Argus, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jeffrey Todd Freymueller, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, Dr. D. Sarah Stamps, PhD, Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States and Rui Manuel Silva Fernandes, Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL) - Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal


Recent Advances in SAR and InSAR Processing, Big Data Analysis, and Earth Science Applications
Primary Convener:  Yujie Zheng, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States and Heresh Fattahi
Conveners:  Heresh Fattahi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Molly Zebker, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Heresh Fattahi


Recent Developments on Plate-Fixed Terrestrial Reference Frames: Determination, Applications, and Challenges
Primary Convener:  Mohammad Ali Goudarzi, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Convener:  Daniel Gillins, Oregon State University, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Corvallis, United States; NOAA National Geodetic Survey, SRSD, Silver Spring, United States


Reference Frames: Determination, Usage, and Application
Primary Convener:  Zuheir Altamimi, IGN Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière, Paris Cedex 13, France
Conveners:  Frank G Lemoine, NASA Goddard GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Jake Griffiths, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Richard S Gross, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States


Satellite Gravimetry for Terrestrial Hydrology: New Applications and Emerging Science
Primary Convener:  Ashraf Rateb, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  John T Reager II, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Di Long, Tsinghua University, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China, Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States and Karem Abdelmohsen, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Fitsume Wolkeba, The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States


Satellite Gravimetry: Mission Concepts, Algorithms, and New Applications
Primary Convener:  Athina Peidou, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Conveners:  Michael J Croteau, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States and Khosro Ghobadi-Far, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Chaoyang Zhang, University of Texas at Austin, Center For Space Research, Austin, TX, United States


Scientific Integrity, Reproducibility, and Uncertainty in Regional InSAR Time‑Series Velocity Products
Primary Convener:  Shimon Wdowinski, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States
Conveners:  Mahdi Motagh, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany and Heresh Fattahi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States


Subduction Zone Deformation Throughout the Earthquake Cycle: Observations and Models
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth M Sherrill, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Convener:  Yuan-Kai Liu, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Student/Early Career Convener:  Nicolás Castro Perdomo, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States


Terrestrial gravimetry for groundwater, hydrology, and Earth surface processes
Primary Convener:  Cheinway Hwang, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan and Jeff Kennedy
Conveners:  Jeff Kennedy, USGS Arizona Water Science Center, Tucson, AZ, United States, Wei Feng, Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Guangzhou, China, Kuan-Huang Chen Prof, National Ilan University, Civil Engineering, Ilan, Taiwan and Jeff Kennedy


The International GNSS Service (IGS): Leveraging Next-Generation GNSS Data Processing and Analysis Techniques to Secure the Future of Geodesy
Primary Convener:  Dr. Camille Martire, PhD, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Conveners:  Mara Figueroa Berroca, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Thomas Herring, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Scott B Luthcke, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Rolf Dach, University of Bern, Astronomical Institute, Bern, Switzerland
Student/Early Career Convener:  Mara Figueroa Berroca, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States


The NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) Mission – Early Results in geodesy
Primary Convener:  Ekaterina Tymofyeyeva, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Conveners:  Molly Zebker, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Emre Havazli, University of Miami, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Miami, United States and Yuankun Xu, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Student/Early Career Conveners:  Molly Zebker, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Emre Havazli, University of Miami, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Miami, United States and Yuankun Xu, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States


Transient Deformation and Creep Processes in the Earthquake Cycle
Primary Convener:  Seda Özarpaci, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Conveners:  Gareth Funning, University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States, Kaj M Johnson, Indiana University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, United States and Junle Jiang, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Geosciences, Norman, United States


Variability, Determination and Prediction of Earth Orientation Parameters: Influence of Climate and Geophysical Fluids
Primary Convener:  Jolanta Nastula, Centrum Badań Kosmicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk (CBK PAN), Warsaw, Poland
Conveners:  Henryk Dobslaw, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany and Richard S Gross, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Justyna Śliwińska-Bronowicz, Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland