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ESIP Interview: Chuck Meertens, UNAVCO


 

Chuck Meertens is the director of Geodetic Data Services at UNAVCO, a non-profit university-governed consortium that facilitates geoscience research and education using geodesy, the study of Earth’s shape, gravity...

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Member Highlight: UNAVCO


Mission: UNAVCO is a non-profit university-governed consortium that facilitates geoscience research and education using geodesy. The UNAVCO consortium Membership consists of more than 100 US Full Members and over 80 Associate Members (domestic and international). Through our Geodetic Infrastructure and Geodetic Data Services Programs, UNAVCO operates and supports geodetic networks, geophysical and meteorological instruments, a free...

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ESIP Collab Update: Rebooting the Web Services Cluster


Part of the impetus for this reboot was identifying several cross-cluster and cross-domain issues that could use a more dedicated space for discussion during the 2015 Summer Meeting at Asilomar. On our first call, we were reminded of the history of the earlier Web Services cluster and, for me, the lesson and reminder is that we are often asking big questions that are too big to answer today. So what are some of the smaller questions that we, as a community, can ask to continue to make progress and, in asking, how can we take advantage of the domain knowledge across the ESIP...

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Member Highlight: SSEC 50th Anniversary


About: The University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) is celebrating it's 50th anniversary this year. Established in 1965 with Verner E. Suomi as its first director, SSEC has since become nationally and internationally renown for excellence in the field of satellite remote...

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