As has been the case in the previous years, the
Geodesy Section of the Canadian Geophysical Union had a series of important activities
during the Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Meeting 2006, held in
Three
Geodesy-related sessions took place during the CGU Annual Meeting: Geodesy and
Geodynamics, with 14 papers, Geocomputations &
Visualization, and Geophysical Studies, with 11 papers, and Cryosphere and the
International Polar Year, with 11 papers. This resulted in a total of 36 papers
related to Geodesy. Dr. John Wahr, from UCAR, was a guest speaker talking about the
GRACE satellite mission.
There were
six student papers competing for the $500 prize awarded by the
Geodesy Section sponsored by the Geodetic Survey Division of NRCan. The winner
was Mr. by
Mahmoud Abd El-Gelil, a graduate student from the
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
o
A Consistent Canadian Gravity Anomaly Database, by Ibraheem Ali
o
On the Interpolation of Velocity Surfaces
Using Radial Base Functions, by Elena Rangelova
o
Levelling
network analysis for the definition of a kinematic vertical datum in
o
Time Variable Gravity due to Seasonal Volume
Changes in the
o Application of DInSAR-GPS optimization for derivation of three dimensional
surface motion maps of southern
o
Atmospheric Density Admittance Function for
Gravity Reduction, by Mahmoud Abd El-Gelil,
Spiros Pagiatakis
o
Kernel Singularity Impact on the Wavelet Evaluation of Geodetic
Integrals, by M. M. El-Habiby
Other geodetic
paper was recognized during the CGU Annual Meeting. Mr. W.
van der Wal (see above) won
the CGU best student paper award.
A new Geodesy Section Executive was elected:
·
Marcelo
Santos President (UNB)
·
Joe Henton Vice-President (NRCan)
·
Georgia
Fotopoulus Secretary (UofT)
·
Rod Blais Treasurer (UofC)
·
Patrick
Wu Member-at-large (UofC)
·
Alex
Braun Member-at-large (UofC)
·
Spiros
Pagiatakis Past-President (