Lots of presentations by (or involving) members of the Newcastle Geodesy team at IUGG2015 in Prague this coming week!

Tue 23rd, 0915, session HW13a (South Hall 1), Phil Moore on ‘CRUCIAL: Cryosat-2 success over inland water and land: full bit rate altimetric heights and validation’ [sorry, you’ve missed this one already!]

Wed 24th, 1415, G03a (South Hall 2), Phil Moore on ‘GRACE mascon solutions: validation and applications to hydrology, glaciers and earthquakes’
Wed 24th, 1630, session JG01b (Small Hall), Brian Gunter (TU Delft / Georgia Tech) on ‘Using geodetic measurements to improve estimates of Antarctica’s GIA and present-day mass balance’ (solicited)
Wed 24th, 1700, JG01b (Small Hall), Ingo Sasgen (GFZ Potsdam) on ‘Glacial-isostatic adjustment in Antarctica: a new regional estimate derived from space-geodetic data’
Wed 24th, 1745, session JG01b (Small Hall), Eugene Domack (Univ. Southern Florida) on ‘Cryosphere changes as constrained by the LARISSA high-density cGPS network across the northern Antarctic Peninsula’

Thu 25th, 0915, session JG01c (Small Hall), Pippa Whitehouse (Univ. Durham) on ‘Interpreting horizontal GPS rates in Antarctica using a 3D Glacial Isostatic Adjustment model’
Thu 25th, 0930, session JG01c (Small Hall), Matt King (Univ. Tasmania; Visiting Professor) on ‘Post-seismic deformation of East Antarctica followingthe 1998 great Antarctic Plate earthquake’
Thu 25th, 1400, session C03d (Small Theatre), Stuart Edwards on ‘A high-resolution sensor network for monitoring glacier dynamics at the Helheim glacier, south-east Greenland’

Sat 27th, poster session G08p-511, Alvarro Santamaria-Gomez (Univ. la Rochelle) on ‘GNSS reflectometry for tide gauge levelling’

Sun 28th, poster session G01p-240, Phil Moore on ‘Colinearity assessment and estimation of geocentre coordinates from SLR data’

Tue 30th, 1145, session G04c (South Hall 2), Simon Williams (NOC Liverpool) on ‘Autocorrelation in GRACE-derived ice mass change time series and their effect on trends and accelerations’
Tue 30th, 1415, session G04d (South Hall 2), Peter Clarke on ‘Anelasticity of the asthenosphere inferred from GPS observations of ocean tide loading displacements in western Europe’ (solicited)
Tue 30th, poster session G04p-137, Nigel Penna on ‘Validation of tidal displacements estimated using kinematic GPS’

If you’re at the AGU Fall Meeting this week, look out for Ciprian Spatar’s poster G21A-0430 on colinearity of SLR geocentre motion estimates (Tuesday afternoon).  The group has also contributed to Tavi Murray’s invited talk C32B-02 on calving of the Helheim glacier, Liz Petrie’s poster G41A-0464 on Antarctic GPS vertical rate estimates, Pauline Miller’s talk C42A-06 on Antarctic Peninsula ice elevation changes, Jerome Benveniste’s talk H33P-04 on full waveform Cryosat altimetry, and Ingo Sasgen’s poster G23A-0471 on Antarctic GIA and present-day ice mass changes.

Former Newcastle geodesy colleague (and later visiting professor) Geoff Blewitt, has recently been named as the 2015 recipient of the European Geophysical Union’s Vening Meinesz Medal, which is the principal award of the EGU geodesy division.  The medal will be formally presented at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna next April.

Congratulations from all of us, Geoff!