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Positioning UNAVCO Advancing the Geosciences through Community Support and Leadership

Strategic Plan 2016-2020

Final copy

MISSION

UNAVCO, a non-profit university-governed consortium, facilitates geoscience1 research and education using geodesy.2

1 The study of solid Earth, its fluid envelopes of ice, water and atmosphere, and the interactions among them. 2 The measure of the form and dimension of Earth, its gravity field, its placement in space, and how these measures change with time.

UNAVCO Strategic Plan 2016-2020: Advancing the Geosciences through Community Support and Leadership

UNAVCO Stakeholders Over the last three decades, the modernization of geodesy has led to a renaissance across the geosciences. Our ability to determine temporal changes in the size and shape of Earth with millimeter precision in a global reference frame drives this renaissance. Further, these measurements complement precise repeat determination of the global gravity field, tracking the redistribution of mass within all components of the geosphere across months, seasons, and decades. Opportunity abounds, with technological innovation and the global proliferation of ground-based measurements and satellite observations, improved data discovery, access and interaction through web services and cyberinfrastructure, and broad impact that ranges from civic applications of geodesy to informal and formal science education initiatives. Such opportunity has stretched UNAVCO’s reach far beyond its core solid Earth science stakeholders. UNAVCO is an international science community that leads these science achievements, as well as an academic consortium that operates NSF’s National Earth Science Geodetic Facility. UNAVCO serves as a model for geodesy community collaboration, diverse applications of geodesy to geosciences, and open data archiving. This plan provides our high-level road map to support community-driven initiatives that advance geodesy investigations across a growing spectrum of science disciplines. As a community, we must set priority among these opportunities and measure our progress. The strategic plan provides a foundation for action, to be undertaken by the investigator community, through UNAVCO governance, and by facility staff. I close with my thanks to the extraordinary community of UNAVCO scientists. Through this plan, we intend to advance our shared mission and vision, and to continue to meet opportunity through excellence in the support of both legacy and emerging science and education initiatives. M. Meghan Miller President


C O R E S P O N S O R S

National Science Foundation

National Aeronautics and Space Administration


Table of Contents

UNAVCO Community Vision ............................................................................................................................................................ 05 Core Values ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 06 Strategies and Actions ..................................................................................................................................................................... 07 Strategy 1: Scientific Support of Community .................................................................................................................................... 08 Strategy 2: Technological Innovation and Scientific Diversity .......................................................................................................... 10 Strategy 3: Engagement of Community ........................................................................................................................................... 12 Strategy 4: Building Human Resources and the Next Generation of Scientists ............................................................................... 14 Strategy 5: Administrative and Organizational Excellence ............................................................................................................... 16 Critical Success Factors and Metrics ............................................................................................................................................... 18 UNAVCO Members .......................................................................................................................................................................... 20 UNAVCO Associate Members ........................................................................................................................................................ 22 Toolbox and Board and Officers ...................................................................................................................................................... 24


Strategic Planning Committee: Rick Anthes UCAR President Emeritus; Board Member John Braun UCAR, COCONet Working Group Donna Charlevoix Director, Education & Community Engagement, UNAVCO Stephen Ettinger Director, Business Affairs, UNAVCO Eric Fielding Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Board Member Nancy Glenn Boise State University; Terrestrial Imaging Geodesy Working Group Francisco Gomez Missouri University & Facility Advisory Committee Jeff Freymueller University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Board Member Peter La Femina Pennsylvania State University; Board Chair Josh Roering University of Oregon; Board Member Tony Lowry Utah State University, GIAC Jaime Magliocca Executive Assistant, UNAVCO Glen Mattioli Director, Geodetic Infrastructure, UNAVCO Chuck Meertens Director, Geodetic Data Services, UNAVCO Meghan Miller President, UNAVCO Linda Rowan Director, External Affairs, UNAVCO Jeff Ryan University of South Florida, ECEAC David Sandwell Scripps Institute of Oceanography & Board Member Roy Savoian University of Texas, Austin; UNAVCO Treasurer Clark Wilson WInSAR Executive Committee Zhong Lu Consultant


UNAVCO COMMUNITY VISION

Transforming understanding of Earth systems and hazards using geodesy. This vision is realized through global leadership and facility best practices that integrate innovative geodetic technologies and open observations for geoscience research and education, and for the improvement of the human condition.


UNAVCO CORE VALUES

UNAVCO’s core values are built upon the foundation of scientific and professional integrity. In order to accomplish our mission of research and education, as a community and science support organization, we value:

• Advancement of community science goals and their relevance to society • Excellence, innovation, and cooperation in science, technology, education, and service • Open access to data products and scientific exchange • Data preservation and stewardship for future science and society • Transparent community governance • Cultivation of diverse scientific, educational, and social perspectives • Efficient and effective use of resources • Strong service ethic and “can do” attitude


STRATEGY AND ACTIONS

Based on its core values, UNAVCO will pursue five strategies to deliver on its vision and mission. These general strategies provide a roadmap to guide UNAVCO and are associated with specific future directions for each strategy that form the basis for our annual program plans. These actions provide metrics by which the success of UNAVCO will be measured.

1. Scientific Support of Community Support the geosciences research community through acquisition and sharing of equipment and provision of engineering and data services to meet new science opportunities

2. Technological Innovation and Scientific Diversity Support and broaden innovative applications of current and emerging geodetic technologies for science, education, and societal benefit across geoscience disciplines

3. Engagement of Community Build the base of science stakeholders, showcase emerging capabilities and opportunities, and involve community members in communicating scientific and broad impacts of geodesy

4. Building Human Resources and the Next Generation of Scientists Support the education and outreach needs of the community and broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in the geosciences

5. Administrative and Organizational Excellence Diligently improve UNAVCO leadership and administration in support of effective and transparent management and governance, diversify the geodesy resource base, and optimize operational efficiency


Strategy #1: Scientific Support of Community UNAVCO has operated the geodetic facility of the National Science Foundation since 1984, first at the University of Colorado CIRES, then UCAR, and since 2003 as UNAVCO Inc. UNAVCO maintains data and metadata and provides instrumentation and engineering support for academic Principal Investigator projects using the Global Positioning System. The EarthScope Program, and the NSF Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction award provided funding to construct the Plate Boundary Observatory, greatly expanded and diversified UNAVCO capabilities, including the installation of 1100 continuous GPS, 78 borehole geophysical sensors, 25 short-baseline electronic tiltmeters, and 6 long-baseline laser strainmeters. UNAVCO is also home to WInSAR, a geodesy community that uses satellite radar interferometry. UNAVCO has further extended its geodetic toolbox with terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) instruments and is now working with community PIs to use other geodetic imaging tools like ground-based interferometric radar (GBIR) systems and other emerging technologies. UNAVCO builds and maintains cGPS networks around the globe, in Greenland (GNET), Antarctica (ANET), Africa (AfricaArray), the Caribbean (COCONet) and Mexico (TLALOCNet). UNAVCO operated networks are known as the global “gold standard” for data uptime, quality, metadata and data management. UNAVCO sets the standard for field engineering support, training, development and testing of GPS, power, and communication systems, GPS monument design, and fair and unbiased geodetic instrument testing. UNAVCO is the leader in developing and maintaining software tools to translate and quality-check GPS data and simple and intuitive Future Directions

• Sustain and renew investigator support capabilities

• Pursue international and global applications that build on the Plate Boundary Observatory and EarthScope capabilities

• Use organizational and community stature to drive vendor solutions for network and instrument innovation and modernization

• Modernize data services and products

• Promote geodesy and community science among stakeholders

• Proactively identify, implement and communicate new efficiencies in information technology; develop synergies in collaboration with national and international partners


Strategy 2: Technological Innovation and Scientific Diversity UNAVCO is a leader in efforts to support and broaden innovative applications of current and emerging technologies for science, education, and societal benefit across an ever-widening range of geoscience disciplines. A growing number of observations of large- and small-scale loading associated with seasonal and long term variations in aquifers is becoming available through GPS, InSAR and GRACE to characterize water resources. Augmenting traditional geodetic methods for detecting transient episodes of ground deformation on volcanoes demonstrates how variations in GPS signal strength alone can detect ash-laden volcanic plumes. Land use characteristics and change: GPS signal-to-noise ratios are useful for constraining soil moisture, snow depth, and biomass. Increasingly rich SAR imagery catalogues also now allow characterization of vegetation structure over large regions, including areas where ongoing logging is rapidly changing the landscape and where regrowth is detectable with InSAR. The growing geodetic toolbox also facilitates the broadening of geoscience applications of geodesy within and beyond the solid earth. These tools provide complementary deformation signals to those measured with GNSS, as well as complementary spatial coverage. Future Directions

• Establish and sustain international partnerships for geodetic research, data management and sharing, and capacity building

• Strengthen relationships with scientific and technical communities within and beyond solid earth science—including atmospheric science and hydrology; next generation InSAR-cGPS integration, strainmeter, close range geodetic imaging, and seafloor geodesy

• Support community planning for GNSS technologies and InSAR, to provide full integration of three-dimensional displacement vectors and spatially dense line-of-sight SAR observations

• Drive technical innovations, equipment specifications, and provide cost efficiencies for the geodesy community through UNAVCO-negotiated vendor agreements

• Support national efforts to evaluate deleterious impact of radio interference from encroaching broadband microwave systems


Strategy #3: Engagement of Community Highlights of recent accomplishments: The UNAVCO consortium is large and diverse including full and associate member institutions and broad international community. The UNAVCO geodesy community expands beyond solid earth, including members of the broader geosciences community. Through strategic partnerships and collaboration, UNAVCO provides leadership to the community in national and international geodesy initiatives. As an established global leader in advancing geodesy and geodetic tools, UNAVCO has supported community activities including GPS installation in Cuba, field data response to the 2015 Nepal earthquake and subsequent assistance to the humanitarian aid effort, and participation in the UN International Committee on GNSS (ICG). UNAVCO facilitates community-led technical training and short courses using cutting edge technologies and delivery mechanisms, enabling the community to engage from anywhere in the world. Through strategic communications, UNAVCO promotes community science discoveries with the geosciences community and the broader pubic. Future Directions

• Support a community of scientists and educators to convey discoveries in geodesy and their relevance to society

• Heighten community awareness of UNAVCO support for broader impacts of multi-disciplinary research

• Strengthen community support through the web interface and emergent technologies

• Lead within the international scientific community to advance global geodesy and cultivate open data practices

• Provide high caliber community professional development.

• Proactively identify, implement and communicate new efficiencies in information technology; develop synergies in collaboration with national and international partners


Strategy #4: Building Human Resources and the Next Generation of Scientists Highlights of recent accomplishments: UNAVCO values the development of people including the next generation of geodesists, scientists, and technical professionals, with a concerted effort on increasing diversity in the geosciences. Through multiple internship programs supporting promising young talent, UNAVCO provides training, professional development, and work experience to early career professionals, graduate students, and undergraduate students including those attending community college. Over 90 percent of student interns are from groups historically underrepresented in the geosciences. UNAVCO leadership has taken deliberate steps to develop hiring, compensation, and professional development policies to retain a dedicated, passionate, and capable staff. Support of consortium faculty through focused undergraduate curriculum development provides resources to demonstrate to students the power of geodesy for science. Particular emphasis is placed on the societal benefits and the interdisciplinary nature of geodesy in the geosciences. UNAVCO facilitates community-focused activities to promote science applications through state-of-the-art geodesy tools and best practices. Future Directions

• Collaborate with community, professional organizations, industry, and the private sector for systemic impact on increasing diversity in geosciences

• Grow the community of geoscience research and education using geodesy through internships, work opportunities and professional development

• Ensure a continuum of support for the next generation of scientists, from secondary education through early career geoscientists

• Provide innovative technical training, professional development, and educational opportunities to UNAVCO community members and staff


Strategy #5: Administrative and Organizational Excellence Highlights of recent accomplishments: UNAVCO is recognized as a global leader in research and development for geodesy and data collection, and for capabilities in field engineering, technical support, and geodetic network operations. The need for fast absorption of new geodetic technologies and new geoscience subdiscipline applications drives the internal culture. An engaged governance and management cultivates and supports organizational and technical agility. In response to external challenges, UNAVCO has emerged as a stronger, more transparent organization, focused on resilience initiatives: hardening of operations, strengthening management culture, and investment in staff retention. Organizational realignment improved integration of operations, administrative support, and employee engagement. Hardening of operations and alignment of staffing have enabled a highly efficient organization with historical overhead rates of 14% - 16%; steadfast compliance with federal requirements; accurate and timely reporting and decision support services; efficient business services; emphasis on safety and clearly defined processes and procedures; strong and reliable business systems to support operations; and an environment of trust and transparency.

2010 Actual

2011 Actual

2012 Actual

2013 Actual

2014 Actual

2015 Actual

2016 Actual

15.45% 14.93% 15.50% 15.68% 13.92% 15.86% 17.03% Future Directions

• Cultivate new funding sources to diversify the resource base and support community, including federal, foreign, and private sources

• Explore better coordination of national geodetic infrastructure in support of community-driven science through formal agreements that articulate shared interests, common goals, and resourcing

• Evaluate and improve all aspects of UNAVCO’s operations for optimization

• Sustain strong and responsive communication with sponsors, in support of facility best practices

• Ensure active and effective governance by the Board of Directors and its advisory structure

• Ensure efficient, effective management, organizational responsiveness and agility to meet community and sponsor needs


CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS AND METRICS Critical Success Factors are key areas in which UNAVCO must perform well on a consistent basis in order to achieve its mission and vision within fiscal constraints. Metrics gauge progress on the Critical Success Factors and are linked to the strategies noted in brackets below. These metrics will be linked to specific actions in the implementation plan. Publication of high impact science that uses UNAVCO resources [Community Support, Scientific Diversity, Engagement, Broadening Participation, Organizational Excellence]

• Number of papers that acknowledge UNAVCO support; number of journals that contain these papers • Number of papers with results that rely on UNAVCO resources; number of journals that contain these papers

Funding of research that uses UNAVCO resources [Community Support, Scientific Diversity, Engagement, Organizational Excellence]

• Profile of NSF-supported projects • Profile of projects with other sponsors

Involvement of diverse people in UNAVCO activities and projects [Scientific Diversity, Engagement, Broadening Participation]

• Composition of UNAVCO community members attending meetings, workshops and short courses • Number and diversity of journals represented in the publication database • Degree and research profile, minority-serving status, and EPSCOR representation of member institutions • Profile of Associate Membership by region and institution type • UNAVCO staff diversity

Archive for data preservation, stewardship, and open access [Community Support, Scientific Diversity, Organizational Excellence]

• Volume of products in and out of the archive by data type • Number of GPS stations in the archive • Number of unique users and domains by technique • Number of software downloads

Community use of state-of-the-art geodetic technology [Community Support, Scientific Diversity, Engagement]

• PI Projects supported • Sufficiency of the equipment pool to meet investigator demand • Community equipment acquisition • Community use of the Knowledge Base


CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS AND METRICS continued Community involvement in education and engagement activities [Community Support, Engagement, Broadening Participation]

• Number of workshop, short course, and outreach activities & Participants reached • Number of interns each year • PI projects that draw on education and engagement resources

Sustainability/viability of the funding sources [Community Support]

• Profile of funding sources and amounts • Optimization of indirect cost rates for effective and efficient management

A well-functioning corporation with informed community governance [Community Support, Scientific Diversity, Engagement, Broadening Participation, Organizational Excellence]

• Attendance at the annual business meeting • Election participation by member representatives • Composition and balance of the Board of Directors and governance committees • Governance committee activity and reporting • Board of Directors’ training and assessment; sponsor management review • Sponsor, community, and employee satisfaction • Audit outcomes and findings; federal compliance


UNAVCO MEMBERS – 108

Appalachian State University, Scott Marshall Arizona State University, Ramon Arrowsmith Baylor University, Vincent Cronin Boise State University, John Bradford Bowling Green State University, Yuning Fu California Institute of Technology, Mark Simons California State University, Fullerton, W. Richard Laton California State University, Stanislaus, Robert Rogers Carnegie Institution of Washington (Founding Member), Diana Roman Central Washington University (Founding Member), Tim Melbourne Colorado School of Mines, Wendy Zhou Columbia University, Mikhail Kogan Cornell University, Matthew Pritchard Dartmouth College, Robert Hawley Florida Atlantic University, Mustafa Berber Georgia Institute of Technology, Andrew Newman Grand Valley State University, John Weber Hamilton College, Eugene Domack Harvard University (Founding Member), Richard O'Connell Howard University, Gregory Jenkins Humboldt State University, Mark Hemphill-Haley Idaho State University, Benjamin Crosby Indiana University (Founding Member), Michael Hamburger Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Founding Member), Frank Webb Lamar University, Joseph Kruger Louisiana State University, Cliff Muginer Macalester College, Kelly MacGregor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Thomas Herring Michigan Technological University, Gregory Waite Missouri State University, Kevin Mickus New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Mark Murray New Mexico State University, Reed Burgette New York University, David Holland North Carolina State University, Karl Wegmann Northwestern University (Founding Member), Seth Stein Ohio State University, Michael Bevis Oklahoma State University, Daniel Lao Davila Old Dominion University, Hans-Peter Plag Oregon State University, Paul Vincent Pennsylvania State University, Pete LaFemina Portland State University, Rob McCaffrey Princeton University, Allan Rubin Purdue University, Lucy Flesch Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Founding Member), Steven Roecker Saint Olaf College, Charles Umbanhowar Jr. San Francisco State University, Jerry Davis Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (Founding Member), Michael Pearlman Southern Methodist University, Jason McKenna Stanford University (Founding Member), Paul Segall State University of New York at Stony Brook (Founding Member), William Holt Texas A&M University, Ryan Ewing Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Michael Starek The College of New Jersey, Maggie Benoit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, John Braun

University of Alabama, Ibrahim Cemen University Of Alaska Fairbanks (Founding Member), Jeff Freymueller University of Arizona, Rick Bennett University of Arkansas (Founding Member), Henry Turner University of California – Berkeley (Founding Member), Roland Burgmann University of California – Davis, Mike Oskin University of California – Irvine, Eric Rignot University of California – Los Angeles, Zhengkang Shen University of California – Riverside, Gareth Funning University of California – San Diego (Founding Member), Yehuda Bock University of California – Santa Cruz, Susan Schwartz University of Chicago, Douglas MacAyeal University of Colorado (Founding Member), Kristine Larson University of Florida, Raymond Russo University of Hawaii, James Foster University of Houston, William Carter University of Idaho (Founding Member), Dennis Geist University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, Wang-Ping Chen University of Kansas, Leigh Stearns University of Kentucky, Dhananjay Ravat University of Maine, Gordon Hamilton University of Maryland – College Park, Laurent Montesi University of Memphis (Founding Member), Robert, Jr. Smalley University of Miami (Founding Member), Shimon Wdowinski University of Michigan, Eric Hetland University of Minnesota, Lesley Perg University of Missouri – Columbia (Founding Member), Mian Liu University of Montana, Rebecca Bendick University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Catherine Snelson University of Nevada, Reno (Founding Member), Geoffrey Blewitt University of New Hampshire, Mark Fahnestock University of Oklahoma, Austin Holland University of Oregon, Amanda Thomas University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Alberto Lopez University of Rhode Island, Meng Wei University of Rochester, Cynthia Ebinger University of South Carolina, James Kellogg University of South Florida, Rocco Malservisi University of Southern California, Thorston Becker University of Southern Mississippi, David Mooneyhan University of Texas – Arlington, John Wickham University of Texas – Austin (Founding Member), Clark Wilson University of Texas – Dallas, John Oldow University of Texas – El Paso, Raed Aldouri University of Utah (Founding Member), Robert B. Smith University of Washington, Paul Bodin University of Wisconsin – Madison, Charles DeMets University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Dyanna Czeck University of Wyoming, Matt Burkhart Utah State University, Anthony Lowry Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Sarah Stamps Wesleyan University, Phillip Resor Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Sarah Das Yale University, Maureen Long


UNAVCO ASSOCIATE MEMBERS – 99 Academia Sinica – Taiwan, Shui-Beih Addis Ababa University, Elias Lewi Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC – NREL, Daryl Myers Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Ivan Georgiev Canadian Hydrographic Service, Brent Bowman Carleton University, Derek Mueller Central Geological Survey – MOEA, Chin-Shyong Hou Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Pierre Briole Centro de Investigaci.n Cient.fica y de Educaci.n Superior de Ensenada - CICESE, Francisco Su.rez-Vidal Le Centre Interdisciplinaire de D.veloppement en Cartographie des Oc.ans – CIDCO, Mathieu Rondeau Observat.rio Vulcanol.gico e Sismol.gico da Universidade dos A.ores – CIVISA, Teresa Ferreira Curtin University, Noor Raziq Delft University of Technology, Hans van der Marel Earth System Research Laboratory – NOAA, Seth Gutman Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Patricia Mothes European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology, Nicolas d’Oreye GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Roman Galas Geological Survey of Canada, Lisa Nykolaishen Geophysical Service of Russian Academy of Sciences, Grigory Steblov Global Hydrology and Climate Center, Charles Laymon GNS Science, Elisabetta D'Anastasio Harris Galveston Subsidence District, Michael Chrismer Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, Ludwig Combrinck Icelandic Meteorological Office, Benedikt Gunnar Ofeigsson Idaho National Laboratory, Suzette Payne Ilia State University, Giorgi Sokhadze INGEOMINAS – Servicio Geol.gico Colombiano, Hector Mora-Paez Institute for Space Sciences (ICE CSIC), Pedro Elosegui Instituto de Geofisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Sara Franco Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais – INPE, Icaro Vitorello Instituto Nicaragense de Estudios Territoriales, Angelica Munoz Instituto Nazionale Oceanografia Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, David Zuliani Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Nicola D'Agostino Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Haluk Ozener Koninklijk Netherlands Meteorologisch Instituut – KNMI, Reinoud Sleeman Korea Polar Research Institute, Ki-Weon Seo Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Robert Mellors Los Alamos National Laboratory, Aviva Sussman Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, Amir Abolghasem Minist.rio da Ci.ncia, Tecnologia e Inova..o – Observatorio Nacional, Darcy Nascimento Jr. Montserrat Volcano Observatory, Graham Ryan Nanyang Technological University, Paramesh Banerjee National Central University, Wu-Lung Chang National Cheng Kung University, Ruey-Juin Rau National Space Institute – Technical University of Denmark, Finn Bo Madsen Natural Resources Canada, Michael Craymer Norwegian Polar Institute, Kenichi Matsuoka

Patras University, Stathis Stiros Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Simon Williams Royal Museum for Central Africa, Damien Delvaux Royal Observatory of Belgium, Carine Bruyninx San Fernando Naval Observatory, Jorge Garate Simon Fraser University, Gwenn Flowers Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Marcel Mojzes Southern California Earthquake Center, John McRaney Technical University of Crete, Stelios Mertikas Technische Universit.t Darmstadt, Matthias Becker The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lin Liu T.BİTAK Marmara Research Center, Semih Ergintav U.S.Geological Survey, Cascade Volcano Observatory, Michael Lisowski Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, Rafael Pujols Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa, Esteban Vazquez Universidad de Chile, Sergio Barrientos Universidad de Los Andes, Jillian Pearse Universidad de Sonora, Carlos Lizarraga-Celaya Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Jorge Avila Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras, Manuel Rodriguez Maradiaga Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Enrique Cabral-Cano Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Alex Holsteinson Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja, Richard Serrano Universidade Estadual Paulista, Joao Monico Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte – UFRN, Francisco Bezerra Universit. du Qu.bec . Montr.al – UQAM, Alessandro Forte University of Alberta, Jeffrey Kavanaugh University of Barcelona, Giorgi Khazaradze University of Bristol, Juliet Biggs University of British Columbia, Elizabeth Hearn University of Bucharest, Victor Mocanu University of Calgary, Maribeth Murray University of Durham, Nick Rosser University of French Polynesia, Jean-Pierre Barriot University of Leeds, Andrew Hooper University of Lethbridge, Sarah Boon University of Lisbon, Joaquim Pagarete University of Luxembourg, Tonie van Dam University of Manitoba, David Barber University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Peter Clarke University of Northern British Columbia, Brian Menounos University of Nottingham, Richard Bingley University of Oslo, Trond Eiken University of Ottawa, Luke Copland University of Oxford, Barry Parsons University of Peshawar, Shah Faisal Khan University of Porto, Luisa Bastos University of Tasmania, Matt King University of the West Indies, Robert Watts University of Tuebingen, Todd Ehlers University of Victoria, Ian Walker University of Western Ontario, Kristy Tiampo


TOOL BOX – 2015 Point Observations for time dependent deformation

• GPS Global Positioning System — 3D daily positions with sub-centimeter uncertainty in a global reference frame. This includes continuous GPS (cGPS) when observations occur every day.

• RTGPS High Rate, Real Time GPS — 1 Hz or 5 Hz sample rate streaming with ~0.5 second latency, several centimeters uncertainty on epoch-by-epoch positions

• GNSS Global Navigation Satellite Systems — International satellite navigation systems like GPS for positioning with global coverage

• GPS/Met Meteorological observations at GPS stations

Geodetic Imaging

• InSAR Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar – differenced pairs of satellite radar images that map deforming zones such as faults, volcanoes, glaciers, and aquifers

• LiDAR Light Detection and Ranging

• TLS Terrestrial Laser Scanner – ground-based LiDAR, typically mounted on a tripod, providing very high-resolution imaging of small areas

Borehole Geophysics

• Borehole Strainmeter Measures the change in shape of a borehole at approximately 250 m depth with sensitivity at the scale of one ten-millionth of a human hair

• Seismometer Measures ground deformation at very high frequencies with great sensitivity and is collocated with a borehole strainmeter in the Plate Boundary Observatory

• Tiltmeter Measures the changing inclination of the Earth's surface over time, at a scale of one ten-thousandths of a degree


UNAVCO BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND CORPORATE OFFICERS ELECTED DIRECTORS Rick Anthes President Emeritus, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research; Member-at-Large, UNAVCO Board

Rebecca Bendick Associate Professor, University of Montana; Secretary of the Board & Institutional Member, UNAVCO Board

Francisco (Paco) Gomez Associate Professor, University of Missouri – Columbia; Institutional Member, UNAVCO Board

Eric Fielding Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology;At-Large Representative, UNAVCO Board

Jeff Freymueller Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute; Institutional Representative, UNAVCO Board

Peter La Femina Associate Professor, The Pennsylvania State University; Chair of the Board & Institutional Representative, UNAVCO Board

Rowena Lohman Associate Professor, Cornell University; Vice Chair of the Board & Institutional Representative

Josh Roering Professor, University of Oregon; Institutional Representative, UNAVCO Board

David Sandwell Scripps Institute of Oceanography, IGPP, University of California - San Diego; Member-at-Large, UNAVCO Board Corporate Officers M Meghan Miller President, UNAVCO

Clark Wilson Wallace Pratt Professor of Geophysics, University of Texas, Austin; Corporate Treasurer, UNAVCO

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