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dorismail               26-Jan-2017 10:13:58 Message No 1063
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Author: Bogusz Janusz <janusz.bogusz@wat.edu.pl>
Subject: IAG03 ”Earth Rotation and Geodynamics” session at the IAG-IASPEI Joint Scientific Assembly in Kobe



Dear Colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to the IAG03 ”Earth Rotation and Geodynamics” 
session at the IAG-IASPEI Joint Scientific Assembly in Kobe, Japan.  
The deadline for submitting abstracts is 8 February. The objectives of the session are:
“The Earth is moving and deforming in response to forces acting on the Earth from outside or inside of our planet. 
Geodynamics, studies of motion and deformation of the Earth, includes the entire range of phenomena associated 
with Earth rotation and Earth orientation such as polar motion, Universal Time or length of day, precession and nutation, 
the observation and understanding of which are critical to the transformation between terrestrial and celestial reference frames. 
It also includes tidal processes such as solid Earth and ocean loading tides, and crust and mantle deformation associated with 
tectonic motions and isostatic adjustment etc. During the last couple of decades, research of geodynamics significantly advanced 
owing to rapid development of measurement and computation technologies, understanding of the Earth's dynamics and kinematics were deepened. 
Many geoscientists have come to use the fruit of geodynamics in a more restricted sense to address processes such as plate tectonics 
and postglacial rebound. Because the Earth as a mechanical system responds to both internal and external forces, and because 
these responses are sometimes coupled, this session covers studies on the entire range of physical processes associated with 
the motion and the deformation of the solid Earth. We saw the significant progress of observation in Earth rotation exploiting 
newly developed observation/measurement technologies, besides traditional VLBI/SLR/LLR/GPS/DORIS, including Super-conductive 
laser gyroscope measurement, GRACE date on hydrological contribution to earth rotation, Galileo/BeiDou, etc. 
VGOS will be put into work next year. Studies on developments of new theories or computational techniques, 
new observation/measurement techniques using emerging technologies are also welcome.”
 
Please visit http://www.iag-iaspei-2017.jp/ for more details.
 
Best regards
 
Convener: 
Manabu Hashimoto (Kyoto University, Japan)
 
Co-Conveners: 
Chengli Huang (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China),
Janusz Bogusz (Military University of Technology, Poland),
Matt King (University of Tasmania, Australia),
Jianli Chen (University of Texas, Center for Space Research, USA)