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UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to receive a five-year, $6.5 million Geospatial Modeling grant, officials ...

No audio available for this content. Create a formal Geodesy Program at SIO to address the nationwide deficiency of geodesists. Expand current geophysics curriculum – funding for five graduate ...

The award will fund the creation of an academic track in the field of geodesy, and the modernization of a key U.S. spatial database From left to right, Yehuda Bock, Raymond Thicklin, Rohith Rachala, ...

No audio available for this content. Geodesy without math equations: Is that possible? The answer is no, but basic geodetic concepts can be described without using complex math equations. My previous ...

Society has become critically dependent on the instantaneous knowledge from smartphones and other devices of where things are, where they’ve been, and where they are going, but remains blissfully ...

Scientists have uncovered new information about the Earth's core: it may not be completely solid. Instead, its center may be more malleable than expected and has changed shape in recent years. These ...

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