Workshops for continuation GPS monitoring of tectonic, atmospheric, hydrologic, and volcanic processes in Mexico.

该奖项将为美国，墨西哥和国际参与者召开一次研讨会，以启动70-100站连续GPS网络的规划阶段，适用于研究墨西哥的构造，大气，水文和火山过程和灾害。墨西哥现有的50多个连续的全球定位系统台站已经构成拟议的新网络的骨干。讲习班的一个主要目标是召集目前操作这些站点的个人和机构，讨论将现有的全球定位系统仪器与新的全球定位系统和地基计量仪器以及钻孔应变仪相结合的理由和战略，以便为墨西哥的基础研究、灾害监测和应用工作创造一个强有力的工具。研讨会将支持来自固体地球，大气和水文学科的18名美国科学家和学生，以及其他墨西哥参与者参加为期三天的研讨会。讲习班将在墨西哥的瓦拉尔塔港举行。讲习班的国际范围及其多学科科学目标使讲习班具有不同寻常的广泛影响，从墨西哥南部包括墨西哥城在内的大片地区的地震危险，到大气、地面、墨西哥北方和美国西南部干旱地区的地下水和地下水收支情况。该讲习班将为在墨西哥操作连续GPS站的个人和机构提供一个急需的论坛以解决将其业务合并到一个具有开放数据共享和标准化设备和通信的统一GPS网络中的科学，实践和社会效益，并解决从事灾害监测和响应的机构的需求。因此，研讨会将首先，这是利用已经在墨西哥CGPS投资的大约100万美元来建立一个统一的可持续固体地球和大气层成像工具。该研讨会将促进墨西哥，美国和其他与会科学家之间的新合作。

This award is to convene a workshop for US, Mexican, and international participants to initiate the planning phase for a 70-100 station continuous GPS network suitable for studying tectonic, atmospheric, hydrologic, and volcanic processes and hazards in Mexico. More than 50 existing continuous GPS stations in Mexico already constitute a backbone of the proposed new network. A key objective of the workshop is to assemble the individuals and institutions currently operating these sites to discuss the rationale and strategy for combining the existing GPS instruments with new GPS and ground-based metrology instrumentation and borehole strain meters to create a powerful tool for basic research, hazards monitoring, and applied work in Mexico. The workshop will support 18 U.S. scientists and students from the solid Earth, atmospheric, and hydrologic disciplines, and additional Mexican participants for the three-day workshop. The workshop will be held at a Mexican venue, in Puerto Vallarta. The international scope of the workshop and its multidisciplinary scientific objectives give the workshop unusually broad implications, ranging from seismic hazards for large areas of southern Mexico, including Mexico City, to atmospheric, surface, and ground water budgets in dry areas of northern Mexico and the southwest U.S. The workshop will provide a much needed forum for the individuals and institutions that operate continuous GPS stations in Mexico to address the scientific, practical, and societal benefits of merging their operations into a unified GPS network with open data sharing and standardized equipment and communications and to address the needs of agencies engaged in hazards monitoring and response.The workshop will thus take the first, critical step toward leveraging the roughly one million US dollars that have already been invested in CGPS in Mexico to construct a unified and sustainable solid Earth and atmospheric imaging tool. The workshop will foster new collaborations between Mexican, US, and other scientists who attend.