Dear FGCS members and community, (please feel free to share this email with any of your colleagues; everyone is invited to participate in the webinar described below)

You are invited to participate in a webinar on May 9 from 1300-1500 Eastern Time on NOAA's Gravity for the Redefinition of the American Vertical Datum (GRAV-D) project. The webinar will be led by Dr. Theresa Diehl, a research geodesist with NOAA's National Geodetic Survey. Here is the agenda:

Agenda

• Overview of the need for and inception of the GRAV-D program
• Program goals and plans to achieve them
• Current status of program
• Near-term plans over the next few fiscal years

Break (10 min)

Second Half (45 min):

• Gravity and geoid product availability
• Partnerships (for data collection, geoid-creation, and education)
• Plans for implementing the new geoid as the official U.S. vertical datum
• Long-term monitoring

Question & Answer Period (20 min)

You can register for the webinar here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/141758587

Teleconference number: 877-491-2679, passcode 261039

Finally, here is a link to the GRAV-D project home page: http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/GRAV-D/