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[19 April 2008] EarthStock Lecture: At this year's EarthStock event at Stony Brook University, the keynote speaker Hans-Peter Plag illustrated in his lecture "Sustainability: a mosaic of many small steps in the right direction" the scale of the challenge humanity is facing in its quest for a sustainable development of society, economy and the environment. Nevertheless, he concluded that there is hope and that humanity has a great potential and all the prerequisites to avoid a large-scale loss of civilization or extinction. However, that can only happen if we manage to utilize this potential and turn intelligence that currently serves ecological, societal and economic madness into a creative force propelling us towards sustainability.
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[30 March 2008] GGOS Retreat brings significant progress: During a recent retreat in Italy, GGOS has made considerable progress in the implementation of its organizational structure. Read more ...

[20 March 2008] GGOS 2020 Draft Book available: A nearly complete draft of the GGOS 2020 Book is now available at the GGOS 2020 web page.

Hans-Peter Plag Current Position and Affiliation: Research Professor Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and Seismological Laboratory University of Nevada, Reno Mail Stop 178 Reno Nevada 89557-0178 Phone: +1-775-682-8779 Fax: +1-775-784-1709 e-mail: hpplag@unv.edu Areas of expertise Solid Earth geophysics; Global geodynamics; Rheology of the Earth's mantle and continuums mechanics; Deformation of the solid Earth; Earth system dynamics; Time series analyses; Space geodesy and geodetic reference frames; A wide range of aspects related to sustainability.

Research topics addressed: Rheology of the Earth mantle; Geophysical phenomena and geodetic observations related to global geodetic reference frames; Monitoring, analyzing variations, and modeling physical parameters of the Earth system from global to local spatial scales and temporal scales from minutes to millenia, including, but not limited to Earth rotation, displacements of the Earth surface, fluxes in the global water cycle, sea level, atmospheric water content, air pressure, temperature, wind, etc.; Sea level fluctuations and global climate change; Earth rotation studies and integration of the solid Earth into Earth system models; Deformations of the Earth due to exogenic forcing, particularly postglacial rebound and atmospheric, oceanic, hydrological and cryospheric loading; General approach to studies of the Earth system; Inproving the global geodetic reference frame as a major utility for all Earth observation; Application of geodetic techniques to geohazards and early warning.