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2007 Apr 10-11: NGS Holds Gravity Seminar at Corbin

On April 10th and 11th, a small contingent of NGS personnel converged on the Corbin, Virginia facility to share information with one another on various aspects of NGS's involvement in gravity, geoid modeling, heights and vertical datums. Attendees included instrument operators, research scientists, policy experts, programmers and other personnel who all have some connection to gravity, geoid or height issues.

Dan Winester began with a demonstration on the set-up and operation of the FG-5 Absolute Gravimeter (see slideshow to the right).

Lectures were held over two days by Dan Winester, Dan Roman and Dru Smith, helping to disseminate a combination of field operational issues, gravity and geoid reserach and future plans to the attendees.

Tim Niebauer, President of Micro-G/LaCoste attended to educate NGS as to the latest gravity equipment (terrestrial and airborne) and services his company offers.

Setting up the NGS FG-5 Absolute Gravimeter...
animation showing set up of the NGS FG-5 Absolute Gravimeter

Dan Winester gave a history of gravity instrumentation... Dan Winester giving lecture on gravity instrumentation
Dan Roman discussed the status of gravity holdings at NGS... Dan Roman discussing gravity holdings at NGS
Later, we moved to the new classroom facility to learn about geoid modeling... The new Corbin classroom facility
On day 2, Dan Winester taught everyone about our LaCoste and Romberg relative gravimeters... Dan Winester teaching about LaCoste and Rombert relative gravimeters
And late on our 2nd day, Tim Niebauer (President, Micro-G/LaCoste) paid a visit to inform us of the latest technologies his company offered... Tim Niebauer and Dan Winester discussing the FG-5