The Codes 610 and 690 Division Directors, Piers and Paul, agreed that it made sense to change the organizational structure of Codes 610 and 690 to better align the organizations with their funding lines from HQ SMD. In order to accomplish this, a new Laboratory was created in Code 610 named the Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory, Code 61A. Some of the members of Codes 694, 698, 690.1 and 690.2 are now a part of this new lab. The current Code 698 has been renamed the Planetary Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Laboratory and retains some of the members of the previous Code 698 along with one member from Code 694. A few members of Codes 694 and 698 will be realigned into the current Codes 612, 614, and 618. Codes 690.2 and 694 have been disbanded.
These changes are not meant to have any impact on your work in Codes 690 and 610, or your collaborations with colleagues across the directorate. The vast majority of people will not move offices either. We count on intra-directorate collaboration to make Goddard stronger and more productive than ever before.
Your Sciences Directorate management is firmly committed to pulling down barriers that might impede productive collaborations. We need to leverage the strength that collaborations across our science endeavors can bring to our research and continue enhancing our fine collaborations with technologists, scientists and engineers both inside and outside the Agency.
Content will be added to the Geodesy and Geophysics Lab's pages as it is made available.
The laboratory performs broad research, in the areas of Earth time variable and static geopotential and geomagnetic fields, Earth orientation, surface deformation, characterization and change, tides, land ice mass evolution, global and regional sea level, and airborne and spaceborne laser altimetry. The laboratory also supports many NASA missions in fundamental and core capabilities including satellite radar and laser altimetry precise positioning, pointing, ranging, timing, geolocation and calibration and validation. The laboratory is a leader in the design, development, implementation and application of airborne and spaceborne geodetic laser altimeter technology and instruments including NASA’s Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) and the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation Lidar (GEDI). The laboratory is the home of the Space Geodesy Project which encompasses the management, development, operation and maintenance of NASA’s Space Geodetic Network that is comprised of the four major space geodetic observing systems: Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR), Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and the Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning by integrated Satellite (DORIS) system. It is also home to the Crustal Dynamics Data Information System dedicated to the archive and distribution of space geodesy related data sets; as well as the home to GEODYN, NASA’s state-of-the-art geodetic parameter estimation and precision orbit determination system.
