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Communication and Coordination
Communication and Coordination
Pages 68-73
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These de facto global networks of magnetic and seismic observatories led to international agreements on measurement standards and data exchange. These international activities led to the formation of an international organization that was the predecessor of the modern International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (lUGG)
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, which was instituted by {UGG and TUGS (International Union of Geological Sciences) in 1980 as the successor to the International Geodynamics Project, seeks to elucidate the nature, dynamics, origin, and evolution of the lithosphere, with special attention to the continents and their margins.
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These activities include producing global magnetic charts; monitoring and predicting the effects on satellite electronics and space communications of magnetic disturbances, radiation, and particle fluxes in the magnetosphere; and magnetic navigation. The basic research activities supported by the federal agencies include all four areas of geomagnetic research outlined in this report: main field and core processes, electromagnetic induction in the solid Earth and oceans, lithospheric magnetic anomalies, and magnetospheric and ionospheric processes.
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, characterization of the crust for waste repositories, scientific drilling of the oceanic and continental crust, a new national program in continental dynamics, the MARGINS and RIDGE programs (Margins: A Research Initiative for Interdisciplinary Studies of Processes Attending Lithospheric Extension and Conversion; Ridge Tnter-Disciplinary Global Experiments) , and international projects in collaboration with Japanese, Italian, and French groups, and with the European Space Agency involving low-altitude, Earth-orbiting geopotential satellites.
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Other complementary programs are also under discussion or are in place, such as SEDI in the solid-Earth community, the Ocean Drilling Program in the marine geology community, the Global Environmental Modeling program in the solar-terrestrial physics community, and the TNTERMAGNET project. The geomagnetic initiative also complements projects that ICSU bodies are discussing for the 1990s, particularly the integrative programs for studying the Earth from its interior to near space (Mission to Planet Earth)
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. As part of this initiative, special attention should be given to maintaining and improving communication and coordination among the diverse activities in geomagnetism in federal and state agencies, the academic community, and industry with a view toward encouraging improved efficiencies and fulfillment of goals in research and applications.
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