{"id":290235,"date":"2017-03-20T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=78df57712dc962eee49dcc71b769b49c"},"modified":"2017-03-20T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T15:06:00","slug":"opening-of-swarm-and-cryosat-science-meetings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=290235","title":{"rendered":"Opening of Swarm and CryoSat Science Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/03\/opening_of_swarm_and_cryosat_science_meetings\/16866443-2-eng-GB\/Opening_of_Swarm_and_CryoSat_Science_Meetings_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nScientists convened in Banff, Canada on 20 March 2017 to discuss the latest results coming from the three-satellite Swarm mission on Earth\u2019s magnetic field, as well as new information on the planet\u2019s changing ice masses from the CryoSat satellite. Hosted by the Canadian Space Agency, the event also brought together the heads of the two largest Earth observation programmes in the world: from ESA and NASA.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nProgramme:\n<\/p>\n<p>Welcome addresses by:<br \/>\nSylvain Laporte, President of the Canadian Space Agency<br \/>\nJosef Aschbacher, Director of ESA\u2019s Earth Observation Programmes<br \/>\nMichael Freilich, Director of NASA\u2019s Earth Science Division<br \/>\nProfessor Ed McCauley, Vice President of the University of Calgary<br \/>\nFollowed by keynote addresses:<br \/>\nThe Citizen Scientist &#8211; A New Era by Eric Franck Donovan<br \/>\nUnderstanding polar regions with CryoSat by Andrew Shepherd<br \/>The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics by Michael Sideris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/03\/opening_of_swarm_and_cryosat_science_meetings\/16866443-2-eng-GB\/Opening_of_Swarm_and_CryoSat_Science_Meetings_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nScientists convened in Banff, Canada on 20 March 2017 to discuss the latest results coming from the three-satellite Swarm mission on Earth&rsquo;s magnetic field, as well as new information on the planet&rsquo;s changing ice masses from the CryoSat satellite. Hosted by the Canadian Space Agency, the event also brought together the heads of the two largest Earth observation programmes in the world: from ESA and NASA.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nProgramme:\n<\/p>\n<p>Welcome addresses by:<br \/>\nSylvain Laporte, President of the Canadian Space Agency<br \/>\nJosef Aschbacher, Director of ESA&rsquo;s Earth Observation Programmes<br \/>\nMichael Freilich, Director of NASA&rsquo;s Earth Science Division<br \/>\nProfessor Ed McCauley, Vice President of the University of Calgary<br \/>\nFollowed by keynote addresses:<br \/>\nThe Citizen Scientist &#8211; A New Era by Eric Franck Donovan<br \/>\nUnderstanding polar regions with CryoSat by Andrew Shepherd<br \/>The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics by Michael Sideris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291572,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290235\/revisions\/291572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}