2008 Annual Report This is
our first annual report that describes some of the history of our
formation and summarizes activities over the past 2+ years. As of September 2008
the Near Surface focus group has grown to a total membership of 2210, with 538
of those selecting NS as their primary affiliation.
(As of July 2011, AGU NS Membership has grown to 2591, with 740 members selecting NS as their primary affiliation)
The Purpose of the Near-Surface
Geophysics Focus Group
NS was created to
provide a home for those people who describe themselves as near-surface
geophysicists: studying and advancing the use of geophysics for near-surface
applications. The formation of NS thus addresses two needs: 1) fosters
communication within the NS geophysics community, the primary goal being to
advance the science of NS geophysics as an end it itself; 2) promotes the
awareness of NS in other fields and advances the use of NS where the primary
science goals/questions are in other areas of science. Near-surface applications
addressed by NS researchers include, but are not limited to, studies in
archaeology, biogeochemistry, coastal processes and climate change, ecology,
hydrology, tectonics, volcanology. A full description of the focus group is
given in the following article in EOS: Slater, L., Knight, R., Singha, K.,
Binley, A., and Atekwana, E., Near-Surface Geophysics: A New Focus Group, Eos
Trans. AGU, 87(25), 249, 2006.
