************************************************************************ IERS Message No. 153 October 08, 2009 ************************************************************************ Preliminary call for special issue 'CONT08' in Journal of Geodesy Dear Colleagues, Between August 12 and August 26, 2008 the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry has observed the so-called CONT08 campaign of 15 days of uninterrupted VLBI observations for Earth orientation studies. The other space-geodetic services as well as science partners in other geodynamical disciplines had been asked to consider dedicated observing sessions at the same time period. About a year later, the data should all be analyzed and the idea was developed to bring together all publications related to the CONT08 period in a joint Special Issue of Journal of Geodesy. With this call we solicit the submission of titles (and authors) of possible contributions in order to have a rough indication whether a sufficient number of papers can be expected. The scope of the papers may cover all types of measurements carried out during the CONT08 period for Earth orientation studies and related disciplines as well as aspects of modeling of the acquired data and interpretation of the obtained results. If you plan to submit a paper to a Special Issue on CONT08, please send your title (with authors) to one of us until December 15, 2009. If at least seven positive responses are received by that date, a full call will be issued aiming at a submission date for the full manuscripts of March 31, 2010. Yours sincerely Axel Nothnagel (nothnagel@uni-bonn.de) Urs Hugentobler (urs.hugentobler@bv.tu-muenchen.de) David Salstein (dsalstei@aer.com) Guest Editors to Journal of Geodesy ************************************************************************ IERS Messages are edited and distributed by the IERS Central Bureau. To subscribe or unsubscribe, please write to . Archives: http://www.iers.org/iers/publications/messages/ ************************************************************************