Grejner-Brzezinska Elected ION Vice-President

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Prof. Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska has been elected Executive Vice-President of the Institute of Navigation (ION). She will be serving in this capacity for two years, and will become Executive President in 2015 for a two-year term. Dorota also serves as President, International Association of Geodesy (IAG) Commission 4, Positioning & Applications (2011–2015). She was instrumental in facilitating the establishment of a formal professional collaboration between the ION and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), the ION and the FIG (International Federation of Surveyors), and the ION and the IAG. As a result, MOUs were signed by the presidents of these organizations. Prof. Brzezinska serves as a formal liaison among these organizations.

The Institute of Navigation is the world’s premier non-profit professional society dedicated to the advancement of the art and science of positioning, navigation and timing (PNT). Founded in 1945, it serves a diverse community including those interested in air, space, marine, land navigation, and position determination. Its membership is worldwide, and it is affiliated with the International Association of Institutes of Navigation.

ION members are drawn from many sources including professional navigators, astronomers, cartographers, photogrametrists, meteorologists, engineers, physicists, educators, geodesists, surveyors, general aviation and airline pilots, mariners, yachtsmen, and anyone interested in position-determining systems. Corporate members include corporations, civil and military government agencies, private scientific and technical institutions, universities and training academies, and consulting firms.
 

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