Results of CSR's research have provided solutions to questions associated with fishery, agriculture, mapping ocean circulation, improving models of the Earth's gravity field, environmental impacts of oil spills, oil exploration and drilling operations, and weather forecasting.
Symposium Honoring Professor Byron Tapley's 50 years of service to the University of Texas On February 1, 2008, a symposium was held in recognition of his 50 years of service at the Center for Space Research, The University of Texas at Austin, attended by more than 100 colleagues and former students from around the world. The symposium was sponsored by The University of Texas Cockrell School of Engineering and the American Astronautical Society. Symposium presentations spanned a range of disciplines that reflected Prof. Tapley's interests and contributions in science and engineering, including orbit determination and estimation theory, space mission design, space geodesy, oceanography and relativity. The numerous awards Professor Tapley has received in his career include election to the National Academy of Engineering, the American Geophysical Union Charles A. Whitten Medal, the American Astronautical Society Dirk Brouwer Award, the honorary doctorate from Delft University of Technology, and NASA's recent 2007 William T. Pecora Award to the GRACE science team for achieving excellence in Earth observation.
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