Description: The UCSC branch of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) was officially established during the 1999-2000 academic year. IGPP is a multicampus research unit (MRU) of the University of California, which dates back to 1946 when the founding branch was established at UCLA. There are presently IGPP branches at 5 campuses (UCLA, UCSC, UCSD, UCR, UCI) and at two of the national laboratories administered by the University of California (LLNL and LANL). The IGPP Charter defines a mission: to promote and coordinate basic research on the understanding of the origin, structure, and evolution of the Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe, and on the prediction of future changes, as they affect human life. In practice, this mandate spans topics from the early accretion, orbital dynamics and internal structure of planetary bodies through to the present dynamics of the terrestrial hydrosphere and atmosphere. As such, the IGPP mission encompasses aspects of the traditional academic disciplines of astronomy, earth sciences, and ocean/atmospheric sciences. All of the latter disciplines are actively engaged in the IGPP branch at UCSC.

Posted: 11/14/05

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