The IAG International Symposium on Gravity, Geoid and Geodynamics 2000
(GGG2000) took place in Banff, Alberta, Canada, from July 31 to August
4, 2000. This symposium continued the tradition of mid-term meetings
("GraGeoMar96: Gravity, Geoid and Marine Geodesy", Tokyo, Japan, Sept.
30 - Oct. 5,1996) held between the joint symposia of the International
Geoid and Gravity Commissions ("1st Joint Meeting of the International
Gravity Commission and the International Geoid Commission", Graz,
Austria, Sept. 11-17, 1994 and "2nd Joint Meeting of the International
Gravity Commission and the International Geoid Commission", Trieste,
Italy, Sept. 7-12, 1998). This time, geodynamics was chosen as the third
topic to accompany the of gravity and geoid. The symposium thus aimed
and succeeded at bringing traditional topics together geodesists and
geophysicists working in the general areas of gravity, geoid and
geodynamics. Besides covering the traditional research areas, special
attention was paid to the use of geodetic methods for geodynamics
studies, dedicated satellite missions, airborne surveys, arctic regions
geodesy and geodynamics, new mathematical methods and the integration of
geodetic and geophysical information. The Scientific Committee members
(Jean Dickey, Martine Feissel, Rene Forsberg, Petr Holota, Inginio
Marson, Masao Nakada, Richard W. Peltier, Reiner Rummel, Burkhard
Schaffrin, Klaus Peter Schwarz, Michael G. Sideris, DetlefWolf and
Patrick Wu) are sincerely thanked for selecting the session topics,
which resulted in such an exciting scientific event. More specifically,
the following ten sessions were organized: 1. Reference Frames and the
Datum Problem C.
