Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience

The U.S. National Science Foundation's Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (NSF GAGE) is a geophysical facility for geoscience research and education. It focuses on research of Earth's surface deformation with enhanced temporal and spatial resolution—the field of geodesy. GAGE is one of the two premier geophysical facilities in support of geoscience and geoscience education of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The other geophysical facility is the Seismological Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience.

It operates and maintains the Network of the Americas (NOTA), supports researchers with access to instrumentation (including polar research projects such as POLENET), archives data, and provides education and workforce development resources. It is operated by EarthScope Consortium. The previous operator was UNAVCO, until its merger with the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) to become EarthScope Consortium.

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