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T5 Sut 83/84

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Praktikal Jupem 1983

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Pada cuti hujung semester pengajian 1982/83 sekali lagi menyertai sesi praktikal di Jupem. Kali ini ikut serta amali kerja topografi. Diarah untuk mendaftar di Pejabat Topografi Wilayah Utara Taiping.  Selepas mendaftar terus diarah menyertai pasukan kerja luar yang ketika itu membuat projek pemetaan di Parit. Duduk menyewa sebuah rumah kampung bersama semua pasukan ukur Jupem. Satu insiden yang diingati semasa praktikal di Parit bila mana seorang buruh muda yang menjerit pada satu malam. Ketua pasukan yang juga juruteknik bertindak menghantar buruh tersebut ke kampung asalnya untuk rawatan dan berubat.  mm - - - - -

Geodesist Pavel Vyskocil (b.1934)

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IAG Proceeding  IAG 101  was edited by three prominent geodesist which include Pavel Vyskocil of Czech Republic. Pavel Jiri Vyskocil, Czech geodesist was born on February 9, 1934 in Praha Czechoslovakia. He obtained Diploma in Engineering from TU Praha in 1957 and DSc TU Ostrava in 1994. He worked as Assistant Researcher at Research Institute of Geodesy, Topography & Cartography, Praha 1959-1966; as Researcher (1967-1977); Senior Researcher (1978-1983); Chief Researcher (1984-85); and Science Deputy Director (1992-94). He was also Director of International Center Recent Crustal Movements, Praha (1976-1996). His achievements include first estimation of recent dynamics of Czech Republic; maps of vertical movements in Europe; project for monitoring recent movements and seismicity in Aswan, Egypt. Recipient Memorial Silver Medal Czechoslovakia Academy of Sciences, 1984, Memorial Medal National Research Institute Astronomy & Geophysics, Helwan, Egypt, 1987. Recent Crustal M...