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Opening Doors & Venues are thrilled to be providing On-line Registration and Project Management Services for GPR 2008, The 12th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar.

The University of Birmingham won the bid to host this prestigious bi-annual event in June 2008 with the support of Marketing Birmingham.  It will be the first time it has been held in UK with previous host locations being Columbus, Ohio in 2006, Delft, The Netherlands in 2004 and Santa Barbara, California in 2002.

For Rose Padmore, Conference Organiser and owner of Opening Doors & Venues, this is another opportunity for her to explore a subject that she would otherwise never come into contact with and says; “GPR2008 is a prime example of the richness of this industry, because I feel excited by learning and just love meeting and working alongside diverse and fascinating people.”

Ground Penetrating Radar can be operated both inside and outside buildings and is most commonly used for locating buried objects, mapping the depth of water tables and identifying soil horizons.  Particularly used by Archeologists, geologists and civil engineers, GPR works by emitting radio-frequency electromagnetic energy pulses into the ground, with a computer processing the reflected signals and then producing a visual representation of the grounds subsurface.

“The University enthusiastically supports the GPR2008 Conference and welcomes the opportunity to engage with such a prestigious international scientific organisation.”  Professor Mike Cruise, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Knowledge Transfer).

For further information visit:  www.gpr2008.org.uk