The October 2003 GPS campaign in the Dominican Republic was made possible thanks to the efficiency of the Colegio Dominicano de Ingenieros, Aquitectos, y Agrimensores (CODIA), Regional Norte. We are particularly grateful to its president Ing. Ervin Vargas, and to Ing. Jose Lockhart and Ing Luis Pena, who were essential to the success of this operation.
We are grateful to the Dominican Government and to the provincial governments of Santiago and Puerto Plata for funding and supporting this GPS campaign.
We would like to thank the Secretario de Estado de Obras Publicas y Communicaciones, in particular Ing. Ramon Ortiz, as well as the Direccion General de Mineria for their logistical support.
We are grateful to the Dominican Department of Justice for making the data from their continuous GPS stations available for geophysical research.
Finally, we thank the Dominican agencies and individuals with whom we have been working on GPS measurements of active crustal deformation over the last decade for their efficient help and logistical support: the Instituto Cartografico Militar, the Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidraulicos (INDRHI), the Dominican Society for Seismic Hazard (SODOSISMICA), and the Direccion General de Mineria.
The 1999 and 2001 GPS data were collected in the framework of the CANAPE project, a collaboration between the University of Madison, Wisconsin (C. DeMets), the University of Texas at Austin (P. Mann), the University of Miami (T. Dixon), the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (P. Jansma and G. Mattioli), and Purdue University (E. Calais), thanks to funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation.