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Geodesy

Shivika Saxena

Shivika is a PhD candidate at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad in Prayagraj, U.P., India. She is working on monitoring water vapour dynamics during extreme weather using space geodetic techniques (GNSS, SAR etc). Her research focuses on measuring tropospheric water vapour specially in rugged terrain of Indian Himalayan region for prediction of thunderstorms and cloudbursts.

Inside the World of ‘Skype a Scientist’

and February 28, 2025
Inside the World of ‘Skype a Scientist’
Figure courtesy: Öykü Koç. Skype a Scientist token is taken from https://www.skypeascientist.com/

Let’s move onto another amazing researcher and ECS, Öykü Koç, who is involved with ‘Skype a scientist’, an educational nonprofit with a focus on connecting people with science in fun and meaningful ways, making science education available and engaging for everyone. Öykü Koç (she/they) is a PhD candidate at Politecnico di Milano (Italy), with her research focusing on the time-variable gravity field ...[Read More]

Inside the World of ‘Native Scientists’

and December 20, 2024
Inside the World of ‘Native Scientists’
Experiments during a Native Scientists workshop in Stockholm in October 2017 in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut (original picture at https://www.nativescientists.org/challenging-assumptions).

  Are you ready to dive into the fascinating mutual symbiosis of science, culture, and education? Be ready to be inspired by the blog editor-in-chief of our division blog, Rebekka Steffen, who is a researcher at Lantmäteriet in Sweden, where she specializes on glacial isostatic adjustment—think rising land, ancient ice sheets, and Earth’s stress fields!  But there’s more to Rebekka than cutti ...[Read More]