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Geodesy

Thomas Frederikse

Thomas Frederikse is currently a researcher associated with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include global and regional contemporary sea-level rise, the Earth energy imbalance, and seasonal predictability in local sea level. In November 2022, Thomas will start as a Science Lead at Planet, where he will work on low-latency soil moisture estimates and other Planetary Variables.

Want to really understand sea-level rise? Bring in the geodesists!

Want to really understand sea-level rise? Bring in the geodesists!

  A remarkably large number of papers and proposals have sentences like “this study is critical to better project future sea-level rise” in their introduction. Most times this is just marketing to trick reviewers and program managers into believing the work is important. On the other hand, geodetic papers and proposals have some compelling reasons to use this statement: a lot of geodetic tech ...[Read More]