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Geodesy

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Geodesy Cartoons – A Creative Tool for Outreach and Education

June 12, 2026
The Geodetic Tailor (cropped). Cartoon by Eda Uzunoglu, distributed by geodesy.science/cartoon. CC BY.
The Geodetic Tailor (cropped). Cartoon by Eda Uzunoglu, distributed by geodesy.science/cartoon. CC BY.

Geodesy is fundamental to understanding our dynamic planet. From monitoring sea-level rise and glacier melt to maintaining precise terrestrial reference frames for GNSS and Earth observation, geodesy provides the scientific backbone for many disciplines represented within the EGU and beyond. Despite its importance, geodesy often remains invisible outside the scientific community. Even within geosc ...[Read More]

Beyond Navigation: How GNSS Reveals Earth’s Hidden Secrets

and April 24, 2026
Beyond Navigation: How GNSS Reveals Earth’s Hidden Secrets

Part 2 – the regional case In our previous post, we discussed global scale phenomena, showing how the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) constellation is the ultimate instrument for monitoring the Earth as a whole: tracking plate tectonics, defining the planet’s absolute size, and measuring variations of its gravity field. Essentially, the big questions of our constantly changi ...[Read More]

Beyond navigation: How GNSS reveals Earth’s hidden secrets

and November 28, 2025
Beyond navigation: How GNSS reveals Earth’s hidden secrets

Part 1 – the global case When you check directions on your smartphone or track your morning run, you’re tapping into a global infrastructure that has revolutionized not just navigation, but our understanding of Earth itself. What began as military technology has evolved into powerful scientific tools that confirm longstanding theories and reveal previously unobservable phenomena. In th ...[Read More]

Climbing Through a PhD – Mental Health on the Way to the Summit

and October 10, 2025
Climbing Through a PhD – Mental Health on the Way to the Summit
The climb of the PhD Mountain. Figure created with ChatGPT.

Imagine you are going on a long mountain tour. Your backpack is heavy, the path is steep, and although you have been walking for hours, all you can see ahead of you is the next climb. Doing a PhD is like climbing such a mountain. It can feel exhausting, there is always the next challenge ahead and the finish line seems to never get closer. Self-doubt and the feeling of not doing enough accompanies ...[Read More]