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Should we, as session conveners, have an expiry date?

February 4, 2015
Should we, as session conveners, have an expiry date?
EGU General Assemby in Vienna. Photo J. Kusche

This is a guest post written by Jürgen Kusche, who has convened numerous sessions on various international conferences, and had the wonderful idea to use the geodesy division blog to initiate an open discussion on the topic session convening. For that reason, readers are encouraged to comment at the end of this post. Currently, Jürgen Kusche is professor at the Chair of Astronomical, Mathematical ...[Read More]

“I have a friend, and she is a geodesist”, a tiny review for a tiny book

December 19, 2014
“I have a friend, and she is a geodesist”, a tiny review for a tiny book
“I have a friend, and she is a geodesist”, is a 10x10cm story book for kids

Recently, I came across a tiny (10 x 10cm) book called “Ich hab eine Freundin, die ist Geodätin” (“I have a friend, and she is a geodesist”), by Sylvia Schuster with drawings by Dorothea Tust. Virtually all of my colleagues were quite sentimental about this since it was published as a so-called ‘Pixi-book’. And Pixi-books, as I learned, are the de facto story books in Germany to explai ...[Read More]