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Planting seeds with EGU’s mentoring programme

, , and March 3, 2023
Planting seeds with EGU’s mentoring programme
Finding your way through a conference using the EGU Mentoring Programme (Figure courtesy: Öykü Koç)

  The 2023 General Assembly is gaining momentum. Did you ever consider taking part as a mentor (or mentee) in EGU’s mentoring programme? If you ask me, it’s a nice opportunity to increase the odds of being a positive influence to someone, and you may learn some things in the process too. Who’s your positive influence? Here’s a mental exercise: name 3 people who positively influenced your care ...[Read More]

Women in Geodesy: Anny Cazenave

, and March 2, 2023
Women in Geodesy: Anny Cazenave
Figure courtesy: Öykü Koç

  After introducing famous women in the history of Geodesy last month, we now turn to influential women in Geodesy who have received the prestigious Vening-Meinesz medal of the EGU. We have asked the first female receipient of the Vening-Meinesz medal, Anny Cazenave, about her view and story of being a women in science. She gave us inspiring answers to our questions.   Would you like to ...[Read More]

Women in the History of Geodesy

and February 8, 2023
Women in the History of Geodesy

When we look at the history of science, we mostly see male presence in inventions and discoveries. However, this is not actually a true representation of scientific history. A lot of fundamental aspects/parts of science were discovered by female scientists such as Caroline Herschel, Ada Lovelace, Alice Ball, Marie Curie, Chien-Shiung Wu, Grace Hopper and many others. These names are some of the mo ...[Read More]

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

and September 28, 2022
Want to really understand sea-level rise? Bring in the geodesists!
Trends in sea level over 2005-2019 using satellite altimetry and gravimetry data.

  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]