Tinted detail of a photo: White disc-shaped GPS antenna on a pole with a yellow cable, beside white sacks on a rocky summit, overlooking a vast brown high plain and distant snow-dusted mountains.
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Geodesy

Geodesy

A look beneath Earth’s surface: monitoring groundwater from space

A look beneath Earth’s surface: monitoring groundwater from space

Groundwater is one of the most important resources of freshwater for ecosystems and mankind. Because of this fundamental role in the Earth’s water and energy cycles, groundwater has been declared as an essential climate variable by GCOS, the Global Climate Observing System. As with other subsurface processes, it is difficult to observe and monitor on …[Read More]

Notes from a hybrid conference

Zhen Li during his talk

With the COVID pandemic still ongoing, many conferences have been taking place online or have opted for a hybrid format, with combined on-site and online program parts. To many of us this still a rather new experience, so we decided to share some of the impressions we gathered in the hybrid meetings we attended so …[Read More]