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EGU Campfire Geodesy – Share Your Research – 14th Edition

EGU Campfire Geodesy – Share Your Research – 14th Edition

We are excited to announce the 14th edition of Geodesy Campfire – Share Your Research in November. The Geodesy EGU Campfire Events “Share Your Research” give (early career) researchers the chance to talk about their work. We have two exciting talks by our guest speakers, Betty Heller-Kaikov and Pingping Huan. Below, you can find the …[Read More]

The EGU mentoring programme: Experiences from mentor and mentee perspectives

The EGU mentoring programme: Experiences from mentor and mentee perspectives

The EGU mentoring programme: Experiences from mentor and mentee perspectives Each year, EGU offers a mentoring programme to pair a more experienced conference “veteran”, defined as having participated in a General Assembly (GA) at least two times, and a conference “newbie”. As we’re getting closer to the GA period, the submission deadline for the mentoring …[Read More]

Expanding the Picture: Simon Tong

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Hi Simon, thank you for sharing your story with us and the geodesy community! First, can you give us your ‘classical work intro’ so that we get an idea of where you are working and what your field of interest is? I am currently working at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)’s Earth Observation …[Read More]

Inside the World of ‘Native Scientists’

Inside the World of ‘Native Scientists’

  Are you ready to dive into the fascinating mutual symbiosis of science, culture, and education? Be ready to be inspired by the blog editor-in-chief of our division blog, Rebekka Steffen, who is a researcher at Lantmäteriet in Sweden, where she specializes on glacial isostatic adjustment—think rising land, ancient ice sheets, and Earth’s stress fields!  …[Read More]

Expanding the picture: Being a female geodesist in Iran

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Researchers working in STEM fields who also belong to a minority group face more challenges than their more privileged colleagues. Take Maryam Mirzakhani for instance; she was the first woman and the first Iranian to receive the Fields Medal. But along that path, she quietly overcame a lot of barriers on her journey- from being …[Read More]

Women in Geodesy: Kristel Chanard

Women in Geodesy: Kristel Chanard

I hope you are ready to be inspired because we have another exciting interview, with Kristel Chanard, our Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee of 2022. I promise that her answers will encourage you to pursue a career in science or continue to that!  Her answers remind us again that we need to make geosciences more …[Read More]

Women in Geodesy: Sara Bruni

Women in Geodesy: Sara Bruni

Are you ready to hear from another woman in geodesy? We pass the mic to our Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee of 2018, someone who is currently carrying out her scientific works outside of academia. We are not going to take that much of your time and leave the stage to her. Would you like …[Read More]

Women in Geodesy: Rebekka Steffen

Women in Geodesy: Rebekka Steffen

As you might know, after our blog post on women in the history of Geodesy last month, we turned the spotlight to more recent influential women in geodesy, and this time we would like to give the spot to an early career scientist, more specifically to our co-ECS representative and the Outstanding Early Career Scientist …[Read More]