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Inside the World of ‘Skype a Scientist’

and February 28, 2025
Inside the World of ‘Skype a Scientist’
Figure courtesy: Öykü Koç. Skype a Scientist token is taken from https://www.skypeascientist.com/

Let’s move onto another amazing researcher and ECS, Öykü Koç, who is involved with ‘Skype a scientist’, an educational nonprofit with a focus on connecting people with science in fun and meaningful ways, making science education available and engaging for everyone. Öykü Koç (she/they) is a PhD candidate at Politecnico di Milano (Italy), with her research focusing on the time-variable gravity field ...[Read More]

EGU Campfire Geodesy – Share Your Research – Tenth Edition

and February 6, 2025
EGU Campfire Geodesy – Share Your Research – Tenth Edition

We are excited to announce the 10th 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 Mario Moreno and Franck Ghomsi. Below you can find the details of the topics awaiting us. We will have time to network after the p ...[Read More]

Expanding the Picture: Simon Tong

January 31, 2025
A graphical illustration in watercolour optic with human silhouettes in different colours, and several smaller elements such as an ocean and a satellite.
Figure courtesy: Öykü Koç

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 Centre (EOC) as a working student, while at the same time studying for a Master’s degree at T ...[Read More]

Inside the World of ‘Native Scientists’

and December 20, 2024
Inside the World of ‘Native Scientists’
Experiments during a Native Scientists workshop in Stockholm in October 2017 in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut (original picture at https://www.nativescientists.org/challenging-assumptions).

  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!  But there’s more to Rebekka than cutti ...[Read More]