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Climbing Through a PhD – Mental Health on the Way to the Summit

and October 10, 2025
Climbing Through a PhD – Mental Health on the Way to the Summit
The climb of the PhD Mountain. Figure created with ChatGPT.

Imagine you are going on a long mountain tour. Your backpack is heavy, the path is steep, and although you have been walking for hours, all you can see ahead of you is the next climb. Doing a PhD is like climbing such a mountain. It can feel exhausting, there is always the next challenge ahead and the finish line seems to never get closer. Self-doubt and the feeling of not doing enough accompanies ...[Read More]

Seeing Geodesy clearly – suitable colours for effective and inclusive visualization

and September 26, 2025
Seeing Geodesy clearly – suitable colours for effective and inclusive visualization
Source: https://s-ink.org/endrainbow

Effective scientific communication of geodetic research often relies on clear visualizations, and colours are needed to make complex data much easier to understand. However, traditional colormaps don’t always provide the needed clarity and can be especially challenging for people with colour-vision deficiencies (CVD). In this post, we will first describe what CVD is and how it is present in academ ...[Read More]

Bits and Bites of Geodesy – Trilateration on Vacation: How GNSS Locates You

July 25, 2025
Bits and Bites of Geodesy – Trilateration on Vacation: How GNSS Locates You
Figure courtesy: Öykü Koç

Summer vacations are finally here! Like every year, many of us are ready to travel and explore new and exciting destinations. And of course, the GPS on our phones will be an indispensable travel companion! Did you know that GPS (or GNSS) positioning is one of the traditional geodetic techniques? Come along to discover how this technique can find your location in the world and the various applicati ...[Read More]

Bits and Bites of Geodesy – From Wobble to Wander: Tracking Earth’s Shifting Rotation Axis

June 27, 2025
Bits and Bites of Geodesy – From Wobble to Wander: Tracking Earth’s Shifting Rotation Axis
Figure courtesy: Öykü Koç

When we think of Earth’s rotation, it is tempting to imagine a perfectly smooth spin. But in reality, Earth’s rotation is irregular and dynamic, and is influenced by forces inside and outside of our planet. To describe the changing orientation of the Earth in space over time Earth Orientation Parameters (EOPs) are measured with fundamental geodetic measuring techniques, e.g., Very Long Baseline In ...[Read More]