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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]

The comprehensive Geodetic Information Portal of GGOS

, and June 13, 2022
The comprehensive Geodetic Information Portal of GGOS
Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS)

The Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) is a collaborative contribution of the global geodesy community to the observation and monitoring of the Earth System. Geodesy is the science of determining the shape of the Earth, its gravity field, and its rotation as functions of time. Essential to reaching this goal are stable and consistent geodetic ...[Read More]

“I have a friend, and she is a geodesist”, a tiny review for a tiny book

December 19, 2014
“I have a friend, and she is a geodesist”, a tiny review for a tiny book
“I have a friend, and she is a geodesist”, is a 10x10cm story book for kids

Recently, I came across a tiny (10 x 10cm) book called “Ich hab eine Freundin, die ist Geodätin” (“I have a friend, and she is a geodesist”), by Sylvia Schuster with drawings by Dorothea Tust. Virtually all of my colleagues were quite sentimental about this since it was published as a so-called ‘Pixi-book’. And Pixi-books, as I learned, are the de facto story books in Germany to explai ...[Read More]