Vening Meinesz

Around the world with Professor Vening Meinesz onboard the submarine K-XVIII: The Origin of Flexure Modelling

Bart Root June 28, 2024

Andreas Johnsson (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In my previous blog post, I wrote about the famous voyage of Professor Vening Meinesz aboard the submarine K-XVIII. At 30 meters underneath the surface, Vening Meinesz would observe the gravity field of Earth with a pendulum apparatus called the Golden Calf. In this post, I would like to discuss a different voyage the professor took part in. Normally the Dutch submarines took the Suez Canal to sai ...[Read More]

Women in Geodesy: Susanna Zerbini

Rebekka Steffen, Öykü Koç and Andreas Kvas May 15, 2023

Figure courtesy: Öykü Koç

In the past weeks and months, we have introduced you to famous female geodesists who won the Vening Meinesz medal of the EGU Geodesy division. This week we turn our eyes to Susanna Zerbini, who was awarded with the Vening Meinesz medal in 2009 for her important work at the interface of geodesy and geodynamics using space geodetic techniques. Having this in mind, we were curious to find out what sh ...[Read More]

Women in Geodesy: Martine Feissel-Vernier

Rebekka Steffen, Öykü Koç and Andreas Kvas March 21, 2023

Figure courtesy: Öykü Koç

We started a new series where we interview past Vening-Meinesz medalists about her view and role as a women in science. So far, we have talked with Anny Cazenave and Véronique Dehant, the first and second Vening-Meinesz medalists. Only two years after Véronique Dehant, Martine Feissel-Vernier received the prestigious Vening-Meinesz medal in recognition of her outstanding accomplishments in ...[Read More]

Women in Geodesy: Veronique Dehant

Rebekka Steffen, Öykü Koç and Andreas Kvas March 15, 2023

Figure courtesy: Öykü Koç

A few weeks ago we talked with Anny Cazenave, the first Vening-Meinesz medallist, about her view on being a women in science. But, she wasn’t the only influential women in Geodesy that received the Vening-Meinesz medal from the EGU. In 2003, Véronique Dehant was awarded with the Vening-Meinesz medal in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the study of nutations of the Earth ...[Read More]