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Division on Geodesy
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Division on Geodesy

President: Annette Eicker (Emailg@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Roelof Rietbroek (Email)
ECS Representative: Öykü Koç (Emailecs-g@egu.eu)

Traditionally geodesy is the science of the measurement and the mapping of the Earth’s surface. Since the surface is mainly shaped by the Earth’s gravity field the classical definition includes the Earth’s gravitational potential. Observing the Earth's figure, the orientation and rotation as well as the gravity field, geodesy today provides spatial and temporal patterns of geophysical processes within the Earth system such as sea-level rise, tides, melting of continental ice masses, changes in global water circulation and in the atmosphere or deformations of the solid Earth. Consequently, the Geodesy Division covers activities on the whole spectrum of modern geodetic Earth system modelling from the measurement systems to the investigation of geophysical processes.

Latest posts from the G blog

Do’s and Don’ts for the EGU OSPP award

Hi there, I am Marius, an Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) awardee from 2023 for the Geodesy Division. I want to share my experiences on the competition with you. EGU’s General Assembly is approaching, and many of you are probably preparing your contributions and thinking about how you will present your results in a few weeks. I want to give you an overview of Do’s and Don’ts to help you win an OSPP award. The OSPP is one …


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 programme is on 17.03.25, and the ultimate question is: Should I sign up for the mentoring programme? Can I be a mentor when I’m still …


Inside the World of ‘Skype a Scientist’

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 recovery from satellite data and temporal aliasing in the context of next-generation gravity missions. Apart from the mainstream …


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 presentations. Please join us on Zoom on February 13 from 4:00 p.m. …

Recent awardees

René Forsberg

René Forsberg

  • 2025
  • Vening Meinesz Medal

The 2025 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to René Forsberg for significant and impactful advancements in geodesy, geophysics, and cryosphere research, and for pioneering work, particularly in gravity field modelling and geoid determination.


Matthias Schartner

Matthias Schartner

  • 2025
  • Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Matthias Schartner for commendable efforts to modernize one of the fundamental pillars of geodesy – Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI).


Jeffrey T. Freymueller

Jeffrey T. Freymueller

  • 2024
  • Vening Meinesz Medal

The 2024 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Jeffrey T. Freymueller for pioneering work in geodesy with Global Navigation Satellite Systems and their application to geophysics.


Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma

Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma

  • 2024
  • Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma for his outstanding contributions in the use of satellite geodesy for Earth system science.


Mario Moreno

Mario Moreno

  • 2024
  • Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Mario Moreno Ionospheric Impact on GNSS Reflectometry: A correction approach for the PRETTY satellite data

Current issue of the EGU newsletter

In our March issue we are here to help you prepare for the EGU25 General Assembly, with guides for first time attendees, understanding the EGU Code of Conduct, our playlist of EGU25 walk-through videos, two webinars to help you prepare your presentations and sign ups open for the EGUtoday newsletter, we are excited to get together with you all, in Vienna and online, in less than a month!

This month we also learned about a special scientific landscape under threat and what we can do to help, and now is also your last chance to get involved in the Science for Policy interface in Europe by applying to join EGU's new Climate Hazard and Risk Task Force by 31 March.

For all our talented photographers, the EGU Photo Competition is still open for submissions; enter by 31 March and you could win free registration to EGU26, and the admiration of your peers! All this and much more in this month's Loupe!

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